Devin Cobleigh-Morrison
Assistant Professor of Horn

Raised in Pinckney, Michigan, Dr. Devin Cobleigh-Morrison (he/him/his) is the Assistant Professor of Horn at the University of Louisville School of Music and as hornist in both faculty wind and brass quintets, and guest artist faculty and the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp. He was previously on faculty at Washburn University, fourth horn of the Lancaster Festival Orchestra, the hornist of Wingra: the University of Wisconsin-Madison's faculty wind quintet and has held various chairs with orchestras nationwide. An in-demand guest musician, he has appeared with the Cincinnati, Louisville, Milwaukee, Kansas City, and Omaha Symphonies, Dayton Philharmonic, and was guest principal horn of the Caroga Lake Music Festival. Cobleigh-Morrison is an active member of the International Horn Society, appearing in performance at multiple international symposia as a soloist, chamber musician, and arranger with the NU Corno Interational horn choir.

In his time at the University of Louisville, Cobleigh-Morrison has commissioned and premiered the work Memories for horn and piano by renoun composer for horn, Jacob White. As an educator and conductor, Cobleigh-Morrison has led the University horn choir to premier Windscapes by Wayne Lu, and Poema Sonora by Keegan Coomer.

Cobleigh-Morrison is a published arranger and editor through Veritas Musica Publishing. His horn arrangements of Lauridsen's O Magnum Mysterium, Mendelssohn's Reformation Symphony finale, and Richard Strauss' Final Trio from "Der Rosenkavalier," have been performed nationwide. He can be heard on the Omaha Symphony's live recording of Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, op. 27,  and on albums Jurriaan Andriessen; Music for Oboe and Winds by Andreas Oeste, and  “Voyage!” from the Cincinnati Pops. Dr. Cobleigh-Morrison holds a bachelor's degree from the Chicago College of Performing Arts, a master’s degree from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a jazz performance minor. His primary teachers include Elizabeth Freimuth, Daniel Grabois, Dale Clevenger, Randy Gardner, and Tom Sherwood.