Quinton Morris writes:
February 19, 2016
Dear Friends,
I
wanted to bring to your attention that the Seattle Times has
highlighted my BREAKTHROUGH World Tour and Short Film in today's
newspaper:
The
tour has been incredibly successful with a wonderful debut at Les Arts
Decoratifs in the Louvre Museum and a residency at the Universitie of
Paris last month. I am currently preparing for the next leg of the
tour, which will take me to Guadeloupe in March. I will be sharing more
information about all of the exciting upcoming events about the tour in
my newsletter next month!
The
article also highlights a special performance with my collaborator
Alastair Edmonstone and a panel discussion I will participant in with
Seattle artist/writer Barbara Earl Thomas and STEM educator Zithri
Saleem on the visual artwork of Kehinde Wiley. This event will take
place on Wednesday, February 24, 2016 (7:00pm) at the Northwest African
American. If you are in the Seattle area, I would love to see you
there!
Finally,
my nonprofit organization, The Quinton Morris Project is still
accepting donations towards the BREAKTHROUGH World Tour. The tour takes
us to some very remote areas to provide educational and community
projects to students who have very limited resources. We provide
everything from music lessons to manuscript paper and instruments to
those students who can't afford it. Your participation and gift is
greatly appreciated.
I look forward to connecting with you again very soon.
Best wishes,
Quinton
The Quinton Morris Project
827 Hiawatha Place South #409
Seattle, WA 98144
Tax ID: 47-4809104
development@quintonmorris.org
Seattle-based virtuoso violinist Quinton Morris will join a panel about
painter Kehinde Wiley at Northwest African American Museum on Feb. 24.
Local virtuoso violinist Quinton Morris is on a world tour, teaching
audiences about the work of Caribbean-born composer the Chevalier de
Saint-Georges.
Seattle Times
February 19, 2016
Local virtuoso violinist — and general polymath — Quinton Morris talks
about the Kehinde Wiley exhibit at SAM and his world tour to teach
audiences about Caribbean-born composer Chevalier de Saint-Georges.
Ask virtuoso violinist Quinton Morris what he’s working on at
the moment, and his answer spans thousands of miles and several
centuries.
In Seattle, where he lives, Morris will appear Feb. 24 at Northwest African American Museum (NAAM), where he will perform and participate in a panel discussion about the Kehinde Wiley exhibit at Seattle Art Museum.
Then
there’s his globe-trotting, immersive project “Breakthrough,” about the
18th-century composer-violinist...Joseph
Bologne, also known as the Chevalier de Saint-Georges. Morris’
“Breakthrough” itinerary, which does not yet include Seattle, will take
him to China, Tanzania, Thailand and Australia, among other places.
A
documentary film of that tour is being shot, while a separate
“Breakthrough” film — part of the concert experience — is making its way
into the U.S. film-festival circuit.
Then
there’s Morris’ day job at Seattle University, where he serves as
director of chamber and instrumental music, is an associate professor of
violin and chamber music and has an associate appointment in the Global
African Studies program.
Feel like a slacker yet?
NAAM, in a program-partnership with Seattle Art Museum, is presenting “Complex Exchange,” a conversation among Morris, STEM educator Zithri Saleem and writer-artist Barbara Earl Thomas about SAM’s exhibition of Wiley paintings, which present people of color (wearing contemporary attire) in the context of upper-class European portraiture.
The discussion will also cover works from the Kelly Collection of African American Art, now on view at NAAM.
Morris, fittingly, will play (with accompanist Alastair Edmonstone)
William Grant Still’s 1943 Suite for Violin and Piano, which was
inspired by paintings from the Harlem Renaissance. Still, who wrote 150
compositions, was the first African American to conduct a major symphony
orchestra (the Los Angeles Philharmonic) and write an opera (“Troubled
Island”) performed by a major company (the New York City Opera).
“He was one of the most prolific of 20th-century composers,” says Morris, “and the dean of African-American composers.”
Set in modern dress — no powdered wigs — “Breakthrough” dramatizes artistic and personal touchstones in Saint-Georges’ life.
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