For over two decades, Tim Morrison has been impressing audiences with his singing,
lyric sound and purity of tone. Formerly Associate Principal Trumpet of the Boston
Symphony, he is now pursuing a career as a soloist, recording artist and free-lance
musician. He has appeared with orchestras in the United States and abroad, including
the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the New Japan Philharmonic, the Orquesta Sinfonica
del Estado de Mexico, the Caracas Philharmonic, the Taipei Sinfonetta, the Stavanger
Symphony, the Oregon Symphony, the Boston Classical Orchestra, the Albany
Symphony, the Pacific Symphony and recently finished a solo concert tour of Taiwan
and Japan, where he was featured as soloist and conductor with the Taipei Symphony
Orchestra and the Yokohama Chamber Orchestra. At the invitation of Seiji Ozawa,
Tim performs regularly with Ozawa’s famed Saito Kinen Orchestra and Opera Nomori
Orchestra and is presently a visiting professor at the Shobi Music School in Tokyo.

Tim also served as the Principal Trumpet of the Boston Pops Orchestra from 1987-
1997 and appeared frequently with the orchestra as a soloist for concerts, television
broadcasts and recordings. He is a favorite soloist of Pops Conductor Laureate John
Williams, who has said, “he has an American sound and his sound is very touching,
very beautiful. There is real serenity in his playing…” This appreciation has led John
Williams and other noted Hollywood composers to feature Tim on their filmscores.
He has been credited as soloist to date on the filmscores of Born on the 4th of July, JFK, Apollo 13, Panther, Nixon, Amistad, Saving Private Ryan, Bobby and Lions to Lambs. That same appreciation led John Williams to dedicate “Summon the Heroes” to Tim which he composed for the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta.

A native of Portland Oregon, Tim began his studies with Fred Sautter, the former
principal trumpet of the Oregon Symphony. He is a graduate of the New England
Conservatory of Music, where he was a student of former Boston Symphony principal
trumpeters Roger Voisin and Armando Ghitalla. Tim joined the Boston Symphony in
1980 and ended his first tenure in 1984 to tour and record with the renown Empire
Brass, performing in over 100 concerts a year. He returned to the BSO in 1987 as
Associate Principal, a post he held for the next ten years. He is heard frequently in
recital, and is in demand internationally as a clinician, having been invited to work
with students in Japan, Spain, Venezuela, Canada, Switzerland and the United States.

Tim has served on the faculties of Boston University and Boston Conservatory, the
New England Conservatory of Music, where he was the recipient of an Outstanding
Alumnus award, and is currently on the faculty of California State University,
Long Beach.