Ronald Corp is founder and artistic director of the New London Orchestra and the New London Children's Choir.
11 Facts About Ronald Corp
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Ronald Corp was born and grew up in Wells, Somerset, later studying music at Oxford University.
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Ronald Corp was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to music.
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Ronald Corp attended the Southern Theological Education and Training Scheme to prepare for the priesthood.
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Ronald Corp was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1998 and a priest in 1999.
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Ronald Corp is a member of the Society of the Holy Cross.
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When Ronald Corp founded the New London Orchestra in 1988, his conducting career was launched: engagements have included concerts and recordings with many orchestras including the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra and Royal Scottish National Orchestra, as well as appearing at the BBC Proms.
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Ronald Corp wrote throughout his teens and his undergraduate days at Oxford.
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Ronald Corp conducted the NLO, and the combined forces of Highgate Choral Society, The London Chorus and the New London Children's Choir were deployed in the rest of the concert.
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The Queen's Diamond Jubilee was celebrated by a special concert given at the Barbican by Highgate Choral Society and the NLO on Saturday 9 June 2012, to include the premiere of This Sceptr'd Isle by Ronald Corp, a stirring seven-minute setting of text from Shakespeare's Richard II, the orchestra replete with surging sea-imagery and fanfares for four trumpets.
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The music of Ronald Corp is published by Boosey and Hawkes, Chester Music, Colla Voce, Faber Music, Novello, Oxford University Press, Royal Society of Church Music, Stainer and Bell, Trinity Guildhall and the Ronald Corp website.