Please click here to check out this piece by David Mermelstein in the L.A. Times on the Sounding Off Tour and some of my other activity

Hey everybody, Phyllis Chen and I are well into our Sounding Off Tour 2010, so please check out our BLOG – we post pics, stories and movies from the road. Hope you enjoy!

The website for the “Sounding Off Tour 2010″ is online now! With more information on Phyllis and me, the tour, pictures and regular updates. I hope you like it! Please click here

Attention iPhone users: My new Johannes Moser iPhone app is ready for download at InstantEncore. To get the latest news, updates and infos on my activities, all you have to do is sign up for free and download the app.

I am part of the jury for the International Commerzbank Chamber Music Award 2010. Young piano trios and piano quartets from all over the world are invited to apply for the competition which is carried out in Frankfurt/Germany on september 14th and 15th (semifinals) and 17th (finals) 2010. For more information, please visit the website.
Registration closing date: 10 June 2010. Hope to see you there!!

I had a very exciting week at the Concertgebouw orchestra with their music director Mariss Jansons and the first cello concerto by Shostakovitsh – for me a truly  unforgettable experience! Please check out this video with a short interview and some footage from the rehearsals:

Mariss Jansons is regarded as one of the greatest conductors of our time, and I felt incredibly honored to be working with him. I was fascinated that until the very last moment he wanted to discuss details of the concerto and was keen on constantly improving our interpretation. What an intense process! Here we are discussing something on stage during the first rehearsal with the orchestra:

Conductor Jahja Ling, cellist Johannes Moser lead Cleveland Orchestra’s weekend feast at Blossom Music Center
Tuesday, August 04, 2009
Zachary Lewis
Plain Dealer Music Critic

In some places, back-to-back nights of weighty symphonic music, such as those presented last weekend by the Cleveland Orchestra, can seem protracted. Not so at Blossom Music Center.

Between a slew of estimable artists, including four conductors, two guest soloists and a local student chamber orchestra, a well-stocked musical feast came and went in a flash.

Most engrossing was cellist Johannes Moser’s tour-de-force account Sunday of Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1. Throughout, his mission seemed to be to squeeze out every bit of musical pulp, to give listeners heart palpitations with a score that’s thrilling enough on its own.

Where the music asks for intensity, Moser answered with ferocity, wailing on his cello like a rock guitarist. The finale, especially, was a raging tide. But quieter passages were also gripping, as eerie high notes evoked utter loneliness or resignation.

Moser wasn’t out there alone. Conductor Jahja Ling, celebrating a 25-year affiliation with the orchestra, responded to the cellist in kind, and soloists on horn, oboe and clarinet injected sirenlike urgency.

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Summertime – festival time! Here is a short clip from California Life HD on my appearance at the Napa Festival del Sole. Music, wine, sun… what more can you ask for?!

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Right after my concert, I had the chance to give someone his first cello lesson:

Please check out this little video I made of my first meeting with Phyllis Chen – as you can see we had a lot of fun! If you want to learn more about Phyllis, please click here

Please check out this interview I did for WQXR in New York with the fabulous Jeff Spurgeon!

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