Kate Moore
“My work is engaged with what lies beneath the surface.”
Composer Kate Moore was born in England in 1979 and has lived in the Netherlands for over a decade, but it is the Australia of her childhood and youth which made the deepest impression on her imagination: “When I write music I’m looking for something I get from the Australian landscape, though not necessarily its shape. It’s possibly a sense of the soundscape of Australia. This amazing three-dimensional soundscape is the most beautiful orchestration imaginable.”
Moore left Australia in 2002 to pursue her studies at the Royal Conservatorium in The Hague with teachers who included Louis Andriessen. It was here too that she met pianist Saskia Lankhoorn, who performs on Moore’s ECM debut album, Dances and Canons. The seven pieces on this album – for solo piano, two pianos and multiple pianos – span over a decade [...]
“My work is engaged with what lies beneath the surface.”
Composer Kate Moore was born in England in 1979 and has lived in the Netherlands for over a decade, but it is the Australia of her childhood and youth which made the deepest impression on her imagination: “When I write music I’m looking for something I get from the Australian landscape, though not necessarily its shape. It’s possibly a sense of the soundscape of Australia. This amazing three-dimensional soundscape is the most beautiful orchestration imaginable.”
Moore left Australia in 2002 to pursue her studies at the Royal Conservatorium in The Hague with teachers who included Louis Andriessen. It was here too that she met pianist Saskia Lankhoorn, who performs on Moore’s ECM debut album, Dances and Canons. The seven pieces on this album – for solo piano, two pianos and multiple pianos – span over a decade of Moore's development as a composer, from Stories for Ocean Shells, written in 2000, to the 16-minute Canon, for four pianos, which was completed shortly before the recording session. Holland’s prestigious Edison Awards jury, in shortlisting the CD, described it as “exceptional and utterly convincing”.
Moore creates worlds of sound for acoustic and electroacoustic media and writes instrumental music, concert music, sound installations and more. Her interests lie in research with particular respect to the history and origin of music and musical instruments and the exploration of sonic architecture, acoustics and the physics and psychoacoustics of sound. Her music has been performed at venues including Carnegie Hall, Concertgebouw Amsterdam and the Sydney Opera House, as well as at festivals including the Bang on a Can Marathon, ISCM World Music Days, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, November Music, Sonic Festival NY, MATA Festival, and the Canberra International Chamber Music Festival. Moore has been the recipient of awards and prizes include the Apeldoorn Young Composers Award 2003, Carlsbad Festival Composer Prize 2010, De Komeet Culture Prize 2010 and Hague Top Talent 2012.
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