"I ended up looking for a musical playground and I found it with the electric cello. The electric cello draws them in and, hopefully, will spark an interest in finding other music as well." Moser, who plays the Lalo Cello Concerto with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra tonight, made his name by winning the Tchaikovsky Competition in 2002. Communication is paramount to this man and his sense of musical adventuring led him, in 2012, to premiere a Concerto for Electric Cello by Mexican composer Enrico Chapela with the LA Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel. It's kind of scary when there are heaps of people at a gathering and you're related to all of them."

Source: New Zealand Herald June 25, 2016 01:07 UTC