Georg Eggner (violin)
Florian Eggner (violoncello)
Christoph Eggner (piano)
The Eggner Trio is one of today’s most distinguished piano trios. Founded in 1997 by three brothers Georg (violin), Florian (cello) and Christoph Eggner (piano), the trio appears regularly at renowned concert halls such as Wigmore Hall London and Concertgebouw Amsterdam. The trio has given concerts throughout Europe and has appeared at festivals as Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, Lockenhaus, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Heidelberger Frühling, Kissinger Sommer, Vendsyssel and Huntington Estate Music Festival. Tours have taken the ensemble to Japan, USA, South America and several times to Australia and New Zealand.
After winning the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition 2003, the Eggner Trio has captivated the musical world. In 2006 they participated in the series Rising Stars in major concert halls such as Carnegie Hall, Cité de la musique Paris, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Kölner Philharmonie, Mozarteum Salzburg and Musikverein Vienna.
The Eggner Trio regularly performs with partners such as Matthias Schorn, Amihai Grosz, Lise Berthaud, among others.
Apart from their chamber music activities the trio has performed a number of times the Triple Concertos by Beethoven and Bohuslav Martinu, amongst others with the Orchestra Filarmonica dell’Umbria, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and the Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich.
Live Classics has released two CDs by the Eggner Trio: Beethoven's Trio in B flat major op. 97 "Ghost Trio " with the Trio in B flat major op. 97 " Archduke" (Best Recording 2008 - Klassiek Centraal), and Mendelssohn's Piano Trios. Gramola Vienna released an album with the two Shostakovich Trios, trios by Brahms and Clara Schumann, the album Kaleidoskop with music by contemporary Austrian composers as well as work by Werner Pirchner.
The Eggner Trio counts as its major influences Günter Pichler (Alban Berg Quartet), Juri Smirnov (Brahms Trio Vienna) and the Altenberg Trio. In addition the trio has worked in master classes with Menahem Pressler (Beaux Arts Trio), Norbert Brainin and Sigmund Nissel (Amadeus Quartet), Thomas Kakuska (Alban Berg Quartett), Laszlo Meszö (Bartok Quartet) and with Steven Isserlis.
Georg Eggner plays a violin by Joseph Gagliano (1779) and Florian Eggner a violoncello by Carl Richter (1907).
Season 2019/20
Read moreOn 15 December the Eggner Trio returns to the Wigmore Hall London to perform trios by Schumann and Ravel.
The Eggner Trio performs at Musikverein Graz on 30 January Schubert's Trio B flat major op. 99 and Trio E flat major op. 100 (original version) within the trio's 20th anniversary.
The Eggner Trio returns to the Wigmore Hall on 12 October for a further concert of its Haydn-Dvorák cycle performing the Haydn trios in E minor and G major as well as Dvorák's 'Dumky' Trio.
The Eggner Trio rerturns to Nottingham and Wigmore Hall for two concerts on 30 and 31 March performing two trios by Haydn: No. 24 in D and No. 21 in C as well as the Dvorak Trio in F minor op. 65.
The Eggner Trio returns to a concert at Wigmore Hall on 5 June for their Haydn/Dvorak cycle with two trios by Haydn, in C, XV:27 and E, XV:28 and Dvorak Trio g minor op. 26.
The Eggner Trio will be again on tour in Australia. Highlights will be each two concerts in Sydney on 9 and 14 November and in Melbourne on 10 and 21 November as well as concerts in Perth and Adelaide. The programme includes trios by Dvorak, Brahms, Haydn, Werner Pirchner and Dulcie Holland.
The Eggner Trio gives its debut in Innsbruck on 14 April with Mendelssohn Trio d minor op. 49, Werner Pirchner Trio Heimat? and Jean Sibelius Trio D major “Korpo-Trio”.
The Eggner Trio returns to the Wigmore Hall London on 8 February with three piano trios by Mozart (K. 502, K.564, K.564) and Johann Nepomuk Hummel’s trio in G op. 65.
The Eggner Trio guests at Rotterdam, De Doelen on 11 November with Mozart’s Divertimento B flat major K. 354, Anton Arensky’s trio No. 2 op. 73 and Schubert’s Trio B flat major op. 99. The concert will be live broadcasted on radio 4 in the Nederlandse Publieke Omroep.
Together with Amihai Grosz, principle viola of Berlin Philharmonic and one of the founding members of the Jerusalem String Quartet, the Austrian Piano Trio will
perform ten concerts from 14 to 25 September, among others in Wellington, Auckland and Christchurch.The tour programme includes piano quartets by Mozart (K.478 and K.493), Schumann (op. 47) and Dvorák (op. 87) as well as piano trio by Beethoven (op. 70/1 "Ghost") and Schumann (op. 110). Details
Read moreArensky, Anton | Trio Nr. 1 d-Moll, op. 32 Trio Nr. 2 d-Moll, op. 73 |
Batik, Roland | 4 Intermezzi für Klaviertrio |
Beethoven, Ludwig van | Kakadu Variationen, op. 121a Trio Nr. 1 Es-Dur, op. 1 Trio Nr. 2 G-Dur, op. 1 Trio Nr. 3 c-Moll, op. 1 Trio Nr. 4 B-Dur, op. 11 "Gassenhauer" Trio Nr. 1 D-Dur, op. 70 "Geistertrio" Trio Nr. 2 Es-Dur, op. 70 Trio B-Dur, op. 97 "Erzherzog" Tripelkonzert C-Dur, op. 56 |
Berauer, Johannes | Klavier Trio Nr. 1 (2006/2007) |
Brahms, Johannes | Klavierquintett f-Moll, op. 34 Trio Nr. 1 H-Dur, op. 8 (1889) Trio Nr. 2 C-Dur, op. 87 Trio Nr. 3 c-Moll, op. 101 |
Chopin, Frédéric | Trio g-Moll, op. 8 |
Debussy, Claude | Trio G-Dur |
Dvořák, Antonín | Klavierquartett Nr. 2 Es-Dur, op. 87 Trio Nr. 1 B-Dur, op. 21 Trio Nr. 2 g-Moll, op. 26 Trio Nr. 3 f-Moll, op. 65 Trio Nr. 4 e-Moll, op. 90 "Dumky" |
Edwards, Ross | Klaviertrio (1998) |
Eröd, Iván | Trio, op. 21 (1976) |
Etlinger, Andreas | Trio in e (1997) |
Fauré, Gabriel | Trio D-Dur, op. 120 |
Grieg, Edvard | Trio c-Moll "Andante con moto" |
Gál, Hans | Variationen über eine Alt-Wiener Heurigenmelodie, op. 9 |
Haydn, Joseph | Trio e-Moll, Hob. XV: 12 Trio G Dur, Hob. XV: 15 Trio B-Dur, Hob. XV: 20 Trio C-Dur, Hob. XV: 21 Trio D-Dur, Hob. XV: 24 Trio G-Dur, Hob. XV: 25 "Zigeunertrio" Trio C-Dur, Hob. XV: 27 Trio E-Dur, Hob. XV: 28 Trio G-Dur, Hob. XV: 41 |
Hummel, Johann N. | Trio Nr. 5 G-Dur, op. 65 Trio Es-Dur, op. 96 |
Liszt, Franz | Rhapsodie Hongroise No. 9 - Le Carnaval de Pest |
Martin, Frank | Trio sur des mélodies populaires irlandaises, W20 (1925) |
Martinu, Bohuslav | Concertino pour trio avec piano et orchestre à cordes (1933) |
Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Felix | Trio Nr. 1 d-Moll, op. 49 Trio Nr. 2 c-Moll, op. 66 |
Mozart, W.A. | Divertimento à 3 in B-Dur, KV 254 Quartett g-Moll, KV 478 Quartett Es-Dur, KV 493 Trio G-Dur KV 496 Trio B-Dur KV 502 Trio E-Dur KV 542 Trio C-Dur KV 548 Trio G-Dur KV 564 |
Munro, Ian | Tales from Old Russia (2008) |
Peres, Sascha | 7 Präludien mit Prolog und Epilog (2009) |
Piazzolla, Astor | Die Vier Jahreszeiten" für Trio bearbeitet von José Bragato |
Pirchner, Werner | Heimat?, PWV 29b (1988/1992) Heute war gestern morgen…heute ist morgen gestern. Wem gehört der Mensch...?, PWV 31 (1988) |
Psathas, John | Three Island Songs (1995/1999) |
Rachmaninov, Sergej | Trio élégiaque g-Moll Trio élégiaque d-Moll, op. 9 |
Ravel, Maurice | Trio a-Moll (1914) |
Ritchie, Anthony | Oppositions for Piano Quartet |
Saint-Saëns, Camille | Klaviertrio Nr. 2 e-Moll, op. 92 |
Schmidt, Franz | Quintet für Klavier, Klarinette, Violine, Viola und Cello A-Dur (1938) |
Schostakowitsch, Dmitri | Trio Nr. 1 c-Moll, op. 8 Trio Nr. 2 e-Moll, op. 67 |
Schubert, Franz | Adagio Es-Dur "Notturno", op. 148/ D898 Quintett A-Dur "Die Forelle", op. 114 Sonatensatz B-Dur Allegro, D 28 Trio Nr. 1 B-Dur, op. 99/ D 898 Trio Nr. 2 Es-Dur, op. 100/ D 929 |
Schumann, Clara | Klaviertrio g-Moll, op. 17 |
Schumann, Robert | 6 Stücke in kanonischer Form, op.56 (Instrumentation: Theodor Kirchner) Fantasiestücke für Klaviertrio, op. 88 Klavierquartett Es-Dur, op. 47 Klavierquintett Nr. 1 Es-Dur, op. 44 Trio Nr. 1 d-Moll, op. 63 Trio Nr. 2 F-Dur, op. 80 Trio Nr. 3 g-Moll, op. 110 |
Schütt, Eduard | Walzer-Märchen, Op. 54 |
Takács, Jenö | Trio-Rhapsodie, op. 11 (1926) |
Tschaikowski, Piotr llitch | Trio a-Moll, op. 50 |
Wunder, Gerrit | Sequentia Miraculi (2010) |
Zemlinsky, Alexander von | Trio d-Moll, op. 3 |