Morgan Fator is a multi-media composer who specializes in music for film, television, and games. She provides services as an orchestrator, arranger, session conductor, score producer, and music copyist to Los Angeles, San Diego, and beyond. With a traditional background in music education, a proclivity for music technology, and a deep passion for orchestral music, she continues to grow as a formidable force of artistry and musicianship. Through her work, she seeks to preserve the traditions of Golden Age Hollywood while looking forward to the future of music in media.

Morgan, hailing from the far reaches of Northern California, grew up studying piano, vocal performance, musical theater, and sang in many choirs. She excelled, and at age sixteen began studying music theory, composition, and orchestral conducting at Shasta College, where she had the opportunity to guest conduct the Shasta Concert Orchestra, premiere several of her original concert works, and served as a section percussionist and pianist in the Shasta Symphony Orchestra and Symphonic Band. Pieces she has performed include Orff’s Carmina Burana, Stravinsky’s Petrushka, Holst’s The Planets, and many other pieces of standard orchestral repertoire. For many years, she participated as a pianist in several jazz ensembles and played in pit orchestras for local productions of The Producers and Little Shop of Horrors. She went on to study Music Composition for Film, Television, and Games at Berklee College of Music. After serving as music director and conductor of the Heartsangha Choir for a year, Morgan and her family moved to Southern California to pursue better opportunities and lifelong dreams.

Morgan has composed original motion picture scores for several films including Sofia: the Dealer (2021) and Men, Women, Children, & Others (2024) by filmmaker Tatum Burke, Petrichor (2023) and Blood Pact (2024) by filmmaker Kate McClintock, and April Showers (2023) by filmmaker Mandi Silva. She continues to collaborate with like-minded storytellers and create movie magic through the medium of music. While specializing in orchestral music for the screen, she is capable of producing music of virtually any genre or style, making her incredibly versatile composer.

Morgan’s arrangement of Auld Lang Syne was selected to be performed at the Academy of Scoring Arts Holiday Party 2023 alongside eleven other submissions from composers of all levels. Her submission materials were reviewed and critiqued by esteemed orchestrator and conductor Tim Davies. Mr. Davies conducted the premiere of the arrangement at the ASA Holiday Party alongside several other arrangements by up-and-coming Los Angeles composers. You can watch Tim Davies conduct Morgan’s work on her YouTube channel by clicking here.

IIn 2017, Morgan had the rare opportunity to observe a scoring session held by the Los Angeles Film Conducting Intensive (LAFCI), which took place at the Eastwood Scoring Stage on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank, California. The LAFCI, a workshop dedicated to training composers on the art of film conducting, is now the leading course for training in the studio orchestra system with alumni including Ludwig Goransson and Fil Eisler, and faculty including Angel Velez, David Newman, Conrad Pope, William Ross, Booker White, and Emilie Bernstein, among others. Upon submitting her demo cue “Isobel and her Dragon Escape,” which you can find by clicking here, Morgan was invited to return as a participant in the LAFCI Intensive 2024 and got training in composition, orchestration, session conducting, and music preparation from the industry’s top scoring professionals at Blake Neely’s Cow On the Wall Studios, and again at the Eastwood Scoring Stage at Warner Bros. You can learn more about her LAFCI experience and how her career trajectory came full circle by clicking here.

Inspired by her experience at the LAFCI, Morgan has worked in collaboration with Jean-Paul Balmat, music director at Mission Bay Senior High School, and produced a live-to-picture scoring session of her score for an animated short from The Cue Tube, “Sprite Fright,” which was played by MBHS’s Advanced Symphony Orchestra ensemble. The score was composed, orchestrated, engraved, and prepared by Morgan, who served as conductor, music librarian, and conductor during the session in April 2024. Audio engineer Marilynn Do recorded the session, and composer Cheska Navarro filmed and documented the project. Through this work, Morgan and her collaborators hope they can inspire others to create their own opportunities and to make media scoring more accessible, especially to those who have encountered barriers in their path to success. On the coattails of that recording project, Morgan will be returning to Mission Bay High School in March of 2025 to guest conduct a special concert including John Williams’ arrangement Tribute to the Film Composer which was orchestrated by Conrad Pope for the 2002 Academy Awards. She will also be conducting an in-concert edition of her score for Sprite Fright with the same orchestra, live-to-projection. You can learn more about the project by clicking here.

In 2024, Morgan branched out from her reputation as a composer and began to offer full-scope music services. She now offers a wide range of specialty talents including orchestration, arranging, session conducting, music copying, music preparation, session file and footage preparation, music archiving, publishing, and more. She has served as a music copyist for the soon-to-be-released documentary Soul of a Nation (2025) with a score by composer Mikel Hurwitz, and recently served as Copyist & Music Preparation Supervisor for a new work by composer Kyle Hartman which was recorded in January 2025 with the Hollywood Studio Symphony at the Eastwood Scoring Stage. Morgan has also collaborated with the Colburn School of Music as a music engraving specialist and continues to grow her long list of high-profile clients. If you’re in need of a composer and/or music services professional for your project who is capable of delivering work conforming to the highest possible standards, consider hiring Morgan. No matter the budget or deadline, Morgan uses her expertise and efficiency to her advantage making the scoring process simple, easy, and effective. You can learn more about the full scope of her services and submit an inquiry by clicking here.

Morgan looks forward to a long life of music making with ambitions of becoming an Oscar-winning composer and working with live musicians as much as possible. As a Sondheim Scholar, she also dreams of producing productions of musicals including Into the Woods, Sunday in the Park with George, Sweeney Todd, and Company, and aspires to write musicals and operas herself. A firm believer in the magic and wonder of live performance, Morgan hopes to inspire an awakening to rekindle the love of cinema, theater, and luxurious music making of decades past.

Morgan is a member of the Alliance for Women Film Composers (AWFC) and the Society for Composers and Lyricists (SCL). She lives in San Diego with her partner Michaela and their cat, Oscar.