Launching Phaedra Ensemble’s Kings Place residency, Ellis Island explores migration, memory and identity through Meredith Monk’s award-winning film and music by Mansurian, Shostakovich, Dessner and Weill, alongside the UK premiere of Philip Glass’s Piano Quintet.
Resident Ensemble Aurora Orchestra opens its Kings Place season with Beethoven’s exuberant Septet, inviting audiences to get to the heart of a work that became a runaway success, even if its composer had decidedly mixed feelings about it.
Martyn Joseph is a completely unique and mind-blowing artist. For one man and a guitar he creates a performance with a huge far-reaching sound that is energetic, compelling, and passionate. He returns to Hall One after multiple sell-out Kings Place shows.
'Protect us against war and precarious times' pleads a cantata haunted by suffering and hope. Discover how the first light emerged from primordial darkness to shape the universe we inhabit today.
Raghu Dixit returns to the UK for an intimate celebration of music, stories and joy. One of India’s most celebrated independent artists, Raghu brings his infectious live energy and genre-defying sound to the stage in a more personal format - up close, unplugged and full of heart.
Tamsin Elliott is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and film-maker with roots in the traditional dance tunes of the British Isles. For this Future Folk appearance, she is joined by long-term collaborators Sid Goldsmith on cittern and concertina and Rowan Elliott on fiddle.
As part of Nico Muhly's Composer-in-Focus season, The Tallis Scholars perform three works written especially for the ensemble by one of the leading voices in contemporary music.
Québec traditional music quartet La Déferlance bring vibrant arrangements, rich vocal harmonies and infectious energy to Kings Place. Drawing on both traditional repertoire and original compositions, the group present music from their latest album, Âmes des bois.
Hear Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring in the composer’s original four-hand version as Charles Owen and Katya Apekisheva launch a new series transforming orchestral masterpieces at the piano.
As part of (Re)Sounding India, curated by Guest Curator Keval Shah, Shah performs the complete solo piano works of Reena Esmail, including the UK premiere of works written especially for him.
Pianist composer and technologist Zubin Kanga performs new works at the cutting-edge of new music technologies, featuring the world premiere of ‘Sataniq Paniq // Satanipanicon’.
The road stretches into darkness. This month, Bach, the Universe and Everything explores hope in the face of doubt and the remarkable drive of humans to journey beyond our earthly limits.
Described in The Living Tradition as ‘captivating, bold and striking’, Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne is at the forefront of his generation of English folk musicians as both a powerful and commanding singer and a masterful player of the Anglo concertina and melodeon.
After more than a decade performing internationally with award-winning Cape Breton supergroup Còig, Celtic folk multi-instrumentalists Rachel Davis & Darren McMullen are charting a new path in modern folk together.
Darkness. Wonder. Light. Bach's music and atmospheric science come together in an exploration of beauty emerging from uncertainty, and how joy can be found in the darkest places.
Forged out of the traditional Folk music scenes of Scotland and Ireland—yet influenced by the sounds of the Balkans, North America, and far beyond—Dallahan have spent over a decade guiding audiences through a musical world tour of their own making.
Arthur Coates & Kerran Cotterell are a two-man trad tornado tearing through the folk world with foot percussion, fiddle, guitar, vocals, and groove to spare. Kitted out with grooving basslines, tight harmonies, and offbeat charm, they’re just a couple of lads with a tangle of strings - yet they somehow summon the sound and swagger of a much bigger band.
Three years on from their acclaimed debut 'Double You', Welsh-Irish, harp-violin, folk-classical duo Catrin Finch and Aoife Ní Bhriain return to Kings Place following the release of their anticipated second album.
Born and raised in the idyllic province of Prince Edward Island, Canada, Catherine MacLellan has been captivating audiences around the world with her music for over two decades. Rooted in folk and roots, Catherine's modern songs reflect her deep connection to the land and people that call it home.
For the first time, Kings Place resident ensembles Festival Voices and Phaedra Ensemble join forces for Good Friday, culminating in James MacMillan’s Seven Last Words from the Cross, a modern masterpiece of extraordinary emotional power.
One of the most in-demand and unique live acts in the UK and Irish folk scenes today, The Haar brings together the staggering musicianship of Molly Donnery, Adam Summerhayes, Murray Grainger and Cormac Byrne. Their new album, The Lost Day, is a coming-of-age journey through traditional song, alive with poetic storytelling, heartbreak and hope. Honest, tender and epic.
Musician and sound artist Alice Boyd launches her debut album at Kings Place, weaving voice, field recordings, synths, and folk-inspired songwriting into music that explores our relationship with the natural world. Alice will perform solo before being joined on stage by special guest collaborators.
Beethoven meets Florence Price and Gershwin as the Renaissance String Quartet brings its fresh, inclusive approach to a programme spanning more than a century of chamber music.