简介：Professor Paul Mealor BA, PhD, FRSA (born 25 November 1975) is a Welsh composer. Mealor’s motets, songs and cycles have been performed, broadcast and recorded by artists around the world. He composed the song "Wherever You Are", based on letters to and from troops serving in Afghanistan, and sung by the military wives choir created by Gareth Malone. In the 2012 Classic FM Hall of Fame, he was voted the 'nation's favorite living composer' and succeeded in achieving the highest placing of any new entry in the history of the Hall of Fame with his ‘'Wherever You Are’’ charting at No 5. Born in St Asaph, Denbighshire, North Wales, Mealor studied composition privately with John Pickard and read music at the University of York (1994–2002). He then studied composition with Nicola LeFanu, and in Copenhagen at the Royal Danish Academy of Music with Hans Abrahamsen (1998–99). 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. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and since 2011 has been published by Novello (part of MusicSales). Also in 2011, he signed to Decca Records. His first album for Decca, 'A Tender Light' - a collection of sacred choral anthems - spent six weeks at No 1 of the Classical charts. On 29 April 2011, Mealor's motet, a setting of Ubi Caritas et Amor, was premièred at the Royal Wedding of HRH Prince William of Wales with Miss Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey, by the Choirs of Westminster Abbey and Her Majesty's Chapel Royal conducted by James O'Donnell. In 2011, Mealor was commissioned to write the music for "Wherever You Are", a song compiled from letters written between the wives and partners of British Army military personnel deployed on active service in the Afghanistan War as part of the BBC Two television series The Choir: Military Wives. The single, released on 19 December 2011, became the 2011 Christmas number one in the UK Singles Chart and raised money for military charities.