REGISTER NOW AND GET • 5 FREE tracks! • 101 tracks for $9.99
Ballet
Chamber Music
Chinese Music
Concertos
Film & TV Music
Instrumental
Musicals
Opera / Operetta
Orchestral
Orchestral Backing Tracks
Sacred Choral
Secular Choral
Vocal
---------------------------- Classical Periods
Medieval
Renaissance
Baroque
Classical
Romantic/19th Century
20th Century
Contemporary
Classic Jazz
Contemporary Jazz
Fiction
Classic Fiction
Drama
Shakespeare
Others
Non Fiction
Arts-Histories
Biographies
History
Music
Philosophy
Religion
Poetry
Junior Classics
Classicsonline Home » Artists » » McDonald, Grantley
Grantley McDonald was born in Melbourne in 1974, and received his first choral experience as a boy at St Paul's cathedral. He later sang in a number of college choirs at the University of Melbourne, including the Choir of Ormond College, under the direction of Douglas Lawrence. He has performed in many countries (Australia, Japan, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, France, Britain) as an ensemble singer, soloist and conductor. He attended university in Melbourne and Berlin, and in 1997 studied ensemble singing under the instruction of the Hilliard Ensemble in the England. His repertoire ranges from chant and medieval polyphony, Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and Mendelssohn to recently commissioned works. He maintains a steady research programme in Renaissance music, and in 2002 was awarded his PhD on the musical aesthetics of the fifteenth-century philosopher Marsilio Ficino. He was for some years choir-master at Queen's College, University of Melbourne, and is currently director of music at St Peter's, Melbourne.