THE EGGNER TRIO CONTINUE THE ALBAN BERG TRADITION
The Eggner Trio was formed by the Eggner brothers: Christoph (piano), Georg (cello) and Florian (violin), in 1997. Christoph, winner of numerous prizes, studied with Paul Badura-Skoda and Oleg Maisenberg at the Vienna Music Academy, obtaining a scholarship from the Alban Berg Foundation in 1994. Florian obtained a First Prize at Prima la Musica 1996 and attended clases at the Vienna University of Fine Arts and also with Clemens Hagen at the Salzburg Mozarteum. Georg won first prizes from Jugend musiziert, Prima la Musica, International Stresa Youth Competition and the ORF Violin competition; he studied with Boris Kuschnir and Günter Pichler in the Vienna University of Fine Arts, obtaining a scholarship from the Alban Berg, Duerr and Tokio foundations
As an ensemble, the Eggner Trio obtained international acclaim alter winning the Melbourne Chamber Music competition in 2003. Studies with members of the Alban Berg Quartet, Vienna Brahms Trio and Altenberg Trio, Beaux Arts and Amadeus Quartet have led them to highly successful international tours both in Europe and the world. They teach Chamber Music in Austria since 2005 and offer live concerts in the Austrian, Bavarian, Southwest German radios, plus Radio France, ABC Australia, and New Zealand radio. They also record for the Austrian TV and have edited CDs with works by Beethoven (Live Classics “Young Artists”), Schostakowitch and Iván Eroed (Gramola) and Felix Mendelssohn (Live Classics).
