London Unwrapped, the thirteenth edition of Kings Place’s award-winning series launches with a weekend of performances featuring amongst others Iestyn Davies with the English Concert conducted by Harry Bicket (January 22); Riot Ensemble (January 21); and Phantasm (January 24).

London has been a melting pot since its earliest days, both a place of refuge, a glittering cultural nexus, and the most cosmopolitan of all British cities. London Unwrapped aims to delve into London’s musical past, with its dazzling display and troubling undercurrents, a constant tension between protectionism and openness to influence. The series highlights a music story that has been driven forward, disrupted, shaped and inspired by outsiders and immigrant communities, and showcases the diversity of creativity in today’s city.