Dr. Steven Morgan has had an extensive career in the field of choral music. Before moving to Japan in 1995 he conducted choirs at colleges and universities in Illinois, Minnesota and British Columbia. Dr. Morgan also has extensive experience in the..
Dr. Steven Morgan has had an extensive career in the field of choral music. Before moving to Japan in 1995 he conducted choirs at colleges and universities in Illinois, Minnesota and British Columbia. Dr. Morgan also has extensive experience in the field of liturgical music both in North American and Japan. He served as Director of Music at St. Alban's Anglican Church in Tokyo from 2001-2010, and taught as Visiting Lecturer in Sacred Music at Tohoku Gakuin University in Sendai during the 2007-2008 academic year. Steven is a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Rikkyo Institute of Church Music, and in April 2009 joined the faculty of Rikkyo University's Graduate School of Christian Studies as Associate Professor of Church Music History and Practice. He has also served as Music Director and Principal Conductor of the British Embassy Choir Tokyo since 1998 and is in his second season as conductor of the Chiba International Singers. In December 2007 Dr. Morgan conducted the world premieres of his Magnificat in Bb for chorus and wind quintet and the secular cantata Sounds of the Winter with BEC Tokyo and the BEC Festival Orchestra. In 2009 he composed a set of pieces for chamber vocal ensemble and piano on poems of Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams on the occasion of the Archbishop’s historic visit to Japan. In October 2011 Dr. Morgan conducted the world premiere of "In Pace: A Requiem of Peace" in Tokyo.
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