(This composer has multiple commissions - click here to view all)

Title: The Sun Beats the Mountain Like a Drum
Commission: 2003
Completed: 2004
Instrumentation: pipa and electroacoustic sound
Premiere Location: Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, PA
Premiere Ensemble: Wu Man (pipa)
Notes: Dedicated to Wu Man.

Title: Kicking and Screaming
Commission: 1991
Completed: 1994
Instrumentation: chamber concerto for piano and ten instruments
Premiere Location: Merkin Hall, New York, NY
Premiere Ensemble: Speculum Musicae
Notes:

Eric Moe’s music has been variously described as “maximal minimalism,” “Rachmaninoff in hell,” and “music of winning exuberance.” Although the surfaces and genres are varied, his works share a concern for rhythmic propulsion and a disregard for stylistic orthodoxies. Sometimes tonal, sometimes not, harmony (generally crunchy) and melody (often angular) play privileged roles in his work.

Active as a pianist and keyboard player, Moe writes music he enjoys playing, and otherwise plays music he wishes he’d written. Mr. Moe is represented by Howard Stokar Management.

Eric Moe (b. 1954), composer of what the New York Times has called “music of winning exuberance,” has received numerous grants and awards for his work, including the Lakond Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Guggenheim Fellowship; commissions from the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Fromm Foundation, the Koussevitzky Foundation, the Barlow Endowment, Meet-the-Composer USA, and New Music USA; fellowships from the Wellesley Composer’s Conference and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts; and residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Bellagio, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the UCross Foundation, the Camargo Foundation, the Aaron Copland House, the Millay Colony, the Ragdale Foundation, the Montana Artists Refuge, the Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians, the Hambidge Center, and the American Dance Festival, among others.