Biography
The St Peters Chorale was established by Graeme Morton in 1982 and is now regarded as one of Australia's leading youth choirs. It comprises students between the ages of 13 and 17 years of age. The Chorale has performed with many of Australia's leading musicians as well as overseas directors such as Anton Armstrong (USA), Michael Brewer (UK), Heather Buchanan (USA), Andrew Carter (UK) Stephen Cleobury (UK), David Jorlett (USA) and John Rutter (UK).
The Chorale has established a reputation for its commitment to all styles of choral music and for its particular focus on Australia's own composers, from whom scores are regularly commissioned. Like most Australian school choirs, the choir functions outside the curriculum, rehearsing three mornings each week before the school day begins, for a weekly total of two hours.
St Peters Chorale has received many awards and accolades including the Sounds Australian National Critics Award for the Best Performance of an Australian Choral Work in 1991 (Stephen Leek's Once On a Mountain, released on the recording Until I Saw), and a Sunnie Award for the Best Recording of a High School Choir in 1997 (Voyage). During their European tour in 1990, the ABC produced the documentary Singing Cambridge profiling the choir and its music throughout part of its tour to Cambridge in England.
St Peters Chorale has an active profile both within Australia and overseas, regularly undertaking performance tours during school vacations. The choir has toured extensively throughout all Australian States apart from Western Australia, while overseas tours have included Germany and the United Kingdom (1990); Japan (1991); USA (1993); New Zealand (1995); Scandinavia, Germany, Austria and Russia (1998); the USA (2000); England, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Austria and Switzerland (2004/5).
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