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"As a clarinetist, Melissa Morales brings warmth and spirit to every performance.  She is a consummate professional whom is dedicated to the craft of creating, teaching, and performing music.  It has been my honor to not only have performed alongside her, but to have her solo with my concert band and inspire my students.  It was such an invaluable experience for them to perform alongside such a bright light and virtuosic musician as Melissa Morales."

Jessica Lizana
Associate Band Director, Fontainebleau Junior High School
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Upcoming Performances

September 27, 2022
Edina High School
Clarinet Fundamentals Workshop 

Edina High School
Edina, MN

February 20, 2022 @ 1pm **POSTPONED TO 2023**
Mid-Atlantic Flute Festival: Inspirations

Program: 
Living Black Voices in the Americas
Valerie Coleman, Portraits of Langston Hughes

Sully Room 
Hilton Washington Dulles Convention Hotel
13869 Park Center Road
Herndon, VA 20171

​Past Performances

July 3, 2022 @ 9am-9:25am
ClarinetFest® 2022: Connecting People, Ideas and Cultures

Program: 
Living Black Voices in the Americas
Valerie Coleman, Portraits of Langston Hughes


The Anacostia Chamber Players:
Ceylon Mitchell, Flute
Alex Kostadinov, Piano

Peppermill Resort Spa Casino
Room: Tuscany 12
2707 S. Virginia St.  
Reno, NV 89502

June 19, 2022 @ 4:00pm
Apollo Orchestra

Program
Rachel Laurin, Movement 3 of the Concerto in D Op. 59. Julie Vidrick Evans, soloist
W.A. Mozart, Concerto in A for Violin and Orchestra, KV 219. Cho-Liang Lin, soloist 
Pablo de Sarasate, Zigeunerweisen, op. 20. Cho-Liang Lin, soloist
Beethoven, Symphony No. 1, Op. 21


Concert is free and open to the public. To be played without intermission in accordance to CDC recommendations and guidelines for concerts & performances.

Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church 
1 Chevy Chase Cir
Washington, DC 20015

Sunday, May 15th, 2022 @ 5:30pm
​
Music of Grace Concert Series Presents: Balance Campaign 
​

Program
Viet Cuong, **premiere 
Nathan Lincoln de Cusatis "ANIMAL"
Missy Mazzoli "Still Live With Avalanche"
Charles Peck "Kindling"

Concert is free and open to the public.

Grace Episcopal Church
1607 Grace Church Rd
Silver Spring, MD 20910 



May 04, 2022 @ 5:00pm
Ceylon Mitchell, The Music of Valerie Coleman

Program
Valerie Coleman, Amazonia
Valerie Coleman, Portraits of Langston Hughes
Valerie Coleman, 
Afro-Cuban Concerto for Woodwind Quintet
​

Concert is free and open to the public.

Ulrich Recital Hall
7751 Alumni Drive 
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742

May 01, 2022 @ 4:00pm
Apollo Orchestra

Program
Carlos Simon, "Fate Now Conquers"
Schuman, Concerto for Cello. Amit Peled, soloist
Mendelssohn, Symphony no. 4, "Italian"


Concert is free and open to the public. To be played without intermission in accordance to CDC recommendations and guidelines for concerts & performances.

Church of the Resurrection
3315 Greencastle Rd
Burtonsville, MD 20866

April 22, 2022 @ 7:00pm
Annapolis Symphony Orchestra & the United States Naval Academy:

Mahler Symphony No. 2

Alumni Hall

675 Decatur Rd
Annapolis, MD 21402​ 

March 18, 2022 @ 7:30pm 
March 19, 2022 @ 7:30pm
March 20, 2022 @ 3:00pm

Annapolis Opera:

Into the Woods


Maryland Hall
801 Chase Street
​Annapolis, MD



March 3, 2022 @ 8:00pm
Ceylon Mitchell, Brazillian Classical

Program
Radams Gnattali, Sonatina for Flute and Guitar
Camargo Guarnieri, Sonatina
Clarice Assad, Triptico
Julio Medaglia, Suit popular brasileira


Concert is free and open to the public.
​
Gildenhorn Recital Hall
8270 Alumni Drive
College Park, MD 20742

February 20, 2022 @ 3pm 
Annapolis Symphony Woodwind Quintet

Program: 
William Grant Still, Summerland
Eric Ewazen, Roaring Fork
Valerie Coleman, Afro-Cuban Concerto
Bernstein, Overture to Candide
John Williams, The American Process

Tickets can be purchased here.

Unitarian Universalist Church of Annapolis
333 Dubois Rd
Annapolis, MD 21401

February 12, 2022
Southeastern Louisiana's Reed Day

Southeastern Louisiana University
Department of Fine and Performing Arts
Pottle Music Hall
310 Ned McGehee Dr.
Hammond, LA 70402

December 3, 2021 @ 7:30pm 
Washington Adventist University

​Free to the public.

Washington Adventist University
7711 Greenwood Avenue,
Takoma Park, MD 20912

September 29, 2021 @ 8:00pm 
Ceylon Mitchell, Strathmore Artist in Residence Closing Concert

Program
Guantanamera
Coleman: Portraits of Langston Hughes
Tumbao a lo Paganini
Guarnieri Sonatina
Ceylon's Danzon
Pare Cochero


​Ticketed

Strathmore
5301 Tuckerman Ln
North Bethesda, MD

July 28, 2021 
Easton Clarinet Day

Schedule:
Masterclasses
Workshops
Instrument Demos
Clarinet Choir!


Free
​

Easton Middle School

201 Peach Blossom Ln,
Easton, MD 21601

March 5, 2020 @ 6:00pm
Apollo Orchestra

Program
Respighi: Trittico Botticelliano 
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37
     featuring Peter Orth, piano soloist
​

Free Concert, limited seating
**free tickets available prior to performance

Terrace Theater
John F. Kennedy Center for the Arts
2700 F Street NW
Washington, DC 20566

February 2, 2020 @ 4:00pm 
Georgetown Epiphany Festival

​

Tickets: $12.50 

Dumbarton United Methodist Church
3133 Dumbarton St NW
Washington DC, 20007

January 12, 2020 @ 4:00pm
Apollo Orchestra
 
Program
Malcomb Arnold: Concerto for Organ and Orchestra, Op. 47  Mvt. 3
     featuring Julie Vidrick-Evans, organ soloist
Bizet: Suite No.1 from L’arlesienne
Jennifer Higdon: Concerto for Viola and Orchestra
     featuring Roberto Diaz, viola soloist
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56  Scottish


Free Concert

Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church
1 Chevy Chase Cir NW 
Washington, DC 20015

November 17, 2019 @ 4:00pm
Apollo Orchestra
​
Program:

Schubert: Rosamunde Overture
Haydn: Cello Concerto C Major 
     featuring Carter Brey
Schumann: Symphony No. 4 (original version 1841)


Free Concert

Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church
1 Chevy Chase Cir NW 
Washington, DC 20015

October 26, 2019 @ 7:00pm
​
Centarius by JC Cantrell premiere

Closed Concert

Museum of the Bible
Washington, DC 20024

 September 27 @ 8:00pm
September 29, 2019 @ 3:00pm

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra​

Meyeroff
1212 Cathedral St

Baltimore, MD 21201


September 28th @ 8:00pm
Strathmore
5301 Tuckerman Ln
North Bethesda, MD 20852


Program:
Rouse - Processional: Death of Poe
Verdi - Overture to La forza del destino
Danie Bernard Roumann - Voodoo Violin Concerto
--Intermission--
Tchaikovksy - Symphony No. 4


Baltimore Symphony Orchestra​ Meyerhoff
& 
Strathmore


June 17, 2019 @ 3:00pm
Melissa Morales & Ria Yang, Artist in Residence Farewell Recital
 
​Closed Concert

Collington Assisted Living Center
10450 Lottsford Road 
Mitchellville, MD 20721

​May 4, 2019 @ 1:00pm
Melissa Morales DMA Recital #3
     William Thomas McKinley's Greatest Clarinet Works

Program:
Clarinet Duos, Book 1
Clarinet Concerto No. 2
Sonata for Clarinet & Piano

Dane Clark, clarinet
Andrew Jonathan Welch, Piano


​​Free Concert

Ulrich Recital Hall

7751 Alumni Drive 
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742

April 19, 2019 @ 6:30pm
Melissa Morales DMA Recital #2
     A Survey of William Thomas McKinley 

Program:
For One (1971)
​Mostly Blues for Marimba and Clarinet
Two romances : for violin, clarinet and piano (1984)
Intermezzo for Clarinet and Piano No. 1
Intermezzo for Clarinet and Piano No. 2


​Free Concert

Leah Smith Hall
University of Maryland
8270 Alumni Drive
College Park, MD 20742

December 7, 2018 @ 5:00pm
Melissa Morales DMA Recital #1
     Influences of William Thomas McKinley
​
Program

Clarinet Sonata by Aaron Copland 
Divertimento for Five Winds by Mel Powell
A Trio Setting by Gunther Schuller 
Tashi by Lukas Foss 

Featuring Musicians:
Sarah Park & Phoebe Suzuki, violins
Andrew Welch & Dr. Summer Xia, pianos
Sinan Wang, viola
Katie McCarthy, cello
Dr. Yongus Clark, flute
Dr. Michael Homme, oboe
Luke Spence, trumpet
Qun Ren, bassoon


​Free Concert

Gildenhorn Recital Hall
8270 Alumni Drive
College Park, MD 20742

September 24, 2018 @ 11:00am
Melissa Morales & Ria Yang, Artist in Residence Opening Recital
     Program
     Bela Kovacs - Hommage à de Falla
     Chopin - Introduction and Polonaise Brilliant
     Beethoven - Cello Sonata No.4 
          Gabriel Hightower, cello
     Miklós Rózsa - Sonatina for Clarinet Solo 
     George Gershwin - Three Preludes for clarinet and piano

 
​Free Concert

Collington Assisted Living Center
10450 Lottsford Road 
Mitchellville, MD 20721
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