Concerts and other major events
Free concerts in the College Chapel every Wednesday 1.15-1.45pm during term.
Come and relax in the beautiful setting of Royal Holloway Chapel. Each week there is a themed programme featuring a wide variety of music from the Choir of Royal Holloway alongside visiting instrumentalists, instrumental and vocal solos.
Click on the Midweek Music picture on the left to see details of the next concert and programmes for this term.
Or read on to find details of our featured concerts, both at the College and around the UK.
Tenebrae: Holy Week Festival
Monday 26th March - 6:00pm
The Choir of Royal Holloway
Rupert Gough, conductor
St John's, Smith Square, Westminster, London SW1P 3HA
The Choir of Royal Holloway take you on a musical journey ‘Into the night’. An exotic mix of sacred and secular music features composers from the USA, Lithuania and Latvia.
The opening works by Ä’riks Ešenvalds and RenĂ© Clausen set evocative American poetry by Sara Teasdale and Walt Whitman. Appropriately for Holy Week the images of night and death are intertwined as the programme moves from Morten Lauridsen’s three Nocturnes to a setting of the Tenebrae responsory by Lithuanian Vytautas Miškinis and concludes with settings of contemporary Latvian poetry. Tickets can be purchased here.
Notes for Women
Saturday 28th April - 7:30pm
The Choir of Royal Holloway
Bristol Ensemble
Natalia Lomeiko, violin & Mariana Flores, soprano
Rupert Gough & Roger Huckle, directors
St George's Bristol, Great George Street, Bristol, BS1 5RR
Marking the centenary of women being granted the vote in Britain, the Bristol Ensemble is staging Notes For Women, a year-long celebration of music by women composers. This concert, the first of a series of three in collaboration with St George’s Bristol, illustrates the history of women composers before 1800 with a selection of works from the medieval to Baroque periods. The women of the Choir of Royal Holloway perform music by the medieval German Benedictine abbess, composer and mystic Hildegard von Bingen. The professional orchestra is joined by the soprano Mariana Flores to perform exquisite songs by Barbara Strozzi, the most prolific composer – man or woman – of printed secular vocal music in Venice in the middle of the 17th century. Natalia Lomeiko performs the Third Violin Concerto by the Venetian-born composer and violinist Maddalena Laura Sirmen’s, a pupil of Tartini who became a celebrity soloist of the day. Book your tickets here.
