Ralph Barnes - Acting MD
Ralph Barnes graduated from Roehampton University in London with a BA Hons Degree in Drama with Theatre Studies and Music. There he studied singing, performing in many concerts and solo recitals as well as studying the art of choral conducting.
Ralph performed with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus at The Royal Festival Hall in London for a Christmas Concert in 2000 for BBC Radio 2 followed soon after by Handel’s Messiah with The London Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus in The Royal Albert Hall.
Abroad, he has sung in America, Spain, Germany, Italy and France
He is a guest soloist with many of Gloucestershire’s leading choirs including Charlton Kings Choral Society, Cheltenham Choral Society, Churchdown Choral Society and the Silurian Choir, and has performed leading roles in the Gilbert and Sullivan operas with The Cotswold Savoyards, Worcester G&S Society and Hereford G&S Society.
He has also won prizes for his singing at The Cheltenham, Bath, Hereford and Oxford Competitive Festivals.
Ralph has worked with Wynn Evans of Welsh National Opera and this year, International conductors Manvinda Rattan and Sir Neville Marriner.
From August 2002 for over four years Ralph was the Musical Director of The Wide Valley Singers of Witcombe and Bentham.
As an orchestral conductor Ralph has directed the Young Workers Music Association Symphony Orchestra, The Halesowen Chamber Orchestra and The Belarus White Russian Army Band.
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Churchdown Male Voice Choir
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