Eric Moe

Eric Moe, composer of what the NY Times calls "music of winning exuberance", has received numerous grants and awards for his work, including ones from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Guggenheim Foundation; commissions from the Fromm and Koussevitzky Foundations, the Barlow Endowment, and Meet-the-Composer USA; and residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Bellagio, Camargo Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and many others. 

Fanfare magazine described his work as “wonderfully inventive, often joyful, occasionally melancholy, highly rhythmic, frequently irreverent, absolutely eclectic, and always high-octane music”. His sit-trag/one-woman opera Tri-Stan, recorded by Koch International Classics, was hailed by the New York Times as “a tour de force”, that “subversively inscribes classical music into pop culture”. Other all-Moe CDs are available on New Focus, Naxos, New World, bmop/sound, Albany Records, and Centaur. 

Moe studied composition at Princeton University and at the University of California at Berkeley. He is currently the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Music at the University of Pittsburgh.