Adjunct Assistant Professor of Strings/Harp


Instruments/Expertise: Bass

(213) 740-7704 phone
(213) 740-1043 fax
davidmoo@usc.edu
RHM 112

Biography

David Allen Moore graduated from the USC Thornton School in 1993, where he studied with Dennis Trembly, Paul Ellison, and John Clayton. Moore continued his studies in Boston, working privately with BSO principal bassist Edwin Barker while performing with Boston Baroque, the Rhode Island Philharmonic, Emmanuel Music, and the Boston Pops Esplanade orchestra. Moore performed as a substitute with the Los Angeles Philharmonic during the 1995-96 season, after which he was a member of the Houston Symphony under maestro Christoph Eschenbach until 1999. In 2000, Moore joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Moore has participated in numerous festivals, including Tanglewood, the Grand Teton Music Festival, Mainly Mozart, and Kent/Blossom Summer Music Festival. He is an active recitalist and chamber musician, having performed in the Houston area with the Greenbriar Consortium, in Los Angeles with the Philharmonic’s New Music Group, and in San Diego with the Mainly Mozart Festival. He was also a featured clinician at the 1999 Texas Double Bass Symposium. From 2003-09 Moore was a faculty member at the Colburn Conservatory in Los Angeles. He has been a faculty member of the USC Thornton School since 2000, and in the fall of 2010 he will join the full-time faculty there while maintaining his position in the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Since 2007 Moore has been a faculty member at Domaine Forget in Quebec, Canada.

In November of 2007 he began studies with internationally renowned double bass pedagogue and soloist François Rabbath in Paris. Moore received both the diploma and teaching certificate from the Institut International Rabbath in February of 2009.

With the Philharmonic, Moore performs on a bass by Nicolo Gagliano made in 1735. His solo bass is a modern instrument by French luthier Christian Laborie. Moore uses bows designed especially for him by Paris bowmaker Boris Fritsch that are a unique French/German hybrid and are designed to be played either overhand or underhand.