Studying Music at King’s means joining a department that is right in the heart of one of the world’s great cities for music – and where the people teaching you (not to mention some of your fellow students!) are regularly involved in high-profile musical events and cultural programming across London, the UK and internationally.
From a mass virtual performance and a new dance film to an award-winning Indian novelist, via medieval music in the British Museum and Italian opera in Cairo, see what members of the King’s Music Department have been up to recently!
- Let’s Get the Band Back Together: Mass Virtual Performance feat. KCL music societies (as seen in picture above)
- Opera scholar Dr Flora Willson presents an audio documentary on BBC Radio 3 about the Egyptian reception of Verdi’s opera Aida, on the 150th anniversary of its world premiere in Cairo
- Cultural historian and Indian music expert Dr Katherine Schofield in conversation with the musician and novelist Amit Chaudhuri as part of the 2021 Jaipur Literature Festival
- Ethnomusicologist Professor Martin Stokes performs with Oxford Maqam live at BBC Arabic
Listen to recent recordings made by the KCL Chapel Choir and Director of Performance Dr Joe Fort on their Spotify page
Medieval music expert Professor Emma Dillon and King’s Music PhD graduate Dr Katherine Emery present a lecture-recital on the musical world of Thomas Becket at the British Museum here- Composer Dr Ed Nesbit was featured in BBC Radio 3’s series of ‘Postcards from Composers’ commissioned and broadcast during the 2020 lockdown
- ‘Rhapsody’ by King’s PhD composer Kristina Arakelyan was the soundtrack to CHRYSALIS: Korea, one of the ‘five best new dance films’ chosen by the Guardian.
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