Noah Mosley is a composer and conductor passionate about lyrical, moving, and imaginative music-making and opera. His full-length opera commissions include Aurora, which premiered at Bury Court 2019 and revived at Grimeborn, the Arcola (‘Mosley excels at open-hearted scale lyricism and large-scale ensembles’ Opera Magazine) and Mad King Suibhne, which premiered at Bury Court in 2017 and revived at English National Opera’s Lilian Baylis House and Messums, Wiltshire, after critical acclaim (‘Divine upper string writing.. exquisite vocal writing… like a modern Purcell’ Opera Now). 

 

Noah is dedicated to composing meaningful and engaging music for children. During lockdown, he composed three children’s operas for English Touring Opera which can be seen online, including ‘Shh! we have a plan’, ‘Aiden’ and ‘The Firebird’. These operas have been viewed online over 50,000 times. Most recently Noah also composed a touring children’s opera, ‘The Wish Gatherer’, which was performed in schools and theaters throughout England. ‘The Firebird’ was nominated for the best online production and ‘The Wish Gatherer’ won the award for best new opera for young audiences by the Young Audiences Music Awards. He also composes orchestral and instrumental music including conducting a new orchestral overture for the International Opera Award’s 2018 ceremony, performed on the main stage at ENO’s The Coliseum, played by the Orpheus Sinfonia. Other commissions include Songs for Gertrude Jekyll for Godalming Choral Society, which premiered in July 2018, and a cello and piano piece performed at Lady Solti’s house.

 

From 2014-18 Noah was music director of Helios Collective, which received an Opera Awards Foundation Bursary in 2016, and with whom he toured productions at Copenhagen Opera Festival, Buxton Opera Festival, Glasgow, and many London venues including the Arcola, the Bussey Building and the Leicester Square Arts Theatre. He was music director of St Luke’s Church, Charlton.

 

Noah has been a conducting fellow at the Dartington International Summer School, and a praktikant at Karlsruhe Opera House, assisting Justin Brown on Gurrelieder. 

 

As a pianist Noah Mosley has accompanied many renowned singers including Stuart Skelton, Bryan Hymel, Wallis Guinta, Vlada Borovko, Simon Shibambu, Elin Pritchard, and Anna Patalong. 

 

Currentl,y Noah is working on an opera commission for ETO and songs.