DIRECTOR OF MUSIC

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, and raised in Oakville, Ontario, Captain Moses caught the conducting bug while in high school. He enlisted into the Canadian Armed Forces Primary Reserve in 1986, joining the 438 Air Reserve Squadron in Montreal as a horn player while attending university. It was intended to be a summer job, but has led to a rewarding part-time career. After graduating from McGill in 1990, Dan transferred to the Band of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment (a unit with a venerable battle history) when he moved to St. John’s, Newfoundland to be principal horn of the Newfoundland Symphony.

After three years, it was time to check out the other coast of the country, so he transferred to the Band of the 15th Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery, in Vancouver. He travelled to Hawai’i, San Diego, New Orleans and Palm Springs with 15th Field Band, but it was Canadian Forces School of Music at CFB Borden, Ontario, which beckoned. He worked there for a year and a half as a horn instructor and storesman before going back to McGill to study sound recording. While in Montreal, he had a brief membership in the la Musique de la 34e Groupe-brigade du Canada. In 1999, he made his way to Victoria and transferred to the Band of the 5th. He released in 2011, but re-enrolled in 2017 to fill a vacancy as Director of Music.

In his civilian life, Capt Moses has been a member of the horn section of the Victoria Symphony for 24 years and manages his household with his wife, Mary Ann, and two kids, aged 12 and 8.