J. David Moore
Composer and Arranger

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Renaissance Woman Abbie Betinis repairs Fresh Ayre order form

Our order form is once again operational, thanks to the investigative and diagnostic powers of Abbie Betinis. Many thanks and many huzzahs! If you have made an order in the past month and have NOT received an acknowledgement from me, please take a minute and resubmit your request. Thanks for your patience and your continued support.

New Song for Joyful Noise

Mm Mm!(2-pt choir, piano) - Written for Joyful Noise, a marvelous New Jersey-based mixed chorus of adults with physical and neurological challenges. This is a song listing all the food that the group loves best, and why. Should be delightful for younger singers as well, and flexible enough to substitute their own menu items! To be premiered at the Eastern ACDA conference in Providence next month.

Current Commissions

2012 - Art song for soprano and piano for Leesa Levy, retiring voice and choral faculty at Valley City State University in North Dakota.

- 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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