Dexter Morrill

Dexter Morrill was born in North Adams, Massachusetts in 1938. He studied composition with William Skelton, Leonard Ratner and Robert Palmer. During the 1960's, he was a Ford Foundation Young Composer Fellow in University City, Missouri. Since 1971 Morrill has been the Director of the Computer Music Studio at Colgate University, where he is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Music. His computer music compositions have received performances in North American, Australian, Eastern and Western European countries. Morrill was a Guest Researcher at IRCAM in 1980, a Visiting Professor of Music at SUNY Binghamton and Stanford Universities, and has spent a part of his time on the analysis/synthesis of trumpet tones. He has received several composition grants from the New York State Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and has worked on special jazz projects for Stan Getz and Wynton Marsalis. The author of a book on Woody Herman, Morrill has made a number of recordings. He started the One-Thirty Jazz Band.

Spring 2001 was Dexter's last semester of active teaching in the Colgate Music Department. He is now the custodian of the Bob Blackmore Jazz Archives and the Thor Eckert Collection of LPs, housed in the Case Library.

Last Updated: June 26, 2001
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