Eric Moe
504 N. Neville St. #11, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
412-621-3294 (h)
412-979-7411 (mobile)
eric@ericmoe.net
www.ericmoe.net
representative: Howard Stokar Management, 870 West End Ave., NY, NY 10025 www.stokar.com
Compositions (1984 - present) [all works ASCAP]
except where otherwise indicated, scores and performance materials for most works are available directly from Subito Music
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Orchestra/Large Ensemble
concerto for drumset and orchestra (in progress), commissioned by the Barlow Endowment for BMOP, Robert Schulz, percussion, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose, conductor 25’
TRI-STAN (2003) sit-trag for mezzo-soprano and ten players, 48Åf, commissioned by Mary Nessinger, text by David Foster Wallace; video by Suzie Silver, Sequitur, Merkin Hall, NYC, March 30, 2005
University of Pittsburgh Chamber Orchestra, Roger Zahab cond. 4/17/02
commissioned by Washington & Jefferson College, Washington PA
W & J Wind Ensemble, John Bauerlein cond. 5/2/99
commissioned by the Pittsburgh Symphony
Pittsburgh Symphony, Maris Jansens, cond. 2/20/98
commissioned by the Fromm Foundation
Speculum Musicae, Aleck Karis, pno, Don Palma cond. Merkin Concert Hall, NYC 3/15/95
commissioned by the Fremont Philharmonic
Fremont Philharmonic conducted by David Sloss, 5/7/89, Chabot College, Hayward CA
Chamber Music
commissioned by Jean Kopperud
Mud Wrestling at the O.K. Corral (2007) for cello and piano, 9'
commissioned by David Russell
All Sensation Is Already Memory (2006) for flute and piano, 10'
written for Tara OÅfConnor and Margaret Kampmeier
SUPERHERO (2006) for flute/picc, cln/b.cln, vln, vlc, pno, perc, 12'
commissioned by the New York New Music Ensemble, NYNME, Merkin Hall, NYC, November 6, 2006
I Have Only One Itching Desire (2006) for six percussionists, 10'
commissioned by the Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians, Columbus State University Percussion Ensemble, Paul Vaillancourt cond. 3/24/06
Market Forces (2005) for saxophone quartet, 14Åf
commissioned by the New York Saxophone Quartet, NYSQ, Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, 6/26/05
Strange Exclaiming Music (2004) for violin and piano, 18'
commissioned by Curtis Macomber, Washington Square Chamber Music Society, Curt Macomber, vln. Merkin Hall, NYC 12/2/04
Preamble & Dreamsong from the 4-5 a.m. REM Stage (2003) for alto flute or viola and piano, 8'
commissioned by Rachel Rudich, R. Rudich, fl, E. Moe, pno. Pomona College, Claremont, CA 2/11/04
commissioned by Stephen Paysen and Dominic Donato
commissioned by the Philadelphia Music Project and the NEA for Rel?che
Relache, Ethical Culture Society, Philadelphia, PA 9/27/01
commissioned by Rachel Rudich
Rachel Rudich, fl, Eric Moe, kbrd. Pomona College, Claremont, CA 2/3/01
commissioned by the Network for New Music
The Network for New Music, Settlement School, Phila, PA 4/22/01
commissioned by Elixir
Elixir, Candlelight Soirees, Temple United Methodist Church, SF, CA 5/14/00
commissioned by the Rasch?r Saxophone Quartet
Rascher Saxophone Quartet, Jakarta, Indonesia 6/5/01
commissioned by Rachel Rudich
Rachel Rudich, fl, Eric Moe, piano. California Institute for the Arts, Pasadena CA 10/22/98
commissioned by the Fogg/Flaherty Duo
Cynthia Fogg, vla, Tom Flaherty, vlc. Bridges Hall, Claremont, CA 9/27/97
commissioned by Roger Zahab
Roger Zahab, Eric Moe. Prism, NYC 12/2/96; Music on the Edge, Pgh 11/19/96
commissioned by the Washington Square Contemporary Music Society
Washington Square Contemporary Music Society, Purvis, cond. Miller Theater, NYC 4/9/96
commissioned by Tim Smith
Tim Smith, b.cln., Pomona College, Claremont, CA 2/6/93
commissioned by Marcia Butler
Marcia Butler, ob. Fairfield CT 1/17/93; Weill Hall, NYC 2/21/95
commissioned by the Washington Square Contemporary Music Society
Washington Square Contemporary Music Society, Weill Hall, NYC 2/26/91
commissioned by the amateur musicians of the Wellesley Composers Conference
Wellesley Composers Conference 8/4/90, Jewett Arts Center, Wellesley, MA
commissioned by the Stony Brook Contemporary Music Ensemble
Stony Brook Contemporary Music Ensemble, 4/29/90, Merkin Hall, NYC
commissioned by the Koussevitzky Foundation
Wellesley Composers Conference 8/3/89, Jewett Arts Center, Wellesley, MA
EARPLAY, 3/24/86, Unitarian Church, San Francisco CA
commissioned by Laszlo Varga
Laszlo Varga, vlc, Karen Rosenak, pno, 10/1/85, Unitarian Church, San Francisco CA
Solo Instrument
Gong Tormented (2007) for solo percussion (2 Chau gongs, Chinese opera gong, suspended cymbal), 10’
commissioned by Dominic Donato
Flex Time (2006) for solo violin , 5'
commissioned by Curtis Macomber, Macomber, Institute & Festival for Contemporary Performance, Mannes School of Music NYC 6/27/06
Let Me Tell U About R Specials (2005) for flute and electroacoustic sound, 10Åf
commissioned by Patti Monson, Bang-on-a Can Summer Festival, MASS MoCA, July 11-30, 2006
The Sun Beats the Mountain Like a Drum (2004) for pipa and electroacoustic sound, 9'
commissioned by the Fromm Foundation for Wu Man,Wu Man, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia PA 11/10/05
Legend of the Sad Triad (2004) piano solo, 10Åf
written for Jeanne Golan, Jeanne Golan, Millbank Chapel, Columbia Teachers College, NYC 9/25/05
Hey Mr. Drummachine Man (2004) for piano and boombox, 7Åf
Eric Moe, pno. Ussachevsky Memorial Festival, Claremont CA 2/7/04
Teeth of the Sea (2003) for percussion solo (2 conga drums, or conga and tumba), 4'
commissioned by Michael Lipsey, Michael Lipsey, Queens College, NYC 12/4/03
EchoÅfs Brief Lament (2003) for piano solo [A|B|R|S|M Publishing]. 1'
commissioned by Thalia Myers for Spectrum 4, published by the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music, UK
Eric Moe, Myrna Loy Theater, Helena MT 7/11/02
commissioned by Meet the Composer USA for David Holzman
commissioned by David Holzman
David Holzman, pno. St. Stephen's, NYC 3/16/00
Eric Moe, pno. Bellefield Auditorium, Pgh, PA 10/8/99
commissioned by David Russell
David Russell, vlc. Pgh, PA 2/23/99
Eric Moe, Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, Music on the Edge, Pgh PA 1/27/98
Grand Etude Brillante (1991) for piano 6'
commissioned by The Etude Project for Alan Feinberg
Alan Feinberg, West Point, NY 5/3/92
Spring concert, American Academy in Rome, E. Moe, pno, 5/31/84, Villa Aurelia, Rome
Vocal and Choral
Heavenly Labials (2007) soprano, mezzo soprano, and cello, 10’
texts by Wallace Stevens, commissioned by the Phoenix Commissions for Seraphim
Seraphim, The Phoenix Concerts, NYC May 2008
She Goes Her Spacious Way (2005) voice and piano, 4'
text by Emily Dickinson, commissioned by Mary Nessinger and Jeanne Golan, Mary Nessinger, mezzo, Jeanne Golan, pno 8/06 NYC
O the flesh is hot but the heart is cold (2005) chorus (SATB), 8'
commissioned by Volti, text by Matthea Harvey, Volti, St. Francis of Assisi National Monument, San Francisco 2/22/06
& A Warm Hello from the Alien Ant Farm (2005) voice and piano, 14'
four songs on poems of Bill Kushner
Rain (2004) for jazz singer, hollow-body electric guitar, and upright bass, 4'
commissioned by M.J. Williams, text by Bill Kushner
Tri-Stan
commissioned by Mary Nessinger, after a story by David Foster Wallace
Kelly Lynch, sop. with Univ. of Pgh Chamber Orchestra, Zahab cond. 2/21/99
voice and piano version: Elizabeth Farnum, sop. and Eric Moe, pno
North River Music, Greenwich House, NYC 11/8/01
voice and chamber ensemble: (sop, fl, cln/b.cln, vln, vlc, perc, pno)
Barbara Kokolus, Furious Band, Music on the Edge, Pittsburgh, PA 3/29/03
commissioned by Christine Brandes
Christine Brandes, sop. with Alea III, Lemon cond. 12/1/97 Campbell Hall, Stanford CA
commissioned by the Jubal Trio
Jubal Trio (Schadeberg, Kahn, Jolles), New School, New York, 2/20/97
commissioned by the Bellefield Singers
Bellefield Singers, Heinz Chapel, Pgh PA 5/19/91
Byzantium (1987) for baritone, fl, cln/b cln, tpt, vln, vlc, cb, perc, pno. 18'
Allen Shearer, bar. EARPLAY, composer cond., 3/30/87 Unitarian Church, San Francisco
Composers Inc., Anna Carol Dudley, sop, E. Moe, pno, 5/14/85, Mus. of Mod. Art, SF, CA
Chorus after Aeschylus (1984) chorus (SATB), brass ensemble 2-2-2-1, 2 percussion, pno 10'
Electroacoustic and Multimedia
concert works:
Music on the Edge, Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, Pgh, PA 10/31/95
EARPLAY, 2/22/88, Unitarian Church, San Francisco CA
The Sun Beats the Mountain Like a Drum (2004) for pipa and electroacoustic sound, 9’
Hey Mr. Drummachine Man (2004) for piano solo and electroacoustic sound, 7’
Dead Elf Tugboat (2000) for flute and keyboard sampler, 9'
On the Tip of My Tongue (1993) bass clarinet and keyboard synthesizer (or b.cln. and CD), 14'
multimedia:
The Sight of Stillness (2003) electroacoustic music for documentary video, 28’
by Carolyn Speranza, funded by the Heinz Foundation.
Pittsburgh Filmakers, Pgh, PA 3/22/03
music for video installation. With video artist Carolyn Speranza.
commissioned by First Night Pittsburgh Inc. and funded in part by the Pennsylvania
Partners in the Arts program of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
music for installation by sculptor Robert La Bobg?h
commissioned by Robert La Bobg?h
by C.H. Moe. McLeod Theater, Southern Illinois University, 10/5/90
media/performance art work, conceived and directed by R.G. Davis after the Ilya Ehrenburg
novel. McKenna Theatre, San Francisco 3/17/88
Awards/Honors
Pennsylvania Council for the Arts Individual Creative Artist Fellowship (2008)
Barlow Endowment commission (2007)
music+culture 2007 Inaugural International Competition for Composers, 1st Prize, Legend of the Sad Triad
LSU Percussion Ensemble Composition Competition, 1st Prize, Large Ensemble, 2007, I Have Only One Itching Desire
New Ariel Competition 2007, 2nd Prize, Legend
Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Recording Program: 2006, Tri-Stan ; 1996, We Happy Few ; 1992, riprap
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts residencies: 2006, 2005 (Heinz Endowment Fellowships 05-06), 2000, 1999, 1998
Montana Artists Refuge residencies: 2006, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001
Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians, inaugural Composer-in-Residence (March 2006)
Evelyn Danzig Haas Visiting Artist, Wheaton College (2004)
Virgil Thomson Foundation (2004) post-production for The Waltz Project Revisited
Ditson Fund for Music (2004) post-production for The Waltz Project Revisited
Fromm Foundation Commission (2003) The Sun Beats the Mountain Like a Drum
American Academy of Arts and Letters, Wladimir and Rhoda Lakond Award (2002)
Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust grants for recording projects: 2000
Yaddo Colony residencies, Saratoga Springs, NY: 2000, 1992
Composers Conference at Wellesley College, Resident Composer (2000)
Millay Colony residency (2000)
MacDowell Colony residencies: 1999, 1997 (Norton Stevens Fellow), 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993,
1991, 1989, 1988 (Alpha Chi Omega Foundation Fellow)
Ragdale Foundation residency (1998)
Pennsylvania Council for the Arts individual composer fellowship (1994)
Bellagio residency, Rockefeller Foundation, Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy (1993)
New Music Delaware Composition Competition, Honorable Mention (1993) [riprap]
Fromm Foundation Commission (1992) [
Composer in Residence with the Tidewater Ensemble, St. Mary?s City, MD (1992)
University of Pittsburgh Research Stipend (1990); Research Grants (2000, 1996, and 1993)
Meet-the-Composer grants CA (1986, 1999); NY (1989, 1991) and many others
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (1988-89)
Margaret Fairbanks Jory Copying Assistance Grant (American Music Center) (1988)
ASCAP Standard Awards (1987 to present)
Koussevitzky Foundation/Library of Congress Commission (1987) [Up & At 'Em]
Composers'Conference at Wellesley College, Fellow (1987 and 1989)
Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise Award (1987), Faculty Research Grants
(Spring and Fall 1987, Fall 1988, Fall 1989) San Francisco State University
Bowling Green New Music Festival: participating composer (1985)
Delius Composition Competition, (first prize, keyboard category) (1984) [Fantasy]
Visiting Artist, American Academy in Rome (1983-84; 1989)
Eisner Prize in Musical Composition (1980)
Nicola Di Lorenzo Prize in Musical Composition (first prize) (1979)
Composer-in-Residence, American Dance Festival (1978)
Alfred Hertz Fellowship (1977-78), Bella Zellerbach-Cross Fellowship (1976) (U.C. Berkeley)
Recordings
Kicking and Screaming: Music of Eric Moe. Albany Records TROY597 (release 7/03), Three Ways to Relieve Tension, Nocturne, Grand EÅLtude Brillante, Where Branched Thoughts Murmur in the Wind, Dance of the Honey Monkey , Eric Moe, piano. Dead Elf Tugboat, Fled Is That Music, Rachel Rudich, flute, Eric Moe, keyboard sampler and piano. Kicking and Screaming, Speculum Musicae, Aleck Karis, pno, Don Palma cond.
Eric Moe, pno.. Karla Lemon, cond. Time Will Tell, Washington Square Contemporary Music Society:
Jayn Rosenfeld, fl, Jean Kopperud, cln/b.cln, Rolf Schulte, vln., Lois Martin, viola, Jim Winn, pno.William Purvis,
cond. A Whirling and a Wandering Fire, Janet Kutulas, fl, Peter Josheff, cln/b.cln, Karen Rosenak, pno. Blue Air,
Roger Zahab, vln, Eric Moe, pno. Mouth Music, electroacoustic. The Lone Cello, David Russell, vlc.
Albany Records TROY506 (release 4/02).
Jacqueline Leclair, ob, Renee Jolles and Tom Chiu, vlns, Toby Appel, vla, Fred Sherry, vlc, Eric Moe, pno. Siren Songs,
Elizabeth Farnum, sop, Eric Moe, pno. Production costs underwritten by the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust and the
Richard D. and Mary Jane Edwards Endowed Publication Fund. Koch International Classics 3-7524-2 H1 (release 7/01)
Moe; Sad Steps and Fancy Footwork, Marcia Butler/Eric Moe; O Vos Omnes, The Bellefield Singers; riprap, Music Mobile;
Songs and Dances of the Automobile. Centaur Records CRC2290 (release 1997)
pno, Don Palma cond. Recording and production costs underwritten by the NEA, Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson,
and Fromm Foundations. CRI, CD705 (release 1996)
Mark Masters, 3570-MCD (release 2001)
Copland Foundation. Centaur Records CRC 2410 (release 1999)
as keyboardist:
Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust. Albany Records (release 2003).
Mathew Rosenblum, N? Kuan Tzu and Ancient Eyes for chamber ensemble. CRI Records CD831
Marc-Antonio Consoli, Memorie Pie for piano solo. Composers Recordings Incorporated, CD735.
Felix Draeseke, Viola Sonatas, with Franco Sciannameo, viola. A.K/Coburg #DR-001
John Cage, Thirteen Harmonies (from Apartment House 1776), Roger Zahab, Verging Lightfall
with Roger Zahab, vln. Koch International Classics #3-7130-2H1. (release 1995)
Articles/Publications
"Beyond Right and Wrong Ways of Writing Music: Tsontakis, Rosenblum, and Diesendruck" Contemporary
Music Review Volume 10, Part 1, (1994), pp. 149-195.
"The Music of Lee Hyla" CD liner notes for We Speak Etruscan, New World Records 80491-2
"George Tsontakis" biographical entry, New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Professional Teaching and Administrative Positions
1989-University of Pittsburgh (Professor 1999- , Associate Professor 1989-99)
Director of graduate and undergraduate Composition/Theory. Founder/co-director of new music concert
series, Music on the Edge. Director, digital electroacoustic music studio.
Acting Department Chair 1994-1995. Director of Graduate Studies 1990-1994.
1981-1989 San Francisco State University (Assoc. Professor 1986-89, Asst.Prof. 1981-86).
Theory/analysis, composition, orchestration, counterpoint, musicianship, history, appreciation,
chamber music coaching, digital electroacoustic music.
1980-1981 University of California, Santa Cruz (Asst. Instructor, Teaching Asst.)
Theory, musicianship.
1977-1980 University of California, Berkeley (Teaching Asst.).
Assistant Conductor, University Symphony Orchestra 1979-1980.
Introduction to music 1977-1979.
Education
1978-1982 University of California, Berkeley: Ph.D. in Composition.
(Qualifying exams passed with distinction.)
1976-1978 University of California, Berkeley: M.A. in Composition.
1972-1976 Princeton University: A.B. in Music, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Additional Education
Piano
Robert Helps, Jerry Kuderna, Steven Barwick, Frances Bedford
Conducting
Michael Senturia (U.C. Berkeley)
Electroacoustic Music
John Chowning, David Bristow, Jean-Claude Risset (CCRMA, Stanford University 1986)
Performance Experience/Arts Administration
1999- member of Advisory Council, Princeton University Department of Music
1991- member of board of trustees, Wellesley Composers Conference
1989- founder and performing director of Music on the Edge, new music concert
series at the University of Pittsburgh. Co-director since 1993.
1985-1990 founding co-director and officer of EARPLAY, a San Francisco-based
contemporary music ensemble: performing and administrative duties.
1981-1987 co-director of Pro Musica Nova, the San Francisco State University new
music performing ensemble: programming, conducting, and performing
responsibilities.
As a pianist and keyboardist, in addition to the above, performances include solo appearances sponsored by Works &
Progress at the Guggenheim (NYC), North River Music at the Greenwich House (NYC), St. Louis Symphony Orchestra,
Myrna Loy Center (Helena, MT), Washington Square Contemporary Music Society of New York, the Group for Contemporary
Music (NYC), Prism Chamber Orchestra of New York, NuClassix of Boston, Musica d'Oggi of Rome, The UC Davis
Contemporary Music Players-Empyrean Ensemble, Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, The New Music Group/Daedalus
of Akron, Elixir Ensemble (SF); ensemble appearances with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, League of
Composers/ISCM (New York), Society for New Music (Syracuse NY), Composers Inc. (San Francisco), Berkeley
Contemporary Chamber Players, Gnu Music, the University Symphony of Berkeley, the SFSU Symphony Orchestra,
and the University Trio (Berkeley).
As conductor, performances with EARPLAY, the Wellesley Composer?s Conference, Pro Musica Nova, the University
Symphony (Berkeley), and various chamber groups, specializing in contemporary music.
Selected list of performances available on request.
Affiliations:
ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers)
American Music Center
College Music Society