Andrew Moses is a composer, clarinetist, and visual artist living in Los Angeles. Moses’s compositions have been premiered by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, the International Contemporary Ensemble, Wild Up, the Curtis Symphony Orchestra, and by the Mivos, Argus, Calder, and Zorá string quartets. His work has been featured as part of the Ojai Music Festival, the LA Phil’s Green Umbrella subscription series, the LA Phil’s Noon-to- Midnight Festival, the HEAR NOW Music Festival, Los Angeles’ Next on Grand Festival, the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival, the Yellow Barn Young Artist Program, and the Valencia International Performance Academy. Moses was a Nancy and Barry Sanders’ Composer Fellow with the LA Phil 2013- 2016. He is currently working on an octet for the International Contemporary Ensemble to be premiered in Los Angeles in April 2024, a piece for solo bass clarinet for the Curtis Institute’s 2024 Centenary Commissioning Initiative, and a collection of pieces to be installed and exhibited at the PHASE Gallery in LA. He studied composition as Anthony B. Creamer III Fellow at the Curtis Institute of Music; and he holds an MFA in Art and Technology with a concentration at the Center for Integrated Media from the California Institute of the Arts.

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As a clarinetist, Moses has performed as soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Ensemble and in chamber settings with iPalpiti Artists International, Curtis’ 20/21 Ensemble, and the Arcana New Music Ensemble. His 2017 performance as part of the Green Umbrella series with the LA Phil New Music Ensemble of an original composition for clarinet and chamber orchestra, conducted by John Adams, was described as "intricate in its orchestral interaction and coloration" (San Francisco Classical Voice) and "reaching an audience in a compellingly direct way" (Mark Swed, LA Times), while his clarinet playing was described as "astonishing" (ibid).

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He is a winner of the Young Musicians’ Foundation National Concerto Competition, the Midland-Odessa Symphony National Young Artist Competition, the Torrance Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition, and the Beverly Hills National Auditions. A recipient of the Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award, he has been featured twice on NPR’s “From the Top” and thrice as part of “Sunday’s Live” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Andrew was clarinetist in Bright Sheng’s “Intimacy of Creativity” festival in Hong Kong 2019; and he has participated in four seasons as clarinetist in the Yellow Barn Young Artist Program. His recording of Brahms’ Clarinet Sonata No. 2 can be heard in Guillermo del Toro’s 2022 film “Nightmare Alley.” He is a clarinet student of Margaret Thornhill.