Eric Conway, Conductor
Morgan State University Choir
Eric Conway is currently the Director of the Morgan State
University Choir
as well as Chairperson of the Fine Arts Department. He has
served as Associate
Conductor and principal accompanist for the Morgan State
University Choir for the
past twenty years under the leadership of the late Nathan
Carter.
He received his Doctor of Musical Arts Degree from the
Peabody
Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University where he
majored in Piano
Performance and minored in Conducting. While at the
Peabody, Conway was a
recipient of the prestigious Liberace Scholarship, as well
as a winner in the Yale
Gordon Concerto Competition where earned the honor of
playing Rachmaninoff’s
2nd
Piano Concerto with the Peabody Symphony Orchestra.
Some of his significant accomplishments as pianist include,
a tour of Eastern
Africa, sponsored by the United States Information Agency.
One of the highlights
of the tour was a solo performance for Madagascan
television and radio. He has
performed as soloist with several orchestras including,
Baltimore Symphony
Orchestra, Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, Baltimore Concert
Artists, Johns
Hopkins Symphony Orchestra, Georgetown University
Orchestra, and the
Millbrook Orchestra in Shepardstown, West Virginia. In
January, 2006 he
performed Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 with the
Baltimore Symphony
Orchestra at the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall to wide acclaim.
Dr. Conway is also sought after as a collaborative artist.
He has worked
with several leading artists including Trevor Wye, Hillary
Hahn, Daniel Heifetz,
William Brown, Janice Chandler, to name a few. He is also
an orchestral pianist
for the Baltimore Symphony. In 1994 and 1997, he toured
with the orchestra to
Eastern Asia.
Dr. Conway’s choral accomplishments include working closely
with some
of the greatest conductors of the 20th
Century including Robert Shaw, Sir Nevelle
Mariner, and Donald Neuen. In 2001, he was chorusmaster for
the Baltimore
Symphony Chorus’ performance of the Verdi Requiem. He
travels around the
mid-Atlantic area giving Choral Master Classes and
workshops for Collegiate and
High School levels. In June of 2006, Dr. Conway was
Chorusmaster for
performances of Mahler Symphony #2, ending the tenure of
Baltimore
Symphony’s music director, Yuri Temirkanov.
In addition to his musical accomplishments, he holds
degrees in both
Accounting and Business Management and is also a Certified
Public Accountant.
Dr. Conway is married to Bessie Elizabeth Conway, and they
are blessed to
have three sons, Eric, Jr.; Christopher; and
Ryan.