Gonzaga Symphony Orchestra featuring Johannes Moser

In a 2018 interview with Violinist.com, German-Canadian cellist Johannes Moser told interviewer Laurie Niles that his time with music began with the violin at age 5. He and the instrument “didn’t gel,” however, so after three years, he went with what he called his exit strategy, the cello. As the son of a cellist, maybe it should have been his first choice, but Moser got there in the end and has been displaying a mastery of the instrument ever since, performing with orchestras in Berlin, New York, Los Angeles, London, Tokyo, Zurich and elsewhere around the world. On Nov. 16, Moser adds Spokane to that list, joining the Gonzaga Symphony Orchestra, led by Kevin Hekmatpanah, in a concert set to feature the Otto Nicolai Overture to *The Merry Wives of Windsor*, Johannes Brahms’ *Academic Festival Overture*, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s *Capriccio Italien* and Antonín Dvořák’s Cello Concerto in B Minor. (AZARIA PODPLESKY)