Lawrence Moss
Lawrence Kenneth Moss is an American composer of contemporary classical music.
He holds a B.A. degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, an M.A. from the Eastman School of Music, and a Ph.D. in music composition from the University of Southern California, where his instructors included Leon Kirchner and Ingolf Dahl.
He has taught at Mills College, Yale University, and the University of Maryland, College Park. His notable students include Jeffrey Mumford, Liviu Marinescu, and Susan Cohn Lackman.
He has received two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Fulbright Scholarship, and four grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Moss has composed operatic, instrumental, and electronic music. His music is published by Theodore Presser, Association for the
Promotion of New Music, McGinnis & Marx, Alfred Publishing Co., Roncorp Inc., Northeastern Music Programs, and Seesaw Music Corp.
His music has been recorded on the CRI, Desto, Opus One, Albany, Capstone, Orion, EMF, Spectrum, Advance, and AmCam labels.
He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.
