Biography

David Allen Moore is a member of the bass section of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and he is simultaneously a professor at the USC Thornton School of Music, the school from which he himself graduated in 1993.

Besides his orchestral and teaching duties, Moore has participated in numerous music festivals, including Tanglewood, the Grand Teton Music Festival, San Diego's Mainly Mozart Festival, and Cleveland's Kent/Blossom Music Festival. He has performed with Houston's Greenbriar Consortium and with the L.A.Philharmonic's New Music Group, and he was also a clinician at the 1999 Texas Double Bass Symposium.

Following his USC graduation, Moore studied privately in Boston, while performing with the Boston Baroque, the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, Emmanuel Music, and the Rhode Island Philharmonic. He has also been a member of the Houston Symphony. He is a faculty member at Domaine Forget, the international summer music festival located in the Charlevoix region of Québec, Canada.

Moore has studied with the internationally respected double bass pedagogue François Rabbath, receiving both a diploma and teaching certificate from the Institut International Rabbath of Paris. With the Philharmonic, David Allen Moore performs on a bass crafted by Nicolo Gagliano in 1735, while his instrument on his many solo excursions is a modern instrument made by the French luthier Christian Laborie. Moore uses bows designed especially for him by the Parisian bowmaker Boris Fritsch that are a unique French/German hybrid, designed to be played either overhand or underhand.