(b. 1972, St. Cloud, Minnesota).

American composer of mostly orchestral and chamber works that have been performed in Europe and North America.

Mr. Voss began lessons in violin at age three and later studied piano before beginning lessons in viola at age 14. He studied music theory, piano, solfège, and viola at the MacPhail Center for Music in Minneapolis from 1987–90 and composition with Bernard Rands at Harvard University, where he earned his BA summa cum laude in 1994. He then studied composition with Fred Lerdahl at Columbia University, where he earned his MA in composition in 1996 and his DMA in composition in 2003.

Among his honours are finalist for the Kennedy Center Friedheim Award (1992, for Divertimento in C), the Hugh F. MacColl Prize for Composition from Harvard University (1993), the Faculty Fellowship from Columbia University (1994–96, 1997–2001), and the Prix pour composition Nadia-Boulanger from the Conservatoire Américain de Fontainebleau (1996).

He is also active in other positions. As a violist, he has performed contemporary music and standard répertoire. He served as a senior editor of the journal Current Musicology from 1998–2002.

He served as a teaching assistant at Columbia University in 1995–96 and from 1998–2001, where he later taught as an adjunct professor of music theory from 2005–09.

COMPLETE LIST OF WORKS

ORCHESTRAL:

Sinfonietta, string orchestra, 1989

Twelve Pieces for Orchestra, 1990

Divertimento in C, 1991

Scherzo for Orchestra, 1993

CHAMBER MUSIC:

Three Dance Movements for Piano Quartet, violin, viola, cello, piano, 1992

Three Pieces for Cello Ensemble, 5 cellos, 1994

Music for Guitar, guitar, 1995

String Quartet, 1994–96

Three Movements for Unaccompanied Cello, cello, 1997

Variations, guitar, 1998

Trip, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion, 1999, revised 2000

Duo, violin, piano, 2000

String Quartet No. 2, 2007–08

VOCAL:

Landscape with Boat (text by Wallace Stevens), soprano, viola, piano, 1997

PIANO:

Four Impromptus, 2001–05

ELECTROACOUSTIC:

Symphony in B, fixed media, 1996