The King´s consort

THE KING’S CONSORT is one of the world’s leading period instrument orchestras and choirs. Its one hundred CD recordings have won many prestigious international awards and sold more than 1,500,000 discs. On tour, TKC has appeared in almost every European country, in Japan, Hong Kong, the Far East and North and South America.

TKC’s repertoire ranges from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries, encompassing a vast range of music from Albinoni to Zelenka. Most famed for its performances of baroque repertoire by Bach, Handel, Purcell and Vivaldi, and classical works by Haydn and Mozart, TKC also performs nineteenth and twentieth century music by Brahms, Britten, Gershwin, Kern, Mendelssohn, Rossini and more. Contemporary composers who have written for TKC include Michael Finnissy and Michael Berkeley.

Under its director Robert King, TKC performs both a chamber ensemble, and as an orchestra, also working with its highly acclaimed Choir of The King’s Consort who have appeared in concerts across the globe, as well as on the sound tracks of Hollywood films.

Forthcoming highlights include Purcell Dido and Aeneas and King Arthur in Barcelona, Madrid and Vienna, The Coronation of King George across Europe, Bach Mass in B minor in Lucerne, Handel Messiah and Belshazzar in Versailles, Annecy, La Chaise-Dieu and Marseille, Finzi Dies Natalis and Britten Les Illuminations at Wigmore Hall and in France, Mendelssohn at Leipzig Gewandhaus, together with tours to France, Hungary, Malta, Romania, Switzerland and Spain.