Johannes moser cello biography of barack gas

German-Canadian cellist Johannes Moser , now a soloist who has played with top orchestras all over the world, was telling me how he found his way to the cello. Moser, who studied with the renowned cello teacher David Geringas , was a top prize winner at the Tchaikovsky Competition and has been involved in commissioning numerous new works for cello, will play this week at the Grand Teton Music Festival , in both a chamber concert Thursday and this weekend as soloist for Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No.

Cellist Johannes Moser. Photo courtesy of the artist. My question was: why would anyone ever need an exit strategy from the violin? Then I started playing the cello -- my father's a cellist. It was immediately love at first sight - or love at first bow stroke!

Born into a musical family in , Johannes began studying the cello at the age of eight and became a student of Professor David Geringas in He was the top prize winner at the .

Those low frequencies really spoke to me. As an eight-year-old, you don't make decisions, you just follow your instincts, and following the cello instinct turned out to be right for my life. Moser is actually a fifth-generation musician -- his great-grandfather, the violinist Andreas Moser, studied with Joseph Joachim and actually became the legendary violinist's assistant ; he also knew Johannes Brahms.

A number of Edition Peters versions of Mozart quartets that are still in circulation are edited by "Andreas Moser" -- that's Johannes' great-grandfather. His grandfather was a musicologist; his father, Kai Moser, is a cellist who played in the Bavarian Radio Symphony. You cannot call history for help! My aunt also is a singer, Anna Moser.

D Canada, Moser began studying the cello at the age of eight.

So yes, there are a lot of musicians in my family! Johannes Moser plays on a Andrea Guarneri cello that he has on loan, and he also owns a 21st-century cello made by the Berlin-based luthier Ragnar Hayn. I really think it's an exciting time in terms of violin-making.