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.
Royal Holloway at St. John's, Smith Square
Wednesday 30th January 2019, 7:30pm
St. John's, Smith Square, London
Royal Holloway’s Chamber Orchestra and Choir team up with the London Mozart Players for another concert is the splendour of St. John’s, Smith Square. The music in this concert all celebrates storytelling in various guises. Dorothy Howell’s rarely heard Lamia, is based on Keats’ text which draws its inspiration from the Greek myth. There will also be a performance of Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony, which, like Keats’ poem, was also inspired by a visit to Rome. Morten Lauridsen, uses five Latin texts to transport us along the church year, and through the Christian faith, in his work for choir and orchestra, Lux Aeterna.
Booking for this concert is now open, and tickets can be purchased here.
The College Chorus: 'O clap your hands'
Wednesday 13th February 2019, 7:30pm
College Chapel, Royal Holloway, University of London
Join the College Chorus for a celebration of music for choir and brass, including Ralph Vaughan Williams’ thrilling setting of Psalm 47 ‘O clap your hands’. The concert will also see recent commissions by Judith Bingham, Jonathan Dove & Gabriel Jackson.
Tickets are available here.
Brandenburg Festival Concert: Mozart's Requiem
Friday 15th March 2019, 7:00pm
St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London
The choir perform Mozart's famous Requiem alongside an orchestra in the atmospheric surroundings of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. Uncompleted at the time of his death, Mozart's Mass for the dead is a rich tapestry of some of his finest writing. The first half of the concert will include Poulenc's Four Penitential Motets and Litanies à la Vierge Noire.
Book now.
City Music Society Lunchtime Concert
Thursday 28th March 2019, 1:05pm
St. Bartholomew-the-Great, West Smithfield, London
Join the Choir of Royal Holloway for a lunchtime concert for the City Music Society, which supports musicians performing and studying in the UK. The 2018-19 season marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the society, and the choir will present a programme to celebrate this.
Entrance is free, with a retiring collection. Please note that seats cannot be guaranteed after 1:00pm. More information can be found here.
Brandenburg Festival Concert: Spem in alium
Monday 6th May 2019, 1:05pm
St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London
The choir teams up with other ensembles to perform Tallis' mammoth 40-part motet; Spem in Alium. More details will be released in due course. See here for tickets and further information.
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
Saturday 25th May 2019, 7:30pm
St. Andrew's Hall, Norwich
Sunday 26th May 2019, 7:30pm
Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London
The choir join with the Britten Sinfonia Voices, and the Britten Sinfonia in the culmination of their Beethoven Symphony Cycle, conducted by Thomas Adès. Often regarded as the finest of Beethoven's Symphonies, the famous 'Ode to Joy' chorus is complemented by Gerald Barry's The Eternal Recurrence, which sets texts from Nietzsche's 'Also sprach Zarathustra'.
More information and tickets can be found through this link.
Martin Randall Travel: London Choral Day
Friday 7th June 2019
Westminster & Lambeth
London Choral Days by Martin Randall Travel put outstanding and exciting choral ensembles in some of the most beautiful buildings in the capital.They take the form of a day-long sequence of performances, talks, lunch and refreshments, the audience moving between the venues on foot.
The next London Choral Day begins in the shadow of Westminster Abbey and progresses across the river to Lambeth. Performances include the choir of St Margaret’s Westminster, The Gesualdo Six in Lambeth Palace Chapel and The Choir of Royal Holloway in Lambeth Palace’s Great Hall.
To book on to this exciting tour, please click here.
