Since his sensational success at the Vienna Beethoven Piano Competition in 1985, Hamburg-born pianist Stephan Möller has made a reputation worldwide as a pioneering Beethoven interpreter. His repertoire includes all five piano concertos and 32 piano sonatas by this composer, which he has also performed in complete cycles. His concert activities have taken him to many countries in Europe, North and South America, Japan, Korea and China.
In addition to the general repertoire, he focuses on Viennese classical music (especially all 32 sonatas and 5 concertos by L. v. Beethoven) and transcriptions by Franz Liszt about Wagner operas and Beethoven symphonies. His CD recordings include rarities such as Beethoven's "Great Fugue" and the complete piano works of Richard Wagner.
Stephan Möller completed his training as a pianist and conductor at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. From 1983-89 he was artistic assistant to Herbert von Karajans at the Salzburg Festival. Since 1990 Stephan Möller has taught as professor for piano at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. He is frequently invited to master classes (e.g. Viennese master classes) and lectures at home and abroad. His pedagogical concern is the combination of theory and practice as well as the elaboration of the "stylistic fingerprint" of each composer.
Since 1998 Stephan Möller has led the association "Vienna International Pianists" and its master classes "VIP Academy". In 2009 he founded the "International Rosario Marciano Piano Competition" in Vienna.
