Lisa Moore (born 1960) is an Australian/American internationally renowned pianist. Moore was born in

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, Australia, one of three children to an art historian and a prominent economist. Her early life included overseas travel, and by the age of 16, she had visited more than a dozen countries and lived in Sydney and London. Moore's development as an artist can be traced to her formative years in Canberra during the 1970s. A succession of "strange and interesting people" through her childhood included the Australian painter

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. Moore was raised in both Australia and London (1971–73). She studied piano at the Sydney Conservatorium from 1976 until 1980 before moving to the USA to complete her musical training. With an

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grant, Moore spent a year (1982–83) in Paris before moving back to the USA and settling in New York City in 1985. Moore is a graduate of the

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(

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( MMus), and

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( DMA). Her past piano teachers include

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, David Burge,

Yvonne Loriod Yvonne Louise Georgette Loriod-Messiaen (; 20 January 1924 – 17 May 2010) was a French pianist, teacher, and composer, and the second wife of composer Olivier Messiaen. Her sister was the Ondes Martenot player Jeanne Loriod. Biography Loriod ...

, Benjamin Kaplan, Albert Landa,

Sonya Hanke Sonya Helen Hanke (27 September 1933 – 4 September 1993) was an Australian pianist and educator. The daughter of Henry Aloysius Hanke, an Archibald- and Sulman prize-winning artist, and Emily Mortimer, she was born in Hunters Hill in Sy ...

, Alan Jenkins, Wilma McKeown, and

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. Moore's solo discs have been published on

Cantaloupe Music Cantaloupe Music is a Brooklyn-based record label that produces and releases contemporary classical music and other forms of avant-garde music. The label was founded in 2001 by Michael Gordon, David Lang, Julia Wolfe, and Kenny Savelson. Gordo ...

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's Orange Mountain Music, Irreverence Group Music,

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) with music ranging from

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to Philip Glass. Her 2016 disc ''The Stone People'' (Cantaloupe) – featuring the music of

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, Kate Moore,

Frederic Rzewski Frederic Anthony Rzewski ( ; April 13, 1938 – June 26, 2021) was an American composer and pianist, considered to be one of the most important American composer-pianists of his time. His major compositions, which often incorporate social an ...

, and

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– made both ''

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'' Top Classical Albums 2016 and the 2017

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Critics' Choice listings. Moore has recorded over thirty collaborative discs (

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, BMG,

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, New Albion,

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, Harmonia Mundi). Her

Steve Reich Stephen Michael Reich ( ; born October 3, 1936) is an American composer known for his contribution to the development of minimal music in the mid to late 1960s. Reich's work is marked by its use of repetitive figures, slow harmonic rhythm, a ...

''Music for Eighteen Musicians'' (Harmonia Mundi) with

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was listed on ''The New York Times'' Top Classical Albums 2015. Moore is a Steinway artist.

Discography (selection)

* 1994: ''Stroke'', Australian Piano Music Collection (Tall Poppies) * 1995:

, ''Janáček Piano Music'' (Tall Poppies) * 2001:

Elena Kats-Chernin Elena Davidovna Kats-Chernin (born 4 November 1957) is a Soviet-born Australian pianist and composer, best known for her ballet ''Wild Swans''. Early life and career Elena Kats-Chernin was born in Tashkent (now the capital of independent Uzbek ...

, ''Purple Black and Blues''] (Tall Poppies) * 2003:

, ''Which Side Are You On?'' (Cantaloupe Music) * 2009:

Don Byron Donald Byron (born November 8, 1958) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist. He primarily plays clarinet but has also played bass clarinet and saxophone in a variety of genres that includes free jazz and klezmer. Biography His mother w ...

, ''Seven'' (Cantaloupe Music)] * 2011: Annie Gosfield ''Lightning Slingers and Dead Ringers'' (Cantaloupe Music)] * 2012:

Donnacha Dennehy Donnacha Dennehy (born 17 August 1970) is an Irish composer and leader of the Crash Ensemble specializing in contemporary classical music. According to musicologist Bob Gilmore, Dennehy's "high profile of his compositions internationally, togeth ...

''Stainless Staining'' (Cantaloupe Music)] * 2015:

, ''Solo Piano – Metamorphosis & Mad Rush'' (Orange Mountain) * 2016: ''The Stone People'' (Cantaloupe Music) * 2018: Julian De La Chica, Preludes Op. 8 (Irreverence Group Music) * 2022: ''No Place to Go but Around'', five pieces by Rzewski (Cantaloupe Music)

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