Updated: For those too young for the Eton Choral Courses: apply soon for a place on a new 9-15 choral course, with Ralph Allwood as Musical Director. It is the Stonebridge Choral Course, and runs from April 5th - 10th 2010 at Dean Close School, Cheltenham.

The course is open to all singers aged 9-15, boys (unbroken voices) and girls. The cost for the course is £460 (means-tested bursaries available). Highly competent and experienced altos, tenors and basses will join the boys and girls at the end of the week so that they will be able to tackle some really fine repertoire.

For more information, call Richard Smyth on 01745 870345 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

The 2010 course dates are now available on this website and on our Facebook page.

This year we have seven courses at locations including Eton College, Cheltenham College, Oxford, Cambridge and Durham. Booking isn’t yet open for these courses, but if you become a fan on Facebook or subscribe to our mailing list, we will let you know when booking has begun.

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Information will appear on our application page when you can book your place.

2009's six Choral Courses are now over, and you can read the Course Reports on our website. Audio clips from the various broadcasts will be available soon on this page, and photos on our facebook page.

2010's dates will be published here in our news section as soon as they are announced, so become a fan on facebook, or subscribe to our RSS news feed to be the first to know!

This is a comment I received from a young man on the course held at Trinity, Cambridge, mid-August 2009:

Dear Ralph,

You have probably tired of hearing this by now, but I would like to sincerely thank you for last week. It was a life-changing experience for all of us. I eagerly look forward to next year.

Ollie

To which I replied:

Dear Ollie,

I shall never tire of hearing such lovely remarks. I'm so pleased to have met you, particularly as it has been 100 courses since your father came on the second ever course in 1981! So pleased you'll come next year.

Ralph

And here's another:

Dear Ralph,

You may have heard that I got a Choral Scholarship to King's for 2010. I just wanted to let you know (now that I have my grades and it's all official!) just how important the Eton Choral Courses that I attended were to this. The helped me so much, and I will always be incredibly thankful for the advice and brilliant encouragement that was given to me.