Ronald Corp is Founder and Musical Director of the New London Orchestra and New London Children's Choir, and Musical Director of the London Choral Society and the Highgate Choral Society.

He began conducting full-time in 1988 when he founded the New London Orchestra. With the NLO he has appeared in all the main London venues and at major festivals around the country. The NLO has a reputation for its innovative programmes and Ronald Corp has breathed new life into a wealth of little known music from the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as commissioning many new works.

His engagements have included concerts with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Ulster Orchestra, the Leipzig Philharmonic Orchestra, Brussels Radio and Television Orchestra, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Bournemouth Sinfonietta. He also works regularly with the BBC Singers and at the BBC Promenade Concerts where last year he most recently conducted the New London Orchestra at the 'Junior 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 and recordings, and a television workshop as part of the Young Musician of the Year. The choir's other engagements have included BBC Proms, various television appearances, the sound track of Star Wars Episode One - The Phantom Menace, and the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.

Recent concerts include Berlioz Grande Messe des morts at St Paul's Cathedral, Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius  at the Royal Festival Hall, a concert of Britten's works for children's choir at the Aldeburgh Festival, and an orchestral concert to celebrate the Bloomsbury Group.

Recent performances included Tippett's A Child of Our Time  at the Barbican, Gerontius at St Paul's Cathedral and concerts and recordings with the New London Orchestra.

Future concerts include Beethoven's Missa Solemnis at the Cadogan Hall in March.

 

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