David Moss is a composer, percussionist, and self-toughth vocalist. He’s born in America and now he’s living in Berlin, Germany.

Drumming and singing has shaped his musical life. As his percussionist life mutated creatively into a singer’s life, he explored the power of the voice through songs, sounds, languages.

2018 and 2019 were special years for David Moss: he was the winner of the 2018 Deutsche Musikautorenpreis: Experiment Stimme. He reprised the role of Mr. Eddy (written for him) in the German premiere of Olga Neuwirth’s opera, Lost Highway. He sang in Seattle, Taiwan and Bogota, Basel and Zagreb with Heiner Goebbels’ orchestra work. Performed the music of Frank Zappa at the Venice Biennale and made his premiere at the Elb Philharmonie singing Xenakis’ AIS with the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin under Peter Rundel.

His main Influences are J.S. Bach, John Cage, John Coltrane, Charles Ives, Tibetan monks, Harry Partch, Cab Calloway.

He performed with performers of every genre, around the globe, at Berlin Philharmonic Hall, Carnegie Hall, Whitney Museum, Walker Art Center, Salzburg Festival and several others contexts.

He received the recognition of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a DAAD Artist-in-Berlin grant, a fellowship at the Interweaving Performance Cultures Center (Free University, Berlin).