John Morrow is an Oklahoma native who currently lives and works in Connecticut.

John serves as Director of Music & Organist at First Congregational Church in Darien, CT and Assistant Director of Choral Programs at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, CT. John directs various project ensembles (Path of Miracles, May 2025; Combined Choirs of DHS Tudor Singers, Acabella, and FCC Darien Chancel Choir, December 2024; Himmelskönig sei willkommen BWV 182 and Jesu, meine Freude BWV 227, March 2024; Vox Nova Project Choir, December 2023), and premiered the treble arrangement of Jennifer Lucy Cook’s Time in April 2024 at Sacred Heart. He served as music director and pianist for I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change in September 2024 at CenterStage Theatre in Shelton, and will serve on the artistic staff for Troupers Light Opera’s 2025 production of H.M.S. Pinafore.

John studied choral conducting and rehearsal techniques with Richard Zielinski, Betsy Burleigh, Dominick DiOrio, David Howard, and Walter Huff. He studied organ with Christopher Young, David Heller, and Vicki Schaeffer. He served as a Tenor Choral Scholar for Berkshire Choral International in July 2024 with Dr. Eugene Rogers and attended the Northwestern Bach Academy in June 2024 with Dr. Andrew Megill.

In 2019 and 2022, John attended the Sacred Music Today Masterclass in Stockholm, Sweden, working with the choirs of Storkyrkan and St. Jacob’s Cathedral with Gary Graden and Mikael Wedar. In 2023, he helped lead the first IU Schola Cantorum, a highly selective high-school and undergraduate experience in sacred choral and organ music, assisting Dr. Jeff Smith and Dr. Dana Marsh. He served as a collaborative pianist and singer for the IU Choral Department. In February 2025, he will serve as a masterclass conductor in Utrecht with Krista Audere and the V-U Venus Kammerkor.

An avid believer that music brings communities and individuals who might not otherwise meet together around a common purpose, John is passionate about finding ways to connect oratorio, cantatas, and larger choral works to twenty-first century audiences. He has presented on how conductors might incorporate methods from organizational psychology into rehearsal settings, most recently with CT-ACDA and CT-AGO’s February 2024 Conference The Art of Gathering.