The original SATB version of Mater Dolorosa was composed for conductor Jillian McGregorand the Corinthian Singers of Adelaide for a Good Friday concert in the Art Gallery of SouthAustralia’s Radford Auditorium in April,2011. The work was subsequently revised andexpanded (SSATBarB) in 2013, and was premiered by Adelaide Chamber Singers –conductedby Carl Crossin –at the Musica Sacra a Roma in Rome, Italy in July 2013.Mater Dolorosa is a setting of the first four stanzas of the 13th century Marian hymn StabatMater Dolorosa, a much longer poem which expresses Mary’s sorrow as she stood at the footof the cross witnessing her son’s death by crucifixion.