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First name: Carl
Last name: Voss
Dates: 1972
Category: Quartet
Nationality: american
Opus name: Three Dance Movements for pianoquartet (1992)
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Peculiarities: See: http://composers21.com/compdocs/vossc.htm
Information: 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. 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. E-mail address: cvoss@music.org