🏆 Winning composition of the 2025 Adelaide Sacred Music Prize.
This piece was originally written for the choirs of Coventry Cathedral (UK), St Peter’s Cathedral (Adelaide), and Pilgrim Uniting Church (Adelaide).
It was awarded First Place in the 2025 Adelaide Sacred Music Composition Competition.
This piece was premiered on Sunday 30 November 2025 by Anthony Hunt and the Choir of St Peter’s Cathedral (Adelaide).
The text is adapted from the 7th-century Latin hymn ‘Conditor alme siderum’ and is best-suited to Advent services.
Written for SATB choir, organ and oboe, elements of the original chant weave their way between fluid vocal lines that reflect the majesty of creation and announces the coming light of Christmas.
The English text is as follows:
Creator of the stars of night,
thy peoples’ everlasting light,
Jesu, Redeemer, save us all
and hear thy servants when they call.Thou cam’st, the Bridegroom of the bride,
as drew the world to evening-tide,
proceeding from a virgin shrine,
the son of man yet all divine.At thy great name, exalted now,
all knees must bend, all hearts must bow,
and things in heaven and earth shall own
that thou art Lord and King alone.To God the Father, God the Son,
and God the Spirit, Three in One,
laud, honour, might and glory be
from age to age eternally.
Amen.
🏆 Winning composition of the 2025 Adelaide Sacred Music Prize.
This piece was originally written for the choirs of Coventry Cathedral (UK), St Peter’s Cathedral (Adelaide), and Pilgrim Uniting Church (Adelaide).
It was awarded First Place in the 2025 Adelaide Sacred Music Composition Competition.
This piece was premiered on Sunday 30 November 2025 by Anthony Hunt and the Choir of St Peter’s Cathedral (Adelaide).
The text is adapted from the 7th-century Latin hymn ‘Conditor alme siderum’ and is best-suited to Advent services.
Written for SATB choir, organ and oboe, elements of the original chant weave their way between fluid vocal lines that reflect the majesty of creation and announces the coming light of Christmas.
The English text is as follows:
Creator of the stars of night,
thy peoples’ everlasting light,
Jesu, Redeemer, save us all
and hear thy servants when they call.Thou cam’st, the Bridegroom of the bride,
as drew the world to evening-tide,
proceeding from a virgin shrine,
the son of man yet all divine.At thy great name, exalted now,
all knees must bend, all hearts must bow,
and things in heaven and earth shall own
that thou art Lord and King alone.To God the Father, God the Son,
and God the Spirit, Three in One,
laud, honour, might and glory be
from age to age eternally.
Amen.
