(photo by Elisabeth Melchior 2009)

Kate Moore [1979] completed her master’s degree in music under Louis Andriessen, Martijn Padding, Diderik Wagenaar and Gilius van Bergeijk after completing an honours degree at The Canberra School of Music ANU under Professor Larry Sitsky and Jim Cotter. She is currently undergoing a doctorate at The Sydney Conservatorium under Michael Smetanin. She has attended masterclasses with gurus David Lang, Julia Wolfe and Michael Gordon.

In 2011 Kate was selected as The Hague Toptalent by Stichting Venancio. In 2010 she received a DeKomeet Cultural prize for her work "Rain Project" and won the Carlsbad Festival Composer Award commissioning her to write a new work for the Calder Quartet. In 2008 she was the recipient of the Doris Burnett Ford scholarship. In 2003 she was a prize-winner at the Apeldoorn Young Composer Meeting and was in 2001 the winner of the Franco-Australian Composition Competition for her string quartet "Sketches of Stars". For four years running 1999-2002 she received the Howard Allen Memorial Prize for composition and during her undergraduate studies was awarded an honours scholarship and University Medal.

Moore has written for ensembles including The Amsterdam Cello Octet, Trio Scordatura, TwoSense, ASKO, The Bang On A Can All-Stars, The Song Company, Ensemble Klang and De Ereprijs Orkest. She has participated in residencies including Bundanon - NSW, Laughing Waters – VIC - Australia and Inishlacken – Connemara - Ireland. Her works have been performed in festivals including Sonic Festival NYC (2011) Musica Sacra Maastricht (2011) Klank en Kleur Festival Amsterdam (2011) The Sydney Film Festival (2011) Ecstatic Music festival NYC (2011) ISCM World Music Days (2010), Bang on a Can Marathon - World Financial Center  (2010) MATA NYC (2009), ICWM (2008), MODART07 (2007) Bang on a Can Summer Festival (2007), International Gaudeamus Festival (2003), Apeldoorn International Young Composer Meeting (2003). She has received commissions from The Australia Council for the Arts, The Calder Quartet USA, Orgelpark Netherlands, NFPK+ Netherlands, The People's Commissioning Fund at Bang on a Can USA, Daniel McKay with the assistance of ArtsACT Australia, Orkest De Ereprijs Netherlands, Python Saxophone Quartet Netherlands, 2003 Young Composer Meeting/ International Masterclass Series Apeldoorn Netherlands, Ravenswood Australia.

She has written music for video installations by Dr Dennis Del Favero that have been exhibited at galleries including Ivan Dougherty Gallery Sydney, ZKM Germany, Kunstmuseum Mullheim Germany, Kunstraum Marion Scharmann Cologne Germany, Experimental Arts Foundation Adelaide Australia, Sprengel Museum Hannover Germany, Preview Berlin Germany, Galerie Andreas Binder Munich Germany, Kunstmuseum Bonn Germany. Her compositions and sound pieces have been performed at the Massachusetts Museum of Modern Art (MassMoCA) Northern Star Gallery and Galway Arts Centre Ireland, Redhouse Arts Centre New York USA, Canberra Contemporary Arts Centre Australia, Gaffa Gallery Sydney Australia and TAG Den Haag Netherlands.