Andrew Morrison (10)

Andrew Morrisson was educated at Brentwood School in Essex, where he studied organ with Dr Edgar Brice from the Royal Academy of Music, and at Imperial College, London, where he studied chemistry. Following a move to Aberdeen to study for a PhD at the Macaulay Institute, he was appointed Assistant Organist at St Andrew’s Cathedral, Aberdeen, and then Organist and Master of the Choristers in 1983, succeeding Geoffrey Pearce, a post he still holds. He is the Associate Head of the School of Pharmacy & Life Sciences at the Robert Gordon University Aberdeen. Professor Morrisson has conducted the St Andrew’s Cathedral Choir in numerous radio and television broadcasts and has made a number of recordings, including a solo organ CD to mark 21 years tenure at the Cathedral. He has conducted the Cathedral Choir in over 20 of the major churches in the United Kingdom, most recently in St Paul’s Cathedral, London, Canterbury Cathedral and York Minster. In 2005 he led the Cathedral Choir, including the newly formed Cathedral Girls’ Choir, on a tour of New York, Boston and Hartford, Connecticut. Prof Morrisson has also conducted several Aberdeen choirs, most notably Con Anima, and has been involved with co-operation between cathedral music departments across Scotland for many years.