User:Euhler55/Carman Moore

Euhler55/Carman Moore

CARMAN MOORE was born in Lorain, Ohio, grew up in Elyria, Ohio, and first learned to read and play music from his mother, an accomplished pianist. He received his Bachelor of Music Degree at Ohio State and his Masters at the Juilliard School, both with honors. Since then he has gone on to become one of the world's most-acclaimed composers. In a glowing review of his MAGICAL CIRCLES Carman was called in the New York Times "a composer who not only defies categories, but treats them with disdain." With commissions and performances to his credit by such world-class ensembles as the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Dayton Opera Company and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, he has established himself as one of the true masters of contemporary art music. But his output also includes opera/music theatre, music for meditation, music for children, scores for film and the theatre, pop music lyrics, scores for modern dance, and music criticism (The Village Voice, N.Y. Times, Essence Magazine, and others).

His compositions for children include RASUR, GOD OF PEACE sponsored by the U.N. University for Peace and the Ministry of Culture of Costa Rica, a modern-day SORCERER'S APPRENTICE for the Seattle Children's Theatre, and the musical ORIUNDINA. In 1995 he served as consultant to Wynton Marsalis on his popular PBS-broadcast home video series for children, Marsalis On Music. A dedicated educator, Carman Moore has taught at the Yale University School of Music, Queens and Brooklyn Colleges, Carnegie-Mellon University, La Guardia College, Manhattanville College, and New School University. In addition he has taught children at New York's Dalton School and in the New York City-area public schools as artist-teacher for the Lincoln Center Institute and the Metropolitan Opera Guild.

Well-known as a composer for dance, Carman Moore served from 1986-1995 as Master Composer and Co-Director of the American Dance Festival's Young Choreographers and Composers Residency Program. Among choreographers for whom he has created scores have been Alvin Ailey, Garth Fagan, Anna Sokolow, Jacques D'Amboise, Cleo Parker Robinson, Mark Dendy, Donald Byrd, Ruby Shang, Michiyo Sato, and Sarah Pearson/Patrik Widrig.

In 1980 Carman Moore founded the innovative electro-acoustic SKYMUSIC ENSEMBLE, which he has conducted in venues world-wide including at La Scala in Milan, Geneva's Old City, at the Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors Festival, and at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York, where he and the Ensemble were Artists-in-Residence for many years. The Ensemble formed the instrumental core for his intermedia MASS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY, commissioned by Lincoln Center, where at its two enthusiastically-received 1994 premiere performances it attracted audiences of thousands. In 2006 Moore's libretto on the life of Sojourner Truth (composer Alvin Singleton) was premiered by the Minneapolis-based VocalEssence Ensemble. He has recently completed a major string trio(BLUE...RED...GREEN) and his PIANO SONATA #2. Moore is presently composing a concerto for saxophone and orchestra for jazz legend Ornette Coleman. Mr. Moore's self-performed meditational CDs HOME and INTERFAITH MEDITATIONS have just been released.