Imogen Morgan
Imogen Morgan is the Assistant Master of the Music at St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh. Between 2017-2020, Imogen was the Senior Organ Scholar of Durham Cathedral and University College, Durham; the latter with whom she recorded Duruflé’s Requiem for their album ‘In Memoriam’, released on the Priory Records label in July 2020. Imogen read Music as an undergraduate at Durham University, where she specialised in solo organ performance and music psychology. She graduated in January 2021 with First Class Honours and had two papers published in the University’s Music and Science Journal. Prior to her appointment in Edinburgh, Imogen spent a year as the Organ Scholar of Peterborough Cathedral. She is a prizewinning Fellow of the Royal College of Organists and was a finalist in the 2020 Northern Ireland International Organ Competition.
Imogen is an experienced solo recitalist and has performed in numerous cathedrals nationally and internationally. In 2022, she gave a recital in St Paul’s Cathedral as part of the UK premiere of William Whitehead’s completed Orgelbüchlein Project; performing Chorales by eight leading contemporary composers (including Cecilia MacDowall and Gabriel Jackson), composed to finish Bach’s incomplete set.
Imogen gained formative musical training as a chorister at Ripon Cathedral where she began her organ studies with Edmund Aldhouse. She was subsequently appointed Senior Organ Scholar at St Catherine’s School, Bramley where she was mentored by Jennifer Bate. In 2022, Imogen was appointed co-chair of the Cathedral Music Trust’s ‘Future Leaders Group’, which aims to “bring fresh insight into supporting choral and organ music across the UK and further afield.”