The Sixteen – Artistic Associate

The Sixteen is recognised as one of the world’s greatest ensembles. Comprising both choir and period-instrument orchestra, The Sixteen strives to take beautiful and inspiring choral music, from the Renaissance and Baroque to the present day, to as wide and diverse an audience as possible. Its mission is both to preserve and champion the great choral heritage and to preserve and grow a future audience for it. The group’s repertoire is drawn from the passions of Founder and Conductor Harry…

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment – Artistic Associate

‘Not all orchestras are the same’. That’s been the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment’s calling card since a pioneering group of musicians established the rule-bending ensemble just over 30 years ago. But what makes an OAE performance at Kings Place special? Think of it like drinking a lovingly-made craft beer over a mass-produced lager, or a Highland single-malt over a supermarket own-brand. There’s an element of craft in everything we do. Playing on instruments from the period the music…

Our Partners

Resident Ensemble: Aurora Orchestra Resident Quartet: Piatti Quartet Artistic Associates:  Alan Bearman Music, Cryptic, London Sinfonietta, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment,  Poet in the City, The Sixteen We champion our collaborative partnerships, many of which have been part of our artistic programme since Kings Place first opened in October 2008. We are home to the Aurora Orchestra, which has had its headquarters in Kings Place’s Music Base since 2009 and was formally appointed as Resident Ensemble in 2013. In addition, there are…

London Sinfonietta – Artistic Associate

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…

Aurora Orchestra – Resident Ensemble

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…

Out of Time

6 January – May 2018 To mark Time Unwrapped, Piano Nobile presents two exhibitions which showcase the richness of the Ruth Borchard Collection and British self-portraiture in the 20th and 21st centuries. Bringing together visual and musical arts, the programme is curated by Professor Simon Shaw-Miller, Chair of History of Art at Bristol University and author of Eye hEar: The Visual in Music and Visible Deeds of Music: Art & Music from Wagner to Cage, and Dr Charlotte de Mille, author on art…

Work at Kings Place

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…

London Chamber Music Society

The London Chamber Music Society boasts a proud history of Victorian music making in London and with the regular Sunday Concerts that developed at South Place and then the Conway Hall from the 1920s. The LCMS continues that rich legacy at Kings Place, its home from 2008, with London Chamber Music Sundays- a diverse annual season of high-quality classical chamber music, ranging from duos and trios to chamber orchestras, coming from the UK, Europe and beyond. Many of Britain’s most celebrated ensembles have…

Decade

6 January – 24 February To celebrate its tenth year at Kings Place and to coincide with Time Unwrapped, Pangolin London will bring together highlights from the past ten years in a show called Decade. From miniature to monumental, and featuring a range of materials, the exhibition will not only examine the works that form the highlights but will also set them in a wider context, looking at how they were made and what happened to them after they left Kings…

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