About Windsor Festival

Aim and Objectives

The Windsor Festival aims to promote a high quality and varied festival for the cultural benefit of our community. To achieve this we will:

• Continue to promote quality performances of music and the arts within the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead.
• Increase local access to the arts and music in the unique venues available with Windsor, Eton and Maidenhead.
• Encourage the development of young musicians and other artists.
• Provide opportunities for local performers.

Vision

The Rt Rev. Robin Woods, Dean of Windsor, said of the Festival at its inception:

“The Festival brought to Windsor a new dimension of public participation, but it also demanded a new partnership and financial commitment between Castle, College and town… Windsor, with the castle at its heart and Eton at its feet, was ideally suited to a week of music-making and entertainment.…the whole place became the scene of pleasurable meeting and entertainment".

The Festival still holds this vision: we offer a unique experience, which entertains and enhances the community, linking social, educational and commercial interests.

Building on these foundations, we will increase the breadth and variety of the programme, increase accessibility to the arts and encourage wider recognition of the Festival.

Information

Her Majesty The Queen has graciously consented to the Festival holding events in the Waterloo Chamber, Windsor Castle and the Royal Chapel, Windsor Great Park.

Festival events are held in St.George’s Chapel and the Vicars' Hall by kind permission of the Dean and Canons of Windsor; the Provost and Fellows of Eton allow Festival events to take place in Eton College Chapel and the Music Schools.

The lunchtime concerts take place with permission from the Parish Church concerts committee and Windsor Royal Shopping.

Photographs of The Round Tower, Parish Church, and Guildhall are reproduced by the kind permission of The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead.

Photographs from The Royal Collection reproduced by the kind permission of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II © 2003.

Although artists and programmes were correct when going to press the Windsor Festival Society Ltd is unable to accept responsibility for any alterations. If, for reasons beyond the control of the society, an event has to be cancelled, tickets are non-refundable.