2012
"Music By,
For & Against John Cage"
A celebration
of Cages’ 100th birthday in 2012!
An eccentric,
all new, evening of solo pieces!
Four pieces
by Cage & four by Moss as homage
& attacks on Cage's aesthetics and ideas!
At once
a loving tribute and a tickle to one of
the giants of 20th century
music — with electronics, objects,
voice, stories and percussion!
Some people
think this program is a little scandalous,
but so was Cage.
John and
I met many times, at his concerts and mine
from 1980 to 1990. Each time
I heard him perform or talk I learned something
more about the concept of “human play”.
And it was always a surprise and a pleasure
to hear his energetic laughter announcing
a moment in my performance that he especially
liked. I was honored when he mentioned in
Geneva, in 1990, that my voice reminded
him of Demetrio Stratos”. — David
Moss, Berlin, June 2011
This
program will be performed ONLY in 2012,
the year of Cage’s 100th birthday.
For more information on the program, pieces,
technical requirements, booking and fees,
please send a mail from the contact-page
of the website.
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2011
Feb. 4: Rome, Italy; soloist in Frank Zappa orchestra
project at the Contemporanea Festival; Jonathan
Stockhammer, conductor
Feb 12: Berlin; performance of New Babel Choir;
art opening at Kindlbrauerei Gallery, Neukölln
Feb 19/20: LODZ. Poland; Philharmonic hall: solo
& workshop/seminar
March 11: Pisa, Italy: Premiere of "Many
More Voices" at Fosfeni Festival; a collaboration
with Tempo Reale, Florence
April 16: Berlin; performance of New Babel Choir
as part of the Long Night of the Opera: a Neukölln
parade
May 7: Glasgow, Scotland, UK: Soloist in premiere
of Helmut Oerring's "POEndulum"; with
the BBC Orchestra under Ilan Volkov
May 11-15: Umea, Sweden; MADE FESTIVAL: with
Denseland and Technologies and Sam Auinger
May 20: Rotterdam, Holland; Operadagen Festival;
leading a choir of 300 people to open the festival
June 10-12: Ravenna/Florence, Italy; in Daniele
Lombardi's Divina.com event
June 17/18: Barcelona, Spain; Denseland in the
SONAR FESTIVAL
August: Vienna, Austria; artist-in-residence
for TONSPUR program
September 1-10: Caen, France; premiere of QUEEN
BEE, music- theater by Jean Lambert Wild and Jean-Luc
Therminarius
September 15: Brussels, Belgium; premiere of
new SONGS project with Salome Kammer at KLARA
FESTIVAL
September 17-19: Gent Belgium: 3 performances,
Flanders Festival
October 12-15: Vienna, Austria; solo at aNOther
Festival
October 20: Essen, Germany: Zappa project with
Bochum Symphoniker, Steven Sloane, conductor
November 1-5: Copenhagen, Denmark; "The Table
of Earth" theater piece by Moss, at Wundergrund
Festival
December 10-18: Brussels, Belgium; Institute
for Living Voice, session #15 (focus on Brazil);
with Europalia Festival
TOP
FALL 2009
Sept. 3: Mondsee, Austria, Mondsee Festival;
performance of "The Bells", by/with
Stefan Litwin
Sept. 8: Berlin, Hauptbahnhof; duo performance,
DESOLAT, with Susanne Betancor; part of Ohrenstrand
Mobile project
Sept. 14: Berlin, FU conference. "The Future
of Classical Music"; Institut für Theaterwissenschaft
Sept. 26: Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt;
performance with Arto Lindsay and chorus
Oct. 19: Paris, Centre Pompidou, 2009 Festival
of Art; opening night solo premiere of "Voix
Intime:Extreme
Oct. 29: Berlin, Sophiensaele; performance in
Fast Forward's "Musique a la Mode"
Nov. 5: Utrecht, Netherlands, voice workshop,
as part of Yo! Opera Festival 2009 (www.yo-opera.nl)
Nov. 12/13: Stavanger/Bergen, Norway: performances
of Frank Zappa's "The Adventures of Greggery
Peccary" with the Stavanger Symphony under
Steven Sloan
Nov. 24-26: Hamburg, Germany, voice workshop,
as part of the Klangwerktage Festival (www.klangwerktage.de)
Nov. 28-Dec. 6: Gent, Belgium, voice workshop,
as part of the Institute for Living Voice, session
#13, at Vooruit Art Center (www.instituteforlivingvoice.be)
2010 PREVIEW:
Feb. 11-13: Monza, Italy;directing Provokalia
chorus workshop & presentation; performing
solo concert
March 4-13: Antwerp, Belgium; voice workshop as
part of the Institute for Living Voice, session
#14, at DeSingel
May 28- June 6: Rotterdam, Holland; voice workshop
and premiere of "Century Songs" project
(Moss, artistic director), as part of the Institute
for Living Voice, session #15, inside OPERADAGEN
FESTIVAL
2011 PREVIEW:
March: Glasgow, Scotland, UK: Soloist in premiere
of Helmut Oerring's
"Poendulum"; with the BBC Orchestra
under Ilan Volkov
May: Brussels, Belgium; performance in "Surrogate
Cities", with orchestra, as part of the Heiner
Goebbels festival
NEWS- 2008
September 10; Museum Vostell, Malpartida, Spain:
solo
Sept 17-19: Univ. of N.C., Chalel Hill: "The
Bells" by S. Litwin & Master-Class
Sept. 20: Berlin: soloist in Schoenberg's "Ode
to Napoleon" with Stefan Litwin, piano and
the Munich Chamber Orchestra
Sept 27: Osnabrueck, Germany: Choir performance
for 200 voices; solo performances; 9 events for
Choirs around the City (all as part of the "Osnabrueck
Sings" & "Niedersächsischen
Musiktag" festival)
October 3: Krems, Austria: solo in Strange Music
festival
Oct. 16: Berlin: Moss appointed as Fellow to
the newly opened "International Research
Center for the Interweaving of Performance Cultures",
Berlin
October 23/24/25 and Nov 12/13: Berlin, Ballhaus
Ost: performing in new theater piece by Andreas
Tiedemann, "Starship".
Oct. 28/29: Muelheim, Germany: performing in new
theater piece by Andreas Tiedemann, "Starship".
Nov. 4 & 8: Copenhagen: Wundergrund Festival:
4th with Henning Christiansen; 8th with "Denseland"
trio
Nov. 11: Rome: in Daniele Lombardi's "Divina.com"
Nov. 18-23: Tel Aviv: various projects
December 5-7: Budapest: solo concert and workshop
in "Making Waves Festival"
Dec. 9: Frankfurt: Moussonturm: solo for Rundfunk
2007 Highlights:
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Sept 19, 2007: TRANSART
FESTIVAL, Bolzano, Italy: Premiere of “David
Lunaire”
–- David Moss sings “Pierrot Lunaire”,
by Arnold Schoenberg – re-set for the 21st
century with electronics, percussion, objects,
video, and additional texts; performed by the
Alter Ego Ensemble of Rome; at the TransArt Festival
Bolzano
(a second performance of “David Lunaire
is scheduled for December 12, at the Taktlos Festival,
Bern, Switzerland).
March 24 (to April 3):
Institute for Living Voice session
#9 in Buenos Aires, Argentina; with workshops
and concerts by master-singers/teachers Joan La
Barbara, Paul Dutton, Omar Ebrahim, Lia Ferenese,
Tran Quang Hai, David Moss, Morton Subotnick;
at Teatro Colon.
May: Duo with Frank Schulte at Köln Triennale
(date to be announed)
June 13, Hamburg: Moss
sings Schoenberg. David Moss’ premiere
as soloist in Schoenberg’s “Ode to Napoleon”;
with Ensemble Resonanz, conducted by Peter Rundel
June 18/20 Heidelberg/Saarbrücken: Moss
sings Litwin.
The official premiere “The Bells”, by
Stefan Litwin, for piano and voice; piano, Stefan
Litwin; text Edgar Allen Poe
Sept.1, Liechtenstein: Moss sings Moss; and a
new “Voices” project and Provokalia
Choir are curated by Moss for new opening
of the TAK theater.
Sept. 15, Innsbruck, Austria: “Hometown”
live sound performance by Sam Auinger, Johannes
Strobl, Michael Moser, David Moss
Sept. 28 (to Oct. 8): Institute
for Living Voice session #9 in Stavanger,
Norway; with workshops and concerts by master-singers/teachers
Meredith Monk, Mari Boine, Maja Ratkje, Gidon
Saks, Viviane de Muynck and more...
October, Caligari, Sardinia: Premiere of film/music
project by composer/performer Dario Piludi (date
to be announced)
November: Release of “Blood, Muscles, Air”,
a CD/booklet compilation project from Sonic
Arts Network, curated by David Moss
November 23, Linz, Austria: “Hometown”
live sound performance by Sam Auinger, Johannes
Strobl, Michael Moser, David Moss
2008 Highlights - Preview:
Feb. 2 & 3, Berlin: The
Berlin Philharmonic and 200 young dancers
perform a special version of Heiner Goebbels’
orchestra work, “Surrogate Cities”;
conducted by Sir Simon Rattle; with soloists Jocelyn
B. Smith and David Moss
March 15, Den Haag, Netherlands: Heiner Goebbels’
orchestra work, “Surrogate Cities”;
with soloists Jocelyn B. Smith and David Moss
April, London: The English
National Opera presents a new production
of Olga Neuwirth’s
“Lost Highway” (based on the
David Lynch movie); libretto by Elfriede Jelinek;
directed by Diane Paulus; electronics, surround
and media by Markus Noisternig; with David Moss
as Mr. Eddy (dates to be announced)
Selected events in 2006:
