Karlos Moser is Professor Emeritus at

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, and an independent music professional.

Education

Born in western Brazil of missionary parents, Karlos Moser received his musical training in Denver, Colorado under

Antonia Brico Antonia Louisa Brico (Rotterdam, June 26, 1902 – Denver, August 3, 1989) was a Dutch-born conductor and pianist. Early life and education Born Antonia Louisa Brico to a Dutch Catholic unmarried mother in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Brico w ...

. He received degrees in music composition from

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in 1950 and

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in 1956.

Career

Moser trained with impresario

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in conducting, directing and producing opera. He led Goldovsky's New England Opera tour of ''

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'' to forty-two cities. Moser's academic career began at the

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in Kentucky, and continued at the University of Wisconsin. At UW–Madison as Professor of Music, Artistic Director and Conductor of The Opera, he produced and conducted over 70 operas from 1960 until his retirement in 1998, including the American premieres of Haydn's '' L'isola disabitata'' and Piccinni's ''

La buona figliuola ''La buona figliuola'' (''The Good-Natured Girl'' or ''The Accomplish'd Maid''), or ''La Cecchina'' (The girl from Cecchina), is an opera buffa in three acts by Niccolò Piccinni. The libretto, by Carlo Goldoni, is based on Samuel Richardson's no ...

''. In addition to his work in the UW–Madison School of Music, Moser was founding conductor of the Fox Valley Symphony, director of the Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestra, and co-founder of the Original Hyperion Oriental Fox Trot Orchestra. He conducted ballet stars

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and Dame

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, and music comedy stars

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and Gypsy Rose Lee. Moser produced a concert of labor songs that toured the state from 1990–1992 as complement to a traveling history exhibit of the National Museum of American History. In 2000 he produced and conducted the original opera ''Esperanza'', inspired by and adapted from the screenplay for the 1954 film about the labor movement, '' Salt of the Earth''. A Labor Arts Project of the Wisconsin Labor History Society and the Wisconsin State

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, it was awarded the Governor’s Award for Public Humanities Programming in 2001.

Sources

* Karlos Moser personal records
"Wisconsin Academy of Sciences Arts & Letters

"Wisconsin Labor History Society, Musical Projects"
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