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Voss, Carl (b. 1972, St. Cloud, Minnesota). American composer of mostly orchestral and chamber works that have been performed in Europe and the USA; he is also active as a violist.
Mr. Voss began violin lessons at age three and later studied piano, but his main instrument was the viola, on which he began lessons at age 14. He studied music theory, piano, solfège, and viola at the MacPhail Center for the Arts in Minneapolis from 1987–90 and composition with Bernard Rands at Harvard University, where he earned his BA summa cum laude in 1994. Lastly, he studied composition with Fred Lerdahl at Columbia University, where he earned his MA in composition in 1996 and his DMA in composition in 2003. In addition, he has attended courses with Robert Sirota at Tanglewood, Jacob Druckman at the Aspen Music Festival, Sebastian Currier at the Bowdoin Music Festival, John Harbison and Robert Kyr at the Oregon Bach Festival, and Betsy Jolas at the Académie Américaine in Fontainebleau.
Among his honors are the Hugh F. MacColl Prize for Composition at Harvard University (1993), the Faculty Fellowship from Columbia University (1994–96, 1997–2001) and the Prix de la Composition at the Académie Américaine (1996). In addition, his Divertimento in C was a finalist in the Kennedy Center Friedheim Awards (1992) and he has twice earned honorable mentions in the ASCAP Young Composer Awards (1997, for String Quartet; 2000, for Trip).
As a violist, he has often played new music in chamber, orchestral and solo settings, as well as standard pieces. He also served as a senior editor of Current Musicology from 1998–2002.
He served as a teaching assistant at Columbia University in 1995–96 and from 1998–2001 and has taught there as an adjunct professor of music theory since 2005.
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address: cvoss@music.org
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 celli, 1994; Music for Guitar, 1995; String Quartet, 1994–96; Three Movements for Unaccompanied 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, CD, 1996
(Last updated on February 3, 2008)
