Musical Director

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, Full Score and Orchestral Score. He has played concertos on three instruments, worked in 20 Cambridge College Chapels, 20 UK cathedrals, six US states, and over 25 countries, and conducted the London Mozart Players, City of London Sinfonia, The Parley of Instruments, English Chamber Orchestra, and Britten Sinfonia. He spent four years as Interim Assistant Director of Music at King’s College, Cambridge. He carries out a wide range of editorial tasks for Oxford University Press and a number of the country’s leading composers and ensembles. His choral arrangements have been performed all round Europe and on Radio 4’s PM programme, and he has been commissioned to make a number of orchestrations. Past projects have included work with Vladimir Ashkenazy, Emma Johnson, Iestyn Davies and Cradle of Filth, and an appearance on ITV’s Grantchester. Thanks to an on-screen appearance in Paul Spurrier’s 2021 horror film The Maestro: A Symphony of Terror, Ralph has a Bacon number of 2. In addition to his musical interests, Ralph plays cricket, gives presentations on the assassination of JFK, and spends as much time as possible eating and drinking in foreign countries.

For more information on Ralph, please see www.ralphwoodward.net.