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Described as beautiful and impassioned by The New York Times Lisa Moores playing combines music, theatre and expressive, emotional power - whether in the delivery of the simplest song, a solo recital or the most challenging chamber score. Crowned "New York's queen of avant-garde piano" and visionary (The New Yorker) this Australian virtuoso pianist has performed with a large and diverse range of musicians the London Sinfonietta, New York City Ballet, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Bargemusic, Bang on a Can All-Stars, TwoSense, Le Train Bleu, Steve Reich Ensemble, So Percussion, Don Byron Adventurers Orchestra, Signal, Third Coast Percussion, Da Capo Chamber Players, Paul Dresher Double Duo, Eighth Blackbird, American Composers Orchestra, Mabou Mines Theater, Susan Marshall Dance, Sequitur, Newband, Music at the Anthology, The Crosstown Ensemble, St. Lukes Orchestra, Australia Ensemble, Westchester Philharmonic, New York League of Composers ISCM, Newband, Alpha Centauri Ensemble, Terra Australis, Essential Music, and the John Jasperse Dance Company. Described as lustrous at the keyboard (New York Times) one of Lisa's most recent ventures is the formation of TwoSense, a commissioning duo and concert series with cellist Ashley Bathgate, dedicated to expanding the chamber music repertoire. As a concerto soloist Lisa has appeared with the London Sinfonietta, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Wesleyan Orchestra and Sumarsam Gamelan, Albany, Sydney, Tasmania, Thai and Canberra Symphony Orchestras, Philharmonia Virtuosi and the Queensland Philharmonic - under the batons of Brad Lubman, Reinbert de Leeuw, Pierre Boulez, Jorge Mester, Angel Gil-Ordonez and Edo de Waart.

Lisa Moore has released 6 solo discs featuring music ranging from Leos Janacek to Frederic Rzewski (Cantaloupe Music, Tall Poppies) and over 30 collaborative discs (Sony, Nonesuch, DG, CRI, BMG, Point, New World, ABC Classics, Albany, New Albion). Her most recent Cantaloupe solo (Oct 2011) recording presents original solo music by Annie Gosfield and Martin Bresnick's Caprichos Enfaticos with So Percussion.

In 1981 Lisa Moore won the silver medal in the Rockefeller Carnegie Hall International American Music Competition. She moved to New York in 1985 and from 1992-2008 she 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. Lisa Moore is passionately dedicated to the music of our time as well as the great musical canon, having collaborated with composers from many musical genres such as -- Elliot Carter, Iannis Xenakis, Meredith Monk, Phillip Glass, Elena Kats-Chernin, Thurston Moore and Ornette Coleman. Her repertoire moves between Robert Schumann, Leos Janacek, Modeste Mussorgsky, Gyorgy Ligeti and Randy Newman, Rufus Wainwright, Frederic Rzewski and, at times, even Kurt Schwitters. Past solo shows include ipiano: my brilliant career, Wilde's World, the totally wired piano, Janacek - from the street and Musically Speaking. She has performed in La Scala, the Musikverein, the Sydney Opera House, Carnegie Hall and the Royal Albert Hall and has made guest appearances at festivals such as the 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, Sundance Institute, 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, Mizzou, Music 10 Blonay, Adelaide, Perth, Queensland, Canberra, Sydney, Sydney's Olympic Arts, Sydney Spring, Sydney Mostly Mozart, Brisbane Biennale, and the Darwin Festival. As an artistic curator Moore produced Australia's Canberra International Music Festival 2008 Sounds Alive series, importing musicians from around the world for 10 days of concerts at the Street Theatre.

Apart from teaching at Wesleyan University and at the Yale-Norfolk Festival New Music Workshop Lisa makes guest teaching appearances at conservatories around the world. She was born in Canberra and raised in Australia and London before moving to the USA in 1980. Moore is a graduate of the University of Illinois, Eastman School of Music and SUNY Stonybrook. Her past teachers include Gilbert Kalish, Yvonne Loriod and Albert Landa. For more Moore please visit www.lisamoore.org

History

Lisa Moore was born in Canberra, Australia in 1960.

Education

Doctorate of Musical Arts, State University of New York, Stonybrook, (1986-92)
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, Kathleen Crees, Albert Landa, Yvonne Loriod, Larry Sitsky, Alan Jenkins and Sonya Hanke

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 for 'Best Solo Performance of an Australian Work' (1992)
Thayer Fellowship, a creative arts grant awarded to one SUNY graduate (1992)
Concerto Competition winner, SUNY Stonybrook (1987)
Composer Commission Grants from Meet The Composer, Argosy Foundation, Australia Council (1986-91)
Bernstein Fellowship to attend 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:
London Sinfonietta (Brad Lubman-conductor--Unsuk Chin-composer)
Sydney Symphony (Reinbert de Leeuw-Smetanin and 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, Busan, Sydney, Chicago, Cleveland, Blonay, Buffalo, St. Paul, Melbourne, Brisbane, Townsville, Newcastle, Adelaide, Rochester,Stonybrook, Tampa, Miami, Canberra, Wollongong, San Diego, San Francisco, Champaign-Urbana, Norfolk CT, 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

Artistic Producer of 'Keyboard Gala Extravaganza' for opening night of Rutgers University 'Summerfest' 1990

Guest festival appearances:
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, Mizzou, Music 10, Adelaide, Perth, Queensland, Canberra, Sydney, Sydney's Olympic Arts, Sydney Spring and Mostly Mozart, Brisbane Biennale, and the Darwin Festival.

Chamber Music and Ensembles

Performances with: Bang On A Can All-Stars (founding member, performances from 1992-2008),
So Percussion, London Sinfonietta, Signal, Don Byron Adventurers Orchestra, Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, Paul Dresher Ensemble and Double Duo, Steve Reich Ensemble, Third Coast Percussion, 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 singer Susan Narucki; flutists: Ransom Wilson and Paul Dunkel; percussionist: Robert van Sice; clarinetist: 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; violinists: 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 (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

‘Seven’ music by Don Byron, Cantaloupe
'Which side are you on?' music of Frederic Rzewski, Cantaloupe
'Janacek' piano music, Tall Poppies (TP066)
'Purple, Black and Blues', music of Elena Kats-Chernin (TP147)
'Stroke' music from Australia (TP040)
'Dark Full Ride' music by Julia Wolfe, Cantaloupe
‘Patterns on a Field’ by James Sellars, CRI
‘Willie’s Way’ music by Martin Bresnick, Albany

DVD Recordings

For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, The Essential Martin Bresnick, Cantaloupe
Wed, Elevated music by David Lang, Cantaloupe Music
Superchameleon, with Iva Bittova and the Bang on a Can All-Stars, Indie

Ensemble Recordings

'The Essential Martin Bresnick', solo and Bang on a Can All-Stars, Cantaloupe Music
‘Elida’ music by Iva Bittova, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Cantaloupe
‘Every Thing Must Go’ music by Martin Bresnick, Albany
‘My Twentieth Century’ chamber music by Martin Bresnick, New World Records
'Forbidden Colours' music by Gerard Brophy, TSO, ABC Classics
'Musica Povera' music by Martin Bresnick, CRI
'Music in 5ths', music by Phillip Glass, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Cantaloupe
'Bang on a Can meets Kyaw Kyaw Naing', Bang on a Can, KKN, Cantaloupe
'Shadowbang', music by Evan Ziporyn, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Cantaloupe
'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
'Cheating, Lying, Stealing' Bang On a Can All-Stars, Sony Classical
'Renegade Heaven' Bang On A Can All-Stars, Cantaloupe
'Music For Airports' Bang On A Can All-Stars, Point Records
'Industry' Bang On A Can All-Stars, Sony Classical
‘Ballad For Many’ music by Don Byron, Cantaloupe
'In C' Bang On A Can, Cantaloupe
'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 experience

Yale-Norfolk Contemporary Music Ensemble 2005 and 2006
Connie Beckleys The Aquarium 1993 Lincoln Center Festival, Schlessweig Holst
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",(93) art documentary by RM Films, Richard Moore director
-Pianist for "Cadillac Desert", (96) PBS -- John Else director
-Music producer and pianist for "Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet" (06) PBS -- Michael Schwartz director
--Film music pianist and on camera pianist “Untitled”, (09) Samuel Goldwyn Pictures, starring Adam Goldberg --Jonathan Parker director

Miscellaneous Performances and Experience

Artist in Residence, 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
Concerts @ New Music New Haven, Roulette, Knitting Factory, Music at the
Anthology, The Kitchen, Princeton Composers Concerts.
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.

Teaching Experience

Music Faculty, Wesleyan University, Middletown CT (04-present)
Yale-Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, new music workshop (97, 98, 04, 05, 06, 08, 09, 10) 
Guest Masterclass Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea (09)
Manhattan School of Music 2007- 2008 - guest piano instructor
Australian National Academy of Music, Melbourne, residency (98, 05, 07, 10)
NYU Artist Masterclass Series, Steinhardt, Feb 2009
Bang On A Can Summer Institute, MassMoca, North Adams, MA (02-04)
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 (96-2001)
Australian Youth Orchestra National Music Camp -keyboard coach (01, 04)
Marymount College, Tarrytown, NY, piano, chamber music (89-97)
Hoff-Barthelson Music School, Scarsdale NY, piano faculty (88-97)
NSW Conservatorium of Music, Sydney, Australia, artist-in-residence- piano, chamber music coaching, lectures , concerts, conducting (92,93)
University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia, artist-in-residence, piano, chamber music, lectures, concerts (91)
Private lessons instructor in New York since 1988