GRANTLEY McDONALD

Baritone, Reader, Actor

Grantley McDonald is Director of Music at Queen's College, University of Melbourne. He studied Latin, German and Italian at the University of Melbourne, subsequently writing a PhD on the relationship between music theory, literary theory and philosophy in the Renaissance and Reformation.

During the course of his studies, Grantley has spent extended periods as a Research Fellow in Germany and England. He is also active as a performer of vocal music from the Middle Ages to the present (in 1997 he studied ensemble singing in Cambridge with the Hilliard Ensemble), and has performed in Japan, Scotland, England, Denmark, Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, Italy and Australia.

In his spare time, Grantley lectures on Latin literature at Monash University and the University of Melbourne. He is currently translating the complete letters of St Gregory the Great with Professor John Martyn, and writing a study of the Silesian poet Laurentius Corvinus.