top of page
Live

Upcoming Events 

4/21/2023
7:30 PM

Studio Recital featuring the Students of Steven Moeckel
 

Kitt Rectal Hall
NAU Mountain Campus

 

Flagstaff, Arizona

5/21/2023

Works by John Williams, Pablo Sarasate and more 
 

Prescott Pops Orchestra
 

Ryan Gastonguay, Conductor
 

Prescott, Arizona 

6/8/2023
7:30 PM

Concert 1 of 3

Oxmoor Chamber music Festival
 

Works by Clarke, Brahms and Crusell

6/10/2023
7:30 PM

Concert 2 of 3
 

Works by Mozart, Higdon, Beethoven, & Vaughan-Williams

6/11/2023
3:00 PM

Concert 3 of 3

Oxmoor Chamber Music Festival
 

Works by Beach, Boccherini, and Dohnanyi

1/29/2023
7:30 PM

Violin-Piano Recital

 

Artist Series of Sarasota with Joanna Goldstein, Piano

Sarasota, Florida

1/30/2023
 

Violin-Piano Recital

 

Artist Series of Sarasota with Joanna Goldstein, Piano
 

Sarasota, Florida

2/5/2023
2:30PM

Jean Sibelius Violin Concerto 
 

Verde Valley Sinfonietta, Daniel O’Bryant Conductor
 

Sedona Performing Arts Center 
 

Sedona, Arizona

4/1/2023
 

Jean Sibelius Violin Concerto
 

Sierra Vista Symphony
 

Toru Tagawa, Conductor
 

Sierra Vista, Arizona

What You Missed

10/8/2022
10/9/2022

Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra
Linus Kerner, conductor
Tchaikovsky violin concerto in D-major

10/13/2022
7:40 PM

Kitt Music Hall

NAU

Concert for NAU pride week
Featuring LGBTQAI Composers, artists and writers

10/17/2022
7:30 PM

Kitt Recital Hall, NAU
Faculty recital


Jeffrey Swan, piano
Stravinsky Suite Italienne
Brahms Sonata No. 1
Beethoven Sonata No. 7

11/20/2022
11:00 AM

Ardrey Auditorium, NAU
 

NAU Symphony Orchestra


Daniel Kieth O’Bryant, conductor
Sibelius violin concerto in d-minor

11/12/2022
11:00 AM

Kitt recital Hall


Studio recital featuring students of Steven Moeckel

Weekend of 1/6/2023

Phoenix symphony Hall


The Phoenix Symphony
Tito Munoz, conductor
Mozart violin concerto No. 3

1/28/2023
1/29/2023

Sarasota, FL

Joanna Goldstein, piano
Amy Beach Violin Sonata
Ulric Cole Violin sonata

 

6/6-6/13/2022
see schedule

Chamber Music at Oxmoor

Louisville, KY

Festival programs, artists & concert schedule TBD

6/26/2022
3:00 PM

NAU Summer Chamber Music 


With Paula Fan, piano
 

Kitt Recital Hall Flagstaff, AZ


Works by Elgar, Kreisler and Strauss

1/13/2022
7:30 PM

The First Studio Recital featuring the class of Steven Moeckel

 

Kitt Recital Hall at NAU

1/16/2022
3:00 PM

Yavapai Symphony Association
With Paula Fan, piano

 

Prescott, AZ


Works by Elgar, Kreisler and Strauss

2/18/2022
7:30PM

Faculty Guest Recital 

with Stephen Hartman, harp

Emily Hoppe, flute

Jacquelyn Schwandt, viola

Kitt Recital Hall at NAU

Works by Vaughan-Williams, Debussy, Korngold, Stallcop and Saint-Saens

3/7/2022
7:30PM

Schubert Celebration

Silvan Negrutio, piano

Jacquelyn Schwandt, viola

Mary Ann Ramos, cello

Christopher Finet, bass

Kitt Recital Hall at NAU

Fantasy for violin and piano in c-major, Quintet for violin, viola, cello, bass and piano "Trout"

11/9/2021
 

NAU Faculty & Friends Recital

 

Beethoven Serenade for flute, violin & viola

11/8/2021

Jeffrey Swann & Friends

Debussy Sonota for violin & piano Jeffrey Swann, piano

10/31/2021
 

Phoenix Youth Symphony
Mathew Kasper, conductor


Korngold violin concerto 

10/22/2021
 

Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra
Charles Latshaw, conductor

Dvorak violin concerto

10/8/2021
 

Arizona Senior Academy
With Paula Fan, piano


Works by Dvorak, Vaughan-William

10/2/2021

10/3/2021

Winston-Salem Symphony
Timothy Redmond, conductor


R. Vaughan-Williams

‘The Lark Ascending’ 

9/27/2021
 

Martin Springer-Institute, 20th Anniversary celebration.
With Silvan Negrutiu, piano


Works by Bloch and John Williams

9/12/2021
 

St. Andrew’s Bach Society 
With Steven Hartman, harp

works by Vaughan-Williams, Korngold, Saint-Saens, Ysaye and Stallcop

67CBE778-A97D-4036-980F-340FA5A921DE_1_105_c.jpeg

Falls in Flagstaff

Steven was hired as the new Associate Professor of Violin at
Northern Arizona University

Video

VIDEOS

steven

Violinist STEVEN MOECKEL - Promotional Video

Steven Moeckel - World Premiere of "The Unreal Dwelling" - The Way Back Sessions Vol 4 Highlights

LIVE: Soaring Violin And Heavenly Harp! Steven Moeckel & Stephen Hartman 7pm PST Thursday 9.09.2021

Music

MUSIC

Recordings at a glance

coverimage.jpeg
StevenLaVida.jpg
theyPersisted.jpg
Steven hereinlies.jpg
StevenSouls.jpg
IMG_0749 2_edited.jpg

Listen and Buy

coverimage.jpeg
theyPersisted.jpg
Bio

ABOUT STEVEN

5FFC1109-7B12-4A46-AD54-F655A1E81847_1_105_c.jpeg

As concerto soloist, concertmaster, and recitalist, violinist Steven Moeckel has engaged audiences and critics worldwide with his effortless virtuosity, vivid characterization and uncanny ability to capture the very essence of a work. A seasoned performer since childhood, Moeckel first appeared as concerto soloist at the age of 8. Since then, he has continued to solo with orchestras throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia, interrupted only by a two year period as Principal Soprano Soloist of the renowned Vienna Boys Choir.

 

Moeckel’s concerto repertoire encompasses everything from the standard classical and romantic masterpieces to the visceral virtuosity of the Shostakovich Concerto and Corigliano’s Red Violin. Invited to China under the auspices of the newly formed Ling Tung Foundation, he was the first Western violinist to perform the beloved violin concerto, The Butterfly Lovers, with a Chinese orchestra. His special affinity for the British repertoire has most recently led to performances of the Elgar, Britten, and Walton Concertos.

Steven Moeckel has performed as chamber musician and recitalist with Leon Fleisher and Menachem Pressler at Chicago’s Ravinia Festival and frequently appears in concert with William Wolfram. Notable performances include recitals at the Sewanee Summer Music Festival, the Colorado College Music Festival and the Sunriver Music Festival. With his long time partner pianist Paula Fan, Moeckel has toured Europe and the Americas, and performed the complete cycle of the ten Beethoven Sonatas three times to critical acclaim. Together they have recorded three albums. His most recent album with  Indiana University pianist, Joanna Goldstein, celebrates the works of women composers during the time of Suffrage.

As a communicator, Moeckel’s ability to involve audiences in an astounding range of repertoire distinguishes him as a musician of rare versatility. A Laureate of the venerable Sibelius Competition, his performances earned recognition in the Helsinki press for his ability to probe the mind of a composer. At home in myriad styles, with pianist Paula Fan he performed a 12 hour marathon charity concert featuring masterworks of the classical literature interspersed with intermezzi featuring country, tango and jazz.

Steven Moeckel is equally at home speaking about music. Since his first appointment as Co-Concertmaster of Germany's Ulm Philharmonic at the age of 19, he has been involved in outreach and educational events for orchestras and festivals on both sides of the Atlantic. He has served as a frequent coach for the New World Symphony in Miami and in 2019 was invited to participate in the National Alliance for Audition Support, a  group that trains minority classical musicians in audition preparation in conjunction with the Sphinx Organization, the New World Symphony and The league of American Orchestras. He has served as orchestra coach at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, and has appeared as a a guest on the podcast series, ‘Behind the Screen,’ hosted by JT Kane and Matt Corey.

A gradute of both the famous Hochschule Mozarteum in Salzburg and Indiana Univerity in Bloominginton, Steven Moeckel has served as Concertmaster of the Ulm Philharmonic in Germany, the Tuscon Symphony Orchestra, The Phoenix Symphony, and the Santa Fe Opera. He is a board member of a non-profit  focused on music awareness called The Wayback Foundation. In 2020 he was awarded a tenured violin professorship at Northern Arizona.

Contact

CONTACT ME

MANAGEMENT & BOOKING inquiries please email | Steven@StevenMoeckel.com

ABOUT THE VIOLIN

 It is truly a joy to find an instrument which so uniquely fits my personality. The dark sound of a French violin has always suited me and the tonal power found in the violins of French makers allows me to produce a wide variety of expressive colors. This violin in particular has an outstanding capacity for projection, which is especially important when playing in halls with poor acoustics. It seems to “sing” easily no matter what demands I place upon it and often feels as though it responds intuitively when I am playing it.

This instrument was bought with the generous assistance of many philanthropic people in Tucson, Arizona. In 2006, I stumbled across this violin at an unexpected time and without the funds to purchase it. These benefactors understood my need and generously came together to invest in my career through the purchase of the violin. I will always be grateful to them and their outpouring of support continues to inspire me on a daily basis. For all of us in the Arts, these are the people that give us the opportunity to do what we love and we can only hope that we can give something back through our music.

-Steven Moeckel

For more information on the violin maker Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, please visit the Antonio Strad Violin Gallery.

The Violin

REVIEWS

Elgar Violin Concerto

Reviewed Friday, Nov. 25, at Symphony Hall, Phoenix

Violinist Steven Moeckel played the Elgar Violin Concerto this week. It is a concerto he was born to play, and, as the sports announcers like to say, he left it all out on the field.

It was clear that this wasn’t merely a case of a soloist signed to play with an orchestra, learning a concerto and performing it; this was an artist who has longed to play the vast, 50-minute work since he was a young man, and he now gets a chance not merely to play it, but to descend into it, live it, and turn it inside out, searching every corner for meaning and — dare we say it? — beauty. Sheer physical beauty.

READ MORE

Phoenix Symphony soloist knocks it out of the park

by Richard Nilsen – Mar. 25, 2011

The Arizona Republic

Sometimes it only takes a single piece of music in a concert program to make the whole thing memorable. Sometimes, even just one movement can make it all worthwhile.

This week, Phoenix Symphony concertmaster Steven Moeckel played solo and conducted Mozart’s “Haffner Serenade,” K. 250, and played with such delicacy, taste and musicality, that it completely outweighed the more pedestrian portions of the program. It was especially in the Andante of the serenade that his astonishing music making came through, including an especially beautiful cadenza, double-stops and all. It was as close to perfect as this life allows.

READ MORE

2005 Sibelius International Violin Competition

“German-American Steven Moeckel played Sibelius’ Humoresques easily, which made an emotional impact on the audience; here is a real ‘Sibelian’. Moeckel is able to play all the violin’s frolics of the Humoresques with facility and he also understands Sibelius’ sense of humor.”

Read More

Reviews
Repertoire

Concertos

  • Bach a-minor, e-major

  • Barber

  • Beethoven

  • Beethoven Triple Concerto

  • Berg

  • Brahms

  • Brahms (double concerto)

  • Britten

  • Bruch No.3 g-minor

  • Corigliano “The Red Violin”

  • Elgar

  • He/Chen Butterfly Lovers

  • Korngold

  • Lalo Symphonie Espagnole

  • Mendelssohn e-minor, d-minor (double concerto)

  • Mozart No’s. 1,3,4 and 5 and Sinfonia Concertante

  • Rózsa

  • Shostakovich Concerto No.1

  • Sibelius

  • Stravinsky

  • Tchaikovsky

  • Vaughan Williams-The Lark Ascending

  • Walton

  • Wieniawski No.2

paula best.jpg

Pianist Paula Fan has performed on five continents, recorded more than twenty five commercial albums, and has broadcast for the BBC, NPR, Radio Television China, and international stations from Bosnia to Australia. As one of the first recipients of the doctorate in Collaborative Piano, she has lectured on the subject worldwide. She performed and taught at the University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music as its only Regents’ Professor, and was Principal Keyboardist and soloist with the Tucson Symphony for many seasons. She has also served as Visiting Professor at the Eastman School of Music, and at numerous conservatories in the People’s Republic of China, where she was the first ever accompanist-coach invited by the Chinese Ministry of Culture.  As both performer and teacher, one of her greatest interests has been building bridges between classical music and audiences of all ages and backgrounds, as well as between disciplines. 

Read more

bottom of page