About Eric Moore — Cellist, Educator & Creator of Cellosophy

I grew up in a musical family. My grandmother was a Juilliard-trained harpist who practiced eight hours a day at Tanglewood. My mother had perfect pitch measured to 1/1800th of a semitone and built her own theory curriculum from scratch.

I studied cello at the Cleveland Institute of Music under Richard Aaron and graduated from the University of Michigan as a triple major in Cello Performance, Music Theory, and Music History, summa cum laude. During my freshman and sophomore years, I played all 40 Popper Etudes in masterclass settings.

After college, I played with 10 orchestras, recorded for Naxos, and performed premieres for Roger Reynolds, Lei Liang, and Rand Steiger. I realized the cello world needed a modern curriculum: one that prepared students for everything from Hildegard von Bingen to graphic scores, quarter tones, and beyond.

Three degrees from the University of Michigan, summa cum laude. Co-editor of the Aaron-Moore Popper Etudes used at Juilliard since 2012. 15,000+ hours teaching private students.

From 2008 to 2010, Richard Aaron and I created a new edition of all 40 Popper Etudes. We started from Popper's original manuscript in the Franz Liszt Academy archives in Budapest. Seventeen drafts. The result has been required at Juilliard and the University of Michigan since 2012.

Starting in 2010, I built the Cellosophy Method: 15 volumes, backwards-designed from the Saint-Saëns Concerto. Which pieces scaffold to the concerto? Which etudes scaffold to those pieces? All the way back to a student's first notes. Volume 1 was published in 2015. Playtested for 15,000+ hours. The video courses are being released now.