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Michael Morgan, conductor
Michael Morgan has led the Oakland East Bay Symphony for 20 seasons. He has appeared with the New York Philharmonic several times at the invitation of Leonard Bernstein, and has also conducted the New York City Opera, the National, Haifa, Baltimore, Houston, Seattle, Detroit, Atlanta and Vancouver symphonies, as well as the Royal Flanders, Los Angeles and Warsaw philharmonics and the Philadelphia Orchestra. While a student at Oberlin, he spent a summer at the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood, where he studied under Gunther Schuller and Seiji Ozawa and worked with Leonard Bernstein. After winning the Hans Swarowski International Conductors Competition at age 23, he became assistant conductor of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, under Leonard Slatkin. He serves as the music director of the Sacramento Philharmonic, as Artistic Director and Music Director of Festival Opera and heads the Graduate Conducting Program at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
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