Hailing from Havana, Mirelys Morgan Verdecia studied at the Instituto Superior de Arte in her native city, making solo appearances with such orchestras as the National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba under the direction of Leo Brouwer and the Orquesta Sinfónica de Cali in Colombia. She was selected by Claudio Abbado to join the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra training programme in 2000.
She has won various prizes, including two first prizes at the Musicalia Music Competition in Havana.
In 2003 Morgan Verdecia moved to Europe, where she studied with Rainer Schmidt Schmidt at the Escuela de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid and with Ulf Wallin at the Hanns Eisler Hochschule für Musik in Berlin.
The violinist has toured extensively as a member of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra and the Verbier Festival Orchestra. In addition, she played in the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the orchestra of the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Camerata Nordica and the World Peace Orchestra. In 2006 she participated in the orchestra academy of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival.
In the 2008-09 season, Morgan Verdecia was a member of the Euskadiko Orchestra in Donostia. From 2009 to 2013 she served as first violinist in the Spanish National Orchestra. In August 2013 she joined the second violin section of the Concertgebouw Orchestra, where she has been a member of the first violins since 2024.
An avid chamber music player, from 2014 to 2024 she was a member of the GoYa Quartet.
Morgan Verdecia teaches the violin at Sevilla's Fundación Baremboim-Said, and serves as a mentor int he Academy of the Concertgebouw Orchestra. She gave masterclasses in several condervatoires in Spain and Italy.
Since 20i7, Morgan Verdecia has been playing a violin built by F. Gagliano in Naples in 1778 from the collection of the Foundation Concertgebouworkest .