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Omar
Ebrahim
 Omar
Ebrahim became a chorister at the Coventry Cathedral in 1964. His
exposure to the vibrant contemporary cultural life of that place led
him to study singing at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He
served his performing apprenticeship at the Royal Shakespeare Company
and in the Glyndebourne chorus, performing the role of Schaunard in
La Bohème for Glyndebourne Touring Opera in 1980.
He has been
involved with many contemporary opera and concert performances
including Nigel Osborne's The Electrification of the Soviet Union,
Tippett's New Year, and Birtwistle's The Second Mrs. Kong
for Glyndebourne Festival Opera. He has also sung concert
performances of Philip Glass's Satyagraha at the South Bank
Centre in London and the title role in Laman's Agamemnon in
the 1997 Holland Festival.
Recent
performances include the title role in John Casken's God's Liar
for Almeida Opera and La Monnaie Brussels, Benedict Mason's ChaplinOperas
with Ensemble InterContemporain, and Aventures, nouvelle aventures
with the Schoenberg Ensemble, soon to be released by Teldec Music.
Future performances include Peter Eotvos's Snatches of conversation
with MusikFabik in Antwerp, Aventures, Nouvelle Aventures with
the London Sinfonietta the BBC Proms and a new opera Thwaite
for Almeida Opera. He will also sing three concerts with Ensemble
Modern during their residency at the Taipei Festival in spring, 2003.
As an actor
he has performed Schoenberg's Ode to Napoleon, most recently
with the Salzburg Camerata during the Salzburg Festival, and
Strauss's melodrama on Tennyson's Enoch Arden for IRCAM in
Paris. He also played Archie Cannibal in Chips with Everything
at Leeds Playhouse.
David
Moss
 David
Moss is one of the most innovative singers and percussionists in
contemporary music. He is the founder and artistic director of the
Institute for Living Voice (ILV), a new workshop center hosting
Master Singers from around the world. The ILV presented its premiere
session in 2001 in Ghent, Belgium, and continues twice each year with
sessions in Brugge, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Berlin, Marseilles, and Bologna.
Moss has
sung at the Edinburgh Festival, Spoleto Festival, USA, and the
Meistersinger Festival in Nürnberg in Heiner Goebbels' orchestra
work Surrogate Cities, and is a vocal soloist in Goebbels' Prometheus.
Since 1995 he has performed as guest with the Ensemble Modern, most
recently in their new Frank Zappa Project. Moss has also presented
the Strange Stories Project as part of the Bern Biennale;
served on the jury for the Darmstadt "New Theater" prize;
sung in Andrea Molino's Death Penalty Project; and appeared as
featured soloist in Uri Caine's Goldberg Variations Project.
In 1991 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a DAAD Fellowship
(Berlin) in 1992, and was curator of a vocal improvisation project
for the Adelaide Festival 2000.
In 2003,
Moss will perform as soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic under the
direction of Sir Simon Rattle. He will also perform in a new
music-theater work by Olga Neuwirth, with a libretto by Elfriede
Jelinek, based on David Lynch's Lost Highway; with the Uri
Caine Ensemble at Lincoln Center; and with the "Shouting Men of
Finland" around Europe. In 2002, his one-man theater piece Einstein
for Aliens premiered in Antwerp, and OWL, a new work Moss
composed for the Asko Ensemble based on Allen Ginsberg's Howl,
was performed throughout Holland. In 2004 Moss returns to Luciano
Berio's Cronaca del Luogo in Genoa, London and Paris, and will
perform as principal soloist in a new music-theater work by Berio.
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