Florian
Schötz

Florian Schötz was born in Munich. He studied in Berlin, Munich, Nuremberg, Vienna, and Madrid. His teachers include Prof. Daniel Gaede, Prof. Günter Pichler, and Prof. Gerhard Schulz.

As the first violinist of the Goldmund Quartet, he has received numerous national and international awards, including prizes at the ARD International Music Competition and the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition. In 2018, the quartet won first prize and a special prize at the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition.

The Goldmund Quartet's musical partners include clarinetist Jörg Widmann, accordionist Ksenija Sidorova, cellist Maximilian Hornung, clarinetist Sabine Meyer, and pianist Fazıl Say.

The quartet has performed at prestigious venues such as the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Philharmonie de Paris, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Musikverein Graz, the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, as well as at festivals including the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, the Rheingau Music Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Marvão Festival, the Fjord Classics Festival in Norway, and the Schlern Music Festival.

The quartet’s repertoire includes classical and romantic string quartet literature such as works by Haydn, Mendelssohn, and Shostakovich, as well as contemporary pieces. The ensemble regularly collaborates with contemporary composers, including Wolfgang Rihm, Jörg Widmann, Dobrinka Tabakova, Ana Sokolović, Holly Harrison, and Fazıl Say.

While still a student, Florian Schötz worked as an assistant to Prof. Daniel Gaede at the University of Music in Nuremberg. He later taught at the University of Music and Theatre “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” in Leipzig and at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.

In 2025, he was appointed Professor of Chamber Music at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz.

He plays the “Conte Cozio di Salabue” Stradivari from 1727, on loan from the Nippon Music Foundation.