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Affiliate Artists
Chamber Chorale Affiliate Artists
Laura Dahl, pianist
Robert Huw Morgan, organist
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Laura Dahl, pianist
Pianist Laura Dahl, active as a performer
both in the United States and abroad, has played in venues including the
Berlin Philharmonic, the Henley Festival (England), Davies Symphony Hall,
the Carmel Bach Festival, and the Tanglewood Music Festival. Dahl was
formerly the Associate Director of the San Francisco Boys Chorus and with
them her engagements included a recital at Carnegie Hall, a critically
acclaimed benefit concert with mezzo soprano Frederica von Stade, and
an appearance at the San Francisco Stern Grove Festival with mezzo
soprano Susan Graham.
Dahl is a member of the music faculty at Stanford University, where she
teaches collaborative and solo piano, chamber music, art song interpretation,
and diction. In addition, she was Music Director of the 1999 Stanford
production of Threepenny Opera. Internationally in demand as a teacher
and coach, Dahl has also served on the faculty of the New National Theatre
Young Artists Training Program in Tokyo, Japan.
Together with violinist Dawn Harms and cellist Emil Miland, Dahl
is a founding member of the Harmida Piano Trio which is quickly
building a reputation as a uniquely passionate and accomplished ensemble
on the American chamber music scene. Each member brings years of
acknowledged artistry and experience to the trio which celebrates the
standard literature as well as a commitment to the commissioning and
performing of new works. Recent performances include a critically
celebrated appearance at the Other Minds Festival in San Francisco.
Dahl set a precedent as the first musician to be named a German Chancellor's
Scholar of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 1992. She lived two years
in Germany, studying under the tutelage of pianist Phillip Moll and baritone
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. In association with the San Francisco Opera Center,
Dahl was Assistant Conductor for Western Opera Theater in 1996, as well as a
member of the Merola Opera Program. Dahl was an invited fellow at the
prestigious Tanglewood Music Center for two years and has held coaching
and accompanying positions at San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the
New England Conservatory of Music, the Banff Academy of Singing, the Music
Academy of the West, and the University of Michigan Opera Theater. Dahl's
education includes the Master of Music Degree with highest honors from the
New England Conservatory of Music. She was a student of Margo Garrett,
Martin Katz, and Eckart Sellheim.
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Robert Huw Morgan, organist
Robert Huw Morgan is the University Organist at
Stanford University. A native of Wales, he received his BA and MA from Cambridge
University and in 1989 became a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists.
Between 1985 and 1988, he was an Organ Scholar at St. John's College,
Cambridge University where his duties included playing the organ for the
daily services in the College Chapel, and assisting in the direction of the
celebrated choir of boys and men. During that time, he studied with the
great British virtuoso, Nicholas Kynaston. In July 1999, he obtained two
DMAs in Organ Performance and Orchestral Conducting from the University of
Washington in Seattle, where his teachers were Professors Carole Terry
(organ) and Peter Eros (conducting). From 1994 to 1996 he was a staff
piano accompanist at the University of Washington School of Music and
thereafter, for three years, was the Assistant Conductor of the University
Symphony Orchestra and Opera. In this role, he conducted performances of
The Magic Flute, Die Fledermaus, Hansel & Gretel, and Falstaff. As both
an accompanist and soloist, he has toured in Europe, the U.S., and Australia
and has recorded performances for BBC Television and Radio, as well as for
television and radio stations in the United States, Australia, and Canada.
In addition to his duties at Memorial Church he also holds the position of
Lecturer in Organ at Stanford University, and is the director of the Stanford Memorial Church Choir and the Department
of Music's 50-voice concert choir, the
Stanford University Singers.
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