Mezzo-soprano Alicia Hall Moran is a multidimensional artist whose work performing and composing spans opera, art, theater, film, and jazz. She made her Broadway debut in the Tony-winning revival of Porgy and Bess, starring as Bess on the celebrated 20-city American tour.
Moran has collaborated with renowned artists, including Carrie Mae Weems, Adam Pendleton, Joan Jonas, Ragnar Kjartansson, Simone Leigh, Liz Magic Laser; curator Okwui Enwezor; choreographer Bill T. Jones; musicians Bill Frisell, Charles Lloyd, and the band Harriet Tubman; diverse writers ranging from Simon Schama to Carl Hancock Rux. She has held artist residencies at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, MassMoCA, and National Sawdust, and has been commissioned by ArtPublic/Miami Art Basel, the Museum of Modern Art, The Kitchen, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Prototype Festival.
In partnership with husband and collaborator Jason Moran, she was awarded a 2017 Art of Change fellowship by the Ford Foundation, and has developed work for the Venice Biennale, the Whitney Biennial, the Walker Art Center, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Carnegie Hall, Symphony Center in Chicago, and the Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg), among others. Other projects include her debut album Heavy Blue (2015), the motown project, The Five Fans, Breaking Ice: The Battle of the Carmens, and Black Wall Street, a personal and historical reflection on the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot. Her second album, Here Today, was released in 2017.
Moran has appeared at jazz venues such as the Village Vanguard, The Stone, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Highline Ballroom, SFJAZZ, and the Kennedy Center, among others. She has also performed with the National Symphony Orchestra Pops, Chicago Philharmonic, Austin Symphony, Roanoke Symphony, and the Dayton Philharmonic.
