Ben Morris
Boulder, United States
Ben Morris is a Colorado-based composer whose music tells unconventional stories and crosses genre boundaries.
Ben recently lived in Oslo, Norway on a Fulbright Grant, composing an extended big band work inspired by his Norwegian heritage. His accolades include attending the Aspen Music Festival, performing at Newport Jazz Festival, studying traditional music in Korea, and receiving ASCAP Morton Gould and Herb Alpert Awards and commissions from Washington National Opera and American Composers Orchestra. Morris graduated from Rice University and University of Miami and is pursuing his DMA at CU Boulder.