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Brett Morris is Music Director of Matthew Bourne1s New Adventures. Previously he was Musical Director of Adventures in Motion Pictures. Brett’s association with AMP began in 1999, when he conducted their multi-award winning production of Swan Lake on its UK tour. In 2000 he conducted its London season at the Dominion Theatre, together with performances at the Teatro Comunale in Ferrara and Modena. Brett conducted the world premiere of Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man in May 2000 at the start of its UK tour. He subsequently conducted its season at The Old Vic, which won the Evening Standard award for Best Musical Event of 2000, before recording the soundtrack for the Channel Four film version. In 2001 he led performances at the Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, and in April 2002 at Orchard Hall, Tokyo and Biwako Hall, Kyoto. Brett Morris has also been Staff Conductor, and then, Principal Guest Conductor, of Northern Ballet Theatre. For them he has led performances of Romeo and Juliet, Carmen, Dracula, A Simple Man, Jazz Concerto, Cinderella, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Giselle, A Christmas Carol and Swan Lake. He is also a Guest Conductor of Birmingham Royal Ballet; in March 2002 conducting for them Kenneth Macmillan’s production of Romeo and Juliet. In September 2002 he made his conducting debut with the Norwegian National Ballet. Highly regarded as a conductor of opera, for English Touring Opera Brett has conducted La Traviata, Carmen, The Rake1s Progress and The Magic Flute. For English Festival Opera he conducted La Traviata at the Queen Elizabeth II Hall, London. For Opera New Zealand and its predecessors he has given performances of La Boheme, La Serva Padrona, La Traviata, Porgy and Bess, Faust and Lucia di Lammermoor. He has assisted on productions of Don Giovanni, Turandot and Madama Butterfly. Brett Morris was born in Auckland, New Zealand where he studied conducting with Juan Matteucci, before commencing piano studies at The Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne. In London he studied orchestral conducting with Dr Norman del Mar, and completed the prestigious postgraduate conductor1s course at the Royal College of Music. In New Zealand he was Music Director of Theatre Corporate and Mercury Theatre for two and three years respectively. He was appointed Associate Conductor of the Auckland Philharmonia in 1992, going on to conduct the Wellinton Sinfonia, Christchurch Symphony Orchestra and Dunedin Sinfonia. He made his debut with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and Royal New Zealand Ballet in 1995. He makes his conducting debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden next season. |
