The Choir of Royal Holloway has attained standards of musicianship and technical refinement high above the reach of most student ensembles.
The Choir of Royal Holloway and Music Director Rupert Gough ensure that Oxbridge ensembles don't have it all their own way when it comes to great university choirs.
a truly fabulous sound
The Choir of Royal Holloway is considered one of the finest mixed-voice collegiate choirs in the country. The 20 choral scholars that constitute the college's Chapel Choir undertake a busy schedule of services, concerts, tours and recordings. The Choir of Royal Holloway is available for hire to sing concerts, commercial and corporate events, as well as at weddings and funerals. Watch and listen to clips of the choir on this website, purchase our recordings, and find out more about where to see the choir and how to support it.
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.
Our annual services of Lessons and Carols return for a light dusting of festive spirit. Tickets can be reserved from 9am on November 1st here.
The Founder's Choir's annual service of Lessons and Carols returns for a light dusting of festive spirit. Tickets can be reserved from 9am on November 1st here.
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Would you like to sing in one of the country's finest university choirs? Watch our online open day video to find out more.
ReadOur weekly lunchtime concert series returns with a live audience!
ReadWe are delighted to announce our Composition Competition, for composers in years 10-13.
ReadFollow-up charity single with Thomas Hewitt-Jones
ReadAs part of an ongoing collaboration with Convivium Records, we're thrilled to release a recording of a brand new work by American Carson Cooman.
ReadMidweek Music is back!
ReadWe're delighted to feature on a new release of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Britten Sinfonia, directed by Thomas Adès.
ReadThe Choir of Royal Holloway announce their first ever Composer-in-Residence for 2021-2022, the award-winning Welsh composer Nathan James Dearden.
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