The first work for the Melbourne Online Philharmonic virtual choir. The group formed shortly after the COVID-19 pandemic lock down occurred, as a way to stay in touch with one another, but to continue sharing the common interest of singing together and sharing music.

The Ground is based on a chorale from the last movement of my Sunrise Mass (2008) for choir and string orchestra. The chorale, beginning at Pleni sunt caeli in that movement is the culmination of the Mass, and it’s called The Ground because I wanted to convey a sense of having ‘arrived’ at the end of the Mass; to have reached a kind of peace and grounded strength, after the long journey of the Mass, having gone through so many different emotional landscapes.

Olagjeilo.com. 2020. The Ground | Ola Gjeilo. [online] Available at: <http://olagjeilo.com/sheet-music/choral-satb-accompanied/the-ground/> [Accessed 15 June 2020].