Jesse Morrison joined the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra for the 2019/2020 Season. He was recently living in Toronto where he was frequently playing with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, as well as playing with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra in Minnesota. He graduated in May 2017 with a master’s degree in music from the New England Conservatory (NEC) in Boston, studying with Kim Kashkashian. Morrison had his solo debut in Jordan Hall when performing as the winner of the Chamber Orchestra Competition at NEC in 2016 and again in 2017 with the Symphony Orchestra.
Recipient of the 2016 Sylva Gelber Award, Morrison is an avid chamber musician and is an alumnus of festivals such as Yellow Barn, Kneisel Hall, the New York String Seminar, the Banff Centre, and Domaine Forget. He has also participated as artist in residence at the Flatirons Chamber Music Festival in Boulder, Colorado, “Concerts in the Barn” in Quilcene, Washington, Sunset Chamber Music Festival in Los Angeles, and NEXUS Chamber Music in Chicago. He was a member of the Neruda String Quartet in 2015/2016 in Boston, and from 2011 to 2015, he was the violist in the Arkadas String Quartet based in Toronto.
A native of Toronto, Ontario, Jesse received a bachelor of music from the University of Toronto under Teng Li, and an artist diploma from the Glenn Gould School under Steven Dann.