Album Notes

Steven Morgan has served as Music Director and Principal Conductor of the British Embassy Choir Tokyo since 1998. Before coming to Japan in 1995, he conducted choral ensembles at colleges and universities in Illinois, Minnesota and British Columbia. Steven has also had an extensive career in the field of liturgical music both in North America and Japan, serving as Director of Music at St. Alban's Anglican Church, Tokyo since 2001. He is a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Rikkyo Institute of Church Music, and taught as Visiting Lecturer in Choral Music at Tohoku Gakuin University in Sendai during the 2007-2008 academic year. From April 2009 he joined the faculty of Rikkyo University's Graduate School of Christian Studies as Associate Professor of Church Music History and Practice. In recent years Steven has begun to delve more into composing, and in December 2007 he conducted the world premieres of his Magnificat in Bb for chorus and wind quintet and the secular cantata Sounds of the Winter with the BEC and the BEC Festival Orchestra. He is currently working on a sacred oratorio set to Japanese texts for the Chapel Choir of Rikkyo University, scheduled for performance in October 2011.