| | | Alice Moerk began her music studies in Philadelphia, PA, and in Freeport, IL. She holds a B. Music from Carthage College, MFA from Ohio University, and a PhD from West Virginia University. Her specialties are medieval and 20th century music including CyberArts, music and the brain, computers, and creativity. She has worked with Ernst von Dohnanyi, Thomas Canning, Duke Ellington, and Pauline Oliveros' Deep Listening®. To view a complete listing of her musical works, click here for PDF or here for WORD. She has also written a quartet of novels, as well as several textbooks. For a complete listing of books and novels, click on Books. Recipient of Marquis' Who's Who
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image. | | Trained as both musicologist and keyboardist, Alice is a proponent of the new, while adhering to the core of tradition. She finds creativity not only within ourselves, but in the world around us: the inane, the humorous, the tragic, and the inexplicable. Alice Moerk's honors include outstanding teacher, arts awards, research grants, and listings in several Who’s Whos. Her research has appeared in journals and textbooks. Performed in Europe, South America and the US, many of her works have been supported by the FSU Foundation and WV Arts and Humanities Councils. In 1999 she was commissioned to write ByrdWatch for Senator Robert Byrd of WV and from 2000 to the present she has received numerous music awards from the National League of American Pen Women and elsewhere. Elegy was selected for performance at their National Convention in Washington DC in 2004. Her concerto Ciurlionis was featured by the Lithuanian Embassy in Washington as part of the Ciurlionis celebration. She organized and served as artistic director for the Benefit Concert for MS in WV for which Tina’s Songs were written. The Flatwoods Monster and A West Virginia Mother Goose were commissioned by the WV Folklife Center. Dickinson Songs were commissioned for the Bellingham WA Concert Series. Variations on Pastimes and All That is To Come: an Elegy have won numerous awards. Her opera, Alianor, is available on DVD. An opera in monologue, it portrays the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Several of her works may also be viewed on YouTube, by going to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n89QYf9rCiU She is a member of and is funded by ASCAP. Her professional memberships include SAI, IAWM, Tampa Bay Composers Forum, NLAPW, Gulf Coast Writer’s Guild and the Sarasota Music Club. © 2019 Alice Moerk Website by DreamWeb | | |
