Wolfgang Kogert
Tradition and Modernism – the Austrian Wolfgang Kogert subscribes to this motto in a very special way.

Kogert is an organist at the tradition-steeped Vienna Hofburg Chapel, where he performs together with the Vienna Court Music Orchestra, consisting of members of the Vienna Philharmonic, the Vienna Boys’ Choir and the male choir of the Vienna State Opera.

He devotes himself to contemporary music with particular passion. As the soloist, he premiered the organ concertos by Bernd Richard Deutsch and Thomas Amann with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra in the Vienna Musikverein. Composers such as Klaus Lang, Manuela Kerer, Christoph Herndler, Gerald Resch, Katharina Klement, Wolfgang Suppan and Gerhard E. Winkler have written works especially for him.

His concert work has taken him to Tokyo, Moscow, Brussels and Oslo and to festivals like Wien Modern, the Bach Festival in Leipzig, the Scelsi Festival in Basel, the Hildebrandt Festival in Naumburg and Orgelmixturen in Cologne.

Kogert was awarded a much-heeded first prize at the International Wedstrijd Musica Antiqua in Bruges, and in 2013 he was Artist in Residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris.

Kogert’s recording of the organ works by Johann Caspar Kerll has received many awards. In 2015, his CD B-A-Cer-Ha with organ music by Friedrich Cerha and Johann Sebastian Bach was released, as will be the CD Rejoice with the Salzburg Bach Choir conducted by Alois Glassner with works of the 20th century in 2018.