Ronald Corp OBE (1951 – 2025)

It is with the most intense sadness that we announce that our beloved Musical Director, Ronald Corp, died on the morning of 7th May at Bath.

Ron was not simply a highly talented musician, as a composer, conductor and chorus master. He was a genuine friend to us all: motivated at all times by the sincerity of his love of music and of the people with whom he made it. He had been associated with The London Chorus for 40 years, 30 of those as Musical Director, and believed in it profoundly. What the Choir owe to him can scarcely be put into words. Our grief is raw: but soon we shall devise a means to commemorate him so that his name and his example live on among us and in our Choir.

We recall the line from Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius that we sang, and Ron conducted, at our 120th anniversary concert last year: ‘Go forth upon thy journey, Christian soul!’ As Ron makes that journey, we remember the richness of all our happy times with him, and are deeply grateful that time and chance allowed his path to cross with ours.