Johannes Moser
Johannes Moser ( born June 14, 1979 in Munich) is a German cellist.
Life
Born the son of a musical family, his mother is the soprano Edith Wiens ( b. 1950 ), his father, cellist Kai Moser and his brother Benjamin Moser ( born 1981 ) is a concert pianist, Moser began his studies at Wen-Sinn Yang and set it David Geringas at the Academy of Music " Hanns Eisler" Berlin continued, from which he graduated with honors in 2005. During his studies he won first prize at the "International Karl Davidoff Competition 2000 " in Riga and at the " Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Prize of the German universities in 2001 ", as well as the Prize of the Schleswig- Holstein Music Festival in 2001, he was awarded. In 2003 he was awarded the Bavarian Kunstförderpreis. He was also a fellow of the " Study Foundation of the German people ".
When Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow Moser won the 2nd prize and a special prize for the best interpretation of the Rococo Variations in 2002. Since that time he has performed with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the LA Philharmonic, Maggio Musicale in Florence, the NDR Radio Philharmonic Hannover, the Chapel Royal in Copenhagen, the radio orchestras of the SWR in Saarbrücken, Stuttgart and Baden- Baden / Freiburg and the Deutsche Sinfonie -Orchester Berlin. , with conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Paavo Järvi, Kirill Petrenko, Valery Gergiev, Ari Rasileinen and Hans Zender His debut in America he gave in 2005 at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Pierre Boulez with the local premiere of Bernard Rands ' Cello Concerto.
Johannes Moser appeared at the Schleswig -Holstein Music Festival, the Festspiele Mecklenburg- Vorpommern, at the Kissinger Sommer, the Rheingau Music Festival and festivals in Montreux, Merano, Locarno, Stresa, Harrogate, Gstaad and Moritzburg. In the season 2004/ 05 he took over the artistic direction for the project " Johannes Moser and Friends" at the " Middle Rhine music moments ". In the summer of 2006 was to hear chamber musician at the festival in Lucerne with a recital and in Verbier. His commitment to the chamber music he showed by recitals at the Tonhalle Zurich or Meistersingerhalle Nuremberg.
In autumn 2006, Johannes Moser appeared in the Alte Oper Frankfurt with the Museum Orchestra, and he also played with the New York Philharmonic under Lorin Maazel in Tokyo. For February 2007, the Munich Philharmonic under Christian Thielemann committed him to the Schumann Concerto for three concerts in Munich; with the same orchestra he led in May 2006, Krzysztof Penderecki Concerto Grosso for three cellos which in Warsaw.
In May 2006 his first recital disc was released by Haenssler publisher of works by Shostakovich, Mieczysław Weinberg and Boris Tchaikovsky. In 2007 he was of the German Phono Academy in the category " Echo Klassik 2007 - Young Artist of the Year 2007" Award. Johannes Moser plays a cello by Andrea Guarneri of 1694 from a private collection.
Since October 2012 Moser has been a professor of cello at the University of Music and Dance Cologne.