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The Welsh-born organist, choral conductor and lecturer, Robert Huw Morgan, received his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees from Cambridge University and in 1989 became a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists. Between 1985 and 1988, he was an Organ Scholar at St. John’s College, Cambridge University, where his duties included playing the organ for the daily services in the College Chapel, and assisting in the direction of the celebrated choir of boys and men. During that time, he studied organ repertoire with the great British virtuoso, Nicholas Kynaston, and improvisation with Nigel Allcoat.
In July 1999, he was awarded two doctorates in Organ Performance and Orchestral Conducting from the University of Washington in Seattle, where his teachers were Professors Carole Terry (organ) and Peter Eros (conducting). From 1994 to 1996, he was staff piano accompanist at the University of Washington School of Music and thereafter, for three years, was Assistant Conductor of the University Symphony Orchestra and Opera.
Robert Huw Morgan is the University Organist at Stanford University Memorial Church, a position he has held since 1999. He performs a wide repertoire of organ music, from the earliest sources to contemporary music. In 2005, Dr. Morgan performed the complete organ works of Dietrich Buxtehude in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the landmark Fisk organ at Stanford University. In the academic year 2010-2011 he performed the complete organ works of J.S. Bach, a series of fourteen concerts celebrating the 25th birthday of the Fisk organ. As both an accompanist and soloist, he has toured in Europe, America, and Australia and has recorded performances for BBC Television and Radio, as well as television and radio stations in the USA, Australia, and Canada.
As a conductor, he has led performances of several operas (Falstaff, Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel & Gretel and Die Fledermaus, among others), as well as large-scale choral works including J.S. Bach's St. John Passion (BWV 245) and Mass in B minor (BWV 232), W.A. Mozart's Requiem and Mass in C minor, and the Vespers of Sergei Rachmaninov and Monteverdi.
In addition to his duties as University Organist, Robert Huw Morgan also holds the positions of Lecturer in Organ, Director of the Stanford University Singers, and Director of the Memorial Church Choir. He currently lives in San Francisco, California. |
