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Jackie Kay - Scotland Unwrapped

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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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Islander at the edge: Aidan O'Rourke

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Introducing Aidan O’Rourke, fiddler, composer, collaborator and guest curator for Scotland Unwrapped.

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15 Years of Kings Place

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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

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

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Composing Herself Kathy Hinde

Interview

Bristol-based audio-visual artist Kathy Hinde makes a unique contribution to Venus Unwrapped & Luminate with Scattering Layer, (Sat 9 Feb, Hall…

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Celebrating 15 years of Kings Place

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

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Sam McShane announced as the new Artistic Director of Kings Place

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From 20 May 2024, Sam will work in partnership with Zoë Jeyes (Executive Director) and will lead on our creative…

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Time Unwrapped 2018 – Official Trailer

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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

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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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Venus Unwrapped 2019 – Official Trailer

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

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Cello Unwrapped

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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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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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Your A-Z Guide to Time Unwrapped

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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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Taking Back Control

Interview

The free-thinking Anna Meredith loves the stage as much as the studio, as she tells Amanda Holloway ahead of her…

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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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Time Unwrapped – Spotify Playlist

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Kings Place’s year-long Time Unwrapped series features music that marks, measures and manipulates time, from Andriessen’s ever-accelerating De Snelheid, to…

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Nature Unwrapped Sound Calendar 2020 by Chris Watson

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Our Artist-in-Residence for Nature Unwrapped, Chris Watson, has created a sound calendar of environments from the northern hemisphere. Come early…

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20 shows for 2020

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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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Rolf Hind - Is it too soon to talk about all this?

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Celebrated pianist-composer Rolf Hind returns to live performance at Kings Place on Wed 7 Oct with a programme profoundly related…

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15 Recommended Events

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Top Tips from the Kings Place Programme team

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Indian Time Unwrapped – A Kings Place Podcast

Podcasts

Songlines magazine Editor-in-Chief Simon Broughton interviews celebrated sarodist Soumik Datta about the seasons and time-cycles of North Indian music, ahead…

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From Beginning to End

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As Kings Place’s Time Unwrapped season reaches its final phase, here are some of the highlights.

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Sound Unwrapped – autumn season

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Welcome back to Sound Unwrapped, our series exploring spatial dimensions in live performance and immersive sound artists. Read on to…

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