New Sounds Festival 2026

Join the Choir of Royal Holloway for this special Choral Evensong, as part of the New Sounds Festival 2026, in the wonderful setting of our Chapel. 

Please note that this is a liturgical service. 

For further event information and to watch online, please visit the choir's dedicated page: www.chapelchoir.co.uk 

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.