Nicholas Morrison

Biography

Nicholas Morrison is the Director of the Caine School of the Arts and Cazier Professor of Clarinet in the Department of Music at Utah State University. He has appeared as soloist with the Orchestre Philharmonique Ste. Trinité in Haiti, with the Notre Dame, New World, Fry Street, and Arcata String Quartets, and with the Utah Festival Opera Orchestra. He is frequently called as a substitute/extra clarinetist for the Utah Symphony and has performed as clarinetist with the South Bend, Tallahassee, and Jacksonville, the Grand Teton Music Festival and the Utah Festival Opera Orchestra, and is a founding member of Logan Canyon Winds, USU’s faculty wind quintet. As a member of ~AirFare~ flute-clarinet duo with Professor Emerita Leslie Timmons, he serves on the faculty of the Chapel Hill (NC) Chamber Music Workshop. He has premiered works by Libby Larsen, Valerie Coleman, Jeff Scott, Keith Gates, Dennis Griffin and Philip. Morrison has received grant support from numerous sources, including the Utah Arts Council, Utah Humanities Council, Target Corporation, U. S. Department of State, Presser Foundation, Dana Foundation, and Marie Eccles Caine Foundation. He is immediate past president of the Rotary Club of Logan, Utah, and serves on the boards of the Chamber Music Society of Logan and the Chapel Hill Chamber Music Workshop. Morrison holds degrees from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, the University of Notre Dame, and Florida State University and has studied with Curtis Craver, Donald Oehler, Scott Bridges, Sidney Forrest, Freddy Arteel, John Bruce Yeh and Frank Kowalsky.