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

He is a conductor, organist, music educator, and singer working in choral music, musical theatre and sacred music. John serves as Director of Music & Organist at First Congregational Church in Darien, CT and the Assistant Director of Choral Activities at Sacred Heart University, teaching the advanced treble ensemble (Blended Hearts), the tenor-bass ensemble (SHUpermen), and assisting with all ensembles in the Choral Program and collaborating with the Theatre Arts Program. John directs various project ensembles around Connecticut (Path of Miracles, May 2025; Fantasia on Christmas Carols, December 2025; Himmelskönig sei willkommen BWV 182 and Jesu, meine Freude BWV 227, March 2024), and premiered the treble arrangement of Jennifer Lucy Cook’s Time in April 2024 at Sacred Heart.  He serves as a frequent clinician, guest conductor, and collaborative pianist, both in the US and abroad.

A passionate musical theatre director and conductor, John has led productions of Ragtime, High School Musical, Oklahoma!, Footloose, Seussical, Godspell, Little Women, Peter Pan, I Love You You're Perfect Now Change, H.M.S. Pinafore, Sister Act, Bare, and Nice Work if You Can Get It.

John recently joined the first cohort of conductors studying in the Forge Choral Conducting Program, mentoring with Jonas Rasmussen. John will begin an MMA in Choral Conducting at Yale University in 2026. He studied choral conducting and rehearsal techniques with Richard Zielinski, Betsy Burleigh, Dominick DiOrio, 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 served 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 Conference The Art of Gathering.