Sandy Morris

Sandy Morris, Conductor
CSO Youth Philharmonic

Sandy Morris is looking forward to her eleventh season as Conductor of the Chattanooga Youth Philharmonic. She has directed orchestras, bands, and choirs in Chattanooga for over 25 years. 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, Kenneth Kiesler, Dr. William Larue Jones, and Dr. Marvin Rabin.

Sandy is Director of Strings and Music Theory at the Chattanooga Center for Creative Arts, Music Director for Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, and Conductor of the Signal Mountain Playhouse Orchestra. She is active as a clinician and adjudicator and 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 is All State Orchestra Chair for the Tennessee Music Education Association. She is also a member of the American String Teachers Association/NSOA, the Music Educators National Conference, the East Tennessee School Band and Orchestra Association, the National Education Association, the Chattanooga Area Flute Society, American Federation of Musicians Local 80, and Sigma Alpha Iota. Sandy enjoys spending her free time with husband Ron and son Michael, a youth orchestra alumnus who recently graduated from Auburn University with a B.S. in Environmental Design.