About Mason
Mason Moss is a Chicago-based music director, conductor, pianist, multi-instrumentalist, and arranger whose career spans national tours, professional theatre, jazz, cabaret, sacred music, and education.
From 2022 to 2025, Mason served as Music Director and Conductor for the North American tour of The Book of Mormon, leading more than 600 performances across the United States and Canada following earlier substitute keyboard and conducting work with the second national tour.
Recent credits include music direction for Come From Away at Ford’s Theatre and the North American premiere of Sunny Afternoon at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, which earned him a Jeff Award nomination for Music Direction. He served as Associate Music Director and Piano/Conductor for As You Like It at Writers Theatre and Piano/Conductor for Little Shop of Horrors at Marriott Theatre. Additional work includes keyboard performance with Broadway in Chicago and music direction at Six Flags Great America.
An experienced jazz pianist, Mason has performed with jazz combos, big bands, rock bands, and world-music ensembles, and collaborated with singers in recital and cabaret. His harmonic fluency, rhythmic feel, and improvisational instincts inform both his playing and conducting. Strong sight-reading, efficient preparation, and stylistic versatility allow him to step into demanding situations on short notice, establish clear priorities, and deliver with confidence.
Through Moss Music Services, Mason provides arranging, orchestration, music preparation, and keyboard programming. Credits include Winter Wonderland and Solitary Man: A Tribute to Neil Diamond at Circa ’21 Dinner Playhouse, plus music direction and orchestrations for Tianna Davis’s Masked: The Musical at 54 Below. He created all vocal and band arrangements and orchestrations for Breaking Free, Paul Oakley Stovall’s concert at Blumenthal Arts’ Booth Playhouse. His technical experience includes playback, cue systems, and live sound troubleshooting.
Originally from the Quad Cities, Mason studied Music Education and Jazz Piano at Western Illinois University, pursued private organ study, and spent four years with the Colts Drum and Bugle Corps. His background in church music leadership, choral accompaniment, and percussion instruction strengthened his ability to develop ensembles and communicate across experience levels.
Mason leads with preparation, direct communication, humor, and attention to the people in the room. Each project broadens the experience and judgment he brings to the next, supporting ambitious, expressive music-making and continued growth.