S. Mordecai Fuhrman

Wilmington native S. Mordecai Fuhrman is a composer, orchestrator, conductor, chorister, and percussionist. He holds a Bachelor of Music from the University of Delaware and a Master of Music in Orchestral Conducting from the Cleveland Institute of Music. Beginning his career at the age of 10 with the Newark Symphony Orchestra under maestro Roman Pawlowski, he has gone on to perform with the Delaware Symphony Orchestra, Center City Opera Theater, Cleveland Pops Orchestra, Denver Philharmonic Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, and others. Past instructors in percussion include Harvey Price, Alan Abel, Chris Deviney, and Don Liuzzi, while he has studied conducting with Carl Topilow, Lawrence Golan, Michael Adelson, Kenneth Woods, Donald Schleicher, and Ronald Zollman. In August 2013, he traveled to Kyiv, Ukraine to participate in the U Artist Conductor’s Workshop, where he led musicians from the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine in an acclaimed performance of Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring suite. In December of 2016, the Newark Symphony Orchestra premiered his orchestration of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Prelude and Fugue in D Minor, Op. 87 No. 24. He now shares his life in Wilmington with his partner, Niki Purdy, along with their combined four cats.