Ralph Allwood

Ralph Allwood
MBE
Ralph Allwood 2018
Background information
Born (1950-04-30) 30 April 1950 (age 74)
OccupationChoral conductor
SpouseAlastair Davey (married 2024 - present) [citation needed]

Ralph Allwood MBE (born 30 April 1950) is a British choral conductor, composer and teacher, who currently holds the appointment of Fellow Commoner advising in Music at Queens' College, Cambridge.[1] He was previously the Precentor and Director of Music at Eton College between 1985 and 2011.[2] He had previously headed the music departments at Pangbourne and Uppingham.[3]

During his time at Uppingham, he established choral courses, now known as Rodolfus Choral Courses, but formerly known as Uppingham Choral Courses and most recently Eton Choral Courses,[4] of which there are now seven a year. He also conducts the Rodolfus Choir, a critically acclaimed group of singers aged 16–25, drawn principally from these Choral Courses.[5]

Allwood is also the conductor of Inner Voices, a youth chamber choir based in London. Set up in 2011, the choir brings together great singers from a group of London state schools to sing music from across the genre boundaries under the direction of Allwood.[6]

  1. ^ "Mr Ralph Allwood MBE | Queens' College". Queens.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
  2. ^ "Eton Choral Courses". Ralphallwood.com. Archived from the original on 16 July 2012. Retrieved 4 October 2012.
  3. ^ "Ralph Allwood". Signumrecords.com. Archived from the original on 20 February 2012. Retrieved 4 October 2012.
  4. ^ "Alumni Association". The Rodolfus Foundation. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  5. ^ "Ralph Allwood". Rodolfuschoir.co.uk. 29 September 2012. Retrieved 4 October 2012.
  6. ^ "About Us – Inner Voices". Retrieved 5 March 2021.