Ciara Moser – a professional bass player from Austria
I can’t read music in the visual sense, so I absorb the music directly and imprint it within.
Ciara Moser
Ciara Moser is an Irish-born, Austria-raised bassist, composer, and educator based between New York City and Boston, where she serves as a faculty member at Berklee College of Music. She has performed and recorded internationally with artists including Danilo Pérez, Terri Lyne Carrington, Nate Smith, Charlie Hunter, Victor Wooten, and Braxton Cook, and appears regularly across jazz, fusion, world, pop, classical, and contemporary settings in band, orchestra, ensemble, and film projects.
Her debut album Blind. So What? (2023) received international acclaim from outlets such as Premier Guitar, Jazzwise, and Bass Musician Magazine, alongside major Austrian media including ORF and Ö1. One of its tracks was honored with the ASCAP Foundation’s 2023 Young Jazz Composers Award, and the project led to a sold-out Austrian release tour through venues such as Porgy & Bess Vienna and Jazzit Salzburg.
Moser holds a master’s degree in jazz performance from the Berklee Global Jazz Institute—where she studied with John Patitucci, Danilo Pérez, Terri Lyne Carrington, and Joe Lovano—as well as a master’s degree in music pedagogy from the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. She has appeared at major festivals and venues worldwide, including the Chile Jazz Festival (Santiago), Hay Festival (U.K.), Paradiso Jazz Festival (Italy), Festival da Jazz St. Moritz, the Cultural Summit in Abu Dhabi, and stages throughout Canada, Germany, Panama, Ecuador, Chile, Italy, Austria and South Africa.
Her honors include being named DownBeat Rising Star Electric Bassist of the Year 2025, a Next Jazz Legacy Fellow(2024), winner of the New Generation Jazz Lab Competition, and recipient of awards such as the ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award, the Matt Marvuglio Student of the Year Award, the Tara “Life Goes On” Award, the Johann Ratzenböck Scholarship, and first prize at Austria’s national competition Prima La Musica.
Since 2019, she has hosted the podcast Blind. So What?, exploring artistry, accessibility, and life as a blind musician while advocating for inclusive approaches to music education worldwide.
Album-Release “The Rose of Battle”
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Next Live-Events
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November 1, 2026 6:00 PM |
CD Release Show “The Rose of Battle”
| Regatta Bar, Cambridge MA
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March 15, 2027 8:30 PM |
The Rose of Battle
| Porgy and Bess, Vienna, Vienna
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