Gaelic Gathering: Maire Clerkin, dancer/choreographer, pulls together the finest players of Irish traditional music in Los Angeles for Los Angeles Music Center's School Assemblies Program. Moira sings and does a few steps! > more info

Concord Ensemble: Singing an extraordinary range of art music from medieval to 20th century, this ensemble gained international recognition as a men's ensemble, and continues with programs with guest female singers. With Concord, Moira has sung the role of "Sorceress" in Henry Purcell's "Dido & Aeneas", and programs of Thomas Tallis, John Dowland, Giacomo Carissimi, and with Ensemble "Piffaro". In 2008, Concord sings the groundbreaking "Stimmung" by Karlheinz Stockhausen and collaborates the Folger Consort in Washington, D.C. > www.concordensemble.com

Solo Shows: Developing Moira-solo-shows is about telling good stories while exploring vintage songs and the improvisations that they inspire.

Bela Bartók's "Mikrokosmos": I grew up playing the piano music of Hungarian composer, Bela Bartók. I loved his brave (for "classical" music) use of crooked rhythms and unusual harmony and dissonance. His music expressed a unique, individual voice while honoring the communal music around him - felt just-right to my childhood of classical piano and old modal folksongs. Since 2006, I've been slowly putting together arrangements of the "Mikrokosmos" piano miniatures. With VOCO's voices, cello and accordion as my main template, I create a new lens on these pieces that were themselves re-imaginings of old dance-songs. This is one of the programs that moira smiley & VOCO tours with, and offers residency activities around.

Shaped - Notes: Another road back to the earliest influences of my childhood. The stark, unsentimental, but raucous and fun singing of early American shape-note hymns was my first singing love. There continues to be a huge revival of this old 18th and 19th century repertoire, and along with it, writing of new pieces in this style. I started writing shape-note style hymns when I was 14, and return to the style as all of VOCO falls in love with it, and we bring more and more into our performances.