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Florian Erdl is a freelance conductor. In 2023 he took on the musical direction of the revival of Schreker’s "Der Ferne Klang" at the Oper Frankfurt. Erdl had been musical assistant to Sebastian Weigl at the same opera house on several occasions. After contributions to Richard Strauss’ "Capriccio", he also conducted Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” and “Così fan tutte”. Guest conductorships have taken him e.g. to the Mannheim National Theater, the Mecklenburg State Theatre Schwerin, the Kiel Opera, the Coburg Theatre and the Tyrolean State Theatre Innsbruck. He has performed in concerts with the Neurbrandenburger Philharmonie, the Deutsche Philharmonie Merck, Sønderjyllands Symfoniorkester, and the Munich Symphony Orchestra.

Erdl was appointed Professor of Conducting at hmt Rostock in 2023, where he had taught as interim professor since 2020. In this role, he is responsible for various symphony concerts and opera productions.

Erdl was Principal Kapellmeister and Deputy GMD at several theatres: at the Stadttheater Pforzheim (where he was also provisional GMD), at the Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landestheater in Flensburg and the Graz Opera. In his role as artistic and musical director, Erdl managed and conducted the Kammeroper Frankfurt for nearly 10 years.

Erdl recorded a series of soundtracks with the Bayerische Staatsorchester Munich, the Munich Philharmonic and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, as well as the music for Isabelle Werth’s freestyle section of her dressage programme at the Beijing Summer Olympics in 2008 with the Kammerakademie Potsdam and members of the Komische Oper and Deutsche Oper Berlin. As founder and artistic director, Erdl conducted the Bayerische Symphonieorchester Munich (CD production: Beethoven 9. Symphonie).

Florian Erdl is passionate about working with youth orchestras and has previously collaborated with the state youth orchestras of Schleswig-Holstein, Hessen, and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, as well as the orchestra of the Young Academy Rostock.

Erdl studied Orchestral Conducting and Accompaniment in Weimar under Gunther Kahlert, Nicolas Pasquet and Anthony Bramall, and visited the masterclass of Bruno Weil in Munich; additionally, he studied Directing at the Bayerische Theaterakademie Munich under Cornel Franz and Music Theory under Stefan Rohringer and Ullrich Kaiser in Munich, as well as Musicology and Philosophy.