University of Florida Performing Arts

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About Benjamin Moser
Benjamin Moser won First Prize in the 2007 Young Concert Artists International Auditions.  He made his New York debut in the Young Concert Artists Series at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall on March 25, 2008 and his Washington, D.C. debut at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater on April 8, 2008.  During the 2007-2008 season, he also gave recitals in the United States at The Colonial Theatre (Massachusetts), Patrons for Young Artists (New York), Port Washington Library (New York) and Saint Vincent College (Pennsylvania). 

In Europe he appeared as soloist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, performing Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini under the baton of Michal Dworzynski in Brighton and Eastbourne, as well as with the Munich Symphony Orchestra and the Northwest German Philharmonic, and gave recitals throughout Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland. 

In June 2007, Mr. Moser won Fifth Prize at the 13th International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow (where no Gold Medal was awarded in the piano division), 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; the Alexander Kasza-Kasser Prize, which sponsored  his Washington, D.C. 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; 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 has won prizes in many young artist competitions. He 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.

Young Concert Artists, Inc. was founded in 1961 as a non-profit organization to discover and launch the careers of extraordinary young musicians.  Many of today’s greatest performers started their careers with Young Concert Artists including Emanuel Ax, Eugenia Zukerman, Chee-Yun and the St. Lawrence String Quartet. The UFPA 2008-09 Season includes performances by two other Young Concert Artists, Robert Belinić and Alexandre Bouzlov.