An Organ Recital by Matthias Maierhofer. In 2007, Matthias Maierhofer was the winner of one of the most renowned international organ competitions: the Pachelbel Competition in Nuremberg. He was also a prize winner at the International Franz Schmidt Organ Competition in Kitzbhel in 2008, at the International Bach Competition in Arnstadt in 2007, at the International Organ Concours in Nijmegen in 2006 and at the International Organ Competition M.K.Ciurlionis in Vilnius in 2003. Since then, regular concert activities have taken him to important concert venues and festivals in Europe, the USA, Russia, Japan and South Korea. As a soloist and continuo player, Matthias Maierhofer has performed with ensembles such as the Dresdner Kreuzchor, the Thomanerchor Leipzig, the Staatskapelle Dresden and the Staatskapelle Halle. At the Freiburger Mnster he performs weekly with the Domsingknaben, the girls' choir, the cathedral Domkapelle and the cathedral choir. He was involved in CD productions and publications by Edition Helbling, recordings are available for various radio stations and through the labels Ambitus, Ambiente and Spektral.
Matthias Maierhofer has been a professor of organ at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg since 2016 and also works as cathedral organist at the Mnster Unserer Lieben Frau in Freiburg. As artistic director of the Freiburg Cathedral organ concerts, he is responsible for one of the leading international organ concert series. His teaching activities as a guest professor and lecturer at international masterclasses are linked to the Kitzbhel Organ Academy in Austria and have recently taken him to Yale University (USA), the Korean National University of the Arts (South Korea) and the Paderewski Academy in Poland, among others.

Matthias Maierhofer's concert will be the last in a series of five concerts by different artists during The Cirencester International Organ Festival. The festival will run for five nights in July and August 2026 at Cirencester Parish Church of St John Baptist, as follows:
Friday 31st July - Stefan Donner (Vienna)
Saturday 1st August - Organ Festival Chorus
Friday 7th August - John Challenger (Salisbury Cathedral)
Friday 14th August - Thomas Hawkes (Cirencester)
Friday 21st August - Matthias Maierhofer (Freiburg im Breisgau).