Michaela Aigner

Michaela Aigner was born in Wels and studied music education, church music and instrumental pedagogy with Ernst Ludwig Leitner and Josef Friedrich Doppelbauer at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, as well as concert repertory for organ with Edgar Krapp. In 1986/87 she received a scholarship to attend the Conservatoire de Strasbourg, where she studied French organ music and works by J. S. Bach with Daniel Roth.
Her especial interest in early music led her to attend courses with Harald Vogel, Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini and Jean-Claude Zehnder. Performing on historical organs remains an important aspect of her concert activities. From 1999 to 2012 Michaela Aigner was the organist at the Franciscan Church in Salzburg. She is currently organist at the Cajetan Church in Salzburg, which has an Egedacher organ from around 1700.
As a soloist and ensemble musician she has performed with international orchestras at festivals including the Dialoge Festival, the Salzburg Mozartwoche and the Salzburg Festival, where she has participated in Olivier Messiaen’s opera Saint François d’Assise, Mozart’s Mass in C minor and, most recently, Mozart’s Requiem. Other important appearances include concerts under Nikolaus Harnoncourt and performances with the Arnold Schoenberg Choir.
Since 1989 Michaela Aigner has taught keyboard skills (accompaniment, improvisation, figured bass, continuo and score-reading) at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg; since 1999 she has also taught organ and score-reading at the Conservatory of Church Music in the diocese of St Pölten. Since 2001 she has taught organ and continuo at the Diocesan Conservatory in Linz. In addition, she is a member of the Diocese of Salzburg’s organ committee and of the Salzburg Bach Choir.