Florian Eggner grew up in St Florian and received his first instructions in playing the cello from Thomas Wall and Wilfried Tachezi. Following his first successes at the national music competition Primala Musica he intensified his studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. He was most influenced by former first solo player Wolfgang Herzer of theVienna Philharmonic as well as Clemens Hagen, his teacher at the Mozarteum, Salzburg. Besides performing as solo player and participating in radio and CD productions, Eggner’s main artistic focus is the EggnerTrio, which he founded together with his brothers Georg (violin) and Christoph (piano). First prizes at the International Brahms Competition, Pörtschach in 1999 and the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition 2003 were an auspicious start to a career which has brought the Eggner Trio to many European countries as well as to Argentina, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Tunisia, Uruguay and the United States.
