Dr. Quinton Morris will offer a Masterclass/Job Talk on April 4 at noon in the Jimmie James Recital Hall, F.D. Hall Music Center, and will be performing and debuting his film “Breakthrough” at 7 p.m.
Morris is the director of Chamber and Instrumental Music and is an associate professor of Violin and Chamber Music at Seattle University and holds an associate appointment in the Global African Studies program.
Morris has received numerous honors and awards including the Puget Sound Business Journal’s “40 Under 40 Award” for esteemed leaders and entrepreneurs in Seattle, the Seattle University Alumni Association’s Outstanding Academic and Arts Faculty Award, and the Seattle Mayor’s Arts Award.
He has also won awards at the Boston Conservatory Chamber Music Honors Competition and the Louisiana Junior Philharmonic Orchestra Young Artists’ Concerto Competition. In 2010 he received top honors and the “Distinguished” and “Audience Favorite” prizes at the IBLA
International Recital Competition in Sicily, Italy in 2010. The IBLA Foundation in New York City organizes annual music competitions for pianists, singers, instrumentalists and composers which takes place in Ragusa Ibla, Italy.
This globe-trotting virtuoso is eager to share his immersive project “Breakthrough,” about the 18th-century composer-violinist (and onetime roommate of Mozart) Joseph Bologne, also known as the Chevalier de Saint-Georges.
As founder and artistic director of The Young Eight String Octet, Morris performed chamber music recitals across the country for 11 seasons. America’s only string octet was composed of distinguished string players that hailed from the nation’s most prestigious music
schools and conservatories. The octet performed in New York City at York College’s distinguished Artists Chamber Music Series, The Juilliard School, Music Mondays Chamber Music Series and a host of educational school residencies.
Morris has appeared with several chamber music societies and in series including the Jewel Box Chamber Music Series at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago, the Young Artists Afternoon Concert Series at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia, the Chamber Music Guild in Raleigh, University of Washington World Series and Benaroya Hall in Seattle, and the University of Texas at Austin. The Young Eight received honors for Seattle performances from the King County Executive Council, Seattle Weekly (Best New Chamber Music Group for 2005), Chamber Music America and received a Medal of Honor from the United States Military for their commitment to public and community service.
Morris’ visit to Jackson State University is a part of the ‘Artistic Intensity’ performance series offered by the College of Liberal Arts (COLA), according to Dr. Lisa M. Beckley-Roberts, assistant professor of musicology, Department of Music, who is coordinating this event.
For more information, contact Beckley-Roberts at 601-979-2583.