Mr Graeme Morton - UQ Chorale

Graeme Morton is one of Australia’s eclectic choral musicians, with a wealth of experience as a conductor, teacher, composer and broadcaster of choral music, and as an organist. Graeme holds the position of Choral Conducting Fellow at the University of Queensland School of Music. Graeme holds a Master of Music (Organ) from the University of Queensland.

Graeme is also Director of Choral Music at St John’s Cathedral, and Director of the Brisbane Chamber Choir, which is also the Chamber Choir of St John’s Cathedral, which maintains a vigorous performance schedule of traditional and new choral works.
 
Graeme was previously Director of Music at St Peters Lutheran College, where he was the founder and conductor of the St Peters Chorale, now in its twenty-eighth year.
 
Graeme was formerly the Sub-Organist at St John’s Anglican Cathedral.
 
He has toured overseas on numerous occasions, including Finland, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Austria, the United Kingdom, Japan, North America and New Zealand. He has lectured in the Summer Programme at Westminster Choir College, Princeton, New Jersey, and in 1996 was Visiting Professor of Choral Music at the famed St Olaf College in Minnesota. Each year he teaches composition in a week-long school in Singapore.
In 2011, Graeme was the recipient of the Lord Mayor’s Australia Day Cultural Award.
In 2003 he received the Prime Minister's Medal for his contribution to music, and was also awarded a Churchill Fellowship, allowing him to observe choral leadership in the United States and Canada.
 
As Co-Founder and first Director of The Australian Voices, Graeme helped further establish a new awareness of Australian choral music.
 
Graeme has conducted several Australian premiers, including Morten Lauridsen’s Lux Aeterna, Benjamin Britten’s The Company of Heaven and The World of the Spirit, Andrew Carter’s Benedicite and Missa Sancti Pauli, Javia Busto’s Requiem and Dominic Argento’s A Toccata of Galuppi’s.
 
Graeme has commissioned many pieces that have become Australian choral classics – including Past Life Melodies and Ngana – from composers such as Paul-Antoni Bonetti, Ross Edwards, Iain Grandage, Sarah Hopkins, Michael Knopf, Stephen Leek, Matthew Orlovich, Vincent Plush Paul Stanhope and Joseph Twist.
 
His release of the CD ‘Until I Saw’ in 1990 with the St Peters Chorale was winner of the National Critics Award for the best performance of an Australian Choral Composition, performing a work that Graeme had commissioned of Stephen Leek. The CD is probably the first recording devoted entirely to Australian choral music.
 
Graeme also hosts a weekly radio programme of choral Music titled The Choir Room on radio 4MBS at 10.00pm on Tuesday evenings and 12.30pm on Sundays (103.7).
 
As a composer Graeme is published by Augsburg Fortress, Kjos Music, and Morton Music. 
 

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