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GOSPEL CHRISTMAS WITH
CECE WINANS
JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL
Friday, December 21, 2018, 8 pm
Eric Conway, conductor
Cece Winans, vocalist
Morgan State University Choir
Program to be announced from stage.
This program will include a 20-minute intermission.
The concert will end at approximately 10:15 pm.
PRESENTING SPONSOR:
CeCe Winans
CeCe Winans has released a slew
of duo and solo albums that cross
genres and boundaries and have
influenced a generation of gospel
and secular vocalists. Her mantel
today holds a staggering 10 Grammy
Awards, 20 Dove Awards and seven
Stellar Awards. She’s been inducted
into the Gospel Music Hall of
Fame, Hollywood Walk of Fame and
Nashville Music City Walk of Fame, in
addition to being named a Trailblazer
of Soul by BMI and garnering multiple
NAACP Image Awards, Soul Train
Awards, Essence Awards and more.
She’s sold in excess of five million
albums in the U.S. alone, topping
the Gospel charts repeatedly while
managing to cross over with smashes
like “Count On Me,” her stunning
duet with Whitney Houston from the
multi-platinum Waiting To Exhale
soundtrack, which sold two million
copies and cracked the Top 10 on the
Pop, R&B and Adult Contemporary
charts. She touched millions more
with inspirational performances
everywhere from Oprah to The
White House and even showed off
her acting chops on television series
like 7th Heaven and Doc. In 2016,
Winans became a member of the
Artist Committee for the prestigious
Kennedy Center Honors.
Eric Conway and the
Morgan State University Choir
Dr. Eric Conway is the director of the
Morgan State University Choir and
the chairperson of Morgan’s Fine and
Performing Arts Department. As director,
he has travelled all over the world,
directing the choir in the Czech Republic,
Ghana, South Africa and Colombia, to
name a few destinations.
Conway is a doctoral graduate of
the Peabody Conservatory of Music
of the Johns Hopkins University,
where he majored
in piano and
conducting and received the
prestigious Liberace Scholarship.
The Morgan Choir has performed
with several major symphony
orchestras, including the Philadelphia
Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, New
York Philharmonic and the National
Symphony Orchestra. Under Conway’s
direction, the choir has appeared in the
Grammy-nominated recording of Leonard
Bernstein’s Mass with the BSO.
Conway has led the choir in many
acclaimed performances, including
a special performance at the service
honoring Rosa Parks, the first woman
to lie in honor at our nation’s Capitol
Rotunda.
In July 2006, the choir
traveled to Prague for two concerts
with the Czech National Symphony
Orchestra. In 2008, MSUC performed
at Carnegie Hall on two separate
occasions; under the baton of Bobby
McFerrin with the St. Luke’s Orchestra
and with Marin Alsop and the BSO.
The MSUC last appeared with the Baltimore
Symphony in April 2016, performing
Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, Eric Conway
CeCe Winans makes her BSO debut.
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chorus director, Marin Alsop, conductor.