J. David Moore
Composer and Arranger

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New work completed for MN-ACDA

Lion Of the Heart (SATB, piano) - Written for the Minnesota 9th and 10th grade Honors Choir, this is a ferocious setting of a poem by the 13th century Persian poet Rumi:

You, who are born
and bring us the mysteries,
the thunder of your voices delights us.
Roar, lion of the heart,
and tear me open!

Here is a perusal score. It will be premiered on February 16 of next year, during the 2012 ACDA Convention in Minneapolis.

My daughter Rosannah is now 15, and the piece is dedicated to her and all of her generation who are preparing to become the shapers of the world. It is written in the hopes that they will shape it to the contours of their own passions and joy.

"I Know My Time Ain't Long" now available in print.

My single most popular mp3 download ever is now available in print form. Order using the online form above, or download perusal pages here.

Current Commissions

2012 - Joyful Noise Chorus. A piece for this marvelous New Jersey-based mixed chorus of adults with physical and neurological challenges.

- Caritas Vocal Ensemble - choral setting of the Ubi Caritas text

2013 - Melange a Trois - work for French horn, violin, and piano.

2014 - Minnesota Youth Chorale

TBD - Catherine Deiner: commemorative piece in memory of her mother. An exuberant instrumental inspired by the New Orleans jazz funeral.

New Recordings posted on the Site

Keeping Quiet
I Know My Time Ain't Long

New Sample Pages posted on the Site

I Know My Time Ain't Long

J. David Moore (b. 1962) has had works performed and recorded all over the world, and is especially enamored with the romance of word and melody. He has composed art songs, oratorios, music for percussion ensemble, string quartet, wind ensemble, baroque orchestra, and tuned wine glasses, in addition to over two hundred vocal arrangements. He has founded and directed two professional a cappella ensembles, Cincinnati-based The Village Waytes and St. Paul's award-winning Dare To Breathe. He has won numerous grants, awards, and residencies through ASCAP, the Jerome Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, and the American Composers Forum. David is an active educator and clinician and has served as composer-in-residence at elementary, middle and high schools throughout the Midwest. He serves as Director of Music at Nativity Episcopal Church in Burnsville, Minnesota, is a member of ASCAP and the American Composers Forum, and is devoted to bread baking, yoga, his daughter Rosannah, and a good cup of tea.[Click to hear Rosannah's classic hit "I Love Macaroni and Cheese."]

Featured Work

Keeping Quiet

A quick-and-dirty demo of a setting of this Neruda poem, translated by Stephen Mitchell. Intended for (and recorded here with) harpsichord, but equally successful with other keyboard substitution.


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