Morley Whitehead is a Man of Kent, and studied at the Royal Music, London, where his teachers included the late Herbert Howells. Whilst a student he was a multiple prize-winner at both the Associateship and Fellowship diploma examinations of the Royal College of Organists, and was awarded the Silver Medal of the Worshipful Company of Musicians. In 1979, he moved to Edinburgh to become Assistant Organist at St Giles’ Cathedral, a post he held for over ten years. He finally left the High Kirk in 1991 to become Organist and Choirmaster of (what is now) Morningside Parish Church, on the south side of the city. There he is the proud curator of the last “Father” Willis organ to have been built north of the border (in 1901) and which was fully restored by Messrs Harrison & Harrison of Durham in 2004.
