Morag Galloway is a composer, performer, director, and photographer specialising in compositional practices that draw together music, theatre, dance and art. Her compositions explore through practice embodied ways of knowing and her collaborative process uses person-centred approaches and inclusive methodologies. This focus foregrounds the restorative and healing potential the creative process can provide for both performers and audiences.
Morag has collaborated with juice vocal ensemble: Dream of You appears on their debut album Songspin and has been performed live globally. In Autumn 2004 Strata was commissioned for juice’s BBC Cutting Edge series concert at The Warehouse, London and played on Hear and Now. Morag’s piece The Moon appears on Merit Ariane’s debut album The River. Morag has written for tenor Christopher Bowen, baritone Stuart O’Hara, cellist Charlotte Bishop, oboeist Desmond Clarke and been commissioned by Magdalen College School, Oxford and the Gemini Ensemble, amongst others. Morag has performed her works at AMOK, Centre Stage Leeds, the Grand Opera House York, Theatre41 and on the radio.
In 2024 Morag was commissioned by York St. John University to write an exclusive celebratory anthem for the annual graduation ceremonies in York Minster. Go, Find Your Place! for choir and organ is being developed into a longer version for publication and wider distribution in 2026.
Currently Morag is writing a one-woman-show, Dog Daze, which will be premiered as part of the York International Shakespeare Festival in April, 2026. This autobiographical show explores themes connected to illness (personal and societal), endometriosis, motherhood and menopause, ageing, neurodiversity, relationship and agency. The piece fuses original text, Shakespeare soliloquies, music, dance and voice. This piece aligns with Morag’s current autoethnographic creative practice research and academic publications exploring the interrelationship of autobiography, psychotherapy, and narrative medicine using both the body and viola as medium, material and voice. For more information please see: www.moragcreative.com