Rhetta Bio
Rhetta Morgan is a well-known music recitalist, educator, and innovator. She blends musical elements from her conservatory education, gospel music background, and love for popular music into the songs she creates and performs. She boldly intertwines various spiritual principles to create a unique sound. Ms. Morgan was educated at the prestigious Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, Maryland. A noted recitalist in the Washington, D.C. area, she performed at the Children’s Opera Theater, the Washington Performing Arts Society and the District of Columbia Youth Chorale, as well as many other venues. For three consecutive summers, Ms. Morgan concertized in England with the Lady Chapel Singers as a soloist and served as an advisor in the performance practice of spirituals. Ms. Morgan is featured as a soloist and arranger with the Lady Chapel Singers on an internationally acclaimed CD. Her tour of England and Germany this past summer was celebrated with accolades from local newspaper critics. Recently, she was received enthusiastically by the Johnson Historic Site, in a one-woman show titled, “Journey Toward Freedom”, a chronicle of spirituals and slave narratives. A distinguished church musician, Ms. Morgan, soloed at St. Mark’s Church of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for three years. Afterwards, she served as the choir director for St. Gabriel’s Episcopal Church of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for another three years. She is a regular guest artist at St. David’s of Rosemont, Pennsylvania; St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral of Wilmington, Delaware; and Grace Epiphany and Germantown Presbyterian Churches of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
SONWRITER
Songs of light: music to uplift the spirit and sooth the soul.
Ms. Morgan has combines elements from her conservatory education, gospel music upbringing, and love for popular music to create a unique musical sound, intertwined with universal spiritual principles. She seeks to produce music that participates in an interfaith dialogue to promote a heightened respect for the many spiritual belief systems within society.
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