Arsenii Moon at Steinway Hall
A great artist ready to risk all for moments of true recreation
Arsenii Moon (Mun) on his first ever visit to London invited by the Keyboard Charitable Trust to play before a select audience as part of their Career Advancement Prize for the winner of the Busoni Conpetition in Bolzano. Arsenii with his charismatic looks and breathtaking pianism took the 64th competition by storm and was awarded the prestigious Michelangeli Award after it had lain fallow for almost three decades.
Noretta Conci ,founder with her husband John Leech of the Keyboard Trust , had not only been Michelangeli’s assistant for many years but had followed the competition from its start just after the war in 1949.
First prizes were rarely given out in those first years and Alfred Brendel was adjudicated fourth in the very first edition.
The Keyboard Trust has been honoured to be associated with the competition and has recently been presenting the last four winners in London but also in Florence : Ivan Krpan, Chloe Jiyeong Mun, Emanuil Ivanov and Jae Hong Park.
