“New York’s queen of avant-garde piano”
The New Yorker magazine, Oct 08

hot off the press
“Lisa Moore is featured on two new Cantaloupe Music recording releases!! “Seven” and “Dark Full Ride” www.cantaloupemusic.com

Lisa launched her EP ‘Seven’ (Cantaloupe) on January 3 2010 @ (le) Poisson Rouge in NYC. Here’s a review of the launch by Emusic’s Jayson Greene @17dots.com: “Byron’s etudes, though, besides being incredibly difficult, are also fiendishly playful, and there’s not a whole lot that is “studious” about his piano studies for Lisa. The “techniques” the etudes seem concerned with mostly deal with syncopation, or off-beat accents, taken to fearsome extremes. “Piano Etude No. 3? has Lisa reciting singsongy “la-la-la” rhythms in disorienting contrast to the hard, stuttering rhythm her hands are pounding out on the keys. The rhythms are maddeningly close together, spaced at odd, irregular intervals, and watching her navigate such a minefield in person is transfixing. Think of the old “pat your head, rub your tummy” analogy; this is a little bit more more like patting your head, rubbing your tummy, and writing the Magna Carta in cursive with a fountain pen you have gripped in your toes while reciting the alphabet backwards simultaneously. Impressive stuff, and it makes for surprisingly gripping listening; http://17dots.com/2010/01/04/lisa-moore-and-don-byronlpr/

Lisa and Don Byron stopped by the studio of WNYC on Dec 22 ’09 to chat with John Schaefer on Soundcheck.
Check out the podcast here: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/soundcheck/
Read the review at Limewire

“Dark Full Ride”, music by Julia Wolfe featuring “my lips from speaking”….press: “this is a prismatic projection through a single soulful progression taken from Aretha Franklin’s song Think. You can hear every harmonic and overtone in Lisa Moore’s playing, which makes the piece that much more engaging and detailed.” (Sequenza 21)

“it's with the six pianos of my lips from speaking (here remarkably performed by Lisa Moore) that Wolfe really pushes things over the edge.” (New Music Box)

“New York based Australian pianist Lisa Moore complemented Bittova perfectly. In some ways she played the “straight” partner to Bittova, creating intuitively minimal instrumental foils for the Czech artists’ surreal vocal excursions. But she could sweep across the keyboard in rhapsodic glissandi to mirror Bittova in full flight, or coax the audience into becoming “grunters” or “clappers” on an idiosyncratic piano etude. The evening’s repertoire ranged from East European classical and folk pieces to songs by Randy Newman and John Lennon. There were also lullabies, where Bittova’s shrill birdcalls, fingers snaps and foot stamps dissolved into graceful lyrics (in Czech, English or Russian) and luminous piano accompaniment by Moore. For the audience it was like spending a few hours down the rabbit hole of Alice in Wonderland. Superb.”
(Jessica Nicholas, The Age, May 08)

“Pianist Lisa Moore bestowed her ferocious technical skills and interpretive brilliance on two piano pieces by Elena Kats-Chernin…”
(for Other Minds-Josh Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle, March 08)

"…my childhood was spent in the leafy suburbs of Canberra, Australia. I remember long afternoons stretched out on the carpet, head by the speakers, listening to Peter and the Wolf, the Grieg Piano Concerto, the latest Beatles singles and my parent’s large collection of 78‘s--songs by Eartha Kitt, Smacker Fitzgibbon and Rose Murphy. Teenage years were partly spent lying under the stars in outdoor concerts hearing local bands like Skyhooks and Midnight Oil. The rest of the time I was acting in youth and school theater, being Snow White and Oliver Twist and generally blowing off school. But for as long as I can remember the piano has been a part of my life, and for many years the violin too.

My mother played Schumann, my grandmother played Schubert. There was always a piano around. As a Sydney conservatory student I met real living composers and I threw myself into the exciting world of premieres and new creations. New music deepened my empathy for the classical repertoire. Approached from a fresh perspective the classics suddenly sounded “avant-garde”. I moved overseas to study in the cornfields of Illinois and found myself surrounded by a huge new music and jazz scene. Long story short, 5 years later, after putting time in up-state NY and Paris, I moved to New York City-over 23 years ago.

I’ve met and played with so many diverse, first-rate musicians. Composers have written heaps and heaps of notes for me and I try to play them, with clarity, gusto and conviction. I’ve performed and recorded old, new and unusual music all over the world with many kinds of musicians in different venues. I’ve played in the pit with the ballet, in the back with the percussion, out front in concertos and on stage in the theater. I’ve played on renowned stages, on boats, in ancient caves and smelly dives and under umbrellas. Music gives me freedom from the conventional and a safe place to take risks."

You are listening to Lisa Moore perform
Don Byron's Piano Etude no.4
- a new EP release on
Cantaloupe Music

Available Programs

Night on Piano    •     Ludwig and Robert    •     Night on Earth   

Frederic Two    •     The Keys to Invention    •     Lisa Moore and Percussion   

ipiano: keys to my brilliant career    •     The Totally Wired Piano    •     Wilde's World

Musically Speaking    •    Bresnick's Blake & Ligeti's Legacy

Eastern Roots: Western Music    •    From the Street: Leos Janacek 

Russian Rituals    •    Purple Black and Blues

Ozmosis    •    Amercian Rites