After
a typical upbringing on the north coast of California and university
studies in Salt Lake City with Ladd McIntosh and William Fowler,
Gregg Moore arrived in Amsterdam, Holland. For 20 years he was part
of that citys' vibrant music world playing jazz, improvised and
experimental music, folk, blues, reggae, latin, music for dance
and theatre with the groups of Peter v. Bergen, Dies le Duc, Han
Buhrs, Pauline de Groot, Friends Roadshow, Footsbarn Theatre, G.T.
Moore, Billy O'Haire including 6 years with the wildly acclaimed
Willem Breuker Kollektief. He founded the eclectic music group Available
Jelly with fellow Humboldters, Michael Vatcher, Jimmy Sernesky and
Michael Moore. He taught, wrote music for documentary films and
coordinated large scale multi-media projects.
In 1985 he
began a 10 year association with the alternative community band
Fanfare v.d. EersteliefdesNacht as their musical director. This
experience opened up the many faceted world of amateur community
music as well as the alternatives to be found in the variations
on the western brass band tradition that have evolved around the
world. In 1992 as the result of a research trip to India he was
responsible for the first ever visit to Europe by an example of
that dynamic brass band culture.
From 1994 to 2004 Gregg Moore was based in rural Portugal teaching
at Music schools, universities and theatre schools and active in
collecting and promoting relevant applications of various aspects
of the unique Portuguese folk culture. He organized workshops directed
large scale projects, played jazz, pop and improvised music with
Laurent Filipe, Ena Pa 2000, Cool HipNoise, Nuno Rebelo, Americo
Rodrigues and promoted his own groups such as Os Macacos das Ruas
de Evora, A Banda Nova, Fanfare Mand'je, Altered Natives and Metallae
Eborae.
Since Nov. 2004 a circle has been completed and Gregg Moore is once
again based in Humboldt Co. California, promoting his unique vision
of community development through amateur music, writing music for
Theatre (Dell Arte Company, Flying Karamazov Brothers), teaching
and performing.
After
a typical upbringing on the north coast of California and university
studies in Salt Lake City with Ladd McIntosh and William Fowler,
Gregg Moore arrived in Amsterdam, Holland. For 20 years he was part
of that citys' vibrant music world playing jazz, improvised and
experimental music, folk, blues, reggae, latin, music for dance
and theatre with the groups of Peter v. Bergen, Dies le Duc, Han
Buhrs, Pauline de Groot, Friends Roadshow, Footsbarn Theatre, G.T.
Moore, Billy O'Haire including 6 years with the wildly acclaimed
Willem Breuker Kollektief. He founded the eclectic music group Available
Jelly with fellow Humboldters, Michael Vatcher, Jimmy Sernesky and
Michael Moore. He taught, wrote music for documentary films and
coordinated large scale multi-media projects.