In this monthly series, we shine a light into the crucible of new music creation today, revealing exhilarating cross-currents in sound and style. From contemporary orchestral composition to shimmering electronic sound worlds, musical expression is becoming less defined by genre, more framed by its emotional and cultural contexts. Luminate taps into this bold, exploratory landscape in a series of shows that will provoke and inspire.
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.
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.
Award winning violinist Galya Bisengalieva & rising star Katherine Tinker join us for an intimate in the round performance.
NYX is a collaborative drone choir and otherworldly electric chorus, re-embodying live electronics and extended vocal techniques.
‘On his first album in almost seven years, the Toronto artist uses ambient pop to craft a masterful, dreamlike world’ Pitchfork ‘Canada’s modern day answer to Arthur Russell and Paul Simon’ Boomkat ‘For nearly 20
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”.
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.
Renowned vocalist and composer Lore Lixenberg presents her new project: Conlon Nancarrow’s Studies for Player Piano in surround sound.
Pioneering Australian pianist Zubin Kanga performs ground-breaking new works exploring our relationships to screen technologies, from classic cinema to video games.