Alyson (Shirk) Moore ’10 (Doctor of Musical Arts in Performance – Voice) and her work as artistic director of the St. Louis Children’s Choir was recently featured in an article by St. Louis Magazine. The article highlights the organization’s innovative approach to music education and showcases Moore’s leadership in expanding the choir’s pedagogical offerings, including the integration of Kodály- and Orff-based training and new “Music Lab” sessions designed to strengthen individual musicianship. The article also notes the ensemble’s growing range of artistic opportunities, from collaborations with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and Opera Theatre of Saint Louis to national and international performance experiences. Moore was named artistic director of the St. Louis Children’s Choir in November 2022.

About Dr. Alyson Moore

Dr. Alyson Moore is a scholar, choral educator and lyric soprano. Earning her doctorate in vocal performance from Shenandoah Conservatory in 2010, Moore was awarded the Dean’s Graduate Scholar Award for excellence in scholarship for her dissertation, “Mad Women in Opera: An Investigation of Madness and Selected Mad Scenes for Soprano.”

In 2009, Moore taught masterclasses and performed the Brahms’ Requiem with the Ho Chi Minh Symphony Orchestra in Vietnam. In 2010, she traveled to Buenos Aires to research and perform the music of Argentine composer Carlos Guastavino. While serving as the director of arts at the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore, Maryland, her choirs performed at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the U.S. State Department and the Blair House. Moore’s choirs performed at the International Kodály Symposium in Budapest and Kecskemét, Hungary in 2013.

In addition to her work as a regional choral clinician and adjudicator, Moore is the founder of the American Kodály Children’s Chorus in Baltimore, where she served as artistic director for seven years. Moore is both a musical theatre performer and director and is the director of choirs at University High School in Fresno. Previously, she served on the voice faculty at Fresno Pacific University and as artistic director for the Fresno Choral Artists.