Joseph Moog
(GER)
Innovative programs and an award-winning discography portray Joseph Moog’s extensive repertoire and characterise his unique artistic personality. Passionate musicianship, multifaceted sound aesthetics and mesmerising virtuosity have been delighting audiences and press around the world for many years. Awarded the Gramophone Classical Music Award, two International Classical Music Awards and nominated for a Grammy,
Joseph Moog - Rachmaninoff: Études-Tableaux, op. 33 nr. 7 - Concertgebouw Sessions
Joseph Moog - Ravel: Pianoconcert in G
Biography
Innovative programs and an award-winning discography portray Joseph Moog’s extensive repertoire and characterise his unique artistic personality. Passionate musicianship, multifaceted sound aesthetics and mesmerising virtuosity have been delighting audiences and press around the world for many years. Awarded the Gramophone Classical Music Award, two International Classical Music Awards and nominated for a Grammy,
Joseph feels at home on the world’s leading stages. The 2021/2022 season takes Joseph Moog to major concert halls, festivals and ensembles, including the Opéra Garnier and the Théâtre La Scala in Paris, Wigmore Hall in London, the National Centre for the Arts in Taiwan, the Philharmonie Luxembourg and the Ruhr Piano Festival. The extensive collaboration with the Ballet de l’Opéra de Paris, as soloist in Rachmaninoff’s Paganini Rhapsody, represents a special highlight. Autumn 2021 will see the release of two new albums comprising Schumann‘s Concert Etudes after Caprices by Paganini and Brahms’ Paganini Variations as well as Reger’s Piano Concerto and Intermezzi op. 45 on Onyx Classics. 45.
Last season’s numerous concerts will be rescheduled for the near future: Debuts with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, concerts with the Hallé Orchestra Manchester, the Beethovenorchester Bonn, as well as the Recitals in the Salle Philharmonique de Liège, at the Turner Sims Piano Series Southampton and the Harrogate International Festival.
There were numerous highlights in the 2018/2019 season, such as performing with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra conducted by Matthias Pintscher, in the Philharmonie Luxembourg with Saint-Saëns’ 5th piano concerto, in the Royal Albert Hall in London with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Rachmaninoff’s 2nd Piano Concerto with the New Japan Philharmonic with Brahms ‘2nd Piano Concerto conducted by Lawrence Foster in the Sumida Triphony Hall in Tokyo, with ‘ Piano aux Jacobins’ in Toulouse and the music festival in Gdansk amongst others.
Joseph Moog gained his reputation as a soloist at concerts in the legendary Meesterpianisten series at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, at the Moscow International House of Music, at the New Ross Piano Festival, the Freiburg International Concert Series, Istanbul Recitals and Eesti Kontsert Tallinn Piano Festival, Mariinsky Theatre Auditorium, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Münchner Gasteig, Liederhalle Stuttgart, Laeiszhalle Hamburg, De Doelen Rotterdam and at the Festival La Roque d’Anthéron. Joseph performed several times in the U.S.: at the Frick Collection in New York City, Gilmore International Piano Series, Portland Piano International, Washington Performing Arts Society, Vancouver Recital Society as well as at the Miami International Piano Festival.
Over the course of his Asia tour in October 2016, Joseph Moog performed with the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, as well as at Recitals in Seoul’s Kumho Arts Hall, Tokio’s Mushashino Hall and at the Singapore International Piano Festival.
Joseph Moog’s extensive concert repertoire has resulted in his collaboration with distinguished orchestras all over the world. He performed with the Philharmonia Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal, Netherlands Radio Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic, Stuttgart Philharmonic, Bruckner Orchestra Linz, Prague Philharmonic, Poznan Philharmonic, Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Dortmund and Bochum Philharmonic, German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and Orchestre Lamoureux Paris.
Joseph Moog works regularly with world renowned conductors Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Matthias Pintscher, Thomas Sondergaard, Andrey Boreyko, Michael Sanderling, John Axelrod, Juanjo Mena, Ben Gernon, Gilbert Varga, Christoph Poppen, Pablo Gonzalez, Nicholas Milton, Ari Rasilainen, Markus Poschner, Marcus Bosch, Toshiyuko Kamioka, Fabrice Bollon, Patrick Lange, Othmar Maga and Philippe Entremont.
Joseph Moog, son of two professional orchestral musicians, received the award of the ‘Prix Groupe de Rothschild’ and has been designated a Steinway Artist in 2009. He is a founding member and Artistic Director of the ‘Konz Musik Festival’ near Luxembourg where he now resides and is actively involved in the cultural preservation of his hometown Neustadt/ Weinstraße as well as Rhineland Palatinate.
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Bach
Concerto N°5 F minor BWV 1056Beethoven
Concerto N°1 C major op.15
Concerto N°2 B flat major op.19
Concerto N°3 C minor op.37
Concerto N°4 G major op.58
Concerto N°5 E flat major op.73
Concerto ‘N°6’ D major op.61a
Chorfantasie C minor op.80
Tripelkonzert C major op.56Brahms
Concerto N°1 D minor op. 15
Concerto N°2 B flat major op.83Bredemeyer
“bagatellen für b” (1970)Chopin
Andante spianato et Grande Polonaise op. 22
Concerto N°2 op.21 F minorDohnanyi
Concerto N°2 B minor op. 42Franck
Symphonic VariationsGershwin
Concerto in F
Variations on “I got Rhythm”
Rhapsody in Blue
Second Rhapsody
Catfish Row SuiteGrieg
Concerto A minor op. 16Haydn
Concerto D major Hob XVIII:11Liszt
Concerto N°1 E flat major
Concerto N°2 A major
Danse macabre/Totentanz
Fantasy on Motifs from Beethoven’s “Ruins of Athens”
Hungarian Fantasy
MalédictionMoszkowski
Concerto E major op. 59Mozart
Concerto E flat major KV 271
Concerto A major KV 414
Concerto B flat major KV 450
Concerto D minor KV 466
Concerto C major KV467
Concerto A major KV 488
Concerto C minor KV491
Concerto B flat major KV 595Prokofiev
Concerto N°1 D flat major op.10
Concerto N°3 C major op.26Rachmaninov
Concerto N°1 F sharp minor op.1
Concerto N°2 C minor op.18
Concerto N°3 D minor op.30
Rhapsody on a theme by Paganini op.43Ravel
Concerto G majorReger
Concerto F minor op. 114Rubinstein
Concerto N°4 D minor op. 70Saint-Saens
Concerto N°2 G minor op. 22
Concerto N°4 C minor op. 44
Concerto N°5 F major op. 103
Wedding cake op. 76Scriabin
Concerto F sharp minor op. 20
Prometheus – The Poem of Fire op.60Strauss
Burleske D minorStravinsky
Concerto for piano and wind instrumentsSzymanowski
Symphony N°4 op.60 (Symphonie concertante)Tchaikovsky
Concerto N°1 B flat minor op. 23Turina
Rapsodia sinfonica op. 66