Youth Orchestra Program but began conducting at the age of 12. Currently he is on the boards of the Purple Silk Music Education Foundation, the Oaktown Jazz Workshops, and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute. Box Office: Grove Street, between Van Ness and Franklin, CURRENTSEXPLORE THE INTERSECTIONS BETWEEN CLASSICAL MUSIC AND VARIED MUSICAL CULTURES. Fax: 212/874-7652 While a student at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, he spent a summer at the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood, studying with Gunther Schuller and Seiji Ozawa. Or put Carlos Santana on stage as a soloist with the orchestra, as occurred in 2010. Michael Morgan, music director of the Oakland Symphony for the last 28 years, is a particularly mindful provocateur these days.
A key part of the Bay Area’s artistic and community fabric for three decades, he serves as Music Director of the Oakland Symphony and Artistic Director of the Oakland Youth Orchestra. Lucille Campbell Green Randolph (1883-1963), African American History: Research Guides & Websites, Global African History: Research Guides & Websites, African Americans and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Alma Stephenson Dever Page on Afro-britons, With Pride: Uplifting LGBTQ History On Blackpast, Preserving Martin Luther King County’s African American History, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Envoys, Diplomatic Ministers, & Ambassadors, African American Newspapers, Magazines, and Journals, https://www.voanews.com/a/conductor_courts_diverse_audiences/666331.html, https://www.oaklandsymphony.org/artist/michael-morgan/, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/04/us/oaklands-symphony-season-opens-mixing-it-up.html. Or conduct a concerto for sitar and orchestra, composed by Ravi Shankar, as Morgan will do next spring. It was a very satisfying performance.”, — Herman Trotter for The Buffalo News on Dvorak’s Cello Concerto with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (full article here), “Many people may not know that he traded in the opportunity to be a jet-setting, big name conductor for his present career. Community. Morgan hasn’t simply rebuilt his orchestra.
“For us, as an orchestra,” he said, “we constantly have to reintroduce ourselves because there’s this endless stream of people wh…
As a conductor, he is recognized worldwide for innovative and thematically rich programs that make connections between wide-ranging artists and musical cultures. Seriously not trying to be a grenade thrower here with my comment, but given the attention this blog has given to another African-American conductor, Keith Brown, in the past….I’m curious what, if any waves he is making in light of world-wide demonstrations on racial injustice, an issue he appears to champion. We both are alumni of the willingness of the Norfolk Symphony reaching out to the local community. Cox is a very poor interviewer and he talks too much. It shines like heroic beams of light through the darkness. • Michael Morgan (conductor) (born 1957), American conductor Morgan graduated from Oberlin in 1979 and began his career working with various symphony orchestras. Let me say, Michael Morgan was the first conductor that ever got my full and immediate attention, when I was a cello student in the DC Youth Orchestra way back in the late ‘70s.
Not to nitpick but Maestros Wilkins and Morgan are of the same generation.
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The San Francisco Symphony presents CURRENTS, a four-part video series and accompanying podcast series featuring music and conversation around the changing perspectives for symphony orchestras today; curated by Michael Morgan and musicians of the San Francisco Symphony, with further learning and exploration led by Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser. Michael Morgan Michael Morgan was born and raised in Washington DC. Thomas Wilkins, Music Director of the Omaha Symphony and Hollywood Bowl Orchestra By using this site you consent to this use in our Cookie & Privacy Policy | Hosted & Managed in the UK by RocketWP, © 2020 Norman Lebrecht. I am so proud of him.
Only one year separates them in age. In 2014 he gave a TEDx Talk and was featured by Musical America as one of their “Profiles of Courage”. View Michael Morgan’s profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. Great to hear these guys chat about their beginnings. So don’t go around assuming others are privileged or innately advantaged. Michael Morgan, Conductor. (Please note: private accounts will not allow your post to display). Filmed at San Leandro High School on Tuesday, January 20, 2015. All rights reserved Terms of Use.