Eric Moe (composer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Eric Moe (composer)

American composer

Date of Birth: 24-Oct-1954

Place of Birth: Durham, North Carolina, United States

Profession: composer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Eric Moe (composer)

  • Eric Moe, born October 24, 1954 in Durham, NC, is an American composer and pianist.
  • He has received awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters the Koussevitzky Music Foundation and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
  • He studied musical composition at Princeton University (BA) and at the University of California at Berkeley (MA, PhD).
  • Currently, he is the Professor of Composition and Theory at the University of Pittsburgh where he co-directs the Music on the Edge new music concert series.
  • At the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University, he has held visiting professorships.
  • Moe is also active as a concert pianist, having performed works by hundreds of composers, from John Cage and Anthony Davis to Stefan Wolpe.
  • In 2003 Moe completed a 45-minute work for mezzo-soprano and ten players, setting a text of David Foster Wallace.
  • Moe wrote about setting Wallace for Fiction Writers Review.

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