Neil Moore (musician)

Neil Moore is the founder and executive director of Simply Music, an international music education institution with over 700 locations worldwide. He also created the Simply Music piano method and composed much of the music used in the institution's piano and the accordion programs.

Early life

Moore was born in 1957 in Melbourne, Australia to parents who loved music and required all their five children to take piano lessons. Although Moore felt a strong connection with music from early childhood, he did not learn to read notes until much later. In piano lessons, he would watch his teacher play and reconstruct what he heard by visualizing shapes and patterns. By age twelve Moore played a large repertoire of music, and he kept playing piano through adolescence and into adulthood, never thinking he could turn his passion for piano into a career.

Adult life

Through early adulthood, Moore continued with piano while establishing a successful career in the restaurant and wine industries. He hoped to do well enough to retire from business and pursue music. Everything seemed to be going as planned until one business that Moore acquired lost all its assets in a stock market crash. Facing this crisis brought clarity and a new direction for Moore. He decided to put his love of music first. Moore began taking open-enrollment music classes at the Australian arts institution, The Victorian College of the Arts. During this time, he was recruited to teach a new music reading program to both students and instructors. He later relocated to California to bring that reading program to the United States.

Neil Moore

Neil Moore (born 21 September 1972 in Liverpool) is an English professional football defender who is currently playing for Solihull Moors.

Moore joined Nuneaton Borough in July 2003 following his release from Mansfield Town. He started his career at Everton and had loan spells with Blackpool, Oldham Athletic, Carlisle United, Rotherham United and Norwich City before moving to Burnley, and Macclesfield Town.

In 2000, he moved into non-league with Telford United. Moore spent two seasons at Bucks Head, where he was the subject of a £40,000 bid from Chester City. Upon the completion of his contract with Telford, he signed for Division Two side Mansfield Town, where he was captain until the appointment of Keith Curle as manager. He scored his first and only goal for Mansfield in the League Cup against Derby County. He spent time on loan at Southport before being released and joining Nuneaton Borough, for whom he was skipper for three seasons. Despite being replaced as team captain by Tom Curtis at the start of the 2007–08 campaign, Moore remained a prominent first-team member, and when Curtis left at the end of the season, Moore was given the captaincy again for the 2008–09 season, following Nuneaton's two-league demotion. However, Moore was released by manager Kevin Wilkin in October 2008, so that Wilkin could free up money to buy attackers.