Robert Huw Morgan


Robert Huw Morgan, organist

Saturday, November 10, 2018 at 7:30 p.m.
Free Admission ~ Voluntary offering

Internationally acclaimed organist Robert 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 on the University’s campus.

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 2020–2011 he performed the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach in a series of 14 concerts on the Stanford Fisk organ. He has toured as a 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, Carole Terry and Peter Eros.

Program:

  • Henry Smart: Postlude in D
  • Richard Wynslate: Lucem tuam
  • Thomas Preston: Beatus Laurentius
  • Thomas Tomkins: Fancy: ye viols
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonata V in C, BWV 529
  • Franz Liszt: Fantasie und Fuge über den Choral Ad nos, ad salutarem undam S.259

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