Michael Morgan, a gay man and the longtime music director and conductor of the Oakland Symphony, died August 20 at Kaiser Hospital in Oakland.
He was 63. According to a statement from the symphony, Mr. Morgan had been admitted to the hospital the week before with an infection.
He had successful kidney transplant surgery in May at UCSF. Mr. Morgan had resumed conducting last month, noted the Oakland Symphony, for the Bear Valley Music Festival and San Francisco Symphony, whose gay former music director Michael Tilson Thomas this month canceled his upcoming performances with various symphonies as he recovers from surgery to treat a brain tumor.