Malcolm Goldring studied the oboe at the Royal College of Music before continuing postgraduate education studies at the Universities of Durham and Nottingham.

His career has been rich and varied: teaching and lecturing in schools and colleges, Music Inspector for an area in the Midlands of England, Assistant Principal at one of the United Kingdom’s main conservatoires, and currently Chief Executive of youngchoirs.net (the British Federation of Young Choirs).

In 1990 he was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship and as a result toured the United States and Canada studying the development of youth and children’s choirs. On his return he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Malcolm Goldring is Conductor of the Cavendish Singers and the Midland Festival Chorus. He is frequently engaged as a guest conductor, both at home and abroad; he has conducted the closing concerts at two triennial Europa Cantat festivals in Austria and France; in the spring of 2003 he opened the Budapest International Spring Music Festival in a programme of music by Britten and Kodaly. Last summer he conducted in Slovenia and next summer conducts in Denmark. He recently adjudicated at major international festivals in Bavaria and Catalanya, and next spring visits Singapore.