JAMES MORROW

Home Work 9417 Epic Court Butler School of Music Austin, TX 78726 The University of Texas at Austin 512/331-1544 1 University Station E3100 Austin, TX 78712-0435 Office: 512/471-0950 Fax: 512/471-7836 [email protected]

EDUCATION Doctor of Musical Arts, Choral The University of Texas at Austin, 1996

Master of Music, Choral Conducting The Ohio State University, 1989

Graduate Study, Choral Conducting Westminster College, 1987-88

Bachelor of Music, Education Hardin-Simmons University, 1986

Conducting Study Morris Beachy, 1990-92 Craig Hella Johnson, 1990-92 Fiora Contino, 1991 Maurice Casey, 1989-90 Joseph Flummerfelt, 1987-88 Allen Crowell, 1987 Loyd Hawthorne, 1983-86

Conducting Master Class Helmuth Rilling, Oregon Bach Festival, 1994

Private Vocal Study Gérard Souzay, 1990-92 Elem Eley, 1987-88 William Riley, 1987 Jaynne Middleton, 1981-86

Vocal Master Classes David Garvey, 1990, 1991, 1992 Beverly Hoch, 1992 Robert Honeysucker, 1991, 1992 David Britton, 1991, 1992 D’Anna Fortunato, 1991, 1992 Julianne Baird, 1991

Additional Master Classes Samuel Baron, 1991, 1992 Ronald Roseman, 1991, 1992 Daniel Phillips, 1991, 1992 Timothy Eddy, 1991, 1992 Yehudi Wyner, 1991, 1992

1 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Teaching Experience The University of Texas at Austin, 2001-present Associate Professor of Music (tenured) Director of Choral Activities Conductor, Chamber Singers (20-36 singers) National ACDA Convention (2005, 2009) TMEA Convention (2005, 2009) Kronos Quartet (April 2005) CDs on Naxos and Koch labels TAMS Conference (2004) Conductor, Choral Arts Society Graduate Conducting Graduate Choral Literature Supervise Bach Project Supervise graduate program in Choral Conducting Administrate choral program with 6

University of Florida, 1997-2001 Associate Professor of Music Director of Choral Activities Conductor, University Choir (60 singers) Convention performances: Southern Division MENC (2001) FMEA (2000) Florida ACDA (1997, 2000) Conductor, Chamber Singers (16 singers) Graduate and Undergraduate Conducting Graduate Choral Literature Supervise graduate program in Choral Conducting

Hope College, 1994-97 Assistant Professor of Music Director of Choral Activities Conductor, Chapel Choir (60 singers) Divional ACDA invitation for fall 1997 MCDA (1997) Conductor, Collegium Musicum (16 singers) Conductor, College Chorus (110 singers) Applied Voice Music Appreciation Foundations and Perspectives in Music

Millsaps College, 1992-94 Instructor of Music Applied Voice Conducting Women’s Chorus Workshop

The University of Texas at Austin, 1990-92 Graduate Teaching Assistant Conductor, University Chorus Assistant Conductor, Chamber Singers Assistant Conductor, Concert Chorus Master, UT Chorus Master, UT Opera Theater Associate Conductor, Longhorn Music Camp

2 The Ohio State University, 1988-89 Graduate Assistant Conductor Chorale Symphonic Choir Women’s Glee Club

Hardin-Simmons University, 1986 Conductor, Summer Chorus

Conducting Experience University of Texas at Austin, 2001-present Bach B Minor Bach Bach Motets Bach St. John Passion Beethoven Mass in C Beethoven Choral Fantasy Bernstein Chichester Brahms Ein deutsches Britten Cantata Misericordium Britten Sacred and Profane Bruckner Mass in E Minor Byrd Mass for Four Voices Delius Appalachia (chorus preparation) Duruflé Requiem Fauré Requiem Haydn The Creation Holst Two Psalms Howells Requiem Langlais Messe Solennelle Mahler Symphony No. 2 (chorus preparation) Martin Ode a là musique Mendelssohn Elijah Monteverdi Vespro della Beata Vergine 1610 Mozart Mass in Mozart Requiem (Süßmayr and Levin) Nunes Garcia Missa de Nossa Senhora da Conceição Orff Carmina Burana Pärt Berliner Messe Pärt Passio Poulenc Messe en Sol majeur Rachmaninoff Ravel Daphnis et Chloe (chorus preparation) Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle Terry Riley Sun Rings with Kronos Quartet Stravinsky Mass Szymanowski Stabat Mater Vaughan Williams Dona nobis pacem Vaughan Williams Mass in G Minor Vaughan Williams to “The Wasps” Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music Verdi Requiem Vivaldi Vierne Messe Solennelle Dan Welcher JFK: The Voice of Peace (chorus preparation)

Jacksonville Symphony (FL) Chorus Director, 2000-2001 (all chorus preparation)

3 Handel Holiday Pops Mahler Third Symphony Mozart Requiem Opera Choruses Orff Carmina Burana Puccini Tosca

University of Florida, 1997-2001 Bach B Minor Mass Bach St. John Passion Bach Singet dem Herrn Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem Carissimi Jephte Duruflé Requiem Haydn The Creation Mozart Mozart Overture to Die Zauberflöte Mozart No. 21 Mozart Requiem Pinkham Christmas Cantata Purcell Dido and Aeneas Rutter Gloria Verdi Requiem

Gainesville Chamber Orchestra Poulenc L’histoire de Babar Prokofiev Peter and the Wolf Vaughan Williams Overture to The Wasps

Hope College choirs and orchestra, 1994-97 Bach Jesu, meine Freude Bach St. John Passion Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem Carissimi Jephte Copland In the Beginning Haydn The Creation Purcell Dido and Aeneas Vivaldi Gloria

Grace Episcopal Church, Holland, Michigan, 1995-97 Handel Messiah (Part I) Mozart Requiem

Oregon Bach Festival, 1994 Bach St. Matthew Passion (excerpts), with professional soloists, chorus and orchestra of the Oregon Bach Festival

Jackson Choral Society, Jackson, Mississippi, 1992-94 All-Beethoven Concert with members of the Mississippi Symphony Mass in C Hallelujah from Christus am Ölberge Elegischer Gesang Choral Fantasy, Jonathan Sweat, pianist A Romantic Portrait Pinkham Wedding Cantata

4 Britten Wedding Anthem Brahms Walzer Wilberg Three Scottish Folksongs and Cindy Bach Cantata 131 Scarlatti Est dies trophei Folksongs and Spirituals

New Texas Festival, Austin, Texas, 1992-present All-Baroque concert with David Stevens, tenor, Stephanie Pruitt, alto, and Festival Orchestra Bach Cantata 54, Stephanie Pruitt, alto Vivaldi Concerto for 2 and orchestra Handel Overture to Handel, various and duets with orchestra Bach Cantata 55, Karl Dent, tenor Bach Cantata 78, Festival chorus and orchestra

Victoria Bach Festival, Victoria, Texas, 1992-93 Bach Cantata 51, Jana Holzmeier, soprano Bach Cantata 54, Virginia Dupuy, mezzo-soprano Bach Cantata 56, Douglas Anderson,

First United Methodist Church, Clinton, Mississippi, 1992-94 -Saëns Christmas

The University of Texas at Austin, University Chorus, 1990-92 Fauré Requiem Handel Let Thy Hand be Strengthened Mozart Coronation Mass Rutter Gloria

The University of Texas at Austin, Chorus Master, 1991-92 Copland The Tender Land Holst The Planets

First English Lutheran Church, Austin, Texas, 1990-92 Handel Messiah (Part I) Haydn Kleine Orgelmesse Saint-Saëns Christmas Oratorio Telemann Lukas-Passion

Worthington Chorus, Columbus, Ohio, 1988-90 Bach Magnificat Mozart Requiem Vivaldi Gloria

Singing Experience

Baritone Soloist Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chamber Chorus, Norman McKenzie Copland Four Motets Vaughan Williams Mass in G Minor

Robert Shaw Festival Singers, 1998 Bach Singet dem Herrn Howells Requiem Vaughan Williams Mass in G Minor

Artist/Fellow, 1992 and 1993

5 Bach Festival and Institute Stony Brook, NY

Bach St. John Passion (Jesus) Palm Beach Atlantic College, 1999 Austin Civic Chorus and Austin Sinonietta, 1997 Rhodes Mastersingers Chorale and Memphis Symphony Chamber Orchestra, 1996 University of Texas at Austin, 1992 St. Matthew Passion (Jesus) Mormon Tabernacle Choir’s Temple Square Chorale, 2000 University of Texas at Austin, 1998 Rhodes Mastersingers Chorale and Memphis Symphony Chamber Orchestra, 1997 Christmas Oratorio Austin Civic Chorus and Austin , 1991 University of Miami (FL), 1998 Magnificat, Victoria Bach Festival, 1992 63 and 185, Victoria Bach Festival, 1992 Britten (excerpts), DMA recital, Ed Lundergan,1991 Noye’s Fludde (Noye), New Texas Festival, 1995 Buxtehude Cantatas, Texas Early Music Project, Round Top Early Music Festival, 1992 Duruflé Missa cum jubilo, St. Andrew’s Episcopal Cathedral, 1994 Fauré Requiem, Hope College, 1997 St. David’s Episcopal Cathedral, 1992 Mirage, Hope College, 1996 Handel Dettingen , Austin Civic Chorus and Austin Sinfonietta, 1997 e , Jackson Handel Society, 1993 Messiah, First Baptist Church, Pearland, Texas, 1981 Haydn The Creation, St. Andrew’s Episcopal Cathedral, 1993 Mahler Rückert Lieder, Hope College Pärt Passio, New Texas Festival, 1994 Schubert Selected Songs, Hope College, 1996-97 Stravinsky Pulcinella, Victoria Bach Festival, 1992 Travener Ikon of Light, New Texas Festival, 1996 Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs, Millsaps College, 1994

Chorus Member Festival Singers, 1992, 1994, 1998 Quercy, France and Greeneville, SC American and Spirituals Argento I Hate and I Love Badings Trois Chansons Bretonnes Barber Agnus Dei Bernstein Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzes and motets Britten A.M.D.G. Britten Choral Dances from Britten to St. Cecilia Britten Britten Sacred and Profane Copland In the Beginning Debussy Trois Chanson Górecki Totus Tuus Haydn Lord Nelson Mass Hindemith Chansons Howells Requiem

6 Martin Mass Mozart Coronation Mass Mozart Requiem Mozart Solemn Vespers Pärt Magnificat Poulenc Un Soir de Neige Ravel Trois Chanson Schönberg Friede auf Erden Vaughan Williams Mass in G Minor

Robert Shaw Festival Singers Carnegie Hall Poulenc Stabat Mater, 1999 Szymanowski Stabat Mater, 1999 Verdi Stabat Mater, 1999 Haydn Die Schöpfung, 1998 Haydn Die Jahreszeiten, 1998 Mendelssohn Elijah, 1997 Verdi Requiem, 1996 Verdi Stabat Mater, 1996 Verdi , 1996 Hindemith Reuqiem: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d, 1995 Brahms Alto Rhapsody, 1995 Brahms Nänie, 1995 Britten War Requiem, 1994 Berlioz Requiem, 1993

Westminster Choir, 1987-88 Bach Cantata 4, Joseph Flummerfelt Bach Cantata 63, Joseph Flummerfelt Beethoven Ninth Symphony, Philadelphia Orch., Beethoven Ninth Symphony, Wiener Philharmoniker, Britten War Requiem, New York Philharmonic, Mistslav Rostropovich Bruckner Te Deum, , Riccardo Muti Dvorak Requiem, Spoleto Festival Orchestra, Woldemar Nelsson Fauré Requiem, New York Philharmonic, Leonard Slatkin Mahler Second Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein Mozart Thomas, König in Ägypten, Spoleto Festival Orchestra, Joseph Flummerfelt Verdi Four Sacred Pieces, Philadelphia Orch., Riccardo Muti

New Texas Festival Bach B Minor Mass, Craig Johnson, 1993 Brahms Requiem, Craig Johnson, 1994 Duruflé Requiem, Craig Johnson, 1993 Mozart Requiem, Craig Johnson, 1996

Bach Aria Festival Bach Cantata 106, Yehudi Wyner, 1992 Bach Cantata 102, Samuel Baron, 1993

The University of Texas at Austin, 1990-92

7 Bach Cantatas 50 and 77, Craig Johnson Bach Magnificat, Craig Johnson Bernstein Chichester Psalms, Louis Lane Brahms Alto Rhapsody, Morris Beachy Brahms , Morris Beachy Brahms Nänie, Morris Beachy Duruflé Requiem, Craig Johnson Mozart Mass in C Minor, Morris Beachy Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky, Sung Kwak Ravel Daphnis e Chloe, Sung Kwak

Cantari Singers, Columbus, Ohio, 1988-90 Argento I Hate and I Love, Maurice Casey Bach St. John Passion, Thomas Dunn Bach St. Matthew Passion, Maurice Casey Fauré Requiem, Michael Murray, organ, Maurice Casey Handel Messiah (complete), Pro Musica, Timothy Russell Paulus So Hallow’d is the Time, Maurice Casey

The Ohio State University, 1988-89 Bernstein Chichester Pslams, Maurice Casey Dubois Seven Last Words, Maurice Casey Honegger Une Cantate de Noël, Maurice Casey Poulenc Gloria, James Gallagher

Texas All-State Choir, 1978-81 Beethoven Mass in C, Don V Moses Haydn Lord Nelson Mass, Paul Salumonovich Schubert Mass in Bb, Donald Neuen Verdi Te Deum, Paul Salumonovich

Opera Chorus Member Westminster Choir Dvorak Rusalka, Spoleto Festival USA, Charleston, SC Janacek Jenufa, Festival dei Due Mondi, Spoleto, Italy, Spiros Agiro Traetta Antigone, Festival dei Due Mondi, Spoleto, Italy Wagner Parsifal, Festival dei Due Mondi, Spoleto, Italy, Gian Carlo Menotti, Director

Compact Disc Recordings

UT Chamber Singers and orchestra, James Morrow American Choral Music Naxos “American Classics” Series 8.559299

UT Chamber Singers, James Morrow American Choral Music, vol. II Naxos “American Classics” Series 8.559358

UT Chamber Singers, James Morrow Great Hymns of Faith (with Gerre Hancock, Organ) Koch International Classics KIC-CD-7750

UT Chamber Singers, James Morrow Sweet Music of Christmas Koch International Classics KIC-CD-7698

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UT Chamber Singers and orchestra, James Morrow Nunes Garcia Missa de Nossa Senhora da Conceição Longhorn Music LHM2007003

UT Chamber Singers, James Morrow American Folksongs Longhorn Music (to be released spring 2010)

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chamber Chorus, Norman McKenzie Sacred a cappella works recorded by TELARC (2006) Baritone soloist in Vaughan Williams Mass and Copland Motets

Robert Shaw Festival Singers, Robert Shaw Amazing Grace: American Hymns and Spirituals, TELARC CD-80325 Appear and Inspire, TELARC CD-80408 Brahms Liebeslieder Walzes, TELARC CD-80326 Evocation of the Spirit, TELARC CD-80406

Westminster Choir Beethoven Ninth Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Riccardo Muti, EMI CDC 7 49493 2 Mahler Second Symphony, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein, Deutsche Grammaphon 423 395-2

Hope College In the Beginning, Hope College Chapel Choir (1997) Jesu, My Joy, Hope College Chapel Choir (1996) Christmas Vespers 1996, Hope College Chapel Choir, College Chorus, and Symphonette Christmas Vespers 1995, Hope College Chapel Choir, College Chorus, and Symphonette Christmas Vespers 1994, Hope College Chapel Choir, College Chorus, and Symphonette

SERVICE AND PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Professional Current Member, American Choral Directors Association Current Member, Texas Music Educators Association Former Member, National Association of Teachers of Singing

University of Texas at Austin SoM Scholarship Committee SoM Executive Committee SoM Sacred Music Committee, Chair University Commencement Committee Orchestra Director Search Committee Ethnomusicology Search Committee

University of Florida SoM Scholarship Committee SoM Search Committees SoM Alumni Committee SoM Council of Representatives Commencement Marshall

Hope College Academic Advisor Academic Affairs Board

9 Cultural Affairs Board Christmas Vespers Committee Department of Music Search Committee Department of Music Curriculum Committee

Grants and Awards Outstanding Young Alumnus, Hardin-Simmons University, 2007 Mellon Research Grant from the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of American Studies, The University of Texas, 2006 Knight Foundation Summer Research Grant, Hope College, 1995 Conducting Fellowship, Oregon Bach Festival, 1994 Artist/Fellow, Bach Aria Festival and Institute, 1992 and 1993 Aria Competition Award, Hardin-Simmons University, 1985 Freshman Artist Scholarship Winner, Hardin-Simmons University, 1981

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