Dr. Robert Huw Morgan: Commencement Organ Recital

Dr. Robert Huw Morgan: Commencement Organ Recital
Date and Time
Friday June 14th, 2019
7:30 - 9:00pm
Location
Memorial Church
About this event

Dr. Robert Huw Morgan will perform a recital of transcriptions of instrumental and orchestral works on the Fisk Nanney and Murray Harris organs including repertoire by Tchaikovsky, Gibbons, Walton, Weber, and others.

Internationally acclaimed organist Dr. Morgan is University Organist, Lecturer in Organ, and Director of both the Stanford University Singers and the Memorial Church Choir at Stanford University. The native of Wales holds dual doctorates in Organ Performance and Orchestral Conducting from the University of Washington, Seattle. At Stanford, Dr. Morgan presides over two significant organs at Memorial Church: C.B. Fisk’s Opus 85 (73 ranks) and the 1901 Murray M. Harris (57 stops), along with three other smaller instruments in Memorial Church.

Dr. Morgan is an active recitalist whose repertoire runs from the earliest sources to contem­porary music. In 2005, he performed the complete works of Dieterich Buxtehude to celebrate the Fisk organ’s 20th anniversary. In 2010–11, he performed the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach in a series of fourteen concerts on the Fisk organ. He has toured as both a soloist and accompanist in Europe, the Americas, and Australia, and his recorded perfor­mances have been broadcast in the U.S. and abroad.

In addition to his dual doctorates, Dr. Morgan holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from Cambridge University and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists. For three years, he was an Organ Scholar at St. John’s College, Cambridge University, where he was organist for the daily Chapel services and assisted in the leadership of the Chapel’s choir. His principal organ teachers include Nicholas Kynaston, Nigel Allcoat, and Carole Terry.

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Department of Music, Office for Religious Life
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