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Composer Kevin Morse teaches in the Department of Music at 抖阴Pro, where he held a Marjorie Young Bell Faculty Fellowship from 2013 to 2015. He is an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre and serves on the CMC鈥檚 Atlantic Regional Council. Dr. Morse is very involved in musical life on campus and is, among other roles, Chair of 抖阴Pro's Performing Arts Series. A committed and engaging educator, Dr. Morse was awarded 抖阴Pro鈥檚 J. E. A. Crake Teaching Award for the Faculty of Arts in 2015. He regularly adjudicates regional composition competitions and serves on competition juries.

Dr. Morse鈥檚 composition portfolio includes music for a wide range of diverse ensembles. His recent orchestral composition, Moth to Flame (2014), was premiered by the Prince Edward Island Symphony Orchestra and subsequently presented by New Brunswick鈥檚 Musica Viva orchestra.  Dr. Morse was a Musician-in-Residence at The Banff Centre for five weeks in the winter of 2015, undertaking revisions to his latest opera project, A Modest Proposal: a flesh-eating fable (inspired Jonathan Swift鈥檚 1729 satirical essay of the same name), which was presented in a public workshop performance in Toronto several months later. Morse鈥檚 portfolio also includes two short operas commissioned by Canada鈥檚 leading contemporary opera company, Tapestry Opera. The Shaman鈥檚 Tale, for singers and 10-foot-tall puppets (with librettist Krista Dalby) and The Colony, about the Queen of the Amazon Ants and her nemesis, an exterminator (with Governor-General鈥檚 Literary Award nominee Lisa Codrington) both premiered at Toronto鈥檚 Harbourfront Centre in 2008.

Kevin Morse was recently awarded a New Brunswick Arts Board Creation Grant for his ongoing art song project, The Canadian Wild: Songs of Lakes and Rivers, the first song of which was premiered in 2013 and toured on programs in New Brunswick and Ontario. Invocation for Solo Flute (2011) was toured throughout New Brunswick and in Sweden as part of an interdisciplinary program combining music and live visual art. Other works by Morse have been presented by The Canadian Contemporary Music Workshop鈥檚 Composers鈥� Orchestra (Toronto), contemporary music group Motion Ensemble, early music ensemble 隆厂补肠补产耻肠丑别! with noted soprano Suzie LeBlanc, as well as by numerous other solo and duo artists. 

Dr. Morse teaches courses in Composition, Orchestration, Arranging, Music in Canada, and World Music.