Categories
News

Details of the Berkeley Ensemble’s 2019 Chamber Music Course now online

The Berkeley Ensemble is delighted to announce details of their annual Chamber Music Course, which will take place 27-30 August 2021 in Chaffcombe, Somerset, Covid-pandemic regulations permitting.  Applications are now being accepted, and should be received by 16 July 2021.  For full details, please click here.

Categories
News

Beethoven Septet Study Day

The Berkeley Ensemble celebrate their 10th birthday in 2018. As part of the celebrations, the ensemble will be recording and touring Beethoven’s Septet, a staple of the group’s repertoire. Following on from their annual chamber music courses, the ensemble are excited to share their enthusiasm for the work in their first study day for amateur chamber […]

Categories
News

May & June Chamber Music in Little Venice

The Berkeley Ensemble, curators of the Little Venice Music Festival, are delighted to extend their new concert series, based at St. Saviour’s Church, Warwick Avenue into the summer months. Continuing with two concerts showcasing the members of the ensemble in intimate duo and trio performances each lasting around an hour, we invite you to join […]

Categories
News

New Chamber Music Series in Little Venice

The Berkeley Ensemble are delighted to announce a new concert series, based at St. Saviour’s Church, Warwick Avenue. Kicking off with four concerts showcasing the members of the ensemble in intimate duo, trio and quartet performances, we invite you to join us on the last Tuesday of every month from January onwards for or an […]

Categories
News

Details of the Berkeley Ensemble’s 2018 Chamber Music Course now online

The Berkeley Ensemble is delighted to announce details of their annual Chamber Music Course, which will take place 4-7 May 2018 in Chaffcombe, Somerset.  Applications are now being accepted, and should be received by Monday 1 January 2018.  For full details, please click here.

Categories
News

New Composer’s Career Development Opportunity launched in partnership with PRS for Music.

The Berkeley Ensemble is delighted to be working in partnership with PRS for Music in presenting Accelerate, a new career development programme for composers. We’ll be working alongside John Woolrich in two all-day workshops with up to eight selected composers who will develop new works between January and November 2018, ahead of performing the final […]

Categories
News

Petroc Trelawny announced as new patron

We are thrilled to announce that Petroc Trelawny has accepted our invitation to become a patron of the Berkeley Ensemble. Petroc is well known to British audiences from his work on BBC radio and television, but our long and fruitful association with the broadcaster and journalist began through our links with the Lennox Berkeley Society, […]

Categories
News

2017: The year ahead

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.

Categories
News

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 […]

Categories
News

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.