Will receive The Saint Vincent College Father Joseph Bronder Prize in Piano

Benjamin Moser, a 26-year-old pianist from Germany currently residing in The Netherlands, will perform in The Saint Vincent College Concert Series at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 12 in the Robert S. Carey Performing Arts Center.

He will be performing various preludes and etudes by Sergei Rachmaninoff, as well as Maurice Ravel’s “Gaspard de la Nuit,” and selections from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “The Seasons.” Other works he will be playing include “Elis - Three Nightpieces” by Heinz Holliger, and several works by Alexander Skryabin.

Mr. Moser is the first recipient of The Saint Vincent College Father Joseph Bronder Prize in Piano, and has also won First Prize in the 2007 Young Concert Artists International Auditions. 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 will sponsor his New York debut; Alexander Kasza-Kasser Prize, which will sponsor his Washington, D.C. debut; the Sander Buchman Memorial First Prize; the Miriam Brody Aronson Award; the first Ruth Laredo Memorial Award, created in 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 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.

Single tickets for the concert are $20 and the “Classic Evening” dinner and concert package can be purchased for $30. Tickets can be reserved and purchased by calling 724-805-2565.

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