Vanessa Benelli Mosell
Vanessa Benelli Mosell is an Italian pianist and conductor born on 15 November 1987 in Prato, Tuscany. She started piano at age three and gave her first public performance at four. At seven she joined the International Piano Academy in Imola, studying with Franco Scala. She made her orchestral debut at nine and her New York debut at eleven with Pascal Rogé, who praised her as an exceptionally natural talent.
She studied abroad at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory with Mikhail Voskresensky in 2007, then with Dmitri Alexeev at the Royal College of Music in London, graduating in 2012. In addition to piano, she pursued violin, singing, score reading, composition, and conducting.
Her career highlights include debuts at La Scala in Milan and at the MiTo Festival in Turin, recitals in Amsterdam and Seoul, and chamber music with Vadim Repin. She toured China with debuts at major venues in Beijing, Harbin, and Chongqing, and has performed at Salle Gaveau in Paris and at orchestral and recital venues around the world. Her first Rachmaninov album launch took place at Salle Cortot in Paris. In 2018 she debuted with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra performing Ravel’s Piano Concerto, and she has appeared at London’s Royal Festival Hall with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. She also performed during the 2019 Stockhausen Festival and at various festivals in Beirut and Paris. She has appeared with many orchestras worldwide, including the Moscow Soloists, with whom she once stepped in as soloist for Martha Argerich.
As a conductor, she has worked with Le Balcon, Graz, the Lithuanian Symphony Orchestra, the Juni Orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Hof Symphoniker, the Philharmonie Bonn, and the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, conducting the Austrian premiere of Éric Tanguy’s Incanto. She has also led the Divertimento Ensemble in Milan.
Benelli Mosell is known for her performances of Stockhausen’s Klavierstücke; after recording Klavierstücke I–IV, Stockhausen invited her to study with him. She has worked with contemporary composers including George Benjamin, Hugues Dufourt, Stefano Gervasoni, Martin Matalon, and Marco Stroppa. In chamber music she has performed with Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, Julian Rachlin, Vadim Repin, Massimo Quarta, Daishin Kashimoto, Radovan Vlatkovich, and Henri Demarquette, with whom she released the album Echoes for Decca, pairing works by Philip Glass and Sergei Rachmaninoff.
Her debut recording, Introducing Vanessa Benelli Mosell, features Prokofiev, Haydn, Scriabin, and Liszt and received praise for her talent. She followed with more Liszt recital recordings and, in 2015, her Decca debut featuring Beffa, Stockhausen, and Stravinsky, then Light in 2016. She has released five albums for Decca Classics, including Debussy’s Preludes Book I and Suite bergamasque. She is a Steinway Artist.
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