The Florian Hoefner Trio are a Canadian jazz trio from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.[1] Their album Desert Bloom was the winner of the Juno Award for Jazz Album of the Year, Group at the Juno Awards of 2023.[2]
The band is led by pianist Florian Hoefner, a music professor at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, with bassist Andrew Downing and drummer Nick Fraser.[1] They were previously nominated in the same Juno category for First Spring at the Juno Awards of 2021.[3]
Hoefner has previously recorded albums as a solo artist, and with the Florian Hoefner Group.