Florian Willeitner

Born in Passau in 1991, he is a multi-award-winning German violinist, composer and arranger whose work focuses on connecting a wide variety of musical cultures, from classical to jazz to global folk music.

In 2019 he founded the artist platform and production company Pool of Invention with his long-time musical colleague Ivan Turkalj. He created works for well-known orchestras, festivals and soloists, including the Tonkunstlerorchester Niederösterreich, the Stuttgart Music Festival, Benjamin Schmid, Andreas Hofmeir and Rolando Villazon and the Salzburg Mozart Week. His music is performed in renowned venues and festivals worldwide.

He is a founding member of the New Piano Trio, with which he won the Bavarian Art Promotion Prize in 2022, and since November 2021 he has been the first violinist of the renowned vision string quartet. He won second prize at the International Zbigniew Seifert Competition 2016. In 2017 he completed his master's degree with Benjamin Schmid at the Mozarteum University with top grades.

For the EU summit of 28 European heads of government in September 2018, he created the work Mozart in the Shape of Europe . He composed the contemporary compulsory piece for solo violin for the International Mozart Competition 2020.

He lives in Berlin and has been an exclusive recording artist at ACT Music since 2021.