David
Moss
singer,
percussionist, composer, performer, teacher, curator,
improviser, theater-maker, actor...
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David
Moss is at the forefront of new, composed and
improvised, contemporary music. He is a pioneer
of the solo concert form, and has presented over
1000 solo percussion and voice concerts around
the world. First as a percussionist, and now as
a singer and unique vocalist, he has collaborated
with composers, theater directors, and opera houses
throughout Europe, Japan, and the USA. Over the
past 2 decades he has become known as one of the
most innovative singers and powerful, extreme
vocalists in the world.
David Moss has
expanded his musical work to include stage/screen
performer, theater actor, opera singer, and performance/voice
character in experimental avant-garde art works.
Because of his 4 & 1/2 octave range and his
wide vocabulary of vocal sounds and characters,
he is in-demand internationally as a "unique
and powerful voice" for a new generation
of composers and opera directors.
"Moss
sounds like Jim Carrey doing an impression of
Ella Fitzgerald while being eaten by the creature
from Alien."
David Moss received
a Guggenheim Fellowship
in 1991 for music/sound composition, and moved
to Berlin, Germany in 1991 as a recipient of the
prestigious Berlin DAAD
artist fellowship. Since 1991 he has sung
as soloist and performed with numerous festivals,
orchestras, ensembles, and theater companies,
culminating in recent performances with Sir Simon
Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic; as Nino in
Luciano Berios' last opera, "Cronaca del
Luogo", and as Prince Orlovsky in a scandalous
staging of "Die Fledermaus", both at
the Salzburg Festival.
David
Moss has also performed in:
“Surrogate Cities”, by German composer/director,
Heiner Goebbels; Olga Neuwirth's opera version
of David Lynch's "Lost Highway"; the
Ensemble Modern's Frank Zappa project; Carla Bley's
"Escalator Over the Hill"; and had recent
premieres in the Spoleto Festival, Carnegie Hall,
Lincoln Center, Venice Biennale, and the 5th Conference
of the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates in Rome.
In 1999, Moss conceived
and co-founded (with Muziektheater Transparant),
the Institute for Living
Voice, of which he is currently Artistic
Director.
