Treeline
Graham Fitkin
| Graham Fitkin | Treeline |
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| Graham Fitkin | Piano and Keyscanner |
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This is the final concert from maverick composer Graham Fitkin’s pan-European forest-focused 2500-mile cycle tour from Romania back to the UK. Graham has worked with communities from the Carpathian Mountains to Epping Forest, collecting data and sounds from specific trees which are woven into an extraordinary work for piano and keyscanner. Join us for the culmination of this amazing multi-threaded project.
Historically, forests used to cover much of Europe. Now they don’t. Forests provide bio-diversity, mitigate soil erosion, filter water, cool micro/macro climates, sequester carbon and much more.
Following a line of old-growth forests and remnants through Europe, Treeline connects communities to their own environments, trees and forests. It reveals new perspectives on trees through music, data, field recordings and concert performances to engender greater respect for trees and biodiversity, and increase understanding of why these things are so important.
Treeline’s partners throughout Europe range from music venues, festivals and environmental charities to city halls, universities, village communities and schools. Each collaborator has brought a community together to choose and ‘profile’ a local tree of importance to them. Each collaborator approaches this differently, depending on the tree, its local significance, topography and history. Graham Fitkin uses all this information in a new hour-long work for piano and keyscanner, adapted to play the tree sounds as a newly created ‘forest instrument’.
This final concert at Kings Place will feature the internal sounds from inside a very old beech tree in Epping Forest where Graham worked with Epping Forest Charity to collect sounds and information.
This event will last approximately 60-70 minutes, with no interval.
Concessions & Under 30s tickets
Kings Place Concessions Tickets
We want to ensure that people who may be struggling financially to purchase a ticket can still enjoy visiting Kings Place. A limited number of tickets are allocated for certain events (if the ticket type does not show in the booking pathway, it means they are not available for this event or have all been sold). Concessions tickets are accessible for people on the following criteria (for more information visit our FAQs)
- Pension Credit
- Universal Credit
- Disability Benefit
- Income Support or Job Seekers allowance
- Students
£10 ‘Under 30s’ tickets
A limited number of £10 tickets for attendees aged under 30 are available for certain shows. To purchase an ‘Under 30s’ ticket, please choose the ‘Under 30s’ price type when selecting your ticket(s). If the option does not appear, this means all ‘Under 30s’ tickets have sold out or are not available for this performance. Please note that proof of age may be requested at the venue. The £10 offer does not apply to premium price categories.
Plan your visit
Getting here
Kings Place is situated just a few minutes’ walk from King’s Cross and St Pancras stations, one of the most connected locations in London and now the biggest transport hub in Europe.
Our address is:
90 York Way, London, N1 9AG.
The Venue
Our performance spaces are situated on the lower ground floor. Hall One, Hall Two and St Pancras are located in level -2, reached by stairs, escalator and lift from the ground floor entrance level.
Event Times
Door times indicate auditorium entrance times only. Visitors are welcome to enjoy the Kings Place seating areas, gallery-level art, canal-side terrace, café, restaurant and bar throughout the day and evening.
- Our events begin promptly at the advertised start time. Typically, there is no support unless otherwise stated.
- We recommend arriving in good time before the performance. The Hall doors will open 30 minutes before the performance to allow time to take your seats, or to choose a space for standing shows.
- Latecomers will be admitted at a suitable break in the performance where possible
Access
We aim to make your visit to Kings Place as comfortable as possible. For more information about the accessibility of Kings Place, including details about our Access Scheme, please visit this page.
If you would like to discuss your access requirements with a member of our team, please get in touch with the Box Office team at info@kingsplace.co.uk.
Food & Drink
Rotunda Bar & Restaurant
Rotunda, situated on the ground floor of Kings Place, offers a unique dining and drinking experience alongside Regent’s Canal. The concert bar in the venue foyer will also be open for select events.
Green & Fortune Café
Recently re-furbished and now open with a new look, the Green & Fortune Café is open for selected concerts. Serving hot and cold food and drinks, including sandwiches, salads, soup, stew and a pie of the day, alongside a choice of cakes made by the on-site bakery team. See here for selected concert dates and standard opening hours.
About Graham Fitkin
Graham is a composer and pianist. He is increasingly interested in the intersections between environment, science and societal change. He composes for live performance, installation, dance, media and recording, and works with people & communities, acoustic & electronic instruments, field recordings and interviews.
He has been Composer in Residence with the London Chamber Orchestra and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. He has composed for the likes of New York City Ballet, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Nederlands Blazersensemble, Sacconi Quartet, Yo-Yo Ma, Kathryn Stott, Will Gregory, Shezad Dawood, Piano Circus and the Tate.
Recent works include Geography for Ars Musica Brussels and Constant Partial Attention for the Tana Quartet. He lives in Cornwall with his partner, the harpist Ruth Wall.