Kings Place

Kings Place is a hub for music, art, dialogue and food in London's Kings Cross. James Kinnaird, Senior Marketing Manager at Kings Place, presents an hour of Kings Place adjacent music and discussion, including an interview with Simon Broughton, Songlines founding editor, who picks out songs from artists performing at this year's Songlines Encounters Festival. Charlotte Cole also joins to discuss h...

Platoon Presents at Kings Place is a series of imaginative live performances, showcasing the Platoon roster through contemporary, classical and spoken word genres. Sam McShane, Artistic Director at Kings Place, here discusses the series as part of the January edition of Kings Place's monthly radio show on Voices Radio. Find out more & book tickets here: https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/platoo...

Kings Place is a hub for music, art, dialogue and food in London's Kings Cross. James Kinnaird, Senior Marketing Manager at Kings Place, here presents an hour of music from artists performing at the venue soon, recorded live from Voices Radio in Coal Drops Yard on Tue 4 February. https://www.voicesradio.co.uk/ Tracklist & Kings Place performance dates: Solaris - Penguin Cafe (Arthur Jeffes - Sat 2...

Beatrice Dillon Promo Clip by Kings Place

Paul Cassidy, violist of the Brodsky Quartet, reads from his remarkable memoir, Get Beethoven, which traces his rise from a deprived area of Belfast to membership of an internationally-renowned quartet. Here he recalls his first experience of a youth orchestra in Omagh. https://www.troubador.co.uk/bookshop/autobiography/get-beethoven/ paulcassidy.org

Dryburn Moor is a treeless Northumbrian landscape and the gathering songs are mostly delivered from the wing. Curlews describe low arcs announcing their names whilst lapwing and redshank waver and warble. The chorus peaks before sunrise as skylarks, Shakespeare’s ‘ploughmen’s clock’, rise up and disappear into the air as silver pinpoints of song.’ Listen to our Artist-in-Residence Chris Watson‘s l...

Denied access to the wildernesses where he usually records, our Artist in residence Chris Watson has rediscovered the joy of a dawn chorus in his own back garden. Hanging his microphone in an old apple tree, he catches a chorus of spectacular solos, by blackbird, dunnock, bluetit and wren.

In a new podcast for Nature Unwrapped, composer and sound recordist Chris Watson follows the overgrown railway path between Aldeburgh and Saxmundham, a favourite haunt of composer Benjamin Britten, recording an array of elemental, animal and bird sounds, including the outpouring of a nightingale. The Old Railway Path was originally conceived as an installation in Hall One. In response to the curre...

Estonian kannel zither player Mari Kalkun chats to Songlines Editor-in-Chief Simon Broughton about her instrument and the importance of singing in her native language. She performs as part of an exciting double bill at Songlines Encounters Festival 2019. Thu 30 May, 8pm http://bit.ly/MariKalkun

Noh Reimagined (29 & 30 Jun), an exciting two-day festival celebrating the ancient art of Japanese Noh theatre, returns to Kings Place with performances, talks, workshops and installations. In this podcast, we speak to composer and co-founder of Clod Ensemble, Paul Clark, about their new piece 'Snow', which is inspired by the restless spirits in Noh theatre. Sat 30 Jun kingsplace.co.uk/noh

Celebrated sarodist Soumik Datta returns to Kings Place in June as part of Songlines Encounters Festival to explore the seasons and time-cycles of North Indian music. Songlines magazine Editor-in-Chief Simon Broughton interviews Soumik about the seasons and time-cycles of North Indian music, ahead of his upcoming performance on Sun 3 Jun. 31 May - 6 Jun 2018 bit.ly/2mC4sGJ

2018 sees Mercury-nominated Dinosaur back in action with some immensely colourful, new music – full of imagination and surprise. We interviewed BBC New Generation Artist 2015-17 trumpeter Laura Jurd about Dinosaur's highly anticipated second album Wonder Trail (to be released May 2018), the experience of playing live, boundaries in music and her approach to composition.  Thu 3 May kingsplace.co.uk...

Martin Feinstein’s acclaimed Bach Weekend returns to Kings Place as part of Time Unwrapped – the 10th edition of our award-winning Unwrapped series. In the first half, we spoke with festival director Martin Feinstein about this year’s theme: Time Changes. In the second half, actor Geoffrey McGivern joined us to discuss his involvement in Bach: The Time Traveller, a dramatic recreation of Douglas A...

This is the eighth year of Songlines Encounters Festival and the most ambitious yet. It does what it has always done – bring high-quality artists from around the world championed by Songlines magazine to play music in the superb environment of Kings Place. Songlines Editor-in-Chief Simon Broughton interviews Tuuletar, a vocal folk-hop quartet, who are performing on Fri 1 Jun. 31 May - 6 Jun 2018 h...

Cryptic’s Sonica Festival, sonic art for the visually minded, returns to Kings Place on a ‘unique and fascinating journey into uncharted territory’ (The Telegraph), with a weekend of genre-defying live performance and installations including 176 live snails making music for Slow Pixel, a sensorial experiment in celebration of Time Unwrapped from French visual artists Elizabeth Saint-Jalmes and Cyr...

In March, we present Time & Tradition, a brand-new weekend series of concerts, storytelling and talks exploring the concept of time through traditional and contemporary folk music and ritual and seasonal customs. Highlights include Martin & Eliza Carthy, Peggy Seeger, Roy Bailey, Grace Petrie and Ewan McLennan We chat to Alan Bearman Music, artistic associate of Kings Place, to gain an insight int...

Jewish Book returns to Kings Place! Join us for 80 inspiring talks, conversations, debates and performances with some of the world’s most interesting minds and exciting personalities. We spoke to Festival Director Lucy Silver and David Waller, author of The Reputation Game, about the upcoming Festival. 3–11 Mar kingsplace.co.uk/jbw

Violinist Thomas Gould chats to our Creative Consultant, Helen Wallace, about his genre-defying 'Gould Standard' series, and shares his favourite Kings Place memories. Next concerts on 15 Dec & 28 Feb kingsplace.co.uk/gouldstandard

London A Cappella Festival 2018 will include a much-anticipated performance from The Beatbox Collective. Ben Eshmade chats to three members of this vocal supergroup to find out more about their passion for beatboxing – including a special live demonstration. 24 – 27 Jan kingsplace.co.uk/lacf

This autumn, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment launches a brand-new Sunday morning concert series for inquiring and curious minds. Ben Eshmade chats to the OAE's Chief Executive, Crispin Woodhead, and Professor Carlos Frenk who is part of the first concert on 22 Oct. kingsplace.co.uk/bachcantatas

This autumn, the EFG London Jazz Festival returns for a special 25th anniversary edition. We spoke to jazz musicians Bill Laurance and Henri Texier about their much-anticipated gigs at Kings Place. 10 – 19 Nov kingsplace.co.uk/ljf

Following the enormous success of the London Podcast Festival in 2016, we’re excited to launch a spin-off series of themed mini-festivals. This year, London Podcast Festival presents... focuses on Wrestling! Festival programmers Zoë Jeyes and Frazer Mclean shared their enthusiasm for this popular form of 'sports entertainment' in a conversation with Ben Eshmade. Sat 9 Sep, Kings Place kingsplace.c...

The contemporary composer, teacher, pianist, accordionist and music publisher Howard Skempton celebrates his 70th birthday at Kings Place this October. Joined by conductor David Wordsworth, he chats to Helen Wallace about his diverse body of work and plans for the future. Fri 13 Oct kingsplace.co.uk/HowardSkempton

London Piano Festival (5-8 Oct) returns to Kings Place with an underlying Russian theme. Ben Eshmade chats to the acclaimed pianists Ilya Itin and Nelson Goerner about their exciting solo recitals. kingsplace.co.uk/lpf

The acclaimed Eden Stell Guitar Duo return to Kings Place this summer to launch their new album Cançons i danses - the first guitar CD dedicated to the work of the Catalan composer Federico Mompou (1893–1987). Part of the IGF Guitar Summit 2017. 20 - 22 Jul kingsplace.co.uk/IGFGS