Sandy Morris

Sandy Morris, Conductor
CSO Youth Philharmonic

Sandy Morris is looking forward to her fourteenth season as Conductor of the Chattanooga Youth Philharmonic. In her thirty-plus year career as a musician/ music educator in Chattanooga, she has directed orchestras, bands, and choirs. She received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Music Education from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, as well as a Master of Music Degree in Music Education and a Master of Music Degree in Conducting from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Sandy has done graduate work in conducting and string pedagogy at the University of Iowa, Orchestral Institute of America, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and she has attended workshops sponsored by the American Symphony Orchestra League, the Conductors' Guild, and the Waterville Valley (NH) Music Center. Her conducting teachers have included Dr. Steven Bird, Dr. William Larue Jones, Dr. Marvin Rabin, and Kenneth Kiesler.

Sandy has retired from her position as Director of Strings and Music Theory at the Chattanooga Center for Creative Arts but plans to remain a very active member of the musical community. She is Music Director for Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, and Conductor of the Signal Mountain Playhouse Orchestra and is active as a clinician and adjudicator. Sandy has been honored as an Outstanding Teacher by the Tennessee Governor's School for the Arts and by Who's Who Among American Teachers.

Sandy is a free-lance flutist and keyboardist and is All State Orchestra Chair for the Tennessee Music Education Association as well as a member of Music Educators National Conference, American String Teachers Association/NSOA, East Tennessee School Band and Orchestra Association, National Education Association, Chattanooga Area Flute Society, American Federation of Musicians Local 80, and Sigma Alpha Iota.  She enjoys spending her free time with husband Ron and son Michael, who both play horn and sing in the choir at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church..