"A player with real musical feeling,
of true individuality. His Shostakovich Cello Concerto No.
1 electrified the entire hall."
The Strad,October 2002
German-born cellist Johannes Moser came to
international attention in June 2002 when he won the 12th
Tchaikovsky Competition and was awarded the Special Prize
for his interpretation of the Rococo Variations.
Later that year he recorded Saint-Saens'
First Cello Concerto with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra for
Bavarian Radio, and then performed that concerto with the
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Paavo Jarvi at
various international festivals including Meran, Stresa,
Montreux and Lugano.
Moser made his United States debut in March
2005 with the Chicago Symphony under Boulez, performing the
Rands Concerto. He was described in the Chicago Tribune as
"greatly gifted" and "heroic." His next engagement in North
America, with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood
Bowl in July 2005, was a similar success.
Moser has played with the Radio Symphony
Orchestra of Saarbrücken, the SWR Stuttgart, and the
Deutsche Symphony Orchestra in Berlin. He has also performed
at Schleswig-Holstein Festival, the Bad Kissingen Summer
Festival, the Menuhin Festival Gstaad, and the Rheingau
Music Festival.
He began the 2004/2005 season with an
unexpected concert at the Montreaux Festival, where he
stepped in on very short notice for Lynn Harrell with
DvoŞák¹s Cello Concerto. This was followed by a tour of
Asia to Singapore, Taipei and Vietnam, performances with the
Munich Radio Orchestra, the Maggio Musicale in Florence
under Petrenko at the invitation of Zubin Mehta, and the
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Riccardo Muti.
Future highlights include debuts with the Royal National
Danish Orchestra, and with the London Symphony Orchestra
under Valery Gergiev, performing the Schumann Cello Concerto
at both the Barbican in London and in Spain.
Born in Munich in 1979, Moser has been
studying the cello since the age of 8 and became a student
of Professor David Geringas in 1997. He also won first prize
in the 2000 Davidoff Competition in Riga and the 2001
Mendelssohn competition in Berlin. In 2003 he was awarded
the "Bayerische Kunstforderpreis" and he also holds
scholarships from the Ritter Foundation and the prestigious
Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes.
For more information, please go to: www.johannes-moser.com
