Cheryl Forest Morganson is available as a music director, conductor, collaborative pianist, and vocal coach. She is currently based in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. 

She is a doctoral student in Vocal Coaching and Accompanying studying under Dennis Helmrich, Julie Gunn, Michael Tilley and Casey Robards at
the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Her dissertation
is "A Conductor's Guide to Sweeney Todd in a Community Theatre Setting." 
Her doctoral cognate is in "the Science of the Singing Voice" through the UIUC Speech and Hearing Sciences department.

She earned a MM in Collaborative Piano studying under Brian Moll at the Longy School of Music (Cambridge, MA), and her BA in Music at Valley City State University (Valley City, ND). Other primary teachers include Martin Smith at the Hochschule für Kirchenmusik in Heidelberg, Germany, and Richard Rogers at the San Francisco Conservatory.