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Remembering the past to reimagine the future

Memory Unwrapped is the 18th in the award-winning series from Kings Place. Throughout 2026, the series will invite audiences on a journey with artists delving into the past to reimagine the future, uncovering how memory and music can spark transformation and inspire change.

Featuring Artists in residence Renell Shaw, GBSR Duo and Olivia Chaney, Composer in Focus Steve Martland, and a host of exciting performers new and familiar, Memory Unwrapped will explore the extraordinary power of music to stir innermost recollections, to preserve history and to honour the unforgettable – from vibrant stories rooted in the venue’s home of King’s Cross to tributes to the greats of spoken word and song.

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A Night to Remember

Classical / ‘Under 30s’ Tickets

Kings Place produces a bold night of unexpected encounters, celebrating memory, music and connection for the opening of Memory Unwrapped 2026. Join Festival Voices, Olivia Chaney, 2Fox, Ristband Studios and more for a night to remember.

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Ristband presents

Contemporary / d&b Soundscape

Ristband Studios presents ALTERED, a unique award-winning immersive concert combining live music, performance, spatial audio and virtual reality, taking audiences on a journey through memories that are both real and surreal. Visitors will also experience Machine Memory, an installation revealing how computers “see” the world, recognizing objects and movement, and remembering them over time.

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Ristband presents

Contemporary / d&b Soundscape

Ristband Studios presents ALTERED, a unique award-winning immersive concert combining live music, performance, spatial audio and virtual reality, taking audiences on a journey through memories that are both real and surreal. Visitors will also experience Machine Memory, an installation revealing how computers “see” the world, recognising objects and movement, and remembering them over time.

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Aurora Orchestra: Memory

Classical / ‘Under 30s’ Tickets

Music and memory have a deep-rooted, emotive connection. Marking his 65th birthday year, composer-conductor Brett Dean joins mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean to weave together fragments of remembrance: tributes, elegies, snapshots, and echoes across time.

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GBSR Duo: For Philip Guston

Classical / ‘Under 30s’ Tickets

A valedictory masterpiece, a study of memory and a transcendental concert experience: Morton Feldman's 4-hour tribute to his estranged friend Philip Guston is one of the most extraordinary and moving musical memorials ever composed.

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Slowly Rolling Camera

Jazz / ‘Under 30s’ Tickets

Cardiff's Slowly Rolling Camera returns for a rare and long-awaited London performance, showcasing their acclaimed fusion of jazz elegance, cinematic depth, and electronic sophistication Since 2013, Cardiff-based Slowly Rolling Camera has emerged as a formidable

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Attacca Quartet: Music of the Fallen

Classical / ‘Under 30s’ Tickets

The two-time Grammy Award-winning Attacca Quartet is recognized and acclaimed as one of the most versatile and outstanding ensembles of the moment. A true quartet for modern times, at this performance they glide through classical and contemporary repertoire as one of the world’s most innovative and respected ensembles, playing Mendelssohn, Gabriela Ortiz and George Crumb.

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Colin Currie Quartet: This Place, These People

Classical at Kings Place

A revelatory evening of rhythm, resonance, and remembrance, led by the trailblazing Colin Currie Quartet. Featuring powerful works for percussion by some of contemporary music’s most inventive voices.

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Matilda Lloyd & Goldmund Quartet

Classical / ‘Under 30s’ Tickets

Step into the spirit of a 19th-century musical salon with Matilda Lloyd and the Goldmund Quartet - a space where music meets conversation and every note tells a story.

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Neave Trio: Musical Remembrances

Classical at Kings Place

Grammy-nominated ensemble Neave Trio invite you on an intimate journey through memory, love, and loss in this deeply expressive programme of Romantic piano trios, after their release of their album of the same title in 2022.

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Piazzolla Four Seasons of Buenos Aires with Neave Trio

Classical at Kings Place

Grammy-nominated ensemble Neave Trio bring their dynamic artistry to this electrifying programme, blending the sultry passion of tango with vibrant contemporary colour.

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The Brodsky Quartet & Sir Willard White

Classical at Kings Place

The first in a concert series celebrating the Brodsky Quartet’s longstanding relationship with Kings Place, featuring a genre-spanning programme and their electrifying collaboration with the legendary Sir Willard White.

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Olivia Chaney: News from Nowhere

Folk at Kings Place

This is the debut outing for Olivia Chaney's glamorous new folk-rock band, which she’s calling (for now) News from Nowhere. Picking up where her acclaimed album 'The Queen of Hearts' left off, Chaney will perform new electric arrangements of classic folk songs.

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Solem Quartet & Alice Zawadzki

Classical / ‘Under 30s’ Tickets

As part of Memory Unwrapped and Steve Reich’s 90th celebrations, the Solem Quartet perform Reich’s Different Trains, joined by Alice Zawadzki for her own songs, alongside music by visionary Kate Bush in a uniquely modern dialogue.

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Aurora Orchestra Principal Players: Echoes of Youth

Classical / ‘Under 30s’ Tickets

Aurora Orchestra’s Principal Players bring together three masterpieces of chamber music, each alive with the memory of a time long past.

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Phaedra Ensemble presents the music of Steve Reich

Classical / ‘Under 30s’ Tickets

As part of Memory Unwrapped and Kings Place’s celebration of Steve Reich at 90, Phaedra Ensemble’s Slow Changeexplores memory and transformation through Reich’s minimalism, Coltrane’s Africa, and the UK premiere of Thorvaldsdottir’s Enigma.

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I Fagiolini: Victoria

Classical at Kings Place

What is it about the music of Spanish Renaissance master Tomás Luis de Victoria that lifts it above other composers? He seems - inexplicably – just to weave from better quality cloth. In the first few bars of ‘Alma Redemptoris mater’, you palbably feel the difference. Writers talk of the spirituality of his music but what does actually mean? As a sort of musical El Greco, there seems to be something in the aural brushwork that adds depth and spice, alongside an extraordinary joy and reverence in the text.

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Hebrides Ensemble: Shifting Baseline Syndrome

Classical at Kings Place

As part of our Steve Martland, Composer-in-Focus series, Hebrides Ensemble brings together bold contemporary voices exploring nature, memory, and sound. Works by Steve Martland and Eleanor Alberga frame a new commission from Dave Maric, Shifting Baseline Syndrome—a powerful reflection on shifting norms in our relationship with nature.

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Colin Currie Group Performs the Music of the Steve Martland Band

Classical / ‘Under 30s’ Tickets

The Colin Currie Group performs the music of the Steve Martland Band, unleashing the full force of Martland’s sound, epic in scale, electrifying in energy, and uncompromising in spirit.

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Sam Sweeney Trio

Folk / Folk Weekend

The Sam Sweeney Trio brings together three of the UK’s most compelling folk musicians to play music from across Sam’s discography: Sam Sweeney (violin), Ben Nicholls (double bass), and Louis Campbell (guitar).

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Kris Drever

Folk / Folk Weekend

Kris Drever is among Scotland’s most acclaimed and distinctive contemporary musicians, celebrated for his warm voice, virtuosically expressive guitar playing and imaginative and evocative songwriting.

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GBSR Duo x Beatrice Dillon

Classical / d&b Soundscape

Our Artists-in-Residence, GBSR Duo, team up with boundary-pushing London producer Beatrice Dillon for their first-ever collaboration.

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Carice Singers Perform Martland

Classical / ‘Under 30s’ Tickets

An exciting survey of Steve Martland's choral works within a programme of energy and discovery.

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