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The young conductor Vanessa Benelli Mosell unites a rich and stimulating diversity
of musical and cultural threads.
In her development as an artist, she has drawn on the wisdom such mentors as Daniel Harding,
Mikko Franck, Cristian Mãcelaru, George Benjamin and Paavo Järvi.
Fascinated from an early age by the orchestra and opera, Vanessa Benelli Mosell made her
conducting debut in 2018,
interpreting music by the 20th century French composer Gérard Grisey.

In 2023 she appears as a conductor with the JuniOrchestra dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Sanremo (in a programme of Muratore, Finzi and Elgar), and lately in Paris (Radio France) with the electronic/acoustic ensemble Le Balcon.

Recent projects saw Vanessa Benelli Mosell conducting ensembles and orchestras such as the Klassische Philharmonie Bonn (with Berlin’s Konzerthaus, Hamburg’s Laeiszhalle and Stuttgart’s Liederhalle among the venues), Youth Academic Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine,
Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra (LVSO), her guest conducting in the concert production of Hänsel und Gretel with the Recreation Orchester Graz, Milan’s Divertimento Ensemble, the Romanian Chamber Orchestra, the Wiener Kammerorchester, the Hof Symphoniker, the Jenaer Philharmonie and the Witold Lutosławski Chamber Philharmonic. In 2019 she won the second prize in the European round of the inaugural MAWOMA (Music And Women Maestra), the first worldwide competition for women orchestra conductors.
Recent engagements include her work as Assistant Conductor in La Traviata at the Deutsche National Theater Weimar with the Staatskapelle Weimar and upcoming concerts with the Haydn Orchestra
of Bolzano and Trento.

As a pianist she has now ten releases for DECCA CLASSICS turning from Stockhausen and the drama of Italian opera for her album Casta Diva, through Debussy's Two books of Preludes to her latest Chopin solo Album.

2024 saw her embarking a China-tour as a soloist with the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino conducted by the legendary Maestro Zubin Mehta as well as her debut with Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala.

Latest seasons saw her performing with the Orchestre National de France under the baton of Sir George Benjamin, with Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France under Mikko Franck, concerts at the Al Bustan Festival in Beirut and with the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar de Venezuela and Diego Matheuz; with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra performing Ravel’s jazz-inflected Concerto in G, concerts at London’s Royal Festival with the London Philharmonic and at Cadogan Hall with the Royal Philharmonic. Most recently she performed with Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, with Orchestre National de Lyon as well as concerts at Festival Présences in Paris, Grame Lyon, Paris Philharmonie and with the Sinfonieorchester Liechtenstein under John Axelrod.

Highlights in her career as a soloist include performances at La Scala in Milan and Turin’s Teatro Regio; solo recitals at the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam and at the Seoul Arts Center; portrait concerts at the National Concert Hall, Dublin in Ireland for RTÉ, and at Beijing National Centre for the Performing Arts; praised performances at Salle Gaveau and Auditorium de Radio France in Paris, Auditorio Nacional de Madrid, Palau de la Musica Catalana in Barcelona, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Edinburgh’s Usher Hall and London's Wigmore Hall.

World-known for her performances of Stockhausen’s Klavierstücke, she was invited by the composer to study under him, as he believed that she “has the power to let people appreciate my music”. Benelli Mosell worked closely with the composer and he remains an important influence on her music making, encouraging her passion for contemporary music. Since becoming a key figure in the music of Stockhausen, Benelli Mosell has had collaborations with many leading contemporary composers including George Benjamin, Olga Neuwirth, Hugues Dufourt, Philippe Scholler, Vittorio Montalti, Claire-Melanie Sinnhuber and Marco Stroppa, being the dedicatee of many of their works as well as making national and international prémières.

Vanessa Benelli Mosell began her comprehensive musical studies at the age of three. At seven years old she entered the International Piano Academy in Imola, giving her orchestral debut as soloist at the age of nine followed by her New York appearance at eleven years old with pianist Pascal Rogé, who described her as “the most natural musical talent I have encountered in my entire life”. In 2007 she continued her studies at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory under Mikhail Voskresensky, before obtaining a Master's degree from the Royal College of Music in London in 2012, where she studied with Dmitri Alexeev.

After studying Orchestral Conducting at Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano with Prof. Arturo Tamayo, Benelli Mosell has been pursuing her Master studies in Conducting at the prestigious Hochschule für Musik “Franz Liszt” in Weimar in the class of Prof. Ekhart Wycik.

She has been furthermore coached by mentors including Paavo Järvi, Mikko Franck, Cristian Macelaru, Daniel Harding, Neeme Järvi, Krystjan Järvi, Colin Metters and Uros Lajovic. In 2023 she was selected by Paavo Järvi to take part as Active Conductor to the Järvi Conducting Academy in Tallinn and Pärnu.

Benelli Mosell also received educational musical training in violin, opera-correpetition, singing, cembalo/bassocontinuo, score reading and composition.

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