Kate Moore (composer)

Kate Moore (born 1979) is an Australian composer currently based in the Netherlands. Moore was born in Oxfordshire, England, and has studied with Australian composers Larry Sitsky, Jim Cotter, and Michael Smetanin; Dutch composers Louis Andriessen, Martijn Padding, Diderik Wagenaar and Gilius van Bergeijk; and attended summer schools including Bang on a Can hosted by David Lang, Julia Wolfe and Michael Gordon and Tanglewood hosted by John Harbison, Michael Gandolfi and Helen Grime. In 2022 Moore was awarded the Gieskes-Strijbis Podiumprijs. In June 2017, Moore became the first woman to win the Matthijs Vermeulen Award from the Netherlands Funds for the Performing Arts FPK for her work The Dam, in its version for British ensemble Icebreaker. List of works Major works * Frieda’s Reis, Cello Concerto (2023) Commissioned by the Amsterdam Cello Biennale * Piano Concerto (2019) Commissioned by Willoughby Symphony Orchestra for soloist Vivian Choi * Space Junk (2019) Commissioned by ASKO Schoenberg for the World Minimal Music Festival * Bosch Requiem: Lux Aeterna (2015–2018) Commissioned by November Music, Bach Festival Dordrecht, Temko * Cassini Suite (2015–2017) Commissioned and perform