Junior Choral Course 1: Wellington College, Berkshire
Sunday 10th August - Friday 15th August 2025
Directors: Charlotte Corderoy & Martyn Ford
Charlotte Corderoy is Assistant Conductor to the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO). The 2024/25 season sees Charlotte debut with English National Opera (conducting Turn of the Screw), Volksoper Wien (My Fair Lady) and South Australian Opera (Dove's Flight). She also assists Barbara Hannigan at the London Symphony Orchestra, covers Le nozze di Figaro at Glyndebourne Festival Opera, and continues with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
Last season's highlights included returns to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (having previously conducted them at the Three Choirs Festival) and to Opera Holland Park for Il barbiere di Siviglia. Charlotte also debuted with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra co-conducting Stravinsky’s The Rake's Progress with Hannigan in Örebro, Stockholm and Cologne.
Born in 1997, Charlotte graduated from Oxford University with First Class Honours in Music. She went on to study conducting at the Royal Academy of Music where she is currently Musical Director of their inaugural Junior Musical Theatre Department. She has assisted on a number of new commissions at the Aldeburgh Festival.
As of September 2022, she was appointed Musical Director of the Royal Academy of Music's inaugural Junior Musical Theatre Department. Further theatre credits include Keys Dep for Strictly Ballroom the Musical UK Tour, and Rehearsal Pianist for Only Fool's and Horses The Musical, on London's West End.
She was also one of seven women invited by the Royal Philharmonic Society to front a new scheme for female conductors in association with the Royal Northern Sinfonia at Sage Gateshead.
She began her musical journey as a pianist and organist. During her undergraduate degree at the University of Oxford, she held an Organ Scholarship at Hertford College, as well as Principal Conductorship of the Oxford University Philharmonia and the Oxford Contemporary Opera Society.
Charlotte was the first student in Oxford's history to hold the conductorship of the Philharmonia alongside the Conducting Scholarship of Schola Cantorum, Oxford's premier chamber choir.
She also became interested in showcasing contemporary music to new audiences, and was MD for the UK premiere of British composer Gavin Bryars' chamber opera Marilyn Forever.
Martyn Ford was educated at Tiffin School and sang as an occasional volunteer Lay Clerk at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford under Francis Grier and Steven Darlington before beginning his teaching career at Summer Fields in Oxford. Whilst in his current role as Head of Performing Arts at Lambrook School he has worked as a member of staff on many Eton Choral Courses, as vocal coach for The National Youth Music Theatre, as Musical Director of the IAPS Choral Courses and Musical Director of the Berkshire Boys` Choir. He has particular expertise working with the age-group for whom the Junior Choral Courses are designed and has conducted many of these courses since he and Ralph Allwood came up with the idea of starting them some 20 years ago.
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Wellington College, established in 1853, is a co-educational boarding and day school set within 400 acres of parkland in Crowthorne, Berkshire. Wellington College is easily accessible from London and the surrounding areas, benefiting from excellent transport links. The Rodolfus Junior Choral Courses have been visiting the College for many years with its ideal setting for a residential course.
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You must be between the ages of 8 and 15 to apply for this course. If you are 15, you must currently be in Year 10.
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The cost of this course is £1010. There are a number of payment options available:
£250 deposit followed by an invoice to pay the remaining balance via a bank transfer by 31st March 2025
£250 deposit followed by two invoices - one to pay 50% of the remaining balance by 31st March 2025 and the other to pay the remainder by 29th June 2025.
The full £1010 on application using a credit card (plus a 1.5% Stripe transaction fee)
A monthly payment plan to be completed 6 weeks before the start of the course (29th June 2025) following a deposit of £250 on application. (monthly payments will be subject to a 1.5% Stripe processing fee)
Through one of the Foundation’s means-tested bursaries. See more below.
The refund policy is the same whichever payment option you choose. A full refund is available if you cancel the place by 5pm on 29th June 2025. 50% refund is available if cancelled after 5pm on 29th June and before 5pm on 20th July 2025. No refund is available if you cancel after 5pm on 20th July 2025. (Stripe processing fees are not refundable.)
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Our bursaries are awarded based on financial need, and the amount awarded is calculated on a sliding scale, which is means-tested. You can read about the criteria here as well deadlines and what information we need. You can apply for a bursary as part of registering for the course.
If you do not meet the criteria to receive a bursary from The Rodolfus Foundation, you may wish to look for other sources of funding. We have a list here which you may find helpful.
FURTHER INFORMATION
ARRIVAL TIMES
The arrival time on day 1 is different from that of any previous Choral Course. Singers must now arrive between 11:00am and 11:30am on the first day. The course will conclude on the final day between 5:00pm and 6:00pm.
INTERNATIONAL APPLICANTS
We welcome applications from singers outside of the UK. However, please note that course fees will include an approximate 3.25% card processing fee.
MORE QUESTIONS?
Please check out the main Junior Choral Courses page for further information, including information for changing voices, timings, and what’s included.