After a few days of packed posts about the Berkeley Ensemble’s whirlwind of musical adventures in 2016, we have a few things to tell you about what’s in store for this year.
Month: January 2017
Education Projects 2016
Our education programme climbed new heights in 2016 reaching over 2500 children, travelling further afield in the UK, working with a broader age range and delivering a more diverse group of projects: from our fantastic new primary schools project Stories in Sound, to a performance at Grange Park with young singers, to chamber music speed-dating […]
2016: Musical highlights
Apart from the major projects of the year – the recording and performances of Lennox Berkeley’s Stabat Mater and our first Little Venice Music Festival – we gave performances at venues around the country, including some of our favourite places to visit as well as some new ones.
Little Venice Music Festival 2016 roundup
Our second big success of 2016 was October’s Little Venice Music Festival, based at St. Saviour’s, Warwick Avenue – right next to the tube station. This was the fifteenth in the festival’s history, and we had the pleasure of performing on two occasions in the past. This year saw us take full responsibility for the weekend, […]
Stabat Mater reviews roundup
One of the biggest projects of 2016 was the recording and performances of Lennox Berkeley’s Stabat Mater – a greatly neglected masterpiece by the composer from whom we take our name.