Eggner Trio

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The Eggner Trio is a piano trio from Vienna .

History and concert activity

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The Austrian Eggner Trio was founded in 1997 by the brothers Georg, Florian and Christoph Eggner.

Christoph Eggner , piano, studied with Paul Badura-Skoda and Oleg Maisenberg at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna , and with Brigitte Engerer and Michel Béroff at the Paris Conservatory . He is a multiple winner of competitions and received a performance grant from the Alban Berg Foundation . Since 2000 he has been Oleg Maisenberg's assistant at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

Georg Eggner , violin, studied with Boris Kuschnir and Günter Pichler at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. He is the first prize winner of the Prima La Musica, Concorso Internazionale di Musica per i Giovani, Stresa, and ORF violin competitions and has received a performance scholarship from the Alban Berg Foundation, the Dürr Foundation and the Tokyo Foundation.

Florian Eggner , violoncello, studied with Wolfgang Herzer and Stefan Kropfitsch at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and with Clemens Hagen at the Mozarteum Salzburg. He is the first prize winner of the Austrian national competition Prima La Musica.

The ensemble has given concerts in numerous European cities as well as in Japan, Argentina, Uruguay, the USA, Australia and New Zealand, as well as at various festivals such as the Kissinger Sommer , the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg , the Heidelberg Spring and the Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival. In addition to their chamber music activities, the three brothers also performed as soloists in the Triple Concerts by Beethoven and Bohuslav Martinů with the Filharmonica dell'Umbria orchestra, the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, the South Bohemian Chamber Philharmonic Budweis and the Tonkünstler Orchestra of Lower Austria .

Georg Eggner plays on a violin by Giovanni Pistucci (1895), Florian Eggner on a violoncello by Carl Richter (1907).

Prizes and awards

  • 2003 First prize at the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition in Australia
  • 2006 first prize in the “Rising Stars” series

Discography

At Live Classics , the Beethoven Trio in D major op. 70/1 “Ghost Trio” and the Trio in B major op. 97 “Archduke Trio” (award “Best Recording 2008” from Klassiek Centraal) and the Mendelssohn Trio in D minor op. 49 and C minor Op. 66 published. Gramola includes a recording of the two Shostakovich piano trios and the Eröd Trio op. 21, the CD “Kaleidoskop” with works by contemporary Austrian composers ( Johannes Berauer , Sascha Peres and Gerrit Wunder) and a recording with Trio No. 2 in C major , op. 87 by Johannes Brahms and the Trio in G minor, op. 17 by Clara Schumann (awarded the “Pasticciopreis” on Radio Austria 1).

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