New Sounds Festival 2024

We are excited to bring you our 2023-24 Picture Gallery Composer-in-Residence cohort with this unique event featuring six music creators from Royal Holloway who have created new surround-sound installations in response to our world-class art collection. Join us for this fresh and immersive insight into our art collection with new works by Neel Anand, Jonny Dixon, Julianna Hinton, Sophie Janes, Sebastian Rowe, and Joshua Wen. 

This event is presented as part of the New Sounds Festival 2024, in partnership with the Arts Collection Team at Royal Holloway. 

Can't make the launch event?

If you cannot make the Launch event for our Picture Gallery Composer-in-Residence cohort, do not worry. There will be relaxed, open hours throughout the festival for you to come and enjoy the installation in your own time. There will also be a music creator on-hand to answer any questions you might have about these new responses top our Picture Gallery and its collection. 

Our residency

Now in its seventh year, this is a ground-breaking residency in which successful student composers from the Department of Music will have their musical responses to the Picture Gallery and some of its wonderful paintings premiered as part of Royal Holloway's International Concert Series. If you would like to read more about the Picture Gallery Composer-in-Residence Scheme or hear about our previous cohorts, please visit this dedicated webpage (link embedded)

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