Ann Moss (musician)
{{short description|American operatic soprano}}
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| occupation = Opera Singer, Concert Soloist, Recording Artist
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| years_active = 2003–present
| label = Albany Records, Angels Share Records, Arsis Audio, Navona Records, Naxos Records, Ravello Records
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Ann Moss is an American operatic soprano. She is best known for her commitment to contemporary music, having premiered and recorded works by many living composers including Vartan Aghababian, Nancy Bachmann, Weslie Brown, David Conte, Kenneth Froelich, Keiko Fujiie, Heather Gilligan, Jake Heggie, Miriam Miller, Miya Masaoka, Kirk O'Riordan, Wayne Peterson, Eric Sawyer, Allen Shearer, Tony Solitro, John Thow and Liam Wade, among others.
Biography
Moss was born in Concord, Massachusetts, and was raised in Lincoln, Massachusetts, in a musical family, studying piano from a young age with her grandmother, Frances Moss.{{cite journal|author=Waugh, A.|date=January 16, 2014|title=Singer returns to her Lincoln roots in Jan. 31 concert|url=https://www.lincolnsquirrel.com/singer-returns-to-her-lincoln-roots-in-jan-31-concert/|journal=The Lincoln Squirrel}} Her grandfather, Leonard G. Moss, was a violinist with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the New York Opera Company, the New York Ballet Theatre, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, and retired in 1996 after 43 years with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?n=leonard-g-moss&pid=19227609&fhid=6713|title=Leonard G. Moss|website=www.legacy.com}} Ann Moss received a bachelor's degree with a concentration in Music and the Related Arts at Hampshire College, a master's degree in Vocal Performance at the Longy School of Music of Bard College and a post-graduate degree in Vocal Performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
Between 2004 and 2020, Moss resided and taught in the San Francisco Bay Area. From 2014 to 2020 she lived in Richmond, CA with her husband, jazz violinist and classical violist Justin Ouellet.{{cite web|url=https://www.newmusicusa.org/profile/annmoss/|title=New Music USA: Ann Moss|website=www.newmusicusa.org}} Between 2020 and 2022 Moss and Ouellet co-produced the album Lifeline, featuring modern interpretations of music by Hildegard von Bingen recorded remotely with instrumentalists around the United States, while living in a series of home-stays and short-term rentals in California, Massachusetts, Maryland, Florida, Texas and South Carolina.{{cite web|url=https://thecollectiveis.us/?p=1422/|date=March 24, 2022|title=The Collective: Lifelines in a Year of "Why Not?"|website=www.thecollectiveis.us/}}
Moss has released four solo albums: Lifeline (Angels Share Records 2022), Nordwell & Moss: Vartan Aghababian Songs for Voice and Piano (Angels Share Records 2018), Currents (Angels Share Records 2013){{cite journal|author=Kaliss, J.|date=June 18, 2013|title=Inside Skywalker Sound|url=https://www.sfcv.org/article/inside-skywalker-sound|journal=San Francisco Classical Voice}} and Love Life (ASR 2016),{{cite web|url=https://jakeheggie.com/love-life-angels-share/|title=Love Life (Angels Share)|website=www.jakeheggie.com}} the latter two produced and recorded by multi-GRAMMY Award winner Leslie Ann Jones at Skywalker Sound, a Lucasfilm, Ltd. company. These feature premiere recordings of compositions by Jake Heggie, John Thow, Liam Wade and Vartan Aghababian, as well as songs by Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Weslie Brown and Lennon-McCartney, with collaborators from the chamber, new music, and jazz communities including the Hausmann Quartet, cellist Emil Miland, pianists Karen Rosenak, Steven Bailey and Matt Berkeley, flamenco guitarist Jeremías García, and vocal ensemble Chanticleer. She can also be heard on releases from labels including PARMA,{{cite web|url=https://parmarecordings-news.com/the-parma-album-of-the-day-percipience/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191007175239/https://parmarecordings-news.com/the-parma-album-of-the-day-percipience/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=October 7, 2019|title=The PARMA Album of the Day: PERCIPIENCE|website=www.parmarecordings.com}} Arsis Audio,{{cite web|url=https://www.morningstarmusic.com/blog/everyone-sang-artist-notes/|title=Everyone Sang: Extended Notes}} Naxos Records, Albany Records,{{cite web|url=https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8159930--don-walker-emily-dickinson-songs|title=Don Walker: Emily Dickinson Songs|website=www.prestomusic.com}} Navona Records and Jaded Ibis Productions.
Notable world premieres
- 2019 The River-merchant's Wife (Allen Shearer)
- 2018 Gaman: to persevere (Christophe Chagnard){{cite journal|date=September 2, 2017|title=Music of Remembrance 2017-18 features music commissions inspired by Japanese and Japanese American wartime experience|url=https://napost.com/music-remembrance-2017-2018-features-music-commissions-inspired-japanese-japanese-american-wartime-experience/|journal=The North American Post}}
- 2018 Madrigals for the Seasons (David Conte){{cite web|url=https://sfcm.edu/events/david-conte-composition-0|title=David Conte, composition|website=www.sfcm.edu}}
- 2018 Hard Stones (Griffin Candey) and (Lisa DeSiro){{cite web|url=https://www.riversschoolconservatory.org/faculty-opening-recital-40th-seminar-on-contemporary-music-for-the-young/|title=Faculty Opening Recital 40th Seminar on Contemporary Music for the Young|website=www.riversschoolconservatory.org}}
- 2017 Down the deep stair (Jared Redmond)
- 2017 Wilderness Mute (Keiko Fujiie)
- 2016 A Line Becomes a Circle (Miya Masaoka){{cite web|url=https://therehearsalstudio.blogspot.com/2016/09/a-chamber-opera-based-on-haiku-is.html|title=A Chamber Opera Based on Haiku is Coming to the Theatre of Yugen|website=therehearsalstudio.blogspot.com|date=3 September 2016 }}
- 2016 Finite Differences (Kenneth D. Froelich) and (John Grimmett){{cite web|url=http://www.fresnostatenews.com/2016/10/25/music-compositions-world-premiere-is-oct-29/|title=Music Compositions World Premiere is Oct. 29|website=www.fresnostatenews.com|date=25 October 2016 }}
- 2016 Regrets Only (John Grimmett){{cite web|url=https://oneounceopera.com/meet-liam-wade-and-john-grimmett/|title=Meet Liam Wade and John Grimmett, Winning Composer/Librettist Team of FSOO 2016|website=www.oneounceopera.com|date=19 March 2016 }}
- 2015 Erbsensuppenlieder (Vartan Aghababian){{cite news|url=https://www.musicalamerica.com/news/printarticle.cfm?sid=34869&cid=5&arc=0|title=Longy School of Music of Bard College Honors Long-Time Educator, the Late Ruth Gessner=Schocken as Part of Centennial Celebration 10.16.15|date=October 1, 2015}}
- 2015 As I ride the late night freeways (Matt Schumaker){{cite web|url=https://mta.mit.edu/person/matthew-schumaker|title=MIT Music & Theater Arts People - Matthew Schumaker|website=www.mta.mit.edu}}{{cite web|url=https://cnmat.berkeley.edu/people/matthew-schumaker|title=CNMAT - Matthew Schumaker|website=www.cnmat.berkeley.edu}}
- 2015 Full Fathom Five (Liam Wade){{cite journal|author=Rudio, M.|date=January 26, 2015|title=A Musical Homecoming for Noe Valley Chamber Music|url=https://www.sfcv.org/reviews/noe-valley-chamber-music/a-musical-homecoming-for-noe-valley-chamber-music|journal=San Francisco Classical Voice}}
- 2014 things that had no opposites (Sam Nichols) and (Tim Horvath){{cite journal|author=Frandzel, B.|date=December 12, 2014|title=Left Coast Chamber Ensemble Explores Music for Guitar|url=https://www.sfcv.org/reviews/left-coast-chamber-ensemble/left-coast-chamber-ensemble-explores-music-for-guitar|journal=San Francisco Classical Voice}}
- 2012 Nerd Songs (Kenneth D. Froelich){{cite journal|author=Gereben, J.|date=August 7, 2012|title=Music News: Two Mosses Make One Other Acronym|url=https://www.sfcv.org/article/music-news-aug-7-2012|journal=San Francisco Classical Voice}}
- 2012 Gertrude & Alice: Scenes from a Shared Life (Sanford Dole) and (Brad Erickson)
- 2011 Three Dickinson Songs (Vartan Aghababian){{cite web|url=https://armenianweekly.com/2011/06/08/aghababian-recital-cambridge-mass/|title=Aghababian Recital (Cambridge, Mass.)|website=www.armenianweekly.com|date=8 June 2011 }}
- 2010 Mame Loshn (Miriam Miller) and (Sarah Traister Moskovitz){{cite web|url=https://www.oneartensemble.org/|title=One Art Ensemble|website=www.oneartensemble.org}}
- 2009 Battlegrounds (Heather Gilligan) and (E. Ethelbert Miller){{cite web|url=http://daas-mitadmin.mit.edu/mit-events/list?month=2009-04&group=6464|title=MIT Events April 2009|website=www.mit.edu}}
- 2007 Freedom and Love (Wayne Peterson){{cite journal|author=Dunn, J.|date=September 25, 2007|title=The Modern in Wayne Peterson|url=https://www.sfcv.org/reviews/modern-wayne-peterson|journal=San Francisco Classical Voice}}{{cite web|url=http://www.earplay.org/www/performances.php?Composer=Wayne+Peterson|title=This page lists 28 Earplay performances of works by composer Wayne Peterson|website=www.earplay.org}}
Notable United States premieres
Discography
- What Shall I Sing Today? Nancy Bachmann Art Songs (Angels Share Records, 2024)
- Dreamland: Songs by Garry Eister (Angels Share Records, 2024)
- Wild Swans: Nancy Bachmann Chamber Music (Navona Records, 2023)
- The Distance (single, Angels Share Records, 2023)
- Lifeline (Angels Share Records, 2022)
- Some Women's Voices (Albany Records, 2022)
- Autumn Winds (Ravello Records, 2020)
- Nordwell & Moss: Vartan Aghababian Songs for Voice and Piano (Angels Share Records, 2018)
- Everyone Sang: Vocal Music of David Conte (Arsis, 2018)
- Love Life (Angels Share Records, 2016)
- Don Walker: The Thoughtfulness of Thirst (Albany Records, 2016)
- Nerd Songs (Kenneth D. Froelich, 2015)
- Michael Murray: Precipience (Navona, 2015)
- Currents (Angels Share Records, 2013)
- Music for Between Appear and Disappear (Jaded Ibis Productions, 2013)
- Salir el amor del mundo (Naxos Records, 2010)
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.annmosssoprano.com/}}
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Category:American operatic sopranos
Category:21st-century American women opera singers
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