Midweek Music
The choir’s popular lunchtime concert series returns and runs all term both in person and online here. Hear one of the finest university choirs in the UK perform varied programmes, with music from the 12th to the 21st centuries in the surroundings of the college’s gilded chapel.
Event programme
Spring the sweet spring - Ernest Moeran
Frülingstraum, from Winterreise – Franz Schubert (sung by Joseph Morris)
Now is the month of maying - Thomas Morley
It was a lover and his lass – Thomas Morley
It was a lover and his lass – John Rutter
My spirit sang all day – Ben Parry
Good wine – Ernest Moeran
About the performers
The Choir of Royal Holloway is unique in the UK as the only collegiate choir with a weekly programme of services and concerts and is considered to be one of the finest mixed-voice collegiate choirs in Britain. The choir gives 50-plus concerts a year with a particular specialism in collaborating with living composers. Read more.
Rupert Gough has been director of Choral Music and College Organist at Royal Holloway, University of London since 2005. He is also Organist and Director of Music at London’s oldest surviving church, Saint Bartholomew the Great, which maintains a professional choir. At Royal Holloway Rupert has developed the choral programme to include weekly choral recitals, choral conducting courses for undergraduates, many new choral commissions and transformed the Chapel Choir into an elite group of 24 choral scholars. Read more.
Further information
The 30-minute performances are free of charge and informal, allowing people to come and go as their schedule allows.
Tickets
Free admission to all
