Storyteller Jan Blake and drummer John Predare take us on an inspiring tale – The Birth of Sundiata Keita –from its origins in 13th-century Africa to the conflicts in our own time where its telling has been forbidden.
‘Her magnificently transparent music holds tidings of family, memory, solitude and the inexorability of time’ The New York Times ‘With Her Hymn to Haiti, Leyla McCalla Is on Her Way to Becoming a Star’ Vogue
An evening of electrical mysticism, as thereminist and inventor Sarah Angliss brings you dreamlike music, featuring her phantasmagoria of music machines.
Experience the bold colours and rhythmic intensity of Bartók’s Sonata for two pianos and percussion in a unique immersive performance where you’re invited to lie down amongst the musicians.
Rarely heard in the UK, Apartment House present a programme of solo and chamber works by the acclaimed Canadian composer Linda Catlin Smith.
A collaboration inspired by Janáček’s string quartet Intimate Letters, and the premiere of a new work created by violinist Rakhi Singh and pioneering electronic musician Vessel.
Soprano and composer Héloïse Werner performs her beguiling solo opera exploring language and identity, The Other Side Of The Sea, written in collaboration with poet Octavia Bright, visual artist Jessie Rodger and director Emily Burns.
The New York-based drummer and composer continually grapples with the interaction between sound and environment, transforming physical and virtual spaces through his performances, recordings, and installations.
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Through study with masters from vocal traditions the world over, the eight-voice ensemble continually expands its vocabulary of singing techniques and forges a new repertoire without borders.
One of the rare women in the neoclassical world, Alexandra Stréliski creates music that enthralls listeners, filling their minds with rich, cinematic images.
Cryptic, in association with Night School Records, presents multi-instrumentalist and singer, Ela Orleans, in an intimate audio-visual staging of her new album, Movies for Ears – a richly textured retrospective of her songs spanning a decade of recordings.
Haley Fohr's musical endeavors focus around our human condition, and her 10-year career as Circuit Des Yeux has grown into one of America’s most successful efforts to connect the personal to the universal.
Described as ‘Ghanaian minimalism’, with the unassuming ability to blur the lines between atmospheres – Vula Viel’s sound may nod to Steve Reichian jazz, but influences don’t stop there.
A concert intertwining spoken word and music about love, exploring the relationship between sound and text through both sung poetry and live readings interspersed with improvised music.
Composer and playwright Klein is an artist who’s neoteric vision has seen her quickly become one of the UK’s most intriguing and unpinnable producers and performers.
Eddi Reader grew up in Glasgow and Irvine, Scotland and it was in those towns that she learned to use music as a vehicle for communicating with others through busking and performing at the local folk clubs.
Award winning violinist Galya Bisengalieva & rising star Katherine Tinker join us for an intimate in the round performance.
NV is a solo project of Kate Shilonosova, Moscow based producer, songstress, composer, designer, coauthor and front girl of moscow new wave post punk band “ГШ”.
Cellist and composer Zoë Keating is a one-woman orchestra, creating intricate, haunting and compelling music with a cello and a foot-controlled laptop.
Cellist and composer Zoë Keating is a one-woman orchestra, creating intricate, haunting and compelling music with a cello and a foot-controlled laptop.
The legendary Suzanne Ciani, first female recipient of the Moog Innovation Award, is a composer, recording artist, and pioneer in the field of electronic music and sound design. She brings her performance on a Buchla 200e in quadraphonic sound to Kings Place as part of Venus Unwrapped.
In this programme Paul Hillier and his acclaimed Theatre of Voices present some of the finest new vocal chamber music to come out of the Baltic States.
Aurora Orchestra travels to a land of soaring mountains and haunting myths, conjuring up the evocative drama of Scotland – from its folk music to its landscape – in the company of pianist Ronald Brautigam.
A reimagining of Aurora Orchestra’s interactive children’s concert for grown-ups, where you’ll get to wander among the lavender, wiggle with worms and discover your inner child.