Tristan Moore is a composer and keyboardist whose work spans a wide range of musical styles. He provides complete soundtrack creation services for creative projects and events. He is Resident Composer at the University of Utah Children's Dance Theatre. For the past three summers, he has toured New England with Circus Smirkus' Big Top Tour as composer, programmer and keyboardist. More...

Circus Smirkus, Vermont's award-winning international youth circus, is back on the road with its 2010 Big Top Tour, continuing a 23-year tradition of bringing joy and magic to towns all over the Northeast. The traveling youth circus will perform 69 shows this summer, from the mountains of Vermont to the shores of Maine, with stops along the way in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and upstate New York. Thirty stars, ages 11 to 18, bring youthful exuberance and polished skills from all parts of the country and the world. The 2010 Big Top Tour takes to the road from late June to mid-August. The show is full of exuberant talent and dazzling spectacle, with aerials, acrobatics, high wire, juggling, trapeze, clowning, an array of brilliant costumes, and live music composed by Tristan Moore!

Over majestic mountains and across racing rivers, daring adventures await in a forest of fun. Grab your backpack, set your compass and join the intrepid Smirkus Scouts in celebrating the Great Outdoors, circus-style! Hike the wilderness alongside trailblazing tumblers, soar with alpine aerialists, and trek among the trees with juggling lumberjacks. Explore the peaks and valleys of a fantastically fabulous four-season spectacle, as Circus Smirkus spotlights the marvels of nature with merrymaking, mirth and a touch of magic.

Preview the music!
Flower Dance   Scout's Honor   Rock Climb   Ging Gang Goolie		Gone Fishin'   Campfire   Ghost Story

For more information about the 2010 Circus Smirkus Big Top Tour, visit the Circus Smirkus website.

A Children's Dance Theatre production unlike anything you've ever seen... with an original score composed by Tristan Moore.

TRUE NORTH tells the story of an epic journey across the ice-bound Arctic territories of Canada. Far from civilization, in the middle of the vast ice fields of the North, a young child with no memory of her past mysteriously appears. A Pacific Northwest village takes her in and raises her as one of their own. Years later, the child receives a powerful vision that sends her on a quest in search of the answer to the riddle of her true identity. She makes her way northward across land and sea, through the realms of ancient spirits and wild animals, to True North... the home of the elusive Northern Lights.

"There isn't a movement or music note that is wasted." - Deseret News

Preview the music!
Fire   Caribou Migration   Threat   Underwater		Sea Otters   Masked Spirits   Dark Spirits

For more information about True North, call the Children's Dance Theatre office at (801) 581-7374.

Hear ye, hear ye, me lords and me ladies!

The King has declared that samples of the music from Circus Smirkus' 2009 Big Top Tour, entitled Smirkus Ever After: A Big Top Fairytale, shall henceforth be available for your listening pleasure upon this very website.

Now you can purchase your own copy of the soundtrack CD and relive the joyful energy of the circus...

Huzzah!!!

Public Dream, the musical collaboration of Kevin Anderson and Tristan Moore, is proud to announce the release of their second album, titled Moving On.

Visit the Public Dream website to preview and purchase this album!

"Terrific music... Moore's music helped the entire performance immeasurably. Here is a talent whose services circuses should be fighting over." (Spectacle Magazine, Fall 2008)

The music from Circus Smirkus' 2008 Big Top Tour (Smirkusology) is available here.

The soundtrack of CDT's dazzling 2008 stage production SCIENTIA is now available on CD.

Preview and buy the CD here!

You can also purchase the CD in person at the University of Utah Tanner Dance Building, at 190 Wasatch Drive. [Google Map] (Telephone: 801-581-7374)