Moira Smiley

Connector, Educator/Teacher, Idea generator, Job-seeker, Musician, Performer, Producer, World traveler

Moira Smiley, singer-composer, leads moira smiley & VOCO, travels the world (from los angeles) as a vocalist and creates music for dance, theatre and film. She has won many awards and fellowships (incl. Meet the Composer, ACF, Durfee) for studying and composing for the human voice. Her voice, improvisations and compositions can be heard on feature films, documentaries, BBC esp. David Attenborough's "Life of Birds"), PBS, and on over 40 recordings, and VOCO was voted #1 a cappella ensemble in the U.S. She has sung with leading ensembles and artists around the world including Paul Hillier’s Theater of Voices, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, KITKA Vocal Ensemble, New World Symphony, and was music director for Shakespeare Santa Cruz. Featured nationally on NPR, in Lincoln Center, UCLALive, Royal Festival Hall, folk and classical music festivals across the U.S. and Canada, Moira’s work has received praise from Billboard to Gramaphone. www.moirasmiley.com and www.myspace.com/vocoinfo.

Making thinkers move and movers think through performance, sound, percussive movement and teaching.

Gyms with their machines hooked up to power the electricity grid. Community Singing.