Johannes Moser

With a good amount of both technique and charisma, Johannes Moser has emerged as a high virtuoso cellist of the first 21st century. Moser was created June 14, 1979, in Munich, Germany. His dad was a German violinist, his mom a Canadian soprano, and he provides maintained dual German and Canadian citizenship. He resided in Germany, nevertheless, until shifting to NY in 2012. Moser used the violin at age group five and switched towards the cello at eight. His initial instructor was his dad, but “[e]ventually, there is a small amount of a clash,” he informed the Dallas Observer. “I believe we decided sooner or later that with regard to peace in the home, it might be better for me personally to go on.” Learning using the Lithuanian instructor and performer David Geringas, students of Mstislav Rostropovich who proved helpful in Germany through the latter element of his profession, Moser developed an unbiased voice. His initial discovery was a sterling silver medal showing on the 2002 Tchaikovsky Competition, executing Tchaikovsky’s Variants on the Rococo Theme, Op. 34. He provides since become discovered with this cello showpiece, executing it a large number of situations. Moser agreed upon with Germany’s Haenssler label and documented sonatas by Shostakovich, Mieczyslaw Weinberg, and Boris Tchaikovsky for his 2006 debut. That was accompanied by an record covering Saint-Saëns’ comprehensive functions for cello and orchestra, and by an acclaimed three-volume Brahms and His Contemporaries series; Moser gained the Brahms Award in 2014. Many more main concerto produces propelled Moser to top-level concert slot machines under such conductors as Riccardo Muti, Mariss Jansons, Valery Gergiev, Zubin Mehta, Franz Welser-Möst, Manfred Honeck, Christian Thielemann, Pierre Boulez, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and Gustavo Dudamel. In 2015 Moser authorized using the Dutch audiophile label PentaTone and announced programs for a fresh group of main repertory recordings. That started having a pairing of concertos by Lalo and Dvorák and continuing in 2017 having a disk offering the Elgar Cello Concerto in E small, Op. 85, as well as the Tchaikovsky Rococo Variants. Termed a “rock and roll star cellist” from the Observer, Moser can be an casual and trendy dresser, who listens mainly to nonclassical music on recordings (he prefers to see traditional music in concert). He offers expressed a significant dedication to teaching aspiring music artists, from kindergarten level on up. Moser can be a keen chamber musician, that has performed with Joshua Bell, Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos, Menahem Pressler, Wayne Ehnes, Midori, and Jonathan Biss. A top-notch cyclist, he offers ridden over the Alps, but provides curtailed his long-distance bicycling activity to be able to protect his hands.