Stephen Hatfield is a resident of Vancouver Island, where he works as a composer, conductor, clinician, workshop leader, lecturer—specialising in choral music. He is recognised for his exciting arrangements of world music, and for his original works which weave influences from diverse cultures into a fresh and distinctive idiom. This ‘Gloria’ is a movement extracted from Stephen’s Missa Primavera for SATB chorus and soprano solo, published as an octavo within our Choral Music Experience (CME) series. Each section (Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus and Agnus Dei) is based on a melody from a different part of the world, which is then transformed into a wide range of emotional levels and musical textures.