Voices Unwrapped 2022 by Kings Place

The power of singing

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Wembley, July 2021. England v Denmark. The crowd erupts in ‘Sweet Caroline’. What better example of the power of singing? At that moment of communal joy, nothing else would do. Only singing can express the biggest emotions. And no force on earth can hold the instinct down. Italian balcony singers at the height of the pandemic knew it. The people of the Baltics knew it when they embarked on the Singing Revolution of 1989. Of course, this was no ordinary time. Not in my worst nightmares could I imagine that singing would ever be banned, but it happened in 2020-21. Despite research which proved that singing was no more dangerous than stage speech or laughter in transmitting COVID-19, groups were not permitted to sing indoors – for too long. Amateur and school choirs did their damnedest to keep going, and online singing sprang up. But others simply stopped. Zoom couldn’t give them the sensory, intellectual and emotional workout that singing together delivers. In May 2021, after five months of silence, Hall One’s walls resonated once again to the sound of human voices. It was immediately obvious what we needed to do in 2022: welcome singers back into the space. Voices Unwrapped will be a celebration of the power of singing – from gospel to to yoiking, Renaissance masterworks, folk song to Baroque passions, a cappella to performance poetry, from elite to community choirs, from exceptional vocal instruments to those struggling to find a voice. The only instrument that every individual in every culture can freely access, the human voice is the medium through which a community expresses its identity in song. Be they the London African Gospel Choir, the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, the London Gay Men’s Chorus or the all-female Black Voices, all embody identity through the compelling medium of sung music. Voices Unwrapped will

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explore a richly diverse vocal repertoire and provide opportunities for you, our audience, to participate. Music begins with Hildegard of Bingen, and stretches up to world premieres by John Luther Adams, Angharad Davies, Joanna Marsh, Naomi Pinnock and Shruti Rajasekar. Joining us as Artists-in-Focus for Voices Unwrapped are baritone Roderick Williams and folk singer Julie Fowlis. Julie is a passionate advocate for Gaelic language and culture, a charismatic catalyst for bringing Celtic musicians together. Roderick is a muchloved artist with a gift for collaborating with non-professional musicians. He expresses the goals of Voices Unwrapped so well when he says: “I love the idea of voices being unwrapped; the idea that any barriers that hamper a person’s ability to express themselves through singing, can be peeled away until the essentials of selfexpression are left, available to anyone, from any walk for life.” That ability to express themselves is denied those without a voice. We are honoured to welcome Hannah Conway and her Sound Voice project, a visionary endeavour bringing singers together with those who have suffered voice loss to explore the deeper meaning of voice. I would like to thank all our partners, curators, artists and ensembles and the exceptional Kings Place programming team for their energy and enthusiasm in putting together this series. We look forward to welcoming you all. In the words of Siegfried Sassoon, the singing will never be done.

HELEN WALLACE EXECUTIVE & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

How much of you is in your voice?

Hannah Conway, composer and artistic director of Sound Voice, considers voice as an inextricable part of all our identities, and how we navigate its loss. Hannah Conway

When one of my closest family members lost his voice due to a stroke and terminal cancer, it was devastating – shattering for us to lose that precious connection. Over the following years after we lost him, I realised that as a composer, writing opera and working with singers throughout my career, I’d never really deeply thought about the value and fragility of our voices. I’d taken everything for granted. I’d never truly appreciated why it is that we need our own, unique sounding voice and what happens when that ability to express ourselves, to ‘sound’ like oneself, disappears. What are we left with? How can we continue to be ourselves amongst the people we love? These questions motivated me to draw together a team of unlikely collaborators. I wanted to gather those with experience of voice loss and their families, artists and professionals with an expert connection to voice and discover the meaning of ‘voice’ and how the concept of voice intersects with identity. People from healthcare, technology, biomedical research and neuroscience were connected with those affected by Parkinson’s, motor neurone disease and throat cancer. Together with the brilliant writer Hazel Gould, we led them through an intense artistic process of exploration; singing, writing, exchanging stories, research and experiences. Singing was new for most, and for many a terrifying prospect, so an equal, non-hierarchical space was established quickly. Mutual respect between people who would

How much of you is in your voice?

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never normally meet in the same room grew, and the teams became closely knit. We laughed, we cried and we discovered so much about what it is to be human and to have a voice. The installations we present at Kings Place in January 2022 emerged from three of the six works we wrote, collating the stories and experiences of all. They focus on two individuals, Tanja and Paul, and a third piece,

‘The pieces are raw and personal; an intimate portrait of what it is to have a voice and to lose it.’

I Left My Voice Behind, written for Shout At Cancer, a choir of performers all of whom have had their voice box removed. Tanja and Paul perform their works with soprano Lucy Crowe and baritone Roderick Williams respectively. In May 2022 we will present all six works on the concert platform. The pieces are raw and personal; an intimate portrait of what it is to have a voice and to lose it. However, these works are a pure celebration of voice and the importance of treasuring voice, and the role these sonic fingerprints play in our lives. Ultimately, we’ve created main stage pieces of contemporary opera which, at their heart, portray voices in all their frailty and beauty.

The works are emotionally demanding. The audience is fully immersed in surround-sound, audiovisual experiences. I wanted to platform voices that are never heard in the concert hall or opera house, proving that they have weight, value and immeasurable meaning within this art genre. People often think that if you include nonprofessional voices in classical music – it means it’s a community project, with lesser musical status; that it is in some way inferior in quality.

in motion. Sound Voice is now a fully-fledged company, using the arts as a catalyst for crosssector exchange across the healthcare, science, education and technology industries. I hope, most importantly, that we’ve created works that invite audiences to think about the value of their own voices, and offer a small insight into the lives and stories of people who have lost theirs.

‘I wanted to platform voices that are never heard in the concert hall’

I believe that these works have immense power because of the rich combination of performers, harnessing their dramatic conviction, driven by the musical quality and unique colour combination of both operatic and changed, sometimes deteriorated, voices which are able to communicate everything, every nuance. By creating these pieces with a team of people across multiple sectors, I've seen real impact and innovation take place: profound changes in thinking, transformed professional practice and groundbreaking new research directions, all set

Thu 13, Fri 14 & Sat 15 Jan | Hall Two

Sound Voice Installation contemporary | classical £8.50 – various start times (check the website)

Powerful stories of voice loss are brought together in this unique performance installation from video designer Luke Halls, sound designer David Sheppard, composer Hannah Conway and writer Hazel Gould. The result is a gripping, surround-sound, AV setting of three works from the Sound Voice Project; Tanja, Paul, and I Left My Voice Behind, each work describing a deeply personal and distinct experience. By turns uplifting and heart-rending, this is a celebration of the beauty and value of the human voice.

sustain and uplift. Choose your own prescription, from ‘Hope and Healing’, ‘Courage and Comfort’ or ‘Rest and Renewal’. You will have the chance to send your chosen programme and any other bespoke element to the artists after booking.

Sat 15 Jan | Hall One 2pm, 3pm, 4pm, 5pm, 6pm, 7pm, 8pm

Fri 21 Jan | Hall One 8pm

Song Surgeries Bibi Heal & Stephen Barlow

Anna B Savage co-presented by Bird on the Wire

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£60 Single group ticket for up to 6 people Use the ‘Select Another Event’ drop-down button when booking to select a different time slot.

£13.50; £8.50 Under-30s

Take a group of friends and family onto the beautiful stage of Hall One and enjoy an intimate concert curated just for you. Soprano Bibi Heal and pianist Stephen Barlow will perform a programme of songs to nourish,

Anna B Savage (21 Jan)

Following her highly-praised 2015 EP, Anna B Savage’s debut full-length, A Common Turn (2021, City Slang) came out to critical acclaim. Savage’s music is deeply vulnerable, without being submissive. There’s an intoxicating catharsis woven through the album and the stories she tells are of taking up space, finding connections, and

owning the power in not knowing all the answers. Hers are songs for anyone who thinks hard, feels deeply, and asks big questions. Sat 22 Jan | Hall One 7pm

The Swingles with special guests, Vadé contemporary £19.50 – £44.50; £8.50 Under-30s

The Swingles celebrate the power of song to unite communities, joining forces with Vadé, rising stars of the UK vocal scene and winners of Sky One’s Sing: Ultimate A Cappella. Alongside brand-new original music, the programme includes songs from around the globe, from soothing lullabies to dangerous dances, and interpretations of beloved songs exploring themes of togetherness and renewal.

Thu 13 – Sat 15 Jan Sound Voice Installations

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Fri 27 May Sound Voice Concert

How much of you is in your voice?

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The Swingles (22 Jan)

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Flynn is a singer and multiinstrumentalist whose work centres around Irish traditional and folk material. A founding member of the band, Skipper’s Alley, with whom he has toured extensively, he released his debut album, I Would Not Live Always in Spring (2021), to critical acclaim. ‘Human experience burns ferociously on this extraordinary debut’ The Guardian Fri 4 Feb | Hall One 8.30pm

Arooj Aftab contemporary £20; £8.50 Under-30s

Arooj Aftab (4 Feb)

Sat 22 Jan | Hall Two 8pm

Laura Groves + Fran Lobo + Blood Moon Project Amorphous Sounds – Concert I

Listed by NPR as one of the Top 100 Young Composers of today, Pakistani singer Arooj Aftab carries in her music a seasoned tranquillity that inspires calm in whoever listens. The Brooklyn-based composer, as Pitchfork describes, ‘draws from jazz, Hindustani classical, and folk to create a heartbreaking, exquisite document of the journey from grief to acceptance.’

Commissioned by super-group Theatre of Voices, Kings Place and Carnegie Hall, John Luther Adams’s new work represents a procession through the geologic layers of the Grand Canyon, spanning 1.7 billion years. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Little Match Girl Passion, with spare poignancy, David Lang sets Andersen’s famous story as a Bach passion, interspersing the original narrative with mesmerising choral and character responses. Wed 23 Feb | Hall One 8pm

Florist Emily Alone contemporary £15; £8.50 Under-30s

A rare performance from LA-based indie singer-songwriter and ambient artist Emily A Sprague under her Florist moniker. She performs her third album, Emily Alone, a fragile, arresting record that exudes beauty in its simplicity – a true standout of 2019. Presented in association with Rockfeedback.

Berio ‘Aldo’ – (No. 34 from Duets for two violins) Purcell (arr. Roderick Williams) Three Songs arr. for quartet Judith Weir Good Morning, Midnight Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 for string sextet Mahler (arr. Iain Farrington) Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Roderick Williams baritone Aurora Orchestra Nicholas Collon conductor Aurora Orchestra welcomes Voices Unwrapped Artist-in-Focus Roderick Williams for a special concert of journeys: from darkness to light, joy to sorrow, and regret to redemption. Cocurated with Williams, the programme builds gradually from a single solo voice on stage up to the mixed ensemble used by Iain Farrington for his virtuosic chamber arrangement of Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer. Highlights include Judith Weir’s meditation on night-time, Schoenberg’s masterly Transfigured Night, and Williams’ own arrangements of Purcell songs.

Auclair (4 Mar)

Fri 4 Mar | Hall Two 8pm

Auclair + Miryam Solomon + Evadney Amorphous Sounds – Concert II contemporary

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£14.50 seated; £12.50 standing

London-based independent label

Amorphous Sounds presents a second triple bill (see also 22 Jan), featuring British-Rwandan music and sound artist Auclair whose work explores rhythm, voice and electronica; Miryam Solomon, London-based artist by way of Sweden and Eritrea, whose music combines rhythms, vocal interplay and storytelling; and Evadney, whose unique vocals lead cinematic pieces of work that explore sexuality, identity the artist’s intersectionality. Tue 8 Mar | Hall One 8pm

Sat 12 Feb | Hall One 7.30pm

Fri 25 Feb | Hall One 7.30pm

Theatre of Voices Deep Time

Fieri Consort The Excellence of Women: Casulana & Strozzi

£14.50 seated; £12.50 standing

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Aurora Orchestra & Roderick Williams Songs of a Wayfarer

London-based independent label Amorphous Sounds presents a triple bill, featuring South London-based artist and producer Laura Groves; vocalist, producer and composer Fran Lobo from North East London via India; and Blood Moon Project, an experimental trio between Tanya Auclair, Heloise Tunstall-Behrens & Luisa Gerstein, with an emphasis on polyphonic vocal traditions.

£19.50 – £39.50; £8.50 Under-30s

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David Lang The Little Match Girl Passion Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen Song John Luther Adams A Brief Descent into Deep Time (World Premiere)

£19.50 – £69.50; £8.50 Under-30s

£18.50; £8.50 Under-30s

Brian Elias Meet me in the Green Glen Vaughan Williams ‘The Woodcutter’s Song’ from Pilgrim’s Progress

After 400 years, Fieri Consort reveal the newly-discovered madrigals of Maddalena Casulana (1544–90) alongside works by another great Italian composer, Barbara Strozzi (1619–77). In one of the most important discoveries of recent years, the lost Alto partbook of Casulana’s 1583 First Book of five-voice madrigals has been found. Living at a time in which women’s creativity was often stifled, Casulana and Strozzi were only too aware their music would be judged inferior to men’s. To mark International Women’s Day, this concert presents Casulana’s madrigals as a fresh perspective on Strozzi’s works, celebrating both composers’ skill with words and music.

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Fri 28 Jan | Hall Two 8pm

John Francis Flynn co-presented by Bird on the Wire contemporary | folk £14.50 seated; £12.50 standing

John Francis Flynn (28 Jan)

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Roderick Williams (25 Feb)

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adding new works to the canon. Plus a chance to join in song and learn some of the group’s arrangements.

Fri 11 Mar | Hall One 7.30pm

Black Voices Celebrating Nina!

Sun 13 Mar | St Pancras Room 5pm

contemporary | jazz

Eugenia Georgieva

£16.50 – £29.50; £8.50 Under-30s

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Leading female a capella collective Black Voices return to Kings Place with a specially-commissioned programme honouring the music and inspiration of Nina Simone, whose uncompromising stance for social inclusion could not be more relevant today. Here, the five singers-musicians explore and mark her legacy of songs – a gifted and accomplished pianist and the most soulful songstress. Sat 12 Mar & Sun 13 Mar St Pancras Room 12pm

Sally Davies Workshop folk | learning

UNITY IN SONG

£14.50

Join singer, choir leader, composer and multi-instrumentalist Sally Davies for two workshops on songs from the English Tradition, with arresting harmonies in three- and four-part a cappella. Learning will be both by ear and from the dots. The workshops are progressive so best if you attend each one.

Eugenia Georgieva is known for her work with Bulgarian a cappella group Perunika Trio, vocal fusion outfit YANTRA, and her own fivepiece virtuoso band. For this intimate performance, she presents a selection of a cappella songs, the linguistic rhythm and the emotional intensity of which shape up their melodic formula. Some of them reflect the times of slavery, others are humorous with roots in medieval imagery, and some give us an insight into the most intimate workings of a human soul.

Black Voices (11 Mar)

Sat 12 Mar | St Pancras Room 2.30pm

Sat 12 Mar | Hall One 7.30pm

Bulgarian Song Cara Dillon folk Workshop with Eugenia Georgieva £26.50; £8.50 Under-30s folk | learning

UNITY IN SONG

£14.50

Experience traditional village diaphony from the Shopluk region in the southwest of Bulgaria – the home of Bulgarian ancient harmony singing. This workshop with Eugenia Georgieva (Perunika Trio, YANTRA) will be participatory with some background on style and history. Eugenia will teach by ear, with printouts of the lyrics.

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Cara Dillon occupies an enviable position at the very top of her genre. This extraordinary Irish singer has been captivating audiences and achieving exceptional acclaim for over 20 years. She has, as Mojo magazine suggests, ‘quite possibly the world’s most beautiful female voice’.

Martin & Eliza Carthy folk

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Peggy Seeger & Calum MacColl The First Farewell Tour + Green Ribbons folk

UNITY IN SONG

£22.50; £8.50 Under-30s

The charismatic Peggy Seeger – singer, songwriter, feminist, icon – is the undisputed queen of folk and political song. Join Peggy and her son Calum MacColl, an exceptional musician in his own right, for a glorious evening of up-close performance. Expect to hear some of Peggy and Ewan MacColl’s most-loved songs, readings from Peggy’s award-winning memoir, First Time Ever, plenty of audience participation and lots of relaxed family banter.

£14.50

The good Doctor Martin Carthy and his twice Mercury Prize-nominee daughter Eliza Carthy join forces to perform songs from their first duo album, The Elephant (2014, Topic), a record of traditional material.

Join folk collective Green Ribbons as they talk about the making of the project dedicated to the celebration of unaccompanied song and their debut album. We’ll look at archive diving, setting traditional song for harmony and

Wed 16 Mar | Hall Two 8.30pm

Riot Ensemble This Lunar Beauty contemporary | classical £16.50

Sofia Gubaidulina Meditation on the Bach Chorale ‘Vor deinen Thron tret ich hiermit, BWV 668’ Anna Clyne This Lunar Beauty José M. Sánchez-Verdú Schein Rufus Isabel Elliot Tillage [without violence] (World Premiere) Xenakis À l’île de Gorée Sarah Dacey soprano Riot Ensemble Hear the Riot Ensemble in a spellbinding, subversive programme of hidden voices. All the works are tied to the voice in intimate ways: a meditation on a Bach Chorale by Sofia Gubaidulina, Anna Clyne’s melodic ‘creation upon a sound space’ which weaves in, out and around the audience, and a secret text sung to themselves by a violinist. A temporarily ‘lost’ piece by Rufus Isabel Eliot is given its world premiere. Anchoring the concert in his centenary year is Xenaxis’s masterful À l’île de Gorée for harpsichord and ensemble.

UNITY IN SONG

£18.50

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Sun 13 Mar | Hall One 7pm

Cara Dillon (12 Mar)

Sun 13 Mar | St Pancras Room 2.30pm

Celebrating Unaccompanied Song Workshop with Green Ribbons

Sat 12 Mar | Hall Two 4pm

Eugenia Georgieva (12, 13 Mar)

UNITY IN SONG

£12.50

Peggy Seeger & Calum MacColl (13 Mar)

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Return of the naked voice Artist-in-Focus Roderick Williams relishes the prospect of unwrapping voices next year. Here he talks to Ashutosh Khandekar about his curations.

Return of the naked voice

Baritone Roderick Williams – known affectionately as Roddy to his colleagues - has built an extraordinary following as a performer steeped in the traditions of British singing – elegant, charming, intelligent and understated. If that doesn’t entirely explain his distinctive appeal and his attractiveness as an artist, then you only have to dig a little deeper. Behind the refined exterior, an unpredictable imp is at play: ‘There’s a cheekiness in me,’ he admits. ‘I like to challenge preconceptions – my own and that of my audience.’ Take Williams’ approach to Vaughan Williams, who features in both concerts he has curated as an Artist-in-Focus for Voices Unwrapped. ‘It’s easy to suppose that Vaughan Williams’s songs are the musical equivalent of indulging in a nice warm bath. But then you get a line like, ‘I seek not hope nor love / Nor a friend to know me’. Now, that’s quite confrontational – it’s pushing the audience away. So even in the pastoral Romanticism of the Songs of Travel, there are unexpected sharp edges that cut through the woolliness. And that’s what I like to explore.’ Williams’s curatorship at Kings Place highlights an approach to singing, composing and arranging that questions convention without resorting to iconoclasm. ‘I like the idea of unwrapping the human voice – gently easing it out of its packaging and letting it loose in its natural state. It’s like rock concerts which are described as “unplugged”, where the electronics have been turned off. That’s when you find out if a singer really can sing and what they’ve really got to offer as artists.’ In the first of two curated concerts, Williams underlines his faith in the power of unadorned

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human voice by opening with a hushed unaccompanied solo – Brian Elias’ hauntingly seductive Meet Me in the Green Glen: ‘It’s just me! That sets out my stall.’ The baritone is then joined by the Aurora Orchestra on a series of journeys, from the spiritual quest of Pilgrim’s Progress to the inner obsession of Mahler’s Wayfarer; from the moonlit radiance of lovers in the forest in Verklärte Nacht and the deep nocturnal solitude of Judith Weir’s Good Morning, Midnight. There is a thematic coherence here, but also a desire to explore the voice out of its usual confines. ‘We’re so used to hearing the art song as pairing of voice and piano, so I wanted audiences to experience it among unfamiliar sonic worlds – especially the solo voice combined with and juxtaposed against a string ensemble.’ Unexpected juxtapositions also lie at the heart of Williams’s second curated concert at Kings Place in May. Entitled When I was one-andtwenty, the programme features songs by Butterworth, Vaughan Williams, Schubert, Schumann and Rebecca Clarke, interwoven with Chopin Preludes performed by pianist Paul Cibis. ‘Here, I really wanted to mix things up a bit and to bring the pianist out of the shadows of the vocal recital,’ says Williams. ‘Paul pointed out to me various relationships between Chopin and the textures and colours in Romantic song cycles. The result is a wonderful piece of free association – a bit like the Mixtape slot on Radio 3. It’s surprising, but it really flows as a joined-up programme.’ Williams provides more surprises by way of his role in Sound Voice, a project that brings together experiences of people who have lost their voice through

illness or injury with singers. He provides the singing voice in Paul, composer Hannah Conway’s ‘dual aria’ performed alongside Paul Jameson who lost his voice through motor neurone disease. ‘I’m used to inhabiting characters and giving voice to their inner lives in operas,’

‘Voices Unwrapped will be a real opportunity to dismantle things we take for granted.’

Williams says. ‘But to have your character standing next to you as flesh-and-blood is unnerving and exhilarating at the same time. It was a joyous, humbling collaboration – a manifestation of the deep connection between human beings that the voice uniquely unlocks.’ Another aspect of Williams’s role in Voices Unwrapped will be as a workshop leader during the summer. ‘I’m hoping to work with amateur choir singers, and my aim will be to “unpack” a chorus from Messiah – preferably an all-too-familiar one – by asking questions. How is it normally done? Why do we usually do it that way then? Can we do something different, fresh? The answer might be ‘no!’ but the classical voice comes with all kinds of preconceptions, and Voices Unwrapped will be a real opportunity to dismantle things we take for granted.’

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25 Feb Aurora Orchestra with Roderick Williams 5 May Roderick Williams with Paul Cibis 27 May Sound Voice in concert: Roderick Williams, Lucy Crowe & Alice Zawadzki 9 Jul Handel’s Messiah Vocal Workshop with Roderick Williams

Sat 19 Mar | Hall One 8pm

Colleen contemporary

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£20; £8.50 Under-30s

For two decades Cécile Schott as Colleen has crafted enchanting and bewildering music. The Tunnel and the Clearing finds Schott at her most vulnerable and confident, invoking swirling organ processed through analog electronics, steady drum machine syncopations and her distinctive voice to embody breaking through the nexus of compounding transitions. 20 Mar | Hall One 6.30pm

Deep Throat Choir (23 Mar)

Northern Chords Festival Orchestra Dies natalis classical

Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir (26 Mar)

Ben Johnson tenor Northern Chords Festival Orchestra Jonathan Bloxham conductor LCMS

£14.50 – £29.50; £8.50 Under-30s

Purcell (arr. Britten) Chaconne in G minor Elgar Serenade for Strings in E minor, Op. 20 Coleridge-Taylor ‘Andante con moto’ (No. 3) from Four Novelletten, Op. 52 Finzi Dies natalis, Op. 8

The strings of the Northern Chords Festival Orchestra and conductor Jonathan Bloxham present a concert of British classics. Purcell’s Chaconne, in Britten’s famous arrangement, Elgar’s beautiful Serenade, and the third of Coleridge-Taylor’s Four Novelletten, completed in 1902. Their concert culminates in Finzi’s masterful cantata,

Dies natalis, to words by Thomas Traherne, sung by the tenor Ben Johnson. Wed 23 Mar | Hall One 8.30pm

Deep Throat Choir + Nouria Bah contemporary £16.50; £8.50 Under-30s

All-female singing collective Deep Throat Choir perform songs from their multi-layered second album. In Order to Know You is a multi-layered assertion of freshly expansive range, driven by two core virtues: a sense of strength in unity and an open embrace of its singers’ personal experiences, shared through collective, supportive vocal expression. Support from Nouria Bah, whose groove and vocal-driven music has been described as acoustic jazzy folk-hop. Sat 26 Mar | Hall Two 6pm

Mari Kalkun folk

SOUNDS OF ESTONIA

£16.50

Mari Kalkun’s beguiling, intimate voice is unforgettable. She makes a welcome return to Kings Place as part

Mari Kalkun (26 Mar)

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of Sounds of Estonia weekend. A multiinstrumentalist, singer, and composer Kalkun’s pieces are inspired by nature, poetry and Southern Estonian folk music, accompanied on kannel, piano, accordion and guitar. Her fifth and critically-acclaimed album, Ilmamõtsan, covers themes from the personal to the environmental, to the deportations inflicted by the Soviet regime. Programme approx. 1 hour Sat 26 Mar | Hall One 7.30pm

Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir The Deer’s Cry classical

Thu 31 Mar & Thu 7 Apr | Hall One 8pm

Fri 1 Apr | Hall One 7pm

Gretchen Peters with special guest, Kim Richey

Allt, featuring Julie Fowlis with Zoë Conway, Éamon Doorley & John McIntyre

folk £24.50 – £36.50; £8.50 Under-30s

For two decades, Gretchen Peters has been one of Nashville’s most beloved artists. She has accumulated accolades as a songwriter for artists as diverse as Etta James, Bonnie Raitt, The Neville Brothers, Patty Loveless, George Strait, Bryan Adams and Faith Hill. Her latest album, The Night You Wrote That Song, is a criticallyacclaimed collection of her favourite Mickey Newbury songs.

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folk £19.50 – £39.50; £8.50 Under-30s

Julie Fowlis, award-winning Gaelic folk singer and musician, brings the first of her special curations as Voices Unwrapped Artist-in-Focus to Kings Place. Allt is a Scots-Irish collaboration, creating new songs inspired by modern and ancient Irish and Scottish Gaelic poems. Supported by Create Louth and the Arts Council of Ireland.

£19.50 – £39.50; £8.50 Under-30s

Cyrillus Kreek Blessed is the Man Arvo Pärt Magnificat; Nunc dimittis; The Deer’s Cry; Dopo la vittoria Toivo Tulev Rejoice, Rejoice, Rejoice! Veljo Tormis Estonian Calendar Songs: Swing Songs, Shrovetide Songs, St John’s Day Songs; Curse upon Iron Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir Tõnu Kaljuste conductor In their 40th-anniversary season, the legendary Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir under conductor Tõnu Kaljuste present an evening of sacred and secular music by four of the nation’s greatest composers, Arvo Pärt, Veljo Tormis, Cyrillus Kreek and Toivo Tulev.

Julie Fowlis (1 Apr)

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Thu 14 Apr | Hall Two 8.30pm

Rachael Dadd folk £14.50 seated; £12.50 standing

Contemporary folk multiinstrumentalist Rachael Dadd has been gaining the reputation as a pioneering and thought-provoking artist unafraid to push the boundaries of folk and pop. Her latest studio album, Flux,is a response to external and internal tides: the flow of life up-rooted; a protest against the flow of recent political history; a diary of the flow within the intimate space of home. BBC Singers (2 Apr)

Wed 20 Apr | Hall One 8pm Eric Whitacre (6 Apr)

Sat 2 Apr | Hall One 7.30pm

Sat 2 Apr | Hall Two 8pm

Wed 6 Apr | Hall One 6.30pm & 9pm

Aurora Orchestra & BBC Singers MacMillan: Seven Last Words

DM Stith

VOCES8 with Eric Whitacre The Sacred Veil

classical £19.50 – £44.50; £8.50 Under-30s

Victoria O Vos omnes Reena Esmail When the Violin Caroline Shaw Entr’acte Vaughan Williams (arr. Timothy Burke) Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis James MacMillan Seven Last Words from the Cross BBC Singers Aurora Orchestra Sofi Jeannin conductor Chief Conductor of the BBC Singers, Sofi Jeannin, makes her Kings Place debut in a programme that features James MacMillan’s deeply moving setting of the Seven Last Words alongside works by two of US’s most distinctive musical voices: Pulitzer-prize winner Caroline Shaw and Californian composer Reena Esmail, whose work combines Western and Indian classical influences. Plus, Timothy Burke’s intimate arrangement of Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis.

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£14.50 seated; £12.50 standing

DM Stith’s otherworldly tender voice bridges the expanse between quailing sadness and featherlight joy. The NYCbased singer-songwriter and visual artist has explored his expressive vocal range as solo artist, film composer, and new-music collaborator, including two albums (Heavy Ghost; Pigeonheart), plus a slew of collaborations with John Mark Lapham of The Earlies, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Judd Greenstein, Roomful of Teeth and more. Here he presents new work co-produced with Thomas Bartlett.

chance to hear songs from their new record in a live context. ‘Utterly extraordinary’ The Quietus

£22.50 – £49.50; £8.50 Under-30s

Jocelyn Hagen Mother’s Song Roderick Williams Now Winter Nights Eric Whitacre The Sacred Veil

The Hanover Band & Chorus St John Passion classical

Thu 7 Apr | Hall Two 8.30pm

Telling of the final days of Jesus’s life is a tradition that dates back to the 4th century, and Bach’s St John Passion offers a dynamic, deeply absorbing reflection on the approach of Easter Day.. The Hanover Band, one of Britain’s finest period instrument orchestras, brings this special Passiontide performance of Bach’s seasonal masterpiece.

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Programme 2022

Wed 13 Apr | Hall One 7.30pm

Leading vocal ensemble VOCES8 join Grammy-winning composerconductor Eric Whitacre for an intimate performance of The Sacred Veil – a collaboration with his longstanding friend and writing partner, poet-lyricist Charles Anthony Silvestri, telling a story of life, love and loss. Prefaced with two VOCES8 commissions from Jocelyn Hagen and Voices Unwrapped Artist-inFocus, Roderick Williams.

Adult Jazz

DM Stith (2 Apr)

folk

Wed 13 Apr | Hall Two 8.30pm

£18.50; £8.50 Under-30s

Kate NV

The Young’uns’ live shows are renowned roller coaster rides. With heart-on-the-sleeve storytelling, beautiful lyrics, warm harmonies and relentless repartee, Sean Cooney, Michael Hughes and David Eagle write and sing folk songs for today. 2022 sees the trio launch their Tiny Notes project. Each date of their April tour, including this one at Kings Place, will feature a live recording of audience choruses for their forthcoming album, with the band urging everyone to discover the joy of singing together that they found one night as teenagers in Stockton-on-Tees.

contemporary

contemporary | classical

contemporary

The Young’uns

Adult Jazz, a band whose playful, experimental approach has caught the ear of some hugely influential artists, including Bjork, return to the stage for the first time since 2015. This is a first

£19.50 – £49.50

JS Bach St John Passion, BWV 245 TBC soprano Tim Morgan alto Peter Davoren tenor Simon Wall Evangelist Alex Ashworth Christus Ed Price Pilate The Hanover Band Chorus Andrew Arthur director

LUMINATE

£15 (standing only)

The Moscow-based producer, songstress, composer, designer, co-author and front girl of moscow new wave-post punk band ‘ГШ’ returns to Kings Place to perform with her full live band as part of the fifth season of Luminate. ‘Shilonosova’s corner of Moscow is bubbly and fantastical–a place where you want to live and explore every nook and cranny.’ Pitchfork

Rachael Dadd (14 Apr)

Voices Unwrapped

As Julie Fowlis looks ahead to her Voices Unwrapped curations, she takes a moment to reflect on the impact COVID-19 had on singing and performing. ‘The idea of sharing air and of creating music in the same space, it’s something that we’ll never take for granted again. The idea of voices being unwrapped has never felt more important and it feels right to celebrate that.’

Spirit of the Gaels Julie Fowlis has captivated fans around the world with her crystalline voice, heard in the Disney Pixar film, Brave, on her acclaimed solo albums and various collaborations, most recently with The Lost Words Spell Songs ensemble. She’s also an ardent ambassador of all things Gaelic, so unsurprisingly there’s a strong Gaelic presence in her programme. Her first curation, Allt, explores the historic connections between Scotland and Ireland: a collaboration with her husband Éamon Doorley who plays bouzouki, along with Irish fiddler and singer Zoë Conway and guitarist John McIntyre. ‘Our project is looking at both traditional ancient Gaelic and Irish poetry and contemporary poetry and setting that to music to create new songs.’ Before Fowlis started singing professionally, she learned the pipes and studied the oboe and cor anglais at university. It’s the deep connection between the voice and pipes that Fowlis is particularly keen to explore in a special, new collaboration featuring fellow Gaelic speaker and rising piping star Brìghde Chaimbeul, and fiddler Aidan O’Rourke from Lau. ‘It’ll be very fresh and I’m really excited about that.

Spirit of the Gaels

What Brìghde and Aidan do is so earthy and rooted in the tradition, but it’s also brave and bold and they’re not scared to just play a good tune – they do it so well.’ In September, the Irish singer Iarla Ó Lionáird will be making his Kings Place debut. ‘Iarla is a really special voice and he’s steeped in the [sean-nós] tradition. He manages to effortlessly maintain this very solid, traditional, respectful style and yet he’s brave and adventurous, writing new songs and breaking new ground with the musical groups he collaborates with.’ Fowlis will join Ó Lionáird onstage – an enticing prospect and sure to be a series highlight. Her final selection is the quintet Staran. In December 2021, singer Kim Carnie was announced as Gaelic Singer of the Year at the Scots Trad Music Awards – an accolade Fowlis herself has won numerous times – and the musicians joining Carnie are all respected names within Scotland’s dynamic trad folk scene. ‘There’s a vibrancy about what they’re doing and a quiet confidence. I love it when I find musicians who really connect with the

Scottish singer and musician Julie Fowlis is an Artist-in-Focus of Voices Unwrapped. Here she talks to Jo Frost about her curations

'Sharing air and of creating music in the same space… we’ll never take that for granted again.’ shape and the treatment of songs. They complement the beautiful voice of Kim Carnie so well.’ This is what stands out in Fowlis’s programme: superb musicianship and exquisite voices, as she herself remarks: ‘Although this is a focus on voices, all the musicians involved are brilliant at accompanying voices and have that connection to song… Going back to the idea of breath and air, there’s push and pull, time and space and it’s not always equal – it’s just the natural rhythms in the songs and in the lyrics. When musicians lock into that, it’s a magical thing.’

Jo Frost

Fri 1 Apr Julie Fowlis, Zoë Conway, Éamon Doorley & John McIntyre

Thu 19 May Brìghde Chaimbeul & Aidan O’Rourke featuring Julie Fowlis

Voices Unwrapped

Sat 24 Sep Iarla Ó Lionáird with Julie Fowlis

Fri 28 Oct Staran, curated by Julie Fowlis

two albums, Color (2010), and the 2017 Polaris-winning La Papessa, as Canadian album of the year.

The Sixteen and conductor Eamonn Dougan return with their annual Choral Pilgrimage, this year focusing on Hubert Parry’s wartime masterpiece, Songs of Farewell (1916–18), a set of six choral motets, here interleaved by three short works from late 16th-century poet and lutenist Thomas Campion coupled with medieval carols.

Mon 16 May | Hall One 8pm

Daphne’s Flight contemporary | folk £18.50 – £22.50; £8.50 Under-30s

Five of the finest singer-songwriters of their generation, Daphne’s Flight is a unique and magical blend of individual styles that captivate audiences with complex harmony arrangements, unbridled energy and the infectious joy of performing together. ‘Individually they are classy performers, together they are utterly sublime’ Folk Radio UK

Thu 5 May | Hall One 7.30pm

Roderick Williams & Paul Cibis When I was oneand-twenty

Mabe Fratti (21 Apr)

classical

Lido Pimienta (12 May)

£19.50 – £39.50; £8.50 Under-30s

Thu 21 Apr | Hall Two 8.30pm

Wed 27 Apr | Hall One 7.30pm

Mabe Fratti

The Sixteen Choral Pilgrimage 2022: An Old Belief

contemporary £14.50 seated; £12.50 standing

Mexico City-based experimental cellistcomposer Mabe Fratti uses cello, voice and synthesisers to present sound in the form of installation, composition and free improv, sewing contemporary elements like shoegaze and dream pop with ancestral influences that go from Gregorian chants to Sephardi music. Her debut LP, Pies sobre la tierra (2019), introduced the world to Fratti’s lush, hypnotic music, while Será que ahora podremos entendernos (‘Will we be able to understand each other now?’) earned acclaim from Pitchfork, BBC, The Wire, The Guardian and more.

classical £19.50 – £49.50; £8.50 Under-30s

Parry Songs of Farewell – choral motet in six movements, interleaved by Medieval Carols O blessed Lord; Benedicite Deo Campion Never, weather-beaten sail; Author of Light; Tune thy music to thy heart Cecilia McDowall An Unexpected Shore Howells Take him, earth, for cherishing The Sixteen Eamonn Dougan conductor

Schubert Die schöne Müllerin (selections) Schumann Liederkreis, Op. 24 (selections) Songs from ‘A Shropshire Lad’ by Butterworth & Orr Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel Clarke Three Songs Chopin Preludes Nos 10 & 23 Artist-in-Focus baritone Roderick Williams inhabits the role of the wandering Romantic in this speciallycurated recital. AE Housmann’s haunting A Shropshire Lad is heard in settings by Butterworth; songs from Schumann’s indelible Liederkreis, Op. 24, are threaded with Clarke’s mesmerising miniatures, while Vaughan Williams’s Songs of Travel provide a blast of fresh air. Framing the evening

are the irresistible hopes of Müller’s tragic young lover in Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin.

Thu 12 May | Hall Two 8.30pm

Thu 19 May | Hall One 8pm

Lido Pimienta

Brìghde Chaimbeul & Aidan O’Rourke with Julie Fowlis

contemporary

Sat 7 May | Hall Two 8pm

Ye Vagabonds folk £16.50 seated £14.50 standing

Carlow-born vocal duo, brothers Brían & Diarmuid MacGloinn quickly became a staple of the live music scene in Dublin. Known for their harmony-rich folk music, influenced by Irish trad music, Appalachian singing, and the 1960’s folk revival, they’ve released two albums both to critical acclaim.

£16.50 (standing only)

Twice-Grammy-nominated and award-winning artist, Lido Pimienta makes music that explores the politics of gender, race, motherhood, identity and the construct of the Canadian landscape in the Latin American diaspora and vernacular. The visionary artist returns to London following the release of her emphatic 2020 album, Miss Colombia, which takes her ecstatic hybridity to a new level, building on the ‘nu’ intersection of electronica and cumbia established by her first

folk

SONGLINES ENCOUNTERS

£22.50; £8.50 Under-30s

Brìghde Chaimbeul & Aidan O’Rourke team up with Artist-in-Focus Julie Fowlis for this very special concert, celebrating the voice and the pipes. The two are at the heart of the Gaelic tradition – in Gaelic, the phrase ‘to play the pipes’ translates as ‘singing the pipes’. In this specially-curated show, the duo collaborate with Fowlis to interweave Gaelic vocals into their uniquely hypnotic duo sound.

Wed 11 May | Hall Two 8pm

Andy Irvine folk £14.50

From Sweeney’s Men in the mid-60s, to the enormous success of Planxty and his duo with Paul Brady in the ’70s and then from Patrick Street to Mozaik, LAPD and Usher’s Island, Andy Irvine has been a world music pioneer. The iconic Irish singer, songwriter and musician returns to Kings Place for a special performance of music-making and storytelling.

The Sixteen (27 Apr)

Programme 2022

Ye Vagabonds (7 May)

Voices Unwrapped

Musica Secreta Laurie Stras director

Thu 19 May | Hall Two 8.30pm

Liraz Songlines Artist of the Year – Winner contemporary

Pioneering ensemble Music Secreta take us inside the hidden communities of nuns in 15th and 16th century Europe with a programme of music that celebrates women’s spiritual relationships and the stories they tell. With motets attributed to Suor Leonora d’Este (Lucrezia Borgia’s daughter), and an Office of St Clare from the convent of Suor Maria Celeste Galilei (Galileo’s daughter) receiving its London premiere. Plus a new commission by Joanna Marsh.

SONGLINES ENCOUNTERS

£18.50

Liraz, the acclaimed Israeli-Persian singer, has taken her shimmering electro-pop underground. She’s turned it into something dangerous and even more beautiful than before. Here she performs music from her buoyant and border-busting new album, Zan, where her unique style meets pulsing dance rhythms and retro Persian sonics.

Iestyn Davies (5 Jun)

Music by Hannah Conway + other composers TBC Words by Hazel Gould

London African Gospel Choir (25 May)

Fri 20 May | Hall Two 8pm

Marja Mortensson & Daniel Herskedal folk | jazz | contemporary

SONGLINES ENCOUNTERS

£17.50; £8.50 Under-30s

Marja Mortensson, a young South Saami yoiker and singer from the Svahken Sïjte reindeer herding district in Norway, has a remarkable voice. Marja will be joined on stage by jazz tubist Daniel Herskedal, who arranged and orchestrated the Norwegian Grammy Award-winner's latest album, Raajroe (The Reindeer Caravan).

Fri 20 May | Hall One 8.30pm

Wed 25 May | Hall One 8pm

San Salvador

London African Gospel Choir

folk | contemporary

SONGLINES ENCOUNTERS

£16.50

San Salvador, a vocal sextet from France’s Massif Central, sing in Occitan – but you certainly don’t need to understand the language to enjoy their hypnotic Provencal polyphony and heart-warming harmonies that cascade over shifting patterns of propulsive percussion.

contemporary

SONGLINES ENCOUNTERS

£18.50 - £32.50; £8.50 Under-30s

The London African Gospel Choir makes its Kings Place debut in Voices Unwrapped and Songlines Encounters Festival, featuring uplifting gospel song and dance from all over Africa. Famous for their critically-acclaimed interpretation of Paul Simon’s Graceland, they’ve had successful tours of the US, Ireland and the UK, and appearances with Emile Sandé, Annie Lennox, Idris Elba, Tom Jones and the Soweto Gospel Choir.

Sound Voice in Concert

£19.50-£26.50; £8.50 Under-30s

Performers to include: Lucy Crowe soprano Roderick Williams baritone Alice Zawadzki voice Hugh Cutting countertenor Hannah Conway piano

Programme 2022

Musica Secreta Mother, Sister, Daughter classical £16.50 – £26.50

Works by Leonora d’Este, Antoine Brumel, Maistre Jhan, Martha Baerts, Marguerite of Navarre, and John Dunstaple Joanna Marsh The Veiled Sisters

London Gay Men’s Chorus Ensemble Proud Voices contemporary £20 – £26.50; £8.50 Under-30s

Celebrating their 30th year, the LGMCe make their Kings Place debut with a programme of uplifting songs, sparkling harmonies and their signature ‘choralography’! Under the direction of their Artistic Director, Simon Sharp, the LGMCe will get you set for London’s 50th Pride season with a selection of upbeat songs and stunning a cappella arrangements.

Iestyn Davies & Olivia Chaney classical | folk | contemporary

£19.50 – £39.50

Fri 10 Jun | Hall One 7.30pm

Sat 11 Jun | Hall One 7.30pm

Sun 5 Jun | Hall One 5pm

Fri 27 May | 7.30pm

contemporary | classical

San Salvador (20 May)

A visionary collaborative project bringing together renowned singers, including Lucy Crowe, Roderick Williams and Alice Zawadzki , and those with lived experience of voice loss in a captivating celebration of the beauty and value of the human voice. This concert offers an opportunity to hear all of the works created to date as part of the project, performed by people who have experienced voice loss alongside professional artists, and also features contributions from other guest collaborators. Each vocalist will also perform a specially-selected repertoire work for its personal significance.

a breath on a mirror, at others soaring in sweet glissando to the higher registers.’ The Daily Telegraph

Two celebrated English singers, Iestyn Davies and Olivia Chaney, come together for this one-off exploration of song, from traditional folk to the Elizabethan court, from funeral elegies to iconic pop. ‘Davies reigns supreme among countertenors.’ The Independent ‘Chaney’s voice is a thing of sublime beauty, at times as fragile as the mist of

London Gay Men’s Chorus Ensemble (11 Jun)

Voices Unwrapped

Sam Evans is a baritone and choral conductor who is curating the ‘Singing Together’ programme for amateur choirs. He told us some more about himself and his choral life.

Singing our way back What’s your first memory of singing in a choir? Any formative experiences? My very first experience of communal singing in harmony was as a very small child in the Bowls Club at the London Welsh Rugby Club in Richmond. On Saturday afternoons my parents (both of whom are Welsh) would go there to meet their friends. You don’t need many Welsh people in a room together before the singing breaks out. Back then everyone knew the great Welsh hymns (Gwahoddiad, Cwm Rhondda, Calon Lân etc) by heart, and my earliest musical memory is crawling around under the tables, hearing the singing above me! How did you start conducting as well as singing? I had just graduated from the Opera Course at the Royal College of Music and was embarking on a career as an

Singing our way back

operatic baritone, when a company called Riverside Opera in Kingston upon Thames asked if I would take over as their Music Director for a year. I told them I didn’t have any conducting experience, but they were willing to

‘You don’t need many Welsh people in a room together before the singing breaks out’

take a chance on me. That meant that my very first experience of conducting in public, was a fully-staged production of Carmen with professional soloists and orchestra, and the Riverside Opera Chorus! I loved every minute and realised I was going to have to make it a central part of my life as a professional musician.

Sam Evans

Why is amateur singing such a key part of the whole UK music scene? This country has a rich and varied tradition of communal singing, from shanty groups in Cornwall, to Male Voice Choirs in the Welsh valleys, to the 19th-century festivals, for example, the Birmingham Triennial which commissioned great oratorios, such as Mendelssohn’s Elijah and Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius. Added to these older traditions have been Gospel Choirs, Soul Choirs, Rock Choirs, Glee Clubs… Today, there is a widespread awareness and appreciation of the power of singing to help bring communities together. Whatever style of music you are in to, and however confident (or otherwise) you feel as a singer, there is a choir near you that can boost your self-esteem, help you meet new people, and connect you to the community around you.

Voices Unwrapped

How did you become involved in forming and leading community choirs? What do they give those who join them? Five years ago, I started discussing the possibility of starting a community choir with the Battersea Power Station Development Company, to bring neighbours together in the everchanging Battersea landscape. We started the Battersea Power Station Community Choir with 14 singers back in 2016, and today it has more than 80 active members. The choir is completely free to join, and has achieved exactly what we set out to achieve: it has brought together people from all walks of life, and all ages and backgrounds. The choir has become a tight-knit group, supporting one another in times of difficulty – especially during the pandemic, when the choir continued to come together virtually.

They are like a family, sharing in each other’s’ joys and success. That is what singing together with others can bring. What is the most challenging choral project you’ve ever done? I’m sure many choir leaders would feel that the challenge of keeping their choirs together during the past two years has been the most important one to overcome. I am grateful that all my choirs (the Kew Gardens Choir, Barcarolle, Battersea Choral Society and BPSCC) were all willing to give online rehearsals a go. Like all choir leaders, I had to learn new skills very quickly, and find ways to keep my singers motivated and engaged when all they could hear was themselves. What inspired the ‘Singing Together’ project? What’s the idea? The pandemic has been so difficult for everyone, but singing has suffered very badly. Choirs have tried to stay together on zoom, some with more success than others. Now that choirs are once again being allowed to sing in person, it makes 2022 the perfect year for Kings Place to be focusing on singing through its Voices Unwrapped series. Helen Wallace (Artistic Director at Kings Place) approached me, and asked how the venue could involve community choirs of all kinds. We wanted to play a part in London’s choral recovery. It’s brilliant that Kings Place can offer these performance opportunities which will give choirs of all kinds a muchneeded boost. Tell us about some of the groups taking part? The first two non-professional groups confirmed couldn’t be more different, and both will be equally exciting for the audience to experience. The London Show Choir will be singing at Kings Place first of all. Led by Pippa Collins and Matt Pallant, they will bring their wonderful energy and exuberance to the gallery of Kings Place. In April we’ll welcome Constanza Chorus. Founded by Joanna Tomlinson, they sing a wide variety of repertoire to a very high

Singing our way back

standard. The Voices Unwrapped series involves performances from some of the most renowned vocal ensembles in the world, but this Singing Together programme is equally important and will feature a big range of choirs, from community groups to gospel choirs, an NHS hospital choir and local school choirs. It promises a year-long feast of vocal music. What do all choirs need to thrive? There are lots of ingredients that make the magic happen for a choir, but if I had to pick the three key ones, they would be: a dedicated and passionate music director; a rehearsal culture which makes singers feel safe to share their voice, whatever their level of experience and ability; the opportunity to perform in front of others.

Choirs taking part in Singing Together include the London Show Choir, Constanza Chorus, Bellow Fellows and many more. Please check website for details of when they will be performing.

to sing a solo number for him and the group in a series of short one-to-one masterclasses. Sat 23 Jul

The Sixteen Sounds Sublime Festival Day

Ruby Hughes (19 Jun)

Thu 16 Jun | Hall Two 8pm

Madison Violet folk £14.50

With heart-wrenching song-writing and luscious harmonies combined with the natural storytelling of folk, the rhythms of Americana and catchy pop hooks, Madison Violet have been captivating audiences and critics alike for two decades. Their 2019 album, Everything’s Shifting, is a heartfelt examination of how memory can splinter a heart, how loss shapes perspective and how sometimes you can’t have love without regret. Sun 19 Jun | Hall One 6.30pm

Manchester Collective with Ruby Hughes This Savage Parade

Oswald’s poetry by Edmund Finnis. This promises to be a show lighter than air – a set of ethereal music for voice and string orchestra that will transport listeners to a world of incredible fragility and exquisite beauty.

This annual one-day celebration of choral music devised by The Sixteen will feature ensembles from across a wide variety of vocal styles, highlighting some of the UK’s brightest young vocal talent and introducing audiences to the incredible diversity of the human voice with workshops, performances and opportunities to join in. Check website for details this spring Sat 6 Aug | Hall One 7.30pm

Sun 10 Jul | Kings Place, from 2pm

Roderick Williams Handel’s Messiah Vocal Workshop classical | learning £20

Roderick Williams invites amateur singers to unwrap the experience of singing favourite choruses from Handel’s Messiah. In this special afternoon workshop, the leading baritone will explore the choruses of this muchloved work with the whole group, and in the second half will invite individuals

Spooky Men’s Chorale folk | contemporary £26.50; £8.50 Under-30s

As thunderous as a herd of wildebeest, as sly as a wagonload of Spike Milligans and as sonorous as a cloister of monks, the Spooky Men’s Chorale are the gift that keeps on giving. The everentertaing ensemble return to Kings Place to celebrate Voices Unwrapped with another sonorous, humorous and ludicrous set of ballads, covers, and traditional songs.

classical £16.50-£34.50; £8.50 Under-30s

Strozzi Che si può fare, Op. 8 Edmund Finnis New work (World Premiere) Olli Mustonen Nonet No. 2 Britten Les Illuminations, Op. 18 Ruby Hughes soprano Manchester Collective Manchester Collective join forces with soprano Ruby Hughes in Britten’s Les Illuminations, music by Barbara Strozzi and new settings of Alice

Sam Evans

Spooky Men’s Chorale (6 Aug)

Voices Unwrapped

Siobhan Miller’s soulful, stirring renewal of traditional song has won her the BBC R2 Folk Award for Best Traditional Track, and the BBC Alba Scots Trad Music Awards’ Scots Singer of the Year an unprecedented four times. She releases her fifth solo album this spring. With beautifully rendered, melodiously reflective original songs that deftly mingle indie and alternative sounds with Miller’s deep traditional upbringing, the record marked a triumphant return to her acoustic roots, achieving widespread radio play across BBC R2, R3 and R4.

Iarla Ó Lionáird (24Sep)

Fri 2 – Sun 4 Sep

Lady Maisery Folk-singing Weekend Workshops featuring vocal harmony trio Lady Maisery and guest artists Check website for details this spring Fri 23 Sep | Hall One 7.30pm

London Bulgarian Choir folk | classical

Twice-Grammy-nominated iconic Irish singer Iarla Ó Lionáird, vocalist of the Irish-American band, The Gloaming, makes his Kings Place debut for this special, one-off Voices Unwrapped concert, featuring Artist-in-Focus, Julie Fowlis. Iarla’s previous collaborations include Nick Cave, Peter Gabriel, Sinead O’Connor, Robert Plant, Nico Muhly and Kate Moore. His voice has also graced the silver screen, with film credits including The Gangs of New York and Brooklyn. ‘Magnificently expressive’ New York Times

£16.50 – £26.50; £8.50 Under-30s

The eagerly-awaited return of awardwinning London Bulgarian Choir, led by Dessislava Stefanova. They perform a spine-tingling repertoire of folk songs in traditional and contemporary arrangements: some tell powerful tales of love and loss, fighting and celebration, while others are inspired by the daily fabric of life. Sung in a complex and unique vocal style, featuring dissonant harmonies, compelling rhythms and exuberant trills and hiccups, the Choir’s heartfelt performances transcend language barriers and can move audiences to tears.

Thu 29 Sep | Hall One 8pm

Siobhan Miller folk £17.50; £8.50 Under-30s

Fri 30 Sep | Hall One 7.30pm

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment with John Butt Haydn’s Nelson Mass classical £19.50 – £49.50; £8.50 Under-30s

Haydn Symphony No. 44 Trauer Haydn Nelson Mass (Missa in Angustiis), Hob. XXII:11 Choir of the Enlightenment Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment John Butt director John Butt directs the OAE, Choir and Rising Stars of the Enlightenment in Haydn’s late masterwork, described by scholar HC Robbins Landon as ‘arguably Haydn’s greatest single composition’. Against a background of war and hardship, Haydn embarked on a Mass for only strings, organ, trumpets & timpani. The result – a lean, fiery work of symphonic drama, with a spectacular ‘Kyrie’ for soprano – has become one of his best-loved works. Prefaced with the composer’s darkly turbulent Trauer Symphony (No. 44).

Sat 24 Sep | Hall One 7pm

Fri 30 Sep | Hall Two 8pm

Iarla Ó Lionáird with Julie Fowlis

Finding My Voice

folk £26.50 – £39.50; £8.50 Under-30s

Kuljit Bhamra MBE tabla Sidiki Dembélé djembe, kora, ngoni, calabash Laura van der Heijden cello Alice Zawadzki voice, violin Writers TBC NW Live Arts joins Freedom from Torture’s writing and performance group ‘Write to Life’ for an inspiring evening of words and music, bringing together wide-ranging artistic influences from West Africa, India, Central and Western Europe and South America. Celebrating diversity and our multicultural society in London, hear four musicians and four writers offer their take on the meaning of finding and having a voice, in a dynamic programme of music, poetry and song. Sat 8 Oct | Hall Two 8pm

The Rheingans Sisters folk £14.50

Rowan and Anna Rheingans make playful, powerful and richly connecting music that is wholly contemporary while deeply anchored in folk traditions. Over the last five years, three albums and a BBC R2 Folk Award win for ‘Best Original Track’ in 2016, audiences across the UK, Europe and Australia have been captivated by their very special live performances.

words | contemporary Siobhan Miller (29Sep)

Programme 2022

On sale in early 2022 | Check the website for ticket details in due course

Sidiki Dembélé (30 Sep)

Fri 14 Oct | Hall One 8pm

Riot Ensemble From Dusk till Dawn contemporary £14.50; £8.50 Under-30s

Anna Korsun Ulenflucht David Del Tredici Syzygy Naomi Pinnock New work This immersive concert opens in twilight, with Riot Ensemble as a choir above and around the audience, ready to sing, buzz, hum, trumpet and bird-call in Anna Korsun’s spectacular Ulenflucht. From twilight to night, the ensemble descends and reforms into the two groups for a rare performance of David Del Tredici’s Syzygy: from cryptic to cavernous; intimate to galactic in scale. Riot’s criticallyacclaimed soprano Sarah Dacey sings in these James Joyce settings. Plus a UK premiere from Naomi Pinnock, and a world premiere commissioned from Riot’s Call for Scores.

Nicholas Mulroy (23 Oct)

across Europe. The Court at Ferrara became a leading centre: many of the Franco-Flemish school passed through its gates. In this illuminating programme, peerless vocal consort The Gesualdo Six trace a chain of inspirations, from Josquin des Prez to Arvo Pärt, culminating in the work of Renaissance visionary, Gesualdo. Sun 23 Oct | Hall One 5pm

Aurora Orchestra with Nicholas Mulroy Si se calla el cantor classical

Thu 20 Oct | Hall One 7.30pm

The Gesualdo Six Mirror of Time classical £16.50 – £34.50; £8.50 Under-30s

Brumel Da pacem, Domine Isaac Illumina faciem tuam Mouton Peccantem me quotidie Compère Quis numerare queat; Da pacem, Domine Verdelot Dignare me, laudare te Rogier Laboravi in gemitu meo Lusitano Heu me, Domine Josquin In te Domine speravi Arvo Pärt Da pacem, Domine Gesualdo In te Domine speravi; Hei mihi, Domine; Laboravi in gemitu meo; Dignare me, laudare te; Peccantem me quotidie; Illumina faciem tuam (arr. Stravinsky) Da pacem, Domine Shruthi Rajasekar Da pacem, Domine (World Premiere) Courts in Renaissance Italy were meeting places for musicians from

Voices Unwrapped

£19.50 – £39.50; £8.50 Under-30s

Songs by Monteverdi, Purcell, Mercedes Sosa, Víctor Jara and Silvio Rodríguez JS Bach Ich habe Genug, BWV 82 Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B flat, BWV 1051 Nicholas Mulroy tenor Ruth Gibson, Hélène Clément violas Aurora Orchestra ‘If the singer falls silent / so, too, does life / for life itself is all a song’. Argentinian folk singer Mercedes Sosa’s titular ballad from 1973 speaks to the profound importance of song in 20th-century Latin America. Singers like Sosa, Chile’s Víctor Jara and Cuba’s Silvio Rodríguez became national icons with their songs of politics, love and the human condition. Curated with tenor Nicholas Mulroy, Aurora’s programme juxtaposes these Latin works with the European Baroque songs in which their roots partly lie. Also featuring Bach’s ‘Ich habe Genug’.

erotic poetry ever written, believed to celebrate the union of the mighty and beautiful Queen of Sheba and King Solomon. While these Song of Songs through the advent of Christianity became synonymous with the Virgin Mary, Sheba’s exoticism continued to inspire numerous composers – from Hildegard to Palestrina – to write some of their most sensual music.

Fri 28 Oct | Hall Two 8pm

Staran curated by Julie Fowlis folk £14.50

As part of her Artist-in-Focus curations for Voices Unwrapped, Julie Fowlis has chosen Staran to present a special programme of new and old Gaelic songs. A new collective featuring Kim Carnie, John Lowrie, Jack Smedley, Innes White & James Lindsay. ‘Staran’, meaning ‘path’, ‘trail’ or ‘stepping stones’ in Gaelic, reflects the themes of ‘places’ and ‘moments’ that run through their music. The result is a rich and cohesive sound; atmospheric and textural with elements of inspiration from the genres of jazz, minimalism and electronica. Wed 2 Nov | Hall One 8pm

Explore Ensemble with Juliet Fraser contemporary | classical

Sat 3 Dec | Hall One 7.30m

The Tallis Scholars (17 Nov)

Fraser to present a glittering sequence of music of our time for voice and ensemble: Lisa Illean’s captivating A through-grown earth, set to GM Hopkins’s nocturnal poetry, and a world premiere from Angharad Davies, developed in collaboration with Fraser and the Ensemble. In between, we’ll hear free-wheeling instrumental pieces by two iconoclastic creators, Lawrence Dunn and Oliver Leith.

£16.50 – £29.50; £8.50 Under-30s

Lisa Illean A through-grown earth Oliver Leith Me Hollywood Lawrence Dunn Set of four Angharad Davies New work (World Premiere) Explore Ensemble is joined by celebrated guest soprano Juliet

Juliet Fraser (2 Nov)

from Allegri’s Miserere to Tallis’s O nata lux. All the music makes reference to celestial light, from writing which turns on itself (the Josquin and Palestrina Agnus dei canons), to music scored luminously high (Taverner’s Quemadmodum and Allegri’s Miserere), to pieces which use light in their titles (Isaac’s Angeli, archangeli). Muhly’s Rough Notes (2018), written for the ensemble, refers to the Antarctic night sky.

Thu 17 Nov | Hall One 8pm

The Tallis Scholars Light of the Heavenly Spheres

Thu 24 Nov | Hall One 7.30pm

classical

£19.50 – £39.50; £8.50 Under-30s

£19.50 – £49.50; £8.50 Under-30s

Gibbons Hosanna to the Son of David Morley Hark, Alleluia! Taverner Quemadmodum Nico Muhly Rough Notes White Christe qui lux es et dies IV Palestrina ‘Agnus dei’ from Missa Brevis Allegri Miserere mei, Deus Fayrfax O lux, beata Trinitas Tallis O nata lux de lumine Isaac Angeli, archangeli Josquin ‘Agnus dei’ from the Missa L’homme armé sexti toni

Hildegard of Bingen O filie Israhel (Humility); Flos campi (Virtues) Aleotti Ego flos campi; Surge, propera amica mea; Vidi speciosam Clemens non Papa Ego flos campi Palestrina Vineam meam non custodivi; Pulchrae sunt genae tuae; Quae est ista quae progreditur; Descendi in hortum meum Victoria Vidi speciosam; Nigra sum sed formosa Daniel-Lesur Le cantique des cantiques John Barber Song of Songs

The Tallis Scholars Peter Phillips director

The Sixteen Harry Christopher conductor

The legendary Tallis Scholars present an evening of spiritual luminescence,

Originally Hebrew love poetry, ‘The Song of Songs’ is some of the most

Programme 2022

The Sixteen The Song of Songs

BBC Singers with Abel Selaocoe Rachmaninov & Gubaidulina classical

Abel Selaocoe (3 Dec)

£19.50 – £39.50; £8.50 Under-30s

Sofia Gubaidulina Canticle of the Sun Rachmaninov All-Night Vigil Abel Selaocoe cello BBC Singers Sofi Jeannin conductor A night of Russian spirituality from the BBC Singers and cellist Abel Selaocoe. Rachmaninov’s magnificent setting of texts from the All-Night Vigil ceremony has been described as the ‘greatest musical achievement of the Russian Orthodox church’. Charismatic South African cellist Abel Selaocoe joins the singers for Sofia Gubaidulina’s radiantly mystical Canticle of the Sun, St Francis’s prayer to the natural world.

Sun 4 Dec | Hall One 7pm

EXAUDI Rainbow across the Night Sky contemporary | classical Check website for ticket details later in 2022

Programme to include: Gloria Coates Rainbow across the Night Sky Works by Hildegard of Bingen EXAUDI James Weeks director In this anniversary concert as part of Voices Unwrapped, one of the world’s

leading vocal ensembles celebrates twenty years at the forefront of new (and ancient) music. 11 Dec | Hall One 5pm or 6.30pm

Aurora Orchestra Shostakovich: Symphony No. 14 classical Check website for ticket details later in 2022

Shostakovich Symphony No. 14 Aurora Orchestra Nicholas Collon conductor TBC soprano Peter Rose bass

EXAUDI (4 Dec)

Voices Unwrapped

Voices Unwrapped workshops Sat 12 Mar & Sun 13 Mar St Pancras Room 12pm

Sally Davies Workshop folk | learning

UNITY IN SONG

£14.50

Sun 13 Mar | St Pancras Room 2.30pm

Sat 12 Mar | St Pancras Room 2.30pm

Bulgarian Song Sun 10 Jul | Kings Place, from 2pm Workshop Roderick Williams with Eugenia Georgieva Handel’s Messiah folk | learning UNITY IN SONG Vocal Workshop £14.50

classical | learning £20

Roderick Williams invites amateur singers to unwrap the experience of singing favourite choruses from Handel’s Messiah. In this special afternoon workshop, the leading baritone will explore this much-loved work with the whole group, and in the second half will

The Venues

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The majority of events in Hall One have allocated seats but some will be general admission. Savers can only be purchased online and are limited in availability. You are guaranteed a seat. Its location will be allocated by the Box Office. Tickets may be collected at any time during the hour before the performance.

We will endeavour to seat latecomers at a suitable break in the performance, although this may not always be possible and in some instances latecomers may not be admitted at all. Tickets are non-refundable.

To make your visit as safe, secure and enjoyable as possible, we have enhanced our security. This includes the introduction of bag checks upon entry to our venues. Any bags which are larger than 30x50cm will need to be checked into our Cloakroom on Concert Level -2.

Under-30s Tickets

invite individuals to sing a solo number for him and the group in a series of short one-to-one masterclasses.

Celebrating Unaccompanied Song Sat 23 Jul Workshop with The Sixteen Green Ribbons Sounds Sublime folk | learning UNITY IN SONG Festival Day £14.50 Join folk collective Green Ribbons as they talk about the making of the project dedicated to the celebration of unaccompanied song and their debut album. We’ll look at archive diving, setting traditional song for harmony and adding new works to the canon. Plus a chance to join in song and learn some of the group’s arrangements.

Booking

classical | learning Check website this spring

A limited number of Under-30s (£8.50; no booking fee) tickets are available for specially selected events at Kings Place, ranging from classical concerts to jazz and world music – a great way to make live music more accessible to young people. Terms and conditions apply. For more information, please visit our website or call the Box Office. Returns policy Tickets cannot be refunded or exchanged except where a) a concert is cancelled or postponed b) you contact Kings Place at least 24 hours before the date of the show to report a positive COVID-19 test result. Online Secure 24-hour online booking kingsplace.co.uk Box Office Box Office is currently working reduced opening hours, which are subject to change. The Box Office and phone lines will always be open from 5pm on the evening of an event. You are strongly advised to get in touch with specific queries via email: info@kingsplace.co.uk

Programme 2022

Some events may have a combination of seating and standing, and some standing only. St Pancras Room All seating is general admission. Some events may be standing only with limited number of seats bookable. Access We aim to make your visit to Kings Place as comfortable as possible. Kings Place is fully accessible for wheelchairusers, with lifts from ground floor to concert level, and multiple wheelchair-accessible toilets. An infrared system is available in both Hall One and Hall Two. All areas are accessible to those with Guide and Hearing Dogs. To help us give you the best possible experience, please inform the Box Office team of your access requirements either by emailing info@@kingsplace.co.uk or by calling 020 7520 1490. The full Access Guide can be found on the website.

Taking pictures The use of cameras, video or sound recording equipment is strictly prohibited during performances, concerts and exhibitions. Kings Place may take pictures during your visit that are later used for promotional purposes. Food & Drink Policy Please note that food is not permitted inside our venues. Please ensure that all drinks are decanted into the plastic cups provided prior to entering our venues. Red wine is not permitted inside Hall One.

Safety Measures The safety of our audiences, artists and staff is of paramount importance to Kings Place. We’re continuing to try and offer the most enjoyable and safest visit in line with current government guidance. For the most up-to-date information, please check the website, kingsplace.co.uk/safety, prior to your visit.

Fri 2 – Sun 4 Sep

Lady Maisery Folk-singing Weekend

Food & Drink Rotunda Bar & Restaurant is the perfect place to dine and enjoy a drink when attending a performance. With its waterside setting, and a range of dining options including a full à la carte menu, great value preperformance menu, light postperformance supper, as well as a selection of smaller nibbles and bar food, there is something to suit everybody. However if it’s just a drink you’re after, Rotunda also has a great range of beers and wine for a pre- or postperformance tipple. +44 (0)20 7014 2840. If you just want a quick bite, the Green & Fortune Café is ideal, serving a selection of daily hot specials, soups and hot carvery rolls as well as salads, sandwiches and cakes, which are all made fresh every day. +44 (0)20 7014 2850. The Concert Bar is situated adjacent to the concert halls. Place your interval order at the bar prior to the start of the performance and your drinks will be waiting for you. If the bar is closed, drinks can be purchased from Rotunda Bar.

Workshops featuring vocal harmony trio Lady Maisery and guest artists Check website for details this spring Check website for announcements of further workshops during the year.

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Journey Bus The 390 bus route runs along York Way. Other services running nearby are routes 10, 17, 30, 45, 46, 59, 63, 73, 91, 205, 214, 259 & 476.

Programming Helen Wallace (Executive & Artistic Director) Rosie Chapman (Head of Artistic Planning) Jacob Silkin (Contemporary Programmer) Zoë Jeyes (Comedy Programmer) Rebecca Millican (Programme Manager)

Binomi (binomi.co.uk) Editorial Helen Wallace Emrah Tokalaç Rosie Chapman Rebecca Millican James Kinnaird (online) Michael Fowler (online) Printer Indigo Press (indigo-press.com)

With thanks to With thanks to Peter Millican OBE, and the whole team at Kings Place Music Foundation. The greatest care has been taken to ensure the accuracy of information in this magazine at the time of going to press, but we accept no responsibility for omissions or errors. The views expressed in this magazine are not necessarily those of Kings Place. © Kings Place 2022. All material is strictly copyright and all rights are reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without the written permission of Kings Place is strictly forbidden.

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Thu 13, Fri 14 & Sat 15 Jan

Sound Voice Installation Sat 15 Jan

Song Surgeries Bibi Heal & Stephen Barlow Fri 21 Jan

Anna B Savage co-presented by Bird on the Wire Sat 22 Jan

The Swingles with special guests, Vadé Sat 22 Jan

Laura Groves + Fran Lobo + Blood Moon Project Fri 28 Jan

John Francis Flynn co-presented by Bird on the Wire Fri 4 Feb

Arooj Aftab Sat 12 Feb

Tue 8 Mar

Fieri Consort The Excellence of Women: Casulana & Strozzi Fri 11 Mar

Black Voices Celebrating Nina! Sat 12 Mar & Sun 13 Mar

Sally Davies Workshop Sat 12 Mar

Bulgarian Song Workshop with Eugenia Georgieva

Auclair + Miryam Solomon + Evadney

Sat 26 Mar

Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir The Deer’s Cry

Cara Dillon Sun 13 Mar

Celebrating Unaccompanied Song Workshop with Green Ribbons Eugenia Georgieva Peggy Seeger & Calum MacColl The First Farewell Tour + Green Ribbons Wed 16 Mar

Riot Ensemble This Lunar Beauty Sat 19 Mar

Colleen 20 Mar

Northern Chords Festival Orchestra Dies natalis

Programme 2022

Wed 27 Apr

The Sixteen Choral Pilgrimage 2022: Author of Light Thu 5 May

Roderick Williams & Paul Cibis When I was oneand-twenty

Sat 11 Jun

London Gay Men’s Chorus Ensemble Proud Voices

Sun 19 Jun

Thu 20 Oct

Wed 11 May

Sun 10 Jul

Fri 1 Apr

Thu 12 May

Aurora Orchestra & BBC Singers MacMillan: Seven Last Words

Lido Pimienta Mon 16 May

Sat 23 Jul

Fri 28 Oct

Sat 6 Aug

Wed 2 Nov

Daphne’s Flight Thu 19 May

Brìghde Chaimbeul & Aidan O’Rourke with Julie Fowlis Thu 19 May

Wed 6 Apr

Fri 20 May

Thu 7 Apr

Adult Jazz Wed 13 Apr

Marja Mortensson & Daniel Herskedal Fri 20 May

San Salvador

The Hanover Band & Chorus St John Passion

Wed 25 May

Wed 13 Apr

Kate NV

Sound Voice in Concert

Thu 14 Apr

Sun 5 Jun

Rachael Dadd Wed 20 Apr

The Young’uns Thu 21 Apr

Mabe Fratti

Sun 23 Oct

Roderick Williams Handel’s Messiah Vocal Workshop

Andy Irvine

DM Stith VOCES8 with Eric Whitacre The Sacred Veil

The Gesualdo Six Mirror of Time Aurora Orchestra with Nicholas Mulroy Si se calla el cantor

Liraz Songlines Artist of the Year – Winner

Sat 2 Apr

Fri 14 Oct

Madison Violet

Gretchen Peters with Kim Richey

Sat 7 May

The Rheingans Sisters Riot Ensemble From Dusk till Dawn

Ye Vagabonds

Thu 31 Mar & Thu 7 Apr

Sat 8 Oct

Thu 16 Jun

Manchester Collective with Ruby Hughes This Savage Parade

Sat 2 Apr

Sun 13 Mar

Fri 4 Mar

Mari Kalkun

Sat 12 Mar

Wed 23 Feb

Aurora Orchestra & Roderick Williams Songs of a Wayfarer

Sat 26 Mar

Martin & Eliza Carthy

Sat 12 Mar

Sun 13 Mar

Fri 25 Feb

Deep Throat Choir + Nouria Bah

Allt, featuring Julie Fowlis with Zoë Conway, Éamon Doorley & John McIntyre

Theatre of Voices Deep Time Florist Emily Alone

Wed 23 Mar

London African Gospel Choir Fri 27 May

Iestyn Davies & Olivia Chaney Fri 10 Jun

Musica Secreta Mother, Sister, Daughter

The Sixteen Sounds Sublime Festival Day Spooky Men’s Chorale Fri 2 – Sun 4 Sep

Lady Maisery Folk-singing Weekend Fri 23 Sep

London Bulgarian Choir

Staran curated by Julie Fowlis Explore Ensemble with Juliet Fraser Thu 17 Nov

The Tallis Scholars Light of the Heavenly Spheres Thu 24 Nov

Iarla Ó Lionáird with Julie Fowlis

The Sixteen The Song of Songs

Thu 29 Sep

Sat 3 Dec

Sat 24 Sep

Siobhan Miller Fri 30 Sep

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment with John Butt Haydn’s Nelson Mass Fri 30 Sep

Finding My Voice

BBC Singers with Abel Selaocoe Rachmaninov & Gubaidulina Sun 4 Dec

EXAUDI Rainbow across the Night Sky Sun 11 Dec

Aurora Orchestra Shostakovich: Symphony No. 14