Ralph has recently left Eton College, where he had been Precentor and Director of Music for 26 years, in order to pursue his freelance activities. These include conducting the orchestra of St Paul's Girls' School and the founding of Inner Voices, a choir for forty young people from ten Inner London state schools.
Ralph is a judge for the Llangollen International Eisteddfod and is a regular visitor to several Welsh choirs, including the National Youth Choir of Wales, which he is conducting this year. He founded the Eton Choral Courses, Junior Choral Course, held at Cheltenham College and the Rodolfus Choir, and leads choral courses and workshops all over the world. He will continue as Director of the Eton Choral Courses. In 2002 he was made Honorary Fellow of the Royal School of Church Music, in 2003 an Honorary Associate of the Royal Academy of Music and an MBE in the 2012 New Years' Honours.
