Denbighshire-born Paul Mealor was asked by conductor Gareth Malone to write Wherever You Are for his TV choir series.
It came after the Duchess of Cambridge requested his music Ubi caritas for her wedding to Prince William in April.
His classical album, A Tender Light, has already become Christmas number one in the specialist album chart.
“It’s been an unbelievable a year,” said Mr Mealor, 36, who was born in St Asaph and now lives in Anglesey when he is not teaching at the University of Aberdeen.
“Last year if I’d have talked about some of the things I could have hoped for, even I could not have dreamed of this. It has been absolutely unbelievable,” said Mr Mealor, a professor in music composition.
He studied composition privately as a boy with the late William Mathias, one of the first Welsh composers to achieve international acclaim.
Mr Mealor’s own work, Ubi caritas, received its debut last year and later came to the attention of the duchess.
He met with the royal couple and they agreed his music would be performed at their wedding by the Choir of Westminster Abbey and the Choir of Her Majesty’s Chapel Royal at St James’s Palace in April, bringing his work to the attention of a worldwide audience.
From there his album, A Tender Light, went on to hold the number one spot in the specialist classical album chart in the run up to Christmas.
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