Eric Moe

Award Winner

1954 –

76

Who is Eric Moe?

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 and at the University of California at Berkeley. 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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Born
Oct 24, 1954
Durham
Also known as
  • Eric H. Moe
Nationality
  • United States of America
Education
  • Bachelor of Arts, Princeton University
    Music
    (1972 - 1976)
  • PhD, University of California, Berkeley
    Musical composition
    (1978 - 1982)
Lived in
  • Pittsburgh
    (1989 - )

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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