Kate Moore (composer)


Kate Moore is an Australian composer currently based in the Netherlands. Moore was born in Oxfordshire, England, and has studied with Australian composers Larry Sitsky, Jim Cotter, and Michael Smetanin; Dutch composers Louis Andriessen, Martijn Padding, Diderik Wagenaar and Gilius van Bergeijk; and attended summer schools including Bang on a Can hosted by David Lang, Julia Wolfe and Michael Gordon and Tanglewood hosted by John Harbison, Michael Gandolfi and Helen Grime.
In 2022 Moore was awarded the Gieskes-Strijbis Podiumprijs. In June 2017, Moore became the first woman to win the Matthijs Vermeulen Award from the Netherlands Funds for the Performing Arts FPK for her work The Dam, in its version for British ensemble Icebreaker.
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List of works

Major works

Frieda's Reis, Cello Concerto Commissioned by the Amsterdam Cello BiennalePiano Concerto Commissioned by Willoughby Symphony Orchestra for soloist Vivian ChoiSpace Junk Commissioned by ASKO Schoenberg for the World Minimal Music FestivalBosch Requiem: Lux Aeterna Commissioned by November Music, Bach Festival Dordrecht, TemkoCassini Suite Commissioned and performed by Slagwerk Den HaagSacred Environment, Commissioned by the Holland Festival for the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and Groot OmroepkoorHerz Dance Cycle Dance cycle
  • Restraint Dance Cycle Dance cycleStories for Ocean Shells Cello cycleDances and Canons Piano cycleThe Open Road Song cycleDebris and Alchemy Violins and Skeletons Cello Concerto
  • ''Eclipsed Vision''

Orchestral and large ensemble

Sacred Environment, An Oratorio, 2017 Commissioned by The Holland Festival for The Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra The Dam, Commissioned for The Canberra International Music FestivalCello Concerto, Commissioned by Föreningen Kammarmusik NU, Stockholm The Art of Levitation, Commissioned by Carnegie Hall Days & Nature, Commissioned by Fonds Podiumkunsten for ASKO Engraved in Stone, Commissioned by Fonds PodiumkunstenKlepsydra, Commissioned by Fonds Podiumkunsten for ASKO
  • In that house they shall enter, in that house they shall dwell, Commissioned by De Ereprijs Orkest duration

Chamber ensemble

Porcelain Commissioned by Slagwerk Den HaagBushranger Psychodrama Co-commissioned by November music, Symphony Space, Dublin Concert HallRestraint Commissioned by Ken UnsworthStroming, Commissioned by BRISKHerz,, Commissioned by the Stolz Trio & Leina Roebana with assistance from, Fonds Podiumkunsten NLThree Letters, One Minute According to Your Heart, Commissioned by Synergy Percussion 40U40Oil Drms,, Commissioned by DecibelMobile & Sculpture,, Commissioned by Nieuw EnsembleFern,, Co-commissioned by The Australia Council for The Arts and Amsterdam Sinfonietta & Slagwerk Den HaagHouse of Shards and Shadows,, Commissioned by Fonds PodiumkunstenSarabande,, Commissioned by Synergy Percussion,Sphinx,, Commissioned by The Amsterdam Cello OctetPelicans,, Commissioned by Trio Scordatura with assistance from FPKFatal Strangers,, Commissioned by Ensemble Lucilin
  • No man's Land,, Commissioned by Fonds PodiumkunstenViolins & Skeletons,, Co-Commissioned by The Carlsbad Festival of Music and ARTPWRVelvet,
  • Ridgeway,, Commissioned by The People's Commissioning Fund at Bang on a Can for The Bang on a CanThe Open Road, Song CycleUisce, Antechamber, The Regarding Room 101, Sketches of Stars,, Winner: Franco-Australian Composition CompetitionStories for Ocean Shells,'', Commissioned by ASCA,

Solo

Coral Speak,, commissioned by Louise DevenishBestiary, commissioned by Zubin Kanga,Drie Segel Hat Mein Herz,, Commissioned for Vox Sanguinis Sliabh Beagh,, Commissioned by Lisa Moore with assistance from The Australia Council for The ArtsRose,, Commissioned by The Holland FestivalBloodmoon October, Synaesthesia Suite,, Commissioned by Ben Remkes CultuurfondsHeather, Commissioned by Julian Burnside QCTelephone, Written for Louis Andriessen 75 birthdayDolorosa,, Commissioned by Fonds PodiumkunstenCanon, The Hermit Thrush & The Astronaut, The body is an ear,, Commissioned by Stichting Het Orgelpark, AmsterdamVelvet,, Commissioned by The Australia Council for The ArtsBroken Rosary,,, Commissioned by The Holland SinfoniaSpin Bird,, Zomer,, Joy,, Red Flame Hlue Flame,,, Commissioned by Apeldoorn Young Composer MeetingMelodrama,, Rain,, Homage to my boots,,

Electro acoustic

Voiceworks I,, Commissioned by icinema UNSW, StereoVoiceworks II,, Commissioned by icinema UNSW, StereoLuna Park,, Commissioned by Fonds Podiumkunsten for Lunapark, StereoEmpty, Satellites, Sentience, Sand,
  • ''Scuttly Things,''

Instruments, sound sculptures and installations

Porcelain Project, Coral Speak,, Commissioned by Louise Devenish WAElectric Mudflutes, Bone China,,To That Which is Endless, Zandorgel,,Klepsydra Instrument, Klepsydra Sculptures, PUUR, Uisce, Eclipsed Vision,
  • ''Sensitive Spot,''

Film, dance and theatre

Dance

  • October Restraints Ken Unsworth Studio Sydney
  • National Dutch tour Seele Herz/ Loud Shadows Liquid Events, Stolz Quartet and Leine Roebana Dance Company
  • Paradise Lost Korzo Theater production choreographer by Samir Calixto
  • 3×3 choreographed by Samir Claixto
  • PUUR Korzo Theater production choreographed by Neel Verdoorn

Theater

  • The Open Road Korzo Theater Production directed by Matthias Mooij
  • De Stad Korzo Theater Production directed by Matthias Mooij

Film

  • Nebula, interactive AI 3D cinema, dir. Dennis del Favero, icinema, Australia
  • i-land/atmoscape, interactive cinema, dir. Dennis del Favero, icinema, Australia
  • Scenario, interactive cinema, dir. Dennis del Favero, Icinema, The Sydney Film Festival, Australia
  • Firewall
  • Lenz
  • Cassandra
  • Deep Heat
  • Deep Sleep, dir Dennis del Favero, icinema, Australia
  • Limbo, dir. Dennis del Favero, icinema, UNSW, Australia
  • Todtnauberg
  • Descartes