Travel back in time 200 million years to the age of the dinosaurs. Dance with a Diplodocus, soar with a Pterodactyl and roar like a Tyrannosaur!
We welcome back the Gildas Quartet for a special memorised performance of Britten’s Quartet No. 3 in the round, following their sold-out Surround Sound Session earlier this year.
The December edition features one of his advent cantatas, the sublime Ärgre dich, o Seele, nicht, BWV 186a, first performed in December 1716.
Join Scottish Ensemble, acclaimed for their creative projects, and Jasdeep as they bring together traditions of Indian and Western classical music, transporting you through layers of mesmerising melody.
Join Scottish Ensemble and MishMash Productions for an energetic and interactive afternoon of string music for young people... and the young at heart!
Award-winning Australian soprano Danielle de Niese makes her Kings Place debut in Master Series, with pianist Matthew Fletcher. Join them for some treasured vocal repertoire, from classical and opera gems, to Broadway musical favourites, with a few standards from Hollywood’s Golden Age in between.
The Hamamatsu International Piano Competition presents a celebratory evening of chamber music from current competition winner Can Çakmur and Chairperson Noriko Ogawa, plus special guests, to mark the launch of the 2024 Competition.
In the first Bach, the Universe & Everything of 2024, as the days begin to grow longer we look to the sun with leading science communicator and solar expert Professor Lucie Green.
The award-winning Linos Piano Trio return to the LCMS in an exciting programme exploring the ‘Song without Words’ genre made famous by Felix Mendelssohn.
Join us to celebrate Trinity Laban musical performance at its finest, with seven student representatives from TL’s music departments competing for the Gold Medal 2024.
The Sixteen present powerful works by Robert Carver, Scotland’s leading 16th century composer, alongside music from his English contemporaries, and James Macmillan.
The musicians of the Firebird Orchestra are joined by the pianist Harris Tsz-Chun Leung in Mozart’s beautiful piano concerto ‘Jeunehomme’, and soprano Elizabeth Karani in Mozart’s concert aria ‘A Berenice’.
Get to the heart of Scotland with Aurora Orchestra in the symphony most closely associated with the country: Felix Mendelssohn’s Third.
The renowned Solem Quartet perform Debussy’s beautiful early string quartet from the 1890s, following it with music inspired by Debussy’s radical new approach to style.
Witness BBC Singers bringing to life Judith Weir's crowning work Missa Del Cid, alongside choral works by Renaissance Spanish composers.
In the third edition of our hugely popular hour-long series, we welcome our new Resident Quartet, the Piatti, to perform Dvorak’s last three quartets and his piano quintet, lovingly set up with musical preludes.
The Ruisi Quartet is celebrated both for deeply engaging performances of early repertoire and for its bold commissions. In this concert the Ruisi, founded by British/Sicilian brothers Alessandro and Max, contextualise the music of Oliver
Bach’s Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe, BWV 22 may have been his audition piece in Leipzig. Aptly for our series, it speaks of the need for faith in the face of a journey into the unknown.
Two outstanding pianists take us on a fascinating journey of musical connections. A sonata for two pianos by Mozart begins, and then a musical theme by his great friend Haydn, via Brahms’s famous variations.
The Maxwell Quartet make their Kings Place debut as part of the venue’s Scotland Unwrapped series, presenting ‘Worksongs’, a project exploring the traditional music of their homeland of Scotland alongside works from the classical canon.
The famous Trio Goya brings period performance insights to favourite classical works, with a beautiful early-nineteenth century replica fortepiano, and string players performing on gut strings and with old bows.
This concert, curated by composer Oliver Leith, draws inspiration from a grainy film of the Deller Consort singing English madrigals around a dining table; seemingly without audience; pure joy.
Celebrated guitarist Xuefei Yang joins cellist Johannes Moser ‘one of the finest among the astonishing gallery of young virtuoso cellists’ (Gramophone) for Kings Place’s Master Series, in an intricate sequence of dance and song-based gems.
Join pianist and Bach enthusiast Jonathan Ferrucci for the timeless journey of the Goldberg Variations, as he presents them on the Kings Place stage after his recent recording.
The elite ORA Singers make their Kings Place debut with a programme celebrating the union between Scotland and England in 1603.
Bach’s glorious and virtuosic Bringet dem Herrn Ehre seines Namens BWV 148, is a call for kindness and generosity. Astronomer, writer and stargazer Stuart Clark will survey the future of our relationship with space and where it might take us.
A piano quartet formed of four celebrated soloists – Piers Lane (piano), Philippe Graffin (violin), Elizabeth Wallfisch (viola), Raphael Wallfisch (cello) – in a programme of German and Czech masterworks.
In the third edition of our hugely popular hour-long series, we welcome our new Resident Quartet, the Piatti, to perform Dvorak’s last three quartets and his piano quintet, lovingly set up with musical preludes.
Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque open Bach Weekend with a journey of spiritual transformation for Eastertide, featuring a cast of leading singers.
Catherine Manson’s serenely spacious readings of Bach’s great violin concerti have garnered a devoted following in recent times. She is accompanied here by the Feinstein Ensemble, and partnered by Miki Takahashi and Geoffrey Coates in
The Art of Fugue, Bach's monumental exploration of the fugal form, defies all expectations. Here the Feinstein Ensemble give their acclaimed reading of the work, performed with strings and harpsichord.
The London Bridge Trio – Daniel Tong (piano), Ben Hancox (violin), and Cara Berridge (cello) – are joined by violist Ann Beilby in a performance of Fauré’s beautiful G minor Piano Quartet, to mark his
The Elmore Quartet are an award-winning young quartet based in Manchester and London, formed of members Xander Croft, Miles Ames, Inis Oírr Asano and Felix Hughes; previously winners of the Tunnell Trust Awards, they are Kirckman Concert Society Artists for 2023/2024.
The strings of the English Symphony Orchestra perform a selection of string orchestra classics – Dvořák’s beautiful Nocturne, Elgar’s famous Introduction and Allegro and Sibelius’s rarely heard three-movement suite Rakastava, from 1912. In between, they are
An evening of heart-stopping lament and high comedy devised by Scotland's proudest offspring, tenor Nicky Spence, joined by soprano Eleanor Dennis and collaborative pianist Dylan Perez.
Travel with Aurora from Scotland to the shores of north America, alongside folk singer Sam Amidon.
A welcome return by the peerless Chiaroscuro Quartet, with two of Beethoven’s forever radical Razumovsky Quartets, and a slice of early Hadyn.
We welcome the Swedish string orchestra, Musica Vitae and director/cellist Robin Michael, to perform works of magnificent composers such as James Oswald, JS Bach, Lisa Robertson and two-ever popular works by Peter Maxwell Davies.
As the days shorten and the year’s end draws nearer, journey with Aurora Orchestra and Donald Grant to the Scottish islands, where the winter nights are long and isolating.
Join us for Louise McMonagle's (of Riot Ensemble) album launch Ancient Modernity, including works by Scottish composers from Ailie Robertson to Paul Maxwell Geddes, plus works for cello and electronics spatialised in soundscape from Caroline Shaw, Zoe Martlew & Anna Meredith.
The award-winning voices of The Marian Consort present a programme of sumptuous Renaissance polyphony from some of Scotland’s few surviving sixteenth-century manuscripts.
Relive a musical evening in 18th century Edinburgh with the dazzling young Ensemble Hesperi and soprano Harriet Burns, where fashions combined the best of the Italian Baroque with the soaring melodies and dance rhythms of traditional Scottish music.
Two of Scotland’s award-winning ensembles join forces to present James MacMillan’s extraordinary setting – by turns intimate and dramatic – of the Resurrection story.
Scotland’s most revered pianist, Steven Osborne, is joined by two of Aurora Orchestra’s Principal Players for an evening of mesmerising French music.
Join a duck and a mouse on an adventure inside a wolf, as Aurora and Scottish composer Martin Suckling bring Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen’s much-loved children’s story to musical life. “Early one morning a
Bringing together two Scottish musicians who are both embedded in tradition, Guest Curator and folk fiddler Aidan O’Rourke is joined by classical guitarist Sean Shibe as they strip back the conservative ritual around their respective genres.
Scottish star percussionist Colin Currie brings a uniquely sparkling quartet programme featuring two world premieres, and three Scots composers.