Arsenii
Moon

FIRST PRIZE
&
MICHELANGELI PRIZE

Place of birth:
St. Petersburg

Educated in:
New York

Current place of residence:
New York

“Arsenii Moon is an enchanter, communicating ‘a sincere and unique sense of the poetry in the music'” © Dallas magazine

“Arsenii’s greatest strength… is his brilliant and fine technique, full of nuances, combined with an aristocratic elegance. The young musician already has a very personal style and knows how to charm and captivate the audience.” © Muzlife Magazine

“Arsenii Moon is highly gifted. He is an extraordinary virtuoso capable of capturing the listener’s attention with a fascinating and breathtaking story. He is equally at home with the deepest pages of Bach as well the transcendental etudes of Liszt and mazurkas of Chopin.” Sergei Babayan

Winner of the 64^th Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition, Arsenii Moon, 24-year-old pianist, also won the prestigious Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Award, awarded only in case of unanimous verdict of the jury, a rather rare case since this recognition had not been awarded for almost three decades! Not enough, he won the Audience Award, which the Busoni Competition opens online to all listeners from around the world. Arsenii Moon was born in St Petersburg in 1999. At the age of six he began to study the piano under Elena Zyabreva. In 2010–2017 he studied under Alexander Sandler, initially at the Secondary Special Music School of the Rimsky-Korsakov St Petersburg State Conservatory and subsequently at the conservatory itself. He is currently a student of Sergei Babayan at the Juilliard School in New York. In 2009 he made his debut with a symphony orchestra at the St Petersburg Philharmonia, and in 2014 he gave his first recital at the Mozarthaus Vienna. Recipient of the St. Petersburg City Government Prize. In 2010–2016 he was a recipient of the Sviatoslav Richter Grant from the Mstislav Rostropovich Foundation. In 2016 he was awarded the Yuri Temirkanov Prize. He has won prizes in many major competitions, such as first prize at the Horowitz Competition in Ukraine, second prize at the Cliburn Junior Competition in the USA, first prize at the Artur Rubinstein in Memoriam competition in Poland, and first prize in the St. Priest competition in France. He also received the “Verbier Festival” Tabor piano award. He appeared at the Yuri Bashmet International Music Festival in Minsk, the Mariinsky International Piano Festival and the festivals Larisa Gergieva and Friends (Vladikavkaz) and Moscow Greets its Friends. Within 2015-2022 he regularly featured in programs of the St. Petersburg Music House. Arsenii appeared with such ensembles as the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, the St. Petersburg State Academic Symphony Orchestra, the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, the State Symphony Orchestra Novaya Rossiya, the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, the State Hermitage Orchestra, the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra and the Northern Symphony Orchestra. He has collaborated with conductors including Valerij Gergiev, Alexander Titov, Dmitry Liss, Alexander Skulsky, Fabio Mastrangelo, Stanislav Kochanovsky, Mei-Ann Chen, Mark Russell Smith, Ian Hobson, Zaurbek Gugkaev and Yaroslav Zaboyarkin among others. Arsenii performed together with orchestras and played recitals at major venues throughout Russia, the USA and Europe (Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts (Urbana, Illinois) and the Salle Cortot in Paris among others). In the autumn of 2019, he undertook a tour of cities in Europe (Strasbourg, Luxembourg, Paris and Brussels), in addition to performing a concert on Radio France. Next season he will be touring Italy, Austria, Germany, South Korea, and Japan.

On its 125th anniversary the legendary record label, Deutsche Grammophon launched its new service STAGE+. Arsenii will be featured in the “Rising Stars”, comprising an audiovisual concert portrait and digital audio releases on STAGE+.

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