Michael Morgan
Adjunct Instructor, Music Technology

B.M. (Delaware)

Phone: 302.831.2577
Fax: 302.831.3589
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Michael Morgan is an adjunct instructor in the Music Department specializing in music technology, MIDI, and computer-based recording and notation. He also serves as Director of Communications and Media Relations and Director of the Music and Multimedia Center at The Tatnall School in Wilmington. A summa cum laude graduate of the University of Delaware with a degree in theory/composition, Mr. Morgan was named Delaware Composer of the Year in 1986 by the Delaware State Music Teachers Association, which commissioned his Elegy and Fanfare for nine brass instruments. He is an award-winning commercial music composer and arranger as well, having produced music and corporate video soundtracks for several regional and national businesses and institutions. Much of his work in this field involves the use of electronic instruments and computer hardware and music-related software. A former Senior Technical Editor for the University's Instructional Technology Center, he has written and edited several music software publications, and produced the music notation component of the critically acclaimed scholarly work, The Mistress, by the late Thomas Calhoun and J. Robert King. Mr. Morgan is a frequent consultant to schools and colleges establishing music technology laboratories and curricula. Along with Michael Arenson of the Music Department, he served as co-director of a project funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Post-secondary Education that developed interactive software that teaches the fundamentals of jazz theory and improvisation.