We are excited to bring back our popular College Alumni Recital, showcasing the recipient of the 2021 Alice Dougherty Chaplin & Woodward Prize for outstanding performance, tenor Christopher Willoughby. This recital will be accompanied by Royal Holloway's very own, Matthew Stanley. 

Event programme

Ian Venables (b. 1955): Songs of Eternity and Sorrow

1. ‘Easter Hymn’
2. ‘When green buds hang in the elm like dust’
3. ‘Oh who is that young sinner’
4. ‘Because I liked you better’

Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949): Morgen

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827): Adelaide

Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976): 'Rome is Now Ruled' from The Rape of Lucretia

Pyotr Ilya Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893): 'Kuda, Kuda…' from Eugene Onegin

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791): 'Dalla Sua Pace' from Don Giovanni

Albert Hay Mallotte (1895 - 1964): The Lord’s Prayer

About the performer

Christopher Willoughy’s musical education began as a chorister at Westminster Abbey. After finishing school he completed the VOCES8 Scholars programme and began a Choral Scholarship at Lincoln Cathedral. He then came to Royal Holloway and received a First Class Honours degree in Music as well as singing as a Choral Scholar in the Chapel Choir . While at Royal Holloway Christopher worked with choirs such as Westminster Abbey, and the Chapel Royal (St James’ Palace), and was awarded a place on Genesis Sixteen. At Holloway Christopher was tenor soloist in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 at St John’s Smith Square and recorded the tenor solos for the Chapel Choir’s new CD with Convivium Records in Dorset. After graduating Royal Holloway, Christopher appeared as a Young Artist with Waterperry Opera Festival and he now lives in Vienna where he is a student at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien (MDW). Christopher made his Viennese debut earlier this month in a leading role in Handel’s opera ‘Rodelinda’. Future engagements include principal roles in ‘Dido and Aeneas’ by Purcell at the Melk International Baroque Festival broadcast live on Austrian television, ‘Tod der Dido’ by Holzbauer with the ‘Teatro Borocco’ in Vienna, ‘Idomeneo’ at Schönbrunn Palace, and a place of the Vocal Faculty of ‘Music Academy of the West’ in Santa Barbara, CA.

Covid-19 Policy

To ensure the safety of you and others, we have implemented the following steps for all of our International Concert Series events:

• Booking is essential for all International Concert Series events, as numbers will be capped to enable sufficient spacing in our venues. There will be no tickets available on the door.
• We ask that our audience continue to socially distance and wear a mask at all times. 
• Entry to our events is dependent on evidence of double vaccination or a negative lateral flow test within 24-hours of the concert start time. 
• We regret that we cannot provide refreshments at this time.