Alicia Hall Moran is an award-winning mezzo-soprano and collaborative vocal artist with two critically praised solo albums, HeavyBlue (2015) and Here Today (ranked the #1 album of 2018 by Mike West, NPR Music/Jazz, and a third album, Coldblooded (2026), that skates the divides between music genre and medium: the motown project, Breaking Ice, and Black Wall Street, and with Jason Moran: Chantal for Washington National Opera, the musical Family Ball (commissioned by Boston ICA), and Work Songs (curated by the visionary Okwui Enwezor for the 56th Venice Biennial). She directed Two Wings: The Music of Black America in Migration (premiered Carnegie Hall), and conceived the Morans’ BLEED for 2012’s groundbreaking Whitney Biennial in the same season she made her Broadway debut in The Gershwins’ Porgy & Bess (Tony winner “Best Musical Revival), earning an NAACP Los Angeles Theater Award nomination for her subsequent portrayal of Bess on National Tour.     Moran is a noted collaborator inside visual artworks by Rosa Barba The Ocean of One’s Pause, Joan Jonas Reading Danté, Ragnar Kjartansson Scenes from Western Culture, Christopher Myers Feathers on the Waves, Liz Magic Laser and Simone Leigh’s Breakdown, Adam Pendleton (three scenes/variation one), Carrie Mae Weems Grace Notes, Suzanne Bocanegra Valley, Sonya Clark (The Huest Eye), filmmaker Dorothy Darr (Charles Lloyd, Arrows to Infinity),  Lee Mingwei (My Labyrinth), and choreographer Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company’s Chapel/Chapter (sharing its Bessie Award for Musical Collaboration).  She appears in director Rebecca Miller’s feature film She Came to Me as an opera singer singing Bryce Dessner. Recording Gabriel Kahane’s emergency shelter intake form (Kalmar/Oregon Symphony) is another career highlight.    Moran currently sings the role of Monisha in composer Jessie Montgomery’s theatrical treatment of Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha, touring Canada next season.   Additional appearances include San Francisco Orchestra, Grant Park Orchestra, BBC London, National Symphony Orchestra Pops, Philadelphia Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony with pianist Aaron Diehl, Austin Symphony, Dayton Philharmonic, Virginia Symphony, Harlem Chamber Players, stargaze ensemble, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Allison Loggins Hull’s Diametrically Composed, the band Harriet Tubman and her frequent collaborator Brandon Ross, Tomeika Reid,  Kaoru Watanabe’s Bloodlines, Lyric Opera of the North, Roomful of Teeth, Yosvany Terry’s Atlantic Connections, Bill Frisell’s Gershwin and Beyond, James Moore and The Hands Free, Opera Southwest, and esteemed music-making ensembles worldwide.