He was born in New York City in 1942, the son of writer
Albert Hodges Morehead, and learned to play the piano at age four. He attended
Trinity School in New York City, The
Baylor School in
Chattanooga, Tennessee,
Swarthmore College where he majored in
French,
Harvard University where he majored in
musicology and received an
M.A., and the
New England Conservatory of Music where he majored in piano performance and received an
M.M. He then studied for two years in Paris and in
Fontainebleau with
Nadia Boulanger. He later married Patricia Noonan of Winnipeg, Manitoba. e=bio/> Morehead retired from Lyric Opera of Chicago in 2015 and currently resides in Dwight, Ontario, Canada. He is a member of the Muskoka Concert Band in Huntsville, Ontario and was Music Director of the Highlands Opera Studio in Haliburton, Ontario, where he conducted performances of Gounod
Faust, Mozart
Così fan tutte, Puccini
La Boheme and Strauss
Ariadne auf Naxos. He is married to Patricia Morehead, PhD. (oboist and composer) and has three adult children (James, Keren and Ian). ==Editor==