As a pianist, Ori Moore leads his honky tonk band Ori Moore & The Lonesome Rangers and his jazz band the Ori Moore Trio, as well as performing alongside various artists across genres in the Austin area. He currently studies jazz piano with Ross Margitza at the University of Texas at Austin's Butler School of Music. He has participated in Jazz at Lincoln Center's Summer Jazz Academy at Bard College and Classical Tahoe's Brubeck Jazz Summit at the University of Nevada Reno at Lake Tahoe, as well as summer jazz workshops at the Eastman School of Music, the University of North Texas, Michigan State University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is currently a pianist in the University of Texas Jazz Ensemble and previously played with big bands including the North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra, the Heart of Carolina Jazz Orchestra, and the Triangle Youth Jazz Ensemble. He performed with the Triangle Youth Jazz Ensemble in New York at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Essentially Ellington Competition and Festival in 2022, 2023, and 2024 as well as in Chicago at the Midwest Clinic in 2024.
As a composer, Ori Moore won the 2024 Dr. J. Douglas White Essentially Ellington Student Composition/Arranging Contest, resulting in the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra recording and performing his composition in May of 2024 at the Essentially Ellington Competition and Festival. In 2023, he was selected as a YoungArts merit winner in Jazz Composition. His big band charts have been performed by ensembles including the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, the North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra, the University of Texas Jazz Ensemble, and the Triangle Youth Jazz Ensemble. In November 2025, his arrangement of Elizabeth Cotten's "Freight Train" was performed by the University of Texas Jazz Ensemble. Later, in Februrary 2026, his arrangement of renowned guitarist Peter Bernstein's composition "Hidden Pockets" was performed by the University of Texas Jazz Ensemble featuring Peter Bernstein.