Morgan first played recorder at age 12 in the family's home in Mentone, Victoria, Australia.

[1] The Frederick Morgan Recorder Consort performed between 1964 and 1969, often accompanied on keyboard by his first wife, Jan.

With Carl Dolmetsch and the Paul McDermott String Quartet, he performed Bach's Fourth Brandenburg Concerto in 1966 at Wilson Hall, Melbourne University.

He won a Churchill Fellowship to study Recorder Manufacture and Usage in Europe in 1970.

Morgan died in a car accident in 1999, but his workshop continues to produce partially finished bodies to be finished by other recorder makers, including Nikolaj Ronimus and Jacqueline Sorel.