When did you and Lloyd Van’t Hoff first meet?

I first met Lloyd in 2012 when we played Gerard Brophy’s trio gloVe (for piano, clarinet and cello) at the Melbourne Recital Centre. The occasion was the Australian Voices series, alas now defunct, that Paul Dean developed to highlight Australian composers while he was Director of the Australian National Academy of Music. Lloyd was a young student (although already playing like a pro) and I was a visiting guest artist, curating an all-Brophy concert. 

Lisa Moore and Lloyd Van’t Hoff performing together as Crux Duo in Detroit, 2024. Photo © Harriet Steinke

We met again a decade later, in 2022, when I conducted him in an ensemble chosen to perform six world premieres by emerging composers at Yale University’s Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. Six months later, we performed Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du soldat together at the 2023 Sydney Festival, and then two months after that, we performed a recital together at Yale. 

Why did you decide to form Crux Duo?

We just knew we didn’t want to end our musical journey together. We had made an immediate musical connection both in rehearsals and on stage together. It was so effortless....