Lisa Moore

New York-based Australian musician Lisa Moore is a multifaceted pianist, recording artist, and collaborator. The New York Times has singled out her playing for its “life and freshness” and “fragility and tenderness”, The New Yorker describes her as “visionary” and “New York’s queen of the avant-garde piano” while Pitchfork claims “she’s the best kind of contemporary classical musician, one so fearsomely game that she inspires composers to offer her their most wildly unplayable ideas”. Given a special passion for the music of our time, Moore won the silver medal in the 1981 Carnegie Hall International American Music Competition. Since 1985 she has resided within the vibrant new music scene of New York City and has worked with hundreds of living composers on commissioned works and world premieres. 

Moore has performed on some of the world’s great stagesthroughout Europe, the UK, USA, and Asia  – New York’s Carnegie Hall (Stern, Zankel, Weill) and Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Sydney Opera House, Melbourne Recital Centre, La Scala in Milan, London’s Royal Albert Hall and Royal Festival Hall, and Vienna’s Musikverein. She has released twelve solo albums (in music ranging from Leoš Janáček to Julia Wolfe) and more than thirty collaborative discs on Cantaloupe, Tall Poppies, Orange Mountain Music, Irreverence Group Music, Bandcamp, Sony, Nonesuch, DG, BMG, New World, ABC Classics, Albany, New Albion, Starkland, and Harmonia Mundi. Gramophone writes about her Mad Rush Philip Glass disc “what becomes abundantly clear is Moore’s highly developed, intuitive and nuanced approach to this music”. Moore’s album The Stone People was selected by The New York Times Top Classical Albums 2016 and Naxos Critics’ Choice 2017. 

For sixteen years (92-08) Moore was the founding pianist for the award-winning electro-acoustic sextet Bang On A Can All-Stars. She has performed with leading artists, ensembles and dance companies including Philip Glass, Meredith Monk, Ornette Coleman, Frederic Rzewski, Don Byron, Pamela Z, Thurston Moore, Iva Bittova, Bryce Dessner, London Sinfonietta, Steve Reich Ensemble, New York City Ballet, American Composers Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra, and The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Moore has performed under the batons of David Robertson, Leonard Bernstein, Bradley Lubman, Brett Dean, Roger Benedict, Richard Mills, Reinbert de Leeuw, Pierre Boulez, Jorge Mester, Benjamin Northey, Angel Gil-Ordonez, Steven Schick, Leonard Dommett, Dobbs Franks, Christopher Zimmerman, and Edo de Waart. 

Moore’s festival guest appearances include Lincoln Center, BAM Next Wave, Big Ears, Piano Spheres, Banff, Crash Dublin, Vienna, Graz, Trondheim, Hamburg, Berlin, Bari Piano Festival, Taormina, Rome, Venice, Palermo, Turin, Aspen, Tanglewood, Norfolk, Gilmore, Chautauqua, Huddersfield, Paris d’Automne, Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, BBC Proms, Southbank, Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Leningrad, Moscow, Lithuania, Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne Metropolis, Israel and Warsaw. Lisa Moore is a Steinway artist.