Earth Unwrapped

2025 PROGRAMME

Sirens for a wounded planet

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Contents Introducing Earth Unwrapped 03 Sam Lee, Artist in Residence 04 Gazelle Twin, Artist in Residence 06 Jason Singh, Artist in Residence 08 Environmental Sustainability 10 Event Listings 12-29 CSM & Climate Emergency Network 14 Aurora Orchestra 17 Alice Boyd 20 EarthPercent 23 Daniel Pioro 24 Cast List 30 Festivals & Series at Kings Place 32 Venue Information 39 Getting Here 40

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Passionate people committed to positive commercial and social impact. Exciting places that bring together culture and business. A promise to deliver sustainable, forward-thinking architecture. A foundation for important works of philanthropy.

Following our Nature exploration in 2020, we will re-enter the sounds of our planet, listening to how artists respond to subjects such as plant life, ornithology, our relationWe celebrate Terry Riley’s 90th birthday, look ship with our eco-system and addressto Pauline Oliveros’s concept of deep listening the healing that we all need in this ing and are taken on a Mahler adventure with turbulent world.

Resident Ensemble, Aurora. You’ll hear new We turn to Artists in Residence Sam Lee, music and presentations from artists who Jason Singh and Gazelle Twin to tell stories dedicate their work to our planet alongside of the Earth through their performances, world premieres from New York based cominstallations and celebrations throughout poser Julia Wolfe, French-British composer the year. Long-time collaborator Sam Lee Josephine Stephenson, and Scottish comexplores the kinship between nature and poser/producer Erland Cooper. humanity through nightingales to whale song, Virtuoso violinist Daniel Pioro invites you to as well as a communal celebration of Harvest.

Time Unravelling, Sound Unfolding – a weekJason Singh presents his multi-sensory and end of deep listening for our audiences, cross-species approach to sound and music exploring emotional states via the music of through his life-long dedication to the natural Catherine Lamb, Pauline Oliveros, James world, whilst iconic electronic artist Gazelle Tenney and Valgeir Sigurðsson.

Twin will immerse us in her pastoral yet dystopian sounds.

D&b audiotechnik’s Soundscape system will bring the outdoors in with artists such as Throughout the year, you’ll see us working Soumik Datta, Alice Boyd and The Rheingans with our King’s Cross neighbours and worldSisters enabling us to feel immersed in the renowned arts and design college, Central outdoors from sounds on our doorstep to Saint Martins, inviting the next generation to around the world. channel creativity into climate, shining a light on their Climate Emergency Network.

This year long series will offer a place to listen deeply to our world on a microscopic to Environmental artist Alice Boyd creates and a cosmic scale, inviting you to celebrate our presents The Sounds of King’s Cross for our natural world, provide a space to listen, learn Soundscape system from d&b audiotechnik, and be inspired by the artists around us. listening and talking to the people, canals, wildlife and nature around us. EarthPercent, the music industry’s climate foundation, will host an important conversation with their expert advisory panel.

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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.

Conversing with Nature Kate Hutchinson talks to Earth Unwrapped Artist in Residence, Sam Lee Where did your deep connection with nature begin?

As a kid growing up in central London in the ‘80s, Hampstead Heath was a sanctuary. I was a bit of an outsider kid, and very quickly realised that I got nature and nature got me – it became my defender.

Do you see yourself as an artist or activist?

I don’t see a difference. I’m so passionate about what we have to lose. I’ve accepted that I’ve seen the death of the last of our great song carriers. But the idea of seeing the end of our cuckoos, our nightingales, our nightjars – it’s actually terrifying. So if I’m given a platform to speak, to fill the space and take people’s ears away from somewhere else, I can’t do that without there being some sort of invitation to rethink the madness that we’re in. Because, ultimately I’m a thrill-seeker. I want the party to go on for as long as possible.

Meeting is a Pleasant Place Sat 20 Sep Sam Lee The Great Harvest Feast

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What happens when people sing together like that?

People go into a sort of altered, meditative state.

It has a huge effect on the body, happiness, serotonin, all that sort of stuff, and it can also make you feel akin How necessary are the arts for affecting change? to nature.

It’s so necessary that the arts world advocates for and celebrates nature. If the power of the human How has that idea connected spirit of creativity was to be fully enhanced in finding on the road this year? ways to visualise and make people fall in love with We played a festival recently a subject like nature, then we could be really pushon the main stage, there were ing the boundaries and creating a movement that is about 4,000 people, and I had utterly irresistible. lots of people coming up to me afterwards saying that they’ve What’s the concept behind your never felt like that about Earth Unwrapped events? music before. You can’t deny I’d like to give people a safe space in which to have the power of these songs. glorious, enchanted moments in Kings Place so that they might try to go and achieve the real thing in nature, with a sense of permission and daring – you’ve got to dare yourself into doing a lot of nature stuff, like going out at night to listen to a nightingale.

we could be really pushing How are EarthPercent involved?

They are one of, if not the most vital charity the boundaries and creating for music and environmental partnerships. a movement that is utterly They are fast becoming such an important irresistible.’ way of diverting actual cash from the music industry into environmental projects, and giving back something Sat 15 Mar to the land, the sea and the sky, essentially. It’s very visionary.

Sam Lee Earth Unwrapped

What was the starting point for your latest album?

Some songs began as a commission for the film version of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Howard Fry and others came out of the Songdreaming retreats I ran, which were about singing devotional songs to nature.

You realise that the conversational possibility is enormous. And we laugh because we think, well, what a stupid thing to do. But indigenous communities, for example, have a huge history of conversing with the natural world.

Sam Lee is a folk singer, song collector, wilderness expert, eco activist and the country’s foremost nightingales duetter. His fourth album, Songdreaming, produced by Bernard Butler, takes a romantic stroll through nature’s majesty, reimagining ancient songs with a sense of foreboding about ecological collapse.

How are your two projects as part of Earth Unwrapped connected?

They’re aimed at creating a repertoire of experiences that are sonically about tuning into the more sensuous parts of nature, particularly things like the whale song sound bath, which is deeply immersive and vibra- ‘If the power of the human tional, and some of the talks that we’re dospirit of creativity was to ing. It’s really about trying to create a diverse range of experiences – from performances be fully enhanced in finding to an indoor/outdoor harvest feast – that ways to visualise and make touch on the connected aspects of how we people fall in love with a and nature are entwined. subject like nature, then

Her compositions encompass euphoric and haunting choral landscapes, to intensely minimal, beat-driven pop songs.

Gazelle Twin has collaborated frequently as a vocalist with various artists, including John Foxx, DJ Dave Clarke, and Gary Numan, whose album Intruder, co-produced by Ade Fenton, fea- ‘Her compositions tures her voice on 3 songs. In 2019 Gazelle encompass euphoric and Twin worked with Max de Wardener haunting choral landscapes, to create an orchestral performance to intensely minimal, The Power and the Glory with the BBC Concert Orchestra at London’s Queen beat-driven pop songs.’

Elizabeth Hall, for the New Music Biennial. Later that year she returned to the same venue to present Deep England, a large-scale ensemble A/V performance made with NYX Electronic Drone Choir at London Jazz Festival.

Gazelle Twin is the performance moniker for Elizabeth Bernholz, a composer, producer, singer and visual artist based in the UK. In 2009 Bernholz created this transformative performance persona to encompass composition, studio albums, soundtracks, art installations and live performance. It intended to openly address a deep-rooted aversion to traditional and contemporary norms across the music industry, particularly for women. Her ever-changing, identity-warping personas based on powerful, emotional themes and a fiercely independent spirit has driven her output and many collaborations since.

Bernholz has independently released six critically acclaimed studio albums to date; Black Dog (2023, Invada Records), Deep England (2021) with NYX Choir, Pastoral (2018), Kingdom Come (2017), Unflesh (2014) and her debut, The Entire City (2011). Her experimental electronic music is influenced diversely – from classical, choral and sacred music, to pop, industrial, and EDM.

Fri 30 May Gazelle Twin Black Dog Thu 30 Oct Gazelle Twin Soundscape

Gazelle Twin is an ambassador for women in music and inspired the Gazelle Twin Scholarship for Women in Music Technology at the University of Sussex, UK. She frequently presents seminars to students of music/art, and often mentors young composers/ producers of all backgrounds.

Gazelle Twin will be presenting three special projects as part of her Earth Unwrapped residency at Kings Place – starting with a recreation of her We Wax, We Wane installation, continuing with the final chance to see her perform her most recent album Black Dog live, and concluding with a new show specially created for the series using the Soundscape system from d&b audiotechnik.

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Gazelle Twin is Artist in Residence for Kings Place’s Earth Unwrapped series.

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Gazelle Twin

Her work has featured in film, television, video games, theatre productions and art installations including; The Walking Dead (AMC), The New Pope (HBO), How To Get Away With Murder (ABC), The Virtues (Channel 4), Prometheus (20th Century Fox), Cyberpunk 2077 and 2022 Netflix series CyberPower (Shudder, BFI, 2021) in collaboration with Max punk: Edgerunners. She has de Wardener, Then You Run (SKY MAX, 2023). In to date composed three March 2024 she worked with Maxine Peake, writer feature, horror film scores; Daisy Johnson, Imogen Knight and Sarah Frankcom Black Cab (Sony Pictures / on a theatrical adaptation of the folk horror TV Play Stolen Pictures, 2024), Nocfor Today Robin Redbreast at Factory Interntional turne (by Amazon Studios / in Manchester, and she is currently scoring a new Blumhouse, 2020), and The theatrical adaption of Rose Glass’s British horror film, Saint Maud.

Jason Singh Nature beatboxer

Jason Singh is Artist in Residence for Kings Place’s Earth Unwrapped series.

‘For Jason’s Earth Unwrapped residency, he will be further exploring his long-running connection with the natural world through a series of events.’

For Jason’s Earth Unwrapped residency, he will be further exploring his long-running connection with the natural world through a series of events. Beginning with a live soundtrack to the 1929 silent documentary Drifters, about Britain’s North Sea herring fishery; continuing with Moon Scales, an immersive large-scale multichannel sound installation consisting of eight spatialised soundscapes set around a suspended replica of the moon; and concluding with a new audio visual project that tells the story of the extraordinary polymath Fri 17 Jan Jason Singh Jagadish Bose, whose work as a physicist, biophysiDrifters (live AV show) cist, biologist and botanist changed the world.

Sun 17 May Jason Singh Moon Scales

Sun 19 Oct Jason Singh Quartet

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Jason’s bio-sonification work uses recordings of plants, trees and mushrooms to interact with the natural world and engage with wider issues affecting individuals, society and the world at large. Installations and ‘plant music’ performances include Kew Gardens, V&A’s The Fabric of India exhibition, BBC Throughout his career, Jason has been an in-deGreen Planet, Wild Isles mand beatboxer bringing his unique vocal talents to and Yorkshire Sculpture the stage with artists such as Nitin Sawhney, Yazz Park. Other commissions Ahmed, The Comet is Coming, Shabaka Hutchings, include, IF Milton Keynes, The Breath, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Talvin Singh, Chester Zoo, Rajasthan Cerys Matthews and Natacha Atlas. His own live International Folk Festival, performances with regular collaborators Giuliano Selfridges, WOMAD and Modarelli and Tamar Osborn will see a new project coming later in 2025.

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Growing up in ‘80s East London sound system and turntable culture, Jason’s DJ and live vocal set as Earth Moves Sound System encompasses his wide musical sound world which takes inspiration from UK sound systems and large scale immersive spatial audio systems. He is also an associate artist with d&b audiotechnik, working exclusively with their immersive Soundscape technology.

Featured in the ‘Top of the World’ chart and nominated for ‘Album of the the Year’ in Songlines Magazine 2023, his most recent album Travellers with The Banwasi Collective, features an ensemble of master instrumentalists and vocalists from the Manganiyar community of Rajasthan as well as UK jazz instrumentalists.

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A sound artist, nature beatboxer, producer, DJ, performer and facilitator, Jason Singh’s areas of work all stem from a multi-sensory approach to sound and music and at the very heart of it, active listening. Jason’s ongoing exploration of nature, interspecies interactions, voice, technology, and cross art form collaborations with musicians, wildlife experts, textiles, ceramicists, visual artists and choreographers feed into a wide range of multi-faceted projects in the UK and internationally. Work encompasses live performance, gallery installations, sound walks, podcasts, DJ sets, and music for film and theatre, with commissions from national museums and galleries, the BBC and major festivals.

Environmental Sustainability at Kings Place

Energy reductions since 2022 Electricity consumption down 21% Gas consumption down 59% Water consumption down 14%

Earth Unwrapped is about finding new ways to celebrate our planet and to understand the threats it faces. As a platform for artistic expression, our programme offers us a precious opportunity to catalyse meaningful change.

Below are some key But as a venue, we also have a responsibility facts and figures about to reduce our own impact on the environment.

our recent work, and our ambitions for the path forwards.

To reduce paper usage

We schedule digital screens to turn off every evening and our lights in the concert halls are on a timer.

We have switched to online forms and converted many of our printed materials to information on in-house digital screens.

Local event equipment hire

Our rooftop is fitted with bioecology enhancing features such as:

Future plans Solar panels

Plants

Bug hotel

Bird boxes

Changes made in our hospitality section: Biodegradable plastics in our Concert Bar.

Waterless urinals & energy-efficient hand dryers

Bamboo compostable plates and wooden cutlery.

Cans of water instead of plastic backstage.

Bat boxes

The paper used in this brochure has been carbon balanced by the World Land Trust.

We’re committed to reaching net zero in alignment with the Paris Agreement, which was signed by 196 countries in 2016 and represents the current global framework for fighting the climate crisis. To do this, one of our main priorities is to complete our transition to LED lighting in our auditoriums, meeting rooms, office and back of house areas, saving an estimated 21.6 tons of carbon each year. Beyond this, we want to commission a full audit of our supply chains so we can review where our work is most carbon-intensive, from artist and auOur journey to net zero will depend on the generous dience travel to equipment support of our funders and donors. If you’d like to production and logistics. find out more about helping us in this vital work, please visit kingsplace.co.uk/support-us

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Energy-efficient LED lighting system in public and performance spaces.

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by The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) which promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world’s forests.

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‘Green’ roof

More than 75% of all waste is recycled

To conserve energy

Sat 18 Jan | Hall One | 3pm

Terry Riley

Thu 16 Jan | Hall One | 7.30pm

Terry Riley’s Sun Rings with Sacconi Quartet & Festival Voices Earth Unwrapped Opening Concert

Vivaldi’s Four Seasons A Family Concert Adventure Classical | Words | Family

Classical | Contemporary

Vivaldi The Four Seasons

Terry Riley Sun Rings

Manchester Camerata Daniel Pioro violin

Sacconi Quartet Festival Voices Gregory Batsleer conductor

Classical | Words | Platoon Presents

Caroline Shaw The Evergreen Vivaldi The Four Seasons

£20 plus Concessions Tickets

Manchester Camerata Daniel Pioro violin For the first in the series of Platoon Presents at Kings Place, join us for the album launch of Vivaldi’s seminal The Four Seasons, in a never-heard-before interpretation by virtuoso violinist Daniel Pioro, Manchester Camerata and newly commissioned poetry written by Sir Michael Morpurgo and narrated by Stephen Fry. Preceding this, Caroline Shaw’s The Evergreen sets the scene, beautifully capturing the essence of an evergreen tree, standing tall and strong throughout the changing seasons. £20 – £50 plus Concessions Tickets

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17 Jan Olivia Chaney

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Platoon Presents...

Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with Daniel Pioro & Manchester Camerata & Stephen Fry

18 Jan

£22 plus Concessions Tickets

Sat 18 Jan | Hall One | 7pm

17 Jan

Olivia Chaney is the author of an unmistakable brand of sensuous music that explores the interplay between tradition and modernity, inherited trauma, and her deep love of nature. In addition to three acclaimed solo albums, Olivia has recorded Grammy-nominated collaborations with The Decemberists and Kronos Quartet. Ever-present in Olivia’s music is the quest for how to live peacefully alongside the Earth. Through new and old material – from ancient pastorale to urban iconoclasm – Chaney promises us a solo show of breathtaking intensity and intimacy.

Sound artist, nature beatboxer and composer Jason Singh performs his live soundtrack to John Grierson’s monumental 1929 silent documentary film Drifters, which tells the story of Britain’s North Sea herring fishery.

Originally commissioned by the British Film Institute, Jason’s critically acclaimed and unique solo score combines live vocal sound effects, beatboxing techniques and live sampling using d&b audiotechnik’s Soundscape system to create a thrilling and immersive cinematic experience.

Supported using public funding by Arts Council England

Manchester Camerata

Folk | Contemporary

Contemporary | Soundscape

Jason Singh

Olivia Chaney Modern Myths & Pastorales

Jason Singh Drifters (live AV show)

18 Jan

Fri 17 Jan | Hall One | 8pm

Suitable for children aged 4+ £15 children, £20 adults

Daniel Pioro

£22 – £60 plus Concessions Tickets

16 Jan

For the opening performance of Earth Unwrapped, join us on an otherworldly voyage with Terry Riley’s Sun Rings.

Celebrating Riley’s 90th birthday across 2025, we begin with this rarely performed work, utilising audio recordings of NASA’s Voyager I & II and questioning humanity’s place in the universe. Sacconi Quartet, renowned for their creativity and energetic approach, join forces with the ever-collaborative Festival Voices for this ten-movement suite that will take you on a journey from Earth, out to space, then back again with the final movement One Earth, One People, One Love.

Fri 17 Jan | Hall Two | 8pm

A musical nature adventure for all the family. Join virtuoso violinist Daniel Pioro and the ever-adventurous Manchester Camerata as they guide you through Vivaldi’s extraordinary The Four Seasons. Bring your raincoat, sunglasses, umbrella, woolly hat, and imagination for a whirlwind adventure through the sun, storm, rain and snow!

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A voice that seems to speak to us from the heart of the Estonian forest, Mari Kalkun’s music is at once of a place and deeply personal. Rooted in ancient Estonian and Võru traditions, and played on a variety of instruments including kannel, piano and dronegas, her music resonates deep within us to touch our spirits, our souls, even when the language is strange to us.

Orchestra & Choir of the Age of Enlightenment Steven Devine director Joanne Wheeler guest speaker Joanne Wheeler, director of the Earth Space Sustainability Initiative, talks about the urgent work of protecting the surprisingly limited space around our Earth for future generations, with music from Orchestra of The Age of Enlightenment in this Earth Unwrapped edition of Bach, the Universe and Everything.

£20 plus Concessions Tickets

£20 plus Concessions Tickets

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Mari Kalkun

across London. The community includes students from BA to PhD, associate lecturers to esteemed professors, support staff, technical specialists, alumni and friends.

Throughout Earth Unwrapped in 2025, neighbours Kings Place and Central Saint Martins will collaborate in the spirit of the Climate Emergency Network, creating opportunities for tomorrow’s artists to engage with urgent environmental themes through bold creative means.

Folk | Contemporary

Gibbons O Clap Your Hands JS Bach Meine Seufzer, meine Tränen (‘My sighs, my tears’), BWV 13

Sat 25 Jan | Hall One | 7.30pm

Crick Crack Club The Three Snake Leaves Words

Crick Crack Club

The Climate Emergency Network is a collective of students, staff and alumni of UAL committed to creative climate action. Members span UAL’s colleges, research centres, institutes and departments

See the Kings Place website for individual event details announced December 2024 @ual_climate

Mari Kalkun

Classical | Words

A father and daughter sit beside a fire in the snow; a bride is bricked up in a tower; marvels gleam in the half-light, and the mysterious snake leaves bring transformation. The dark and unexpected pasts of three dishevelled travellers lost in a forest are untangled in this subtle and beguiling fairytale for grownups. Seamlessly interweaving a dozen of Grimm’s lesser-known stories, storytellers Ben Haggarty, Hugh Lupton, and Sally Pomme Clayton, and musician Sheema Mukherjee, embark on an enchanted search for truth. £20 plus Concessions Tickets

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Central Saint Martins believes in connection, community and co-creation – beyond disciplines, beyond difference and beyond borders. From local neighbours to global partners, they collaborate with others to build knowledge and transform materials, systems and lives for the better.

‘Working with defiant hope amid uncertainty, students use their compassion & vision to re-make the world.’

Fri 24 Jan | Hall Two | 8pm

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Central Saint Martins is alive with different ways of thinking, making and doing.

Across art, design and performance, students are equipped to engage with urgent global challenges – from addressing the climate and biodiversity emergencies to forging more equitable societies.

Working with defiant hope amid uncertainty, students use their compassion and vision to re-make the world.

OAE: Bach, the Universe and Everything Sustainable Space

24 Jan

Central Saint Martins & Climate Emergency Network

Sun 19 Jan | Hall One | 11.30am

BBC Singers

Fri 31 Jan | Hall One | 8pm

31 Jan

Aurora Orchestra In Paradisum Classical | Contemporary

Kim Porter Your World Mahler (trans. Gottwald) ‘Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen’ (from Rückert Lieder) Britten (arr. Imogen Holst) Rejoice in the Lamb Fauré Requiem Aurora Orchestra BBC Singers Nicholas Collon conductor

Sat 1 Feb | Hall Two | 8pm

Laura Cannell The Rituals of Hildegard Reimagined Contemporary

£24 – £60 plus Concessions Tickets

The British composer, performer, and improviser presents her newest album, an offering of contemporary minimalism to 12th century polymath Hildegard von Bingen – considered by many to be the founder of scientific natural history in Germany. Performing on bass recorders, a 12-string knee harp, delay pedal and sparse layering, conjuring a bridge to connect the centuries. £20 plus Concessions Tickets

7 Feb

7 Feb

Hayden Thorpe

Hayden Thorpe and Robert Macfarlane Ness Contemporary | Words

The release of his third album, Ness, sees Hayden Thorpe (from Wild Beasts) collaborate with best-selling author Robert Macfarlane in adapting his 2019 novella of the same name. The ambition and sonic breadth of Ness comes as a poignant and cinematic response to cultural conversations around the environment. Macfarlane describes the music Thorpe has crafted from his words as ‘an incredible alchemy’. In keeping with Thorpe’s previous work, the music’s intention is singular and its execution refreshingly uncompromised. £26 plus Concessions Tickets

Sat 5 Apr Aurora Orchestra Song of the Earth Sat 4 Oct Aurora Orchestra In the Alps Sun 23, Sat 29 Nov, Sat 6 Dec Far, Far Away Mahler and the Mountain Adventure Sat 6 Dec Far, Far Away Mahler and the Mountain Adventure (for grown-ups)

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Robert Macfarlane

Fri 7 Feb | Hall One | 7pm

No musical series exploring the concept of the Earth would be complete without Gustav Mahler, a composer whose fascination with Nature verged on obsession. Throughout his musical output we trace euphoric delight in the beauty of the natural world, awe at its scale and unfathomable mysteries, and terror at its wildness and inhumanity. Since the earliest beginnings of its musical journey two decades ago, Mahler has held a special place in Aurora’s repertoire. As it marks its 20th season of music-making in 2025, our Resident Ensemble reimag- Other highlights include a jourines two of Mahler’s best- ney in the Alps in the company known symphonic works for of composer Richard Ayres, the intimate surroundings of a collaboration with the BBC Kings Place, presenting crys- Singers, appearances from talline chamber arrangements soloists Alice Coote, Andrew that reveal his orchestrations Staples and Mary Bevan, and a brand-new storytelling conin a new light. cert based around Mahler’s music (in versions for both children and grown-ups!).

Fri 31 Jan Aurora Orchestra & BBC Singers In Paradisum

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Aurora Orchestra welcomes the BBC Singers for a programme that lifts its eyes to the horizon and glimpses the divine from Earth. Each of the works featured in this collaborative concert takes comfort in the prospect of a world beyond, whether discerned in the beauty of nature, in the power of human imagination, or in paradise after death.

Aurora Orchestra

Ligeti Quartet plays Terry Riley Contemporary | Classical | Soundscape

Soumik Datta

Ligeti Quartet

Sat 8 Feb | Hall Two | 7pm

Sun 16 Mar | Hall Two | 5pm

Terry Riley Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band (arr. Richard Jones) Pauline Oliveros 70 Chords for Terry Terry Riley Cadenza on The Night Plain

Classical | Contemporary

Arvo Pärt Missa Syllabica Julia Wolfe new work (Kings Place commission) Nigel Osborne The Tree of Life (UK Premiere)

5 Apr

Aurora Orchestra Song of the Earth Classical

Lili Boulanger (arr. Farrington) D’un matin du printemps Jean-Féry Rebel Les Élémens Mahler (arr. Farrington) Das Lied von der Erde Aurora Orchestra Alice Coote mezzo-soprano Andrew Staples tenor Nicholas Collon conductor

See website for ticket details

Julia Wolfe

Described by Leonard Bernstein as ‘Mahler’s greatest symphony’, Das Lied von der Erde is an incomparable musical homage to the natural world, and humanity’s place within it, performed here with two of the greatest singers of our generation, Alice Coote and Andrew Staples.

But first, the calm before the storm: Lili Boulanger’s delightful promise of a glorious spring morning before unleashing an explosion of Baroque virtuosity with Jean Rebel’s 1738 depiction of Chaos and the creation.

Andrew Staples

£24 – £60 plus Concessions Tickets 5 Apr

28 Feb

Embodying ‘undivided devotion to the musical material’, the Grammy Award–winning vocal ensemble Theatre of Voices is a go-to collaborator for many of today’s most visionary composers. In this performance we’ll hear the UK-premiere of a Kings Place commission by the category-defying Julia Wolfe; a UK premiere by Nigel Osborne, inspired by his work in Lebanon with Syrian children in refugee camps as well as one of Arvo Pärt’s earliest examples of tintinnabuli, Missa Syllabica.

Sat 5 April | Hall One | 7.30pm Alice Coote

As spring gathers in full force across the land, join singer, writer, nature activist and Kings Place Artist in Residence Sam Lee as he explores the kinship between nature and humans in a special day of events. Delve into this deep-rooted relationship and the stories therein with pioneers in the arts and conservation movement. In partnership with EarthPercent, immerse yourself in a sonic sound bath in Hall Two with d&b audiotechnik’s Soundscape system, curated

by How to Speak Whale author Tom Mustill, witness the magic and reflect on the impermanence of life with the nightingale’s brief song in a special film by Emergence Magazine, hear Sam’s critically-acclaimed album Songdreaming in the elegant acoustics of Hall One, and more!

Supported using public funding by Arts Council England

Theatre of Voices Paul Hillier conductor Rihab Azar oud

£20 – £50 plus Concessions Tickets

£20 plus Concessions Tickets

Folk | Words | Family

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Theatre of Voices The Tree of Life

Sam Lee Meeting is a Pleasant Place

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Fri 28 Feb | Hall One | 7.30pm

Sat 15 Mar | Hall One, Hall Two & St Pancras | From 12pm

Winner of the Aga Khan Music Award, Soumik Datta reveals an immersive experience in partnership with Loss> <Gain led by long-term Sigur Rós manager John Best and veteran sound designer David Sheppard. Weaving sarod, personal stories of migration, spoken word volleys and cinematic textures in epic surround-sound, Borderlands bridges Indian music with pioneering spatial audio.

16 Mar

£22 plus Concessions Tickets

Contemporary | Soundscape 8 Feb

Ligeti Quartet celebrate minimalist master Terry Riley’s contribution to the string quartet canon with a performance of his seminal work, Cadenza on the Night Plain, and a premiere of a new arrangement of Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band (the B-side of Riley’s much-loved 1969 album A Rainbow in Curved Air). Alongside this, their interpretation of 70 Chords for Terry by one of Riley’s fellow travellers, Pauline Oliveros, whose approach to listening and improvisation revealed radical new ways of communal music-making. This concert will be presented in d&b audiotechnik’s Soundscape.

Soumik Datta Borderlands

Sat 5 April | Hall Two | 7pm

Sat 5 April | Hall Two | 8pm

Alice Boyd The Sounds of King’s Cross

Alice Boyd & Guests

Words | Soundscape

Immerse yourself in the vibrant soundscapes of King’s Cross’ urban green spaces. This sound installation weaves the natural ambience of the city with the voices of those who care for these cherished spaces. Discover a side of King’s Cross you’ve never heard before, where humans and the natural world meet in the heart of the city.

Folk | Contemporary | Soundscape

Singer-songwriter and sound artist Alice Boyd brings folkinspired harmonies, ambient electronics and field recordings to Hall Two, inviting us to ponder the intersection of human life and the landscapes we call home. In this performance, Alice and her ensemble share her latest music, including songs and sounds inspired by her trip to the Cairngorms retracing the steps of legendary nature writer Nan Shepherd. £17 plus Concessions Tickets

Eliza Carthy

Please see website for future installation dates. £10

For Earth Unwrapped, Alice has created a new soundscape installation, The Sounds of King’s Cross, which explores places of natural beauty throughout the area.

Folk | Contemporary | Folk Weekend

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.

See website for individual event details.

25-27 Apr

Alice Boyd is a musician, sound artist and audio producer based in south London. Her work blends voice, ambient electronic textures and novel field recording techniques to explore our interconnectedness Alice has developed a love for field recording, travelwith the natural world and ling the UK capturing the unique sounds of different reveal the hidden sounds locations, seasons and environments. She presents of our environments. Alice’s a monthly episode of Ffern’s podcast As the Seapractice includes music and son Turns, has hosted episodes of BBC Countryfile live performance, site-specific Magazine’s The Plodcast, and gave a TEDx talk on audio installations, radio docu- listening as a tool for change. In her latest project, mentaries, podcasts, and com- Shifting Soundscapes for BBC Radio 4, Alice repositions for film and theatre. traces the steps of legendary field recordist Martyn Stewart to document the changing sounds of our environments.

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

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Alice Boyd

Earth Unwrapped

Fri 25 – Sun 27 Apr | Hall One, Hall Two & St Pancras | Various times

Sat 10 May | Hall Two | 8pm

The Rheingans Sisters Folk | Contemporary | Soundscape

Produced by New York-based Adam Pietrykowski (whose genre-diverse work spans rock and contemporary classical), the visionary duo’s fifth album spans baroque fiddle tunes to heavy metal-inspired arrangements of folk ballads, with apocalyptic songs that contemplate the dystopian modern era in contrast to the natural world and its changing landscapes. This new live show is a sonic and aesthetic development of their live work so far, creating an even more immersive musical journey for their audience. £20 plus Concessions Tickets

EarthPercent

Jason Singh

17 May

Sun 18 May | Hall Two | all-day

Jason Singh Moon Scales Contemporary

Piatti Quartet Albion Refracted Classical | Words

Earth Unwrapped Artist in Residence Gazelle Twin presents the final London performance of her critically acclaimed album Black Dog – a dark and introspective album about confronting fear, and the expectation that the things that lurked in the darkness when you were a child will disappear as you become an adult.

Supported using public funding by Arts Council England

6 Jun

£25 plus Concessions Tickets

Fri 6 Jun | Hall One | 7.30pm

Peggy Seeger Final Farewell Tour

Piatti Quartet Alex Lawther narrator Sean Mullan visual artist

£20-30 plus Concessions Tickets

Folk

Peggy Seeger

The Piatti Quartet present a music and words programme taking a contemporary look at our relationship with nature and the English landscape.

Centred around the evocative poet Alice Oswald, and equally compelling composer Joseph Phibbs, this programme will guide you through woodland, waterfalls, the sea, the sky and lastly the moon and stars. The quartet is joined by The Imitation Game actor Alex Lawther.

22 May

Contemporary

Folk grande dame, lifelong ‘activist with an attitude’ and eco-feminist Peggy Seeger joins the Earth Unwrapped line up for her last ever live London concert, alongside both her sons Neill and Calum MacColl. Join us as we celebrate Peggy’s illustrious career, as together they present a final album of new songs written with family members, released ahead of the tour. £26 plus Concessions Tickets

EarthPercent are delighted to be partnering with Kings Place for their Earth Unwrapped programming in 2025.

Look out for Earth Fest at Kings Place in early June, with a panel curated by EarthPercent about sustainability in the music industry. See the Kings Place website for further details.

We’ve now had 200+ artists and 40+ companies in the music industry pledge their support, enabling us to power work by incredible organisations including Client Earth, The Ocean and Us, Youth Climate Justice Fund, Critical Frequency, Music Declares Emergency and many more. through pledging a percentage of live fees, of pubThe concept of EarthPer- lishing rights, of merchandise or of ticket sales. cent is to embed the Earth as a stakeholder in the music We also use our annual campaigns to harness the industry. So we’ve created power of music in service of the planet. This has systems allowing anyone in included selling compilation records on pioneering music to give back a percent- plant-based Evovinyl, and partnering with Museum age to the Earth, for example, for the United Nations – UN Live and Spotify on Sounds Right, launching NATURE as a featured artist for the first time in 2024.

To find out more about what we do and to get involved, head to our website at earthpercent.org.”

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Programme to include: Joseph Phibbs String Quartet No. 1 Imogen Holst Phantasy for String Quartet Turnage Winter’s Edge III Thomas Adès Arcadiana Op. 12 V. L’embarquement Britten String Quartet No. 1 Interspersed with readings of Alice Oswald, Susanna Harding, Seamas Heaney, Christopher Meredith

Gazelle Twin Black Dog

“Co-founded by Brian Eno, we are the music industry’s climate foundation, working with artists, live events and industry organisations to support some of the most impactful climate action around the world. Our Expert Advisory Panel made up of leading scientists, researchers and activists helps us identify and fund projects and organisations in 5 key action areas: Greening Music, Just Energy Transition, Protecting and Restoring Nature, Legal and Policy Change, and Climate Justice.

Earth Unwrapped

Thu 22 May | Hall One | 8pm

Fri 30 May | Hall One | 7.30pm

Piatti Quartet

£12 plus Concessions Tickets

18 May

Jason Singh presents an immersive large-scale multichannel sound installation, consisting of eight spatialised soundscapes set around a suspended replica of the moon. Representing the eight lunar cycles of the moon, each soundscape has been created using bio data from a ring of ash trees, field recordings of wildlife, aquatic environments, vocal textures, analogue and digital effects. The immersive deep-listening experience aims to share a holistic awareness of the climate crisis through compositions derived from living organisms, and to explore the life cycles of human movement.

Supported using public funding by Arts Council England

14 – 15 Jun

Valgeir Sigurðsson x Daniel Pioro Installation Tendrils Classical | Contemporary

Composer and producer Valgeir Sigurðsson is known for his immersive sound world, often blurring the lines between contemporary classical writing and electronic production. This sonic art installation, commissioned by Kings Place and featuring throughout the weekend, is a sanctuary from the world outside.

It puts the listener deep within the earth and tells the sonic tale of growing things, of slowed down time, and hidden mysteries. £9 plus Concessions Tickets

Sat 14 Jun | Kings Place Foyers & Hall One

In a Large, Open Space Music and Sculpture

Earth Unwrapped

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 See website listen to the world around us in a communal act of for individual event details. renewal and repair.

Sat 14 – Sun 15 Jun | Hall Two

Valgeir Sigurðsson

Daniel Pioro Time Unravelling Sound Unfolding

Classical | Contemporary

James Tenney In a Large, Open Space

In a Large, Open Space by James Tenney has become a classic of modern music where the composer does not focus on himself as a composer or the ensemble as performers, but on the listeners alone.

In this spatial performance, throughout the foyers of Kings Place, audiences are invited to be absorbed in this active sound piece, to walk amongst the music and Pangolin London’s group exhibition of artists inspired by Earth. At the end of the spatial performance, the performers will lead the audience to Hall One for a short performance. £25 plus Concessions Tickets

Sun 15 Jun | Hall Two | 11am

Deep Listening Classical | Contemporary

Daniel Pioro violin Deep Listening, as developed by Pauline Oliveros, explores the difference between the involuntary nature of hearing and the conscious nature of listening. In this collaborative performer/audience session, join violinist Daniel Pioro for a sonic meditation to begin the second day of our weekend festival. £18 plus Concessions Tickets

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Daniel Pioro violin Manchester Camerata

20 Sep

Thu 30 Oct | Hall Two | 8.30pm

Gazelle Twin

Sat 20 Sep | Camley Street Natural Park & Hall One | from 2pm

Contemporary | Luminate

Sam Lee The Great Harvest Feast

The adventurous producer/composer Gazelle Twin concludes her residency with a brand new live AV show using d&b audiotechnik’s Soundscape system in Hall Two, especially created for Kings Place’s Earth Unwrapped programme.

See website for further details.

Supported using public funding by Arts Council England

Folk | Contemporary

£20 plus Concessions Tickets

7 Nov

Sam Lee

Artist in Residence Sam Lee presents a Great Harvest Feast! In partnership with Camley Street Natural Park, we invite audiences to join Sam and the Kings Place team as we celebrate the traditions of harvest time. Sourcing local organic foods, we’ll celebrate the importance of seasonal growing, accompanied by a twist on traditional wassailing. To end, Sam will present a musical feast on the Kings Place stage, welcoming in the harvest season through song.

Supported using public funding by Arts Council England See website for ticket details

Classical

Richard Ayres No. 42—In the Alps Mahler (arr. Farrington) Symphony No. 4

19 Oct

£20 plus Concessions Tickets

Jason Singh Quartet Contemporary | Luminate

Jason Singh concludes his Earth Unwrapped artist residency with a new audiovisual project that tells the story of the extraordinary polymath Jagadish Bose whose work as a physicist, biophysicist, biologist and botanist changed the world through inventions we now take for granted and make up the very systems through which we work and live. Featuring Tamar Osborn, Giuliano Modarelli, Shri Shriram, and Ranjana Ghatak.

Supported using public funding by Arts Council England £20 plus Concessions Tickets

Part of November’s EFG London Jazz Festival | Hall One

Terje Isungset Ice Quartet Contemporary | Jazz | EFG London Jazz Festival

The Norwegian drummer returns to Kings Place with his exquisite new quartet featuring voice, ice harp, ice horn, iceophone, ice percussion and ice bass.

A tribute to nature, this concert is based on music from his albums Winter Songs and Beauty of Winter, alongside brand new material. The instruments are made during Isungset’s annual Ice Music Festival in Norway, carved and crafted using only natural frozen ice from the lakes.

See website for ticket details

Nov

Jason Singh

Sun 19 Oct | Hall One | 7pm

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£24 – £60 plus Concessions Tickets

Juliet Fraser soprano The House of Bedlam

Terje Isungset

Welcome to the Alps! Join Aurora and soprano Mary Bevan on a mountain journey in the third concert of Aurora’s year-long exploration of Mahler’s music. Richard Ayres offers a different perspective on mountain life with his extraordinary No. 42 – In the Alps: an ‘animated concert’ which combines a virtuosic and ravishing score with elements of theatre and projected film.

And where else could this journey continue but Mahler’s Fourth Symphony? Aurora performs Iain Farrington’s arrangement for chamber orchestra, which retains the character of Mahler’s original symphony and draws out the composer’s soloistic instrumental lines for a more intimate presentation.

Larry Goves Crow Rotations Pauline Oliveros To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of Their Desperation

Enhanced by the use of d&b audiotechnik’s Soundscape system and performed in-the-round, The House of Bedlam present two contrasting works by British Composer Larry Goves and American Electronic pioneer, Pauline Oliveros. Crow Rotations, an Ivor Novello 2023 nominated work, is the fruit of long-term collaborators Larry Goves and Matthew Welton, exploring the movements of crows through their connection with air, the earth and people.

Alongside this work, we hear Pauline Oliveros’ To Valerie Solanas And Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of Their Desperation, written in the aftershock of the political upheavals of 1968.

4 Oct

Aurora Orchestra Mary Bevan soprano Nicholas Collon conductor

Classical | Contemporary | Soundscape

Earth Unwrapped

Aurora Orchestra In the Alps

The House of Bedlam To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe Pauline Oliveros

Mary Bevan

Sat 4 Oct | Hall One | 7.30pm

Fri 7 Nov | Hall Two | 7pm

Fri 5 Dec | Hall One | 7pm

VOCES8

Erland Cooper The Peregrine (World Premiere)

19 Nov

Contemporary | Classical

Erland Cooper presents the world premiere of his new work The Peregrine for small ensemble, inspired by J.A Baker’s seminal 1967 book of the same name. The evening will also include a special performance of Cooper’s Do Birds Dream? played in darkness, for an all-encompassing sensory experience.

Classical | Contemporary

Christopher Tin The Lost Birds Carducci Quartet VOCES8 Christopher Glynn piano Voces8

Aurora Orchestra Mahler and the Mountain Adventure (for grown-ups) Classical

£20 plus Concessions Tickets

29 Nov

Join Solem Quartet for an evening of music which asks us to contemplate, or perhaps mourn Earth’s current condition, whilst reminding us of its natural aural beauty.

Works by Hildegard von Bingen and John Metcalf focus on the relationship between humankind and the planet, whilst Cassandra Miller’s Warblework and Meredith Monk’s Stringsongs punctuate the programme with sounds of nature. The sparseness of Nick Martin’s Queer Tears only enhances its expressive sadness, while Max Richter’s On the Nature of Daylight offers solace in its rarified beauty.

More events to be confirmed.

Children £10, adults £12 + £39 family ticket offer Solem Quartet

Hildegard von Bingen (arr. Newell) O quam mirabilis est Cassandra Miller Warblework John Metcalf String Quartet, Towards Silence Nick Martin Queer Tears Meredith Monk Stringsongs Max Richter On the Nature of Daylight

29Nov

Classical | Contemporary

See website for ticket details

Solem Quartet

23,23 29Nov Nov, 6 Dec Aurora Orchestra Far, Far Away

Solem Quartet Towards Silence

Climb every mountain! Join Aurora on its latest Far, Far Away adventure for families.

Paddle in the stream, explore echoes across the valley and meet some friends along the way in Aurora’s latest adventure in the Far, Far Away Early Years series. Featuring the music of Gustav and Alma Mahler in new chamber arrangements by Iain Farrington, and a brand-new story from Aurora’s writer in residence Kate Wakeling, expect to move, sing and join in with the storytelling.

Suitable for 0–5-year-olds.

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Nicolas Altstaedt and Carice Singers An Ode to Our Planet Classical | Contemporary

Programme includes: JS Bach Cello Suite No.5 Galina Grigorjeva Molitva Josephine Stephenson new work Raquel García-Tomás new work Nicolas Altstaedt cello Carice Singers George Parris conductor The climate crisis we are living through demands that we think differently about our place in the world, understand the effect we have on our environment and that it has on us, and recognise our historical context both in terms of what has come before us and what the future is likely to hold. Join the captivating Carice Singers alongside award-winning cellist, Nicolas Altstaedt for an evening of old and new music that questions our relationship with an increasingly threatened environment.

Josephine Stephenson’s work has been commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society, through the generous support of an anonymous donor.

Raquel Garcia-Tomas’s work has been commissioned by Palau de la Musica and the Royal Philharmonic Society, through the generous support of an anonymous donor. £20 – £50 plus Concessions Tickets

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Climb every mountain! Join Aurora for a grown-up evening out in a special late-night adaptation of its new Far, Far Away show. Featuring new arrangements of Gustav and Alma Mahler’s music, expect to move and sing, join in with the storytelling and possibly even help Aurora tidy up.

Sat 13 Dec | Hall One | 7pm

Earth Unwrapped

Aurora Orchestra: Far, Far Away Mahler and the Mountain Adventure

13 Dec

Sat 6 Dec | Hall Two | 9pm

Sun 23, Sat 29 Nov, Sat 6 Dec | Hall Two 10am, 11am, 12.45pm and 1.45pm

Classical | Family

Sat 29 Nov | Hall Two | 7pm

5 Dec

£20 – £50 plus Concessions Tickets

£26 plus Concessions Tickets

19 Nov

Join VOCES8 and friends for an evening paying tribute to bird species driven to extinction by humankind.

The Lost Birds is a musical memorial. Sweeping and elegiac, it’s a haunting tribute to those soaring flocks that once filled our skies, but whose songs have since been silenced. It’s a celebration of their feathered beauty: their symbolism as messengers of hope, peace, and renewal. But it’s also a warning about our own tenuous existence on the planet: that the fate that befell these once soaring flocks foreshadows our own extinction.

Erland Cooper

VOCES8 & Carducci Quartet The Lost Birds

Josephine Stephenson

Wed 19 Nov | Hall One | 8pm

Cast List

Cast List Earth Unwrapped Artists

Thomas Adès Richard Ayres Johann Sebastian Bach Lili Boulanger Alice Boyd Benjamin Britten Laura Cannell Eliza Carthy Olivia Chaney Erland Cooper Soumik Datta Iain Farrington Gabriel Fauré Edmund Finnis Raquel García-Tomás Galina Grigorjeva Gazelle Twin Orlando Gibbons Larry Goves Rob Harbron Imogen Holst Terje Isungset Richard Jones Mari Kalkun Sam Lee Robert Macfarlane Gustav Mahler Alma Mahler Nick Martin John Metcalf Cassandra Miller

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Earth Unwrapped Composers

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Nicolas Altstaedt Aurora Orchestra Rihab Azar Gregory Batsleer BBC Singers Mary Bevan Alice Boyd Laura Cannell Carducci Quartet Carice Singers Eliza Carthy Central Saint Martins Olivia Chaney Nicholas Collon Erland Cooper Alice Coote Crick Crack Club Soumik Datta Steven Devine Earth Fest Earth Percent Festival Voices Juliet Fraser Gazelle Twin Christopher Glynn Rob Harbron

Paul Hillier House of Bedlam Terje Isungset Mari Kalkun Alex Lawther Sam Lee Ligeti Quartet Calum MacColl Neill MacColl Robert Macfarlane Manchester Camerata Sean Mullan Tom Mustill Orchestra & Choir of the Age of Enlightenment Piatti Quartet George Parris Daniel Pioro Miranda Rutter Sacconi Quartet Peggy Seeger Martin Simpson Jason Singh Solem Quartet Andrew Staples The Rheingans Sisters The Wilderness Yet Theatre of Voices Hayden Thorpe Voces8 Kate Wakeling Joanne Wheeler Chris Wood

Meredith Monk Pauline Oliveros Nigel Osborne Arvo Pärt Joseph Phibbs Kim Porter Jean-Féry Rebel Max Richter Terry Riley Miranda Rutter Caroline Shaw Peggy Seeger Valgeir Sigurðsson Martin Simpson Jason Singh Josephine Stephenson James Tenney The Rheingans Sisters The Wilderness Yet Hayden Thorpe Christopher Tin Mark-Anthony Turnage Antonio Vivaldi Hildegard von Bingen Julia Wolfe Chris Wood The Earth

Kings Place is an adventurous music and arts venue with a vibrant community spirit. Throughout the year, a dedicated programme team curates a series of festivals and events for a diverse range of audiences.

Festivals & Series

Soundbites with Piatti Quartet

October – March

Alan Bearman Music presents a weekend of folk events showcasing the very finest traditional musicians.

May

Songlines Encounters Festival

Bach, The Universe and Everything This Sunday morning concert series explores the cantatas of JS Bach, presenting a talk from a guest scientist, writer or broadcaster alongside choral and instrumental music.

November

The capital’s biggest pan-city music festival is the highlight of the jazz calendar in the UK, with a long history of programming a wide variety of talent from around the world.

Throughout the year

London Podcast Festival

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Our annual flagship event, the London Podcast Festival, celebrates the art of podcasting with some of the world’s greatest podcast makers and presenters.

Our award-winning, year-long series that celebrates topical subjects through music and spoken word.

Future Folk Showcasing emerging artists creating and reshaping music inspired by folk traditions in new, progressive ways.

September – December

OneTrackMinds A cross between Desert Island Discs, TED Talks and The Moth, that sees a selection of storytellers share one song that changed them forever.

October

London Piano Festival Three inspiring days of classical and jazz piano brought to you by Festival Directors and pianists Katya Apekisheva and Charles Owen.

Soundbites | Piatti Quartet

EFG London Jazz Festival

September

September – February

Luminate with Theon Cross

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Celebrating the vibrancy of traditional and contemporary music from across the world, presented in partnership with one of the world’s leading global music magazines, Songlines.

Unwrapped | Jasdeep Singh Degun

October – March

London‘s longest running book festival presented by the Jewish Literary Foundation.

Folk Weekend

The Guilty Feminist London Podcast Festival

A platform for adventurous artists and audiences, Luminate presents boundary-breaking performances.

Book Week

April

Songlines Encounters Festival | Ialoni

Luminate

Sixty-minute transportive music experiences in collaboration with the Kings Place resident string quartet, Piatti.

March

Folk Weekend | Kathryn Tickell

October

Bach, The Universe and Everything

The Guilty Feminist Join comedian Deborah Frances-White for her comedy podcast, recorded in front of a live audience.

Rock ‘n’ Roll Politics Steve Richards presents the latest behind-thescenes guide to the epic dramas and characters shaping seismic events in the political world.

Soundscape at Kings Place

EFG London Jazz Festival | China Moses

A deep dive into the innovation of sound art and music through spatialised listening experiences.

Kings Place in creative partnership with d&b audiotechnik.

Find out more and book tickets at kingsplace.co.uk Soundscape

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PRE-CONCERT DINING For those who’d like to dine before the concert, you can now book a Pre-Concert Meal in Rotunda at the point of booking your concert tickets. Pre-Concert Meal bookings are offered at a discounted price exclusively to Kings Place classical concert-goers.

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Booking

The Venues

Tickets for all performances are available to purchase on the Kings Place website. A transaction fee of 12.5% will be applied to online and telephone ticket bookings, up to a maximum charge of £6.

Hall One

A £1 Building Levy is applied to each booking, the proceeds of which go towards maintaining and improving our performance spaces and facilities.

Fees do not apply to bookings made in person at the Box Office.

Friends of Kings Place are exempt from booking fees.

Under 30s Tickets A limited number of Under 30s discounted tickets are available for selected events. For more information, please visit our website or call the Box Office.

Returns policy Tickets cannot be refunded or exchanged, except where a performance is cancelled or postponed. If a performance is sold out, tickets can be put up for resale through the Box Office. In the event of a successful resale, you will receive a gift voucher to the value of your tickets, which can be used against any ticket purchase within the next two years.

Online Secure 24-hour online booking at kingsplace.co.uk Box Office

Located on Lewis Cubitt Square, a 5 minute walk from Kings Place.

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The Box Office is open (in person and via telephone) between 1.30pm and 5pm, Monday to Friday.

Additionally, on days when there is a ticketed event taking place, it will open two hours prior to the first performance. You can also get in touch with specific queries via email: info@kingsplace.co.uk

All seating is general admission.

Some events may be fully seated, some may have a combination of seating and standing, and some are standing only.

Access We aim to make your visit to Kings Place as comfortable as possible.

Kings Place is fully accessible for wheelchair-users, with lifts from ground floor to concert level, and multiple wheelchair-accessible toilets. Seating for standing only events can be reserved for customers with access requirements. An infrared system is available in both Hall One and Hall Two. All areas are accessible to those with Assistance Dogs.

We recommend joining the Kings Place Access Scheme, which will enable you to book access tickets online and will ensure our team can offer you the best possible experience when you visit Kings Place. If you are not signed up to our Access Scheme, please notify the Box Office team of your access requirements by emailing info@ kingsplace.co.uk or by calling 020 7520 1440 during opening hours.

The full Access Guide can be found on the website.

Arriving late We will endeavour to seat latecomers at a suitable break in the performance, according to the artists’ instructions. However, this may not always be possible and in some instances, latecomers may not be admitted. Tickets for latecomers are non-refundable.

Taking pictures You are welcome to take photos at the end of events for social media, provided this doesn’t interfere with anyone’s enjoyment of the performance. However, there may be occasions when the artist has requested no photography,

Food & Drink Policy Please note that food is not permitted inside our venues. Please ensure that all drinks are decanted into the cups provided prior to entering our venues. Red wine is not permitted inside Hall One.

Food & Drink Situated on the ground floor, Rotunda is a waterside bar and restaurant overlooking Regent’s Canal, making it the perfect place for pre-concert drinks and dining. Serving quality produce from independent suppliers, it offers a range of dining options including a full à la carte menu, pre-performance menu, light post-performance supper, and a selection of smaller nibbles and bar food. Find out more at rotundabarandrestaurant.co.uk or call 020 7014 2840.

Pre-Concert Dining You can now book a Pre-Concert Meal in Rotunda for selected concerts. This discounted price is available exclusively to Kings Place concert-goers and is available at the point of booking your concert tickets.

Concert Bar Open for most events, the Concert Bar is situated adjacent to the concert halls. Place your interval order at the bar prior to the start of the performance to avoid queuing during the interval. If the bar is closed, drinks can be purchased from Rotunda Bar.

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Hall One is a seated venue with state-of-the-art fresh air ventilation for your comfort. The majority of events in Hall One have allocated seats but some events will be general admission.

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Kings Place is situated just a few minutes walk from King’s Cross and St Pancras stations, one of the most connected locations in London and now the biggest transport hub in Europe.

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Bike Santander Cycle docking stations are located on Goods Way and on the corner of Crinan Street and York Way. For updates and cycling routes, please visit tfl.gov. uk/cycling.

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