Alicia Hall Moran
Alicia Hall Moran is an operatic mezzo-soprano and conceptual vocal artist. Performances include critically-praised ALBUMS Heavy Blue and Here Today, CHAMBER-MUSICALS of her imagination: the motown project, Breaking Ice/Cold Blooded, and Black Wall Street; performances on FILM Breakdown (Liz Magic Laser/Simone Leigh), Arrows to Infinity (Dorothy Darr), Scenes From Western Culture (Ragnar Kjartansson), Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane’s Chapel/Chapter, Lee MingWei/Bill T. Jones’ Met Museum installation Our Labyrinth, Rebecca Miller’s feature She Came To Me, Carrie Mae Weems’ Slow Fade To Black, Tania León’s O Yemanja at the 45th Kennedy Center Honors; BROADWAY Porgy&Bess (Tony Award: Best Musical Revival)+Nat’l Tour earning NAACP Theater Award nomination for Moran’s portrayal of Bess; SOLO ENGAGEMENTS w/SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS incl. Oregon Symphony’s emergency shelter (Kahane), San Francisco, Milwaukee, Austin, Virginia, Philadelphia Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra Pops, Dayton Phil, Chicago Phil, Ocean City Pops, 1B1 Norway, and Spoleto Festival; ENSEMBLE w/AiR: Brandon Ross, Harriet Tubman, Thomas Flippin, w/skate Olympian Surya Bonaly, w/AskoSchönberg, Roomful of Teeth in Bryce Dessner’s Triptych, w/Charles Lloyd Quartet, Lara Downs (album, Holes in the Sky), Yosvany Terry’s Atlantic Connections, Allison Loggins-Hull’s Diamatrically Composed, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, The Hands Free, stargaze, Kaoru Watanabe Taiko, Harlem Chamber Players, and Charles Gaines for Venice Biennale; WRITING for New York Amsterdam News & Tidal; COMPOSING-DIRECTING in collab. w/Jason Moran Chantal (Washington National Opera), Family Ball (ICA Boston), Bleed (Whitney Biennial), Work Songs (Venice Biennial), Milestone (Walker Art Center), Two Wings: The Music of Black America in Migration (Carnegie Hall). In all Ms. Moran’s output across classical music, dance, contemporary composition, choral, visual art, figure skating, opera, jazz, journalism, film, and literature—as singer, composer, skater, writer, producer, and director—her vocal beauty, sensitivity and daring always shine through.