Ben Moore (composer)

Ben Moore (born January 2, 1960) is an American composer whose works include art song, musical theatre, cabaret, chamber music, choral music and opera. His songs have been recorded by Deborah Voigt, Susan Graham Nathan Gunn and Lawrence Brownlee on the EMI, SonyBMG, Warner Classics and Opus Arte labels. Other singers who have performed his music include Frederica von Stade, Jerry Hadley, Robert White, and Audra McDonald.

Biography
Ben Moore – 14 songs was published by G. Schirmer in 2006. The Metropolitan Opera's farewell gala for Joseph Volpe, broadcast nationally on PBS in 2006, featured two of his operatic parody songs. His song cycles include So Free Am I commissioned by the Marilyn Horne Foundation, Ode to a Nightingale and Dear Theo. Moore wrote the score for the opera Enemies, a Love Story which premiered at Palm Beach Opera in February, 2015, and for Odyssey, commissioned by the Glimmerglass Festival.

Moore was born in Syracuse, New York and received a B.A. from Hamilton College and an M.F.A. from the Parsons School of Design.

Works and publications
(Collection includes “The Cloak, the Boat and the Shoes.”) (Song Collection for Voice and Piano) (Seven Settings of Poems by Women) (musical theatre) (A new opera based on the novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer with libretto by Nahma Sandrow) (voice and piano) (for SATB chorus) (for SATB chorus) (for piano, viola, clarinet and narrator) (musical theatre) (musical theatre)
 * Ben Moore: 14 Songs (G. Schirmer, Inc.)
 * The G. Schirmer Collection of American Art Song –50 Songs by 29 Composers (G. Schirmer, Inc.)
 * The Opera America Songbook (Schott Music) (Collection includes "The Time to Begin")
 * Eight Songs (Classical Vocal Repertoire)
 * So Free Am I (CVR)
 * Cabaret and Theater Songs (CVR)
 * The Audience Song (CVR)
 * Content to Be Behind Me (CVR)
 * I Love Teaching Voice (CVR)
 * I’m Glad I’m Not a Tenor (CVR)
 * Sexy Lady (CVR; written for Susan Graham, it is a lament for lower-voiced women regarding roles they sing in opera)
 * Wagner Roles (CVR)
 * We Love the Opera (CVR)
 * John and Abigail (based on letters of John and Abigail Adams)
 * Henry and Company
 * Enemies, a Love Story
 * Odyssey (A new opera for children based on Homer's Odyssey with libretto by Kelley Rourke)
 * Dear Theo (based on letters of Vincent van Gogh)
 * Dear Theo
 * The Lake Isle of Innisfree
 * The House on Kronenstrasse
 * Henry and Company
 * Bye Bye Broadway