Trio Goya brings period performance insights to favourite Viennese classical works, with a beautiful replica Walter fortepiano from 1795, and string players performing on gut strings and with the old design of bows.
The Paddington Trio gives its début performance at Kings Place following hugely popular appearances at major international concert venues. Seen as one of the most exciting chamber ensembles of its generation, the Paddington Trio has been recognised in international competitions and live performances for fresh interpretations and exuberant energy.
Aurora Orchestra welcomes the BBC Singers for a programme that lifts its eyes to the horizon and glimpses the divine from Earth. Each of the works featured in this collaborative concert takes comfort in the prospect of a world beyond, whether discerned in the beauty of nature, in the power of human imagination, or in paradise after death.
The Composer, Violinist & Sound artist Ruby Colley, shares her new vocal work ‘Hello Halo’ inspired by her non-speaking brother’s modes of communication performed with Exaudi Ensemble.
Composer, violinist & sound artist Ruby Colley, shares her new vocal work ‘Hello Halo’ inspired by her non-verbal brother's modes of communication, performed with vocal group EXAUDI and ensemble.
Pianist Ariel Lanyi, the recipient of numerous awards including the Prix Serdang, presents a reflective programme, featuring Max Reger’s Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Bach, soon to be released on his new recording.
Ligeti Quartet returns to Kings Place to celebrate minimalist master, Terry Riley, alongside deep listening legend, Pauline Oliveros.
Award-winning composer Linda Buckley’s ‘Thar Farraige (Over Sea)’ will be performed at Kings Place with Brìghde Chaimbeul and Maxwell Quartet. They explore contemporary chamber music embracing both Irish and Scottish traditional music and language, songs of love and loss, connections to place, migration, and our idea of what home means.
Celebrate Valentine’s Day with loved ones in an evening of Tchaikovsky's String Quartet No.1 and Borodin's Quartet No.2. Both, much loved quartets, serve as sources of inspiration both to the composer's closest relationships and as inspiration to other artists, such as Leo Tolstoy who was brought to tears upon hearing Tchaikovsky's Quartet.
In this penultimate celestial Sunday morning with Bach, the Universe and Everything, guest speaker Sam Illingworth explores the numerous occasions in history where poets and creative minds have somehow been ahead of scientific discovery in their predictions, alongside an adventurous cantata from Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
To mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, Raphael Wallfisch and Piers Lane explore music for cello and piano in the time of war in Britain and France.
Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra brings a cinematic concert to Kings Place as part its centenary celebrations with Music Director and Principal Conductor Joanna MacGregor. Madness, mayhem and tango entwine for an evening of light and shade featuring Hermann’s 'Psycho', Piazzola’s 'Libertango' and more.
Join us for a morning of music and insight as Chamber Studio returns to Kings Place for their Hall One Masterclass series, as Michael Collins, Peter Hill and the Paddington Trio explore Messiaen’s transcendent Quartet for the End of Time.
The famous Hanover Band, directed by Leon Bosch, give the first performance in modern times of Johannes Matthias Sperger’s Cello Concerto, with soloist Sebastian Comberti.
Theatre of Voices make a welcome return to Kings Place, performing the premiere of a Kings Place commission of Julia Wolfe, alongside works by Nigel Osborne and Arvo Pärt.
This year’s Jewish Book Week opens with pianist Danny Driver, and Cellist Gemma Rosefield in performance, followed by a panel discussion to reflect on the mounting challenges recently faced by artists and institutions.
Join string quintet Wooden Elephant and prepared piano specialist Mathias Halvorsen as they transform their instruments into drum machines and synthesisers for a totally new, acoustic experience of Aphex Twin’s epic double album masterpiece, 'Drukqs'.
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Two-time Grammy-award winning Attacca Quartet present the second of the Platoon Presents at Kings Place series, featuring Ravel’s String Quartet paired with David Lang’s new quartet, 'daisy' co-commissioned by Kings Place.
This season's cosmic Sunday mornings with Bach, the Universe and Everything closes with 'Du wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn' (You true God and Son of David), BWV 23, a soulful contemplation of eternity and forgiveness of the human journey from darkness into light, with a scientific talk from a guest speaker.
Distinguished string soloists from the Royal Opera House orchestra perform Mozart’s early C major quartet, composed in the early 1770s when Mozart was in Milan working on a new opera.
Music from films 'Mishima', 'The Truman Show', 'There will be Blood', 'Platoon' and 'The Lobster' take us on a cinematic retreat via the sound world of the string quartet in this cinematic performance from Resident String Quartet, Piatti. This dramatic and powerful programme will feature the music of Johnny Greenwood, Barber's movingly elegiac Adagio for Strings as well as Shostakovich's haunting String Quartet No.8.
In an evening of powerful performances and thought-provoking conversation, EMPOWER: Women Changing Music celebrates and showcases the breadth and diversity of female music. It is accompanied by dynamic discussions with female leaders across the music industry.
The English Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Kenneth Woods, presents a programme of remarkable works for chamber orchestra.
BBC Radio 3’s award-winning Delia Stevens and three-time BBC Radio 2 Folk Musician of the Year nominee, Will Pound, deliver an unprecedented collaboration, following the creative evolution of the classical composers inspired by folk.
Described by Leonard Bernstein as ‘Mahler’s greatest symphony’, Das Lied von der Erde is an incomparable musical homage to the natural world, and humanity’s place within it. Aurora performs the work in Iain Farrington’s chamber orchestra version alongside two of the leading Mahler singers of our time.
Martin Feinstein’s Bach Weekend, the annual Kings Place exploration of Bach's great masterpieces, begins with a feast of dances, featuring some of the most famous suites by Bach, Handel and Telemann.
Martin Feinstein’s annual Bach Weekend at Kings Place closes with a concert featuring some of the most thrilling orchestral writings and parts from Bach’s pen, including Magnificat, Cantata 46 'Schauet doch und sehet', and his second Brandenburg concerto.
Winner of the Piano Category Final at BBC Young Musician 2022, and blind since birth, Scottish pianist and composer, Ethan Loch, takes us on a colourful and virtuosic journey.
The Piatti Quartet will present a music and words programme taking a contemporary look at our relationship with nature and the English landscape.
Kings Place is proud to present Daniel Pioro's curated weekend for Earth Unwrapped. We invite you to immerse yourself in a sonic art-installation presented by composer and producer Valgeir Sigurðsson as he takes us into a journey of deep listening about Earth and its hidden mysteries.
Manchester Camerata and Daniel Pioro join forces for a two-hour spatial performance in the foyer of Kings Place and Hall One, presenting works from Catherine Lamb, Pēteris Vasks and James Tenney.
Violinist Daniel Pioro presents a sonic meditation, allowing audiences to tap into their conscious and unconscious listening instincts.
As a continuation of Daniel Pioro's curated weekend for Earth Unwrapped. We invite you for the Sunday sessions of musician Valgeir Sigurðsson sonic art-installation, taking us into a journey of deep listening about Earth and its hidden mysteries.
Celebrated BIS artists James Newby and Ruby Hughes close the inaugural Platoon Presents at Kings Place series with a distinct programme of two halves.
Welcome to the Alps! Join Aurora and soprano Mary Bevan on a mountain journey in the third concert of Aurora’s year-long exploration of Mahler’s music.
Join VOCES8, The VOCES8 Scholars, Carducci Quartet and pianist Christopher Glynn for an evening paying tribute to bird species driven to extinction by humankind, through Christopher Tin’s work 'The Lost Birds'.
Climb every mountain! Paddle in the stream, explore echoes across the valley and meet some friends along the way in Aurora’s latest adventure in the Far, Far Away Early Years series, part of Kings Place’s Earth Unwrapped series.
Climb every mountain! Paddle in the stream, explore echoes across the valley and meet some friends along the way in Aurora’s latest adventure in the Far, Far Away Early Years series, part of Kings Place’s Earth Unwrapped series.
Join Solem Quartet at Kings Place for an evening of music which asks us to contemplate, or perhaps mourn Earth’s current condition, whilst reminding us of its natural aural beauty.
Climb every mountain! Paddle in the stream, explore echoes across the valley and meet some friends along the way in Aurora’s latest adventure in the Far, Far Away Early Years series, part of Kings Place’s Earth Unwrapped series.
Climb every mountain! Join Aurora on its latest adventure in an adaptation of its new 'Far, Far Away' show for a grown-up evening out.
Join Nicolas Altstaedt and The Carice Singers for an evening of new works by Josephine Stevenson and Raquel García-Tomás, music compositions that questions our true connection with Earth and its vulnerable state.