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.
Keval Shah and Jess Dandy give the London premiere of their highly-acclaimed show ‘Eternity In An Hour’, threading Indian and European cultures through music, poetry and philosophy.
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.
What are your memories about? What can you remember? Starting from Claude Debussy’s Rêverie, Hanni Liang will create a unique concert experience where your memories shape the entire performance.
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.
Kings Place Quartet in Residence, the Piatti Quartet, joins internationally acclaimed pianist Noriko Ogawa for an evening shaped by reflection, passion, and musical rebirth.
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.
With more than 150 recordings, 80 operatic roles and a career that has taken him to the world’s greatest concert halls, Thomas Hampson is one of the most influential baritones of our time.
I Fagiolini’s semi-staged take on Purcell's masterpiece - written when he was just 29. So much variety in a single hour: great tunes, sparkling instrumental interludes, hysterical witches, dance music and of course the great lament, 'When I am laid in earth'.
Broken sounds and broken instruments: an uncompromising portrayal of the mind. 8 Songs for a Mad King is a melodrama with a libretto based on the real-life observations of King George III.
Riot Ensemble unites three uncompromising voices whose music dances between protest and poise. Martland’s Dance Works surges with raw, rhythmic energy, while Rzewski’s Coming Together and Attica transform repetition into resistance. In contrast, Lisa Streich’s Falter offers a fragile stillness — a quiet meditation on breath, fragility, and the aftermath of movement.
Recipient of the 2024 Ivor Novello Innovation Award, Gavin Bryars returns with singer Jess Walker and his Ensemble in After the Rain — hypnotic arrangements of iconic songs by Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Neil Young and Kurt Weill.
As part of Memory Unwrapped, the Brodsky Quartet continue their Kings Place residency with cellist Laura van der Heijden in Schubert’s String Quintet, alongside works spanning two centuries that showcase the intimate yet powerful voice of chamber music.
Olivia Chaney's deep connection to the music of Henry Purcell runs throughout her life. This show will be the London debut of material from Olivia’s new Purcell album, featuring a star-studded chamber ensemble. Come and hear a modern English songwriter at the height of her powers interpreting one of England's great composers in a refreshingly natural and contemporary way.