Ronald Corp is Founder and Artistic Director of the New London Orchestra
and New London Children's Choir, and Musical Director of the London
Chorus and Highgate Choral Society.
He began conducting full-time in
1988 when he founded the New London Orchestra. With the Orchestra he has
appeared in all the main London venues and at major festivals around the
country. The Orchestra has a gained an excellent reputation for its
innovative programming and for its acclaimed recordings on Hyperion, and
Ronald Corp has made it his mission to breathe new life into a wealth of
little known music from the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as
well as commissioning many new works. An exciting new partnership
between the New London Orchestra and University College London was
launched in December 2001. The New London Orchestra is now the resident
orchestra at the UCL Bloomsbury, and performs concerts at the theatre as
well as being involved with outreach and research projects with the
theatre and the University.
Corp's engagements have
included concerts with the BBC Symphony
Orchestra, the Ulster Orchestra, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra the Leipzig
Philharmonic Orchestra, Brussels Radio and Television Orchestra, the
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Bournemouth Sinfonietta. He also
works regularly with the BBC Singers, and at the BBC Promenade Concerts,
where he has conducted the 'Family Prom', and the 'Children's Prom'.
The New London Children's Choir is one of the busiest and most
successful youth choirs in the country. Ronald Corp has conducted the
choir in numerous concerts, recordings and a television workshop as part
of the Young Musician of the Year. The choir's other engagements have
included the premieres of works by Andriessen with the London
Sinfonietta, performances at the Proms, soundtracks including Star Wars
Episode I: The Phantom Menace, and concerts and recordings with
all the major London orchestras and for the BBC.
Ronald Corp is also a composer and his first major choral work
And
all the Trumpets Sounded was premiered in 1989 by Highgate Choral
Society, who commissioned it, and is published by Stainer and Bell. His
cantata Laudamus was premiered at St. John's, Smith Square in
1994 by the London Choral Society to great critical acclaim and its
third performance was given at a Gala concert in the Royal Festival
Hall. Sainsbury's commissioned him to compose a piece for the Farnham
Youth Choir, winners in their section of the Sainsbury Choir of the Year
Competition. Four Elizabethan Lyrics is published by the Oxford
University Press, for whom Ronald Corp is also editing a series of
publications for upper voices.
Recent compositions include
Cornucopia, a major choral work
for children's choir and orchestra (1997), Piano Concerto (1997),
the cantatas A New Song (1999), Mary's Song (2001) and Adonai Echad
(The Lord is One) (2001) In May 2003 the Highgate
Choral Society premiered the Missa San Marco in St Mark's,
Venice. Other works include song cycles Flower of Citites and Miscellanie,
Dover Beach commissioned by the BBC for the
BBC Singers, Guernsey Postcards, a sinfonietta for chamber
orchestra commissioned by the Guernsey Camerata, the anthem The
Revival premiered in Winchester Cathedral.
The anthem entitled, The
Pilgrim was commissioned for Epsom College.
The cantata
Waters of Time was recently performed in Wells Cathedral.
Future works include a cantata for performance in Bracknell (in 2007),
and a quartet for the Magini Quartet.
A CD of choral music by Ronald
Corp has being issued on the Dutton Epoch.

An expert in choral training and choral repertory, Ronald Corp's
comprehensive reference book entitled, The Choral Singer's Companion
has been recently republished in a second edition.