Victor Morris

Resume & Biography:  

Victor has been blessed with guidance from the late maestros Anton Guadagno, tenor Franco Corelli, and basso contante George Peckham, and maestra Ellen Faull, as well as maestra Grace Bumbry and present mentor, maestro George Shirley. Prepared roles include Otello, Manrico (Il Travatore), Dick Johnson (La fanciulla del West), and Jean Valjean (Les Miserables). Victor recently debuted at The Apollo Theatre, singing arias and spirituals.

In Theatre, Victor was Curio, flautist, and assistant music director in Twelfth Night for Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and Aslan in the musical Narnia for Northwest Children’s Theater. He will be in the title role of Othello for Artist’s Repertory Theatre in Portland Oregon in Spring 2010.

Film credits include Sleepless in Seattle, Bigger Than The Sky, and the upcoming Freeman Brother’s Wake Before I Die, and Gus Van Sant’s Restless. Victor has also guest starred on the TNT television series Leverage with Timothy Hutton.

Victor is proficient in trumpet ,euphonium, mellophone horn, and bass flute, and is a recipient of the Accomplished Musician’s Award (Voice) in the IBLA Grand Prize Vocal Competition in Ragusa-Ibla, Italy.