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Introducing Earth Unwrapped
Sam Lee, Artist in Residence
Gazelle Twin, Artist in Residence
Jason Singh, Artist in Residence
Environmental Sustainability
Event Listings
CSM & Climate Emergency Network
Aurora Orchestra
Boyd
Pioro
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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.
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 relationship with our eco-system and addressing the healing that we all need in this turbulent world.
We turn to Artists in Residence Sam Lee , Jason Singh and Gazelle Twin to tell stories of the Earth through their performances, installations and celebrations throughout the year. Long-time collaborator Sam Lee explores the kinship between nature and humanity through nightingales to whale song, as well as a communal celebration of Harvest. Jason Singh presents his multi-sensory and cross-species approach to sound and music through his life-long dedication to the natural world, whilst iconic electronic artist Gazelle Twin will immerse us in her pastoral yet dystopian sounds.
Throughout the year, you’ll see us working with our King’s Cross neighbours and worldrenowned arts and design college, Central Saint Martins, inviting the next generation to channel creativity into climate, shining a light on their Climate Emergency Network.
Environmental artist Alice Boyd creates and presents The Sounds of King’s Cross for our Soundscape system from d&b audiotechnik, 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.
We celebrate Terry Riley’s 90th birthday, look to Pauline Oliveros’s concept of deep listening and are taken on a Mahler adventure with Resident Ensemble, Aurora. You’ll hear new music and presentations from artists who dedicate their work to our planet alongside world premieres from New York based composer Julia Wolfe, French-British composer Josephine Stephenson, and Scottish composer/producer Erland Cooper.
Virtuoso violinist Daniel Pioro invites you to Time Unravelling, Sound Unfolding – a weekend of deep listening for our audiences, exploring emotional states via the music of Catherine Lamb, Pauline Oliveros, James Tenney and Valgeir Sigurðsson.
D&b audiotechnik’s Soundscape system will bring the outdoors in with artists such as Soumik Datta, Alice Boyd and The Rheingans Sisters enabling us to feel immersed in the outdoors from sounds on our doorstep to around the world.
This year long series will offer a place to listen deeply to our world on a microscopic to a cosmic scale, inviting you to celebrate our natural world, provide a space to listen, learn and be inspired by the artists around us.
Sam McShane Artistic Director Rosie Chapman Head of Artistic Planning
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.
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.
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 to nature.
How has that idea connected on the road this year?
We played a festival recently on the main stage, there were about 4,000 people, and I had lots of people coming up to me afterwards saying that they’ve never felt like that about music before. You can’t deny the power of these songs.
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 necessary are the arts for affecting change?
It’s so necessary that the arts world advocates for and celebrates nature. If the power of the human spirit of creativity was to be fully enhanced in finding ways to visualise and make people fall in love with a subject like nature, then we could be really pushing the boundaries and creating a movement that is utterly irresistible.
What’s the concept behind your Earth Unwrapped events?
I’d like to give people a safe space in which to have 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.
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 vibrational, and some of the talks that we’re doing. It’s really about trying to create a diverse range of experiences – from performances to an indoor/outdoor harvest feast – that touch on the connected aspects of how we and nature are entwined.
How are EarthPercent involved?
They are one of, if not the most vital charity for music and environmental partnerships. They are fast becoming such an important way of diverting actual cash from the music industry into environmental projects, and giving back something to the land, the sea and the sky, essentially. It’s very visionary.
Do you see yourself as an artist or activist?
‘If the power of the human spirit of creativity was to be fully enhanced in finding ways to visualise and make people fall in love with a subject like nature, then we could be really pushing the boundaries and creating a movement that is utterly irresistible.’
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.
Gazelle Twin
is Artist in Residence for Kings Place’s series. 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 (2021) with NYX Choir, Pastoral (2018), Kingdom Come (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.
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, features her voice on 3 songs. In 2019 Gazelle Twin worked with Max de Wardener to create an orchestral performance The Power and the Glory with the BBC Concert Orchestra at London’s Queen 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.
‘Her compositions encompass euphoric and haunting choral landscapes, to intensely minimal, beat-driven pop songs.’
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 Cyberpunk: Edgerunners . She has to date composed three feature, horror film scores; Black Cab (Sony Pictures / Stolen Pictures, 2024), Nocturne (by Amazon Studios / Blumhouse, 2020), and The
Power (Shudder, BFI, 2021) in collaboration with Max de Wardener, Then You Run (SKY MAX, 2023). In March 2024 she worked with Maxine Peake, writer Daisy Johnson, Imogen Knight and Sarah Frankcom on a theatrical adaptation of the folk horror TV Play for Today Robin Redbreast at Factory Interntional in Manchester, and she is currently scoring a new theatrical adaption of Rose Glass’s British horror film, Saint Maud
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.
Jason Singh
Nature beatboxer
Jason Singh is Artist in Residence for Kings Place’s Earth Unwrapped series.
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.
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 Green Planet, Wild Isles and Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Other commissions include, IF Milton Keynes, Chester Zoo, Rajasthan International Folk Festival, Selfridges, WOMAD and Earthshot.
Throughout his career, Jason has been an in-demand beatboxer bringing his unique vocal talents to the stage with artists such as Nitin Sawhney, Yazz Ahmed, The Comet is Coming, Shabaka Hutchings, The Breath, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Talvin Singh, Cerys Matthews and Natacha Atlas. His own live performances with regular collaborators Giuliano Modarelli and Tamar Osborn will see a new project coming later in 2025.
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.
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 Jagadish Bose, whose work as a physicist, biophysicist, biologist and botanist changed the world.
‘For Jason’s Earth Unwrapped residency, he will be further exploring his long-running connection with the natural world through a series of events.’
Environmental Sustainability at Kings Place
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. But as a venue, we also have a responsibility to reduce our own impact on the environment.
Energy reductions since 2022
More than 75% of all waste is recycled
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Local event equipment hire
Energy-efficient LED lighting system in public and performance spaces.
Future plans
Changes made in our hospitality section: Biodegradable
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 audience travel to equipment production and logistics.
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Thu 16 Jan | Hall One | 7.30pm
Sacconi Quartet
& Festival Voices
Terry Riley Sun Rings
Classical | Contemporary
Terry Riley Sun Rings
Sacconi Quartet
Festival Voices
Gregory Batsleer conductor
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.
£22 – £60 plus Concessions Tickets
Fri 17 Jan | Hall One | 7.30pm
Olivia Chaney
Modern Myths & Pastorales
Folk Contemporary
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.
£22 plus Concessions Tickets
Fri 17 Jan | Hall Two | 8pm
Jason Singh Drifters (live AV show)
Contemporary | Soundscape
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.
£20 plus Concessions Tickets
Sat 18 Jan | Hall One | 3pm
Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
A Family Concert Adventure
Classical Words | Family
Vivaldi The Four Seasons
Manchester Camerata
Daniel Pioro violin
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!
Suitable for children aged 4+ £15 children, £20 adults
Sat 18 Jan | Hall Two | 6pm
Gazelle Twin We Wax, We Shall Not Wane + Q&A
Contemporary
Originally commissioned for The Horror Show!, an exhibition curated by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard and Claire Catterall at Somerset House, British producer and composer Gazelle Twin will repurpose her immersive installation featuring a pre-recorded narration by Maxine Peake for the opening weekend of Earth Unwrapped We Wax. We Shall Not Wane is an incantation of grief and defiance in lament for women lost to violence through the centuries until the present day. The installation will be followed by a Q&A with Gazelle Twin.
£15 plus Concessions Tickets
Sat 18 Jan | Hall One | 7pm
Platoon Presents...
Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with Daniel Pioro & Manchester Camerata
Classical | Words | Platoon Presents
Caroline Shaw The Evergreen
Vivaldi The Four Seasons
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 neverheard-before interpretation by virtuoso violinist Daniel Pioro, Manchester Camerata and newly commissioned poetry written by Sir Michael Morpurgo. 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
Central Saint Martins & Climate Emergency Network
University of the Arts London (UAL)
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.
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.
The Climate Emergency Network is a collective of stu
‘Working with defiant hope amid uncertainty, students use their compassion & vision to re-make the world.’
See the Kings Place website for individual event details announced December 2024 @ual_climate
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.
Sun 19 Jan | Hall One | 11.30am
OAE: Bach, the Universe and Everything Sustainable Space
Classical Words
Gibbons O Clap Your Hands
JS Bach Meine Seufzer, meine Tränen (‘My sighs, my tears’), BWV 13
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
Fri 24 Jan | Hall Two | 8pm
Mari Kalkun
Folk | Contemporary
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.
£20 plus Concessions Tickets
Crick Crack Club
The Three Snake Leaves
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.
Fri 31 Jan | Hall One | 8pm
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
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.
£24 – £60 plus Concessions Tickets
Sat 1 Feb | Hall Two | 8pm
Laura Cannell
The Rituals of Hildegard Reimagined
Contemporary
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
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
Aurora Orchestra
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 reimagines two of Mahler’s bestknown symphonic works for the intimate surroundings of Kings Place, presenting crystalline chamber arrangements that reveal his orchestrations in a new light.
Other highlights include a journey in the Alps in the company of composer Richard Ayres, a collaboration with the BBC Singers, appearances from soloists Alice Coote, Andrew Staples and Mary Bevan, and a brand-new storytelling concert based around Mahler’s music (in versions for both children and grown-ups!).
Sat 8 Feb | Hall Two | 7pm
Ligeti Quartet plays Terry Riley
Contemporary | Classical | Soundscape
Terry Riley Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band (arr. Richard Jones)
Pauline Oliveros 70 Chords for Terry Terry Riley Cadenza on The Night Plain
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.
£22 plus Concessions Tickets
Sat 15 Mar | Hall One, Hall Two & St Pancras | From 12pm
Sam Lee
Meeting is a Pleasant Place
Folk | Words Family
Fri 28 Feb | Hall One | 7.30pm
Theatre of Voices
The Tree of Life
Classical | Contemporary
Arvo Pärt Missa Syllabica
Julia Wolfe new work (Kings Place commission)
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!
See website for ticket details
Nigel Osborne The Tree of Life (UK Premiere)
Theatre of Voices
Paul Hillier conductor
Rihab Azar oud
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
£20 – £50 plus Concessions Tickets
Sun 16 Mar | Hall Two | 5pm Soumik Datta
Borderlands
Contemporary | Soundscape
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.
£20 plus Concessions Tickets
Sat 5 April | Hall One | 7.30pm
Aurora Orchestra
Song
Classical
of the Earth
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
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.
£24 – £60 plus Concessions Tickets
Alice Boyd
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 with the natural world and reveal the hidden sounds of our environments. Alice’s practice includes music and live performance, site-specific audio installations, radio documentaries, podcasts, and compositions for film and theatre.
Alice has developed a love for field recording, travelling the UK capturing the unique sounds of different locations, seasons and environments. She presents a monthly episode of Ffern’s podcast As the Season Turns, has hosted episodes of BBC Countryfile Magazine’s The Plodcast, and gave a TEDx talk on listening as a tool for change. In her latest project, Shifting Soundscapes for BBC Radio 4, Alice retraces the steps of legendary field recordist Martyn Stewart to document the changing sounds of our environments.
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.
Sat 5 April | Hall Two | 7pm
Alice Boyd
The Sounds of King’s Cross
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.
Please see website for future installation dates.
£10
Fri 25 – Sun 27 Apr | Hall One, Hall Two & St Pancras | Various times
Folk
Weekend:
Birdsong, You’ve Never Heard So Sweet
Folk | Contemporary Folk Weekend
Sat 5 April | Hall Two | 8pm
Alice Boyd & Guests
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
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.
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
Sun 18 May | Hall Two | all-day
Jason Singh Moon Scales
Contemporary
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.
£12 plus Concessions Tickets
Thu 22 May | Hall One | 8pm
Piatti Quartet
Albion Refracted
Classical | Words
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
Piatti Quartet
Alex Lawther narrator
Sean Mullan visual artist
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.
£20-30 plus Concessions Tickets
Fri 30 May | Hall One | 7.30pm
Gazelle Twin Black Dog
Contemporary
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.
£25 plus Concessions Tickets
Peggy Seeger
Farewell
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
“
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.
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.
The concept of EarthPercent is to embed the Earth as a stakeholder in the music industry. So we’ve created systems allowing anyone in music to give back a percentage to the Earth, for example,
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.
through pledging a percentage of live fees, of publishing rights, of merchandise or of ticket sales. We also use our annual campaigns to harness the power of music in service of the planet. This has included selling compilation records on pioneering plant-based Evovinyl, and partnering with Museum 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.”
Daniel Pioro Time Unravelling Sound Unfolding
Violinist Daniel Pioro is an ardent advocate for new and experimental music and is always interested in finding fresh ways of listening to and creating sound. He develops strong artistic collaborations and actively seeks to draw the audience into a creative relationship, inviting them to ‘come and sit inside the violin and be terrified with me – get excited with me’. Kings Place have invited Daniel to curate a weekend of deep listening for our audiences, exploring emotional states via the music of Bach, Oliveros, Tenney and Valgeir Sigurðsson. Inspired by Pauline Oliveros’ concept of deep listening, developed during a time of political despair, we ask audiences to actively listen to the world around us in a communal act of renewal and repair.
See website for individual event details.
Sat 14 – Sun 15 Jun | Hall Two
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
Classical Contemporary
James Tenney In a Large, Open Space
Daniel Pioro violin
Manchester Camerata
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
Valgeir Sigurðsson
Sat 20 Sep | Camley
Sam Lee
Park & Hall One | from 2pm
The Great Harvest Feast
Folk | Contemporary
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. See
Aurora Orchestra
In the Alps
Classical
Richard Ayres No. 42—In the Alps
Mahler (arr. Farrington) Symphony No. 4
Aurora Orchestra
Mary Bevan soprano
Nicholas Collon conductor
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.
£24 – £60 plus Concessions Tickets Sun 19 Oct |
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.
£20 plus Concessions Tickets
Thu 30 Oct | Hall Two | 8.30pm
Gazelle Twin
Contemporary | Luminate
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.
£20 plus Concessions Tickets
The House of Bedlam To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe
Classical | Contemporary | Soundscape
Larry Goves Crow Rotations
Pauline Oliveros To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of Their Desperation
Juliet Fraser soprano
The House of Bedlam
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.
£20 plus Concessions Tickets
Contemporary
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
Pauline Oliveros
Terje
Wed 19 Nov | Hall One | 8pm
VOCES8 & Carducci Quartet
The Lost Birds
Classical | Contemporary
Christopher Tin The Lost Birds
Carducci Quartet
VOCES8
Christopher Glynn piano
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.
£20 – £50 plus Concessions Tickets
Sat 29 Nov | Hall Two | 7pm
Solem Quartet Towards Silence
Classical | Contemporary
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
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. £20 plus Concessions Tickets
Sun 23, Sat 29 Nov, Sat 6 Dec | Hall Two 10am, 11am, 12.45pm and 1.45pm
Aurora Orchestra: Far, Far Away Mahler and the Mountain Adventure
Classical | Family
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.
Children £10, adults £12 + £39 family ticket offer
Fri 5 Dec | Hall One | 7pm
Erland Cooper The Peregrine (World Premiere)
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.
£26 plus Concessions Tickets
and the Mountain Adventure (for grown-ups)
Classical
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.
See website for ticket details
More events to be confirmed.
The events listed within this brochure are confirmed at the time of going to press and are subject to change. Please check the website for the latest programme kingsplace.co.uk/earth
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and Carice Singers
Ode to Our Planet
£20 – £50 plus Concessions Tickets Sat 6 Dec | Hall Two | 9pm Aurora Orchestra Mahler
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.
Altstaedt
Josephine Stephenson
Cast List
Earth Unwrapped Artists
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
The Earth
Earth Unwrapped Composers
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
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
March
Book Week
London‘s longest running book festival presented by the Jewish Literary Foundation.
April
Folk Weekend
Alan Bearman Music presents a weekend of folk events showcasing the very finest traditional musicians.
May
Songlines Encounters Festival
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.
September
London Podcast Festival
Our annual flagship event, the London Podcast Festival, celebrates the art of podcasting with some of the world’s greatest podcast makers and presenters.
September – February
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.
October Luminate
A platform for adventurous artists and audiences, Luminate presents boundary-breaking performances.
October – March
Soundbites with Piatti Quartet
Sixty-minute transportive music experiences in collaboration with the Kings Place resident string quartet, Piatti.
October – March
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
EFG London Jazz Festival
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 Unwrapped
Our award-winning, year-long series that celebrates topical subjects through music and spoken word.
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
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
Bach, The Universe and Everything
Soundbites | Piatti Quartet
Luminate with Theon Cross
EFG London Jazz Festival | China Moses
Songlines Encounters Festival | Ialoni
Folk Weekend | Kathryn Tickell
The Guilty Feminist London Podcast Festival
ROTUNDA IS A HIDDEN GEM, IN A WATERSIDE LOCATION A STONE’S THROW FROM KINGS CROSS STATION, WITH SPECTACULAR VIEWS
PRE-CONCERT DINING
Whether you are here for an unforgettable sharing cut from our very own farm, a stunning Sunday roast with the family, bottomless brunch with friends or after-works drinks on the terrace, quality is at the heart of everything we do.
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.
Our Friends and Patrons enjoy a closer relationship to Kings Place, supporting our ground-breaking programme of live music and spoken word.
Join today and receive benefits including:
• Priority booking for select festivals, series and waived booking fees
• Waiting list priority for sold-out performances
• Invitations to special events including receptions, rehearsals and building tours
• Plus opportunities to meet our artistic team and hear personal insights into our work
Find out more at kingsplace.co.uk/support-us
BLACK LIVES IN MUSIC IS COMMITTED TO ENSURING REPRESENTATION MATTERS.
We are an award-winning charity and our research drives initiatives in workforce development, career pathways, and mentoring to create a more inclusive and equitable industry.
We are proud to partner with Kings Place Music Foundation on various projects, including Classically Black, a celebration of Black and underrepresented musicians and composers.
Our Anti-Racism Code of Conduct will champion change with the support from leading arts organisations like Kings Place.
Find out more about our work at blim.org.uk
Bradley Wilson conducting. Photo by Rachel Coles.
THE HOME OF AR TIST-LED STOR Y TELLING
Booking
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.
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.
Concessions Tickets
A limited number of Concessions discounted tickets are available on selected events, providing discounts for students and those in receipt of benefits or financial support (e.g. Pension, Disability, Universal Credit). 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
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
The Venues
Hall One
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.
Hall Two and St Pancras Room
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,
which will be made clear on the day. Kings Place staff members may take pictures during your visit that will be used for promotional purposes. Signage will be displayed if filming is taking place during a performance. Audience members are not permitted to film performances. Please speak to a member of staff if you have any concerns.
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.
Journey
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.
Public transport
The Transport for London Journey Planner provides live travel updates and options on how to reach Kings Place quickly and accurately. You can also call London Travel Information on: 0343 222 1234.
Tube
The nearest tube station is King’s Cross St Pancras, on the Circle, Metropolitan, Hammersmith & City, Northern, Piccadilly and Victoria lines. The station
Editorial Team
Publisher Kings Place Music Foundation
Contact 020 7520 1440 info@kingsplace.co.uk
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Damien Stewart
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has step-free access from platform to street level. The quickest way to Kings Place is via King’s Boulevard. You can also walk via York Way.
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.
Car
Kings Place is outside the Congestion Charge Zone. However, it is within the London-wide Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ).
The nearest car park is at St Pancras station on Pancras Road, open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week including Bank Holidays. An alternative space is Handyside
Programming
Sam McShane (Artistic Director) Rosie Chapman (Head of Artistic Planning)
Rebecca Millican (Spoken Word Programme Manager) Rob Farhat (Contemporary Programme Manager)
With thanks to Peter Millican OBE, and the whole team at Kings Place Music Foundation.
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Car Park in the Tapestry building on Canal Reach, open 8am-10pm, 7 days a week including Bank Holidays.
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.
Image credits
Cover Iceland ©️ Roland Varsbergs| p1 Tarawa, Kiribati ©️ European Space Agency | p3 Sam McShane ©️ Campbell Parker; Rosie Chapman ©️ Nick White | p5 Sam Lee ©️ Dominick Tyler p6 Gazelle Twin ©️ Victor Frankowski; Woodland stream ©️ Matthew Daniels | p9 Jason Singh ©️ Julian Fraser; Herring ©️ Clint Bustrillos-unsplash | p10 Estonian forest ©️ Maksim Shutov p12 Terry Riley ©️ Takahiro Kyono; Olivia Chaney, supplied photo; Jason Singh ©️ Julian Fraser | p13 Gazelle Twin ©️ Victor Frankowski; tree, supplied image | p14 UAL Parade Climate Justice ©️ Ana Blumenkron; Libya ©️ Usgs p15 Mari Kalkun ©️ Dmitri Kotjuh; Crick Crack Club, supplied image | p16 In Paradisum ©️ Andrew Staples; Robert Macfarlane, supplied image; Hayden Thorpe ©️ Eeva Rinne | p17 Song of the Earth ©️ Nick Rutter; Austrian Alps ©️ Samuel Clara p18 Ligeti Quartet ©️ Ed Miles; Julia Wolfe ©️ Peter Serling | p19 Souk Datta ©️ Sound Datta; Alice Coote ©️ Phil Sharp; Andrew Staples, supplied photo | p20 Alice Boyd ©️ Michelle Sanders; Ducks ©️ Javiera Argandona p21 Eliza Carthy, supplied photo p22 Jason Singh ©️ Reece Straw; Piatti Quartet, supplied image; Peggy Seeger ©️ Vicki Sharp | p23 Rivers ©️ Usgs p24 Daniel Pioro ©️ Raphael Neal | p25 Valgeir Sirgurõsson, supplied photo, English cove ©️ Ian Cylkowski | p26 Sam Lee ©️ Dominick Tyler; Mary Bevan ©️ Stanton Media; Jason Singh ©️ Reece Straw p27 Pauline Oliveros, supplied image; Terje Isungset ©️ Emile Holba | p28 Voces8, supplied image; Mahler and the Mountain Adventure ©️ Monika Jakubowska; Solem Quartet ©️ Bertie Watson | p29 Erland Cooper ©️ Alex Kozobolis; Josephine Stephenson ©️ marika kochiashvili, Snowy Mountains ©️ Francesca Hotchin | p30 Orange rocks ©️ Raychan | p32 Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening ©️ Jonathon Cuff; Ialoni, supplied photo; LonPodFest19 Guilty Feminist ©️ Viktor Erik Emanuel; Jasdeep Singh Degun, supplied photo | p33 Theon Cross©️ Monika S. Jakubowska; Piatti ©️ Venetia Jollands; Bach, The Universe and Everything ©️ Monika S. Jakubowska; China Moses ©️ Monika S. Jakubowska; Soundscape ©️ Monika S Jakubowska | p39 Hall One ©️ Nick White
EARTH UNWRAPPED
Januar y - June 2025
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PETER OLOYA 2024, Bronze
