PLAY! Festival 2025

We are excited to bring back our Festival Orchestra to launch PLAY! 2025, under the baton of Rebecca Miller, for a concert that takes us all over Europe. We are in for a treat as the orchestra takes us on a European tour of classical favourites, featuring Strauss' Die Fledermaus Overture, Dorothy Howells' Humoresque, Coleridge-Taylor's Othello Suite, and Tchaikovsky's Capriccio Italienne. This concert will also feature several musical items performed solely by our 2024-25 Orchestral Scholars. 

Event programme

Johann Strauss II (1825-1899): Die Fledermaus Overture
Dorothy Howell (1898-1982): Humoresque
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847): String Octet in E-flat major, Op. 20 (Performed by our Orchestral Scholars)
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912): Othello Suite, Op. 79
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893): Capriccio Italienne, Op. 45 

Car parking

When you arrive for a College event at our Egham campus, please park in car parks 12 or 4.

Car park 12 can be accessed by turning right as you enter the main College gates and is located next to the tennis courts. If this car park is full, please drive further onto our campus to car park 4, which can be accessed by turning left at the mini-roundabout behind the Students’ Union. We would advise that you bring the College map to campus with you and give yourself plenty of time to park.

Blue Badge holders can find designated parking spaces in Car park 1W, as well as between Gardeners Lodge and the Williams Annexe. You can find these locations by looking at our campus map opposite. If you require any assistance on arrival, please contact our premises team in advance of your visit by emailing: premisesadmin@royalholloway.ac.uk and they will be happy to help.

Please note that we operate an Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) system on certain parts of our campus, however if you are here for an organised event, parking is unrestricted for event guests in car parks 12, 4 or 14 (or display your blue badge permit if parking in a disabled bay). If you have any questions about parking, please email: premisesadmin@royalholloway.ac.uk