I Can Tell The World

The Choir of Ormond College

The Choir of Ormond College has, since its founding in 1982 under Douglas Lawrence, become the first Australian choir to earn ongoing international recognition for its concert and recorded work.

Douglas Lawrence

Melbourne organist Douglas Lawrence is Director of Music at The Scots' Church and Teacher of the Organ at the University of Melbourne. He founded the Choir of Ormond College and directed it from 1982 to 2006.

Harold Arlen

Harold Arlen (1905–1986) was an American composer of popular song whose work sits at the heart of the Great American Songbook. He wrote the complete score for the film The Wizard of Oz, including Over the Rainbow.

Percy Grainger

Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882–1961) was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist. A brilliant folk-song collector and arranger, he was also a restless experimenter whose work ranged from tuneful percussion to Free Music machines that foreshadowed electronic synthesis.

Johnny Mercer

Johnny Mercer's lyrics still define how jazz singers tell a story: conversational, witty and shot through with Southern colour, from torch laments to swing anthems and Hollywood standards that refuse to age.

Henry Purcell

Henry Purcell (c. 1659–1695) was an English organist and composer of the middle Baroque. His sacred music, theatre songs, instrumental works and the opera Dido and Aeneas shaped a distinctly English Baroque style.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) was an English composer of nine symphonies, operas, ballets, and a large body of choral and vocal music. Drawing on Tudor polyphony and English folk-song, he helped free British music from its nineteenth-century German models.

Pierre Attaingnant

Pierre Attaingnant (c. 1494–1552) was a pioneering French music printer and publisher whose work helped shape the circulation of Renaissance music across Europe. Based in Paris, he became one of the first printers to use single-impression movable type for music, a breakthrough that made printed scores faster and more economical to produce.

John Byrt

Pierre Certon

Orlando di Lasso

John Fleming

C. Armstrong Gibbs

Warren "Buzz" Haeger

Jester Hairston

Jester Hairston (1901–2000) was an American composer, songwriter, arranger and choral conductor, regarded as a leading expert on Black spirituals and choral music.

Gustav Holst

Gustav Holst’s music moves from the cosmic sweep of The Planets to spare, singing folk and Christmas settings that choirs still reach for. His arrangements of English song and carols carry a clear line and a quiet ceremonial glow.

Donald James

Thomas Morley

Thomas Morley's madrigals and balletts are among the most singable music of Elizabethan England: light, quick-moving part-songs that took Italian models and made them English. Choirs still reach for pieces such as Now is the Month of Maying and Sing we and chant it.

Pierre Passereau

Peter Warlock

Peter Warlock (1894–1930) was a British composer best known for songs and other vocal music. Under that name he left a distinctive body of carols, folk arrangements and the popular dance suite Capriol.

Thomas Weelkes