Ann Moss (musician)

Moss has released four solo albums: Lifeline (Angels Share Records 2022), Nordwell & Moss: Vartan Aghababian Songs for Voice and Piano (Angels Share Records 2018), Currents (Angels Share Records 2013) and Love Life (ASR 2016), the latter two produced and recorded by multi-GRAMMY Award winner Leslie Ann Jones at Skywalker Sound, a Lucasfilm, Ltd. company. These feature premiere recordings of compositions by Jake Heggie, John Thow, Liam Wade and Vartan Aghababian, as well as songs by Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Weslie Brown and Lennon-McCartney, with collaborators from the chamber, new music, and jazz communities including the Hausmann Quartet, cellist Emil Miland, pianists Karen Rosenak, Steven Bailey and Matt Berkeley, flamenco guitarist Jeremías García, and vocal ensemble Chanticleer. She can also be heard on releases from labels including PARMA, Arsis Audio, Naxos Records, Albany Records, Navona Records and Jaded Ibis Productions.

Between 2004–2020, Moss resided and taught in the San Francisco Bay Area. From 2014–2020 she lived in Richmond, CA with her husband, jazz violinist and classical violist Justin Ouellet. Between 2020–2022 Moss and Ouellet co-produced the album Lifeline, featuring modern interpretations of music by Hildegard von Bingen recorded remotely with instrumentalists around the United States, while living in a series of home-stays and short-term rentals in California, Massachusetts, Maryland, Florida, Texas and South Carolina.

Moss was born in Concord, Massachusetts and was raised in Lincoln, Massachusetts in a musical family, studying piano from a young age with her grandmother, Frances Moss. Her grandfather, Leonard G. Moss, was a violinist with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the New York Opera Company, the New York Ballet Theatre, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, and retired in 1996 after 43 years with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Ann Moss received a bachelor's degree with a concentration in Music and the Related Arts at Hampshire College, a master's degree in Vocal Performance at the Longy School of Music of Bard College and a post-graduate degree in Vocal Performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.