Edward Alan Moore, D.M.A.

Lecturer in Organ

Email: mooree@cua.edu

Edward Alan Moore

Organ

Edward Alan Moore, a native of Girard, Ohio, is a member of the organ faculty at The Catholic University of America Benjamin T. Rome School of Music in Washington, DC. In 2004 he accepted a call to be Director of Music Ministries at The Lewinsville Presbyterian Church in McLean, VA, where he administers a large and active music ministry of nine choral and handbell choirs. Previously he has been Minister of Music at National City Christian Church in Washington and Director of Music for Saint Andrew Presbyterian Church in Iowa City, Iowa. He received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in organ performance in October 1999 from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, where he was a student of Michael Farris. Edward studied organ improvisation at Eastman with Gerre Hancock and Richard Erickson and was a research assistant for Professor Wm. A. Little. He worked closely with Dr. Little on his doctoral project, in which he researched the organ works of German composer Heinrich Reimann. While in Rochester, he was Director of Music Ministries at Twelve Corners Presbyterian Church.

Edward received the Master of Music degree in organ performance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1993, where he also studied with Michael Farris. While a student in Illinois, he was organist and handbell choir director at the First Presbyterian Church in Urbana. He earned a Bachelor of Music degree in music and religion from Grove City College in Pennsylvania in 1991, where he studied organ with Robert Cornelison. Edward's choral conducting training has been with Fred Stoltzfus and Chester Alwes at the University of Illinois and Douglas Browne at Grove City College. During the fall semester 1998, Dr. Moore was a visiting faculty member at the University of Iowa School of Music while Dr. Delbert Disselhorst was on sabbatical. He is a member of the American Guild of Organists and the American Choral Directors Association.

As a recitalist, Dr. Moore has played concerts at Washington National Cathedral and the Basilica of the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC, Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue in New York City, the Cathedral of Saint Philip in Atlanta, and Princeton University Chapel. He performed the dedication concert of the new Lively-Fulcher organ at the Franciscan Monastery in Washington in 2003 and in 2004 he was honored to be the first organist chosen to perform on the Millennium Stage concert series at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.