Christopher Morehouse

Director of Bands
Assistant Professor
Altgeld 118C
(618) 453–5813
cmoreh@siu.edu

University Bands

 

Christopher Morehouse is Director of Bands and Assistant Professor of Music at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, where he serves as conductor of the SIUC Wind Ensemble, teaches undergraduate and graduate conducting, wind literature, and instrumental methods, and administers the entire university bands program. He made his Carnegie Hall debut with the SIUC Wind Ensemble at the New York Band and Orchestra Festival in March 2008. Prior to joining the faculty at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Dr. Morehouse taught at the elementary, middle, and high school levels in New York and Massachusetts for seven years. He has served as the conductor of the University of Dayton (Ohio) Symphonic Wind Ensemble, conductor and music director of the Cincinnati Youth Wind Ensemble, assistant conductor for the Concord (Massachusetts) Band, guest conductor of the Metropolitan Wind Symphony, and commissioned works project chairperson on the executive board of the Massachusetts Instrumental and Choral Conductors Association. Dr. Morehouse has published articles in two volumes of the Teaching Music through Performance in Band series, a national encyclopedia of band literature published GIA Publications, and recently contributed clinic reviews for the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles International Conference held in Killarney, Ireland. In addition to Carnegie Hall, his ensembles have been chosen to perform at the Illinois Music Educators Association All-State Conference (SIUC Wind Ensemble) and the Massachusetts Music Educators Association All-State Conference (Belmont High School ensembles). He maintains an active schedule as guest conductor, clinician, and adjudicator and is currently a member of the College Band Directors National Association, the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, MENC: The National Association for Music Education, and the Illinois Music Educators Association.

 

Dr. Morehouse received his Bachelor of Music degree in music education from Ithaca College, Master of Music degree in wind ensemble conducting from the New England Conservatory of Music as a student of Frank Battisti, and Doctor of Musical Arts degree in conducting, wind emphasis, from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music as a student of Rodney Winther. He joined the School of Music faculty at Southern Illinois University Carbondale in August 2005.

Sound/Video Clips

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Personal Statement

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Courses

  • MUS 014/566C: Concert Wind Ensemble
  • MUS 305: Instrumental Music in the Schools, 4–12
  • MUS 316: Introduction to Conducting
  • MUS 454: Advanced Topics in Instrumental Music: Survey of Wind Literature
  • MUS 556: Advanced Conducting
  • MUS xxx: Music Education Lab Ensemble
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