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Ralph Barnes is an award winning tenor who has a wide repertoire of songs, including opera, light opera, oratorio, English song, lieder, ballads, show songs and most recently pop songs.
Ralph sings in concerts and musical productions, to audiences both large and small, as well as at social events. He is also a very keen and competent choral and orchestral conductor, having
directed the Young Workers Music Association Symphony Orchestra, the Halesowen
Chamber Orchestra and the Belarus White Russian Army Band.
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Ralph Barnes was
born in Cheltenham in 1979 and educated at Rendcomb College, Gloucestershire.
He studied singing with Julia Morris and sang in the college choir.
He was a chorister with Christ Church Choir,
Cheltenham and St Philip and St James Church, Leckhampton.
In 1994 he was privileged to sing in Westminster Abbey
with the Choir of St Philip and St James for an evensong service in August. In
the same year he enjoyed his first operatic experience in the chorus of Bizet's
Carmen with Cirencester Opera.
Ralph graduated from Roehampton University London in 2001 with a BA Hons Degree in Drama with Theatre Studies and Music. His
singing tutor was the reknowned Tenor Michael Goldthorpe who sang with Joan
Sutherland in a televised performance of Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia at Covent
Garden in 1980.
Ralph performed in many concerts and
solo recitals and studied choral conducting under the mentorship of Dr Colin
Durrant.
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