LISA MOORE

Born in Canberra in 1960, Lisa Moore is an internationally renowned pianist with a diverse and eclectic mix of musical influences. Her early life included overseas travel, and by the age of 13, she had visited more than a dozen countries and lived in Sydney and London. However Moore's development of an artist can be traced to her formative years in Canberra during the 1970s. A succession of “strange and interesting people” through her childhood included the Australian painter Charles Blackman. Sydney musical teacher Albert Landa, urged Moore to take her considerable talent seriously, which in part led to her decision to transfer from Telopea Park High School, a government run school, to 'Chiron College', then a newly opened alternative school located in Birchgrove in Sydney.

Later at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Moore, found support for her fledging musical career. In 1979, at the age of 20. Moore moved to the United States for two years and pursued further studies in Paris thereafter. She settled permanently in New York City in 1985. She is a graduate of the University of Illinois, Eastman School of Music and SUNY Stonybrook. Lisa Moore now teaches at the Yale-Norfolk New Music Workshop Summer Festival and at Wesleyan University.

She has been crowned "New York's queen of avant-garde piano" and a "visionary" by The New Yorker magazine; the New York Times claims "her energy is illuminating" and The American Record Guide writes "her concerts are legendary". Moore often incorporates theatrical elements in works such as ipiano:my brilliant career, Janacek from the street, Musically Speaking, Totally Wired Piano, and Wilde's World. She was the founding pianist for the Bang on a Can All-Stars, a New York-based electro-acoustic sextet, touring with them for 16 years. In May 2008 Moore curated Australia's Canberra International Music Festival Sounds Alive series.

Moore's solo discs have been published on Cantaloupe Music, Philip Glass's Orange Mountain Music, Irreverence Group Music, Bandcamp, Tall Poppies Records) with music ranging from Leoš Janáček to Philip Glass. Her 2016 disc 'The Stone People' (Cantaloupe) – featuring the music of John Luther Adams, Martin Bresnick, Missy Mazzoli, Kate Moore, Frederic Rzewski, and Julia Wolfe – made both The New York Times Top Classical Albums 2016 and the 2017 Naxos Critics' Choice listings. Moore has recorded over thirty collaborative discs (Sony Classical Records, Nonesuch Records, Deutsche Grammophon, BMG, New World Records, ABC Classics, Albany Records, New Albion, Starkland, Harmonia Mundi). Her Steve Reich Music for Eighteen Musicians (Harmonia Mundi) with Ensemble Signal was listed on The New York Times Top Classical Albums 2015. Moore is a Steinway artist.

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