Valentia Island is the perfect place for a unique chamber music festival, nestled in a rich and vibrant landscape. It is a spectacular location as one of Ireland’s most westerly points, steeped in history (ancient and recent) and boasts a host of stunning venues.  Founded by pianist Mary Dullea in 2014, Chamber Music on Valentia presents an annual festival of international stature throughout Valentia Island. 

Mae’r ferch mewn stad rhwng cwsg ac effro yn clywed lleisiau, synau, lleisiau o’r gorffennol, swn o tu allan i’r carchar, swn natur sy’n adeiladu fel hunllef ble mae’r ferch yn creu sw fel cri tylluan ar ddiwedd y rhan yma. Mae’r tair golygfa operatig hyn yn archwilio profiad un o ymgyrchwyr Cymdeithas yr Iaith o’r 1980au, wedi’i rhwygo oddi wrth ei theulu a’i charcharu am ei phrotest dros hybu ei mamiaith – y Gymraeg.

Ysgrifennwyd fel rhan o raglen ymchwil a datblygu – Tuag Opera – mewn partneriaeth â Tŷ Cerdd, Music Theatre Wales, a’r Eisteddfod Genedlaethol 2025.

Join the Hemiola Ensemble & director Harvey Lok for the finale of their 2025/26 season: A Mass for the Earth. Celebrate a summer’s evening with favourite repertoire and new additions by Ivo Antognini, Caroline Shaw, Christopher Churcher, Nathan James Dearden, and more.

Join us for Lux in Tenebris, a choral journey through darkness and light featuring the Royal Holloway Founder's Choir. Under the direction of conductor Daniel Ayers, and joined by organists Logan Williamson and Claudia Burgess, the choir traces music's long fascination with shadow and radiance.

Join us for Lux in Tenebris, a choral journey through darkness and light featuring the Royal Holloway Founder's Choir. Under the direction of conductor Daniel Ayers, and joined by organists Logan Williamson and Claudia Burgess, the choir traces music's long fascination with shadow and radiance.

Join us for Lux in Tenebris, a choral journey through darkness and light featuring the Royal Holloway Founder's Choir. Under the direction of conductor Daniel Ayers, and joined by organists Logan Williamson and Claudia Burgess, the choir traces music's long fascination with shadow and radiance.

Join us for Lux in Tenebris, a choral journey through darkness and light featuring the Royal Holloway Founder's Choir. Under the direction of conductor Daniel Ayers, and joined by organists Logan Williamson and Claudia Burgess, the choir traces music's long fascination with shadow and radiance.

As part of their 2026 summer tour, the Choir of Royal Holloway travel across Italy to present a programme blending both Venetian delights and the English choral tradition over the centuries. This tour will include several performances of Nathan James Dearden’s first choral work, Te lucis ante terminum.

As part of their 2026 summer tour, the Choir of Royal Holloway travel across Italy to present a programme blending both Venetian delights and the English choral tradition over the centuries. This tour will include several performances of Nathan James Dearden’s first choral work, Te lucis ante terminum.

Join us for Lux in Tenebris, a choral journey through darkness and light featuring the Royal Holloway Founder's Choir. Under the direction of conductor Daniel Ayers, and joined by organists Logan Williamson and Claudia Burgess, the choir traces music's long fascination with shadow and radiance.

Royal Holloway Founders Choir presents Lux in Tenebris, a choral journey through darkness and light, followed by refreshments This concert brings people together at St Mary’s to support our historic building.

In 'Seasons of Being', Hemiola will guide you through a moving journey of life, mortality, and renewal.

In 'Seasons of Being', Hemiola will guide you through a moving journey of life, mortality, and renewal.

Bathe in the warmth of the sun, where sound and sculpture meet for a dramatic and poignant performance inspired by our closest star. Experience Kantos’ stunning voices in the glow of Luke Jerram’s Helios, an epic spherical artwork of the sun. In the cathedral-like acoustic of Victoria Baths, join us as we journey from the first glimmers of dawn to the deep glow of nightfall. 

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

This special edition of Midweek Music takes place as part of the New Sounds Festival 2026, and sees Royal Holloway’s finest organists perform music written especially for them.

The Founder’s Choir presents a choral journey through darkness to light, performing a variety of works by Charles Villiers Stanford, Thomas Tallis, Herbert Murrill, Flors Peeters, Joanna Forbes L’Estrange and Nathan James Dearden.

That now are distant is a collection of songs centred around love and loss. Setting a series of queer poems and writings from throughout history, these songs simply speak of a person’s love for another, the friendships they hold dear, and the loss they face throughout their life.

The Choir of Royal Holloway is the only university choir in the UK to offer free concerts every week during term-time.

Ireland's national chamber choir welcomes Guest Director Ellie Slorach for a Valentine's bouquet of music on the theme of love.

Originally commissioned by Llandaff Cathedral School Consort, in memory of our dear friend Matt Barnaville, the Cardiff Contemporary Music Group will perform this work for choir and organ as part of their 2025 Alumni Showcase.

There are a number of regular services held throughout the week in the chapel of Royal Holloway, led by the Choir of Royal Holloway.

Royal Holloway's annual Celebration for St Cecilia’s is one of the highlights of our season, celebrating the patron saint of musicians, St Cecilia, and the centuries of wonderful music dedicated in her name. Join the Choir of Royal Holloway and their director Rupert Gough for a concert of joyous music to mark this important date in the musician's calendar. 

Titled ‘Visions of the Divine’, this concert features a programme of music from the Founder’s Choir with music from Tallis, Stanford, Vaughan Williams, Britten, and Dearden.

Join us for this evening of song and dance for flute and piano, hearing Welsh melodies, French lyricism, and 90's club tunes reimagined. Blurring the line between voice and breath, Duo Melus bring Dearden, Mathias, Poulenc, and Jolivet to Royal Holloway with music that sings, speaks, and dances.

British Saxophonist Rob Burton won the Woodwind Category Final of BBC Young Musician 2018 and has since wowed audiences worldwide ever since. Featured as one of Classic FM’s “Stars of Tomorrow”, he has performed in prestigious London venues, namely Wigmore Hall, St. John’s Smith Square, St. James’ Piccadilly, Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle.

Join him and rising-star pianist Mark Rogers for this concert of song and dance through the lens of the classical saxophone. 

From the electricity of the derby to the late-night beats of Canal Street, from Turing’s silent genius to Pankhurst’s fearless pursuits. Join us for a mash-up of choral music, electronics and spoken word for an event that gives the city’s story a unique soundtrack.