Caught in the Act of Creation
Interview
Nothing can capture the excitement of an artist in full flight. Sebastian Scotney talks to three masters of improvisation: classical…
Nothing can capture the excitement of an artist in full flight. Sebastian Scotney talks to three masters of improvisation: classical…
We’re excited to present our 2023/24 classical season featuring a varied programme with internationally acclaimed artists and inspiring new talent.
Thomas Gould is no ordinary violinist: he’s a concerto soloist, orchestral leader, swing-band player and jazz improviser. This season he…
American composer and co-founder of the innovative ensemble Bang on a Can Julia Wolfe shares her key musical influences with Helen…
Kevin Le Gendre traces the story of black music in London from the Roman army to Tomorrow’s Warriors.
Ahead of her World Meditation Day Concert on Sun 23 May, pianist Christina McMaster shares her journey into a deeper…
Diego Pellecchia, Associate Professor at Kyoto Sangyō University, introduces one of the oldest extant theatrical forms in the world.
We asked Head of Artistic Planning Rosie Chapman to introduce 10 Kings Place events she will not be missing this year……
To celebrate 30 years of the International Guitar Foundation and Festivals (IGF) and its fruitful history with Kings Place, we’ve…
Winning BBC Young Musician 2016 propelled young cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason into the public eye – a record contract and TV…
The ninth edition of our now award-winning Unwrapped series features more than 30 great cellists, from legendary masters Christophe Coin, Pieter Wispelwey,…
From 1900 to 1930, Einstein’s theories of relativity and those of quanta and quantum mechanics transformed the understanding of the…
Composer Nico Muhly doesn’t buy the idea of a straight-line progression in music history, finding his creative kindling in distant…
We find out what the artists and presenters of Time Unwrapped would choose to go and hear themselves.
Fifteen-year-old cellist Willard Carter was Cello Unwrapped’s most devoted audience member. The Purcell School student missed only a handful of…
The tenth edition of our year-long series celebrates music as a temporal art in myriad ways. With just over a week left…
Performing without music has radically transformed Aurora Orchestra’s relationship to the music, to each other and to their audience. Helen…
Celebrated sarodist Soumik Datta returns to Kings Place in June as part of Songlines Encounters to explore the seasons and…
Luminate is the new contemporary music series, opening this autumn in Hall Two. Tim Rutherford-Johnson celebrates the irrelevance of categories…
You’ll find the lights blazing and the music playing for Christmas at Kings Place
Since the time of Hildegard of Bingen, every century has had its share of exceptional female composers. So why aren’t…