A native of Bolzano, South Tyrol, organist and harpsichordist Peter Kofler received his first musical training at the Claudio Monteverdi Academy of Music in his hometown. At the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich he studied the organ and church music with Harald Feller as well as harpsichord with Christine Schornsheim. Peter Kofler is a regular guest at grand international music festivals. Among his chamber music partners are Dorothee Oberlinger, Dmitry Sinkovsky, Ramón Ortega Quero and Gabor Tarkövi. As an organ soloist he has played recitals at Notre-Dame de Paris, the Lucerne Culture and Congress Centre, Saint Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre, at Berlin Cathedral and Philharmonie, St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna, St. Michael’s in Hamburg, and many other locations. Since August 2008 Peter Kofler has been the organist of the Jesuit Church of St. Michael’s in Munich. The Bücher-Dieckmeyer Foundation granted him its Award for Services to Church Music in Bavaria. He is the founder and artistic director of the international organ festival “Münchner Orgelherbst” at St. Michael’s and teaches the organ and choral conducting at Munich’s University of Music and Performing Arts. Peter Kofler’s new major project is a complete recording of Johann Sebastian Bach’s organ works at the organ of St. Michael’s Jesuit Church in Munich. The first CD box was awarded the „Editor’s Choice“ by the famous music magazine „Gramophone“.