Today, the Sydney Morning Herald’s Good Weekend Magazine published a “Two of Us” article about my 40 year friendship with one of Australia’s leading composers Elena Kats-Chernin – sharing of our secrets and lives.
Please have a read. Text below or online: https://rb.gy/zw5mb
‘She trusted me’: When a decades-long secret is shared between two friends
ByAli Gripper
April […]
The Sydney Morning Herald’s Helen Pitt did a wrap up – “back towards its best” – of the 2023 Sydney Festival here and gave Lisa the thumbs up: “New York-based Australian-born pianist Lisa Moore delivered a brilliantly lyrical performance at The Neilson in “Show Your Heart”, which she indeed did with a diverse repertoire.”
Lisa Moore released the 2016 solo piano work, composed by Michael Byron, on the new album ‘Halcyon Days’ (Cold Blue Music label).
Composed for Lisa Moore and commissioned by Symphony Space NYC, critics write:
Tender, Infinitely Tender (2016) is nurtured gently into being through the […]
On November 13 2022, in Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium Lisa Moore performed Three Bagatelles Opus 1 by Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov. The video from that performance has just been released – click here to watch and listen
In case you missed Lisa’s “live” Jan 15th show, Australian Digital Concert Hall will be streaming it! Please watch and listen to “Show Your Heart” from […]
Moore’s Nov 13 2022 world premiere of Force Majeure by Elena Kats-Chernin is now on Youtube
Watch and listen HERE
Conductor George Ellis, with Sydney Symphony Fellows and members of the Sydney Conservatorium Orchestra
Håkon Stene interviews Lisa about her 2022 Rzewski album “no place to go but around” for a Soundmaking podcast. Listen here
“Pianist Lisa Moore has recorded the music of Frederic Rzewski in the past, but this 2022 release, recorded not long after Rzewski’s too-little-remarked death, makes a fine memorial to the composer. In general, Moore’s playing is beautifully attuned to Rzewski’s music, which has a kinship to minimalism in its use of repeated material […]
Lisa recently went on Italian radio with composer and radio presenter Francesco Antonioni to discuss her new Rzewski album. Here’s the podcast link. She starts at around 10.30″
https://www.raiplaysound.it/audio/2022/10/Radio3-Suite—Magazine-del-03102022-6fee03d5-a503-4ec1-9f0a-024a5ed06dc8.html
Last night the pianist Lisa Moore performed a tightly curated, high impact program of solo piano music (and sometimes voice). Each work had its own arc and internal organization, but what I found revelatory is the way the program as a whole told a bigger, cohesive story. There was a definite left-leaning political edge to […]
