Tuesday 16 May 2023

High Barnet Chamber Music Festival

Joshua Ballance, artistic director of the High Barnet Chamber Music Festival
Joshua Ballance, artistic director of the High Barnet Chamber Music Festival

Conductor Joshua Ballance's High Barnet Chamber Music Festival returns for its third edition this Summer with a season of five concerts at St John the Baptist Church, High Barnet from 30 June to 16 July 2023. The festival opens with a concert from the New London Orchestra, performing music by Grace Williams, Joseph Suk and Lil Boulanger, alongside Carol J Jones' chrysalis in a newly commissioned version for string orchestra. The Jones is one of two new works at the festival, both of which came about through the festival's composition competition. The other new work is the festival's first commission, from emerging Australian composer Rob Hao. Hao's new work will be performed alongside Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire and Helen Grime's Seven Pierrot Miniatures by Ballance's ensemble Mad Song with soprano Rebekah Jones.

Other concerts include pianist George Xiaoyuan Fu in Tailleferre, Beethoven, Ravel plus Cassandra Miller/Michael Finnissy's Sinner, Please Don't Let This Harvest Pass which consists of two pieces by Miller and Finnissy's two responses to them, and the Brompton Quartet in Haydn, Beethoven and Caroline Shaw. The festival ends with a charity concert by local musicians of all ages in memory of Jean Middlemiss, a music educator who lived locally.

Full details from the festival website.

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