Kelly Moran is a pianist and producer who has spent her career excavating the sonic possibilities of the piano. An accomplished and highly sought-after composer, she has collaborated with an array of visionary contemporaries including FKA twigs, Yves Tumor, Kelsey Lu, Oneohtrix Point Never, and the Avalanches.
As a solo artist, Moran's critically acclaimed albums, Bloodroot (2017) and Ultraviolet (2018), have explored a variety of extended piano techniques like John Cage-inspired prepared piano and exercises in improvisation. Her unique strand of experimental piano compositions, which conjure hypnotizing textures and dramatic compositional arcs, have been included on year-end lists across classical, avant-garde, electronic, and metal genres.
In 2018, Moran was signed as a Yamaha Artist and began composing with Yamaha’s technologically-enhanced pianos, most notably the Disklavier player piano. Her releases Vesela (2023) and Moves in the Field (2024) showcase deeper sensitivity to the piano, with Moran merging her human restraint with the limitless possibilities of the disklavier.
Other recent collaborations include scoring Vanya, a one-man play starring Andrew Scott which recently completed successful runs in London and New York. In February 2025, Moran collaborated with Matthew Barney, Raven Chacon, Brian Jungen, and Brandon and Jake Stosuy for the interdisciplinary performance piece, Remains/Compound, that included a performance in which archers fired 300 arrows into a player piano played by Moran.
In 2024, Moran created music for Tin Drum: Medusa at Pioneer Works. Her work expanded upon the score that Ryuichi Sakamoto originally composed for Medusa's first iteration, which spatialized and combined recordings of undersea drones. Sakamoto gave special permission to Moran to recompose his work, and the result is featured on 2024’s release Vesela.
Moran lives and works in NYC.
