Lisa Moore
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Lisa Moore
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Tour
| Date | Venue | Location | Info |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/26/10 | 36 Bridge Street Montgomery | New York, NY USA | "Eastern Ripples" Concert with Ashley Bathgate cello |
| 11/14/10 | Millett Room, Wesleyan University | Middletown, CT USA | Eastern Ripples with Ashley Bathgate, cello. Schnittke, Janacek, Prokofiev Russell House Series. |
| 12/02/10 | Bryan Recital Hall | Bowling Green, OH USA | Solo Concert |
| 02/18/11 | The Armory | New York, NY USA | Music for Eighteen, Steve Reich |
Biography
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 2009 Pulitzer Prize-nominated Seven Piano Etudes by 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. Luke's 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.
Critics' Reviews
Jayson Greene of eMusic writes about Seven here. (January, 2010)
"Pianist Lisa Moore's rendition of Annie Gosfield's 'Lightning Slingers and Dead Ringers,' in its U.S. premiere [at the 2008 Bang on a Can Marathon] was a tour de force. A layered pastiche that includes prepared-piano, vintage-synthesizer and factory sounds, the jazz-inflected music was anchored by a mechanical continuo that recalled old-time railroad machinery. The combination of grand piano and well-chosen electronic samples created a 21st-century orchestra for a single performer."
-Gail Wein, Musical America (July, 2008)
"The pianist Lisa Moore's commission was a set of 'Seven Etudes' by Don Byron, who moved easily between languages, touching on blues and jazz figures, dense atonal harmonies and complex polyrhythms, posing technical challenges that Ms. Moore met confidently. There was humor as well. In one etude, Ms. Moore supplied antic vocals; another required grunts and clapping from the audience."
-Allan Kozinn, New York Times (March, 2008)
"Pianist Lisa Moore bestowed her ferocious technical skills and interpretive brilliance on two piano pieces by Elena Kats-Chernin..."
-Josh Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle (March, 2008)
"Most impressive was Australia pianist and would-be contortionist Lisa Moore, who, while engaged in traditional ivory tickling, also slapped, stomped, vocalized and narrated."
-Phillip Ratliff, Birmingham (AL) News (February, 2008)
"I wasn't as impressed as I was by Lisa Moore's range of expressivity on both 'The Dream of the Lost Traveller' (composed by her husband Martin Bresnick, based on a poem by Blake) and 'Piano Piece No. 4' by Frederic Rzewski (protesting the Pinochet regime, with thunder and hope). Moore is pianist for the Bang on a Can All-Stars, but alone truly distinguished herself."
-Howard Mandel, www.artsjournal.com (January, 2008)
"Frederic Rzewski's 'Piano Piece No. 4' begins with a Minimalist gesture: a repeated note that morphs into a relentless pounding chord before abandoning the repetition and expanding towards both ends of the keyboard. Lisa Moore gave it an explosive, muscular performance and did much the same for Martin Bresnick's 'Dream of the Lost Traveller,' a brawny work with a mystical core, courtesy of a Blake text (from For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise), which Moore sang."
-Allan Kozinn, New York Times (January, 2008)
