Michael Morgan (conductor) Conservatory of Music, he spent a summer at the Oberlin College Conservatory at Tanglewood. There he was a student of Gunther Schuller and Seiji Ozawa, and it was at that time that he first worked with Leonard Bernstein. In 1980, he won first prize in the Hans Swarovsky International Conductors Competition in Vienna, Austria and became Assistant Conductor of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, under Leonard Slatkin. His operatic debut was in 1982 at the Vienna State Opera in Mozart's "The Abduction from the Seraglio". In 1986, Sir Georg Solti chose him to become the Assistant Conductor of the Chicago
Hélène Lindqvist Theater Ulm. While there, she sang, among others, the parts of Kostanze in The Abduction from the Seraglio, Ninetta in The Love for Three Oranges, Gilda in Rigoletto, (als steppende) Electress Marie in Der Vogelhändler, Fiorilla in Il turco in Italia, Alcina in Alcina, Euridice in Orfeo ed Euridice and also Mary Magdalene in Jesus Christ Superstar. Meanwhile, as a freelance artist, Lindqvist is in demand, both in Germany and abroad, as a concert and art song singer. Her repertoire reaches from the early Baroque, concerning sacred compositions, through the modern period. This encompasses works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Anton