Florian Berner

For more than two decades, the Vienna-born cellist Florian Berner has been a guest in all the world's musical centres: concert tours have taken him to Carnegie Hall in New York, Cité des Arts in Paris, the Konzerthaus and Musikverein in Vienna, the Berliner Philharmonie, Suntory Hall in Tokyo and to the Schubertiade, Colmar and Lockenhaus festivals.
Florian Berner was awarded the Special Prize of the Vienna Philharmonic and the European Chamber Music Prize; numerous CDs have been released by Deutsche Grammophon, Decca, Gramola, Extraplatte, VMS, cpo and CamJazz.

Perfect Noise will release Berner's recording of Johann Sebastian Bach's 6 solo suites in 2023, which has been enthusiastically reviewed: ‘... breathtakingly beautiful cello suites... a Bach to kneel down to... a very great achievement... He receives an International Music Award Nomination and a Supersonic Award for it.

An enthusiastic chamber musician, he founded the Hugo Wolf Quartet in 1993, the Alban Berg Ensemble Vienna in 2016, which features a string quartet, flute, clarinet and piano, and has been the cellist of TrioVanBeethoven since 2024.
He spent his student days at the mdw in Vienna and with Mario Brunello in Italy. Today he holds masterclasses at various American universities and for the IberoAcademy in Colombia. He was a lecturer for the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra in Venezuela and for ((superar)) in Vienna, as well as for the Norwegian Youth Symphony Orchestra.
Since 2021, he has been a university professor of cello and chamber music at the MUK in Vienna.

Florian Berner plays a cello by Nicolò Gagliano, Naples 1819.