About

Moss Freed is a composer, guitarist, improviser and lecturer. He studied music at the University of Edinburgh, receiving the Bucher/Fraser award, and was supported by the Countess of Munster Trust and Berklee World Scholarship Fund to attend Berklee College of Music in Boston before completing a Masters at Goldsmiths College and a PhD as a NECAH scholar at the Universities of Hull and Huddersfield. Alongside his ensembles Union Division, Let Spin and Moss Project, Moss has composed for Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra, Via Nova, DriftEnsemble, Aisha Orazbayeva, Alexander Hawkins, Serge Vuille and Joshua Hyde with works broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Jazz FM, BBC 6Music and BBC 1. As a guitarist, he plays with the Spike Orchestra and Charlotte Keeffe Quartet and has appeared on many recordings, including four releases on John Zorn’s Tzadik label. He has had features in the Guardian, Independent on Sunday and Jazzwise and has performed at Ronnie Scotts, the Barbican, the Southbank Centre, Kings Place, HCMF, LSO St Luke’s and Union Chapel. Moss Freed lives in London and teaches composition and performance at Goldsmiths and improvisation at the Royal Academy of Music.