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
Arsenii Moon won the 64th Busoni Competition in 2023 and was also the winner of the competition’s prestigious Michelangeli Award (which had not been awarded for nearly three decades).
He was born in St Petersburg in 1999 and began to study the piano at the age of six, initially in the Special Music School of the St Petersburg State Conservatory and subsequently at the Conservatory itself. He is currently completing his degree as a student of Sergei Babayan at the Juilliard School of Music in New York.
Concert tours in the 2024-25 season include more than 50 solo performances and with orchestras in major venues and festivals in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France, Austria, South Korea and Japan, in such halls as the Konzerthaus Vienna, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Seoul Arts Center and the Tonhalle in Zurich.
In February 2024 ARTE TV broadcast live Arsenii’s performance of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine and Joseph Swensen in a special concert celebrating the 30th anniversary of René Martin’s festival La Folle Journée.
Arsenii has been awarded awards throughout his career including the Sviatoslav Richter Grant from the Mstislav Rostropovich Foundation, the Yuri Temirkanov Prize and the Verbier Festival’s Tabor Piano Award. He won First Prize in the Horowitz Competition in Ukraine, Second Prize in the Cliburn Junior Competition in the USA, First Prize in the Artur Rubinstein in Memoriam Competition in Poland and First Prize in the St. Priest competition in France – and has performed at the Mariinsky International Piano Festival and at the Yuri Bashmet Festival in Minsk.
Arsenii Moon has performed with many international orchestras including the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, the Orchestra Sinfonia di Bari, the St Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra and the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra. He has collaborated with conductors such as Stanislav Kochanovsky, Joseph Swensen, Mei-Ann Chen, Mark Russell Smith, Ian Hobson and Valery Gergiev, among others.
