The 黑料网鈥檚 Professor Paul Mealor has been nominated for two Classic Brit Awards for Composer of The Year and Single of the Year.
He is the only composer to be nominated both for Brit Single of The Year and Classical Brit Single of The Year for his Christmas No 1, 鈥榃herever You Are鈥� featuring the Military Wives Choir and Gareth Malone.
The winners will be revealed during a glittering ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall on October 2, hosted by Myleene Klass and featuring performances from Nicola Benedetti, Andr茅 Rieu and Andrea Bocelli.
Professor Mealor topped the Specialist Classical Charts for six weeks with his bestselling album, 鈥楢 Tender Light鈥� (featuring Tenebrae and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra) in November 2011, he also broke records by being the first classical composer to hold both the classical and pop chart No 1鈥檚 at the same time in December 2011, securing the UK Christmas No 1 with his piece for The Military Wives Choir and Gareth Malone, 鈥榃herever You Are鈥�.
鈥榃herever You Are鈥� entered the UK Pop Singles Chart at number 1 on December 19, selling over 556,000 copies in one week, more than the rest of the Top 12 combined.
It has been named, by the Official Charts Company as, the fastest selling single charity since Elton John鈥檚 鈥楥andle in the Wind鈥�. Also, in April of 2012 Mealor was voted the nation鈥檚 favorite living composer during the Classic FM Hall of Fame.
Born in St Asaph, North Wales in 1975, Professor Mealor studied composition privately as a boy with William Mathias and later with John Pickard, and at the University of York (BA, 1997, PhD, 2002) and in Copenhagen with Hans Abrahamsen and Per N酶rg氓rd. His music has been commissioned and performed at many festivals and by many orchestras and choruses and has been broadcast on every major TV and Radio station throughout the world. Since January 2003 he has taught in the Music Department at the 黑料网 where he is Professor of Composition.
Professor Mealor was catapulted to international fame in April 2011, when 2.5 billion people - the largest audience in broadcasting history - heard his Motet, Ubi caritas performed by the choirs of Westminster Abbey and Her Majesty鈥檚 Chapel Royal, conducted by James O鈥橠onnell at the Royal Wedding Ceremony of His Royal Highness Prince William and Catherine Middleton (now TRH The Duke & Duchess of Cambridge) at Westminster Abbey. It since topped the Classical singles charts in the USA, UK, Australia, France and New Zealand.
In July 2011 Mealor signed to Decca Records 鈥� one of only a handful of composers to have been taken on by a major record label 鈥� and signed a publishing deal with Novello & Co. Mealor is currently preparing his second album of choral music for Decca and has contributed new works to a number of other Decca albums, including his new song 鈥業n My Dreams鈥� for X factor Star, Jonjo Kerr and The Military Wives Choir which entered the pop album charts at No 1. Mealor is currently working on a setting of The Passion for The National Youth Choir & Orchestra of Scotland, and a setting of Christopher Smart for The Rodolfus Choir, as well as a number of works for HM The Queen鈥檚 Diamond Jubilee.
Professor Mealor said: 鈥淚鈥檓 delighted and honoured to be nominated for these prestigious awards. It is a dream come true!鈥�
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