David Morrow is Associate Professor of Music at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, where he has also been Director of its famed Glee Club since for over two decades.  A native of Rochester, New York, he earned the Bachelor of Arts degree from Morehouse College in 1980.  During his undergraduate years, he became a member of Phi Beta Kappa, received the Kemper Harreld Award for Excellence in Music, also departmental honors, and graduated as Valedictorian of his class.

In 1981, Mr. Morrow received the Master of Music degree from the University of Michigan and was elected to Pi Kappa Lambda. He received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music in 1995. Major conducting teachers have included Wendell Whalum, Thomas Hilbish, Elmer Thomas, John Leman, Earl Rivers, Elizabeth Green, Teri Murai, Fiora Contino and Donald Neuen.  Master classes in conducting have been taken with Stephen Darlington, Jan Szyrocki, Dale Warland, and Sir David Willcocks.

Dr. Morrow joined the Music faculty at Morehouse College in 1981, serving as Assistant Director of the Morehouse College Glee Club until 1987, when he succeeded Dr. Wendell P. Whalum as Director of the Glee Club.  He is also Director of the Wendell P. Whalum Community Chorus, Co-Director of the Morehouse-Spelman Chorus, and Artistic Director and Conductor of The Atlanta Singers. In December 1991, he conducted the Glee Club for the Kennedy Center Honors as part of the tribute to Robert Shaw, Conductor Laureate of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.

In January of 1993, he conducted soprano Jessye Norman and the Spelman-Morehouse Chorus at Atlanta's Symphony Hall in a concert celebrating the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday. In January of 1994, he conducted the combined choruses of the Atlanta University Center and Natalie Cole singing the National Anthem for Super Bowl XXVIII.  In April of the same year, he conducted the Morehouse College Glee Club in a concert with the Black Music Repertory Ensemble at Orchestra Hall in Chicago, Illinois. In 1996, Dr. Morrow conducted the Morehouse College Glee Club during a tour of Russia and for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Atlanta Centennial Olympic Games. Recent performances with the Glee Club include a tour of Poland in 1998, in Bermuda in 2001, in the Bahamas in 2005 and in South Africa in 2008.

In June of 1990, Mr. Morrow conducted combined choirs and brass from the Atlanta University Center schools for the Academic Convocation for Nelson Mandela at Morehouse College.  He was choral director for the film, Trumpet of Conscience, produced by Turner Broadcasting, in December of 1985. He lectured on "African-American Music: The Oral Tradition" for the 1992 and 1993 Choral Conducting Workshop at the College Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati.

Dr. Morrow has served as a clinician and/or lectured at the Hampton University Ministers/Musicians Conference, the Iowa Choral Directors Association Meeting, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, the South Carolina Choral Directors Association Meeting, the University of Cincinnati, the Detroit Public Schools Mid-Semester Music Workshop, the 1998 Intercollegiate Men's Choruses, Inc. National Seminar, Miami University (Oxford, OH), and Cornell University. In the fall of 1994, Dr. Morrow presented a paper entitled "The Choral Music of Wendell Whalum" for the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History, Inc. (ASALH).  In August of 2002, he was guest conductor for the first Festival of Spirituals organized by the Centro Ecuatoriano Norteamericano in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

Dr. Morrow is a member of the Metropolitan Atlanta Musicians Association and is President of the National Association of Negro Musicians. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Intercollegiate Men's Choruses, Inc. Other memberships include the American Choral Directors Association, Chorus America, the Georgia Music Educators Association, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, and Sigma Alpha Iota.