Adrian Morejon

Background

About Adrian Morejon

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. Morejon will be featured in recordings of Harold Meltzer's Full Faith and Credit, double concerto for two bassoons and string orchestra, and Joan Tower's Bassoon Concerto, Red Maple, to be released by BMOP/Sound. An active chamber musician, Morejon is a member of the Dorian Wind Quintet, Talea Ensemble, bassoon duo Dark & Stormy, Gene Project and Radius Ensemble. He has appeared with the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), the St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, Imani Winds, 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, and the Essex Winter Series. 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, 2nd 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 Composer's Conference at Brandeis University, Sebago-Long Lake Music Festival, Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival, Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society, Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music Summer Music Festival, Bay Chamber Concerts, the Portland Chamber Music Festival, and the Monadnock Music Festival. Morejon completed graduate studies at the Yale School of Music while studying with Frank Morelli. Prior to this, Morejon studied bassoon with Bernard Garfield and harpsichord with Lionel Party at the Curtis Institute of Music. Morejon is currently on faculty at SUNY Purchase College Conservatory of Music, CUNY Brooklyn College and CUNY Hunter College.