Johannes Moser (musician)

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Johannes Moser (born June 14, 1979 in Munich ) is a German cellist and university professor.

Life

Moser comes from a family of musicians: his mother is the soprano Edith Wiens (* 1950), his father the cellist Kai Moser and his brother the pianist Benjamin Moser (* 1981), his aunt the soprano Edda Moser , his grandfather the musicologist Hans Joachim Moser, and his great-grandfather the violinist and teacher Andreas Moser.

Johannes Moser began studying with Wen-Sinn Yang in 1996 and continued with David Geringas at the “Hanns Eisler” Academy of Music in Berlin , which he graduated with honors in 2005. Since then he has performed with the Berlin Philharmonic , London Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra , the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra , Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra , the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin , the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra , Chicago Symphony Orchestra , Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic , Boston Symphony , Los Angeles Philharmonic , in Tokyo with the NHK Symphony Orchestra and Israel Philharmonic Orchestra , under conductors such as Herbert Blomstedt , Pierre Boulez , Semyon Bychkov , Gustavo Dudamel , Valery Gergiev , Manfred Honeck , Paavo Järvi , Wladimir Jurowski , Mariss Jansons , Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Kent Nagano, Riccardo Muti, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Christian Thielemann and Franz Welser-Möst.

Johannes Moser joined the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival when Kissinger Sommer , the Rheingau Music Festival as well as festivals in Montreux, Meran, Locarno, Stresa, Harrogate, Verbier on, Gstaad and Moritzburg.

His discography was awarded the German Record Critics' Prize and twice the “ ECHO Klassik ”.

During his studies, he won first prizes at the "International Karl Davidoff Competition 2000" in Riga and the "Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Prize of the German Universities 2001". He was also awarded the 2001 Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival prize. In 2003 he was awarded the Bavarian Art Prize, and in 2014 the Brahms Prize of the State of Schleswig-Holstein. He was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . At the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 2002 Moser won the 2nd prize (if the 1st prize was not awarded) and the special prize for the best interpretation of the Rococo Variations. He plays a cello by Andrea Guarneri from 1694 from a private collection and a modern cello by Ragnar Hayn.

Since October 2012 Moser has held a professorship for violoncello at the Cologne University of Music and Dance .

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