In 2018, Johannes Moser performed Dvořák’s Cello Concerto with the Symphony in Raleigh and Chapel Hill. He has previously performed the Elgar Cello Concerto with the Symphony in 2012.

Hailed by Gramophone Magazine as ”one of the finest among the astonishing gallery of young virtuoso cellists,” German-Canadian cellist Johannes Moser has performed with the world’s leading orchestras such as the Berliner Philharmoniker, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, BBC Philharmonic at the Proms, London Symphony Orchestra, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Tokyo NHK Symphony, The Philadelphia Orchestra, and The Cleveland Orchestra. Upcoming engagements include the Colorado Symphony and the Baltimore and St. Louis symphony orchestras.

His recordings include the concertos by Dvořák, Lalo, Elgar, Lutosławski, Dutilleux, Tchaikovsky, Thomas Olesen, and Fabrice Bollon (Electric Cello), which have gained him the prestigious Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik and the Diapason d'Or. In 2022, Moser released a new album featuring six new commissions for electric cello, alongside multi-layered arrangements of works for cello ensemble for which The Strad commented, “…there’s no questioning Moser’s ambition, nor the sheer sense of verve with which he pulls it all off…”. Alone Together is one of the first classical music albums to use multi-tracking so extensively.

In addition to the World Premiere performance of Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s Cello Concerto “Before we fall” with San Francisco Symphony and its London premiere at the BBC Proms with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in the 2024/25 season, Moser was Artist in Residence with the Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava and toured in a trio with Andrei Korobeinikov and Vadim Gluzman.

A dedicated chamber musician, Moser has performed with Emanuel Ax, Joshua Bell, Jonathan Biss, James Ehnes, Vadim Gluzman, Leonidas Kavakos, Midori, Menahem Pressler, and Yevgeny Sudbin. He is also a regular at festivals including the Verbier, Schleswig-Holstein, Gstaad and Kissinger festivals, the Mehta Chamber Music Festival, and the Colorado, Seattle, and Brevard music festivals.

Moser has recently been heavily involved in commissioning works by Julia Wolfe, Ellen Reid, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Johannes Kalitzke, Jelena Firsowa, Detlev Glanert, Chris Cerrone, Annie Gosfield, and Bernd Richard Deutsch, amongst many more. In 2011 he premiered MAGNETAR for electric cello by Enrico Chapela with the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, and in the following season he continued this relationship with the orchestra performing Michel van der Aa's cello concerto Up-close. Throughout his career, he has been committed to reaching out to all audiences, from kindergarten to college and beyond. He combines most of his concert engagements with masterclasses, school visits and preconcert lectures.

Born into a musical family in 1979, Moser began studying the cello at the age of eight and became a student of Professor David Geringas in 1997. He was the top prize winner at the 2002 Tchaikovsky Competition, in addition to being awarded the Special Prize for his interpretation of the Rococo Variations. In 2014 he was awarded with the prestigious Brahms prize.

Moser plays on an Andrea Guarneri Cello from 1694 from a private collection.