Ben Moore

Who is Ben Moore?

Ben Moore is an American composer whose works include art song, musical theatre, cabaret, chamber music, choral music and opera. His songs have been recorded by Deborah Voigt, Susan Graham and Nathan Gunn on the EMI, SonyBMG and Warner Classics labels. Other singers who have performed his music include Frederica von Stade, Jerry Hadley, Robert White, and Audra McDonald. Ben Moore – 14 songs was published by G. Schirmer in 2006. The Metropolitan Opera's farewell gala for Joseph Volpe, broadcast nationally on PBS in 2006, featured two of his operatic parody songs. His Song cycles include So Free Am I commissioned by the Marilyn Horne Foundation.

Moore was born in Syracuse, New York and was educated at Hamilton College and Parsons School of Design.