WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2013
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At the The Seton-Elder Performing Arts Series Inaugural Hall of Fame banquet were, Robert Dusold, left,who performed, and inductees Catherine Moore and Greg Mooter PROVIDED
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Catherine Moore and Greg Mooter stand by their plaques as the newest inductees to the Seton Elder Performing Arts Series Hall of Fame. PROVIDED
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Seton and Elder grads honored for their performance contributions
he Seton-Elder Performing Arts Series Inaugural Hall of Fame gained two new members – Catherine Moore, a 1977 Seton High School graduate, and Greg Mooter, a 1970 Elder High School graduate. These two have not only made outstanding contributions to the arts as students but both have gone on to make careers in the performance industry. Guests enjoyed drinks and hors d’oeuvres before enjoying the ceremony and performances in Feburary in the Seton High School Performance Hall. Guest host, 700 WLW’s Brian Combs, a 1979 Elder grad, highlighted the careers of both Moore and Mooter; and introduced each performance. Moore’s high school performance days included spotlights as Abigail Adams in “1776” and as Anna in “The King and I.” She went on to earn her master’s of fine arts from the University Of Cincinnati College Conservatory Of Music. Moore is now an associate teaching professor at Carnegie Melon University in Pittsburgh. She has been on the faculty at the School of Drama since 2000 and specializes in physical approaches to actor training. In addition to teaching, she has served as fight director and movement coordinator for more than 50 CMU School of Drama productions and she is the co-coordinator of Playground, which is the school’s annual festival of independent student works. She was recently honored with CCM’s Julia Winter Cohen Career Excellence Award. Moore has performed in on many stages professionally, including Cincinnati’s Playhouse in the Park and the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. She also writes, directs and performs with the Boston, Chicago and Cincinnati Symphony orchestras. For more than 40 years Mooter has been playing the bass for a variety of bands and orchestras. He is the author of “The Bass Players Handbook” and has spent his teaching career at Berklee College of Music in Boston where he graduated cum laude in 1976. He is also involved in numerous non-profit organizations and a recipient of
Catherine Moore thanks the crowd and recalls some great moments from her years at Seton High School. PROVIDED
Greg Mooter thanks the crowd and talks about career as a bass player. PROVIDED
Some of the members of the Seton-Elder Performing Arts Series Hall of Fame, from left, Tim Perrino, Catherine Moore, Bob Dusold and Greg Mooter. PROVIDED
the Elder Alumni Cultural Enrichment Award. He is also the sponsor of the Mooter Man Scholarship which benefits students from Our Lady of Lourdes parish who choose to attend Elder. The Seton-Elder Chorus per-
formed; and Seton High School senior Lindsey Mullen, who has the lead role of Anna in “The King and I” this year, had a solo performance. Tim Perrino, a 1974 Elder grad, entertained the crowd with two solos. Mooter entertained guests on bass as he
performed with Tom Reiring, 1988, Chris Goin, 1984, and Pete Ellerhorst, 1979. The evening ended with Robert Dusold, a 1977 Elder grad and a 2009 inductee to the ElderSeton Hall of Fame, who has performed across the country
and on Broadway as Javert in “Les Miserables,” Marcos in the “Kiss of Spiderwoman“ and Harry Bright in “Mama Mia.” Dusold sang a duet with Seton High School’s Music Director, Maribeth Samoya, as well as two solo performances.