Univ.-Prof. Mag.art. Dr.phil. Barbara Moser

Barbara Moser received her first piano lessons at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst (today known as the University of Music and the Performing Arts) in Vienna from the age of five with Renate Kramer-Preisenhammer, which were followed by studies in piano performance with Heinz Medjimorec. In addition, the young pianist took two semesters with Greta Kraus at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto and attended master classes with prominent music teachers; after unanimously passing her diploma examination with distinction, she took in-depth studies with Boris Bloch, Rudolf Buchbinder, Oleg Maisenberg and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf.

Awarded many prizes and scholarships, Barbara Moser regularly performed as a soloist for 25 years in Austria’s most important concert halls and at renowned international festivals such as Schleswig-Holstein, Flanders, Montreux, the Salzburger Festspiele, the Schwetzinger Festspiele, the Vienna Festival, the Schubertiade in Vorarlberg, Klangbogen Vienna, the Carinthian Summer, the Spring Festival of Monte Carlo etc. Her concert tours to most European countries as well as Japan, South America, Canada and the USA led to cooperation with many conductors and orchestras of world standing. In 1994, she performed for the first time with the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields and held her successful Dallas debut with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in 1999.

Her discography covers eleven solo CDs, the last six of which have all been published by Gramola, as well as fifteen chamber music- and song-productions, including the duet CD ‘Hommage à Mozart’ (violin: Joanna Madroszkiewicz), awarded the ‘Viennese Flute Clock’ for the best Mozart interpretation of 2002. The CD series Schuberts weltliches Chorwerk, published by Teldec, was awarded the distinguished record prize ‘Diapason d’Or’. Her Duo-production “Ladies’ Night” with violinist T. A. Irnberger was voted BBC-Magazine’s chambermusic-choice for April 2018.

Beside her focus on chambermusic in the past ten years, the artist has always been intrigued by working with singers. She has held concerts with such exceptional singers as Natalie Dessay, Plácido Domingo and Michael Schade. She is also much in demand in the field of chamber music, is a member of the Trio variabile and holds concerts in varying formations, frequently with leading members of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.

Barbara Moser holds seminars and master classes throughout the world and has taught at the University of Music and Performing Arts since 1999, where she was appointed professorship in early 2012. In 2007, the pianist completed her doctorate with a dissertation on ornamentation in Bellini’s opera La Sonnambula. The dissertation has been published by VDM-Verlag and Moser has received a ‘Best Publication Award’ for it in 2010.

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