EGGNER TRIO | ACFNY CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES
JUNE 20, 2011 | 07:30 PM
In June 2011, the Eggner Trio, consisting of three brothers from Upper Austria, treated audiences to a Central European musical extravaganza ranging from the First Viennese School and late Romanticism to Contemporary Classical music. With Florian Eggner on cello, Christoph Eggner on piano, and Georg Eggner on violin, the trio perfromed Joseph Haydn’s Trio in C major No. 27, contemporary Austrian composer Johannes Berauer’s Piano Trio No.1, and Antonín Dvořák’s Piano Trio F minor op.65 No. 3.
This event was the fourth in a series of concerts the Austrian Cultural Forum has co-produced with Vienna’s Konzerthaus (www.konzerthaus.at).
As early as 1999, the Austrian musicians won the First Prize of the International Brahms Competition in Pörtschach and conquered the international music world in 2003 by winning the First Prize of the prestigious Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition (plus the Musica Viva Australia Special Prize). The three brothers have given concerts in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Slovakia, Spain, Tunisia and the USA, and have performed at major venues and leading festivals in Austria, such as the Konzerthaus Vienna, Brucknerhaus Linz, Klangbogen Vienna, Lockenhaus Festival, Oberösterreichische Stiftskonzerte, Carinthischer Sommer, Schubertiade Schwarzenberg Hohenems. The Eggner Trio has performed at New York’s Carnegie Hall, and has toured Australia (the Special Prize of the Musica Viva Australia Award), and was by Chamber Music New Zealand to tour New Zealand in 2008.
The Eggner brothers have performed as soloists in Beethoven’s Triple Concerto and in Bohuslav Martinu’s Triple-Concertino with the South Bohemian Chamber Orchestra Budweis, Orchestra Filarmonica dell’Umbria, the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and the Tonkuenstler Orchestra Lower Austria. They have also made numerous recordings for the Austrian Radio Corporation, the BBC, the German Bavarian Radio Corporation, the German South West Radio Corporation, Radio France, ABC Australia, the Radio New Zealand, as well as TV recordings in Australia, New Zealand and at the Oberoesterreichische Stiftskonzerte for Austrian Television.
Video of the Eggner Trio performing Antonín Dvorák - Trio in F minor Op. 65 No. 3:
Audio recordings from the event:
Joseph Haydn: Trio in C major No. 27
Allegro I
Joseph Haydn: Trio in C major No. 27
Presto III
Photos of the event (click to enlarge):
