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Wander among the lavender, wiggle with worms and snooze to the music of a twinkling firefly. Join Principal Players of Aurora Orchestra for a playful stroll around the garden.
Wander among the lavender, wiggle with worms and snooze to the music of a twinkling firefly. Join Principal Players of Aurora Orchestra for a playful stroll around the garden.
Wander among the lavender, wiggle with worms and snooze to the music of a twinkling firefly. Join Principal Players of Aurora Orchestra for a playful stroll around the garden.
Join Aurora Orchestra for a magical adventure with Agatha the Pirate. With brand new chamber arrangements of music by Bartók, audiences will sail the high seas, meet a host of glimmering jellyfish, and play hide-and-seek with a wonderfully wicked parrot.
Our upcoming Far, Far Away show features new chamber arrangements of Tchaikovsky’s enchanting ballet and piano music with an original story from our Writer in Residence Kate Wakeling.
Dance with a Diplodocus, soar with a Pterodactyl, and roar like a Tyrannosaur. An immersive storytelling concert for children ages 0–5 and their families.
Join Aurora Orchestra for a magical adventure with Agatha the Pirate. With brand new chamber arrangements of music by Bartók, audiences will sail the high seas, meet a host of glimmering jellyfish, and play hide-and-seek with a wonderfully wicked parrot.
Join musicians from Aurora on a glittering adventure through the Marvellous Kingdom: dance with dewdrops, spy the Sugar Plum Fairy and get ready to tussle with the rascally Mouse King.
Join musicians from Aurora on a glittering adventure through the Marvellous Kingdom: dance with dewdrops, spy the Sugar Plum Fairy and get ready to tussle with the rascally Mouse King.
Join musicians from Aurora on a glittering adventure through the Marvellous Kingdom: dance with dewdrops, spy the Sugar Plum Fairy and get ready to tussle with the rascally Mouse King.
Join musicians from Aurora on a glittering adventure through the Marvellous Kingdom: dance with dewdrops, spy the Sugar Plum Fairy and get ready to tussle with the rascally Mouse King.
Join musicians from Aurora on a glittering adventure through the Marvellous Kingdom: dance with dewdrops, spy the Sugar Plum Fairy and get ready to tussle with the rascally Mouse King.
Jeremy Dixon reminisces about eight years of performances at Kings Place, the building he designed in 2008, with Amanda Holloway
Winning BBC Young Musician 2016 propelled young cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason into the public eye – a record contract and TV…
Last year’s London Piano Festival was such a hit that Charles Owen and Katya Apekisheva return this October for a…
Eliza Carthy belongs to a musical dynasty stretching back several generations. She reflects on her dialogue with her predecessors, and…
From 1900 to 1930, Einstein’s theories of relativity and those of quanta and quantum mechanics transformed the understanding of the…
Unveiling the new Master Series at Kings Place, some of the exceptional artists involved talk to Amanda Holloway about their…
Rebecca Clarke embarked on composition lessons at the Royal College of Music with Stanford, who suggested she take up the…
Since the time of Hildegard of Bingen, every century has had its share of exceptional female composers. So why aren’t…
Bristol-based audio-visual artist Kathy Hinde makes a unique contribution to Venus Unwrapped & Luminate with Scattering Layer, (Sat 9 Feb, Hall…
Nothing can capture the excitement of an artist in full flight. Sebastian Scotney talks to three masters of improvisation: classical…
Our 2019 artistic programme started last week with a spectacular performance from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, launching…
Our Artist in Residence for Nature Unwrapped, Chris Watson, has created a sound calendar of environments from the northern hemisphere. From…
Our Nature Unwrapped 2020 programme opened last week with a spectacular series of events and performances from Theatre of Voices, Brian Cox,…
In the 250th anniversary year of Beethoven’s birth, we have invited some of our favourite musicians to join us for…
Since its creation in 2005, Aurora has rapidly established itself as the most significant new British chamber ensemble in a generation, and one of Europe’s leading chamber ensemble. With its signature creative ethos, Aurora combines electrifying live performance with a uniquely adventurous approach to programming and presentation. Collaborating widely across art forms and musical genres, the ensemble has worked with an exceptional breadth of artists from Ian Bostridge to Wayne McGregor to Björk. In recent years it has pioneered memorised…
Sparking creative opportunities for the widest possible range of people is central to our vision at Kings Place. Below you can read more about our work with people of all ages and backgrounds, both within our local community and beyond. Schools and families Our work with schools centres on our partnership with Aurora Orchestra, collaborating on events for families and local primary schools under the rubric of ‘Far, Far Away’. In 2024 alone the programme reached 763 children and 685…
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…
If you are a freelancer or an organisation looking for somewhere to call home within an exciting and creative environment, look no further! The Music Base at Kings Place provides office and desk space for like-minded arts organisations, including Black Lives in Music, Aurora Orchestra and Alan Bearman Music. Together we’re an inclusive hub for new ideas in arts and culture. We currently have a selection of desks available, including groups of 1-6 desks and flexible sharing options. Interested? For further…