Andrea Edith Moore has appeared with the North Carolina Symphony for concerts featuring classical and Broadway music in New Bern, Wilmington, Garner, and at UNC Health Summerfest.
Soprano Andrea Edith Moore has collaborated with conductors, performing artists, and ensembles including Vladimir Ashkenazy, David Zinman, Eighth Blackbird, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance company, the Hamburger Kammeroper, My Brightest Diamond aka Shara Nova, MacArthur Grant winner and tap dancer/choreographer Michelle Dorrance, West African Kora master Diali Cissokho, and the Red Clay Ramblers.
Equally at home in the music of our time and of the distant past, she has starred in roles ranging from The Governess in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, Micaëla in Bizet’s Carmen, Countess Almaviva in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, and Sara in Jennifer Higdon’s Cold Mountain. As a concert soloist, she has performed at venues including the Teatro Colón, North Carolina Opera, Baltimore Lieder Weekend, Duke University Chapel, and the Richard Tucker Music Foundation.
Moore’s commitment to voices from her native North Carolina has led her to commission, premiere, and perform composers including Kenneth Frazelle, Tarik Ghiradella, Allen Anderson, Robert Ward, and numerous others. She produced, premiered, and developed Family Secrets: Kith and Kin with composer Daniel Thomas Davis and recorded this chamber opera on her debut album. She has since released Searching the Heart, featuring the work of four living composers, and Music for Falling and Flying, featuring the music of composer Nathan Hudson and poet Ben Loory.
Moore is a prizewinner in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, was a fellow with four-time Grammy-winning ensemble Eighth Blackbird at the Blackbird Creative Lab and has twice received the Yale School of Music Alumni Award. She holds degrees from Yale University, Peabody Conservatory of Music at The Johns Hopkins University, and UNC School of the Arts.
A teacher of voice for over 20 years, she has educated singers at Yale University and served on the voice faculty of UNC Chapel Hill for nearly a decade. She currently lives, sings, and teaches a full-time private studio in Durham. Andrea currently serves as the board chair of Mallarmé Music, now in its 41st season, and is also a co-Artistic Director of Faith & the Arts, the presenting arm of St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church in Hillsborough. With her husband, Shannon Healy, she owns the James Beard-nominated craft cocktail bar Alley Twenty Six.
