The London Piano Festival 2026 opens with an evening of conversation and music exploring the creative lineage between Olivier Messiaen and Sir George Benjamin. BBC Radio 3’s Donald Macleod is in conversation with Sir George Benjamin, followed by performances from Artistic Directors Charles Owen and Katya Apekisheva of Benjamin’s Two or Four and Divisions, alongside Messiaen’s monumental Visions de l’Amen.
An evening with a master pianist combining depth, range and insight: Peter Donohoe in Schubert, Chopin and Rachmaninov. The concert is followed by a post‑performance conversation hosted by pianist Kathryn Stott (Kings Medal for Music 2024), offering further insight into the repertoire, interpretation and performance.
Our Halloween Piano Party is packed with spooky sounds and close‑up piano action. Featuring music for two pianos, this performance brings your little ones closer to the music.
Our Halloween Piano Party is packed with spooky sounds and close‑up piano action. Featuring music for two pianos, this performance brings your little ones closer to the music.
The Kings Place Young Artist Platform is an exciting initiative supporting early-career musicians at the start of their professional journeys.
In this one‑hour recital, Gülsin Onay, one of Turkey’s most distinguished pianists, presents a wide‑ranging programme devoted to Frédéric Chopin.
The Kings Place Young Artist Platform is an exciting initiative supporting early-career musicians at the start of their professional journeys.
In a house‑concert setting in Hall One, we present A Mozart Piano Gala with pianists Charles Owen, Katya Apekisheva, Junyan Chen, Martin James Bartlett and Tom Poster coming together to perform repertoire written for four hands and two pianos.
Junyan Chen is an exciting new force on the piano scene, with Gramophone describing her performance as “exhilarating and technically thrilling performance.” This lunch-time recital showcases a programme that reflects both her musical range and her interest in bringing different strands of the piano repertoire into conversation.
Kathryn Stott leads this masterclass with a focus on technique and musical interpretation, offering insight drawn from her long career on the international concert stage.
In this behind‑the‑scenes conversation, Ulrich Gerhartz (Steinway & Sons) and pianist Kathryn Stott explore the relationship between pianist and instrument, and how a concert grand is shaped for performance.
The Kings Place Young Artist Platform is an exciting initiative supporting early-career musicians at the start of their professional journeys.
The London Piano Festival 2026 closes with a solo performance from Bill Laurance, a pianist and composer whose work moves freely between jazz, classical and contemporary music.
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One of the world’s leading string quartets, the Elias Quartet, joins new Chamber Studio Fellows the Elmore Quartet and rising ensemble the Isla Quartet for Mendelssohn’s exhilarating String Octet.
Inspired by Mary Jean Chan’s poetry, composer Nicola T. Chang creates a new score for CLS musicians and traditional Chinese instruments, weaving a dialogue of words and music in partnership with Faber & Faber.
Chamber Studio takes over Kings Place for an afternoon of free, open chamber music masterclasses, bringing exceptional mentors together with some of the UK’s most promising young ensembles.
Artists-in-Residence, GBSR Duo join forces with close collaborator Pianist Joseph Havlat and guests for a charged evening in our Composer-in-Focus, Steve Martland series.
Discover three new and contrasting chamber concertos by composers whose careers are taking off, performed by Britten Sinfonia with star soloists Laura van der Heijden, Martin Owen and Siwan Rhys.
Baroque, contemporary, rock, improvisation… expect everything from Eric Vloeimans, Joanna MacGregor and Brighton Philharmonic Strings, returning after a triumphant Kings Place debut last year.
Launching their new album, The Carice Singers and soloist Hugh Cutting reveal Sir Michael Tippett as a visionary of twentieth-century choral music.
Everything falls into place. Gravity. Death. Life. Three forces that shape our existence, yet they remain mysteries we are still trying to understand.
The Karelia Quartet explores music shaped by place, identity and tradition. Works by Peter Sculthorpe sit alongside masterpieces by Mozart, Grieg and Stravinsky, creating a programme rich in atmosphere, lyricism and discovery.
The Isla String Quartet and pianist Jamie Cochrane share an evening spanning four centuries — from Purcell's contrapuntal fantasias to Bartók's masterful fourth Quartet, with Schubert, Chopin and Godowsky's mighty Passacaglia between.
For thousands of years the Psalms have been sung and remembered – words of sorrow, joy and hope that have travelled across generations and cultures. Aurora Orchestra’s latest collaboration with the BBC Singers brings together three composers.