Michael Morgan (conductor)

There he was a student of Gunther Schuller and Seiji Ozawa, and it was at that time that he first worked with Leonard Bernstein.

He taught a conducting workshop in Winnipeg, Canada and returned to South America as a guest conductor.

In 2005 he was honored by the San Francisco Chapter of The Recording Academy with the 2005 Governors Award for Community Service.

On the opposite coast, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) chose Morgan as one of its five 2005 Concert Music Award recipients.

[2] ASCAP further honored Oakland East Bay Symphony in 2006 with its Award for Adventurous Programming.

The San Francisco Foundation honored him with one of its Community Leadership Awards, and he received an honorary doctorate from Holy Names University.