Choir Announces Associate Music Director

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir named Ryan T. Murphy as associate music director on March 27, 2009. Brother Murphy will help Mack J. Wilberg, music director, with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square rehearsals, concerts, tours, and the weekly Music and the Spoken Word broadcasts. He will also conduct the Temple Square Chorale concerts.

Among other previous positions, Brother Murphy has conducted two choirs at the New England Conservatory of Music. He spent four years as the choral director at Walnut Hill School for the Arts in the Boston area and two years as the music director of Tuacahn Theatre in St. George, Utah, USA.

Brother Murphy graduated from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, in piano and organ performance and pedagogy. He received his master’s degree from BYU in choral conducting. He received his doctorate in choral conducting from Boston University in May 2009.