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Oral Moses
Professor
of Voice and Music Literature
Bass-baritone
Oral Moses has been on the Kennesaw State University voice faculty since
1984, as Professor of Voice and Music Literature. Dr. Moses also performs
regularly throughout the United States and Europe singing concert works,
oratorio, recitals and a wide variety of art song repertoire with special
emphasis on vocal works of African-American composers.
Dr. Moses has had numerous successes with American opera companies performing
major roles in The Marriage of Figaro, Regina, la Boheme, Albert
Herring, Tremonisha, Rigoletto, and The Magic Flute. Symphonic
engagements include work with the Nashville, Jackson, Detroit, Lansing,
Tacomo and Atlanta Symphony Orchestras. In 1983 he toured Poland, Hungary,
Czechoslovakia, and Austria and ended in Berlin singing the role of
Porgy in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess.
The South Carolina native began his singing career as a member of the
United States Seventh Army Soldiers Chorus in Heidelberg, Germany and
a member of the famed Fisk Jubilee Singers while attending Fisk University
where he received his undergraduate degree. He was then awarded a Thomas
J. Watson Fellowship for further study in vocal performance and opera
in Europe. Upon his return to the states, he attended the University
of Michigan where he earned a MM and DMA in vocal performance and opera.
In 1986 as a recipient of the National Endowment for Humanities Grant,
he co-authored a book entitled Feel the Spirit * Studies in Nineteenth
Century Afro-American Music, published by Greenwood Press. In 1991
he was awarded a second NEH Grant to study the broad spectrum of American
music. His CD recordings, Deep River: Songs and Spirituals of Harry
T. Burleigh and Amen! African-American Composers of the Twentieth
Century are on Albany Records label.
Contact Oral Moses
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