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Earth Unwrapped

Sirens for a wounded planet

Kings Place turns its focus to Earth for our 2025 award-winning Unwrapped series, bringing artists together to explore our wounded planet and how collectively we can seek healing.
We turn to Artists in Residence Sam Lee, Jason Singh and Gazelle Twin to tell stories of the Earth through their performances, installations and celebrations throughout the year.

You’ll see us working with our King’s Cross neighbours Central Saint Martins, shining a light on their Climate Emergency Network. Environmental artist Alice Boyd creates The Sounds of King’s Cross for our d&b Soundscape system, listening and talking to the people wildlife in our local area, whilst EarthPercent, the music industry’s climate foundation, will host an important conversation with their expert advisory panel.

Virtuoso violinist Daniel Pioro invites you to a weekend of deep listening for our audiences, with works from Catherine Lamb, Pauline Oliveros, James Tenney and Valgeir Sigurðsson.

We celebrate Terry Riley’s 90th birthday, look to Pauline Oliveros’ concept of deep listening and are taken on a Mahler adventure with Resident Ensemble, Aurora. You’ll hear new music and commissions from artists who dedicate their work to our planet including Julia Wolfe, Josephine Stephenson, and Erland Cooper.

Our d&b Soundscape system will bring the outdoors in with artists such as Soumik Datta, Ligeti Quartet and The Rheingans Sisters enabling us to feel immersed in the outdoors from sounds on our doorstep to around the world.

This year-long series will offer a place to listen deeply to our world on a microscopic to cosmic scale, inviting you to celebrate our natural world, provide a space to listen, learn and be inspired by the artists around us.

See our Digital Earth Unwrapped brochure – here.

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Folk Weekend: Birdsong - You’ve Never Heard So Sweet 

Our annual Folk Weekend tunes in to the ornithological world. Song traditions of the British Isles are inspired by the relationships that singers have with their environment and the seasons, and many are infused with the sounds and images of birds. From blackbirds to ravens, they are used symbolically to reflect human experience. But, in turn, birds themselves are the inspiration for many musicians, from larks ascending to crying doves. Akin to unsung folk songs, many bird populations are at risk, with severe declines in numbers, from curlews to turtle doves and swifts to swans. Influential performers from across the contemporary folk scene including Eliza Carthy, Martin Simpson, Chris Wood, Miranda Rutter & Rob Harbron and The Wilderness Yet celebrate and shine a spotlight on all things avian: from new songwriting to musical dialogues with birds.

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d&b Soundscape

Kings Place has a creative partnership with d&b audiotechnik to introduce artists and develop new projects using Soundscape in Hall Two. A revolution in the live sound experience, d&b Soundscape is an alternative to the traditional left and right stereo system, using up to 39 loudspeakers to open up a plethora of creative possibilities for artists to reinforce their sound.

The following shows will all be using the d&b Soundscape system. Find out more about the technology in our Magazine.

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Online

An exciting virtual Kings Place has emerged and our audience can now experience events streamed live at home via KPlayer.

For information on how to use KPlayer please refer to our guide or see the KPlayer FAQ.

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Rock ‘n’ Roll Politics

Political commentator and broadcaster, Steve Richards, presents the latest behind-the-scenes guide to the epic dramas and the characters shaping seismic events. How have we got here? What’s going to happen next? Are there any answers to these questions? Come along and find out.

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Kirckman at Kings Place

The Kirckman Concert Society was founded by Geraint Jones and Calton Younger in 1963 to promote young artists of exceptional talent.

The Society’s panel of distinguished musicians has developed a reputation for ‘spotting’ tomorrow’s stars in the making. The Society offers its young musicians a London platform as well as the possibility of concerts further afield; and while these artists are not yet household names, concert-goers have a unique opportunity to hear for themselves the exciting promise which these artists offer.

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Songlines Encounters Festival

We’re delighted to announce the line up for this year’s Songlines Encounters Festival. Amongst the spectacular line-up we have Puglia’s Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino celebrating their 50th anniversary with their swirling taranta music, Mali’s stunning vocalist Rokia Koné from Les Amazons d’Afrique, our first qawwali group from Pakistan with the young Chahat Ali, and the groundbreaking Gurdjieff Ensemble from Armenia. Alongside them singers in Polish, Kurdish and Turkish and the prize-winning Nani Vazana singing in Ladino.

As ever the festival is proudly presented in partnership with one of the world’s leading global music magazines Songlines, and will feature more exciting additions to come.

The curation of Songlines Encounters is supported by the 1900 Building 1900bldg.com

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Flamenco Festival and IGF present: "La Guitarra Flamenca: the Next Gen"

In celebration of their 20th anniversary (and as IGF celebrates our 30th), the internationally acclaimed Flamenco Festival has partnered with IGF to present some of the most impressive names in contemporary Flamenco. Join us at Kings Place to witness the new stars on the Flamenco firmament with this outstanding programme, spread over three days.

Flamenco Festival is dedicated to showcasing and promoting Spanish culture worldwide. Under the direction of Miguel Marín, the festival’s annual international events serve as a platform for presenting today’s foremost flamenco luminaries—from internationally acclaimed artists and venerable icons of traditional flamenco to the most cutting-edge and promising young talents in dance, music, and song.

Flamenco Festival has evolved into the premier global platform for flamenco, captivating over 1.6 million people annually. Across 112 cities, it has featured 170 companies in 1350 performances, elevating flamenco to a vital part of prestigious theaters worldwide, including NY City Center, Carnegie Hall, London Sadler’s Wells, Arsht Center in Miami, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House, Kings Place, London and elsewhere.

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Ímar Fest

After years of sell-out shows, Ímar are bringing their very own festival to Kings Place for the first time. The band couldn’t be more excited to bring a killer line-up featuring the boundary-pushing creative force of Astro Bloc, rising stars of the trad scene The Canny Band, an intimate conversation with Ímar themselves about life on the road, workshops, headline gigs with Kinnaris Quintet, the incredible voices of Paul McKenna and Beth Malcom, and Irish dance superstar David Geaney. What more could you ask for? Every single moment of this weekend is going to be pure folk music gold. No fillers, no downtime, just non-stop brilliance.

‘We were already thrilled to put this weekend together because we love London and we love Kings Place. But now we’re beyond excited because this is a festival so good, even we would pay to be there.’ Mohsen Amini (Ímar)

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Platoon Presents at Kings Place

Platoon Presents at Kings Place is a brand-new creative partnership forged by two pioneering organisations – the Platoon label, and Kings Place. Together they will present a series of imaginative live performances, showcasing the Platoon roster through contemporary, classical and spoken word genres, from both internationally-celebrated artists and emerging new voices.

Listen to the Platoon Presents at Kings Place playlist – exclusively on Apple Music Classical, the app designed for Classical music.

Watch the Platoon Presents at Kings Place trailer on YouTube.

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Daniel Pioro: Time Unravelling Sound Unfolding

Time Unravelling Sound Unfolding

Violinist Daniel Pioro is an ardent advocate for new and experimental music and is always interested in finding fresh ways of listening to and creating sound. He develops strong artistic collaborations and actively seeks to draw the audience into a creative relationship, inviting them to “Come and sit inside the violin and be terrified with me – get excited with me”. Kings Place have invited Daniel to curate a weekend of deep listening for our audiences, exploring emotional states via the music of Bach, Oliveros, Tenney and Valgeir Sigurðsson. Inspired by Pauline Oliveros’ concept of deep listening, developed during a time of political despair, we ask audiences to actively listen to the world around us in a communal act of renewal and repair.

Supported by Cockayne Grants for the Arts, a Donor Advised Fund, held at The Prism Charitable Trust.

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London Piano Festival

Welcome to the 2025 London Piano Festival at Kings Place!

The 2025 London Piano Festival marks its 10th anniversary with a rich and diverse programme featuring the theme of Maturity & Youth.

This milestone year blends classical masterpieces with contemporary compositions, world premieres, and engaging discussions. Join us as we celebrate pianist artistry, innovation and musical storytelling, bridging both past and future.

‘It is our great pleasure to be announcing the programme for the 10th London Piano Festival alongside the world premiere of three new commissions by Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Stephen Hough and Elena Langer. When we first dreamt up the idea of starting a piano festival over a decade ago, we hoped to fill a gap in London’s musical offering by creating a festival devoted exclusively to the piano. Ten years on, having presented nine Festivals featuring over 45 exceptional jazz and classical pianists, we are immensely grateful to continue offering world-class piano performances at our Festival home – Kings Place.’ – Katya Apekisheva and Charles Owen, Co-Artistic Directors

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Black Lives in Music presents Classically Black

Classically Black: A Cultural Movement in the Making

Now in its second year, Classically Black is more than a festival—it’s a growing cultural movement redefining what classical music looks and sounds like today.

Rooted in Black and global majority experiences, the programme features powerful performances and new commissions that blend tradition with transformation—led by world-class musicians whose identities are often erased in classical spaces. This ground-breaking event will explore the experience of being a minority in classical music and champion the works of Black music artists and creators past and present, while asking ‘what is classical now?’

Classically Black offers a new vantage point: one grounded in excellence, pride, and cultural truth.

Curated by Black Lives in Music, this is classical music reimagined.

Join the movement. Be part of the change.

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Aurora Orchestra - Far, Far Away

Combining live instrumental performance of the highest calibre with original storytelling and a playful, multi-sensory approach to concert presentation, Far, Far Away is the perfect way to introduce young children to music.

Each concert explores a particular composer or style of music, weaving together stunning live performances with an original story from Aurora Orchestra’s Writer-in-Residence Kate Wakeling and a beautifully designed set built around the audience and musicians. Audiences are invited to step inside each story through guided listening, singing, dancing, holding props and much more, becoming immersed in a magical world of music, language, discovery and play.

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