Roland Moses

Roland Moses completed the Doctorate in Literature and Philosophy (DLitt et Phil) in Musicology and MMus (cum laude) in Jazz Performance, Composition and Arranging.
He attended Goteborg University in Sweden as part of a student exchange program and was selected as the pianist/composer/arranger for the Standard Bank National Youth Band. Notable performance achievements include winning the National Jazz Group categories of the Old mutual Jazz encounters Competition and incentive prizes at the SAMRO Overseas Scholarship Piano Competitions.
Roland has performed at numerous local and international Jazz festivals including the Joy of Jazz, Awesome Africa, North Sea Jazz Festival – Cape Town, Holland, KKNK, Macufe, UNISA Jazz Festival, Samui Jazz International (Thailand), Jazz on V (Bangkok), Amersfoort (Netherlands), Festival Kreol / Laserenade Enternasyonal de Victoria (Seychelles).
Roland has presented master classes, lectures and solo concerts at Berklee College of Music (Boston, USA), Stockton University (New Jersey, USA) and University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, USA).
Roland has recorded as sideman on numerous albums, most notably, Kevin Davidson’s – ‘Breathing Winston, Living John’, Peter Auret’s Trio Album, Mateo Mera (Uruguay), Ziza Muftic (Croatia). Roland has also performed with Venezuelan musicians Leonard Jacome (Harp), Eddy Marcano (Violin), Fabrizzio Savino (Italy), Emmanuel Cisi (Italy) and at the UNISA Saxophone Symposium.
Roland has developed and facilitated several community music projects and conducts music literacy workshops in Kwa-Zulu Natal and Gauteng.
His doctoral research focused on a music literacy program for church musicians. Other research interests lie in the area of Jazz performance evaluation, success rate, Decolonisation of the curriculum, curriculum development and e-learning.
Roland has also adjudicated numerous national and international music competitions and was a judge for the Jazz category at the 2015 SAMA awards. Roland is a YAMAHA artist and represented South Africa, in Japan, at the recent YAMAHA-GULF study excursion.