Diane Moser has been a featured performer and composer throughout the US with jazz ensembles, big bands, orchestras, chamber music, dance and theater companies since 1975. Since 1996 she has been the music director/contributing composer/pianist for her 17 piece Diane Moser's Composers Big Band, other groups include the Diane Moser Quintet, and the Diane Moser Trio. She is a fellow of the MacDowell Colony  and Virginia Center for the Arts and in 2011 was named the Mid-Atlantic Creative Arts Fellow at the Millay Colony for the Arts. She has received composition awards from Chamber Music America, Meet The Composer and the American Music Center. She has been a featured pianist and composer with Mark Dresser, Marty Ehrlich, Gerry Hemingway, Howard Johnson, Oliver Lake, Tina Marsh, Charles McPherson,  Lisa Sokolov, Yale Strom, poet Bill Zavatsky, the Cedar Rapids Symphony, Tri-City Symphony, the Drifters and many others. 
She recently composed and recorded the music for the award winning documentary "Breaking Boundaries:The Art of Alex Masket" ,and her recording with the extraordinary bassist Mark Dresser "Duetto" for CIMP records was recently released in March 2012. Since 2006 she has been a member of the core faculty for The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music where she teaches the composition/ensemble and history courses.
Originally from Iowa, she has lived in San Diego, CA, Brooklyn, NY, and since 1988, Montclair, NJ, where she maintains a private piano studio, while performing and composing throughout the NY/NJ area. 
review of "Duetto"..."Versatility is one of Dresser's strongest attributes, and being a sensitive duo partner is another. There is a simpatico going on here that navigates the sublime. These two musicians seem to live in each others heads, because everything is perfectly balanced--from the tune authorship to the remarkably even distribution of melodies and solos....Moser takes an astonishing solo that places her in the elite of improvising pianists working today" Robert Bush, San Diego Reader, 4/12/12
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/jam-session/2012/apr/12/diane-moser-mark-dresser-duetto/

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