Autumn Festival 2021

Mission Impossible are the dynamic, engaging, fun loving soul band that you've needed your whole life!

We are delighted to welcome Berkshire Maestros to Windsor Parish Church this September. With a first-class programme, the concert will showcase young talent from across the county.

Previously a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, Endell Street by Wendy Moore shines a light on the extraordinary lost story of the women who ran Britain's trailblazing military hospital in Covent Garden during the First World War.

Seven brothers and sisters. All of them classically trained musicians. One was BBC Young Musician 2016 and performed for the Royal family. The eldest has released her first album of works by Clara Schumann.

Join Windsor's leading chamber choir for a concert of remembrance as they commemorate all those who have passed away since the Festival last met.

In Clothes... and other things that matter, former Editor-in-Chief of British Vogue, Alexandra Shulman delves into her own life to look at the emotions, ambitions, expectations and meaning behind the way we dress.

In conversation with his long-standing friend, actor Alison Skilbeck, Alastair Niven will talk about his memoir, In Glad or Sorry Hours, discussing his early life in Scotland, international career and work promoting well known writers. This promises to be a lively and amusing evening.

Top-selling historian and author, Alison Weir, recounts the story of Henry VIII's last wife - Katharine Parr, the queen who survived him.

Eton's stunning College Chapel provides a memorable backdrop to this year's concert featuring Music Scholars and members of the celebrated College Chapel Choir.

Food has been sourced, prepared, cooked and served to the boys and staff of Eton College from its foundation in 1440 until the present day. Eton has the second-oldest working kitchen in England, and College Kitchen and College Hall have been operating for the purpose of placing meals on the tables in the same spaces for over 500 years.

Of the major 19th century composers who largely refrained from composing in the motet style, Brahms and Bruckner are significant exceptions.

This is the story of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the longest-serving consort to the longest-reigning sovereign in British history.

Frostiana is a setting of seven poems by Robert Frost, commissioned by the town of Amherst in Massachusetts where Frost lived for many years.

The 8th Windsor Festival International String Competition has found a new home within our Autumn Festival this September. For the first time ever, the competition will also take place virtually in light of the ongoing global pandemic. 11am to 5.45pm.

The 8th Windsor Festival International String Competition has found a new home within our Autumn Festival this September. For the first time ever, the competition will also take place virtually in light of the ongoing global pandemic. 11am to 5.45pm

In his gripping insider memoir, Gavin Barwell, who served as Chief of Staff to Theresa May for two years from 2017, reveals what really went on in the corridors of power.

With over 1,000 years of history, Windsor has many tales connected with royalty and the military. But what about ghosts?!

We are delighted to mark the Festival's return to the State Apartments, Windsor Castle with this concert in the stunning Grand Reception Room whilst the Waterloo Chamber undergoes refurbishment. Join us for an intimate evening of music celebrating young musicians for whom the last two years have been particularly tough.

Following the rapturous reception of Volume One, historian and Daily Telegraph columnist Simon Heffer brings us Volume Two of Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries this September.

Pubs and hostelries have always been an integral part of people's lives throughout history and no more so than here in Windsor.

Join us at The Old Court as the three chosen Finalists give the performance of their lives to compete for the coveted title of WFISC 2021 Winner. Have your say in the vote for the Audience Prize - and the opportunity to say you heard them first!

Windsor and Eton Choral Society return to the concert platform for the first time since the pandemic began with Handel's oratorio Samson.

In his signature brilliant style, bestselling author Max Hastings, gives a thrilling narrative of this little-known conflict. An emblematic moment when, in the cruel accountancy of war, the price was worth paying.