Eric Moore

Graduated

University of Michigan
- summa cum laude -
B.M. Music History
B.M. Music Theory
B.M. Cello Performance

PRIMARY TEACHERS

Richard Aaron
Jurgen De Lemos
Jim Fittz

ADDITIONAL STUDIES
& MASTER CLASSES

Alan Harris |Anthony Elliot | Arie Lipsky | Benjamin Morris-Cline | Colin Carr | David Geber | Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick | Ron Leonard | Tanya Carey | Wendy Warner

Former Principal Cellist of four orchestras, including La Jolla Symphony & Chorus. Has performed with a dozen more.

Studied with Richard Aaron (concurrent Juilliard faculty) with whom he co-edited an edition of David Popper's 40 Cello Etudes (Look)

Former Adjunct Cello Professor at Pacific Union College

Has taught cello for 15 years. Maintains a studio of 20 cello students.

His high school students have attended music colleges and conservatories, received music scholarships, appeared as soloists with orchestras, and won auditions for adult orchestras including La Jolla Symphony.

His students have been soloists, principals, and participants of orchestras including La Jolla Symphony & Chorus | Grossmont Symphony | North Coast String Orchestra | Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra | UC San Diego Chamber Orchestra | San Diego Youth Symphony | Napa Valley Youth Symphony | New Youth Orchestra | Mainly Mozart Youth Orchestra | San Diego Civic Youth Orchestra

Creator of the comprehensive cello method, Cellosophy

Adjudicator for numerous competitions

2019 Recipient of an Arts Council Napa Valley Grant to compose and premiere a 38-minute work for 5 cellos called Soliloquy (premiered September 2022)

Dozens of additional compositions and hundreds of arrangements for cello

I PERFORM MUSIC

All kinds of music (partial repertoire list here).
But I specialize in new music by living composers.
Sometimes I wrote it (or co-wrote it with Martin Torch-Ishii) - I sell the sheet music here.

I COMPOSE MUSIC

I've written and recorded documentary music, a cello concerto, a 38-minute cello quintet, cello duos, hours of solo cello music, and two duos for flute&bassoon.

AND PUBLISH MUSIC

Like an edition of the Popper Etudes co-edited with Richard Aaron (University of Michigan, the Juilliard School).

And a new edition of the Franchomme Etudes with second cello accompaniment.

And a comprehensive Rhythm Workbook for any instrument by my mother, Kathy Bundock Moore.

INCLUDING MY OWN ARRANGEMENTS

Like music by System of a Down for 5 cellos and 8 cellos.

And Single-Cello Accompaniments for standard cello music like The Swan and Allegro Appassionato that used to need a piano to accompany.

And educational materials like Bartok's Mikrokosmos as a sight-reading volume for two cellos.

AND COMPOSITIONS

Like my 38-minute work for five cellos, Soliloquy.

And my Cello Concerto for an advanced high school cellist to play with his/her own orchestra.

And four Cello Duos written with Martin Torch-Ishii.

I ALSO DEVELOPED A COMPREHENSIVE CELLO METHOD

So... I kind of Kickstarted a cello method with 94 backers(?!) 
Volume 1 is out and is used by cello teachers across the country.

Including the 1300+ music theory problems and a scales compendium, it's more than 100 pages long and includes music from Hildegard von Bingen (a 12th-century nun) all the way up to a new piece I commissioned.

Volumes 2 & 3 are in their final stages. I'm working with students through my Volume 10 right now so there will be many, many volumes in the future.