Kings Place

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

Sat 9 Sep, Kings Place kingsplace.co.uk/wrestling

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

Fri 13 Oct kingsplace.co.uk/HowardSkempton

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

kingsplace.co.uk/lpf

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

20 - 22 Jul kingsplace.co.uk/IGFGS

Olivier Award-winning OperaUpClose return to Kings Place this summer with a new production of Poulenc and Cocteau’s astonishing La voix humaine – a raw and intimate one-woman opera.

2, 10 & 16 Jul and 6 & 20 Aug kingsplace.co.uk/OperaUpClose

This summer, members of The Stax Music Academy travel from Memphis to the London stage to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Stax/Volt European Tour. Find out how the Academy has inspired and changed the lives of many young people living in one of the most economically depressed zip codes in the United States.

Sat 15 Jul, 8pm kingsplace.co.uk/StaxMusic

This June, Kings Place launches The Politics Festival – a weekend of pro-politics talks, debates, discussions and plenty of politics-related entertainment. The Festival's producer Zoë Jeyes talks to journalists and political commentators Steve Richards and Ian Birrell about some of the big topics and speakers featured this year.

23 – 25 June kingsplace.co.uk/tpf

Poet in the City's Chief Executive Isobel Colchester chats to Ben Eshmade about the exciting programme of this year's Poetry & Lyrics Festival (9-10 June). In the second half, versatile vocalist Elaine Mitchener talks about her Cagean happening on 10 June.

Sat 10 June, 6.30pm kingsplace.co.uk/JohnCage

Ben Eshmade chats to Giuliano Modarelli and Al MacSween, founders of the international music collective Kefaya. They perform at this year’s Songlines Encounters Festival at Kings Place (1–3 June). kingsplace.co.uk/sef

This is the second episode in our #SonglinesEncounters podcast series.

The fourth episode in our 'Strong Women, Strong Voices' podcast series features Jerusalem-born singer Mor Karbasi. She talks about her diverse cultural influences and the liberating joy of singing.

Sat 6 May, 8pm kingsplace.co.uk/MorKarbasi