Adrian Morejon
Adrian Morejon
Adjunct Lecturer, Bassoon
- Website: adrianmorejon.com
Praised for his "teeming energy" and "precise control" by The New York Times and having "every note varnished to a high gloss" by the Boston Globe, New York–based bassoonist Adrian Morejon has established himself as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral musician.
As a soloist, Morejon has appeared in New York, Boston, Vienna, Prague, Memphis, and Miami with the Talea Ensemble, IRIS Orchestra, Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), and the Miami Symphony. He will be featured in a recording of Harold Meltzer's Full Faith and Credit, double concerto for two bassoons and string orchestra, to be released by BMOP/Sound.
An active chamber musician, Morejon is a founding member of Sospiro Winds, bassoon duo Dark & Stormy, and the Gene Project, and a member of the Dorian Wind Quintet, Talea Ensemble and Metropolis Ensemble. He has appeared with the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), the St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, the Argento Chamber Ensemble, Slee Sinfonietta and the Sinfonietta of Riverdale, and as a guest artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Boston Chamber Music Society, Chamber Music Northwest, Essex Winter Series, the Portland Chamber Music Festival and the Cooperstown Summer Music Festival.
An experienced orchestral musician, Morejon is co-principal of IRIS Orchestra and has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke's, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, The Knights and others.
Morejon was a recipient of Theodore Presser Foundation Grant, second prize of the Fox-Gillet International Competition, and a shared top prize at the Moscow Conservatory International Competition. During the past summers, he has participated in many festivals, including the Monadnock Music Festival, the Composer's Conference at Wellesley College, the NJO Academy in the Netherlands, the Chamber Music Institute, Spoleto USA, the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, National Orchestra Institute, Music Academy of the West, the Verbier Festival, and FOSJA in Puerto Rico.
Morejon completed graduate studies at the Yale School while studying with Frank Morelli. Prior to this, he studied bassoon with Bernard Garfield and harpsichord with Lionel Party at the Curtis Institute of Music. He is a bassoon professor at SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Music, Boston Conservatory and Longy School of Music of Bard College. More information may be found on his website.
