Paul Mealor

About the composer

Paul Mealor, a Welsh composer was born 25 November 1975. A large proportion of his work is for chorus, both a capella and accompanied. He came to wider notice when his motet Ubi Caritas et Amor was performed at the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton in 2011. He later composed the song Wherever You Are, this song has a text compiled from letters written to British Army military personnel deployed on active service in the Afghanistan War by their wives or partners. It was a part of the BBC Two television series The Choir: Military Wives. Mealor studied composition privately with William Mathias and John Pickard and then read music at the University of York (1994–2002). He studied composition at York with Nicola LeFanu, and in Copenhagen at the at the Royal Danish Academy of Music with Hans Abrahamsen. Since 2003, he has been teaching at the University of Aberdeen, where he is currently Professor of Composition, and has held visiting professorships in composition at institutions in Scandinavia and the United States.