Frances Moore studied violin with the soloist Yukiko Kamei at UCSB and Professor Alice Schoenfeld at USC, where she completed the Master of Music degree. She is currently the violinist in the Cecilian Chamber Players and Director of Chamber Music at the University of California, Riverside. Frances studied viola with Milton Thomas and conducting with Daniel Lewis at USC. After her early studies with her father, a poet, violinist and school superintendant, she continued her interest in performance practice involving historical instruments. She commissioned a violin with Baroque fittings that matches her Italian violin from the master violin-maker, Anthony Lane. Frances has performed chamber music with many period instrument ensembles such as Musica Angelica and Con Goia as well as several performances on the Sundays at Four broadcasts from the Los Angeles County Museum as part of the Los Angeles Mozart Players. Experienced in the traditional concert repertoire, Frances is also a supporter of new music and premiered several original compositions in recent concerts at LMU and UCR. While on tour with an orchestra performing original music composed by Richard Einhorn, the San Francisco Chronicle noted that "Concertmaster Frances Moore shone in her respective solo." Currently, Frances enjoys teaching at LMU and UCR and spends the summer in Canada performing chamber music.