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Sean Morris, Conductor

Sean is a London-based conductor who has spent most of his early career working with semiprofessional and amateur orchestras, choirs, and chamber groups in the UK and abroad. A firm believer in the power and importance of community music making, Sean is delighted to be at the helm of the musical development of the Saturday Music Orchestra. Sean began his conducting studies with Phillip Scott (former NYWE director) while studying at Well’s Cathedral School, and has gone on to observe and receive tuition with eminent conductors and gurus Christopher Aide, Collin Metters, Sian Edwards, Toby Purser, and Raffaello Samglibini and is a former pupil of the George Hurst Conducting School.

Sean has held positions with the Orpington Symphony Orchestra, and The King’s Players, and has performed regularly with King’s Opera and new opera group Spectra Ensemble. He has also founded several ensembles, most notably his own orchestra, The New Age Ensemble.
An advocate for new music, Sean works regularly with young composers to give them a platform. While studying at King’s College London, Sean founded the Modern Music Society, the university’s first student body addressing music from the 20th Century onwards. Since leaving university, he has routinely worked as an opera and choral MD. Notably, Sean has premiered Lewis Coenen-Rowe’s Collision (2017) at Arcola Theatre Opera Festival and later Last Thursday (2018); Matthew King’s fairytale opera The Snow Queen (1994); and most recently led performances of Benjamin Britten’s masterpiece The Turn of the Screw.

Alongside SMO, Sean is also conductor for the Lambeth Wind Orchestra for the 2026/27 season.
A trumpeter by training and keen musicologist, Sean has received scholarships and awards for his musical pursuits from Wells Cathedral School, the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, King’s College London, and University of Oxford.

Committee members

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Chairman	Philip Hull
Secretary	Jenny Finch
Treasurer	Edmund Bradley
Conductor	Sean Morris
Leader	David Thompson
Librarian	Ann Moore
Membership	Jill Boreham
Social Activities	Maggie Nunn
Website	Mary Percival