Educator
A dedicated educator, Moore has taught at the Yale University School of Music, Queens and Brooklyn Colleges, Carnegie-Mellon University, Manhattanville College, and The New School for Social Research.
Particularly interested in reaching out to children, he spent several years in the 1960’s, 70’s and 80’s as a teaching artist for Lincoln Center and Jazzmobile and at The Dalton School. Moore conducted his work and lectured in New York public schools with the Lincoln Center Institute, which commissioned his The Magic Turn Around Town and Save the Dragon.
In 1995 Moore served as consultant to Wynton Marsalis on his popular PBS-broadcast home video series for children, Marsalis On Music. In the summer of 2005 Moore and his 10-year-old granddaughter Alexandra performed “Ally’s Rap For Peace” at the United Nations Youth Leadership Conference to a standing ovation.
Moore is also the author of two youth-oriented books: Somebody’s Angel Child: The Story of Bessie Smith (Dell), and Rock-It (a music history and theory book for Alfred Music Publishers) as well as author of his autobiography, CROSSOVER: AN AMERICAN BIO
"Express your wonder at what you experience through gratitude..."
Carman Moore, An Excerpt from CROSSOVER: AN AMERICAN BIO
