Honor Society® member
Christopher Moore
GSLC Irvine Choir Director at I was an interim choir director at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Irvine. This job required the oversight and direction of all musical needs for the morning service every week, including a rehearsal date once a week. The role primarily served to select music every week for the services, teach the music to the choir and enhance it by pulling musicality out of several passages, conduct the choir through each of their musical roles, and manage the organization and upkeep of the choir music archives.
- music education
- Class of 2020
- Oceanside, California
Member since November 2021
About
I come from a family of numerous teachers of several different fields and grade levels, so academics have always been important to me. I've always loved learning and the pursuit of knowledge, and have tried my best to round out my studies in several different fields, while still honing my focus to what I'm truly passionate about, music.
Education
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MiraCosta College
Music (AA)
2020 – 2022
Honors and awards
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Dr. Eric Chagala Exemplary Character Award
This was an award received at my High School in my Senior year for outstanding character, and in my specific case for abundant time, energy, and support poured into the theatre and choir programs.
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Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society
This certificate is to commemorate my induction into Phi Theta Kappa for exemplary academic success throughout my college experience thus far.
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Honor Society
This certificate is to commemorate my induction into the Honor Society for exemplary academic success throughout my college experience thus far.
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President's List
This award was to commemorate my academic success and achievements during the Fall 2020 semester, made even more strenuous by being my first semester in college, and having all classes meet via zoom.
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CRLA International Tutor Training Program Certification Level 1 & 2
These awards were to acknowledge my support to the MiraCosta College Tutoring and Academic Support Center as the only music tutor on campus from Fall 2021 to Spring of 2023.
Goals and interests
- Career goal
My ideal plan is to land a job as a choir director/music educator at a high school/community college. With that as my "home base" of sorts, and my core focus, I'd also love to use my free time composing music, arranging music, performing, and pursuing all of the fun adventures music as a whole has to offer.
- Graduate school interests
I would love to have the incredible opportunity to pursue a master's degree in the field of music, but I have to narrow down which specific path I'd like to take with that. Music has always been my passion, but there are so many different avenues that interest and fascinate me within that field, that I still need time to find the one that speaks to me the most. I'm set on getting my bachelor's in some form of media scoring, ideally video game and interactive media scoring, so likely my Master's would be in music education or music theory.
- Outside the classroom
Music is the primary focus of my passion and career, and I have several hobbies in and out of music. I am the lead music composer for Moore Gaming Company, I am in the process of writing multiple pop albums and a stage musical, I perform with several choirs throughout San Diego County, I teach music to kids from elementary to high school, and I occasionally perform in musicals. Outside of music, I find my free time spent with family, playing video games and experiencing the interactive storytelling that they offer, and binging through "nerdy" franchises such as Star Wars, Jurassic Park, and The Lord of the Rings.
Experience
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GSLC Irvine Choir Director
I was an interim choir director at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Irvine. This job required the oversight and direction of all musical needs for the morning service every week, including a rehearsal date once a week. The role primarily served to select music every week for the services, teach the music to the choir and enhance it by pulling musicality out of several passages, conduct the choir through each of their musical roles, and manage the organization and upkeep of the choir music archives.
Aug 2022 – May 2023
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MiraCosta College Music Tutor
As the only music tutor at MiraCosta College, my role was to set a consistent availability to meet with students, both in-person and via zoom, to help meet their academic needs and support them in a hectic time to be in school. I would work in the piano lab on campus generally, working one-on-one or with multiple students at a time, tutoring in the fields of music theory, ear training, piano, history of Western music, history of rock n roll, vocal jazz, classical voice, and performance skills.
Aug 2021 – May 2023
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Vista High School Auxiliary Music Support Staff
After I graduated from Vista High, I began working there as a support staff to both the choir and theatre departments on campus. The role included many responsibilities, often changing on the fly. Those responsibilities included, but were not limited to, being a stand-in accompanist for the choir, writing music for the choir, arranging music for the choir, organizing the room, filing and taking inventory of costumes and musical equipment, programming and fixing theatrical equipment in preparation for shows, and reinforcing specific vocal parts during rehearsal.
Aug 2021 – Jun 2023
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Anchor Music Publications General Staff
Sound Music Publications was reformed into Anchor Music Publications, and this change of hands required a lot of reorganization. I was in charge of renaming/reorganizing scores, applying copyright notices to scores, sorting through and removing excess copies or obsolete copies of outdated material, and uploading and formatting scores to the new website.
Jun 2021 – Aug 2021
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Moore Music Studios CA Founder/Director
I created my own music studio for the purposes of putting all of my projects under one umbrella. MMSCA has primarily been utilized for teaching private lessons in piano, voice, theory, and composition. It has also been utilized as an avenue for creating multiple quartets, including Outta Town Locals, whose concert featured several original songs, and the Outta Town Locals Jazz Combo, featuring several unique arrangements of classic jazz tunes.
Jan 2021 – Jun 2023
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San Diego City Ballet Chief Tech Officer
I work with San Diego City Ballet as a tech officer, which entails helping with moving a variety of technical equipment for each of their shows, including sets, costumes, and musical equipment, and additionally finding extra personnel available for each of the moves.
Nov 2019 – Jun 2023
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