David Moss

http://www.davidmossmusic.com/


[english]

David Moss ist einer der innovativsten Sänger und Perkussionisten in der zeitgenössischen Musik. 1991 erhielt er ein Guggenheim-Stipendium, 1992 eines des Künstlerprogramms des DAAD Berlin. Er ist Mitbegründer und künstlerischer Leiter des Institute for Living Voice. 2004 führte er in Andrea Molino’s CREDO anlässlich der Friedens Nobelpreis Konferenz in Rom auf. Zusammen mit Hans Peter Kuhn und Stefan Kurt  entwickelte er das Musiktheaterstück Sunset Scientists. Als Solist war er am Frank-Zappa-Projekt des Ensemble Modern beteiligt, ebenso an Kompositionen von  Heiner Goebbels. 2003 übernahm er eine Solopartie bei den Berliner Philharmonikern unter Sir Simon Rattle. Sein Carnegie Hall Debut machte er mit dem American Composer Orchestra unter Steven Sloane. Er sang in Lost Highway von Olga Neuwirth, spielte seine Solo Musiken auf der Biennale in Venedig. Bei den Salzburger Festspielen war er 1999 Solist in Luciano Berios Cronaco del Luogo und 2001 interpretierte er den Prinz Orlovsky in Die Fledermaus. 2007 wird er die Premiere von Pierrot LuniaRE: a RE-mix mit dem Alter Ego Ensemble singen und eine führende Rolle in Sam Auingers multi-media Produktion von The Man made of Rain übernehmen.



[deutsch]

David Moss is considered one of the most innovative singers and percussionists in contemporary music.  He has performed his solo work all over the world.  In 1991 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship; in 1992, a DAAD Fellowship (Berlin). Moss is the co-founder and artistic director of the Institute for Living Voice. In 2006 he will sing in with David Hermann's new Mozart production in Berlin.  In 2007 he will collaborate with the Alter Ego Ensemble to present "Pierrot Lunai RE:MIX", and  he will be featured soloist in Sam Auinger's music-theater premiere of "The Man Made of Rain". In 2005 Moss was a featured soloist at the opening orchestra concerts of the Brisbane Biennale and the Venice Biennale, and created and performed a new solo for the MaerzMusik Festival, Berlin. In 2004, Moss joined Hans Peter Kuhn and Stefan Kurt to create the theater piece "Sunset Scientists". He sang in "Credo" by Andrea Molino in Karlsruhe and Rome, and toured with the Ensemble Modern in their "Frank Zappa Project".
Moss sang in Olga Neuwirth's opera "Lost Highway", at the 2003 Steierischer Herbst Festival in Graz and at Theater Basel,
2004. In 2003, Moss performed as soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic under the direction of Sir Simon Rattle, made his Carnegie Hall debut with the American Composers Orchestra under Steven Sloane, and sang with the Uri Caine Ensemble at Lincoln Center. In 1999, Moss was a featured soloist in Luciano Berio's "Cronaca del Luogo" at its premiere in the Salzburg Festival. Moss returned to Salzburg in 2001 as Prince Orlovsky in "Die Fledermaus". Moss has performed at international festivals since 1979 and is a featured soloist in Heiner Goebbels orchestra work "Surrogate Cities” and music-theater work,  "Prometheus".  


Selected Works



Sendungen im ORF-Kunstradio:

10. 12. 1992: „Niemandsland
23. 09. 1993: „Publifono“
05. 10. 1993: „Radiobeams
19. 07. 2009: „El Niño - Verweht, geröstet, schockgefroren“
23. 10. 2011: "23 ways to remember silence, only one way to break it"





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