Rie Moore

After earning her Bachelor of Arts in International Politics, Economics and Business from Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan, Rie Moore worked for global corporations, including Microsoft, Starbucks, and Nissan Motor in Tokyo as a marketing and communications professional prior to her move to Maryland in 2007. Her wide-ranging work experience in Tokyo includes launching and marketing new products, working in the field of investor relations as an IPO project member, organizing media events, and serving as an interpreter and translator to facilitate communication among Japanese and non-Japanese executives and designers. After a long hiatus, she returned to piano studies and began studying with Brian Ganz, a laureate of the Marguerite Long Jacques Thibaud and the Queen Elisabeth of Belgium International Piano Competitions, who currently teaches at St. Mary’s College of Maryland and was on the piano faculty of the Peabody Conservatory for over 20 years. This return eventually led to completing her second bachelor’s degree in music at St. Mary’s College of Maryland in 2019. 

In 2020, she received an Independent Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council for “As if heard from within,” a program to invite audience members to listen from within in the dark. In 2021, she created prerecorded program for solo piano “Beyond Darkness,” sponsored by the St. Mary’s County Arts Council, to invite listeners to imagine what may lie beyond darkness and appeared as one of the speakers at the TEDxGreatMills event to talk about a new approach to concert programming. She was also awarded a Creativity Grant by the Maryland State Arts Council in 2021 for “Decaying,” a prerecorded program for piano and violin on the theme of finding beauty in what is decaying. In 2022, she was invited to participate in PianoTexas International Festival & Academy as a performer and performed as one of the 39 competitors at the Cliburn International Amateur Piano Competition. In 2023, she was selected to perform as one of the 8 performing artists featured in the Maryland Arts Directory Triennial Exhibition (a juried exhibition) organized by the Maryland State Arts Council and Maryland Art Place. 

She currently serves as an accompanist and instructor for the beginning and intermediate piano program at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. She also serves as a collaborative pianist at Ballet Caliente, a ballet studio located in California, Maryland.

Rie loves to be immersed in nature through walking as well as rediscovering various Japanese art forms such as noh, ukiyo-e, and sado, and the philosophy behind them.