Melissa Morgan

Music Department, Acting Department Head
Assistant Professor, Director of Choirs

Office: RC 256.9
E-mail: melissa.morgan@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5538
Website: http://www.classicmel.ca

Research interests

Choral Conducting, Prairie Choral Art Music, Dalcroze Eurhythmics, Diction, Choral Gesture, Movement and Choral Singing

Area of Specialization: Choral Conducting

Dr. Melissa Morgan is the Assistant Professor of Choral Music in the department of Media, Arts, and Performance at the University of Regina. Her responsibilities include conducting the auditioned, Chamber Singers, and the non-auditioned Concert Choir in addition to teaching courses in vocal diction and choral conducting.

An active conductor, she is frequently asked to serve as a guest clinician, adjudicator, and conductor with high school, children’s choirs, and church choirs throughout Canada. As a researcher and scholar, Dr. Morgan has contributed articles to Teaching Music through Performance in Choir, Vol. 5. She is also published in the Canadian Music Educators Journal, and the American Choral Directors Association monthly publication, Choral Journal. Her choirs have won numerous awards including, second prize in the chamber choir category of the Choral Canada National Competition for Amateur Choirs.

Doctor of Musical Arts in Choral Conducting, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, 2017

Master of Music in Choral Conducting, UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO, 2005

Bachelor of Music Education, UNIVERSITY OF REGINA, 2003

Bachelor of Arts in English, UNIVERSITY OF REGINA, 2001

ARCT in Voice, ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC, 1999

ARCT in Flute, ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC, 1999

ARCT in Piano, ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC, 1997

Recordings:

The Prairie Chamber Choir, Wake the Grain: Choral Art Music from the Prairies, conducted by Melissa Morgan, 2017, CD.

Publications:

  • Morgan, Melissa. “Do Not Be Afraid: A Discussion on Musical Appreciation vs. Appropriation.” The Choir Girl Blog. Sable Chan, November 24, 2020. http://www.thechoirgirl.ca/. 
  • Morgan, Melissa. “Teacher Resource Guide: The Old Mayflower” in Teaching Music through Performance in Choir, Volume 5, Hilary Apfelstadt and Jo-Michael Scheibe, co-editors, 567-572. Chicago: GIA Publications (2019).
  • Morgan, Melissa. “Teacher Resource Guide: Cloths of Heaven” in Teaching Music through Performance in Choir, Volume 5, Hilary Apfelstadt and Jo-Michael Scheibe, co-editors, 273-277. Chicago: GIA Publications (2019).
  • Morgan, Melissa. “Teacher Resource Guide: Sing All Ye Joyful” in Teaching Music through Performance in Choir, Volume 5, Hilary Apfelstadt and Jo-Michael Scheibe, co-editors, 348-353. Chicago: GIA Publications (2019).
  • Morgan, Melissa. “Teacher Resource Guide: Tango for Evora” in Teaching Music through Performance in Choir, Volume 5, Hilary Apfelstadt and Jo-Michael Scheibe, co-editors, 369-374. Chicago, GIA: Publications (2019).
  • Morgan, Melissa. “Teacher Resource Guide: “Sanctus” from Mass for Many Nations” in Teaching Music through Performance in Choir, Volume 5, Hilary Apfelstadt and Jo-Michael Scheibe, co-editors, 438-443. Chicago: GIA Publications (2019).
  • Morgan, Melissa. “On With the Show! Tips for Producing a Successful Musical.” Canadian Music Educators Association Journal. 59, no. 3 (2018): 36-41.
  • Morgan, Melissa. ""I Can Tell the World:" Moses George Hogan: His Life, His Song." The Choral Journal 46, no. 5 (2005): 48-61.