Christopher Morehouse, D.M.A.

About Christopher

Dr. Christopher Morehouse, Conductor of Wind Symphony, most recently served as Director of Bands and Professor of Conducting at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois. Prior to joining the faculty at SIU, he taught at the elementary, middle, and high school levels in New York and Massachusetts.

Morehouse made his Carnegie Hall debut with the SIU Wind Ensemble at the New York Band and Orchestra Festival in March 2008 and toured the People's Republic of China with the Wind Ensemble and Concert Choir in May 2009. In spring 2011, the Wind Ensemble and Concert Choir gave a concert at Chicago Symphony Center Orchestra Hall. In May 2012, May 2016, and May 2023, members of the Wind Ensemble and Concert Choir spent three weeks in Dublin, Ireland, in residence at the Gaiety School of Acting: The National Theater School of Ireland, developing and performing three original theater projects.

Morehouse has worked with several notable composers in the preparation and performance of their works and with guest artists as soloists with the SIU Wind Ensemble. Artistic collaborations include composers-in-residence Augusta Read Thomas, Morten Lauridsen, Bernard Rands, Chen Yi, Susan Botti, Dana Wilson, Frank Ticheli, Ben Hjertmann, and SIU faculty composers Kathleen Ginther, Frank Stemper, and Eric Mandat, as well as soloists Third Coast Percussion, Evelyn Glennie, and numerous SIU faculty. He has participated in the commission of over twenty works by composers Mason Bates, Susan Botti, Joseph Turrin, David Biedenbener, Kenneth Amis, Kathryn Salfelder, Carter Pann, David T. Little, and Scott McAllister, among others.

Morehouse is published in ten volumes of the Teaching Music through Performance in Band series, an encyclopedia of band literature published by GIA Publications. He maintains an active schedule as guest conductor, clinician, and adjudicator in the United States, Canada, Europe, and East and Southeast Asia.