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The King’s Singers Return to the U.S. This Fall!
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THE KING’S SINGERS ANNOUNCE
2025-26 UNITED STATES TOUR
(Washington, DC) September 3, 2025—Celebrated GRAMMY Award-winning British ensemble, The King’s Singers, return to the United States in October 2025 five-city tour. These fall performances follow the group’s successful February 2025 concert run that marked the group’s first with new member Piers Connor Kennedy. On the brink of their 60th Anniversary Season in 2028, the upcoming tour will bring the King’s Singers to cities across the U.S., including: Durham, NC, Phoenix, AZ, San Diego, CA, Wheaton, IL, and Storm Lake, IA. The group will continue their tour of the US in February 2026 where they’ll visit six more cities.
The King’s Singers have set the global standard in a cappella performance for over 50 years, earning GRAMMY and Emmy Awards while maintaining their signature six-voice formation since 1968. They have commissioned over 200 works from leading composers like John Tavener, Eric Whitacre, and György Ligeti, alongside creating their own acclaimed arrangements, with more than two million copies of sheet music sold worldwide. In addition to their performances and recordings, they lead international educational programs and, through their Global Foundation, support new music, mentorship, and accessibility in the arts. Current members of the group include Patrick Dunachie (first countertenor), Edward Button (second countertenor), Julian Gregory (tenor), Christopher Bruerton (first baritone), Nick Ashby (second baritone), and Piers Connor Kennedy (bass).
Fall 2025 US Tour Dates and Locations
The King’s Singers at Buena Vista University
Date: Friday, October 10,2025
Time: 7:30PM
Location: Buena Vista University, 610 W. Fourth Street, Storm Lake, IA 50588, United States
Tickets: https://events.bvu.edu/event/doris-grau-performing-arts-series-the-kings-singers/
The King’s Singers at Duke Arts
Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Time: 7:30PM
Location: Duke Chapel; 401 Chapel Drive, Durham, NC 27708
Tickets: https://arts.duke.edu/events/the-kings-singers-6/
The King’s Singers at Wheaton College
Date: Thursday, October 16, 2025
Time: 7:30PM
Location: Armerding Center for Music and the Arts, Concert Hall, Wheaton, IL
Tickets: https://tickets.wheaton.edu/shows/artist-series-the-kings-singers/
The King’s Singers at the Musical Instrument Museum
Date: Saturday, October 18, 2025
Time: 7:30PM
Location: 4725 East Mayo Boulevard, Phoenix, AZ
Tickets: https://mim.org/events/the-kings-singers/
The King’s Singers & Colin Currie, presented by the San Diego Symphony
Date: Sunday, October 19, 2025
Time: 6:00PM
Location: Jacobs Music Center, 1245 Seventh Ave., San Diego, CA
Tickets: https://www.sandiegosymphony.org/performances/colin-currie-the-kings-singers/
About The King’s Singers
The King’s Singers have represented the gold standard in a cappella singing on the world’s greatest stages for over fifty years. They are renowned for their unrivalled technique, musicianship and versatility, which draws on both the group’s rich heritage and its drive to bring an extraordinary range of new and unique works, collaborations and recordings to life. The King’s Singers’ extensive discography has led to numerous awards, including two GRAMMY Awards, an Emmy Award, and a place in Gramophone magazine’s inaugural Hall of Fame.
Growing the global canon of choral music has always been one of the group's key aims, and they have now commissioned more than 200 works by many of the most prominent composers of the 20th and 21st centuries. These composers include John Tavener, Joe Hisaishi, Judith Bingham, Eric Whitacre, György Ligeti, Luciano Berio, Krzysztof Penderecki and Toru Takemitsu. All of this new music joins their unique body of close-harmony and a cappella arrangements, including those by individual King’s Singers past and present. Many of their early arrangements helped to develop the distinct ‘King’s Singers sound’ and a large number of them, as well as their more-recent commissioned works and arrangements, are now available to buy as sheet music in their own signature series with Hal Leonard. Over two million copies of these works have now been sold worldwide.
Alongside their demanding performing and recording schedule, the group also leads educational workshops and residential courses across the world, working with both ensembles and individuals on their approaches to group singing. To mark their 50th anniversary in 2018, they founded The King’s Singers Global Foundation in the USA to provide a platform to support the creation of new music across multiple disciplines, to coach a new generation of performers, and to provide musical opportunities to people of all backgrounds.
The King’s Singers were officially formed in 1968 when six recent choral scholars from King’s College, Cambridge gave a concert at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall. By chance, the group was made up of two countertenors, a tenor, two baritones and a bass, and the group has stuck to this singular formation ever since that debut.
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