Morgan Smith

Morgan has graduated from Columbia College, Columbia University and Columbia University and the Mannes College of Music. In New York City he was chosen to be the Seattle Opera "young artist" (1999-2000). The singer made his professional debut at Seattle Opera in 2001 in Billy Budd. A great favorite in Seattle, Mr. Smith has performed roles in 12 other productions since his debut, including Count Alamaviva as Count Alamaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni (title role), Silvio in I Pagliacci, Riccardo in I Puritani, and Peter Niles in Mourning Becomes the Electra. An established performer on the concert stage Smith has also performed in several other productions. Smith made his Dallas Symphony debut in Bach's St. Matthew Passion, and made his debut with his orchestra, the San Antonio Symphony for the North American premiere of Vier Praludien und Ernste Gesange, Detlef Glanert's orchestral arrangement of the popular work by Brahms. Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, the Requiems composed by Brahms as well as Faure and Mozart and the two Masses in C Minor as well as G Minor written by Vaughan Williams, Bach's B Minor Mass and numerous Cantatas as well as The Handel's Messiah, L'Allegro il Penseroso and the Moderato. the Haydn's The Creation, Lord Nelson Mass and Haydn's The Creation are also included in the concert program.