Music Director
Huw Morgan
Huw Morgan was born in Newport, South Wales, in 1975; he read music at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he was also organ scholar, learning with Stephen Farr. Huw graduated in 2007 from the Royal Academy of Music, winning the Olwen Doreen Leyshorn prize, after studying choral conducting with Patrick Russill (London Oratory) and Paul Brough (Hanover Band). At the Academy he continued his organ studies with David Titterington and Susan Landale and also received tuition in singing from David Lowe
Huw was Director of Music for five years at All Saints’, Blackheath, south London, and held the same post at St John the Evangelist, Hyde Park Crescent before taking his current position of Director of Music at St Laurence, Catford in 2006. Recent and forthcoming recitals include St Mary Redcliffe (Bristol), Coventry and Newcastle Cathedrals, Tewkesbury Abbey, and St Michael’s, Croydon. In 2007 and 2008 Huw has given first performances in this country of works by Kurt Estermann and Herbert Paulmichl.
As well as being Director of Music of the Hanover Choir, Huw is also Director of the Merbecke Singers of Southwark Cathedral, founder and Director of the Blackheath Camerata, and works regularly with the Bexley Youth Choir. He administrates and produces for Sfz Music, the record label of His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, and was music advisor on a forthcoming major British film starring Brenda Blethyn. He also has a growing reputation as a composer, with a new work commissioned by Southwark Cathedral performed on July 14 this year to mark the 600th anniversary of the death of the poet John Gower.