Michael Moser was born in Graz, Austria and studied architecture at the Technical University in Vienna and cello at the University of Music in Graz and Vienna. Already during his studies of classical music he was intensively engaged with different forms of contemporary music - composition, improvisation, theatre and filmmusic, performance etc. - searching to enlarge the cello´s idiomatic repertoire of expression through experimenting with live-electronics. Numerous pieces for cello solo have been composed at his suggestion. Michael Moser is co-founder of the ensemble polwechsel which works in the spannungsfeld between composition, improvisation, strict concepts and free play. He has collaborated with distinguished artists such as Peter Ablinger, Bernhard Lang, Isabel Mundry, Helmut Lachenmann, Alvin Lucier, Klaus Lang, Luc Ferrari, Pauline Olivieros, Hans Zender, Clemens Gadenstätter, Beat Furrer, Rolf Julius, Michael Maierhof, Phill Niblock and ensembles as a.o. Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Neue Musik Wien, Trio Amos and ensemble PHACE. In 1998 his first solo cd "violoncello" was released on durian records.Besides being an acknowledged interpreter of new music Michael Moser also works as a composer and improviser with artists such as Axel Dörner, Christian Fennesz, John Butcher, Elliott Sharp, Otomo Yoshihide, Bernhard Lang, Martin Siewert, Sam Auinger, John Tilbury, Alexander Babikov. Michael Moser participated in numerous festivals for contemporary and improvised music as a. o. International Actual Music Festival Victoriaville, Canada; musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst, Wien Modern, Inventionen Berlin, Musica Strasbourg, Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik, Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Musica viva München, Soundfield at the Renaissance Society Chicago, Resistance fluctuations Los Angeles. Since 2000, he has been increasingly active as a composer. Over the last decade sound and architecture, the space and the sound within this space, i.e. the sitespecific aspect in music, room resonances, site specific installations, became focalpoints in his work. Among his sound installation works are resonant cuts, for the singuhr-hoergalerie in the kleiner wasserspeicher in berlin as guest of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm of the DAAD, Antiphon Stein developed 2011 for Klangraum Krems Minoritenkirche, in 2015 Retiraden for the Hofburg in Innsbruck and Membrane Hums for wien modern 2018 (both with Nik Hummer).

contact: mm[at]michaelmoser.net

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