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Selected to the São Paulo Contemporary Composers Festival
After submitting works to the São Paulo Contemporary Composers Festival and an interview process, Keith was chosen among 20 composers from around the world to attend. The participants will write a new work for chamber ensemble to be recorded and broadcast nation wide in Brazil! ‘Besides an incredible performance of your music, you will be surrounded by individuals who are on the cutting edge of contemporary music. You will live in São Paulo and experience an environment that fosters and supports high artistry. You will receive private lessons, individual coachings of your works with professional composers and ensembles, studio recordings of your works, a concert that will be broadcast in 17 different locations around Brazil on the radio and television, as well as cultural excursions to museums, concert halls, and touristic venues. Additionally, you will form lifelong relationships that will have a significant impact on your network as a composer.’
Int. Extravaganza premieres new work
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Concertino for clarinet & chamber orchestra
The Concertino for clarinet & chamber orchestra by Keith Moss was commissioned by the SAMRO Foundation and OSM Camerata for the first International Clarinet Extravaganza to be presented at the OSM. Eddy van Oosthuyse, internationally acclaimed clarinettist was the soloist for the premiere. Movements 1 & 2.
The first performance took place on the 6th of October
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Participants round up at competition
Finalists go through to next round
Participants in the Len van Zyl conducting competition go through to the final rounds. Well done to to the finalists. Read more here
Compass
The Paz Consort will feature the music of Pieter Bezuidenhout,Franco Prinsloo, and Keith Moss on the 8th of August. Newly written concerto’s for Marimba, Harp and String Orchestra will be conducted by Paz Consort director Keith Moss. Magda de Vries brings her exceptional talent to the concert, a tireless champion of new music in South Africa.
Intimate Conversations
The Paz Consort recently performed a concert of new works in Pendulum (read the review here). Recordings of the concert were made for reference alone but have been posted to YouTube. My piece Intimate Conversations separated into three movements:
SAMRO Overseas tour to the UK 2011
Made it to the Underground! London here I come!!
Heading to London, Uk
After wining the SAMRO Overseas scholarship, I’ve decided to use my scholarship for a series of master classes with various composers. Setup meetings with Adam Gorb at RNCM, Jonathan Cole at the RCM, Robert Fokkens at Cardiff University and will attend the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.
Making Inroads a “roaring success”
Extremely happy to report that the Paz Consort concert featuring the John Edwards Jazz trio went off without a hitch. Some snap shots of the Paz Consort members here!
Paz Consort to team up with the John Edwards Trio
The Paz Consort has set a new date for the premiere of Keith’s new concerto for Euphonium and orchestra. The concert will be conducted by Keith and alongside the podium his good friend and jazz pianist, John Edwards, will join forces with the orchestra in compositions of his own as well as some arrangements.
New concerto Euphonium and Orchestra
Happy to announce that negations have completed to write a new concerto for Euphonium specialist Andrea Hobson! Due to be performed this year. Watch this space
Resonate
After a great start in Port Elizabeth in 2010, as well as a repeat performance in Cradock, the Paz Consort will launch 2011 with an all strings concert. Joining the string ensemble will be guitarist and lecturer at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Rudi Bower. Performing the Vivaldi double concerto for guitar and strings guitarist Wayne Simpson will join Mr Bower on stage with conductor Keith Moss at the podium.
Rehearsals underway for October Nights
Rehearsals underway for Port Elizabeth!
The Paz Consort is created
After completing a Masters degree in composition at Rhodes University, Keith felt it is now ok to call himself a composer. However saying you’re a composer and being one are two different things. Keith put his words into action and formed the Paz Consort in order to write more, play more, do more.
Named after the Nobel Prize winning poet, Octavio Paz, Keith took his inspiration here for a new work for string sextett and cor anglais