Eric Moe (composer)
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Eric Moe, born October 24, 1954 in Durham, NC, is an American composer and pianist. He has received awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters the Koussevitzky Music Foundation and a Guggenheim Fellowship
. He studied musical composition at Princeton University (BA) and at the University of California at Berkeley (MA, PhD). Currently, he is the Professor of Composition and Theory at the University of Pittsburgh
where he co-directs the Music on the Edge new music concert series. At the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University
, he has held visiting professorships . Moe is also active as a concert pianist, having performed works by hundreds of composers, from John Cage
and Anthony Davis
to Stefan Wolpe
.
Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes...
. He studied musical composition at Princeton University (BA) and at the University of California at Berkeley (MA, PhD). Currently, he is the Professor of Composition and Theory at the University of Pittsburgh
University of Pittsburgh
The University of Pittsburgh, commonly referred to as Pitt, is a state-related research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded as Pittsburgh Academy in 1787 on what was then the American frontier, Pitt is one of the oldest continuously chartered institutions of...
where he co-directs the Music on the Edge new music concert series. At the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
, he has held visiting professorships . Moe is also active as a concert pianist, having performed works by hundreds of composers, from John Cage
John Cage
John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher and artist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde...
and Anthony Davis
Anthony Davis (composer)
Anthony Davis, better known as Tony Davis , is an American composer, jazz pianist, and student of gamelan music.-Biography:...
to Stefan Wolpe
Stefan Wolpe
Stefan Wolpe was a German-born composer.-Life:Wolpe was born in Berlin. He attended the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory from the age of fourteen, and the Berlin Hochschule für Musik in 1920-1921. He studied composition under Franz Schreker and was also a pupil of Ferruccio Busoni...
.
Selected Compositions
- Spirit Mountain for five players (2010)
- Strenuous Pleasures for six players (2010)
- Frozen Hours Melt Melodiously Into The Past for six players (2009)
- Jozaphine Freedom an entertainment on text of Denise DuhamelDenise Duhamel-Background:Duhamel received her B.F.A. from Emerson College and her M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College. She is a New York Foundation for the Arts recipient and has been resident poet at Bucknell University...
, for soprano, clarinet/bcl, piano/keyboard sampler (2009) - Lavished Sunlight, Frozen Hours setting of Richard WilburRichard WilburRichard Purdy Wilbur is an American poet and literary translator. He was appointed the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1987, and twice received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, in 1957 and again in 1989....
for soprano, cello and piano (2009) - Dead Cat Bounce for five players (2009)
- Kick & Ride (2008) Concerto for drum set and orchestra
- Grand Prismatic (2007) for clarinet and piano
- Gong Tormented solo percussion (2007)
- Heavenly Labials setting of Wallace StevensWallace StevensWallace Stevens was an American Modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as a lawyer for the Hartford insurance company in Connecticut.His best-known poems include "Anecdote of the Jar",...
for soprano, mezzo-soprano and piano (2007) - Mud Wrestling at the O.K. Corral for cello and piano (2007)
- Superhero for six players (2006)
- I Have Only One Itching Desire for percussion sextet (2006)
- Market Forces saxophone quartet (2005)
- The Legend of the Sad Triad for solo piano (2005)
- Strange Exclaiming Music for violin and piano (2004)
- Tri-Stanfor mezzo-soprano and 10 players, text by David Foster WallaceDavid Foster WallaceDavid Foster Wallace was an American author of novels, essays, and short stories, and a professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California...
(2003) - Pulaski Skyway Waltz solo piano (2002)
- Eight Point Turn for eight players (2001)
- 3 Ways to Relieve Tension solo piano (2001)
- Repeat Offender for seven players (2000)
- Dead Elf Tugboat for flute and midi-keyboard (2000)
- Siren Songs for soprano and piano; also version with ensemble and version with chamber orchestra (1998)
- Fled Is That Music flute and piano (1998)
- Sonnets to Orpheus setting of Rilke for soprano, oboe, string quartet and piano (1997)
- Blue Air violin and piano (1996)
- Time Will Tell for five players (1996)
- No Time Like the Present for orchestra (1996) for the Pittsburgh Symphony OrchestraPittsburgh Symphony OrchestraThe Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The orchestra's home is Heinz Hall, located in Pittsburgh's Cultural District.-History:...
- Kicking and Screaming concerto for piano and 10 players (1994)
- On the Tip of My Tongue bass clarinet and keyboard synthesizer (1993)
- We Happy Few piano trio (1990)
- riprap for four players (1989)
- Up & At 'Em for five players (1988) commissioned by the Koussevitzky Music Foundations
Selected Recordings
- Strange Exclaiming Music. Curtis Macomber, violin; Stephen Gosling, piano; Michael Lipsey, percussion; New York Saxophone Quartet; Raschèr Saxophone QuartetRaschèr Saxophone QuartetThe Raschèr Saxophone Quartet is a professional ensemble of four saxophonists which performs classical and modern music.Like most saxophone quartets, the RSQ features one player on each of the four most common sizes of saxophone: soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone.The quartet was founded in the...
; DoublePlay Percussion Duo; Columbus State University Percussion Ensemble/Paul Vaillancourt conductor. Naxos RecordsNaxos RecordsNaxos Records is a record label specializing in classical music. Through a number of imprints, Naxos also releases genres including Chinese music, jazz, world music, and early rock & roll. The company was founded in 1987 by Klaus Heymann, a German-born resident of Hong Kong.Naxos is the largest...
8.559612. - Tri-Stan. text of David Foster WallaceDavid Foster WallaceDavid Foster Wallace was an American author of novels, essays, and short stories, and a professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California...
, Many Nessinger, mezzo-soprano, Sequitur, Paul Hostetter, conductor. Koch International Classics KIC-CD-7736 - Siren Songs, Sonnets to Orpheus, & A Warm Hello from the Alien Ant Farm. Christine Brandes, soprano, J. Karla Lemon, conductor, Jacqueline Leclair, oboe, Renee Jolles and Tom Chiu, violins, Toby Appel, viola, Fred Sherry, cello, Eric Moe, piano. Elizabeth Farnum, soprano, Rob Frankenberry, tenor. Albany RecordsAlbany RecordsAlbany Records is an American classical music record label focusing particularly on contemporary classical music. It was established by Peter Kermani in 1987, and is based in Albany, New York.-External links:**...
TROY953 - The Waltz Project Revisited: New Waltzes for Piano. Eric Moe, piano. waltzes by Milton BabbittMilton BabbittMilton Byron Babbitt was an American composer, music theorist, and teacher. He is particularly noted for his serial and electronic music.-Biography:...
, Hayes Biggs, Ronald CaltabianoRonald CaltabianoRonald Caltabiano is an American arts administrator and composer of contemporary classical music, with his music showing elements of modernism and romanticism....
, Anthony Cornicello, Akin Euba, Philip GlassPhilip GlassPhilip Glass is an American composer. He is considered to be one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music to the public .His music is often described as minimalist, along with...
, Ricky Ian GordonRicky Ian GordonRicky Ian Gordon is an American composer of songs, stage musicals and opera. The death of his lover from AIDS inspired Dream True and Orpheus and Euridice...
, Lou HarrisonLou HarrisonLou Silver Harrison was an American composer. He was a student of Henry Cowell, Arnold Schoenberg, and K. P. H. Notoprojo Lou Silver Harrison (May 14, 1917 – February 2, 2003) was an American composer. He was a student of Henry Cowell, Arnold Schoenberg, and K. P. H. Notoprojo Lou Silver Harrison...
, Robert HelpsRobert HelpsRobert Helps was an American pianist and composer....
, Lee HylaLee HylaLee Hyla is an American classical music composer.Lee Hyla was born in Niagara Falls, New York, and grew up in Greencastle, Indiana...
, Andrew ImbrieAndrew ImbrieAndrew Welsh Imbrie was an American composer of contemporary classical music.-Career:Imbrie was born in New York on April 6, 1921, and began his musical training as a pianist when he was 4. In 1937, he went to Paris to study briefly with Nadia Boulanger...
, Louis KarchinLouis KarchinLouis Karchin , is an American composer, conductor and educator. He co-founded the Chamber Players of the League-ISCM, the Orchestra of the League of Composers, and the Harvard Group for New Music....
, Karl KohnKarl KohnKarl Georg Kohn is an American composer, teacher and pianist.- Biography :Kohn began playing the piano as a child in Vienna and, after he, at the age of 13, immigrated to the United States, continued his education in New York City and at Harvard where he studied composition with Walter Piston,...
, Zygmunt KrauzeZygmunt Krauze- Biography :Polish composer and pianist , who studied composition and piano at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw and with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. He is known as a composer of unistic music, based on the theory of unistic art adopted from the painting of Wladyslaw Strzeminski...
, Eric Moe, Wayne PetersonWayne PetersonWayne Peterson is a Pulitzer Prize winning composer, as well as a pianist and educator.Peterson earned B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Minnesota...
, Matthew Rosenblum, Roger SessionsRoger SessionsRoger Huntington Sessions was an American composer, critic, and teacher of music.-Life:Sessions was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a family that could trace its roots back to the American revolution. His mother, Ruth Huntington Sessions, was a direct descendent of Samuel Huntington, a signer of...
, Virgil ThomsonVirgil ThomsonVirgil Thomson was an American composer and critic. He was instrumental in the development of the "American Sound" in classical music...
, Joan TowerJoan TowerJoan Tower is a Grammy-winning contemporary American composer, concert pianist and conductor. Lauded by the New Yorker as "one of the most successful woman composers of all time", her bold and energetic compositions have been performed in concert halls around the world...
, Charles WuorinenCharles WuorinenCharles Peter Wuorinen is a prolific Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer born and living in New York City. His catalog of more than 250 compositions includes works for orchestra, opera, chamber music, as well as solo instrumental and vocal works...
, and Roger Zahab. Albany Records TROY689 - Kicking and Screaming, Three Ways to Relieve Tension, Dead Elf Tugboat, Where Branched Thoughts Murmur in the Wind, Grande Etude Brilliante, Dance of the Honey Monkey, Nocturne, Fled Is That Music. Alex Karis, piano, Speculum Musicae, Donald Palma, conductor, Eric Moe, piano and midi keyboard, Rachel Rudich flutes. Albany Records TROY597
- Up & At 'Em: Chamber & Electroacoustic Music. Time Will Tell, Mouth Music, Blue Air, The Lone Cello, A Whirling and a Wandering Fire, Up & at 'em. Albany Records TROY506