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Australian-American performer Lisa Moore has been crowned "New York's queen of avant-garde piano" by The New Yorker magazine. The New York Times claims "her energy is illuminating" and The American Record Guide writes "her concerts are legendary". Lisa Moore is based in New York City where she has lived since 1985. She collaborates with a large and diverse range of musicians and artists and has released 4 solo CDs (on Cantaloupe Music and the Tall Poppies labels) and 30 collaborative discs (on Sony, Nonesuch, DG, CRI, BMG, Point, New World, ABC Classics and New Albion).
Combining powerful technique with vivid vocal theatricality Moore plays, sings, speaks, improvises and acts in shows such as "ipiano:my brilliant career", Wilde's World, "The Totally Wired Piano", "Janacek from the street" and "Musically Speaking". She was the founding pianist for the Bang on a Can All-Stars touring with them for 16 years worldwide. She has performed in La Scala, Carnegie Hall, the Musikverein, the Sydney Opera House and the Royal Albert Hall and made guest appearances at festivals such as Holland, Lincoln Center, Schleswig-Holstein, BBC Proms, Israel, Warsaw, Uzbekistan, Musica Ficta Lithuania, Prague Spring, Istanbul, Athens, Taormina, Southbank's Meltdown, Dublin’s Crash, Graz, Huddersfield, Scotia, Paris d'Automne, Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Turin, Palermo, Barcelona, Heidelberg, Berlin, Perugia, Tanglewood, Houston Da Camera, Jacob's Pillow, Aspen, Norfolk, Sandpoint, Saratoga, Victoriaville, Ojai, Other Minds, NY's Sonic Boom, BAM Next Wave, MassMoca, Bang on a Can, Keys to the Future, Healing The Divide, Adelaide, Perth, Queensland, Canberra, Sydney, Sydney's Olympic Arts, Sydney Spring and Mostly Mozart, Brisbane Biennale, and the Darwin Festival.
In May 2008 Moore curated Australia’s Canberra International Music Festival Sounds Alive series, importing over 35 musicians from around the world for 10 days of music making at the Street Theatre. Moore teaches at the Yale-Norfolk New Music Workshop summer festival and at Wesleyan University. She is a graduate of the University of Illinois, Eastman School of Music and SUNY Stonybrook. For more Moore please visit www.lisamoore.org
Australian-American performer Lisa Moore has been crowned "New York's queen of avant-garde piano" by The New Yorker magazine. The New York Times claims "her energy is illuminating" and The American Record Guide writes "her concerts are legendary". Lisa Moore is based in New York City where she has lived since 1985. She collaborates with a large and diverse range of musicians and artists in all genres and has released 4 solo CDs (on Cantaloupe Music and the Tall Poppies labels) and 30 collaborative discs (on Sony, Nonesuch, DG, CRI, BMG, Point, New World, ABC Classics and New Albion). This summer she will release an EP on Cantaloupe Music featuring the music of Grammy-nominated composer Don Byron.
Moore's performances combine musical and emotional power with vivid vocal theatricality--whether in the delivery of the simplest song or the most complex score. She performs music and texts ranging from Randy Newman and Leos Janacek to Oscar Wilde and Kurt Schwitters. Her shows include "ipiano: my brilliant career", "Wilde's World", "Totally Wired Piano", "Janacek, from the street" and "Musically Speaking". Moore has performed at La Scala, the Musikverein, the Sydney Opera House, Carnegie Hall and the Royal Albert Hall and has made guest appearances at festivals such as Holland, Lincoln Center, Schleswig-Holstein, BBC Proms, Israel, Warsaw, Uzbekistan, Musica Ficta Lithuania, Prague Spring, Istanbul, Athens, Taormina, Southbank's Meltdown, Dublin's Crash, Graz, Huddersfield, Scotia, Paris d'Automne, Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Turin, Palermo, Barcelona, Heidelberg, Berlin, Perugia, Tanglewood, Houston Da Camera, Jacob's Pillow, Aspen, Norfolk, Sandpoint, Saratoga, Victoriaville, Ojai, Other Minds, NY's Sonic Boom, BAM Next Wave, MassMoca, Bang on a Can, Keys to the Future, Healing The Divide, Adelaide, Perth, Queensland, Canberra, Sydney, Sydney's Olympic Arts, Sydney Spring and Mostly Mozart, Brisbane Biennale, and the Darwin Festival.
Lisa Moore won the silver medal in the Carnegie Hall International American Music Competition and was the founding pianist for the Bang On A Can All-Stars, (the New-York based electro-acoustic sextet and winner of Musical America's 2005 Ensemble of the Year Award), from 1992-2008. As an artistic curator she produced Australia's Canberra International Music Festival 2008 Sounds Alive series, importing over 35 musicians from around the world for 10 days of music making at the Street Theatre.
Moore has performed with the New York City Ballet, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, BargeMusic, St. Lukes Orchestra, American Composers Orchestra, Steve Reich Ensemble, So Percussion, Don Byron Adventurers Orchestra, Signal, Da Capo Chamber Players, Paul Dresher Ensemble, Mabou Mines Theater, Susan Marshall Dance Co, Sequitur, Newband, Music at the Anthology, The Crosstown Ensemble, Australia Ensemble, Westchester Philharmonic, New York League of Composers ISCM, Newband, Alpha Centauri Ensemble, Terra Australis, Essential Music, and the John Jasperse Dance Co. As a concerto soloist she has played with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Albany, Sydney, Tasmania, Thai and Canberra Symphony Orchestras, Philharmonia Virtuosi and Queensland Philharmonic, and with conductors Reinbert de Leeuw, Pierre Boulez, Jorge Mester and Edo de Waart.
Lisa Moore teaches at the Yale-Norfolk New Music Workshop Summer Festival and at Wesleyan University. She is a graduate of the University of Illinois, Eastman School of Music and SUNY Stonybrook. For more Moore please visit www.lisamoore.org
Lisa Moore was born in Canberra, Australia in 1960.
Education
Doctorate of Musical Arts, State University of New York, Stonybrook,
NY, 1992
Master of Music, Eastman School of Music, Rochester NY (1984-5)
Bachelor of Music, University of Illinois (1980-82)
Private study with Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen, Paris (1982-83)
Private study with Benjamin Kaplan in London (1986)
Bachelor of Arts (Music), NSW Conservatorium of Music, Sydney (1978-80)
Teachers include: Gilbert Kalish, David Burge, Benjamin Kaplan, William
Heiles, Albert Landa, Yvonne Loriod, Larry Sitsky
Awards
Australia Council Development Grant American Academy In Berlin (2001)
Australia Council Development Grant American Academy In Rome (1999)
Australian Broadcasting Corporation Award for 'Best Australian Recording' (Wild Russians) (1993)
Sounds Australian award: 'best performance of an Australian work' (1992)
Thayer Fellowship, creative arts grant awarded to SUNY graduate (1992)
Concerto Competition winner, SUNY Stonybrook (1987)
Composer Commission Grants from Meet The Composer, Argosy Foundation, Australia Council (1986-91)
Bernstein Fellowship, Tanglewood Music Center (1985)
Australian Music Foundation in London Award (1984-86)
Alliance Francaise Scholarship for studies in Paris (1982-83)
International Fellowship, Australia Council, for studies in USA (1981,1982)
Silver Medal, Carnegie Hall International American Music Competition (1981)
Concerto Appearances
Piano Concerto soloist with:
Sydney Symphony (Reinbert de Leeuw-Smetanin, Jorge Mester-Copland),
Albany Symphony (Geoffrey Simon-Foss and Gershwin),
Australian Chamber Orchestra (Richard Tognetti-Mozart and Smetanin),
Philharmonia Virtuosi (Richard Kapp-Shostakovitch),
Queensland Philharmonic (Richard Mills-Brophy),
Tasmania Symphony (Dobbs Frank-Brophy),
Canberra Symphony (Sir Leonard Dommett-Ravel),
Thai National Orchestra (Johannes Roos-Rachmaninoff),
Stonybrook Graduate Orchestra (Arthur Weisberg-Gershwin),
Wollongong Symphony Orchestra (John Dixon-Chopin, Mozart and Brahms)
Solo Concerts (selected)
1981 debut in Carnegie Hall, (for International American Music Competition).
Solo concerts in Paris, Berlin, New York, Rome, Sydney, Chicago,
Melbourne, Brisbane, Townsville, Newcastle, Adelaide, Rochester,
Stonybrook, Tampa, Miami, Canberra, Wollongong, San Diego,
San Francisco, Champaign-Urbana, Bennington VT, Columbia SC, Vancouver BC
Festivals
Artistic Curator of Sounds Alive 08, Canberra International Music Festival, importing 35 musicians to Australia, presenting 15 concerts of new music
(@ The Street Theatre, May 7-18 2008).
Guest festival performances
Holland, Lincoln Center, Schleswig-Holstein, BBC Proms, Israel, Warsaw, Uzbekistan, Musica Ficta Lithuania, Prague Spring, Istanbul, Athens, Taormina, Southbank's Meltdown, Dublin’s Crash, Graz, Huddersfield, Scotia, Paris d'Automne, Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Turin, Palermo, Barcelona, Heidelberg, Berlin, Perugia, Tanglewood, Houston Da Camera, Jacob's Pillow, Aspen, Norfolk, Sandpoint, Saratoga, Victoriaville, Ojai, Other Minds, NY's Sonic Boom, BAM Next Wave, MassMoca, Bang on a Can, Keys to the Future, Healing The Divide, Adelaide, Perth, Queensland, Canberra, Sydney, Sydney's Olympic Arts, Sydney Spring and Mostly Mozart, Brisbane Biennale, and the Darwin Festival.
Chamber Music and Ensembles
Bang On A Can All-Stars (founding member since 1992),
So Percussion, Signal, Don Byron Adventurers Orchestra, Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, Paul Dresher Ensemble, Steve Reich Ensemble, Da Capo Chamber Players, Manhattan Brass, Newband, BargeMusic, American Composers Orchestra, Cassatt String Quartet, Rothko Piano Trio, Alpha Centauri Ensemble, Essential Music, Musical Elements, Abandon, Terra Australis, Stonybrook Contemporary Players, The Australia Ensemble, Michael Gordon Philharmonic, Twentieth Century Music Group, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Chamber Players of the ISCM, Guild of Composers NY, Columbia Composers, Speculum Musicae.
Collaborative concerts with flutist Ransom Wilson, percussionist Robert van Sice, clarinettist Don Byron, vocalist/violinist Iva Bittova, pianists Nurit Tilles, Molly Morkowski, Cristina Valdes, cellists Maya Beiser, David Pereira, Margaret Parkins, Felix Fan and Wendy Sutter, violinist Karen Bentley Pollick, Eva Gruesser, Joanna Lewis, Anna-Liese Place, Christina Buciu, french hornist Hector McDonald
Orchestral Piano
The New York City Ballet, Philharmonia Virtuosi (cond.Richard Kapp),
Sydney Symphony (Edo de Waart),
Scotia Festival Orchestra (Pierre Boulez),
Tanglewood Festival Orchestra (Leonard Bernstein),
Northeastern
Philharmonic (Hugh Wolf),
Harrisburg Symphony (Larry Newland),
Fairfield
Chamber Orchestra,
Westchester Philharmonic (Paul Dunkel),
St. Lukes
Orchestra (Ransom Wilson),
American Composers Orchestra (Sloan, Cortese, Dunkel)
Solo Recordings
'Which side are you on?' music of Frederic Rzewski, Cantaloupe Music
'Janacek' piano music, Tall Poppies (TP066)
'Purple, Black and Blues', music of Elena Kats-Chernin (TP147)
'Stroke' music from Australia (TP040)
'Elevated' CD/DVD featuring 'Wed' by David Lang, Cantaloupe Music
James Sellars 'Piano Works', Sonata no.6: Patterns on a Field, CRI
DVD
For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, (The Essential Martin Bresnick, Cantaloupe Music)
Wed, (Elevated, David Lang, Cantaloupe Music)
Superchameleon, (with Iva Bittova and the Bang on a Can All-Stars, Indie)
Ensemble Recordings
The Essential Martin Bresnick, w/Bang on a Can All-Stars, Cantaloupe Music
‘Elida’ Iva Bittova and Boac All-Stars, Cantaloupe Music
‘My Twentieth Century’ chamber music by Martin Bresnick, New World Records
'Music in 5ths', music by Phillip Glass, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Cantaloupe Music
'Bang on a Can meets Kyaw Kyaw Naing', Bang on a Can, KKN, Cantaloupe Music
'Shadowbang', Evan Ziporyn music, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Cantaloupe Music
'The Wild Russians' w/David Pereira, cello, Shostakovitch and Schnittke Sonatas, TP
'Prokofiev and Carter' w/David Pereira, cello, TP
'Gigantic Human Dancing Machine' Louis Andreissen, Cantaloupe Music
'Cheating, Lying, Stealing' Bang On a Can All-Stars, Sony Classical
'Renegade Heaven' Bang On A Can All-Stars, Cantaloupe Music
'Music For Airports' Bang On A Can All-Stars, Point Records
'Industry' Bang On A Can All-Stars, Sony Classical
'In C' Bang On A Can, Cantaloupe Music
'City Life' Steve Reich and Musicians, Nonesuch
'A Set of Pieces, Music of Charles Ives', Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Gilbert Kalish, DG
'Classical Jukebox' Philharmonia Virtuosi, Richard Kapp conductor, BMG
'Big Noise from Nicaragua' music by Michael Gordon, CRI
'Aquilarco' Giovanni Sollima, Giovanni Sollima Band, Point Records
'100 Greatest Hits' by Aaron Kernis, New Albion
'Sheila Silver' chamber music, CRI
Conducting
Yale-Norfolk Contemporary Music Ensemble 2005 and 2006
Greenway Group Sydney Conservatorium 1993
Published Articles
"Sounds Alive 08" Resonate Magazine, Australian Music Center, April 08
"The Thrill of the New" Piano Today, Winter 2005
"The Pianist Speaks" Australian Financial Review, July 8 2005
Film Music
Music director and performer for "Charles Blackman, Dreams and Shadows",
art documentary by RM Films, Australia.
Pianist for "Cadillac Desert", PBS, John Else director
Music producer and pianist for Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet, PBS, Michael Schwartz director
Miscellaneous Performances and Experience
Artistic Residency, Bundanon, NSW Nov-Dec 08
Meet the Composer Soloist Champions Concerts, Hallwalls in Buffalo, Symphony Space NYC and SUNY Purchase 2008
Visiting Fellow at New College, Oxford, Hillary Term spring 2004
Ibsen’s A Doll House (role of on-stage pianist) with Mabou Mines Theatre
New Music New Haven, Roulette, Knitting Factory, Music at the
Anthology, The Kitchen, Princeton Composers Concerts, NJ,
Wija Balinese Puppet Theater at MassMoca and MIT 2001
Lecture 'Dialogue with Nature' on 19th Century Australian and American
landscape painting and relationships to music at Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC 1998.
Producer of 'Keyboard Gala Extravaganza' for opening night of Rutgers 'Summerfest' 1990,
Teaching Experience
Music Faculty, Wesleyan University, Middletown CT (2004-present)
Yale-Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, new music workshop (1997, 98, 2004, 05, 06 and 08)
Manhattan School of Music 2007- 2008 - guest piano instructor.
Australian National Academy of Music, Melbourne, residency (1998, 2005, 2007)
NYU Artist Masterclass Series, Steinhardt, Feb 2009
Bang On A Can Summer Institute, MassMoca, North Adams, MA (2002-04)
Visiting Associate Professor, 2002-3, Eastman School of Music (piano and chamber music, and Arts Leadership Course: Janacek, Ligeti, Rzewski and beyond)
Masterclasses at Eastman School of Music, Crane School of Music,
University of South Carolina, Victorian College of Arts Melbourne,
University of Miami, Coral Gables, SUNY Stonybrook, Bard College,
Westminister College, PA (1996-2001)
Australian Youth Orchestra National Music Camp (2001, 2004)
Marymount College, Tarrytown, NY, piano, chamber music (1989-1997)
Hoff-Barthelson Music School, Scarsdale NY, piano faculty (1988-1997)
NSW Conservatorium of Music, Sydney, Australia, artist-in-residence- piano, chamber music coaching, lectures , concerts, conducting (1992,93)
University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia, artist-in-residence, piano, chamber music, lectures, concerts (1991)
Private lessons in New York since 1988