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.
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.
The award-winning Astatine Trio, BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists for 2025-27, presents a programme juxtaposing the Second World War-inspired darkness of Weinberg’s Piano Trio with the radiant optimism of Beethoven's great ‘Archduke’ Trio.
Champion of the 12th Hamamatsu International Piano Competition, as well as the recipient of the Audience Prize and the Chamber Music Prize, Manami Suzuki has already achieved success with her competition exploits: the first Japanese
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.
Presenting the cantata ‘Was mein Gott will, das g’scheh allzeit’, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment begin the new year with vigorous resolve in this first Bach, the Universe and Everything of 2026. Meanwhile, Hannah Wakeford shows us what measuring the atmosphere of exoplanets in far away galaxies can can reveal about our own solar system.
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.
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.
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.
Grammy-nominated ensemble Neave Trio bring their dynamic artistry to this electrifying programme, blending the sultry passion of tango with vibrant contemporary colour.
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.
A trio of composer-performer-improvisers, miré invite you into their world with a shadowy and mesmerising yet playful and virtuosic programme of music from their forthcoming EP.
The 8th season of Bach, the Universe and Everything continues with Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenments performance of ‘Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan’ – a remarkable cantata that appears to have been performed at an unspecified special occasion in Leipzig in 1734 (we’ll hear another such work at March’s event).
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.
Aurora Orchestra’s Principal Players bring together three masterpieces of chamber music, each alive with the memory of a time long past.
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.
This season of Sunday morning celestial adventures with Bach, the Universe and Everything closes with very special finale featuring one of Bach’s most monumental cantatas, while a talk by Emily Akkermans marks the 250th anniversary of the death of one of Britain’s most phenomenal Enlightenment minds, John Harrison.
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.
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 Baselines—a powerful reflection on shifting norms in our relationship with nature.
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.
Stevens & Pound are BBC Radio 3’s award-winning percussionist Delia Stevens ('superb' Financial Times) and triple BBC Radio 2 Folk Musician of the Year nominee, harmonica player Will Pound ('One of the world’s top harmonica players' Daily Telegraph).
Our Artists-in-Residence, GBSR Duo, team up with boundary-pushing London producer Beatrice Dillon for their first-ever collaboration.
An exciting survey of Steve Martland's choral works within a programme of energy and discovery.
Marking 50 years since Britten’s death, Britten Sinfonia explore his formative North American years, pairing music he wrote in Canada and the USA with works by his close friend and mentor, Aaron Copland.