ARSENII MOON (MUN)
PIANO

“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 2023 Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition, Arsenii Moon (Mun) also won the Audience Prize and the prestigious Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Prize. This is very significant as Arsenii is the first pianist in nearly three decades to receive this award, bestowed only in case of a unanimous verdict by the jury!

Having finished his studies with Sergei Babayan at the Juilliard School in New York, this 25-year-old artist has been selected among the Rising Stars to be featured on STAGE+, the new digital service of the legendary record company Deutsche Grammophon, which will stream an artist portrait, a concert video and digital audio releases. This season Arsenii Moon will also participate in a recording project with the ORF Vienna Radio Orchestra.

The excitement around the discovery of this extraordinary young talent grows as ARTE TV broadcasts live Arsenii’s performance of the Tchaikovsky's Concerto No. 1 with the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine in a special concert celebrating of the 30th anniversary of René Martin’s iconic festival La Folle Journée.

Concert tours for the 2024-25 season include more than 50 performances solo and with orchestras in major venues and festivals in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France, Austria, South Korea and Japan, including such halls as Konzerthaus Vienna, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Seoul Arts center, and Tonhalle Zurich.

This raising star has already collaborated with ensembles such as the Minnesota Orchestra, the Northern Symphony Orchestra, the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, The Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trentino, the St Petersburg State Academic Symphony Orchestra, the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, the Novaya Rossiya State Symphony Orchestra, and the Hermitage State Orchestra. He has collaborated with conductors such as Stanislav Kochanovsky, Mei-Ann Chen, Mark Russell Smith, Dmitry Liss, Valery Gergiev, Fabio Mastrangelo, and Arvo Volmer, among others.

Arsenii has been performing actively in Europe and the US: Paris, Strasbourg, Luxembourg, Brussels, St. Petersburg, Dallas/Ft. Worth, and the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, among others. He was recently profiled on Radio France's prestigious young artist showcase Génération France Musique.

Dallas Magazine described Arsenii as “an enchanter, communicating ‘a sincere and unique sense of the poetry in the music'.” Muzlife Magazine defined his “greatest strength: 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.”

From 2010 to 2016, Arsenii was a recipient of the Sviatoslav Richter Scholarship granted by the Mstislav Rostropovich Foundation. In 2016, he was awarded the Yuri Temirkanov Prize. Prior to Busoni the emerging pianist won several other international contests, including the Horowitz Competition in Ukraine, the Memorial Artur Rubinstein Competition in Polandm and the Saint-Priest International Competition in France. He was also awarded the Tabor piano prize at the Verbier Festival.

He studied with Alexander Sandler at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in his native St. Petersburg, where he made his orchestral debut at the age of 10 with the Symphony Orchestra at the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, and five years later gave his first recital at the Mozarthaus in Vienna.