Alicia Hall Moran, Monisha

Alicia Hall Moran, Mezzo-soprano, is a conceptual vocal artist. With two critically-praised solo albums, Heavy Blue (New York Times, All About Jazz) and Here Today (ranked the #1 album of 2018 by Mike West, NPR Music), Moran’s “consonant sounds, dissonant truths, deep ironies, and linked legacies” (Blumenfeld/Village Voice) have made her a sought-after collaborator in multiple scenes and on the ice in original experimental theatre works exploring her figure skating past/present. Recent ice-collabs: storytelling with Olympian Surya Bonaly, filming with Lyric Opera of the North, singing for Ice Theatre of New York, Sarah France, Figure Skating in Harlem, The Hands Free, visual artist Christopher Myers, choreographer Amy Hall Garner, and Bryant Park where she was the inaugural Artist Resident, and Solo for Park Avenue Armory in 2025. Staged alt-operas by Ms. Moran include the motown project, Breaking Ice, Cold Blooded, and Black Wall Street. She co-composed &; directed Chantal (Washington National Opera), the musical Family Ball (Boston ICA) and Work Songs (56 th Venice Biennial) with pianist Jason Moran. She edirected the touring Two Wings: The Music of Black America in Migration (premiered Carnegie Hall), conceived the Morans’ BLEED for 2012’s groundbreaking Whitney Biennial the same season she made her Broadway debut: Porgy & Bess (Tony, “Best Revival of a Musical.”). She earned an NAACP Theater Award nomination for her portrayal of Bess on National Tour. On film: She Came To Me (dir. Rebecca Miller), the televised 45 th Kennedy Center Honors honoring composer Tania Leon, Breakdown by Liz Magic Laser/Simone Leigh, Grace Notes/Slow Fade To Black (Carrie Mae Weems), Charles Lloyd: Arrows to Infinity (dir. Dorothy Darr); Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Co. Chapel/Chapter, and LeeMingWei and Bill T. Jones Labyrinth for Metropolitan Museum of Art, Suzanne Bocanegra’s Valley, and Ragnar Kjartansson’s Scenes From Western Culture. Soloist: San Francisco Orchestra, Oregon Symphony, BBC London, Grant Park Orch. (for Gabriel Kahane’s emergency shelter intake form), Philadelphia Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony (with Aaron Diehl); also Virginia Symphony Pops, National Symphony Orchestra Pops, the Dayton Philharmonic, Austin Symphony, Harlem Chamber Players, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, stargaze ensemble at the Barbican, Carl Hancock Rux’s Juneteenth for Lincoln Center, Allison Loggins-Hull’s Diametrically Composed, Kaoru Watanabe’s Bloodlines, and others. Upcoming projects focus on her great, great uncle Hall Johnson (an important arranger of the Negro Spiritual), Duke Ellington’s 125 th year, and collaboration in the visual arts for the Museum of Modern Art.