"He's the Caruso of the avant-garde" [High Performance]
"Alien love-songs meet Bo Diddley, John Coltrane
and Maria Callas- that's one way of describing a
David Moss concert." [The Village Voice]
“The singer David Moss is cantorial, David
Byrne-ish, Beat-cool, raving post-Berio in the mad gabble of the city.”
[Real Time Magazine, Australia]more quotes
January 16: Berlin; premiere
of denseland; new dance trio with Hannes Strobl,
bass; Hanno Leichtmann, drums & electronics;
David Moss, voice; at Ballhaus Naunynstrasse
January 19: Berlin: Emerson Gallery, ending event
(Finissage) of Benjamin Patterson exhibition;
duo performance by Patterson & Moss
February 2 & 3: Berlin: soloist with the
Berlin Philharmonic/Sir Simon Rattle, performing
“Heiner Goebbels’ “Surrogate Cities”,
with 200 young dancers; Arena/Treptow
March 14/15; Den Haag, Netherlands; soloist in
“Surrogate Cities”, and performances/workshops
in other events as part of the Heiner Goebbels
Festival
April 4,5,7,8,10,11: London; soloist in English
National Opera’s new production of Olga Neuwirth’s
contemporary opera “Lost Highway” (at
the Young Vic).
May 7-10: Umea, Sweden: MADE Festival: soloist
in “Surrogate Cities”; performance of
Moss’ composition for string quartet &
voice; solo “Moss Tales”
May 23 – June 1: Rotterdam, Netherlands:
Institute for Living Voice, session #11 (as part
of Opera Days Festival) (see www.instituteforlivingvoice.be)
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:
Feb.
24: Soloist in Heiner Goebbels' "Surrogate
Cities", for the Stockholm New
Music Festival; with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic
(the only 2006 performance of "SC")
March
31: solo concert in Festival Archipel
& Roaratorio Festival, Geneva
April
1: solo concert in series Voci Audaci,
Ascona, Switizerland
May
2: soloist & narrator in Carla Bley's
"Escalator over the Hill",
Philharmonie, Essen, Germany (only performance
of EOTH!)
May
4, 11, 12, 13: soloist in "Violet
Subjects", music-theater by director,
David Hermann (music of Mozart); Konzerthaus,
Berlin, Germany
May
15-17: Special guest of the Radio Biennale,
Mexico City, Mexico
(concert, seminar and workshop)
June
11: solo concert at STIMMEN festival,
Ettiswil (near Lucerne), Switzerland
June
24-July 2: 8th session of the Institute
for Living Voice, in Marseille, France
(in collaboration with GRIM and Montevideo);
see the ILV website at www.instituteforlivingvoice.be
for more info
Sept 23-25:
Essen, Germany: "Einfach,
eben: so" - world premiere of a new
music-theater performance by Hans Peter Kuhn,
Stefan Kurt, Junko Wada, and David Moss (with
Michael Rodach, guitar; Martin Klingeberg, brass),
as part of the 2006 Ruhr Triennale; for more information
contact: www.ruhrtriennale.de
Sept. 22: Paris:
"The Adventures
of Greggery Peccary" by Frank Zappa,
performed by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio
France, conducted by Peter Eotvos; David Moss,
soloist; the only 2006 performance of this sonic
adventure; contact:
Oct. 20:Groningen,
Netherlands: "Surrogate
Cities", with the Noord Nederlands
Orkester; soloists: Jocelyn B. Smith and David
Moss; as part of the festival around Heiner Goebbels
& Sofia Gubaidulina; for more info contact:
www.noordnederlandsorkest.nl
Nov. 26, 29, 30 &
Dec.1-3: Münster,
Germany: "Orpheus Audio Splatter",
a monologue with David Moss; music-theater by
Andreas Tiedemann, artistic director of Ohrpilot
productions; contact: http://www.ohrpilot.de/
2005:
Latest
News: Fall: Nicholas
Broadhurst, David Moss, Markus Noisternig, Olga
Neuwirth, Andrew Watts develop a new music-theater
performance based on J. G. Ballard's classic
future fantasy, "Crash".
Sept.
16: Premiere of "VOX BOX 20/21",
for solo voice; commissioned by the Museum Ritter,
near Stuttgart, Germany
Oct. 9/11:
Solo concerts in Moscow and St. Petersburg for
the Long Arms Festival, in memory of Nick Dimitriev
Oct. 12: Solo
performance in LEM Festival, Barcelona (organized
by Eduard Escoffet of Proposta)
October: Opening
of "Hard Disc Storage", David Moss'
first sound/art installation; in Gelbe Musik,
Berlin (for exact dates of opening and duration,
consult this page as of Sept. 1 2005)
June
7, Berlin: Killa Kela met David Moss
The first meeting of mulitvocalist (human beat
box) Killa Kela and David Moss; at Hau 2; as
part of Paul Plamper's Hoerspiel-Central series.
This is a rare chance to hear two extremely
different vocalists in their unique solo work
AND in a world-premiere duet.
June
9, Liechtenstein: at KunstMuseum Liechtenstein.
A major new exhibition of artworks around the
theme of games and game-playing, "Faites
vos jeux!" was inaugurated with a special
solo performance by Moss.
On
March 5, "Before Time Begins"
was premiered as the opening event of the MaerzMusik
festival and the ILV session in Berlin before
an audience of 800. "Before Time Begins"
was a new piece for massed voices Moss composed
as a co-commission from the Berlin Festspiele
and the Institute for Living Voice. With 55
singers and non-singers from all around Berlin,
the performance of "Before Time Begins"
was a vocal powerhouse that surprised everyone.
[see "Provokalia
Choirs", under Current Projects for more
info on these live choir performances]
The
7th session of the Institute for Living Voice
took place in Berlin from March 4-13 as part
of the MaerzMusik Festival and the Berliner
Festspiele. This session featured 7 workshops
attended by 70 participants from 10 countries
and concerts by Andrew Watts, Nicholas Isherwood,
Madalena Bernardes, Michiko Hirayama, David
Moss, Arto Lindsay, and Chris Mann. ILV #8 will
take place in Spring 2006
[check this space and www.instituteforlivingvoice.be
for further info]
Moss leads
a workshop for actors and film-makers
and directors at the RITS School
for the Arts in Brussels at the end
of April.
Performances of "Surrogate
Cities", by Heiner Goebbels, continue
in 2005.
The full evening orchestra work (with texts by
Paul Auster, Heiner Müller, and
Hugo Hamilton) features Moss and Jocelyn B. Smith
as soloists: • in May with
the Aarhus Philharmonic, Aarhus, Denmark • in September
at the VENICE BIENNALE 2005, opening concert
After an amazing performance
for the 5th Annual Conference of the Nobel
Peace Prize Laureates in Stazione Termini in Rome
last November, Andrea Molino's
"CREDO", for orchestra, voice soloist
and video, goes to Australia as the opening
event of the Queensland Biennial Music Festival,
Brisbane; July.
Moss' second trip
to Korea comes at the invitation of Marek Choloniewski,
artistic director of Audio Art Festival, Krakow/Seoul:
a solo performance at
the 2nd Annual Korean Audio Art Festival, Seoul,
Korea; August.
The Ensemble Modern's
Frank Zappa project. "Greggery Peccary and
Other
Persuasions" continues to be invited
around the world. After a Taipei performance in
the Taiwan New Music Festival and winning a German
CD prize in 2004, the Zappa project pulses onward,
with Moss and Omar Ebrahim as vocal soloists;
to Baden-Baden in November.
2006/2007:
In February, "Surrogate
Cities", Heiner Goebbels' full-evening orchestra
piece for amplified orchestra, sampler
and vocal soloists will have it's premiere in
Sweden as part of the Stockholm New Music Festival;
performed by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic
Orchestra, conducted by B. Tommy Andersson , with
Jocelyn B. Smith and David Moss, vocal soloists.
In
planning: Pierrot LunaiRE:Remix, a collaboration
with the Alter Ego
ensemble of Rome. This will be a radical
new production of Arnold Schoenberg's
1912 classic, including electronics, percussion,
and voice and instrumental
loops. Alter Ego is well known for its unique
music festival, "Come to Daddy",
in which they pair composers and DJs, and commission
new music mixed with
high-tech media. The premiere of Pierrot LunaiRE:Remix
is planned for Rome,
with a European tour to follow.
Sam Auinger (sound
artist, composer, theater-maker, visual artist)
and Moss
have talked about working together since they
met in Berlin through the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin
Program. Auinger is now creating a multi-media
opera, "The Man Made of Rain", based
on the prose-poem of Brendan Kennelly, and has
invited Moss to play one of the two featured roles.
The premiere is scheduled for 2007at the Bruckner
Haus, Linz, Austria.
NEWS-
2008