FRANK MOON

The Royal Danish Ballet opened The Great Gatsby on 3rd May 2025, an epic new work by Arthur Pita with a score by Frank (arrangements of Gershwin plus new music) and spectactular design by Gary McCann. The 155 minute score…

Frank Moon and Bev Lee Harling have co composed the score for a new collaboration between Ballet Cymru and Alex Wharton (Children's Laureate Wales). Touring this winter, the ballet is a dance and music adaptation of his first collection of…

Premiering this evening - the first 30 mins of the new production from Prologue Opera, “Becoming Tosca”, was specially composed by Frank for the production. 
The first act weaves the untold backstories of Puccini's beloved characters, building up to the…

Oxford Kafka Festival hosted the sold out premiere of ‘A Hunger Artist’ in June 2024. Reuniting some of the team from 2011's The Metamorphosis (Arthur Pita, Frank Moon and Ed Watson) plus the incredible cabaret performer Meow Meow, the show…

Frank is beginning work on a full length ballet for small orchestra - commissioned by Danish Ballet, directed by Arthur Pita, design by Gary McCann… premiering at Copenhagen's Opera House in 2025. Details to be announced soon!

Oxford University have commissioned a new performance in the centenary year of the Kafka's death, as part of their Kafka 2024 Project. Arthur Pita will work with Frank, dancer Edward Watson and cabaret start Meow Meow to create a performance…

Delighted to hear that "An Evening with Taglioni" has won 'Best Original Score' at the Changing Faces International Film Festival in Australia, A dark and surreal comedy dance film based on the super-fans who cooked and ate the ballet shoes…

Ballet Cymru commissioned Frank in 2022 to create a new production - 'Dream' is a modern take on A Midsummer Night's Dream and features an eclectic musical world, occasionally featuring Frank playing the score live.

“Frank Moon’s score is its…

"The composer Frank Moon's Vaughan Williams-esque strings, and the folk songs performed live by the cast, are plaintively lovely" The Times

The new production of Michael Morpurgo's Private Peaceful is now open at Nottingham Playhouse and touring til June 2022…

In Autumn 2021, Zoe's Sonderbare Reise Durch die Zeit (Zoe's Perculiar Journey Through Time) by Jimmy Osborne and Theatre Rites, commissioned by The Burgtheater in Vienna, was opened, with a score by Frank. Due to Austrian covid restrictions many performances…

"Summer, Winter and the Rite of Spring" had it's world premiere in Moscow in August 2021, and continues to be peformed in Russia. Choregraphy by Arthur Pita, score by Frank, design by Yann Seabra

Frank recieved a nomination for Outstanding Creative Contribution at the 2021 Critics Circle National Dance Awards. Two other pieces featuring Frank's music were also nominated - The Secret Theatre (Scottish Ballet) won best film, and The Little Prince (Luca Silvestrini)…

The Royal Opera House are streaming The Metamorphosis FREE for 30 days, and yesterday's premiere attracted a fantastic 270,000 live streamers. Thanks everyone! Available globally from the ROH youtube channel, until 17 May.

"It looks and sounds a treat... Moon’s flavourful, gently and varyingly rhythmical score."   ★★★★ The Times
"The unfailingly inventive and listenable Frank Moon... what I really wanted was the CD" Financial Times
"Enchanting score" The Guardian
"Music from the ever-impressive…

Frank's scores could be heard in three different shows for the Christmas run in 2019! The Little Prince at The Place, London; The Little Match Girl at Sadler's Wells, London; and Ten Sorry Tales at Dance East, Ipswich. A wonderful…

"Frank Moon’s characteristically quirky soundtrack is a joy." The Guardian

"Frank Moon’s inventive soundscape (I must admit I recognise his distinctive affecting touch)" British Theatre Guide

"A masterstroke was to involve Frank Moon in pulling together the sound collage" ★★★★ …

Last month in New York, the Joyce Theater's annual summer ballet festival closed with Arthur Pita's Cristaux, set to music by Frank Moon and Bev Lee Harling. Danced by stars Robbie Fairchild and Maria Kowroski (New York City Ballet)…

The next collaboration with choreographer Arthur Pita is under way... Ten Sorry Tales will be a dance-theatre adaptation of Mick Jackson's fantastically macabre book of short stories. Frank is collaborating with songwriter Bev Lee Harling on the score, which will…

★★★★★ The Telegraph   

★★★★ The Guardian 

★★★★ The Independant  

★★★★ The Evening Standard

"A hauntingly beautiful soundscore...  Every note and every sound has it's place." In Covent Garden

"Multi-layered virtuosity." The Arts Desk

On 20th June THE MOTHER transferred to London's Southbank Centre, and simultaneously down the road THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR was streamed live into nationwide cinemas from Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. The Mother features a hybrid live/electronic score composed and performed…

The Merry Wives of Windsor is now open at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre on London's south bank. 

Frank's original jazz score is played by swinging quintet of London't finest musicians, plus voices of the cast.

Ticket link here: https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/the-merry-wives-of-windsor-2019/#book

“(The dancers') versatility is topped by that of the composer, Frank Moon. Visible beside the stage, he plays late-night jazz and spooky chords on the piano, switching to violin, jaw harp or high-pitched vocals to regulate the mood expertly. The…

"So much of not only the feel of this production, but its whole atmosphere, is due to inspired music by the gifted composers and multi instrumentalists Frank Moon and Dave Price who have created truly original and powerful music for…

Pleased to announce that Pentedattilo Film Festival (Italy, 2018) awarded 'Best Soundtrack' to Frank Moon's score for 'Curing Albrecht', the English National Ballet commissioned film directed by Morgann Runacre-Temple and Jessica Wright.