Florian Schötz was born in Munich. He studied in Berlin, Munich, Nuremberg, Vienna and Madrid. His teachers included Profs Daniel Gaede, Günter Pichler and Gerhard Schulz.
As leader of the Goldmund Quartet, he has won many national and international awards. These include 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 clarinettist Jörg Widmann, accordionist Ksenija Sidorova, cellist Maximilian Hornung, clarinettist Sabine Meyer, and pianist Fazıl Say.
The quartet has performed as guests at venues including the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Philharmonie de Paris, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, the Wiener Konzerthaus, the Musikverein Graz, the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, 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.
During his studies, Florian Schötz taught as an assistant to Prof. Daniel Gaede at Nuremberg University of Music. He subsequently taught at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Academy of Music and Theatre in Leipzig and the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.
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