In this penultimate celestial Sunday morning with Bach, the Universe and Everything, we consider our changing views of the Moon and exciting discoveries on the horizon with NASA's new Lunar Trailblazer mission with guest speaker Dr Katherine Shirley, alongside an adventurous cantata performed by Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
The IGF’s Guitar in London Series typically features one young guitarist from our Young Artist Platform and one established international player sharing a concert. This performance features the electronic and classical guitar of Luke Bartlett alongside 19th century guitar from Philippe Villa.
To mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, Raphael Wallfisch and Piers Lane explore music for cello and piano in the time of war in Britain and France.
Bach, Schnittke, Hitchcock: Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra brings a cinematic concert to Kings Place as part of its centenary celebrations with Music Director and Principal Conductor Joanna MacGregor. Madness, mayhem and tango entwine for an evening of light and shade featuring Herrmann’s ‘Psycho’, Piazzolla’s ‘Libertango’ and more.
Join us for a morning of music and insight as Chamber Studio returns to Kings Place for their Hall One Masterclass series, as Michael Collins, Peter Hill and the Paddington Trio explore Messiaen’s transcendent Quartet for the End of Time.
The famous Hanover Band, directed by Leon Bosch, give the first performance in modern times of Johannes Matthias Sperger’s Cello Concerto, with soloist Sebastian Comberti.
Theatre of Voices make a welcome return to Kings Place, performing the premiere of a Kings Place commission of Julia Wolfe, alongside works by Nigel Osborne and Arvo Pärt.
This year’s Jewish Book Week opens with pianist Danny Driver, and Cellist Gemma Rosefield in performance, followed by a panel discussion to reflect on the mounting challenges recently faced by artists and institutions.
Join string quintet Wooden Elephant and prepared piano specialist Mathias Halvorsen as they transform their instruments into drum machines and synthesisers for a totally new, acoustic experience of Aphex Twin’s epic double album masterpiece, 'Drukqs'.
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Trio Havisham is an award-winning ensemble, most recently securing 2nd prize at the Concours International de Musique de Chambre de Lyon in April 2023. They present a varied programme spanning over 200 years of musical history.
Don’t miss award-winning pianist Jeneba Kanneh-Mason perform works from her debut album, ‘Fantasie’, in the intimate environment of Kings Place. Join us as she explores connections between the chosen composers, whether they met, influenced each other, or simply existed in resonance.
Two-time Grammy-award winning Attacca Quartet present the second of the Platoon Presents at Kings Place series, featuring Ravel’s String Quartet paired with David Lang’s new quartet, 'daisy' co-commissioned by Kings Place.
This season's cosmic Sunday mornings with Bach, the Universe and Everything closes with 'Du wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn' (You true God and Son of David), BWV 23, a soulful contemplation of eternity and forgiveness of the human journey from darkness into light, with a scientific talk from a guest speaker.
Distinguished string soloists from the Royal Opera House orchestra perform Mozart’s early C major quartet, composed in the early 1770s when Mozart was in Milan working on a new opera.
Music from films 'Mishima', 'The Truman Show', 'There will be Blood', 'Platoon' and 'The Lobster' take us on a cinematic retreat via the sound world of the string quartet in this cinematic performance from Resident String Quartet, Piatti. This dramatic and powerful programme will feature the music of Johnny Greenwood, Barber's movingly elegiac Adagio for Strings as well as Shostakovich's haunting String Quartet No.8.
In an evening of powerful performances and thought-provoking conversation, EMPOWER: Women Changing Music celebrates and showcases the breadth and diversity of female music. It is accompanied by dynamic discussions with female leaders across the music industry.
The English Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Kenneth Woods, presents a programme of remarkable works for chamber orchestra.
Experience a dazzling evening of chamber music presented by Yehudi Menuhin School, the prodigious talent of tomorrow’s leading musicians, featuring a vibrant tapestry of Spanish folk melodies, bold romanticism and Romantic lyricism.
BBC Radio 3’s award-winning Delia Stevens and three-time BBC Radio 2 Folk Musician of the Year nominee, Will Pound, deliver an unprecedented collaboration, following the creative evolution of the classical composers inspired by folk, including their recomposition of Vaughan Williams’ 'Lark Ascending' as well as works by Holst.
Described by Leonard Bernstein as ‘Mahler’s greatest symphony’, Das Lied von der Erde is an incomparable musical homage to the natural world, and humanity’s place within it. Aurora performs the work in Iain Farrington’s chamber orchestra version alongside two of the leading Mahler singers of our time.
Martin Feinstein’s Bach Weekend, the annual Kings Place exploration of Bach's great masterpieces, begins with a feast of dances, featuring some of the most famous suites by Bach, Handel and Telemann.
Martin Feinstein’s annual Bach Weekend at Kings Place closes with a concert featuring some of the most thrilling orchestral writings and parts from Bach’s pen, including Magnificat, Cantata 46 'Schauet doch und sehet', and his second Brandenburg concerto.
Winner of the Piano Category Final at BBC Young Musician 2022, and blind since birth, Scottish pianist and composer, Ethan Loch, takes us on a colourful and virtuosic journey.
In an intimate in the round setting cellist Clare O’Connell presents music from her new album on NMC Recordings, 'Light Flowing': a radiant body of newly commissioned work for solo and layered cello inspired by concepts of light, depth, simplicity and the search for a perfect line.