Wolfgang Kogert is an extremely versatile performer. His repertoire ranges from the 14th century to the latest music. He regularly works with contemporary composers (including Friedrich Cerha, Younghi Pagh-Paan, Beat Furrer and Jean-Pierre Leguay) and leading orchestras (including the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wiener Symphoniker, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra).
He teaches organ at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, is curator of the organ at the ORF RadioKulturhaus in Vienna and organ curator of the Carinthian Summer. As organist of the tradition-steeped Vienna Hofburgkapelle, he performs with the Vienna Boys' Choir and members of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
Kogert was born in Vienna in 1980 and received his training in Vienna, Stuttgart and Detmold. In 2006 he won first prize at the Musica Antiqua Bruges organ competition and in 2013 he was Artist in Residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris.
His concert activities have taken him to festivals such as the Bachfest Leipzig, the orgel-mixturen Sankt Peter Köln, the Scelsi Festival Basel, the Hildebrandt-Tage Naumburg as well as to Tokyo, Paris, Moscow, Riga, Oslo, Brussels and others.