Venus Unwrapped
A new light on music by women.
Our award-winning Unwrapped series continues in 2019
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.
Interview with Ronald Brautigam
Interview
Ronald Brautigam is a leading fortepianist as well as a master of the modern piano. He says it’s not so…
And the Band Played on
Feature
A unique, 50th-anniversary performance of Gavin Bryars’ The Sinking of the Titanic
The Loneliness of the Concert Pianist
Interview
Flamboyant Argentinian pianist Ingrid Fliter is looking forward to sharing music with colleagues at the London Piano Festival, she tells…
Barley’s Mix: From Bach to Brazilian Greats
Interview
Cellist Matthew Barley returns to Kings Place this June with a sumptuous programme inspired by Brazilian jazz greats. He tells…
Perseverance Furthers
Interview
As Vula Viel bandleader and gyil player Bex Burch tells Max Reinhardt, her latest album is a major step along…
Songs My Mother Taught Me: Peggy Seeger
Interview
Peggy Seeger recalls her mother, avant garde composer and folk music arranger Ruth Crawford Seeger, who she will be honouring…
Anna Magdalena: Bach in the Spotlight
Interview
Author and librettist Jessica Duchen retells the compelling and tragic story of Johannes Sebastian’s wife Anna Magdelena for this year’s…
Exchanging Channels with Héloïse Werner
Interview
Héloïse Werner’s beguiling one-woman opera The Other Side of the Sea draws on her own experience of moving from Paris…
F is for Fado
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Songlines Encounters Festival returns for its ninth edition this summer. Do you know your kannel from your kora, your fado…
Interview with Rakhi Singh & Vessel
Interview
Before their collaboration inspired by Leoš Janáček’s string quartet Intimate Letters, we caught up with violinist Rakhi Singh and pioneering…
What does music have to tell us about Time? Explore how music can stretch time, condense it, reverse it, organise it, atomise it, tangle with it and even suspend it altogether.
Federico Colli
Q&A
Federico Colli is a favourite pianist among British music lovers and was a 2018 recipient of the UK Critics’ Circle…
Christian Ihle Hadland
Q&A
Acclaimed pianist Christian Ihle Hadland has established himself as a true craftsman of the piano. At this year’s London Piano…
Peggy Seeger Q&A
Q&A
Legendary folk singer, song writer and activist Peggy Seeger recalls her mother, composer Ruth Crawford Seeger, in a special event…
Pavel Kolesnikov
Q&A
Rising Russian star Pavel Kolesnikov makes a keenly anticipated Kings Place recital debut with two signature composers, Couperin and Schumann,…
Alexandra Dariescu
Q&A
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…
Soumik Datta
Q&A
Celebrated sarodist Soumik Datta returns to Kings Place in June as part of Songlines Encounters to explore the seasons and…
Deborah Frances-White
Q&A
Deborah Frances-White hosts her live podcast, The Guilty Feminist, at Kings Place every month, and presents Global Pillage, the panel-show…
Tempo Ticciati
Q&A
Hugo Ticciati is artist-in-residence for Time Unwrapped. Here he introduces his own curations and his fascination with the connection between…
Howard Skempton
Q&A
Composer Howard Skempton’s 70th birthday is celebrated in a special concert this autumn. He reflects on a creative life that…
A view from the bassline
Q&A
Award-winning cellist and director David Watkin brings his unique ‘continuo’ perspective to the exploration of Bach in three special events…