Ori Moore is an Austin-based multi-genre pianist, keyboardist, composer, and arranger driven by the roots music of his home state of North Carolina, including jazz, blues, country, and bluegrass. He leads his honky tonk band Ori Moore & The Lonsome Rangers and his jazz band the Ori Moore Trio while studying jazz piano and jazz composition at the University of Texas at Austin's Butler School of Music,.
In 2025, the University of Texas Jazz Ensemble performed Ori Moore's big band arrangement of Elizabeth Cotten's "Freight Train".
In 2024, Ori Moore was selected as the winner of the Dr. J. Douglas White Essentially Ellington Student Composition/Arranging Contest, including a cash prize, a lesson with the renowned Ted Nash, a recording session in which the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, and a performance of his composition by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra 2024 Essentially Ellington Competition and Festival.