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Book cover for Dr Andrew Green's 'Making Mexican Rock'
4 Dec

Making Mexican Rock: Censorship, Journalism, and Popular Music after Avándaro

4 December 2024, 16:30 to 18:00

Andrew Green discusses his about-to-be-released book in conversation with invited respondents.

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Pianist and innovator Sarah Nicolls and her piano
4 Dec

Celebrating pianist Sarah Nicolls, winner of Innovate UK Women in Innovation Award

4 December 2024, 13:30 to 15:00

Join the Department of Music in honouring one of its illustrious female alumnae, contemporary…

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Aerial view of Venice. Photo: Shutterstock
3 Dec

Venice Fellowship 2025 Briefing

3 December 2024, 18:00 to 19:30

Venice Fellowship 2025 briefing with 2024 King's College London fellow Simran Junaid and fellowship…

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Blending Tradition and Innovation
27 Nov

Blending Tradition and Innovation: Integrating Traditional Elements in Contemporary Composition

27 November 2024, 16:30 to 18:00

This talk explores the creative process of incorporating traditional musical elements of Peru’s…

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Left to right: Paulin Hountondji (photo from personal collection), Lewis Gordon (photo: Madelene Cronjé/New Frame), Alexander Douglas (photo: M. Sicilia)..
20 Nov

Music and the Interdisciplinary Humanities: Towards an Antiracist and Anticolonial Philosophical Anthropology of Music

20 November 2024, 16:30 to 18:00

This talk featuring Alexander Douglas explores the antiracist and anticolonial philosophical…

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Hands writing sheet music with a pencil.
13 Nov

The Listening Composer

13 November 2024, 16:30 to 18:00

Alan Williams introduces the idea of collaborative composition, and discusses recent developments in…

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Risible
6 Nov

Risible: Laughter without Reason and the Reproduction of Sound

6 November 2024, 16:30 to 18:00

This talk offers a broad sweep introduction to Delia Casadei’s recent book 'Risible: Laughter…

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14082024_gallica.bnf.fr  Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS fr. 846, folio 106v.
31 Oct

Songs of Consolation: Music and Poetry in the Medieval Mediterranean

31 October 2024, 18:30 to 19:30

Paul Bentley-Angel (tenor), Hannah Ely (soprano), Rebekah Jones (mezzo-soprano)

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Left to right: world-renowned singers Meili Li and Reginald Mobley.
16 Oct

CounterTenor

16 October 2024, 16:30 to 18:00

King’s Music Department is delighted to welcome world-renowned singers Meili Li and Reginald Mobley…

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Still from Marcel Carné and Jacques Prévert's Children of Paradise (1945)
9 Oct

Children of Paradise: Researching Opera Fandom in the Digital Age

9 October 2024, 16:30 to 18:00

This talk explores the opera fandom and its role in reexamining the legacy of this centuries-old…

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