He is presented as a keyboard sorcerer, space modeler, an imaginative pianist with a sensual, proteiform keyy clavierist, "between piano joking on the edge of a precipice and intimate and spectral electronic architectures". Martial Solal also says of him that he "plays right. Neither too much nor too little. "
Benjamin Moussay first graduated in classical piano at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg, before joining the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris in Jazz piano. Winner of the international Jazz Martial Solal piano competition, a soloist prize at the National Competition for Defence Jazz, he is today a "a pianist who is torn apart".
There are no longer his collaborations with the biggest names in Jazz, such as Louis Sclavis, Marc Ducret, Daniel Humair, Tony Malaby, Steve Swallow, Michel Portal, Vincent Peirani, Martial Solal, Youn Sun Nah, Airelle Besson, ONJ and the list is long.
Alongside his trio with Eric Echampard and Arnault Cuisinier, he devoted himself to his duet with Claudia Solal whose last album "Butter in my brain", described as a masterpiece in Le Monde, received a resounding welcome. His compositions "engrave in memory" He "neither has a style nor a genre, let alone a repertoire: a singular attitude, yes, an approach to music as unique as it is identifiable."
He is the second French pianist to record solo for the ECM label.
The album "Promontoire", in piano solo, named a coup de coeur of the Académie Charles Cros was released in 2020. He is praised by the critics: "exceptional collection - Le Monde", " indispensable composer, ..., emotional power - Télérama", "Benjamin Moussay dominates the piano solo - Libération".
Composer for live performance, for image and in particular for silent cinema, the Cinémathèque Française, the Pathé-Seydoux Foundation and Studio Canal commissioned original compositions for Jean Renoir's "Nana", "Le Coupable" by André Antoine, the series "Belphégor" by Henri Desfontaines and Arthur. He frequently played these compositions at ciné-concerts.
Pedagogue he taught at the Conservatoires de Paris 13 and 18 and at the CRR in Paris.