HOUSTON, November 26, 2018 — With award-winning,
singer-songwriting parents, it’s no wonder Annie
Moses and her five siblings grew up with music
in such a prominent role in their lives. Becoming a
professional musical entity as a family felt organic
and natural, said Moses. The classical-crossover
Nashville-based Annie Moses Band, known for their
virtuosic strings and vocals, will perform a Christmas
concert at University of Houston-Clear Lake’s Bayou
Theater Wednesday, Dec. 12 at 7:30 p.m.
“Our faith has always been very important to our
family,” said Moses, who is a violinist and the band’s
lead singer. “We glorify God in our craft, and it’s the
reason for the excellence we pursued.”
Moses said that prior to formally creating a band in
2001, she and her next two siblings, violist Alex and
cellist Benjamin, were accepted into the Juilliard Pre-
College Program in New York when they were 16, 14
and 11, respectively. “Our younger three siblings assimilated
later,” she said. “We changed and morphed,
and the younger ones developed the skills they needed
to incorporate into our sound.”
Moses said it had been a wild, creative journey.
Among the band’s most important initiatives is the
work of the Annie Moses Foundation, which seeks to
empower the next generation of young artists as they
navigate their artistic development. “The Foundation
grew out of our calling to music,” she said. “So much
of the world of music is consumed by darkness or ambition.
It should be an expression of love and life. The
goal in all the Foundation’s work is to raise up a new
generation of artists who are deeply rooted in faith
but highly skilled, and be a force for life and light in
the world.”
Moses added that the band has had three PBS specials,
three Top 10 classical crossover albums, and
has played Carnegie Hall as well as the Grand Ole
Opry, where the band is kicking off this year’s Christmas
tour. “I’ve always said, our sound is New York
trained but Nashville raised,” she said.
The Annie Moses Band, said Moses, is known for
its Christmas music and is in “full force at Christmastime.
We are a genre-defying band,” she said. “We
are known for taking a traditional song and performing
it in a new way. We have a string quartet, percus sion
and piano. It’s high energy and emotional. We
want to bring people to the excitement and the deep
meaning of Christmas.”
To purchase tickets or for more information about
the 2018-19 season at the Bayou Theater, visit www.
uhcl.edu/bayou-theater/events-tickets.
