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Biography  Jed Moss, a native of Idaho, currently resides in Salt Lake City where he has become well established as a professional accompanist and concert pianist. After beginning his training in Idaho with Georgia Blastock (his teacher of twelve years), Moss continued study with Margaret Ott and Debora Dewey at Whitworth College in Spokane Washington. On scholarship, Moss pursued a degree in piano performance, receiving additional scholarships to sing in the Spokane Symphony Chorus as well as the sixteen voice Spokane Bach Chorale . Moss continued training at the University of Utah with Gladys Gladstone Rosenberg from 1982 to 1987. Throughout his schooling, Moss has participated in the master classes of Andre Watts, Jorge Bolet, Johanna Harris, Igor Kipnis, Jerome Lowenthal, Daniel Pollack, Alexander Peskanov and Santiago Rodriguez.  Jed has won first place awards in numerous state and regional competitions, including the IMTA Mason & Hamlin competition (state division of the MTNA Music Teachers National Association), the Federation of Music Clubs College of Choice Awards, the Mu Phi Epsilon musical fraternity scholarship competition, and the Utah Snowbird Summer Arts Young Artists Collegiate Competition. Moss has performed in the Utah Symphony and has soloed with the Idaho State Civic Symphony, Magic Valley Symphony, University of Utah Symphony orchestra , Utah Youth Symphony, Murray Symphony, Beethoven Series Chamber Orchestra, Brigham Young University Chamber Orchestra, Utah Chamber Orchestra, Intermountain Chamber orchestra, Kennedy Center Opera Orchestra and the Fort Worth Symphony.  Mr. Moss has worked extensively for Utahs L.A.East Co. recording sound tracks for the movie industry, including several Merchant-Ivory productions as well as various T.V. productions of the "Hallmark Hall of Fame" series. In addition, Moss has collaborated with various artists on compact disc, including Bret Jackson Trumpet for Summit Records, and Clarinet Kaleidoscope on the Centaur label. He is featured in orchestral works such as The Garden (Deseret Book), and Variations On A Sacred Theme (Millennium). In 1997, Moss co-wrote the instrumental piece "Once" with Air Supply's Graham Russell for The Book Of Love (Giant Records). Moss was invited to work as repetiteur for Opera Colorado in Denver, rehearsing the Operas Gianni Schicchi, Pagliacci and Bizet's Carmen. With extensive experience in vocal repertoire, Moss has accompanied contestants in the Denver Regional Metropolitan Opera auditions and was the official pianist for Utah's International Vocal School for three consecutive years, performing numerous concerts with celebrated singers from the U.K. as well as the United States. Moss has worked with the Utah Festival Opera as well as Utah Opera on various occasions, and has aided in the "workshopping" of newly commissioned operas. He has been the principal keyboardist for the Utah Chamber Orchestra for eight years. He has been an adjudicator, guest lecturer and official accompanist for the Utah Music Teachers Association.  A prolific performer, Mr. Moss has appeared on the Columbia Artists Community Concert series in Utah, Wyoming and Colorado. He has performed on the NOVA concert series, the Madeleine Festival, the Salt Lake Chamber Music Society, the Contemporary Music Consortium, the Temple Square Concert Series, The Mendelssohn Society Concert series of Chicago, The Utah Flute Association series, BYU Performing Arts Series, The Bear Lake Music Festival, Grand Teton Music Festival in Jackson Hole and the Utah Music Festival. Mr. Moss continually appears in recital with guest artists from many of the nation's orchestras and music schools. Among others, Moss has collaborated with principal players from the Oregon Symphony, the Chicago Symphony, the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony , the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Utah Symphony. He has been seen regularly as a guest artist collaborating on faculty recitals at Whitworth College, Lewis And Clarke College (Oregon), Weber State, Utah State and BYU Universities as well as University of Utah, with additional guest artist appearances at Kansas State and Arizona StateUniversities. Moss has performed in Munich and Vienna as pianist for Utah's Repertory Dance Theatre, and has been a contracted soloist with Ballet West for the past eight years performing newly commissioned works for dance set to the piano concerto repertoire. The Washington Times said: "Jed Moss relished the fiendishly difficult jazz piano solos that were once owned by Lukas Foss" when describing his performance of Bernstein's "Age of Anxiety" at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. for Ballet West's premier of John Neumier's Ballet of the same name. In March of 2003, Mr. Moss will be soloing works of Chopin for piano and orchestra with the Florida Ballet Company in Miami. Moss has toured with the Broadway production of "Phantom of The Opera" and has performed in the Utah performances of "Victor Victoria" starring Toni Tennille, and since December of 1995, he has been recording and touring around the world with the rock band Air Supply.
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