Renell Shaw premiere

Renell Shaw is set to give the first live performance of *The Windrush Suite* at Kings Place in London on June 25, 2026. (kingsplace.co.uk) Kings Place lists the concert as part of its Memory Unwrapped series, with Shaw opening a 7:30 p.m. program in Hall One before a second work, *Echo in the Bones*. The venue describes *The Windrush Suite* as an Ivor Novello Award-winning piece and says the performance will use a live ensemble, family recordings and visuals. (kingsplace.co.uk) The announced lineup includes Orphy Robinson, Ayanna Witter-Johnson, Jean Toussaint, Romarna Campbell, Nathaniel Cross, Kezia Abuoma, Mark Crown and Mutale Chashi, according to a press notice reproduced by The Jazz Mann. That billing places jazz, classical and contemporary players in the same band for the premiere. (thejazzmann.com) The work is built around the Windrush story, the postwar migration of Caribbean people to Britain that began with the arrival of HMT *Empire Windrush* in 1948. Kings Place says Shaw’s suite is a tribute to his Caribbean roots and to the generation that “building lives, community, and culture against the odds.” (kingsplace.co.uk) A second piece on the same bill, *Echo in the Bones*, shifts the focus to the children of that generation and to Black British identity. Planet Hugill says the two works together frame the night around family memory, migration and inheritance. (planethugill.com) The concert also sits inside a larger Kings Place residency. The venue names Shaw as an artist in residence for 2026 and says the program runs from an opening collaboration with 2Fox to an October 9 world premiere of *Remember Us Tomorrow*, described as the third chapter of *The Windrush Suite*. (kingsplace.co.uk 1) (kingsplace.co.uk 2) Shaw’s own biography places him across theatre, opera, contemporary composition and artist-led music, and describes him as an Ivor Novello Award-winning composer, songwriter, producer and performer. That range helps explain why this premiere is being presented as both a concert and a staged narrative work. (renellshaw.com) The immediate next step is simple: the piece moves from award recognition and advance publicity to a public audience in Hall One on June 25. That performance will be the first test of how *The Windrush Suite* lands in the room, not just on the page. (music-news.com)