Dr. David E. Morrow, Director, Morehouse College Glee Club
Morehouse College Department of Music (Atlanta, Georgia)

David Morrow is a native of Rochester, N.Y. He earned a Bachelor of Arts
degree from Morehouse College in 1980. While at Morehouse, he became
a member of Phi Beta Kappa, was awarded the Kemper Harreld Award for
Excellence in Music, received departmental honors, and graduated
Valedictorian of his class. He received the Master of Music degree from the
University of Michigan in 1981 and was elected to Pi Kappa Lambda. He
received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Cincinnati
College Conservatory of Music in 1995. He has studied conducting with
Wendell Whalum, Thomas Hilbish, Elmer Thomas, John Leman, Earl Rivers,
Elizabeth Green, Teri Murai, Fiora Contino and Donald Neuen. He has taken
conducting master classes with Stephen Darlington, Jan Szyrocki, Dale
Warland and Sir David Willcocks.

Dr. Morrow has been a member of the Music faculty at Morehouse College
since 1981. He served as Assistant Director of the Morehouse College Glee
Club until 1987, when he succeeded Dr. Wendell P. Whalum as Director of
the Glee Club. He also is Director of the Wendell P. Whalum Community
Chorus (formerly known as the Atlanta University Center Community
Chorus), Co- Director of the Spelman-Morehouse Chorus, and newly
appointed Conductor of The Atlanta Singers. In December 1991, Mr.
Morrow conducted the Glee Club for the Kennedy Center Honors as part of
the tribute to Robert Shaw, Conductor Laureate, Atlanta Symphony
Orchestra. On Jan. 18, 1993, he conducted soprano Jessye Norman and the
Spelman-Morehouse Chorus at Atlanta’s Symphony Hall in a concert
celebrating the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday. In January of 1994, he
conducted the combined choruses of the Atlanta University Center and
Natalie Cole singing the National Anthem for Super Bowl XXVIII. In April of
the same year, he conducted the Morehouse College Glee Club in a
concert with the Black Music Repertory Ensemble at Orchestra Hall in
Chicago, Ill. In 1996, Dr. Morrow conducted the Morehouse College Glee
Club during a tour of Russia, and for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies
of the Atlanta Centennial Olympic Games. Recent performances with the
Glee Club include a tour of Poland in 1998, Bermuda in 2001 and the
Bahamas in 2005.

In June of 1990, Mr. Morrow conducted combined choirs and brass from the
Atlanta University Center schools for the Academic Convocation for Nelson
Mandela at Morehouse College. He was Choral Director for the film
Trumpet of Conscience, which was produced by Turner Broadcasting in
December of 1985.
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