Born in Solihull, West Midlands in 1982, Luke D. Moore is a young composer that has written a number of works for various ensembles. Moore graduated from Keele University in 2004 with a degree in Music & English.

Works performed to date include Follow The Star, which uses English and Hebrew text on the theme of the birth of Jesus and Winter Is Here, a quasi-minimalist piece with filmic overtones, which evokes the winter landscape and absence of warmth. Both of these featured a chamber orchestra lending different colours to the music. The well-received premiere of his most recent work, Lux Aeterna, was in June 2006. The piece was written as a tribute to his friend and previous partner's mother, who passed away earlier that year.

Orchestral Work

Luke Moore's orchestral work The Awakening was written during his final year at university, whilst his output to date includes several smaller scale pieces for various chamber ensembles and Arrivals.Departures. for recorder and taped railway station noises. As a cellist and double bassist himself, Moore tends to favour giving more to lower string parts in his music whilst his flute parts are also given a degree of prominence. His current projects include Entropy, and Deus Ex Machina (both for choir and chamber orchestra), and Moments for string trio.

Artistic Ethos

Luke D. Moore's philosophy towards composing differs from that of his contemporaries and many of the influential composers of the 20th Century. Much of his work uses a simple musical language with harmony featuring as the key element in his writing. Aesthetically, this results in music that retains a degree of beauty without being as inaccessible to audiences as a great deal of Modernist works, without compromising his original intentions. He has previously worked on audio-visual pieces and is looking to expand upon that in future works with greater use of projection, lighting, and moving images.

Other Experience

In 2003-4, Luke D. Moore was awarded the Jim Morris Memorial Prize for his contribution to the musical renaissance that was taking place at Keele University. In his final year, he arranged the Tuesday 1pm concert series and increased numbers by a factor of 10 in some cases. He also performed in several of the recitals with a variety of groups. He further went on to found Trio Sarabanda, who regularly provide readings of contemporary compositions for a number of composers.