Moses Hogan

His works are celebrated and performed by high school, college, church, community, and professional choirs today. Over his lifetime, he published 88 arrangements for voice, eight of which were solo pieces.

• Name — Moses George Hogan • Born — 13 March 1957 • Birthplace — New Orleans, U.S. • Died — 11 February 2003 • Education — Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Louisiana State University • Occupation — Classical band player, composer, arranger

Born in New Orleans, Hogan lived with five siblings and his parents, who gave their children a passion for music. He was an accomplished pianist by the age of nine. The family attended the A.L. Davis New Zion Baptist Church. Hogan's father, of the same name, was a bass singer in the church choir while Hogan's uncle, Edwin B. Hogan, was the Minister of Music and organist. His mother, Gloria Hogan, was a nurse. Hogan was musically educated from a young age, first enrolling in Xavier University Junior School of Music. In his sophomore year of high school, he was accepted to New Orleans Center for Creative Arts High School and was in its first graduating class of 1975. Hogan was awarded a full scholarship to the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where he studied piano and graduated in 1979 with a Bachelor of Music degree. Immediately after graduation, he began graduate studies at the Juilliard School of Music, which he did not complete, and later went to study classical music in Vienna. During his piano performance years, Hogan won several competitions including first place at the 28th Annual Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Competition in New York. He returned to Louisiana State University, where he was offered the opportunity to work for his doctorate but decided not to pursue it. In 1980, he formed the New World Ensemble and began arranging choral music. In 1993, he founded the Moses Hogan Chorale and the following year published his first arrangement, "Elijah Rock". The choir was invited to sing at the 1996 World Choral Symposium in Sydney, Australia. In 1997, he founded the Moses Hogan Singers; their first album was released in 2002. He died from a brain tumor on February 11, 2003.

• Founder and conductor of the Moses Hogan Chorale and the Moses Hogan Singers • 1st place in the 28th annual "Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Competition" in New York • Appointed artist in residence at Loyola University New Orleans in 1993 • Arranged and performed several compositions for the 1995 PBS documentary The American Promise • Recorded and conducted several arrangements with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir • Critically acclaimed by The New York Times and Gramophone magazine • Brother of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia fraternity

On November 20, 1999, a holiday in Hogan's honor was established as Negro Spiritual/Moses Hogan Chorale Day.

• Feel the Spirit, author, Vol. 1, Mar 2008 • Feel the Spirit, author, Vol. 2, Jul 2008 • Oxford Book of Spirituals, editor, 1914 to 2001 • Ain't That Good News, author, Nov 2005 • The Deep River Collection, author, August 2000

Moses Hogan is recorded as composer, conductor, choir director and musician.