October 16, 2002
Suffolk County Community College Music Department presents
OPEN EARS 18:
Lisa Moore
Pianist
Program
Wed (from Memory pieces) David Lang
Broken Door David Lang
various Etudes (1985) Gyorgy Ligeti
and Musica Ricercata (1953)
2 movements from Frederic Rzewski
North American Ballads (1979)
The Dream of the Lost Traveller (1997) Martin Bresnick
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Open Ears 1: Electro Acoustic Music • Open Ears 2: Perry Goldstein • Open Ears 3: Paul Steinberg/Alan Woy • Open Ears 4: Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players • Open Ears 5: Long Island Composers Alliance • Open Ears 6: Tomas Bachli • Open Ears 7: Subject to Change • Open Ears 8: Todd Reynolds/Walter Thompson Orchestra • Open Ears 9: The Furious Band • Open Ears 10: Michael Lowenstern • Open Ears 11: Ethel/Julia Wolfe • Open Ears 12: Phil Kline • Open Ears 13: Talujon • Open Ears 14: Jeffery Krieger • Open Ears 15: Nota Bene Ensemble • Open Ears 16: Evan Ziporyn • Open Ears 17: Evan Ziporyn/Todd Reynolds
Australian Lisa St.John Moore has dedicated her life to creating a new way to experience the piano. Combining powerful technique with vivid theatricality, her solo concerts are more than ordinary piano recitals. Moore has created forceful thematic programmes, focusing on a single idea or composer. Equally at home in the masterworks of past and present music, many of the works she performs have been written especially for her. Through her vast experience working with living composers she has developed a unique and unforgettable piano repertoire. One of her most recent ventures includes solo works requiring simultaneous text recitation, piano performance and DVD image synchronization. Other recent projects include an on-stage piano role with Lee Breuer and Mabou Mines in Ibsen's "The Doll's House" at the New York Theatre Workshop. In addition to these activities Lisa Moore has been the pianist/keyboardist for the Bang on A Can All-Stars, an electro-acoustic sextet, since its inception, over a decade ago.
Moore's solo disc recordings on the Australian 'Tall Poppies' label include 'Stroke' (Australian music); the piano works of Janácek; and 'Purple, Black and Blues' (music by Elena Kats-Chernin). She has also recorded for Nonesuch, BMG, Canteloupe, Deutsche Grammophon, Sony Classical, CRI, and New Albion. Amongst many awards Ms. Moore was the winner of the 1992 Sounds Australian Award for performance and the silver medalist in the 1981 Carnegie Hall International American Music Competition.
Moore has performed with the New York City Ballet, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, BargeMusic, Da Capo Chamber Players, St.Luke's Orchestra, Cassatt String Quartet, Steve Reich Ensemble, Paul Dresher Ensemble, Australia Ensemble, Sydney Symphony, and the Australian Chamber Orchestra, among others. She has appeared in festivals throughout the world including Adelaide, Sydney, Israel, Warsaw, Istanbul, Lisbon, Berlin, Brisbane, Holland, Paris d'Automne, BAM's Next Wave, Lincoln Center, Sydney's Olympic Arts, and Tanglewood, and at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Royal Albert Hall, La Scala, and the Musikverein.Moore grew up in Canberra, Sydney, and London before moving to the U.S. in 1980. Moore has a doctorate from SUNY Stonybrook, where she studied with Gilbert Kalish. Currently, she is Visiting Associate Professor of Piano at the Eastman School of Music. She has also taught at the Australian National Music Academy in Melbourne, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the Bang On A Can Summer Institute, the Sydney Conservatorium and the Australian Youth Orchestra National Music Camp. Lisa Moore is represented by Weaver Artist Management.
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Since its inception five years ago, the Open Ears concert series has presented 17 concerts with 68 compositions performed, including six world premieres. The concerts take place with perfomers placed in front of, in the center, or scattered throughout the audience, with lighting at full power or in total darkness, in a variety of locations throughout the college, including a traveling concert through administrative offices and reverberant stairwells. The format of every event is an open exchange with the audience. Very often the resulting dialogue is as interesting as the music. Last year the series was awarded an ASCAP/Chamber Music America Adventurous Programming Award—one of only twelve awarded to presenters and performers of contemporary chamber music across the country.