Benjamin Moser (musician)

Benjamin Moser (born May 3, 1981 in Munich ) is a German pianist .

Live and act

Benjamin Moser comes from a family of musicians: his Canadian mother Edith Wiens (* 1950) is a singer and his father Kai Moser is a cellist . His brother Johannes Moser (* 1979) is also a cellist.

Moser began taking piano lessons at the age of six. While still at school, he began studying piano with Michael Schäfer at the University of Music in Munich . At the University of the Arts in Berlin he studied as a master student with Klaus Hellwig from 2002–2009 . After receiving his master class diploma, Moser completed his musical skills with Dmitri Bashkirow and, from 2012, with Alfred Brendel in London.

Moser became known to the international audience when he won prizes at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Competition in 2007 and at the Young Concert Artist competition in New York . He appears as a soloist in orchestral concerts and piano recitals. His repertoire includes works by Bartók , Beethoven , Brahms , Chopin , Gershwin , Grieg , Liszt , Mozart , Rachmaninow , Tchaikovsky and Schumann (as of 2017).

His concerts take him to concert halls in Europe and around the world.

Promotion and Awards

Moser took part in piano competitions while still a student, winning a first prize at the Artur Schnabel Competition in Berlin . In the second phase of his studies, he received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation in 2003 , and the German Music Council also supported him with a scholarship. In 2005 he was awarded the Steinway & Sons advancement award in Berlin .

Web links

• Benjamin Moser's website
• Benjamin Moser at Discogs (English)
• Review on kultur-im-schloss-illertissen.de
• Texts about the CD by Benjamin Moser on the homepage of the CD publisher Ohems Classics

Individual evidence

1. ↑ dates of birth on mmv.ru.
2. ↑ biography. B. Moser website, accessed December 16, 2017.
3. ↑ Лауреаты по специальности "фортепиано": 5 премия - Moser Benjamin ( Германия ) ( Memento from September 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) - (German: 5th prize in the piano category - Moser Benjamin [Germany]). Tchaikovsky Competition 2007, Moscow Conservatory, news entry from June 30, 2007.
4. ^ Benjamin Moser, pianist. ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Profile on the Young Concert Artists website , accessed December 16, 2017. 
5. ↑ repertoire. B. Moser website, accessed December 16, 2017.
6. ↑ biography. B. Moser website, accessed December 16, 2017.