David Morgan is best known as a jazz bassist. In the past year
he has shared the stage with many leading jazz musicians. Morgan performs regularly with the
Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, the Jack Schantz Jazz Unit, and with a variety of
smaller ensembles. He has also appeared with The Cleveland Orchestra, the Akron
Symphony, and the Cleveland Chamber Symphony. Morgan, who holds a M.M. in
Music Theory and a D.M.A. in Composition from the University of Texas at Austin,
is also active as a theorist and composer. His theoretical research has focused
on the harmonic and melodic vocabulary of contemporary jazz, and he has
presented two papers at National Meetings of the Society for Music Theory. He
also has had an article published in the Annual Review of Jazz Studies. His
compositions for jazz and classical ensembles are performed throughout the
world. A recording of his Romance with American flautist Katherine DeJongh was
released in 2002 on the Errato label.
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