New Resident Quartet Piatti Quartet

Kings Place is cutting edge, it’s everything that’s innovative and fresh on the music scene. It means a huge amount to us to have a home here where we feel supported… where we can plan and build connections with an audience over a long period of time.’

Piatti Quartet

Wed 13 Dec Hall One | 7.30pm

The Piatti Quartet become the Resident Quartet at Kings Place starting in October. They kick off their residency with four Rush Hour Lates concerts featuring Dvořák’s late quartets in addition to a world premiere by Anna Appleby.

Wed 25 Oct

Piatti Quartet

Schubert & Dvořák String Quartet No. 12

Wed 6 Dec

Piatti Quartet

Charlotte Harding & Dvořák String Quartet No. 13

Wed 14 Feb

Piatti Quartet

Webern, Anna Appleby & Dvořák String Quartet No. 14

Wed 20 Mar

Piatti Quartet with Emmanuel Despax

Ina Boyle & Dvořák Piano Quintet No. 2

Hanover Band

Handel’s Messiah The

Handel Messiah

The Hanover Band and Chorus Soloists tbc

Andrew Arthur director/harpsichord

The goal of the Hanover Band, which is made up of some of the best period-instrument specialists in the UK, is to give audiences a feeling for what earlier music sounded like when heard in favourable circumstances. With their gutsy playing ‘stripping decades of varnish from the score,’ as the Times says, Handel’s ever-popular Messiah will sound fresh and new.

£19.50-£49.50 with Under 30s and Concessions Tickets

Sun 17 Dec | Hall One | 11.30am

Soul Music

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Bach, the Universe & Everything

JS Bach Ärgre dich, o Seele, nicht (Do not be confounded, o soul), BWV 186a

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment tbc speaker

Bach, the Universe & Everything explores the human desire to better understand our place in the cosmos through Bach’s 200 cantatas. The December edition features one of his advent cantatas, the sublime Ärgre dich, o Seele, nicht, BWV 186a, first performed in December 1716.

£19.50 with Under 30s and Concession Tickets

Wed 20 Dec | Hall One | 7.30pm

Sansara

The Waiting Sky: a Christmas Meditation

Valentin Silvestrov Two Christmas Lullabies

Natalia Tsupryk A Quiet Night

Tavener The Lamb Mother of God, here I stand Byrd Vigilate

Tallis Videte miraculum

Cecilia McDowall O Oriens

Judith Weir Ave Regina caelorum

Oliver Tarney The Waiting Sky

Rhiannon Randle O magnum mysterium

Away in a Manger arr. Jacques Silent Night arr. Rose

Ease into the festive break with this meditative concert of stunning Christmas choral music presented by the acclaimed vocal collective SANSARA, which is known for creating captivating and impactful choral experiences. This specially curated sequence explores the poignancy of a war-torn Christmas through music by Ukrainian composers Valentin Silvestrov and Natalia Tsupryk, before finding consolation and hope in the anticipation of a new dawn in music from the choir’s seasonal album The Waiting Sky.

‘choral singing with real depth’ The Observer

‘SANSARA slips easily into the elite ranks of exceptional performers… breathtaking’ Choir & Organ

£20 with Under 30s and Concessions

Tickets

January 2024

Sat 13 Jan Hall One 7.30pm

Scottish Ensemble with Jasdeep Singh Degun

Join Scottish Ensemble, acclaimed for their creative projects, and Jasdeep Singh Degun as they bring together traditions of Indian and European classical music, transporting you through layers of mesmerising melody. Leeds-born sitarist Jasdeep is one of Britain’s leading voices in the Indian Classical tradition. He complements the ancient traditions of raags with contemporary compositional techniques to create sparklingly cinematic music for sitar and strings.

Scottish Ensemble spin a musical tale featuring tracks from Jasdeep’s Anomaly album, a selection of classical European string repertoire, and the London premiere of a new work by Jasdeep.

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Sun 14 Jan | Hall One | 2pm

Scottish Ensemble In Sync

Family

Join Scottish Ensemble and MishMash Productions for an energetic and interactive afternoon of string music for young people... and the young at heart! In Sync is a theatrical concert – suitable for audiences looking for a high-energy introduction to classical music, or anyone who loves their classical music live and uplifting. Through music, movement and storytelling, you’ll be whisked between centuries and continents experiencing exhilarating works of classical and folk music from across the globe. A collaboration with Nottingham-based MishMash Productions – experts in introducing young audiences to classical music – this is a show to enjoy with all the family.

Recommended for 11+

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Sun 21 Jan | Hall One | 11.30am

Here Comes the Sun Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Bach, the Universe & Everything JS Bach Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid (Ah God, how much heartache?), BWV 3

Professor Lucie Green speaker

In the first Bach, the Universe & Everything of 2024, as the days begin to grow longer we look to the sun with leading science communicator and solar expert Professor Lucie Green. The OAE perform Bach’s cantata Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid BWV 3, a work that begins elegiacally before it turns fiery then joyous.

£19.50 with Under 30s and Concessions Tickets

Sun 21 Jan | Hall One | 6pm

Linos Piano Trio

London Chamber Music Society

Fanny Mendelssohn Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 11

Prach Boondiskulchok Piano Trio No. 2 ‘Songs without Words’

Felix Mendelssohn Three Songs without Words

Beethoven Piano Trio in D major, Op. 70 No. 1 ‘Ghost’

The award-winning Linos Trio return to the LCMS in an exciting programme exploring the ‘Song without Words’ genre made famous by Felix Mendelssohn. Further reflections on the theme by Prach Boondiskulchok, in the London premiere of his Piano Trio No.2, are paired with Felix’s sister Fanny’s dramatic D minor Piano Trio. Their concert culminates in Beethoven’s famous ‘Ghost’ Trio, offering another perspective on music’s potent ability to conjure images without words.

£14.50-£29.50 with Under 30s and Concessions Tickets

Fri 26 Jan | Hall One | 7.30pm

The Sixteen Carver Choir Book

Plainchant Dum sacrum mysterium

Carver Credo from Mass Dum sacrum mysterium

James MacMillan O bone Jesu

Fayrfax Eternae laudis lilium

Cornysh Salve regina

Ramsey In Monte Oliveti

O vos omnes

How are the mighty fallen

Carver O bone Jesu a19

A special curation by Kings Place

Artistic Associates The Sixteen focused on Robert Carver, considered to be the greatest Scottish composer of the 16th century. Carver created highly intricate masses and motets in a High Renaissance polyphonic style.

The massive granite-like choral writing of his magnificent 19-part motet O Bone Jesu written for James IV of Scotland, proved an inspiration to James MacMillan who chose to clothe the same text in his own musical language of reflective beauty.

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Sun 28 Jan | Hall One | 6pm

London Firebird Orchestra with Elizabeth Karani, Harris Tsz-Chun Leung and George Jackson

London Chamber Music Society

Ruth Gipps Cringlemire

Garden Impression for string orchestra,Op. 39

Mozart Piano Concerto No. 9 in E flat major ‘Jeunehomme’

Mozart Concert Aria ‘A Berenice… Sol nascente’, K70 Haydn Symphony No. 59 in A major ‘Fire’

Elizabeth Karani soprano

Harris Tsz-Chun Leung piano

George Jackson conductor London Firebird Orchestra

The musicians of the Firebird Orchestra are joined by the pianist Harris Tsz-Chun Leung in Mozart’s beautiful piano concerto ‘Jeunehomme’, and soprano

Elizabeth Karani in Mozart’s concert aria ‘A Berenice’. The spotlight falls on the string players for Ruth Gipps’ 1952 short tone poem depicting the garden of Cringlemire, a house in the Lake District, and the concert culminates in Haydn’s dramatic and colourful Symphony No. 59, nicknamed ‘Fire’ from the unusual ‘Presto’ marking of its first movement. £14.50-£29.50 with Under 30s and Concessions Tickets

Resident Ensemble Aurora Orchestra

February 2024

Sat 3 Feb | Hall One | 7.30pm

Aurora Orchestra

Scottish Symphony

Maxwell Davies An Orkney Wedding with Sunrise

R Strauss Horn Concerto No. 1 in E flat, Op. 11

Mendelssohn Scottish Symphony

Annemarie Federle horn

Nicholas Collon conductor

Aurora Orchestra

Roaming across Scotland in the summer of 1829, the 20-year old composer Felix Mendelssohn was inspired to write what was to become his third symphony, with folkinspired melodies paying homage to the history, people and beauty of Scotland. In this programme, Aurora pairs the symphony with Maxwell Davies’ evocation of riotous wedding celebrations on his home island of Orkney (complete with its famous bagpipe solo) and Richard Strauss’s First Horn Concerto, a work in which the huge influence of Mendelssohn’s music can be clearly heard.

£19.50-£69.50 with Under 30s and Concessions Tickets

Sun 4 Feb Hall One 6pm

Solem Quartet with Shiry Rashkovsky

London Chamber Music Society

Debussy String Quartet, Op. 10

Bartók String Quartet No. 3, BB 93

Lili Boulanger, arr. Newell Deux

Morceaux

Mendelssohn String Quintet No. 1 in A major, Op. 18

Solem Quartet

Shiry Rashkovsky viola

The renowned Solem Quartet perform Debussy’s beautiful early string quartet from the 1890s, following it with music inspired by Debussy’s radical new approach to style – Bartók’s remarkable Third Quartet and two colourful pieces by Lili Boulanger, completed in 1914. The musicians are then joined by the violist Shiry Rashkovsky to perform Mendelssohn’s joyful and ebullient String Quintet in A major.

£14.50-£29.50 with Under 30s and Concessions

Wed 14 Feb | Hall One | 6.45pm Piatti Quartet

Dvořák String Quartet No. 14

Rush Hour Lates

Webern Langsamer Satz

Anna Appleby Piatti Commission

Title tba (World Premiere)

Dvořák String Quartet No. 14 in A flat major, Op. 105

Michael Trainor violin

Emily Holland violin

Miguel Sobrinho viola

Jessie Ann Richardson cello

Combining world-class performance with adventurous programming and presentation, Aurora Orchestra is one of Europe’s leading ensembles. Aurora collaborates widely across art forms and genres, championing new music and inspiring its audiences to develop a passion for orchestral music.

Fri 22 Sep

Anno with Anna Meredith

Caroline Shaw

Concerto for Harpsichord & Strings (UK premiere)

Sat 25 Nov

In the Light of Air

Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Takemitsu & Debussy

Sat 3 Feb

Scottish Symphony Maxwell Davies, Mendelssohn & Strauss, with Annemarie Federle (horn)

Sat 27 Apr

Outlanders with Sam Amidon and Emily Smith

Folk ballad arrangements

& Steve Reich

Aurora Orchestra

A rare chance to hear Dvořák’s String Quartet No. 14 (1895), the composer’s last work in the genre and one which in which he is on inspired and joyous form. We nod to Valentine’s Day in this programme, with a work from the furthermost edges of Romantic music: Anton Webern’s Langsamer Satz Webern wrote this beautiful slow movement in 1905, while he was on his honeymoon and hiking in the Alps. It also represents his farewell love letter to tonal writing. This will be followed by a world premiere from brilliant young composer Anna Appleby.

£17.50 with Under 30s and Concessions

Tickets

Thu 15 Feb | Hall One | 8pm Ruisi

Quartet

Big House

Oliver Leith A different Fantasie from Suite No. 5 in G minor (after Matthew Locke)

Monteverdi & Scodanibbio

Selections from the Books of Madrigals and Mas Lugares (Su Madrigali di Monteverdi)

Haydn Quartet Op.76 No.3

Oliver Coates new work

Oliver Leith The Big House

Alessandro Ruisi violin

Oliver Cave violin

Luba Tunnicliffe viola

Max Ruisi cello

The Ruisi Quartet is celebrated both for deeply engaging performances of early repertoire and for its bold commissions. In this concert the Ruisi, founded by British/Sicilian brothers Alessandro and Max, contextualise the music of Oliver Leith, by juxtaposing his rework of a Matthew Locke suite with arrangements of 17th-century madrigals by Monteverdi, then move on to Haydn at his finest. Before they enter the intoxicating hazes of Leith’s

The Big House written expressly for the quartet, there will be a rare premiere from the highly individual cellist, composer and producer Oliver Coates.

Part of a composer focus on Oliver Leith (see Thrilly Marvel Chants/ EXAUDI, 28 Feb)

£24.50 with Under 30s and Concession Tickets

Sun 18 Feb | Hall One | 11.30am

Got to Have Faith Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Bach, the Universe & Everything

JS Bach Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe (Jesus gathered the twelve to him), BWV 22 tbc speaker

The OAE’s Sunday morning series continues its search for life and meaning beyond our planetary boundaries. Bach’s Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe BWV 22 may have been his audition piece in Leipzig. Aptly for our series, it speaks of the need for faith in the face of a journey into the unknown.

£19.50 with Under 30s and Concession Tickets

Sun 18 Feb Hall One 6pm

Mishka Rushdie

Momen and Alasdair

Beatson Two Pianos

London Chamber Music Society Programme to include: Debussy En blanc et noir Schumann Canonic Etudes

£14.50-£29.50 with Under 30s and Concessions Tickets

Thu 22 Feb | Hall One | 8pm Maxwell Quartet

Worksongs

HaydnString Quartet in E flat major, Op. 20/1

Maxwell Quartet Worksongs (folk music of Scotland)

Beethoven String Quartet in C sharp minor, Op. 131

Colin Scobie violin

George Smith violin

Elliott Perks viola

Duncan Strachan cello

Worksongs is the latest project from the Maxwell Quartet, exploring the traditional music of their homeland of Scotland, alongside works from the classical canon. It brings together songs, dances and stories from times past, born of Scotland’s historic industries. Travelling from the east coast’s fishing and other sea trades to the jute mills of Dundee and the Hebridean wool and tweed industry, the programme is a historic tour of

Scotland’s hardworking societies, woven together in the Maxwell Quartet’s own impressionistic and sensitive reworkings of traditional songs.

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Wed 28 Feb| Hall One | 8pm

EXAUDI

Thrilly Marvel Chants

Programme to include music by: Billings, Hildegard of Bingen, Brahms, Dowland, Hamilton, Johnston, Ligeti, Oliver Leith, Luboff, Cassandra Miller, Morricone, Palestrina, Read, Joanna Ward & some anons

EXAUDI

James Weeks director

This concert, curated by composer Oliver Leith, draws inspiration from a grainy film of the Deller Consort singing English madrigals around a dining table; seemingly without audience; pure joy. Here, EXAUDI and James Weeks do the same, performing recent and ancient music with unspoiled and irreverent curiosity. Superimposing New England Psalms, attempting musical illusions, affecting unhinged vibrato on Dowland and melting cowboy songs. There will also be the first performance of a work by Oliver Leith himself.

Part of a composer focus on Oliver Leith (see Ruisi Quartet, Big House, 15 Feb)

£26.50 with Under 30s and Concessions

Tickets

Sun 25 Feb | Hall One 6pm

Trio Goya

London Chamber Music Society Programme to be announced

Kati Debretzeni violin Sebastian Comberti cello Maggie Cole fortepiano

£14.50-£29.50 with Under 30s and Concessions Tickets