J. DAVID MOORE
Composer, Arranger, Conductor, Music Copyist
He lives with his beautiful wife Anna in Minneapolis, where he makes pie, drinks tea, and is distracted by shiny objects.
First Readings Project
Fresh Ayre Music
Founded in 2006 to publish and distribute David’s works to performers around the globe.
J. David Moore
Composer, Arranger, Conductor
J. David Moore is a composer, arranger, conductor, teacher, and Southerner who has lived in the Upper Midwest for most of his life. His music has been called “endlessly inventive,” “glorious…haunting… breathtaking,” and “joyous…wild and elemental.” He publishes through his company Fresh Ayre Music.
He lives with his beautiful wife Anna in Minneapolis, where he bakes bread, drinks tea, and is distracted by shiny objects.
First Readings Project
A professional chamber choir producing high-quality demo recordings of new music for vocal ensemble.
Fresh Ayre Music
Founded in 2006 to publish and distribute David’s works to performers around the globe.
FEATURED Video Peformances
Commissions
Let’s make something beautiful together.
NEW: Solo Piano Commissioning Consortium
Learn more about the commissioning process and how to get started.
Workshops
I would be delighted to join your choir for a rehearsal or workshop, in person or Interwebically.
REHEARSALS
If you are preparing a piece of mine for performance, I would be delighted to join your choir as a clinician or guest conductor. I can provide a composer’s perspective of the piece, discuss creative process, and offer performance feedback, conducted in person or over Skype or FaceTime.
HALF-DAY CLINICS / MASTERCLASSES
A half-day clinic could cover an extended rehearsal period or masterclasses in a variety of topics such as creative process, musical score preparation, self-publishing, conducting, or life as a professional composer.
COMPOSING RESIDENCIES
Let’s write a song together! Over the course of a few sessions, I can help write a song based on your singers’ own ideas and in their own words (see “My COVID Year” in the video section above).
PRIVATE LESSONS
I am available to teach composition, arranging, and musical score preparation in person or online. Times and frequency are negotiable.
Recent Quotes
Extraordinary!
David is extraordinary in so many ways! As a composer his music is fresh, melodic, and a perfect blend of accessibility and challenge. As a collaborator, David is brimming with ideas that will work for the specific group he is working with. My Angelica Cantanti Youth Choir singers (ages 7-11) LOVED working with David on composing a piece that expressed their feelings during the Covid-19 pandemic. I can’t recommend enough finding an opportunity to work with David! His exuberant energy, passion and desire to connect with others, and creative, musical skills are tremendous.
Michelle Gehrz
Angelica Cantanti Youth Choirs, Mpls, MN Artistic Staff
Endlessly Inventive
“J. David Moore’s imagination is endlessly inventive. No one more effortlessly breathes new life into the familiar, nor creates original compositions with more humor, passion and joie de vivre.”
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