A key part of the Rodolfus Foundation’s activities is to develop partnerships with community choirs and school music departments throughout the UK who are working with children and young people to develop excellent choral singing skills.
Through partnership, we can share knowledge and support one another, get to know young aspiring singers from all backgrounds and locations, and together help them in their choral singing journeys. In particular, we can help young singers access our courses with the support of our Bursary Fund.
If you would like to explore partnerships with the Rodolfus Foundation, please contact annabel@therodolfusfoundation.org.uk
The Pimlico Musical Foundation (PMF) was founded in 2015 with the aim of providing a free, quality music education for children from disadvantaged backgrounds. PMF are embedded in five local state primary schools, are an additional provider for the Tri-Borough Music Hub, have successfully founded a Children’s Choir and Adult Chorus, host three professional concerts per year, and a programme of excellence, the Foundation Scholars, in 2018. Their Director of Music is James Day, who also runs the Barnes Music Festival to which the Rodolfus Choir contribute. The Rodolfus Foundation will be welcoming 6 young singers from PMF onto a Junior Choral Course this summer, with generous bursaries.
Based at St Paul’s West Hackney, The Hackney Children’s Choir is for 8-12 year olds who enjoy singing and performing. Under the leadership of Tom Daggett, the choir tackles the great choral works from Carmina Burana to Handel’s Messiah, has made two professional recordings, performed at the Royal Albert Hall and regularly sings at St Paul’s Cathedral. Children are drawn from 10 local schools. HCC have recently started a senior choir for 12-18 year olds, Hackney Senior Choir. We will be supporting several children from HCC to attend a Junior Choral Course this summer.
Conductor Ben Vonberg-Clark leads a girls choir and a boys choir drawn from local primary schools. They sing a variety of music for church services and from the great choral works such as Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s St John’s Passion. Each year, the choir is invited to sing at St John’s College, Cambridge. We will be welcoming several of the children to a Rodolfus Junior Choral Course, supported by our Bursary Fund. This coming year we will be sponsoring two young choral scholars to support the young singers in rehearsal and services, and launching a Choral Academy programme in September 2022.
Inner Voices was set up in 2011 as a collaboration between Ed Watkins, Director of Music at the West London Free School, and Ralph Allwood, ex-Director of Music at Eton College. The aim of the choir is to bring together great singers from a group of state schools in London with the best choral direction from the private sector to create a choir that tackles challenging music to a first class standard.