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Eliza Carthy belongs to a musical dynasty stretching back several generations. She reflects on her dialogue with her predecessors, and…
Eliza Carthy belongs to a musical dynasty stretching back several generations. She reflects on her dialogue with her predecessors, and…
As Vula Viel bandleader and gyil player Bex Burch tells Max Reinhardt, her latest album is a major step along…
You’ll find the lights blazing and the music playing for Christmas at Kings Place
Celebrated pianist-composer Rolf Hind returns to live performance at Kings Place on Wed 7 Oct with a programme profoundly related…
Since the time of Hildegard of Bingen, every century has had its share of exceptional female composers. So why aren’t…
Jewish Book Week Director Claudia Rubenstein recommends 10 events for those JBW fans who can’t get enough of the talks,…
Author and librettist Jessica Duchen retells the compelling and tragic story of Johannes Sebastian’s wife Anna Magdelena for this year’s…
Nothing can capture the excitement of an artist in full flight. Sebastian Scotney talks to three masters of improvisation: classical…
Legendary folk singer, song writer and activist Peggy Seeger recalls her mother, composer Ruth Crawford Seeger, in a special event…
Performing without music has radically transformed Aurora Orchestra’s relationship to the music, to each other and to their audience. Helen…
World-class pianist Alexandra Dariescu brings her ground-breaking performance The Nutcracker and I to London Piano Festival, following its critically-acclaimed world premiere last…
Unveiling the new Master Series at Kings Place, some of the exceptional artists involved talk to Amanda Holloway about their…
The tenth edition of our year-long series celebrates music as a temporal art in myriad ways. With just over a week left…
Composer Nico Muhly doesn’t buy the idea of a straight-line progression in music history, finding his creative kindling in distant…
Winning BBC Young Musician 2016 propelled young cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason into the public eye – a record contract and TV…
Kevin Le Gendre traces the story of black music in London from the Roman army to Tomorrow’s Warriors.