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Robert Huw Morgan

University Organist
Lecturer
Area(s) of Expertise
Degrees / Education
D.M.A., Organ Performance and Orchestral Conducting, University of Washington, Seattle
M.A., St. John’s College, Cambridge
B.A., St. John’s College, Cambridge
Fellow, Royal College of Organists

Internationally acclaimed organist Robert Huw Morgan is University Organist, Lecturer in Organ, and Director of both the Stanford University Singers and the Memorial Church Choir at Stanford University. Dr. Morgan presides over two significant organs at Memorial Church: C.B. Fisk’s Opus 85 and the 1901 Murray M. Harris 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 2010–2011 he performed the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach in a series of 14 concerts on the Stanford 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 George Guest in the leadership of the chapel’s celebrated choir. His principal organ teachers include Nicholas Kynaston and Carole Terry.

A proud Welshman, Robert enjoys examining the many facets of contemporary art.