2011-12 Performances & Events

January 9, 2 PM

First Baptist Church (Cleveland)

January 15, 8 PM

Faculty Recital

The Curtis Institute of Music (Philadelphia)

January 23, 3 PM

Dolce Suono series recital

w/ Mimi Stillman, flute, and Yumi Kendall, cello

First Baptist Church of Philadelphia (Philadelphia)

January 30, 4 PM

Dolce Suono series recital repeated

Ursinus College (Collegeville, PA)

February 13, 4 PM

J.S. BACH Clavierubung III

Princeton (NJ) Theological Seminary

February 27

DURUFLE Requiem

Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia

First Baptist Church of Philadelphia

April 12, 7 PM

Verizon Hall / Kimmel Center (Philadelphia)

April 20, 8 PM

Duo Piano with Patrick Kreeger

MESSIAEN Visions de L'Amen

The Curtis Institute of Music (Philadelphia)

May 17-27

Paris and Toulouse, FRANCE

June 20-July 1

Kimmel Center Organ Camp (Philadelphia)

July  3-8

Westminster Organ Camp (Princeton, NJ)

July 11-16

Summer Chamber Music Festival

wth Orlando Chamber Soloists (Rapid City, SD)

July  17-22

POE Advanced

Faculty/Performer (Boston)

August 10
Ponce de Leon Baptist Church
Atlanta, GA
Two-Piano w/ Jeannine Morrison as part of benefit

August 12
Mercer University/Fickling Recital Hall
Macon, GA
Two-Piano w/ Jeannine Morrison as part of benefit

September 28 1 PM
The University Club w/ Orlando Chambers Soloists
Winter Park, FL

October 9, 6 PM
St. James Espiscopal Church
Los Angeles, CA

October 23, 4 PM
Ursinus College
Special 25th Anniversary Recital of the Heefner Memorial Organ
Collegeville, PA

October 29, 3 PM
Spivey Hall
Morrow, GA

November 13, 4 PM
St. Mark's Episcopal Church
San Antonio, TX

December 3, 7:30 PM
Ursinus College
Messiah (complete) by G.F. Handel
Collegeville, PA

2012 PREVIEW (incomplete)

February 26, 4 PM
Ursinus College
Bomberger Hall
Collegeville, PA

March 11, 3 PM
w/ Rebecca Harris, violin
Yumi Kendall, cello
Alan Morrison, piano
Sonatas by Ravel & Vierne and Schoenfield's Cafe Music
First Baptist Church of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA

April 21, 3 PM
Verizon Hall
A Celebration of John Weaver
Philadelphia, PA

April 22, 4 PM
Music of Vaughan Williams
w/ Ursinus College Choir
Ursinus College
Collegeville, PA

May 22
Marvin Cole Auditorium
w/ Dekalb Symphony Orchestra
Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini (Rachmaninoff)

June 17
Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center
Solo recital for AAM Convention
Philadelphia, PA
Time TBA

June/July
Organ Camps at Kimmel Center and Westminster Choir College

July TBA
Black Hills Chamber Music Festival
Rapid City, SD

September 21, 7:30 PM
Shryock Auditorium
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, Ill

CLEVELAND
Alan Morrison, Head of the Organ Department at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, played an elegant recital on Sunday afternoon, January 9, at First Baptist Church of Great Cleveland. His technical facility is astonishing; where most organists might leave their "big piece" for the end of the concert, Mr. Morrison started with one of the biggest in the organ repertoire, Marcel Dupré's Prelude and Fugue in B Major, Op. 7, No. 1, and moved on from there. It was a program of showstoppers."
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BIRMINGHAM

"(they) could not have chosen a better organist than Alan Morrison...As well as an exacting technical player, the professor from Curtis Institute in Philadelphia was visionary in his choice of colors and ability to shape music into lucid forms, and provided plenty of bravura when called for."

PHILADELPHIA

"In every piece, Morrison kept his instrument under restrained, precisely calculated control, so that he and the other musicians created a perfectly balanced blend."

PHILADELPHIA

Verizon Hall - Fred J. Cooper Organ Marathon

"Alan Morrison's offering proved to be the finest, most consistent playing of the day."

CLEVELAND

"...a rising young virtuoso of flawless technique and refined taste... Playing most of his repertoire from memory, he communicated a sense of pleasure that lifted the music beyond the notes. " 

SALT LAKE CITY

“Concert organist Alan Morrison knew the 4,000-plus pipes of the Eccles Memorial Organ in the Cathedral of the Madeleine like old friends. His way of combining colors and timbres made Sunday’s recital the highlight of the cathedral’s summer organ festival thus far.” 

CHARLOTTE, NC

“If more music lovers heard the king of instruments played the way he [Morrison] did, more might believe it really deserves the nickname. Nimble and fearless, [Morrison] easily made Leo Sowerby’s Pageant and other virtuoso vehicles take flight.” 

2002 AGO CONVENTION

“Morrison’s performance was riveting, as was his entire recital…” 

“Masterful command of registration and a deep understanding of the work characterized Morrison’s playing of Duruflé’s Suite, opus 5.” 

The Diapason 

“a program of grand masterworks played with the surety of, well, a grand master…”