Stephen Morris

Stephen Morris is a composer based in North Carolina, whose music strives to create musical experiences which separate the listener’s connection to the world through the expression of atmospheric and trance-inducing works. His music has been published in the SCI Journal of Music Scores and has been performed in places such as Arizona State University, Carnegie Hall, Chateau De Fontainebleau, Trojhalí Karolina, New York University, the Royal Conservatory of Music and the University of North Carolina Greensboro. He has collaborated with ensembles and artists such as the Prague Philharmonia, Imani Winds, the Moscow Contemporary Ensemble, Hanzhi Wang, the Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra and the Lincoln Centre Theatre Directors Lab.

Stephen’s work has been featured on the Ostrava Days Institute (Czech Republic), Écoles d’art américaines de Fontainebleau (France), Impuls (Austria), reMusik (Russia), Don’t Sleep In Yancheng (China), the Scarborough Philharmonic Festival (Canada), Imani Winds Chamber Festival (USA), Charlotte New Music Festival (USA), Music At The Close (USA), and SCI Regional Conference (USA).

Stephen is a winner of the prestigious Karen Kieser Prize in Canadian Music. The Karen Kieser Prize is awarded annually to a graduate student in composition whose work is judged to be especially promising.

Stephen has previously studied with Huang Ruo and Reiko Füting. He has taken lessons and master classes with Tristan Murail, Malin Bång, George Lewis, Christian Wolff, Bernhard Lang, Bright Sheng, Dmitri Kourliandski, Vladimir Tarnopolsky, Kotoka Suzuki, Gary Kulesha, Deqing Wen, Ana Sokolovic and Zosha Di Castri.

Stephen earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Toronto and a Master of Music degree from Mannes School of Music. He currently serves on the composition faculty at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.