New Sounds Festival 2026
Hear the bassoon like you have never heard it before. To mark the start of a 3-month collaboration with some of Royal Holloway's inventive music creators, bassoonist Lauren Martin leads us into the world of the bassoon. The demonstration will feature a range of playing techniques and expert insights into amplification.
This event is presented as part of the New Sounds Festival 2026, in partnership with the International Concert Series 2025-26 - VOX HUMANA - at Royal Holloway, and in association with the EAR (Experimental Artistic Research) series.
Get involved
We're delighted to offer a composition workshop opportunity as part of New Sounds and PLAY! festivals this year. The performer will be professional bassoonist and Royal Holloway PhD researcher Lauren Martin.
There are places available to composers on our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.
For more information, please check out this information sheet or contact nina.whiteman@rhul.ac.uk.
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
Further information
No booking required