Biography
About Scott Morris
Updated June 12, 2005
Scott Morris gave his New York recital debut at Carnegie Hall in April of 1998. A former student of some of the world’s greatest guitarists such as Scott Tennant, Sharon Isbin, Benjamin Verdery, William Kanengeiser, Pepe Romero, John Dearman and Jack Sanders, Scott is now a respected performer in his own right.
He has studied at Yale University, the USC Thornton School of Music, the Aspen Music Festival, the Mozarteum (Salzburg, Austria) and Claremont Graduate University from which he holds the degree of Doctorate of Musical Arts.
He has been the winner of numerous awards and competitions from the American String Teachers Association, Claremont Graduate University, Artists International, the Aspen Music Festival, CSU Summer Arts, the Glendale Symphony, the USC Thornton School of Music and the Yale School of Music.
He is heard regularly on classical radio stations throughout North America and Europe. Dr. Morris performs and tours both as a soloist and as a member of the Hollywood Guitar Duo and has performed throughout North America, Europe and Asia.
John Dearman of the Grammy Award winning Los Angeles Guitar Quartet produced his debut CD, Invocation. Niko Bolas, who has produced such artists as Neil Young and Melissa Etheridge, is producing Scott’s latest CD. The new recording, named Danza, is scheduled for release on June 21, 2005 by Eroica Classical Recordings and includes the music of Villa-Lobos and Paganini.
Scott Morris currently lives in Los Angeles, California and is the Director of Guitar Studies as California State University, Dominguez Hills.
