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Voices Together

News

A call out to community & amateur choirs ahead of our year-long 2022 programme celebrating the power and the joy…

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These are the voices that want to be heard

Feature

Isobel Colchester is Chief Executive of Poet in the City, Artistic Associate at Kings Place, which promotes live poetry events…

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Strong Women, Strong Voices: 100 Years of Ella Fitzgerald – A Kings Place Podcast

Podcasts

Scottish-Canadian jazz singer Alison Burns and multi-award winning guitarist Martin Taylor celebrate the 100th anniversary of legendary singer Ella Fitzgerald.

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15 Years of Kings Place

Feature

Over the years, Kings Place has established an award-winning, innovative programme for music and spoken word, developing new series, festivals,…

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Venus Unwrapped

Feature

Venus Unwrapped throws a spotlight on the creative fire power of female composers, from Hildegarde of Bingen to Helen Grime,…

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Guy Johnston & Joan Rodgers – Oxford Lieder: Russian Voices – A Kings Place Podcast

Podcasts

Leading cellist Guy Johnston is joined by distinguished soprano Joan Rodgers in a Russian-themed programme which delves into the soulful…

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Mind the Gaps!

How five choirs coming to Kings Place are putting women’s contributions to choral music back on the map. By Amanda Holloway.

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The Wild Within

Interview

Paul Hillier, director of Theatre of Voices and Associate Artist in Nature Unwrapped, explores the place where music and the…

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Venus Unwrapped 2019 – Official Trailer

Videos

In 2019 Kings Place’s award-winning flagship series focuses on the creative firepower of women composers: Venus Unwrapped.

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Sound Voice Project: In Conversation

Feature

Ahead of our Sound Voice Project concert on Fri 27 May, Sound Voice artistic director/composer Hannah Conway and writer Hazel…

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Time Unwrapped 2018 – Official Trailer

Videos

What does music have to tell us about Time? In Time Unwrapped we show how music can stretch time, condense…

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Time Unwrapped

Feature

Time Unwrapped is the tenth edition of Kings Place’s award-winning Unwrapped series. What does music have to tell us about Time? In Time Unwrapped we…

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Your A-Z Guide to Time Unwrapped

Feature

The tenth edition of our year-long series celebrates music as a temporal art in myriad ways. With just over a week left…

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How Much Of You Is In Your Voice?

Feature

Hannah Conway, composer and artistic director of Sound Voice, considers voice as an inextricable part of all our identities, and…

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Singing Together

Feature

As part of our year-long 2022 Voices Unwrapped programme, we’re welcoming community, amateur and children’s choirs into our public spaces.

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20 shows for 2020

Feature

Our Nature Unwrapped 2020 programme opened last week with a spectacular series of events and performances from Theatre of Voices, Brian Cox,…

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Celebrating 15 years of Kings Place

Feature

As Kings Place reaches its 15th birthday, we look back with pride – and some wonder – at what has been…

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Cello Unwrapped

Feature

The ninth edition of our now award-winning Unwrapped series features more than 30 great cellists, from legendary masters Christophe Coin, Pieter Wispelwey,…

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Venus Unwrapped Interviews

Interview

As our year-round celebration of women composers continues, we’ve been interviewing some of the stars of the Venus Unwrapped series.…

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Jackie Kay - Scotland Unwrapped

Feature

Jackie Kay CBE is one of Scotland’s foremost poets and novelists, and a guest curator for Scotland Unwrapped. Here she…

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Thomas Gould in Gould Standard & Time Unwrapped – A Kings Place Podcast

Podcasts

Violinist Thomas Gould chats to our Creative Consultant, Helen Wallace, about his genre-defying ‘Gould Standard’ series, and shares his favourite…

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Out of the Shadows

Feature

From the Dark Ages to the Baroque period, European convents provided a rare – though continually threatened – space for…

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An Opera on the Sexual Revolution

Feature

Composer Alex Mills reflects on his thought-provoking chamber opera Dear Marie Stopes which premiered at the Wellcome Collection in 2018.

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Meet the young Cello Unwrapped champion

Interview

Fifteen-year-old cellist Willard Carter was Cello Unwrapped’s most devoted audience member. The Purcell School student missed only a handful of…

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