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“Her artistic work emerges from a deep, research-driven dialogue with music, characterized by intensity, depth, and a strong exploratory approach.”
Heike-Angela Moser is a German pianist whose work combines solo performance, chamber music, Lieder, and conceptual projects. A central focus of her artistic activity is her long-standing, research-based engagement with the works and milieu of Clara and Robert Schumann. This has led to recital and lecture series, podcasts, collaborations with museums, and the program The Landscape of Clara Schumann, produced in 2025 on a historic 1859 Schiedmayer & Söhne fortepiano for the label Coviello Classics (release 2026).
Solo and chamber music form equally integral parts of her work. She founded the Duo Khimaira (2008), the piano duo Moser/Osellame (2015), and the CLAJOS Schumann Trio Düsseldorf (2024). Since 2016, she has further expanded her artistic scope through interdisciplinary projects exploring the dialogue between music and painting.
She has performed at festivals and cultural institutions in Germany, Italy, Romania, England, Switzerland, and Kenya, including the Gewandhaus Zwickau, the Schumann Houses in Leipzig and Zwickau, Palais Wittgenstein Düsseldorf, Philharmonie Essen, and the State Theatre Hannover. Highlights include the opening concerts of the Schumann Museums in Leipzig and Düsseldorf, as well as a performance of Brahms’s First Piano Concerto with the “Mihail Jora” Philharmonic Orchestra in Bacău.
As her artistic profile has developed, she has expanded her work to include artistic and educational projects, festival initiatives, and international collaborations, among them a project with Ghetto Classics in Nairobi (2022). She served as a jury member of the International Robert Schumann Competition in Zwickau (2024) and has been regularly involved with the Clara Schumann Piano Competition in Leipzig since 2019.
In 2021, she was awarded a research fellowship by the Heine-Haus Hamburg and the Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn Society.
The foundations of her artistic development were shaped by a broad range of musical activities: in addition to the piano, she studied cello and French horn, gaining formative experience in the Munich Youth Symphony Orchestra. At the age of 19, she made her debut with Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto at the Herkulessaal of the Munich Residenz—a milestone that left a lasting imprint on her solo career. She studied piano in Munich, Berlin, and Italy.
