John Moss | Componisten

John Moss is active nationwide as a composer, arranger, and orchestrator in a wide variety of musical styles and formats. As a composer, he has an extensive background creating original music for documentary, educational, and promotional films, as well as arrangements for many live, large-scale musical revues and production shows. John recently provided the arrangements for Speak Low, a CD featuring Las Vegas trombonist John Haig with a 46-piece studio orchestra. His educational background includes undergraduate study in instrumental music at Central Michigan University and graduate work in theory and composition at Michigan State. He has taught at both public school (band and choir) and university (theory) levels in Michigan. John is currently a major contributor to the band and orchestra catalog of educational music publisher Hal Leonard Corporation and has several hundred published works to his credit. He also serves as arranger for the Disneyland educational project "Magic Music Days," where young musicians are introduced to the film scoring process. In recent years, John has accepted numerous school band and orchestra commissions, and has enjoyed writing for the Detroit Symphony Pops, the Canadian Brass, and the Detroit Chamber Winds. He resides in East Lansing, Michigan.