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The American tenor, Blake Moregan, holds degrees in music performance and education from Western Michigan University and has experience as a teacher of choir, private voice, guitar, and percussion. Additionally, he served as a student director of the Blue Lake International Choral Ensemble (2012-2013), helped to lead master-classes during his time in Chanticleer and Cantus, and now coaches young singers with Voces8 during the ensemble’s workshops.
An internationally acclaimed singer and composer, Blake Morgan is a multi-talented musician, playing several instruments, recording and composing in many different genres, and performing with a mastery of vocal flexibility. A gifted classical tenor, he has sung professionally all over the world as an oratorio soloist and also with several Grammy®-award-winning ensembles. In the popular music realm, he works as a studio session singer, and records as a Decca Classics artist; his versatile voice can be heard on itunes, television commercials, and National Public Radio. He is also sought after as a jazz vocalist and has taken the stage to perform with many internationally recognized singers and instrumentalists. He was featured in Downbeat Magazine’s Student Music Awards as the Best Vocal Jazz Soloist of 2013.
As an accomplished ensemble singer, Blake Morgan is the only musician to have been a member of both full-time choral ensembles in the USA, Cantus (until 2015) and Chanticleer. He has also performed with several award-winning chamber groups in the USA including Conspirare, Audivi (Director: Noah Horn), Pomerium, and Trinity Wall Street Choir in New York City. He was a member of Conspirare when the ensemble won its Grammy® for “Best Choral Performance” in 2015.
Away from his professional engagements Blake Morgan enjoys exploring his love of folk music. Often writing under the moniker of Esto, he has released six CD's of original songs. The most recent release, Houghton-Hancock Hum-Alongs features tracks inspired by the beautiful Upper Peninsula of his native state of Michigan. His music has received airplay on NPR and he has toured internationally with Garrison Keillor of A Prairie Home Companion.
Blake Morgan is currently (since July 2016) singing with the full-time professional British chamber group, Voces8 (Director: Barnaby Smith), and now resides in London, UK. He records and tours with the ensemble internationally. |
