Projects supported by the Music Foundation
Junior Organ School
A scholarship program for young school-age students to begin learning the organ.
Organ Scholars
Charlie Wells is our current Cathedral Organ Scholar. Charlie has been a chorister with the Cathedral Choir for a number of years, and is studying a Bachelor of Music in Composition at the University of Adelaide. His composition “Lighten our Darkness” was selected as the winner of the Junior section of the inaugural Adelaide Sacred Music Composition Prize.
Recent Music purchases
Recent additions to the choir’s music library:
Cheryl Frances-Hoad - The Cradle
A Distant Music: Praise: Psalms & Prayers 1 - an Anthology of Sacred Australian Music
Ghislaine Reece-Trapp - Mass for the Mystery of Faith
Edgar Bainton - And I Saw a New Heaven
Sarah Quartel - How can I keep from Singing?
Martin Baker - O filii et filiae
David Bednall - Everyone Sang
Joanna Forbes L’Estrange - Kings College Service
Judith Bingham - An Introduction to Hark, the Glad Sound
Kerensa Briggs - Gloucester Service
Kerensa Briggs - A Tender Shoot
Undine Moore-Smith - Five Spirituals
Bob Chilcott - Now the Green Blade Riseth
Bob Chilcott - Still, Still, Still
Maurice Duruflé - Messe cum Jubilo
Iain Farrington - Nova, Nova!
Luke Fitzgerald - Gaudete
Jessica French - Preces & Responses
John Gardner - Gallery Carol
William Harris - Bring Us, O Lord
Grayston Ives - Missa Brevis
Alexander L’Estrange - New College Service
Roland Martin - St Paul’s Buffalo Service
Andrew Millington - Preces & Responses
June Nixon - Preces & Responses
Philip Radcliffe - Preces & Responses
Andrew Reid - Victimae Paschali Laudes
Dobrinka Tabackova - Truro Canticles
Robert Walker - Missa Brevis
James Whitbourn - The Magi’s Dream
Mack Wilberg - In the Bleak Midwinter
The St Peter’s Cathedral Music Foundation provided the important funds for the purchase of a new digital piano, to assist with music rehearsals.
Concert Series
The St Peter’s Cathedral Music Foundation supports an annual Concert Series of fine music. Be sure to look at the program for 2025 and don’t miss any event by pre-booking your tickets online.
Annual support to the Cathedral
Every year, the St Peter’s Cathedral Music Foundation provides a grant to the St Peter’s Cathedral to support the musical traditions and the future of music in the Cathedral.
The annual grant made to St Peter’s Cathedral supports:
The Director of Music, Anthony Hunt
The Cathedral Organist, Andrew Georg
Ongoing maintenance of the magnificent Cathedral Organ
Singing lessons for Choristers
The RSCM Voice for Life program, awarding treble medals
Choral Scholarships for University Students
Section Leader Scholarships for adult choristers
The support from music-lovers makes this possible, and helps ensure the music program can continue, improve and grow.
Be a part of this historic and vibrant tradition..