The Picture Gallery Composer-in-Residence Scheme 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 performed by an invited ensemble each year.

This residency is a professional development programme for music creators of the Department of Music to receive specialist, industry-standard workshop sessions and tutorials, working collaboratively with invited artists, ensembles and tutors to create new works that are premiered as part of the International Concert Series. 

These new compositions are the result of a special collaboration between the College’s Arts Collection Teams and Nathan James Dearden, Director of Composition and Performance Manager at the Department of Music.

Project overview for 2022

For its sixth cohort, six music creators from the Department of Music and six creative writers from the Department of English received the opportunity to work with the world-famous Choir of Royal Holloway and their conductor Rupert Gough through a collaborative and immersive workshop process exploring new music for voice. 

This collaboration will culminate in a live performance in the Picture Gallery at Royal Holloway in February 2023. Announcement of this event and to book your tickets will be released here in due course: Department of Music Events (royalholloway.ac.uk)