Sound Voice Project: In Conversation
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Ahead of our Sound Voice Project concert on Fri 27 May, Sound Voice artistic director/composer Hannah Conway and writer Hazel…
Join Chanté Joseph, the host of the Guardian’s Pop Culture podcast, as she takes her show to the stage for the very first time with special guest Paul C Brunson.
One of Shakespeare’s most controversial characters is at the centre of this special event, featuring Tracy-Ann Oberman performing excerpts from a radical new production of The Merchant of Venice alongside a panel discussion with the play's director Brigid Larmour, lawyer Anthony Julius and cultural historian Kate Maltby.
Two celebrated English singers, Iestyn Davies & Olivia Chaney, unite for this one-off exploration of the voice for Kings Place’s Voices Unwrapped series.
London-based singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Olivia Chaney joins us to perform tracks from both her first album The Longest River and Shelter released earlier this year, described as 'an elegant, luminous album’ by the Observer.
Author Norman Lebrecht discusses with historian Trudy Gold how a handful of people who happened to be Jewish thought outside of the box, to see what others could not, and in doing so changed the world.
London-based singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Olivia Chaney follows up her 2018 Grammy-nomination, appearance on Later...with Jools Holland, and sold-out Kings Place performance with a concert specially curated for Venus Unwrapped.
Is there a poem that has been a friend to you? Book a slot to come and talk about a poem that’s been a friend to you with The Poetry Exchange team.
Bestselling author and historian Simon Sebag Montefiore looks at over 100 letters from Rameses, Suleiman the Magnificent and Elizabeth I, to Stalin, Emmeline Pankhurst and Leonard Cohen.
Bach’s life coincides with the most profound change in our view of the night sky. Instead of a ‘heavenly’ realm, the scientific revolution made us see ‘space’ as a remote yet knowable place.
Ahead of our Sound Voice Project concert on Fri 27 May, Sound Voice artistic director/composer Hannah Conway and writer Hazel…
Tim Rutherford-Johnson muses on the meaning and manipulation of speed as explored in a multi-faceted programme from Icebreaker.
Héloïse Werner’s beguiling one-woman opera The Other Side of the Sea draws on her own experience of moving from Paris…
American composer and co-founder of the innovative ensemble Bang on a Can Julia Wolfe shares her key musical influences with Helen…
The subject of Olivier Messiaen’s music was time itself. No wonder his music appears like a thread through Time Unwrapped.…
Composer, producer and arranger to the likes of U2, Coldplay, Peter Gabriel and Blur, New Zealander John Metcalfe makes a…
Paul Griffiths explores the evolving relationship between time and western music in the last 1000 years.
Experimental electronic artist and producer, Nik Void, and multi-instrumentalist/composer Ashley Paul, discuss their new collaboration appearing in Venus Unwrapped & Luminate.
Nothing can capture the excitement of an artist in full flight. Sebastian Scotney talks to three masters of improvisation: classical…
As creative education and provision declines in schools, we want to promote careers in the arts and offer emerging creatives…
Award-winning composer Kerry Andrew performs with Juice Ensemble and alt-folk band You Are Wolf. Her first novel Swansong (Jonathan Cape) appeared…
How five choirs coming to Kings Place are putting women’s contributions to choral music back on the map. By Amanda Holloway.
Cellist Nicolas Altstaedt comes to Kings Place as both soloist in Haydn’s first concerto and collaborator in a new work…
Our 2019 artistic programme started last week with a spectacular performance from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, launching…
Before their collaboration inspired by Leoš Janáček’s string quartet Intimate Letters, we caught up with violinist Rakhi Singh and pioneering…
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Kings Place is an open, multi-arts venue, presenting an adventurous and critically-acclaimed programme, with words and music at its heart. Every year we curate a series of festivals to engage a breadth of different communities. We are a place where many audiences belong, a place where people connect with their passion and no-one is lost in the crowd. Kings Place was developed from a generous act of philanthropy. Driven by a belief that arts and culture are a fundamental part…
Following an architectural competition, Dixon Jones (National Gallery, Royal Opera House, Said Business School) was appointed as the architect for the developers Parabola Land Limited. In delivering the brief, they have skilfully brought together a major arts venue and creative hub, elegantly situated bars and dining areas including a waterfront restaurant, an excellent conference and events centre, and a Grade A office complex. In addition to being an iconic, mixed-use building, Kings Place has been planned and designed from the…
Kings Place – the story behind the sound Background Kings Place is the first modern purpose built recital hall to be built in London. With limited precedent in the UK, Arup went with the client, Parabola Land Limited, and architect, Dixon Jones, to Japan, where a number of small halls have been built in the last 20 years. This helped to consolidate what the team wanted from the new venue - a space with excellent acoustics for a wide range of…
Features and Highlights Glass Façade One of the most distinctive design features of the building is the three-layered undulating glass façade covering the west-facing York Way frontage. This is a free-standing transparent surface made up of hundreds of very slightly curved sheets of glass, produced in a factory near Venice. As well as being a beautiful design statement, it has practical benefits; from allowing Kings Place to be seen and recognised by visitors from as far as Kings Cross station…
The Music Base is our open-plan shared office space, home to the Kings Place Music Foundation team and other like-minded arts, literature and music organisations. The creative and collaborative atmosphere of the Music Base fosters close relationships between organisations, many of whom have become Kings Place Partners, including Resident Orchestra Aurora Orchestra and Artistic Associate Poet in the City. We currently have desks available. Find out more about desk space to rent. Alan Bearman Music Alan Bearman Music is a music agency, formed…
Kings Place is a welcoming arts venue and conference destination in the heart of King's Cross. Independently funded, Kings Place finances its artistic output through ticket sales, commercial enterprise and the hire of our spaces and facilities for rehearsals, conferences, filming and recordings. With two world-class performance spaces, our unique programme of music, spoken word, comedy and family events is managed by the charity Kings Place Music Foundation. Audiences are our rhythm, and people connect here with their passion, no…
The London Sinfonietta is one of the world’s leading contemporary classical ensembles, with a core of 18 Principal Players. Its mission is to place the best new music at the heart of today’s culture; engaging and challenging the public through inspiring performances of the highest standard, and taking risks to develop new work and talent. Founded in 1968, the London Sinfonietta celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2018, and with it, a rich musical history that has seen it commission over…
Poet in the City brings poetry to life beyond books, producing classic and contemporary poetry performances, experiences and conversations taking on major ideas, issues and people. We showcase biopics, use poetry to animate cultural movements and peer into ideas past and present, and create dramatic poetry experiences in major arts venues and unusual spaces. Since 2009, Poet in the City has made its significant mark by helping Kings Place establish itself as a new London home for poetry, having presented…
The Evening Standard calls Kings Place one of the number one places to see live podcast recordings: ‘The beauty of the London Podcast Festival is that it brings together many of the shows that don’t usually have live audiences; this is a chance to get involved in the conversations you’ve been listening to on the tube.’ 2018 saw the third edition of our London Podcast Festival featuring a mouth-watering line-up including Cariad Lloyd, Chris Gethard, Helen Zaltzman, Paul F Tompkins, Robin…
at the home of UK podcasting! Audio drama, panel show, chat show, round table, whatever type of podcast you have Kings Place is the best venue in London to record it live. With 100, 200 and 400 seat performance spaces we have the right size room for every show. Your listeners will love it too, The Evening Standard calls us the best place to watch podcasts being recorded in London. With our world-class acoustics and state of the art facilities…
In collaboration with our resident Aurora Orchestra, Kings Place presents imaginative, immersive events for local primary-school children, and children with special needs, in Camden and Islington. Multi-sensory storytelling concerts, Far, Far Away, introduce the very young to classical music. Immersed workshops are built around Aurora’s unique memorised performances, where musicians perform without sheet music, stands or chairs. Children have the rare chance to experience music in the midst of the orchestra – up close to the musicians and instruments. In…
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