Rehearsals underway for Judith Weir’s ‘Blue-Green Hill’ - here is the beautiful ending of the first movement 💙💚 • We may or may not be performing this in a concert v soon - watch this space 👀 #madsong #madsongensemble #contemporarymusic #classical #judithweir #bluegreenhill

Loooooooove this piece so much 😍

This is today! Come along for 45 mins of beautiful music!

Rehearsing hard!

Feeing so lucky to have spent a wonderful few days in beautiful Somerset with Mad Song working on all this amazing music ❤️ the perfect way to end the year

Less than a week until we perform this cracking programme! Come along on Friday for a feast of music from the last few decades. eventbrite.co.uk/e/513429580697

Wittering about one of my all-time favourite pieces, so psyched to conduct this again on Friday!

Such an honour to have Richard Causton join us on Friday after we played his magnificent ‘Phoenix’! Thank you to everyone who came, we’ll see you at our next concert in March!

We’re so excited to share our first CD feature! 🕺🏻 It was a delight to join Jon Hargreaves from TheOctandreEnsemble in recording a piece by Frank Denyer. We had great fun singing, shouting, screaming and more. You can pick up the end result from Another Timbre! anothertimbre.com/frankdenyermel…

In a week that has largely been filled with unutterably awful news, it feels especially important to be providing a little ☀️ in the face of such darkness. Composers! Send us your music!

Here we are! Our 2023 series! 5 concerts across 3 weeks with everything from late Beethoven to a world premiere, a sumptuous piano recital, a gorgeous orchestral concert inspired by the natural world, and more. Tickets go on sale next week: get these dates in the diary! (1/7)

Seven weeks until the festival begins at @barnetchurch! We've got a dazzling series of five concerts with over two hundred years of music, so watch our season trailer and then book your tickets today! eventbrite.co.uk/o/high-barnet-…

It was a real pleasure to be involved in writing some new music for this concert. Can’t wait to hear it tonight!!

High Barnet Chamber Music Festival High Barnet Chamber Music Festival, artistic director @joshuaballance returns with five concerts featuring Carol J Jones, Rob Hao, Helen Grime, Cassandra Miller, Michael Finnissy, @caroshawmusic and much more. My preview: planethugill.com/2023/05/high-b…

Been such a pleasure to do this, and can’t wait to see what Jonathan + Esther get up to!!

"when I heard it I thought it was so good we needed an orchestral version" The first of our performer interviews is out: Joshua Ballance chats about our first concert with new london orchestra, including music by Carol J Jones! Have a read and book your ticket! hbcmf.co.uk/30th-june-new-…

Still coming down from last Friday’s premiere of ‘chrysails arr. string orchestra’ as part of High Barnet Chamber Music Festival with Joshua Ballance and new london orchestra The orchestra really brought the energy and excitement out of the piece and I’ve never had so much positive feedback from an audience /1

Next week we're presenting the premiere of Commedia, a new piece by Rob Hao! Ahead of the concert Joshua Ballance chatted with Rob about the piece and life as a composer. You can watch the full interview on YouTube and join us next Friday for the premiere! youtu.be/txiYt8HtrVI

🚨 Just over a fortnight until our next concert and we can’t wait!! Join us for a programme of wild music all inspired by Pierrot 🌝🌚 madsong.co.uk/event-details/…

🚨Introducing our 2024 season! 🚨Three concerts this summer in the heart of High Barnet, with some of the UK’s most exciting early-career artists.