Gareth Morris

Gareth Charles Walter Morris (born May 13, 1920 in Clevedon / Somerset , † February 14, 2007 ) was an English flautist .

Career

The son of the pianist Enid Payne , a student of Robert Teichmüller in Leipzig, attended the Bristol Cathedral School and began playing the flute at the age of twelve. Two years later he began studying with Robert Murchie at the Royal Academy of Music , which he finished after he was banned from taking part in a performance of Bach's St. Matthew Passion.

In 1939, Morris made his debut as a soloist at Wigmore Hall . During the Second World War he was first flautist in the RAF Symphony Orchestra . After the war he worked in London with various chamber orchestras, as a soloist and with the Dennis Brain Wind Ensemble . In 1948 Walter Legge brought him to the Philharmonia Orchestra, which he had founded, to succeed Arthur Gleghorn . Here he performed under the direction of Otto Klemperer , Wilhelm Furtwängler and Herbert von Karajan . After the dissolution of the Philharmonic in 1964, Morris became director of the subsequent New Philharmonia Orchestra , from which he separated in 1972 for health reasons and due to artistic differences.

Morris gave English premieres of compositions by William Alwyn , York Bowens , Jacques Iberts , Gordon Jacobs , Frank Martins , Bohuslav Martinůs , Francis Poulencs , Sergei Prokofievs and Mátyás Seibers ; Gordon Jacob dedicated his Flute Concerto to him and Alan Rawsthorne his Concerto for Flute and Horn.

Since 1945, Morris taught at the Royal Academy. His students included the flutists David Butt (BBC Symphony Orchestra), David Haslam (Northern Sinfonia), Sebastian Bell (London Sinfonietta), Alan Lockwood (BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra) as well as Fritz Spiegl , Atarah Ben-Tovim and Colin Chambers (Royal Liverpool Philharmonic). In 1986, Morris retired from teaching at the Royal Academy, but still gave private lessons. In 1991 his flute school Flute Technique appeared . His brother Christopher Morris was a music publisher at Oxford University Press , his brother James, who accompanied Edmund Hillary on the first ascent of Mount Everest in 1951, became known as a travel writer under the name of Jan Morris .

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personal data
SURNAME	Morris, Gareth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Morris, Gareth Charles Walter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English flautist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 13, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH	Clevedon (Somerset)
DATE OF DEATH	February 14, 2007