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
Falls in Flagstaff
Steven was hired as the new Associate Professor of Violin at
Northern Arizona University
VIDEOS
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
ABOUT STEVEN
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 ME
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.
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.
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.
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.”
Concertos
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Bach a-minor, e-major
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Barber
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Beethoven
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Beethoven Triple Concerto
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Berg
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Brahms
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Brahms (double concerto)
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Britten
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Bruch No.3 g-minor
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Corigliano “The Red Violin”
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Elgar
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He/Chen Butterfly Lovers
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Korngold
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Lalo Symphonie Espagnole
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Mendelssohn e-minor, d-minor (double concerto)
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Mozart No’s. 1,3,4 and 5 and Sinfonia Concertante
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Rózsa
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Shostakovich Concerto No.1
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Sibelius
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Stravinsky
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Tchaikovsky
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Vaughan Williams-The Lark Ascending
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Walton
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Wieniawski No.2
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.