Biography
Stefan Moberg was born in northern Sweden in December 1979 and started to play the cello when he was 16 years old. Four years later he successfully auditioned at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm, the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London and the Malmö Academy of Music in Sweden. In Malmö, he then studied with Hege Waldeland-Lörstad for five years, graduating with a Master's Degree in 2006. In 2005 he studied with Melissa Phelps at the Royal College of Music in London as an ERASMUS scholar. Stefan has also played in masterclasses for and had lessons with David Geringas, Leonid Gorokhov and Torleif Thedéen.
In 2004 Stefan studied with Einar "Jeff" Holm, a student of Pablo Casals and Leonard Rose, at the Ithaca Violoncello Institute, where he also had a major part in the editing process of the chamber music works for cello ensemble by American composer Ernst Bacon.
Stefan's great love of chamber music has developed through collaborations with trumpet player Håkan Hardenberger, pianist Imogen Cooper as well as violinists Levon Chilingirian and Gilles Apap. As a soloist and chamber musician, Stefan has played concerts in Scandinavia, throughout Europe and in South and North America and has also participated in several recordings. He has also taken part in a number of festivals, including the "Geneva Arts Festival" in NY, USA and the "Festival Internacional de Música Clásica Contemporánea de Lima" in Peru.
Since his debut in E. Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor, op. 85 at the age of 18, Stefan has performed cello concertos by A. Dvorak, J. Haydn and C. Saint-Saëns and in 2005 he premiered a cello concerto by Egyptian composer Adel A Afify. In 2007 Stefan premiered a cello concerto by Swedish composer Daniel Fjellström and also performed cello concertos by J. Haydn and S. Prokofiev.
Stefan is currently studying with Prof. Mats Rondin at the Malmö Academy of Music, finishing his Soloist's Diploma in 2008.
Thanks to the considerate generosity of SAS and Ericsson, Stefan is able to perform on a J. B. Ceruti cello that was made in Cremona, Italy in 1810.
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