Kevin Morgan was
born on Anglesey, North Wales, settling in the Midlands
at the age of seven. The local brass band, Ratby, ran a
junior band at the school, conducted by the
inspirational Betty Anderson and Kevin was encouraged
to join on the last remaining spare instrument - a
trombone. This eventually led to positions in the
National Youth Brass Band and the Leicestershire
Schools Symphony Orchestra where his teacher was Les
Piper.
Despite embarking on an engineering degree, Kevin
realised that music was important to him (and a lot
less difficult than mathematics) and changed to a music
degree at City University, London. This was followed by
a postgraduate year at the Guildhall School of Music
and Drama. During this period he studied with Peter
Gane and Eric Crees and gained positions with the
European Communuty Youth Orchestra and the Young
Musicians Symphony Orchestra.
After a brief career as a security guard followed by a
tour of The Sound of Music, Kevin auditioned for the
Bournmouth Symphony Orchestra, trialled for two weeks
and started the job in April 1987.
During his twnty years in the BSO, Kevin has knocked
down and nearly rebuilt a house, written a dictionary
of plumbing expletives and scored three runs for the
BSO cricket team. He is currently learning how to use a
home recording studio without shouting and spends many
hours in the attic looking for his college trombone
quartet arrangements.
Kevin has performed with many of the UK's symphony
orchestras (LSO, LPO, CBSO, BBCNOW) and has appeared as
a soloist with a number of brass and wind bands in the
South West. In addition, as a result of the Bournemouth
Symphony's outreach work, he gained an MA in Music
Education and regularly visits schools to present both
performance and curriculum linked projects. He has
tutored youth orchestras and brass bands (including the
National Youth Brass Band of Wales), given
masterclasses for the National Youth Orchestra and at
the Guildhall School of Music.
As a composer, Kevin's music has been performed by
Kokoro (the modern music ensemble of the BSO), the Mini
BSO (the BSO's five piece education ensemble),
Bournemouth Symphonic Brass and various brass and
trombone ensembles in the UK and USA. He has also
written for various media projects as well as creating
all the original music for his album "Off the beaten
tracks".