Moisès Fernández Via

Born in Barcelona on February 1980. He began his musical education at the age of ten with Josefina Rigolfas, and made his public debut on 1993 in the French city of Agen, where the press acclaimed him as: “un nom qu’il faudra retenir! ”.

Between 1999 and 2005 he studied in the class of Imre Rohmann at the University Mozarteum in Salzburg, as a winner of the Catalan Government scholarships.
During this academic period he worked with the Hagen Quartet, the Lied duo Mitsuko Shirai and Hartmut Höll, and the musicologist Siegbert Rampe; becoming his master degree in piano and chamber music “Mit Auszeichnung” (with honors).

He took part in the compositions seminars of Reinhard Febel, and studied conducting with Carl Høgset.

Since 2003 he receives artistic orientation from Maria João Pires in the centre for the Arts and the Music “Belgais”, in Portugal.

He was an acclaimed winner of the 2001 Scarlatti International Piano Competition in Naples (Italy), before winning many prizes and distinctions in competitions like spanish Jeneusses Musicales, Joan Massià International Piano Competition in Barcelona, Josefine Verdet Competition in Barcelona, International Piano Prize in Berga, Youth Musicians National Competiton Villafranca de los Barros, Paper de Música Promotion Award, and Andorra International Piano Competition.

On 2001 he made his debut at the “Palau de la Música Catalana” in Barcelona together with the National Chamber Orchestra of Andorra, becoming the critic’s prize for his performance of Mozart’s K.449.

Invited from the Instituto Cervantes he represented Spain at the II European Youth Music Festival with different recitals along the Italian geography.

A regular guest in different Spanish Concert Halls and Festivals, his concert activity brought him to Germany, France, Austria, Italy, Portugal, Israel and Morocco. He performed in the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, the Mozarteum, the Leopoldskron Castle and the Steinway-Haus in Salzburg, the Rokoko-Saal in Ausburg, the Hamburg Laieszhalle, the Auditorium Ciccolini and the Institut Grenoble in Naples, the Culture Ministerium in Rabat and the Belgais Center in Portugal, among others; together with the National Orchestra of Andorra, the Camerata Gaudi and the Opus111 Quartet.

He deserves a special attention to chamber music, specially to the Lied duo with the soprano Nuria Orbea, and the partnership of the violinist Joanna Kamenarska and the guitarrist Eliot Fisk.

He created and directed artistically different musical projects as “Música a l’Hospital” which brings a musical and concert reality at the Pediatric Hospital Vall Hebron in Barcelona, or the Capellades Chamber Music Summer Academy in partnership with the Casals Quartet.