December 2003 - January 2004
Tour: Melbourne, Victoria to Sydney, NSW
Conductor
Graeme Morton
Graeme Morton is one of this country's most versatile choral musicians. His choral interests vary from traditional liturgical music to contemporary Australian repertoire, choral training and education, and composition. He is Director of Music at St Peters Lutheran College, where he directs the St Peters Chorale, which has commissioned many works that have become recent Australian choral classics. He is Director of Music at Christ Church Anglican Church, St Lucia, where he plays the organ and directs the 35 voice Lucian Singers. He also conducts the Brisbane Chamber Choir.
In 1993 he founded The Australian Voices, along with composer Stephen Leek, and has conducted this distinguished ensemble in festivals and international choral events.
Graeme teaches choral conducting at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, and finds time to present workshops throughout regional Queensland and beyond. In 1996 he was Visiting Professor of Choral Music at St Olaf College, Minnesota, home of the famed St Olaf Choir.
As a composer Graeme is published by Augsburg Fortress and Morton Music.
In February 2006 he took up a Churchill Fellowship to observe choral leadership in Canada and the United States of America.
Singers
Soprano
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Alto
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Tenor
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Bass
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Repertoire
- Thomas Tallis - Sancte Deus
- Thomas Tallis - O nata lux
- John Wilbye - Draw on Sweet Night
- Randall Z Stroope - Sure on this Shining Night
- Josef Rhineberger - Cantus Missae:
- Gerald Finzi - My spirit sang all day
- Thomas Morley - Sing we and chant it
- Giovanni Croce - Buccinate in Neomenia Tuba
- Herbert Howells - Requiem:
- Joseph Twist - Do not stand at my grave and weep
- Matthew Orlovich - Araluen
- Graeme Morton - Crossing the Bar
- Stephen Leek - Coonarwin
- Charles Villiers Stanford - Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in G
- Charles Villiers Stanford - Justorum animae
- Stephen Leek - High Places
Concerts
- Sunday, 27 December 2003 - St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne, Victoria
- Tuesday, 30 December 2003 - St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne, Victoria
- Thursday, 1 January 2004 - Holy Trinity Cathedral, Wangaratta, Victoria
- Friday, 2 January 2004 - St John's Anglican Church, Mansfield, Victoria
- Sunday, 4 January 2004 - Wesley Uniting Church, Canberra, ACT
- Monday, 5 January 2004 - St Saviour's Cathedral, Goulburn, NSW
- Tuesday, 6 January 2004 - St Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney, NSW
- Wednesday, 7 January 2004 - Pitt Street Uniting Church, Sydney, NSW
Recordings
- Thursday, 8 January 2004, SCEGS North Sydney (Shore) School Chapel
Acknowledgements
- SCEGS North Sydney (Shore) School Music Department