Biography
Kate Moore is an internationally acclaimed composer. Her works are performed by Asko|Schönberg, Bang on a Can, Icebreker, Slagwerk Den Haag, Ensemble Offspring, the Australian String Quartet, The Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and Groot Omroepkoor, among others.
In 2022 Moore received the inaugural Gieskes-Strijbis Podiumprijs for her contribution to the performing arts. In 2017, Kate was awarded the prestigious Dutch composition award, The Matthijs Vermeulen Prize. In 2018/ 19, she was Zielsverwanten composer in residence at The Muziekgebouw aan ‘Ij with her band Herz Ensemble; in 2018 she was composer in focus at November Music.
Kate has been a recipient of a MacDowell Colony and Yaddo fellowship, a Tanglewood composition fellowship and Civitella Ranieri Fellowship. She has attended the 2007 Bang on a Can summer institute and the 2003 Appeldoorn Young Composer meeting with De Ereprijs Orkest, where she was a prize-winner. She was also awarded the 2001 Franco-Australian Composition competition which allowed her to be composer in residence at the Paris Conservatoire.
Kate holds a doctorate from the Sydney University Conservatorium of Music, a master’s from The Royal Conservatory of The Hague and an honours degree from the Australian National University, where she received the University Medal, majoring in composition and electroacoustic composition.
More info: website Kate Moore & A Beautiful Path
Exhibitions & artist-in-residence



2025
1 – 9 September
Artist-in-residence & rehearsals Garden of Thornless Roses
Herz Medieval: Susanna Borsch (recorders), Arnout Lems (voice), Michela Amici (medieval harp), Meiyi Lee (percussion) and Kate Moore (viella)
Première 14 September, De Pandhof, Utrecht, Gaudeamus festival

2024
5 – 28 September
Exhibition A Beautiful Path: The Ox Way & Desire Lines
The Ox Way | sound installation: Kate Moore
Desire Lines | photography and video: Isabelle Vigier

2023
8 – 16 September
Exhibition A Beautiful Path: Plein Air Composing (prologue)
Concept, sound and live performance: Kate Moore
Photography: Isabelle Vigier
