Launched by Ronald Corp in 1991, the New London Children’s Choir has appeared in all the major London concert halls with Britain’s finest symphony orchestras and conductors, has collaborated with opera companies in the United Kingdom and abroad, and has made dozens of recordings and broadcasts, including its release of songs for children’s choir Pigs Could Fly on Naxos (8.572113). The New London Children’s Choir members have sung with English National Opera and at Opera Holland Park in Hansel and Gretel, as well as at the Leicester Square première of the new Disney film A Christmas Carol alongside Andrea Bocelli. Other highlights include the BBC Blue Peter Prom, Britten’s War Requiem, the Queen’s Birthday Prom at the Royal Albert Hall and Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 at the sixtieth anniversary concert of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. The choir has also performed around the world, touring with Lou Reed in 2007 and 2008 in addition to performances at festivals in France, Italy, the United States and the Azores. The choir has a special commitment to commissioning and has given the premières of over forty new works by composers such as Diana Burrell, Simon Bainbridge, Howard Skempton, Philip Cashian, Patrick Nunn, Richard Causton, Gary Carpenter and Morgan Hayes, as well as the world première of Ronald Corp’s children’s opera The Ice Mountain in 2010.
