Benjamin Moser was born in Munich in 1981, into a family of distinguished musicians. He studied with Prof. Michael Schäfer (Munich) and Prof. Klaus Hellwig (Berlin) and has received further valuable artistic instruction from Dmitry Bashkirov, Stanislav Ioudenitch and from Sir Alfred Brendel. Before graduating, Moser already won First Prize at the Artur Schnabel Competition in Berlin. From 2003 on, he was selected for a scholarship by the prestigious German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes), and in 2005 for the Berlin Steinway Advancement Prize. He has also been awarded scholarships by the German Musikleben Foundation and the German Music Council. Internationally He has won a number of competitions (e.g. "Young Concert Artists International Auditions" 2007 in New York); That same year, he was among the finalists at the renowned Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, where he garnered the prize for the best interpretation of Tchaikovsky, along with the Audience Prize. The young musician is regarded as one of the most outstanding German pianists of his generation, having attracted world-wide attention with solo recitals, chamber music appearances and orchestra concerts.