JUNIOR CHORAL COURSE 2: WINCHESTER
Monday 19th August - Sunday 25th August 2024
Fee: ÂŁ960* - BURSARIES AVAILABLE
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WINCHESTER COLLEGE
COURSE VENUE
Ralph Allwood MBE DMus was for 26 years Director of Music at Eton College and is now a freelance choral director, teacher and conductor. He is the Director of the Rodolfus (ex-Eton) Choral Courses, which he founded in 1980. He co-founded the Junior Choral Courses in 2012. Ten thousand 8 to 20 year-olds have since been students on courses. In recent years he has launched courses in Texas, Shanghai and Shenzhen. The Rodolfus choir has produced over 20 CDs since he founded it in 1982.
Ralph is co-founder and conductor of Inner Voices, made up of singers from state schools in London. He was until recently a Supervisor for harmony at Jesus College and Queens’ College, Cambridge, Director of the only conservatoire chapel choir in the world, the Old Royal Naval College Trinity Laban Chapel Choir and an Honorary Fellow of University College, Durham.
Ralph has conducted choirs for over 40 broadcasts for BBC Radio 3. He has composed much music for Extreme Music Ltd, heard worldwide on radio, films and television. He teaches at his old grammar school, Tiffin and is a co-founder of the National Youth Music Theatre.
In 2015 he co-founded the Pimlico Musical Foundation to enable children from Pimlico Primary Schools to sing in choirs, particularly at St Gabriel's Church.
In 2017, the Archbishop of Canterbury presented him with the Thomas Cranmer Award for Music and Worship. He is Chair of the Choral Evensong Trust.
RALPH ALLWOOD
COURSE DIRECTOR
Charlotte Corderoy is an Equilibrium Young Artist for the 2023/24 season, and has been mentored by Barbara Hannigan since October 2023.
In 2024 she will assist Hannigan with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra and The Swedish Radio Choir, and feature conducting alongside her on a new recording of Stravinsky’s chamber music (Linn Records).
She is currently one of two Assistant Conductors for the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Over their 23/24 season, she will collaborate with Kazuki Yamada, Ilan Volkov and Benjamin Grosvenor.
Charlotte graduated with a Master’s degree in Orchestral Conducting from The Royal Academy of Music (London) in July 2023.
Since graduating, she has already made her debuts with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the City of London Sinfonia. Charlotte will make her Cadogan Hall debut with the RPO in Spring 2024 (Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No.1 with Martin James Bartlett).
Further notable performances include Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel (Opera Holland Park Young Artist ’23) and British Youth Opera’s The Pilgrims’ Progress (The Three Choirs Festival ’23).
Charlotte will return to OHP as Principal Conductor (Rossini’s Barber of Seville) for their 2024 season.
A keen advocate for Outreach and Music Education, Charlotte was appointed Musical Director of the Junior Royal Academy of Music’s Musical Theatre Dept (Sept ’22). Further MD credits include the National Youth Music Theatre’s production of Cole Porters’ Kiss Me, Kate at Leicester Curve Theatre (Aug ’23).
Charlotte will spend Autumn ’23 as Assistant Conductor for Mozart’s Don Giovanni at Glyndebourne.
CHARLOTTE CORDEROY
COURSE DIRECTOR
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BURSARIES
The Rodolfus Foundation offers generous bursaries to help with the costs of our courses. You can apply for a bursary as part of the online application process, and all details provided will treated confidentially.
Applying for bursary to help a singer aged 8 - 13 come on one of our courses? The Harrison Memorial Trust has funding available for children to come on courses like ours. We will send information about this fund when they release their 2024 information. Applying for funding from The Harrison Memorial Fund doesn’t mean you can’t apply for a bursary from us too. But you must complete an application for both organisations to be considered, and please do not send completed Harrison Memorial Fund applications to us. Completed applications must be returned to them.
AGE RANGE
You must be aged between 8 and 15 on the 31st August 2023 to attend this course, and be in years 3 to 10.
UPDATE 28TH MAY 2024
Please contact us directly on helen@therodolfusfoundation.org.uk if you would like to apply for this course
*INTERNATIONAL APPLICANTS: We can only take payments for international applicants through Stripe this year. Course fees will have an approximately 3% card processing fee.