Wes C. Moore (wesm@dbu.edu)

Wes Moore, Associate Dean of the College of Fine Arts and Chairman of the Department of Music, has received critical acclaim as a performer in opera and oratorio, as well as many concert appearances throughout Texas and the southwestern United States. Mr. Moore has performed with the symphony orchestras of Kansas City, Oklahoma City, Naples, FL, Ft. Worth, Lewisville, the Northeast Chamber Orchestra and the Houston Oratorio Society. He has performed many of the major baritone oratorio roles such as: Elijah, Haydn’s Creation and Missa Brevis, Ein Deutsches Requiem, the requiems of Mozart, Faure, and Dvorak, Mozart’s Vesperae solennes de Confessore, Schubert’s Mass in C, Stravinsky’s Mass, Rossini’s Stabat Mater and Vaughn Williams’ Hodie and In Terra Pax. He has also been a soloist in many of the cantatas of J.S. Bach as well as his Christmas Oratorio and St. Matthew Passion.

He has sung roles with the Ft. Worth Opera, Regal Opera, Arlington Opera, Orange Coast Lyric Opera, Texas Gilbert & Sullivan Company and the Chinese/American Opera Theatre of Dallas. Stage credits include: Germont in La Traviata, Peter in Hansel & Gretel, Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro, Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus, Yakuside in Madama Butterfly, Horace Tabor in the Ballad of Baby Doe, Captain Corcoran in H.M.S. Pinafore, Giuseppi in The Gondoliers, Strephon in Iolanthe, and Ruthven Murgatroyd in Ruddigore.

An interest in song literature has led Mr. Moore into the performance of a large body of German lieder as well as 20th century American art song. He has recently premiered several new works including John Dribus's Life Cycle and Camilo Salazar's En Joselito. He is a frequent lecture/recitalist at universities and community concert series where he has presented programs on modernism and postmodernism in the performance practice of art song. At DBU, he teaches private voice, Vocal Literature & Performance Practice and stage-directs the Opera Workshop. In addition, he is presently pursuing the D.M.A. in vocal performance at the University of North Texas. Memberships include NATS, TMEA, and Phi Kappa Lambda. Teachers and coaches include, Jack Pearson, Frank Stovall, Joan Wall, Edward Baird, Harold Heiberg, Richard Barrett, and Jeffrey Snider.

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