*** Note Date Change*** - The 'New' Vienna Mozart Trio

Due to unforseen circumstances both the date and personnel for this concert have been changed. The Vienna Mozart Trio recital will now take place on Sunday 25th May at 4 pm in Thomastown Concert Hall instead of on Sunday 11th May.

Programme (as originally announced):

Piano trio in G major, K 564 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Piano trio Op. 70 No. 1 in D major (The Ghost) - Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Piano trio in B major, Op. 8 No. 1 - Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

The New Vienna Mozart Trio

Maximilian Flieder - piano

Daniel Auner - violin

Thomas Auner - cello

Maximilian Flieder was born into a Viennese family of musicians and started playing the piano at the age of five. At the age of nine he was accepted at the “Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien”, where he first studied with Prof. Elisabeth Dvorak-Weisshaar and later with Prof. Martin Hughes. After graduating with distinction he continued his studies in Hanover and Munich with Prof. Matti Raekallio and Prof. Antti Siirala. Peter Frankl, Marino Formend and Sir Andras Schiff have also been formative for his musical career. Maximilian Flieder has performed as a soloist in the Musikverein Wien, in the Philharmonie Berlin, the Oriental Arts Center in Shanghai, the Opera House in Peking and the Suntory Hall in Tokyo. He studied Lied accompaniment with Markus Hadulla in Vienna and contemporary music with Antti Siirala in Munich. Maximilian Flieder frequently appears as a chamber music partner with distinguished musicians such as Gustav Rivinius, Daniel Gaede and Valentina Nafornita. Since 2019 Maximilian Flieder is a permanent member of the Stratos Quartett and teaches piano and Lied accompaniment at the “Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien”.

Daniel Auner The violinist Daniel Auner has been performing on the world's stages for many years and is now one of the most sought-after Viennese violinists of his generation. The "master violinist" (Die Presse) and winner of the KlassikPreis Österreich, Eugéne Ysaÿe competition and winners of other international violin competitions is a guest with renowned orchestras and important music festivals around the world. A former student of Christian Altenburger, Igor Ozim and Boris Kuschnir, he has been working with the musicologist Dagmar Glüxam on the theory of affect in the 17th and 18th centuries, especially in recent years. Learning the rhetorical rules from Bach to Brahms, as well as rediscovered performance methods, led to a complete recording of the sonatas and partitas by Johann Sebastian Bach in 2019. The production supported by the University Mozarteum Salzburg as a research project with a revolutionary different approach, namely based on the rules of musical rhetoric was issued in 2022 at ARS Produktion.

Working with well-known conductors such as Andres Orozco-Estrada, Theodor Guschlbauer, Josep Caballé-Domenech, Lee Mills, Peter Kuhn, Marin Alsop, Ben Palmer, Peter Guth, Marta Gardolinska, as well as with orchestras such as the Tonkünstler Orchester Niederösterreich, Bergische Symphoniker, Russische Philharmonie, Orchestra Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa, Orquestra Sinfónica Brasileira, Bergische Symphoniker, Bruno Walter Chamber Orchestra, Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss am Rhein has taken him to the largest concert halls and music festivals in the world - Wiener Konzerthaus , Wiener Musikverein, Suntory Hall, Tokyo Opera City Hall, Dom Musiki Moscow, Philharmonie St. Petersburg, Palais des Beaux Arts Brussels, Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos Lisbon and many more. In 2015 Daniel Auner founded the “Auner Quartet” in Vienna. With this string quartet as well as the  “Wiener Mozart Trio” he appears regularly in many of the major European concert halls. As a passionate chamber musician, he plays with B. Emmanuel Tjeknavorian, Julia Hagen, Patrick Demenga, Jan Vogler, Dennis Russell Davies, Cristian Budu, Ingrid Fujiko-Hemming, Pavel Gililov, Robin Green, Hannfried Lucke, Cristian Budu, Ingrid Fujiko-Hemming and many more. Daniel Auner has been teaching violin at the renowned Prayner Conservatory in Vienna since 2018. Since 2020 he has also been on the board of the Fritz Kreisler Society. This renowned institution organizes, among other things, the Fritz Kreisler competition, which takes place every four years. In 2020 he took over the artistic direction as general music director of the Mödling Symphony Orchestra. As a conductor and violinist, Daniel Auner also performs worldwide with the Strauss Festival Orchestra Vienna, the Vienna Hofburg Orchestra and the Vienna Residence Orchestra. 

His 12 CD recordings have been released on the labels Gramola Vienna, Capriccio, Coviello and Preiser Records; his CD "Dialogue with Mozart" (Gramola) received particularly high praise from the international press - and was celebrated as CD of the month by the renowned Strad magazine. Radio and TV productions such as the opening of the Festival de Radio France in Montpellier, the production “Caprice Viennois” at the invitation of the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk MDR in Leipzig as well as concert recordings by ORF, Radio Klassik, Radio France Musique, Radio Clásica de RNE, and TV Globo Brazil, ORF 1 and ORF 2 are available.

Daniel Auner has been involved as a cultural ambassador for Austria in the “New Austrian Sound of Music” funding programmme for many years - these music-mediating performances also bring him to countries such as Brazil, Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Belize, Tunisia, Iran, Kuwait, South Africa etc. Daniel Auner plays a Giovanni Battista Guadagnini violin from the collection of valuable string instruments of the Austrian National Bank and is supported by Thomastik Infeld.

  "Playing with a light touch and an engaging tone, with nicely judged vibrato giving genial warmth (The Strad) . He is able to “give his interpretations of works from different eras an always captivating authenticity through his impressive sense of style, musical flexibility and intelligence“ (Radio Ö1 ). 

Thomas Auner was born in 1990 into a musical family in Vienna and began learning the cello and piano with his parents at a very young age. Thomas has appeared as a soloist with many orchestras such as the Orchestre Royal du Chambre de Wallonie, the Slovak Radio Orchestra, the Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, the Sinfonietta Baden, the RTSH Orchestra Tirana, the Sinfoniette dell’Arte, the Orchestra of the MUK Vienna, the Orchestra of the TU Vienna, or the Ensemble Neue Streicher Vienna. He is a winner and finalist in numerous international Cello competitions, such as the Liezen Cello Competition, the Mendelsohn-Bartholdy Competition Berlin, the Richard-Strauss-Competition Munich, the Cello Competition Antonio Janigro in Porec, Croatia, the Gradus ad Parnassum competition in Austria and was semifinalist in the Queen Elisabeth competition in Brussels in 2017. He was awarded a prize of the Mozartgemeinde Vienna and performed together with pianist Maximilian Flieder in the Wiener Musikverein, the Brucknerhaus Linz, the Pianosalon Christophori Berlin, among others. He studied with the legendary cellist Natalia Gutman at the Vienna Conservatory (MUK), from where he graduated with distinction in spring 2018. Thomas wrote his master thesis on the development of the cello as a solo instrument in early 18th century Vienna. He has had a contract at the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and is currently cello section leader in the Bruckner Orchester Linz.

In 2015 his first CD has appeared with the Austrian label Gramola, in 2023 his latest CD “217” was published with SoloMusica in Munich.

He currently plays on a beautiful Giovanni Grancino Cello (Milano 1604) “ex Piatti/Dunlop” on generous loan from the Austrian National Bank (OENB).

“Highly emotional…” (FonoForum magazine), “an album hard to resist” (AAG), “…with so much thoughtful passion” (Review - Orchestergraben).

This concert is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.