BIOGRAPHY (English)

Marc L. Vogler is a German composer, pianist and conductor. Having composed his first opera at the age of 16 (premiered at  Musiktheater im Revier), he developed an early enthusiasm for classical music. RP called him « A Pioneer in Composition », Olivier Latry described his music as « Icily Full of Truth ». In 2022 he won the prestigious German Composition Award Deutscher Musikwettbewerb. From 2024 on, Vogler is working as Composer in Residence at Oper Dortmund. 

Born in 1998, he started playing the piano at the age of four. In 2016, he began studying composition with Manfred Trojahn at the Robert Schumann University of Music in Düsseldorf (conducting with Christian von Gehren), graduating with a master's degree in 2023 after studying at the Cologne University of Music and Dance with Brigitta Muntendorf and Miroslav Srnka.

His works are commissioned by major festivals and opera houses, including the European Classical Music Festival, AchtBrücken Festival of the Cologne Philharmonic, the Dortmund and Bielefeld Opera Houses, BTHVN 2020 as well as New Opera West Los Angeles. 

As a composer and conductor, he has worked with numerous renowned orchestras and soloists, such as the WDR Symphony Orchestra, the Magdeburg Philharmonic, renowned cellist Benedict Klöckner, the Cologne Gürzenich Choir, Niederrheinische Sinfoniker and the Ensemble Musikfabrik. His music is performed internationally, including as part of the UNESCO candidacy of the Cordouan lighthouse (France), in Milan Cathedral (Italy), in Austria, Turkey, South Africa, the USA and Japan.

Der Spiegel magazine dedicated a portrait interview to him in 2017, his music has been broadcast on WDR 3, NDR, Deutschlandfunk and WDR television. An excerpt from his Corona Requiem was displayed on advertising billboards in Gelsenkirchen during the 2020 coronavirus lockdown. In addition to the German Music Competition, he is a prize winner of the 2022 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition and was honoured as part of Opus One 2020 by the Berlin Philharmonic.

Vogler's opera Felix Krull (since 2025 the subject of the Buddenbrookhaus Lübeck's modern Thomas Mann reception) celebrated its premiere in 2023 in a highly acclaimed production at Cologne's Excelsior Hotel Ernst, during which the lobby, corridors and suites of the grand hotel served as an opera stage for the first time.