Sascha El Mouissi
Lied Pianist
Sascha El Mouissi is considered one of the most distinguished and imaginative song pianists of his generation. His vibrant international concert career has taken him to prestigious festivals such as the Lucerne Festival, Schubertiade, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Schumannfest at the Tonhalle Düsseldorf, Dialoge Salzburg, Wiener Festwochen, Istanbul Music Festival, London Arts Festival, and Concerti al Quirinale of RAI in Rome.
He has performed in major concert venues including the Wiener Konzerthaus, Musikverein, Mozarteum Salzburg, Meistersingerhalle Nuremberg, Radiokulturhaus, and the Arnold Schönberg Center in Vienna. Other appearances have brought him to the Auditorium Cesare Pollini and Sala dei Giganti in Padua, Auditorium Gaber in Milan, St Martin-in-the-Fields in London, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Teatro El Círculo in Rosario, as well as the opera houses of Frankfurt, Cologne, Lübeck, Nice, Wiesbaden, Zagreb, and the Volksoper Wien.
Sascha El Mouissi collaborates with many internationally acclaimed singers and maintains a particularly close artistic partnership with baritone Rafael Fingerlos. He also performs regularly with Vera-Lotte Boecker, Ted Black, Katia Ledoux, Wolfgang Brendel, Angelika Kirchschlager, Edith Mathis, Thomas Quasthoff, Ildikó Raimondi, among others.
As a chamber musician, he is a sought-after partner, working with cellists Julia Hagen and Harriet Krijgh, and violinist Benjamin Herzl.
His artistic work is documented in numerous CD and television recordings, some of which have received awards such as the Ö1 Pasticcio Prize. He is currently curating a multi-part recording project of songs by Florence B. Price in collaboration with WDR and the Avi label.
A dedicated pedagogue, Sascha El Mouissi regularly gives masterclasses and workshops in song interpretation, including at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and the Vienna State Opera. He also serves as a juror at international competitions and is the artistic director of the LIED.Styria festival. Together with musicologist Christa Brüstle, he co-founded the event series Songs of Diversity – Lied im Dialog. He teaches at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.
