Kate Moore (Oxfordshire, 1979) grew up in Australia and is a sound artist, visual artist and composer. Her compositions are performed by Asko|Schönberg, Bang on a Can, Icebreaker, Slagwerk Den Haag, Ensemble Offspring, Australian String Quartet, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and Groot Omroepkoor, among others.

Moore holds a doctorate from the Sydney University Conser­vatorium of Music, a master’s from Royal Conservatoire The Hague and an honours degree from the Australian National University, where she received the University Medal, majoring in composition and electroacoustic composition. In 2017 she was the recipient of the Matthijs Vermeulen Prize, the most prestigious Dutch prize for composers, for her work The Dam, commissioned for The Canberra International Festival.

Her major work Sacred Environment was premiered by the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and Radio Choir with soloists Alex Oomens and Lies Beijerinck, taking place at the Holland Festival Proms in The Concertgebouw in 2017.

Photo: Jeff Zimberlin