The composer and conductor Ronald Corp studied music at Oxford University before joining the library at BBC Radio 3. He founded the New London Orchestra in 1988 and New London Children's Choir in 1991, and with the NLO made a series of recordings for Hyperion, including Bacewicz's music for string orchestra, Virgil Thomson's Louisiana Story, Fraser-Simson's The Maid of the Mountains and the British Light Music Classics series. 

Corp also recorded an operatic rarity in the form of Boughton's The Queen of Cornwall for the Dutton Epoch label, about which our reviewer Jeremy Dibble wrote: 'This operatic music of the 1920s may have its roots in the late 19th century but when it is performed with such fervour and control as it is here (for which Ronald Corp should be applauded), the “anachronism” matters not a jot. For me this opera was quite a revelation and it makes one wonder what other treasures of Boughton await rediscovery.'

As a composer, Corp's output was centred on vocal, particularly choral, music. But he also wrote string quartets (recorded by the Maggini Quartet for Naxos) and his First Symphony and First Piano Concerto were both included on an album – along with Guernsey Postcards – by pianist Leon McCawley with the RLPO and Corp conducting. Gramophone's Edward Greenfield called Guernsey Postcards 'altogether a charming work'.

Corp was a prolific writer of songs and his cycle Letters from Lony, recorded by mezzo Sarah Pring, the Chilingirian Quartet and pianist Andrew Brownell for Toccata is worth investigating.

Ronald Corp was ordained as an Anglican priest in 1999, was appointed OBE in 2012, and was also Music Director of The London Chorus and Highgate Choral Society.