Education
Juilliard School.
Juilliard School.
He holds four Degrees from the Juilliard School in New York and subsequently was the second bassist ever to graduate with a Doctorate from that Institution. As a recitalist and concerto performer, He has been a frequent performer on radio broadcasts including National Public Radio"s "Performance Today", WGBH in Boston, and WQZR in New New York He has also soloed internationally with groups such as the National Orchestra of Chile, the Houston Symphony, and the Symphony Orchestra Academy of the Pacific.
He also has put out three albums titled Thresholds, Russian Rendezvous, and Bottesini"s Greatest Hits (on which he plays both the double bass and piano parts).
He also shares a Civil Defense with Gary Karr with music of Paul Ramsier. lieutenant was with that Civil Defense that Classical Civil Defense Reviews hailed him as "a most artistic representative of the new generation developed in the last half century.".
Doctor Morton was formerly a member of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra for twenty three years and for fourteen of those years, he was the principal double bassist.