Who are we?

Leading Voices LDN is a professional musical theatre choir founded by performer and composer Ralph Warman. Comprising 12 professional actors, the ensemble is dedicated to championing and supporting new British and UK-based musical theatre writers.

Passionate about the development of new musical theatre, Ralph has long been an advocate for emerging work. Recognizing the increasing challenges of securing funding for new productions, he established Leading Voices LDN to provide a dedicated platform for talented writers whose work has yet to reach a wider audience. Through this initiative, the choir aims to showcase and elevate the voices of the next generation of musical theatre creators.

LVL's Debut Concert: Fresh Off The Score

Our debut concert, Fresh Off the Score, took place on Sunday 29th June at The Union Theatre.

The sold-out event was a celebration of new musical theatre writing by British and UK-based composers and lyricists.

The programme featured work by a range of acclaimed writers, including songs from Darren Clark and Jethro Compton’s Olivier award winning production The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Webborn & Finn’s critically acclaimed The Clockmaker’s Daughter, and Jack Godfrey’s 80s pop-musical 42 Balloons, which recently ran at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater.

The concert will also highlighted emerging voices in the musical theatre landscape, offering audiences the opportunity to discover exciting new talent right at the beginning of their careers.

Supporting Our Future

What will your money go towards?

Hot off the heels of a successful first concert, we are now planning for our next Christmas concert.

Whilst we managed to showcase 21 songs from 15 new shows, there were still many shows and writers' works that we would have loved to have included but sadly didn't have space for. What better time of year to give the gift of new musical theatre than Christmas!

Your donations will help cover: the costs of hiring rehearsal and venue space, fair pay for our brilliant singers and musical director, travel expenses and music licensing fees.

To learn more about the choir and our recent debut concert, please visit our website:
www.leadingvoicesldn.com

Every donation, big or small, will go towards helping us to champion incredible new musical theatre writers at the very start of their journeys.

If you’re not in a position to donate, sharing this page with friends, family, and fellow theatre lovers would mean the world to us.

Thank you so much for being part of our story!

Leading Voices LDN:

Meet the Team

RALPH WARMAN (HE/HIM) - FOUNDER

Ralph Warman is a British performer, composer, and musical director based in Northwest London. He studied Music at the University of Manchester and trained in Musical Theatre Performance at Mountview.

With over 20 years of choral experience, Ralph has performed with esteemed ensembles, including HM Chapel Royal, the National Youth Choir of Great Britain, the eight-time UK champion Barbershop Chorus Hallmark of Harmony, and the internationally renowned Crouch End Festival Chorus. Committed to musical excellence, he continually strives to maintain the highest standards in his performances.

His theatre credits as a performer include; Fallen (Hen & Chickens Theatre), Oklahoma! and Evita In Concert (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), The Boy Who Sailed the Ocean in an Armchair (Oxford Playhouse), Longitude (Arcola Theatre), Miracle on 34th Street (Town & Gown Theatre), Rotherhithe Gospels (Rotherhithe Playhouse) and Tom Brown’s Schooldays (Union Theatre). As a musical director, he has worked on Dark Isle In Concert, Miracle on 34th Street, Rotherhithe Gospels, and Tom Brown’s Schooldays.

Ralph is currently revising his original Scottish musical, Three Strong Beams, and is an advanced-year composer with Book, Music & Lyrics (BML), a program which helps new musical theatre writers to hone their craft. Several BML writers are featured in this concert including past alumni Darren Clark.

CHARLIE-JADE JONES (SHE/HER) - VOCAL CONSULTANT

Charlie-Jade is a highly versatile singing-actor and singing teacher. She has taught singing at institutions including Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, LAMDA, Mountview and Arts Ed, and her clients can be found in The Choir of Man, The Phantom of the Opera and Sister Act.

She regularly collaborates with clinicians supporting performers’ health (particularly vocal health) and is a PhD Candidate at the Centre For Performance Science - a joint venture between the Royal College of Music and Imperial College London, where her research investigates Performers’ Health, and Health Promotion in the Performing Arts. As an RCM Scholar, her research is supported by the Royal College of Music.

She trained in Musical Theatre at the Royal Academy of Music, and also holds an LRAM in Singing Teaching and an MSc in Performance Science from the Royal College of Music.

Recent performance work, in addition to session work at Abbey Road Studios, has included No For An Answer (Arcola Theatre), Love Story (Cadogan Hall), Oklahoma! (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), and her solo show The Soprano Behind The Screen which was featured on BBC Radio 2.

FELIX ELLIOTT (HE/THEY) - MUSICAL DIRECTOR

Felix recently completed an MA in theatre music direction from the Royal Academy of Music, and now freelances as a musician and piano teacher.

Recent engagements include music-directing NewsRevue, a musical sketch-comedy show satirising politics and current affairs, and depping keys on the West End production of MJ.

An enthusiastic musical theatre composer, he staged his own creation The Herb Garden in Cambridge University's Corpus Playroom, and co-composed the five-star rated Antigone: the Musical! (Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2022), a comic retelling of the Greek tragedy.