Kings Place - Aurora Orchestra

Meet the Instruments

20 November 2025

It’s party time for the whole family! Sing, dance, play games, and discover the magical sounds of orchestral instruments.

Aurora with the BBC Singers and Edmund de Waal

30 September 2025

Artist Edmund de Waal introduces the BBC Singers and Aurora in a concert weaving together three centuries of psalm settings.

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Memory with Lotte Betts-Dean and Brett Dean

25 September 2025

Father-daughter duo Brett Dean and Lotte Betts-Dean join Aurora for a kaleidoscopic programme weaving together fragments of remembrance.

A man stands playing a clarinet, in front of an open piano. Behind him, a man sits behind a music stand with an oboe to his mouth, and to his left is a man holding a bassoon.

Aurora Principal Players: Echoes, Kings Place

25 September 2025

Our Principal Players weave together four masterpieces of wind music in an intimate concert alive with the memory of times past.

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Where Memory Sings, Kings Place

25 September 2025

Artist Edmund de Waal introduces the BBC Singers and Aurora in a concert weaving together three centuries of psalm settings.

A musical performance on stage featuring three musicians: one playing a flute on the left, one playing a harp in the center, and one playing a cello on the right. The stage is decorated with floral arrangements and props, including a trellis adorned with colorful flowers and leaves. Green music stands with leaf designs are positioned in front of the musicians. The audience is seated in the foreground, partially visible from behind. Around the edge are abstract green plants.

Mahler and the Mountain Adventure (for grown-ups)

11 December 2024

A seriously unserious night of chamber music as we reimagine our much-loved children’s storytelling concert for a slightly more grown-up evening.

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Aurora & BBC Singers: In Paradisum

2 December 2024

We join forces with the BBC Singers for a programme that lifts its eyes to the horizon and glimpses the divine from Earth.

Aurora & BBC Singers, Kings Place, London

10 October 2024

Aurora Orchestra welcomes the BBC Singers for a programme that lifts its eyes to the horizon and glimpses the divine from Earth.

An orchestra stand performing on a stage. The conductor is in front of them, with his back shown in the image. All the musicians are playing their instruments.

Song of the Earth

10 October 2024

Two of the leading Mahler singers of our time, Alice Coote and Andrew Staples, sing Das Lied von der Erde, an incomparable musical homage to the natural world, and humanity’s place within it.

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In the Alps

10 October 2024

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.

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