Eggner Trio

The Eggner Trio were founded in 1997 by brothers Christoph, Georg and Florian Eggner. In 2003, the trio attracted international attention when they won the prestigious 4th Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition.

These three young brothers from Vienna have achieved immense rapport and understanding through their years together. Mentors and tutors include Juri Smirnov (Vienna Brahms Trio), Menahem Pressler (Beaux Arts Trio), and Günter Pichler and Thomas Kakuska (Alban Berg Quartet). Georg Eggner plays a Joseph Gagliano violin (1779) and Florian Eggner a Carl Richter cello (1907). This will be the Eggner Trio's first visit to New Zealand.

Shostakovich’s tribute to his dear friend Ivan Sollertinsky is the major work in the first programme, preceded by Mozart’s trio which he wrote to be played in ‘friendly, musical, sociable circles’. It is followed by the last of Brahms’s three piano trios.

The second programme opens with Brahms’s mighty third piano trio, is followed by Shostakovich’s first foray into piano trio writing, and concludes with Beethoven’s ‘Archduke’ Trio – the last work he performed in public and the first he composed for performance by professional musicians.

"The Eggners play with an intense, musically impassioned togetherness." - The Washington Post

Programme One for Dunedin, Christchurch & Wellington
MOZART: Piano Trio in B flat K502
BRAHMS: Piano Trio in C minor Opus 101
SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Trio in E minor Opus 67

Programme Two for Auckland & New Plymouth
BRAHMS: Piano Trio in C minor Opus 101
SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Trio No 1 in C minor Opus 8
BEETHOVEN: Piano Trio in B flat Opus 97 'Archduke'

Georg Eggner: violin
Florian Eggner: cello
Christoph Eggner: piano

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