ANN MOSS soprano

Acclaimed Recording Artist & Chamber Musician. Collaborator, Muse, Champion of Living Composers.

LOVE LIFE ALBUM COMING 9/9/16

Discography

 

What Shall I Sing Today? Nancy Bachmann Art Songs (Angels Share Records, 2024)

Pianist Ed Broms and violist Justin Ouellet are featured on this collection of songs and song cycles by California-based composer Nancy Bachmann, with music and poems inspired by transformation, mystery, romance, and the small wonders of the natural world that often go overlooked.

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Dreamland: Songs by Garry Eister (Angels Share Records, 2024)

Featuring guitarist Carrie Smith performing on an array of instruments, California-based composer/guitarist Garry Eister’s songs explore themes of childhood, memory loss, death and remembrance.

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Three Foxes by the Edge of the Field at Twilight (Angels Share Records, 2024)

One of four pre-release “sneak peek” singles from Moss’ forthcoming portrait album NOW I AM. The anticipated release date for the complete album is October 4, 2024.

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Rainy Night House (Angels Share Records, 2024)

One of four pre-release “sneak peek” singles from Moss’ forthcoming portrait album NOW I AM, currently available for streaming and download at Bandcamp. The anticipated release date for the complete album is October 4, 2024.

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I Had a King (Angels Share Records, 2024)

One of four pre-release “sneak peek” singles from Moss’ forthcoming portrait album NOW I AM, currently available for streaming and download at Bandcamp. The anticipated release date for the complete album is October 4, 2024.

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Once I Was (Angels Share Records, 2024)

One of four pre-release “sneak peek” singles from Moss’ forthcoming portrait album NOW I AM. The anticipated release date for the complete album is October 4, 2024.

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Wild Swans (Navona, 2023)

Contemporary composer Nancy Bachmann’s exquisite music entices listeners with an artist’s pallet of expressive and progressive sounds. WILD SWANS takes flight through compositions for voice, woodwind quintet, trios, duos, and unaccompanied clarinet, transporting the listener to beautiful and exotic destinations.

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The Distance (Single, Angels Share Records, 2023)

Released on April 15, 2023 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombing, THE DISTANCE celebrates long-distance runners and the inspiration we all gain from witnessing their trials and triumphs.

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Lifeline (Angels Share Records, 2022)

A modern-day interpretation of the music of Hildegard von Bingen distilled through the lens of the artists’ experiences in quarantine. Recorded remotely in collaboration with instrumentalists located around the United States.

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Lifeline is a beautiful window into two similar women, both bound by circumstance to their anchoritic cells, and both producing otherworldly visions. It is also an admirable social statement about isolation and togetherness that should resonate with all listeners with an open mind. I found it cathartic, challenging, and delightful.
— Music & Musical Performance, Feb 2023

Some Women’s Voices (Albany, 2022)

Song cycles by composer Don Walker (b. 1941) with poetry by Anne Bradstreet, Phyllis Wheatley, Helen Hunt Jackson, Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, Harrie Alley, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Featuring soprano Ann Moss and pianist Karen Rosenak.

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Autumn Winds (Ravello Records, 2020)

Holly Roadfeldt, Piano; Peter Dutilly, Viola; Ann Moss, Soprano; Andreas Meyer, Engineer

As challenging as it is alluring: Autumn Winds takes listeners to the outskirts of tonality in order to elucidate questions of beauty, existence, and mortality. Composer Kirk O’Riordan’s music fires the imagination of all those fascinated by life, language, and the distinct challenge of expressing poetry and poetic themes in song.

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Often minimal and always daring, fans of early 20th century art music will certainly be enamored here, as will those with an ear for poetic and elegant chamber sounds.
— Take Effect, Feb 2020

Nordwell & Moss: Vartan Aghababian Songs for Voice and Piano (Angels Share Records, 2018)

Whimsical and profound, with texts by A.A. Milne and Emily Dickinson, an engaging selection of living-composer Vartan Aghababian’s song cycles are performed here by soprano Ann Moss and pianist Hillary Nordwell.

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Everyone Sang: Vocal Music of David Conte (Arsis, 2018)

This two-disc set includes recordings of David Conte's most recent vocal composition offerings from collections: American Death Ballads, Three Poems of Christina Rossetti, Love Songs, Everyone Sang, Lincoln, Sexton Songs, and Requiem Songs featuring soprano Ann Moss. The album includes program notes by the composer.

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Ann Moss’s long, fluid lines are exquisite in ‘Exaudi.’ She easily negotiates the musical leaps and mood changes in ‘Dies Irae,’ and gives a sense of hope to ‘In Paradisum.’
— Cleveland Classical, 2018

Love Life (Angels Share Records, 2016)

Soprano Ann Moss’s sophomore portrait album features premiere recordings of bold new works of vocal chamber music by American composers Jake Heggie and Liam Wade. Innovative arrangements of classic love songs by Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell and The Beatles. Standout performances from pianists Steven Bailey, Jake Heggie, cellist Emil Miland, violinist Isaac Allen, and Chanticleer.

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Ann has this magic quality that somehow makes composers want to write for her, because not only does she perform their songs, she invests in them, physically, emotionally, personally. I think she’s a transformative artist, because she can cross genres so easily. She’s not only comfortable in classics and Baroque music, but she also is expert at new music. Nothing scares her.
— Composer Jake Heggie

The Thoughtfulness of Thirst (Albany, 2016)

Song cycles by composer Don Walker (b. 1941) with poetry by Emily Dickinson focused on nature, love, religion, and death. Featuring soprano Ann Moss and pianist Karen Rosenak.

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Nerd Songs (Kenneth D. Froelich, 2015)

Composer Kenneth D. Froelich's debut album is a collection of quirky, evocative, engaging, and – most importantly – nerdy chamber works. Featuring soprano Ann Moss and pianist Steven Bailey.

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Appropriately, the nerd song ‘Hello World’ was a 12-tone reading of a Basic computer program, complete with line numbers, until ‘Run’ was reached, at which time the program burst into tonality with the titular message.
— San Francisco Classical Voice, 2012

Percipience (Navona, 2015)

Vocal chamber music by composer Michael Murray on texts by John Donne and William Blake. Featuring soprano Ann Moss, violinists Amy Ripka and Zoia Bologovsky, violist Justin Ouellet, cellist Dorothy Braker, and clarinetist John Ferraro.

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Murray gives us songs that stand out. They are masterful examples of the form in our contemporary world. Anyone who gravitates towards such things will no doubt appreciate this album. Bravo!
— Gapplegate Music Review, 2015

Music for Between Appear and Disappear (Jaded Ibis Productions, 2014)

Composed, performed and recorded by Ann Moss, inspired by Between Appear and Disappear, a new hybrid of photographs and poetic texts on beauty and love by author/photographer Doug Rice. Field recordings of the American River in Lotus, CA by Dave Firenze. Field recordings of Beaver Pond Dam in Lincoln, MA by Ann Moss.

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Currents (Angels Share Records, 2013)

Soprano Ann Moss’s debut solo release spotlights music by Weslie Brown, Liam Wade, John Thow, Vartan Aghababian, and Joni Mitchell. Produced by Leslie Ann Jones at Skywalker Sound and featuring the Hausmann Quartet, pianists Steven Bailey and Karen Rosenak, guitarist Jeremías García, multi-instrumentalist Matt Berkeley, bassist Dewayne Pate and drummer Joe Bagale.

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I’m drawn to saying ‘yes’ to things that will challenge me in different ways, but I’ve never worked on a record with this kind of diverse material.
— Producer Leslie Ann Jones
I’ve been listening to Currents for about three weeks now on a pretty regular rotation, and with each listening it reveals more of itself. Like Esperanza Spaulding’s Chamber Music Society, it covers a lot of ground, and the album’s cohesion reveals itself through repeated listening.
— A Beast in a Jungle, Nov 2013

Salir D’Amor Del Mundo (Naxos, 2010)

Sebastián Durón's Salir el amor del mundo (Love Leaves the World) is an early Zarzuela dating from 1696. Featuring El Mundo Ensemble, guitarist and director Richard Savino. Recorded at Skywalker Sound.

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