Austrian choirmaster and conduct or Wolfgang Kostner graduated from a variety of institutions, from the Pedagogical University Tyrol, the University of Innsbruck, the Mozarteum Salzburg, and the Tyrolean State Conservatory. His most important teachers were Howard Arman and Edgar Seipenbusch. He collected valuable knowledge in courses with Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Lorin Maazel, Franz Welser-Moest, Fabio Luisi, Lászlò Marosi, Robert Reynolds, and Frieder Bernius, amongst others. As a young conduct or he was finalist of the international Windmaker conductors’ contest in Vienna. For years, Mr Kostner has dedicated himself to concert bands, but also to popular music. Since 2002, he has been art direct or of the vocal ensemble NovoCanto and of the Tyrolean Baroque Instrumentalists. He performed at various festivals, such as the Innsbruck Festival, the Residenz concerts in Munich, the Baroque Festival Varazdin, the Schwarzenberg Schubertiade, the Tyrolean Days of Baroque Music, and participated in the concert series cultura sacra. He has cooperated with artists such as Brigitte Fassbaender, Andreas Scholl, Julia Stemberger, Hélène Guilmette, and others and took responsibility for the rehearsal of the choir for ensembles such as the Baroque orchestra Café Zimmermann, the Hilliard Ensemble, the Windkraft ensemble or for conduct ors such as Attilio Cremonesi, Kasper de Roo or Ernst Schlader. As a guest conductor, he performed at concerts in Nuremberg, Mannheim, Saarbrücken, Augsburg, Aschaff enburg, and many other places. Mr Kostner works as a freelance musician, as a music pedagogue in Innsbruck, as a lecturer in the field of conducting, and as a product ion manager. Since 2011, he has also been the art direct or of the Festival Tyrolean Days of Baroque Music. His passion lies in rarely performed literature, not only in the field of Early Music. By producing innovative and stringent programme concepts he promotes artistic networks directed towards a sustainable cultural work.
