During the 2008-2009 season, 26-year-old pianist BENJAMIN MOSER gives recitals in the U.S. at the Washington Center for the Performing Arts, Grace Episcopal Church (VA), University of Florida, Macomb Center for the Performing Arts (MI), Missouri State University and the Embassy Series (DC).  In Europe he appears as concerto soloist with the Munich Symphony Orchestra and the Northwest German Philharmonic, and gives recitals throughout the Netherlands, Italy and Germany, where he will perform in the Piano Prizewinners Series in Hannover.  This season, he also released his first CD, of Russian Piano Music by Rachmaninov, Scriabin, Medtner, Tchaikovsky, and Prokofiev, on the Oehms Classics label.

As First Prize Winner of the 2007 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, Mr. Moser made his New York debut in the Young Concert Artists Series at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall and his Washington, DC debut at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater during the 2007-2008 season.  In Europe he has appeared as soloist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, performing Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini under the baton of Michal Dworzynski.

In June 2007, Mr. Moser won Fifth Prize at the 13th International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, as well as the Toyota Audience Prize and the MICEX Award for the Best Interpretation of a Tchaikovsky Work.  Mr. Moser's numerous other awards include First Prize in the 2004 Artur Schnabel Piano Competition in Berlin.  In 2005, Mr. Moser was awarded a scholarship in the German Music Council Competition, as well as the Steinway Award in Berlin.

At the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, Mr. Moser was also awarded the Jerome L. Greene Foundation Prize, which sponsored his New York debut; Alexander Kasza-Kasser Prize, which sponsored his Washington, DC debut; the Sander Buchman Memorial First Prize; 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, he was a winner of the 2006 Young Concert Artists European Auditions, held at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy in Leipzig, Germany.

Mr. Moser was born in Munich in 1981 into a family of musicians and began his piano studies at the age of five. He 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 studied at the University of the Arts in Berlin with Klaus Hellwig.

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