Richard Morrison is a prize-winning graduate of the Royal College of Music in London, where he studied with Graziella Sciutti.  He is an alumnus of the Samling Foundation.

He sings regularly in Germany where recent engagements include Figaro Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Staatsoper Hannover and Enrico Lucia di Lammermoor at the Nationaltheater Mannheim.  He has appeared at other theatres including the Staatstheater Mainz, Theater Bonn, Theater Bremen and the Staatstheater Schwerin, where his roles have included Germont La traviata, Pelléas Pelléas et Mélisande, Marcello La Bohème, Peter Hänsel und Gretel, Don Giovanni and Pagageno.

Opera engagements in the UK have included Sharpless Madam Butterfly at the Royal Albert Hall, Goryanchikov From the House of the Dead and Count Robinson The Secret Marriage at Opera North and Don Alfonso Cosi fan tutte in Sir Thomas Allen's production for Samling Opera, broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.

In concert and recital he has extensive repertoire and has appeared at concert halls including the Royal Albert Hall, the Royal Festival Hall, the Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Barbican, the Symphony Hall Birmingham, the Bridgewater Hall, the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, the Usher Hall and the Wigmore Hall.

He has sung with orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the Royal Scottish National, the Scottish Chamber, the Hallé, the Northern Sinfonia, the London Mozart Players, the BBC Concert, the Johann Strauß Orchester Frankfurt, the Philharmonie Südwestfalen, the Münchner Symphoniker, the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie and the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Mainz.

He has broadcast on BBC TV and Radio on numerous occasions and has appeared on Classic FM, both as a soloist and as a presenter. On CD he has recorded the role of The Sultan in Sullivan's The Rose of Persia, a BBC world premiere recording; and the title role in Edward German's Tom Jones, also a world premiere recording, on Naxos. He has released a solo disc of Scottish songs entitled Songs Of My Home with the Scottish label, Corban Recordings.