Dee Moses, double-bass

Dee Moses has recently concluded his 47-year tenure as Principal Bass of the Florida Orchestra. His career, in addition to symphony and opera, has encompassed solo playing, chamber music performance, composition, and teaching.

He continues to freelance with orchestras and chamber music ensembles and additionally serves as Instructor of Double-bass at the University of Tampa, maintains a private studio, and presents master classes and recitals. Moses received his high school diploma from the North Carolina School of the Arts. His bachelor’s and master’s degrees are from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he was a student of Lawrence Angell.

Summer affiliations have included the Musica Viva, Cooperstown, Scotia, Eastern, Bowdoin, and Taipei festivals.  From the summer of 2005 Dee has performed as Principal Bass of the Wintergreen Summer Music Festival in the mountains of Virginia where he also performs chamber music and coaches Academy students. In 1996 Mr. Moses first performed chamber music with the esteemed musicians of La Musica International Chamber Music Festival, with whom he has subsequently collaborated frequently. Dee has performed as soloist with the Florida Orchestra in the Koussevitsky Concerto, the Paganini “Moses Fantasy” and the Florida premiere of the Harbison Concerto for Bass Viol (as a member of the InternationalSociety of Bassists consortium.) In 2009 he gave the world premiere of “Camouflage” by Daniel Adams with the McCormick Percussion Ensemble. This piece is now available on Ravello Records. Dee also collaborates as composer for choreographeer Elsa Valbuena and the group Gaudere Danza.

Additional Affiliations and Websites:

• Florida Orchestra, Principal Double-Bass (ret.)

• University of Tampa, Double-Bass Instructor