Vanessa Benelli Mosell

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Vanessa Benelli Mosell
Background information
Born (1987-11-15) 15 November 1987 (age 36)
Prato (Tuscany), Italy
GenresClassical
Occupation(s)Pianist
Years active2001–present
LabelsDecca, Universal Music Group
Websitevanessabenellimosell.com

Vanessa Benelli Mosell (born 15 November 1987 in Prato, Tuscany) is an Italian pianist and conductor.[1]

Early life

Vanessa Benelli Mosell was born in

Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory to study with Mikhail Voskresensky before pursuing her studies with Dmitri Alexeev at the Royal College of Music in London, where she graduated in 2012. In addition to her piano studies, she studied violin, singing, score reading, composition, and conducting.[6]

Career

Later highlights include her debut at

Chongqing Guotai Arts Center among other venues; performances at Salle Gaveau in Paris, performing Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 with Orchestre Pasdeloup, and her Rachmaninov album launch recital at Salle Cortot
in Paris.

Benelli Mosell in Kürten at the Stockhausen Courses

2018 saw her making her debut with the

Piano Concerto[7] and concerts at the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra,[8] rejoining Southbank three months later for a performance during the 2019 Stockhausen Festival at the Royal Festival Hall. She revisited the Ravel Piano Concerto at Al-Bustan Festival in Beirut and launched the 2019 Festival Presences at Auditorium de Radio France in Paris.[9]

Further orchestral appearances include concerts with the Orchestra of the

Münchner Symphoniker, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra[10] and the Moscow Soloists, with whom she replaced Martha Argerich
as soloist.

Since making debuts at New York's

Auditorio Nacional de Madrid, Palau de la Musica Catalana in Barcelona, Auditorio de Saragoza, Palau de la Musica in Valencia, Auditorium de Radio France and Auditorium du Louvre in Paris, Auditorium Manzoni in Bologna, Sala Verdi in Milan, Dublin National Concert Hall, Haifa Auditorium, Seoul Arts Center, Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, Harbin Grand Theater, Beijing NCPA, London's Royal Festival Hall and Kings Place, La Scala in Milano, Teatro Regio in Turin, Salle Poirel in Nancy, Corum in Montpellier, Théatre de la Criée in Marseille, Bavaria's Schloss Elmau, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall and Usher Hall
in Edinburgh.

Benelli Mosell studied conducting with Luca Pfaff in Strasbourg and won awards in festivals in Elba and Pietrasanta. As conductor she has worked with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, conducting the first performance in Austria of Éric Tanguy's [fr] Incanto (2001).[10] She has also conducted the Divertimento Ensemble in Milan.[11]

Vanessa Benelli Mosell in Lille

Benelli Mosell is internationally renowned for her performances of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Klavierstücke.[12] Following her recording of Klavierstücke I–IV, she was invited by the composer to study under him.

Benelli Mosell has collaborated with contemporary composers including George Benjamin, Hugues Dufourt, Stefano Gervasoni, Martin Matalon and Marco Stroppa.

As a chamber music performer she collaborated with Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, Julian Rachlin, Vadim Repin, Massimo Quarta, Daishin Kashimoto, Radovan Vlatkovich and his partner the French cellist Henri Demarquette, with whom she released the album Echoes for Decca, a juxtaposition of works by Philip Glass and Sergei Rachmaninoff for cello and piano.

Discography

Benelli Mosell's debut recording Introducing Vanessa Benelli Mosell, Virtuoso Piano Music

Gramophone Magazine).[14] Gramophone Magazine also said of the album that "music which should burn with an elemental romanticism too often ends up sounding superficial".[14]

Her debut recording was followed in September 2012 by her second Liszt recital.

Stravinsky and followed this in 2016 with Light, a further disc in her Stockhausen series.[16] She now has five releases for Decca Classics, most recently a disc of Debussy's Preludes Book I and Suite bergamasque.[17]

Benelli Mosell is a

Steinway Artist.[18]

References

  1. ^ "Vanessa Benelli Mosell".
  2. ^ "Vanessa Benelli Mosell: "Io, tra rigore e glamour"". la Repubblica (in Italian). 31 July 2017. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  3. ^ "Toulouse. Les délices de Benelli Mosell".
  4. ^ "Pianist Vanessa Benelli Mosell: 20th century music has a central role in my repertoire. It is the music I love".
  5. ^ a b Introducing Vanessa Benelli-Mosell, prestomusic.com, 2011
  6. ^ "Mandoline et piano - Vanessa Benelli Mosell et Julien Martineau". March 2020.
  7. ^ "Pianist Vanessa Benelli Mosell: 20th century music has a central role in my repertoire. It is the music I love" by Keith Bruce, The Herald, Glasgow, 17 October 2018
  8. ^ "London Philharmonic Orchestra".
  9. ^ "Concert d'ouverture - Mardi 12 Février 2019 - 20h00 Maison de la radio et de la musique - Auditorium".
  10. ^ a b Press release, 11 March 2019, MAWOMA – First Female Conductor's World Touring Competition (in German).
  11. YouTube, Périodes (1974) by Gérard Grisey
  12. ^ Maurel, Jean-Pierre (April–May 2016). "Vanessa Benelli Mosell – Une pianiste entre musique classique et contemporaine". Mamie Pétille (in French). No. 41. pp. 10–11. Vanessa devient la référence pour ce qui concerne l'interprétation des pièces pour piano de Stockhausen, les Klavierstücke
  13. ^ Prokofiev & Liszt & Haydn & Scriabin: Virtuoso Piano Music, Brilliant Classics
  14. ^ a b "Introducing Vanessa Benelli-Mosell , "Sparkling technique in demanding music but little beneath the surface brilliance"". Gramophone. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
  15. ^ Vanessa Benelli Mosell – Liszt, review, musicweb-international.com, December 2012
  16. ^ Light, Decca Classics
  17. ^ "Debussy: 12 Preludes, Book I; Suite Bergamasque di Vanessa Benelli Mosell - Musica - Universal Music Italia".
  18. ^ "New Steinway Artist: Vanessa Benelli Mosell", steinway.co.uk, 10 August 2016

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