The German Consulate supports: Piano Concert by Benjamin Moser at The Morgan Library & Museum

This concert is part of the "Young Concert Artists" series presenting three one-hour piano recitals at 12 noon.

Program:

Mendelssohn, Four Songs Without Words

Beethoven, Sonata no. 32 in C Minor, op. 111

Chopin, Scherzo no. 2 in B-flat Minor, op. 31

Rachmaninoff, Preludes and Étude-Tableaux

This concert is dedicated to the memory of Catherine G. Curran.

About the artist:

Enlarge image Benjamin Moser (© Christian Steiner) Winner of the Sander Buchman Memorial First Prize of the 2007 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, pianist Benjamin Moser made his debuts in the Young Concert Artists Series at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall, sponsored by the Jerome L. Greene Foundation Prize, and at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater in Washington, DC, sponsored by the Alexander Kasza-Kasser Prize. At the Auditions, he was also awarded the Miriam Brody Aronson Award; the first Ruth Laredo Memorial Award, created honor of the distinguished pianist and Alumna of YCA; the Alice Rosner Foundation Prize; the Slomovic Orchestra Soloist Prize; the Saint Vincent College Bronder Prize for Piano; and the Gulbenkian Foundation Concert Prize for a concert in Paris. Previously, Mr. Moser was a winner of the 2006 Young Concert Artists European Auditions, which took place at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy in Leipzig, Germany.

Oehms Classics recently released Mr. Moser’s first, extraordinary CD of Russian Piano Music by Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Medtner, Tchaikovsky, and Prokofiev. Mr. Moser’s U.S. engagements this season include concertos with the Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle (SC) and the Peoria Symphony (IL), and recitals at the Morgan Library and Museum (NY), the University of Georgia, and his Boston debut at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (MA). He also performs recitals in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the Chopin Piano Concerto No.2 at the Tonhalle in Zurich, and records the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Bamberg Symphony, for broadcast on Bavarian Radio.

Mr. Moser has appeared as soloist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra in Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, with the Munich Symphony Orchestra and the Northwest German Philharmonic, and in recitals in the Netherlands, Italy and Germany.

Mr. Moser has won numerous honors including Fifth Prize at the 13th International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow where he was also awarded the Toyota Audience Prize and the MICEX Award for the Best Interpretation of a Tchaikovsky Work and First Prize in Berlin’s Artur Schnabel Piano Competition. Mr. Moser has received scholarships from the German Music Council Competition, and the Steinway Award in Berlin. Born in Munich in 1981 into a family of musicians, he began his piano studies at the age of five. Mr. Moser won prizes in many young artist competitions and studied with Michael Schäfer at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich. Since 2002 he has worked with Klaus Hellwig at the University of the Arts in Berlin.