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The Scottish conductor and voice and opera pedagogue, Gerald Martin Moore, studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and at the National Opera Studio in London.
Gerald Martin Moore is an internationally renowned singing teacher and a vocal consultant. Since moving to NYC in 2008 he has been on the teaching faculty of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann program and is also on the adjunct faculty at Curtis Institute of Music . In 2020 he was appointed Director of Yale Opera and Coordinator of Vocal Studies for the School of Music. He has served as artistic associate of Carnegie Hall’s SongStudio program led by celebrated soprano Renée Fleming. He has given master-classes at the Merola Opera Program, Los Angeles Opera Young Artist Program, and Washington National Opera, and Canadian Opera Company in Toronto. He has taught at the Ravinia Festival’s Steans Music Institute, Music Academy of the West, the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, the Ryan Center at the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center, Opéra de Montréal’s Atelier Lyrique, the Glyndebourne Festival, Curtis Institute of Music, and the Santa Fe Opera’s Apprentice Program for Singers. He has also worked as a collaborative artist for opera, film, and television productions
Gerald Martin Moore has worked closely with Renée Fleming for many years since first collaborating on the production of Alcina with William Christie at the Palais Garnier in Paris. He then went on to work with Renée Fleming on many subsequent roles, Decca recordings and recitals. Other leading artists he has prepared for roles and recordings include Natalie Dessay, Dame Sarah Connolly, Marie McLaughlin, Sabine Devieilhe, Natalie Dessay, Magdalena Kožená, Elīna Garanča, Isabel Leonard, and Javier Camarena.
An internationally renowned voice and opera pedagogue, Gerald Martin Moore has worked as a vocal consultant for major opera productions at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, San Francisco Opera, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Covent Garden in London, Edinburgh International Festival, La Scala in Milan, Opéra National de Paris, Opera de Bastille, Champs-Elysees and Chatelet in Paris, and Festival d'Aix-en-Provence.
An authority on vocal technique, Gerald Martin Moore is a frequent guest on multiple radio programmes and was honoured with an hour-long special interview on BBC Radio 3’s Voices, focused particularly on American singers and child stars. For OPERA magazine, he interviewed Beverly Sills on the technique of coloratura singing. He may currently be heard as a regular host of the Metropolitan Opera Quiz, and is also in demand as a judge for prestigious vocal competitions, including the Metropolitan Opera regional auditions.
In addition to teaching voice, Gerald Martin Moore has assisted William Christie and Les Arts Florissants in preparing the soloists for productions and recordings including George Frideric Handel’s Orlando, Semele, and Alcina, and W.A. Mozart’s Die Zauberflote, Le Nozze di Figaro, and Die Entführung. He similarly assisted Sir Charles Mackerras at the Edinburgh Festival for W.A. Mozart’s Idomeneo and La Clemenza di Tito, Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda, together with Rossini’s Zelmira, Adelaide di Borgogna and La Donna del Lago conducted by Maurizio Benini. As a specialist in ornamentation, he has composed countless embellishments for leading singers, notably in his role as vocal consultant to Opera Rara and Decca. An additional area of his expertise is the neglected French repertoire of Delibes, Thomas, Gounod, Meyerbeer, and Massenet.
Gerald Martin Moore is featured as a vocalist with soprano Rebecca Caine in a cabaret evening they created and recorded as an album, celebrating legendary stars of the British musical stage, entitled "Leading Ladies". He is a frequent recitalist, most notably with Renée Fleming. He has performed before such dignitaries as President Obama and the First Lady, President Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, HRH Prince Charles, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. He was recently featured accompanying Renée Fleming in the soundtrack for the movie Bel Canto and also coached Julianne Moore who plays the role of Roxanne. |
