CROSSING BORDERS

World premiere song cycle by Jake Heggie

texts by Nora London curated by Gene Scheer

Spearheaded by Megan Moore and Margarita Martinez, this world premiere by Jake Heggie sets diary entries by Nora London, the longtime president of the George & Nora London Foundation for Singers. After her passing in 2022 at the age of 98, her family found a locked, leather-bound diary containing a history Nora had shared with no one. The entries start in January 1940, when Nora was a teenager living a privileged life in Paris with her secular Jewish family. By May of 1940, with the Nazis marching towards Paris, she is given an hour to pack up and leave everything and everyone she has ever known. Her diary describes her life as a stateless refugee searching for a transit visa to the United States. Nora never tells anyone about the diary, but carries it from country to country, home to home, for the rest of her life. Gene Sheer curated diary entries set to music by Jake Heggie, and a world premiere performance was given by Megan Moore and Francesco Barfoed at the Morgan Library in New York City on April 6, 2025. This commission marked the foundation’s 30th anniversary of their esteemed alumni recital series.

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AMPLIFY SERIES FOR NEURODIVERSITY

MY LIGHT- MUSIC BY JOEL DAVID BALZUN, TEXT BY RITHIK SINHASAN

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Megan co-founded LYNX in 2015 with Caitleen Kahn out of a desire to invigorate the art of the song recital and engage new audiences. Shortly thereafter she spearheaded the Amplify Series along with her sister, Katie Masotti, who is a provider for individuals with non-speaking autism. The Amplify Series commissions songs with texts by youth ages 8-18 who have autism and are primarily non-speaking. The young writers collaborate with both established and up-and-coming composers, and LYNX just completed its fourth cycle of new commissions. The Amplify Series advocates both for the importance of every voice and for new music. All of LYNX's 13 young writers to date communicate by pointing to letters on a board through the burgeoning Rapid Prompting Method developed by Soma Mukhopadhyay out of her clinic in Austin, Texas.

I SEE LIGHT

RECITAL TOUR

In this 90-minute recital we meet composers, poets, and characters who fight hard to tell their stories despite barriers to being heard. The program features works by Undine Smith Moore, Cécile Chaminade, Rued Langgaard, Fanny Mendelssohn, Schubert, and Schumann, as well as works from LYNX’s Amplify Series for Neurodiversity, and a fully staged reimagining of Handel’s Lucrezia cantata in collaboration with Mary Birnbaum. The program calls our attention to our innate need to be heard, and challenges us to reflect on how we are listening. Megan & Francesco have performed the program in New York City, Washington D.C, Birmingham, and upcoming performances are scheduled for Maryland, New York, Ohio, and Iowa.

NACHT FILM PROJECT

CARNEGIE HALL SONGSTUDIO

As part of Carnegie Hall 's 2021 SongStudio with Renee Fleming, Megan Moore and her duo partner Francesco Barfoed conceived and produced a short film that reflects on an artist’s inner life during isolating times. The project, like SongStudio, explores innovative approaches to song repertoire and invites new audiences to engage with the art form.

TESEO DOCUMENTARY

Produced by Juilliard and Cyprian films, this documentary follows Megan's journey portraying Medea in a highly restricted, COVID-safe production of Handel's Teseo.

SKIP THE REPEAT PODCAST

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"Skip the Repeat brings you the stories and lessons of people who change direction and reinvent themselves. Megan Moore now tells students that a career doesn’t begin once they’ve won a job, a competition, or a role - it starts the moment they walk into music school. As an artist faced with the horror of a once-packed schedule disappearing because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Megan has thought much about what a career is to her. Hear about her journey as a rising young operatic star and as co-founder of LYNX, a non-profit art song organization working with people with non-verbal autism."