Biography

Ralph Woodward grew up in Durham, and studied Music as Organ Scholar at Queens’ College, Cambridge. He is now Musical Director of the Fairhaven Singers and Full Score, Chairman and Course Director of the Northumbrian Recorder and Viol School, and Musician-in-Residence at St Mary’s School, Cambridge.

He has worked in 6 US states, 20 Cambridge College Chapels, 20 UK cathedrals and 25 countries, and has conducted the London Mozart Players, City of London Sinfonia, The Parley of Instruments, English Chamber Orchestra and Britten Sinfonia. He carries out a wide range of editorial jobs for Oxford University Press, with particular involvement in the William Walton Edition, and is much in demand as a leader of choral workshops.

His choral arrangements are also successful, and have been performed all round Europe and on Radio 4’s PM programme. His recording of Will Todd’s Requiem was awarded five stars by Choir & Organ magazine and an 18 certificate by Aled Jones!

Past projects have included work with Vladimir Ashkenazy, Christopher Hogwood, Emma Johnson and James Bowman and Cradle of Filth. 2011 saw him conducting in the south of France, Bristol and Lisbon. Future engagements include concerts in Vienna and on Ischia.