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.
Cardiff's Slowly Rolling Camera returns for a rare and long-awaited London performance, showcasing their acclaimed fusion of jazz elegance, cinematic depth, and electronic sophistication Since 2013, Cardiff-based Slowly Rolling Camera has emerged as a formidable
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.
The Golden Dregs play a special show at Kings Place on 30th January 2026.
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.
Don’t miss one of the UK’s most captivating jazz voices live in concert. Award-winning vocalist Emma Smith brings her magnetic stage presence to Kings Place for one unforgettable night, performing songs from her acclaimed album 'Bitter Orange' and reimagined jazz classics. Fresh from her sold-out 2025 world tour, this promises to be a landmark show from a truly unique artist.
Experience a richly woven journey through folk-inspired music with Kings Place Resident String Quartet, the Piatti Quartet, as traditional melodies, inherited songs, and communal memories spring to life through the intimate sonority of strings.
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.
SykesMartin is the exciting collaboration from two of British folk's finest voices. Miranda Sykes (Show of Hands) and Hannah Martin (Edgelarks, Gigspanner Big Band) join forces to present a set of songs that take them back to their shared roots.
Kings Place Jazz Orchestra proudly presents 'Love In Full Swing', featuring special guest vocalist Claire Martin OBE. Join KPJO for a concert filled with orchestral jazz, both old and new, from some of the genre’s finest composers, on a theme of romance, heartbreak, and love.Featuring music made famous by Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Richard Rodney Bennett and many more.
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.
Paddi Benson, Grace Lemon and James Patrick Gavin make their collective Kings Place debut, reflecting a shared interest in experimental and electronic music, as well as the tradition of storytelling – and folklore – within Irish music, as where they met.
This is the debut outing for Olivia Chaney's glamorous new folk-rock band, which she’s calling (for now) News from Nowhere. Picking up where her acclaimed album 'The Queen of Hearts' left off, Chaney will perform new electric arrangements of classic folk songs.
Nottingham-based British-Ugandan singer-songwriter Daudi Matsiko returns to Kings Place to present his new EP ‘Dead Bird Dream’ - a collection of deeply felt modern folk songs, telling a story of heartache, diaspora, and self-acceptance at a time when belonging and British identity feels as though in constant jeopardy. With live performances described as deeply moving and life affirming in equal measure, Matsiko is not to be missed.
Renowned for her distinctive and award-winning vocal prowess, Lady Nade possesses one of the most singular voices in the UK music scene. Critics and fans alike have often drawn comparisons between Lady Nade's voice and the legendary Nina Simone. An artist known for paying homage to those who have profoundly influenced her journey, Lady Nade holds Nina Simone in high regard.
Aurora Orchestra’s Principal Players bring together three masterpieces of chamber music, each alive with the memory of a time long past.
Innovator, award winning, multi-instrumentalist Malin Lewis' debut at Kings Place, melding Scottish West coast tradition with a newly invented, self-made bagpipe. Hair tingling, philosophical and dance inducing melodies inspired by European folk traditions, queerness and the universe.
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.
Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage release their fifth studio album 'The Strangers' Share'; a record centred on dreams and the supernatural.
Julian Joseph’s ‘Atmospheres in Audio Theatre 60’ is a unique, immersive audio experience featuring specially composed pieces from Joseph, as well as a wide range of well-known repertoire including Paganini, Mozart, Coltrane and Shorter.
After a decade touring with Midge Ure and India Electric Company and following his top 10 single, a reimagining of Fade To Grey, Cole Stacey shares his acclaimed solo album Postcards From Lost Places. Expect captivating stories, lyrical songwriting rooted in tradition, haunting melodies and a night of connection in a remarkable setting.
The Gigspanner Big Band are a unique force in British folk music... Their high-energy, virtuosic performances appeal equally to traditionalists and to those looking for something more experimental, and they have garnered praise from publications as varied as fRoots, The Telegraph and The Wire, where they were described as ‘melodically folk-rooted yet open and innovative beyond the constraints of genre’.