Stephen Moore

EIP Faculty

String pedagogue, violist, and conductor Stephen Moore is the Intermediate Youth Orchestra Conductor for the San Jose Chamber Orchestra. He also serves as a CMEA Bay Section adjudicator, was Co-Director of the San Francisco State University Summer Strings Workshop, and served as both Membership Chair and Executive Secretary for CalASTA. Mr. Moore teaches in the Santa Clara Unified School District.

Mr. Moore’s extensive and wide-reaching experience includes positions as Orchestra Director at the Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts (SOTA), Orchestra Director and Music Department Facilitator for the Miller Creek School District and Miller Creek Middle School in San Rafael, and Orchestra Representative of the California Music Educators’ Association (CMEA) Bay Section.

A dedicated teacher and violist, Mr. Moore’s students have won concerto competitions for the Anchorage Symphony and the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra. Orchestras and ensembles under his direction have received numerous unanimous superiors, gold medals, and command performances at local and state festival adjudications. He has performed with many Bay Area ensembles and was invited to perform at the Arosa MusikFestival in Arosa, Switzerland and with the American Philharmonic of Sonoma County on its 2011 China tour.

Mr. Moore received his Bachelor of Music in Performance from Northwestern University, where he studied with Peter Slowik and Robert Swan of the Chicago Symphony. He has studied viola with Paul Yarbrough and chamber music with the Alexander Quartet at San Francisco State University, where he completed his Single Subject Music Credential.