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1 - 31 Oct 2021
Little Venice Music Festival 2021 (dates TBC)
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Patrons: Michael Berkeley CBE and Petroc Trelawny
To celebrate the launch of Berkeley Ensemble Online we are inviting students in Years 9-13 (age 13-18) to write a 20 second solo for one of our musicians. We’re not looking for finished pieces: we want your doodles, scribbles and sketches. Watch our ‘meet the Ensemble’ videos to learn more about our musicians and their instruments, then […]
Hot on the heels of our first series of Chamber Music Mornings last autumn, the Berkeley Ensemble is delighted to return with a new spring series of virtual study mornings for amateur musicians. Over the next few months we’ll be exploring repertoire for the larger chamber forces of the Nonet, and delving into movements from Nonets by Farrenc, Martinů and Spohr. Full of […]
The Berkeley Ensemble is delighted to announce #MusicBox, a series of ‘pop-up’ 20-minute garden performances from duos within the ensemble. We kick of this new series during the afternoon of Saturday 11 July, when Sophie Mather (violin) and Dan Shilladay (viola) will be bringing an eclectic mix of repertoire including Halvorsen’s arrangement of Handel’s Passacaglia, and […]
As the situation around COVID-19 continues to develop rapidly and in some ways unpredictably, the Berkeley Ensemble have taken the decision to postpone our 2020 Little Venice Festival until 2021.
Due to lockdown restrictions, this year’s chamber course went online for a morning of workshops with participants and John, Gemma and Sophie.
Brilliant to be part of this launch today with my @berkeleyensembl colleagues - beaming into schools across Northamptonshire and Lincolnshire! Look forward to working with @DRETmusic over the coming weeks, seeing the pieces develop, and hoping for lots of fun clarinet parts! https://t.co/HGU7w6NbaW
Lovely opportunities for budding string players, harpists, pianists and composers at the @NorthLDNFest