About me
Rachel S. Moore is president and CEO of The Music Center, Los Angeles’ premier performing arts center. In that capacity, she leads the $70 million company that manages The Music Center campus and operates and programs Grand Park on behalf of the County of Los Angeles. In total, Moore manages and operates more than $2 billion in county assets.
Moore also oversees The Music Center’s programming work created by its programming engine, TMC Arts. She serves as presenter and curator of an internationally acclaimed dance series, Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at The Music Center, as well as several innovative programs, events and activities that are introducing new audiences to the performing arts. Additionally, she guides The Music Center’s multi-faceted K-12 arts education initiatives, which reach more than 150,000 children and youth all over Southern California.
Moore joined The Music Center from American Ballet Theatre (ABT). Prior to her appointment to lead ABT, Moore served as director of Boston Ballet’s Center for Dance Education (2001- 2004). Moore was named CEO of the Year by the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2019 Women’s Council & Awards. She is the author of a book, The Artist’s Compass: The Complete Guide to Building a Life and a Living in the Performing Arts (May 2016) and serves on numerous non-profit boards. In 2020, Moore was inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
She was a US Presidential Scholar in the Arts (1982). She holds an AB in Ethics & Political Philosophy from Brown University, Phi Beta Kappa, Honors (1992); and an MA in arts management from Columbia University (1994). She received an honorary doctorate in Musical Arts from the Colburn School (2019
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