A Big Song and Dance

Ronald Corp

February 18th, 2012, 6:30pm (gates open from 5pm) at Pedro St. James.

Massed choirs from primary and high schools, local dance students, and Butterfield Young Musicians of the Year showcase the young talent of Cayman, with guest Musical Director Ronald Corp

Conductor, composer, writer and educator Ronald Corp leads this celebration of local excellence, featuring choirs from most of our primary and secondary schools, local dance talent, and Butterfield Young Musician of the Year winners. This is a special opportunity for youngsters to experience the thrill of performing en masse, and for the audience to share that joy in an outdoor picnic setting.

Ronald Corp is Founder and Artistic Director of the New London Children’s Choir, New London Orchestra and Musical Director of the London Chorus and Highgate Choral Society. The New London Children’s Choir is one of the busiest and most successful youth choirs in the UK, and they perform frequently abroad throughout Europe and in the USA.

Mr Corp has made it his mission to breathe new life into a wealth of little known music from the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as commissioning and composing many new works. Corp’s engagements have included concerts and recordings with the BBC Scottish Orchestra, the Leipzig Philharmonic Orchestra, Brussels Radio and Television Orchestra, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Bournemouth Sinfonietta.

He has appeared many times at the BBC Proms and also works regularly with the BBC Singers, for whom he has written a substantial choral work, Dover Beach. An expert in choral training and choral repertory, Ronald Corp’s comprehensive reference book entitled “The Choral Singer’s Companion’  has been recently republished in a third edition.

A new work, based on a selected poem from NCFA submissions, will be ‘world premiered’ at this event.