Mad Song

“The playing was beyond praise” @SeenAndHeardInt • ensemble specialising in contemporary classical performances

[High Barnet Chamber Music Festival @hbcmfest]

@MithrasTrio 5th July
@madsongensemble brings a selection of pieces from the last fifty years inspired by other artists. You’ll hear compositions by Anna Clyne, Tristan Murail, George Benjamin, and more, responding to composers Purcell and Cage, as well as painters Monet and Whistler.

[High Barnet Chamber Music Festival @hbcmfest]

🚨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.

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Less than a week until Pierrot! Here’s our flautist, Hannah, talking about Raub (Robbery)! Join us on Tuesday at Heath Street Baptist Church.

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Great to be featured in this week’s musical round-up from @NewJournal ! Come and join us in Hampstead on Tuesday!

https://t.co/yIst5ROTXM

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In July we presented the premiere of Rob Hao’s ‘Commedia’, and we’re so looking forward to performing it again on Tuesday! Ahead of the premiere our conductor @joshuaballance chatted with Rob, so watch the whole interview on YouTube and join us next week!
https://t.co/pkKiuZOvB7

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Here’s our cellist Laura talking about the atmospheric end to Pierrot lunaire. Come and hear us perform it next Tuesday at Heath St Baptist Church!

https://t.co/JkiHwQ8Q1H

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Here’s Josh, our conductor, talking a little about his favourite movement from Pierrot, ‘Nacht’. Come and hear the whole thing on November 21st!

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🚨 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 🌝🌚

https://t.co/fHbrALW9gx

[High Barnet Chamber Music Festival @hbcmfest]

We absolutely love this poster from the first performance of Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire. Striking, bold, powerful, just like the music! Come and hear it this Friday with @madsongensemble!

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"I love how the flute and vocal lines intertwine, Der kranke Mond has an eerie quality which is so interesting."
On Friday @rebekahjmezzo joins @madsongensemble to perform Schoenberg's iconic Pierrot lunaire. Have a read our chat with Rebekah!

https://t.co/DEo1Nrey6K

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Next week we're presenting the premiere of Commedia, a new piece by Rob Hao! Ahead of the concert @Joshuaballance 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!
https://t.co/pkKiuZOvB7

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It was great workshopping early sketches from this last month: we can’t wait to get to work on the finished piece!!

[High Barnet Chamber Music Festival @hbcmfest]

New music! So excited to receive Rob Hao’s Commedia. Rob won our composition competition earlier this year, and so we commissioned this piece from him. Come and hear the premiere on July 14th with @madsongensemble!

https://t.co/nC3hVoH9Pn

[High Barnet Chamber Music Festival @hbcmfest]

@newlondonorch @carol_j_jones @eyepitydafu @caroshawmusic 14th July • 8pm • The ensemble @madsongensemble are joined by mezzo soprano @rebekahjmezzo, for Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire, interspersed with responses to Schoenberg’s melodrama by Helen Grime and Rob Hao.
https://t.co/DEo1Nrey6K (5/7)

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Tonight Flotation Device honors heterodox UK composer Frank Denyer at 80, w/new and rare recs by @MadSongEnsemble & @ScordaturaEnse1. Plus RIP @RyuichiSakamoto, @AlexPaxtonYeah blows, and @Yo_Kosuge & @BBCSO play @DaiFujikura.
Sun 10pm–Mid PDT @KBCS 91.3fm https://t.co/gAei9CnKP8

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How exciting!! Well done Rob!!

[High Barnet Chamber Music Festival @hbcmfest]

A huge congratulations to Rob Hao who has won our 2023 Call for Scores! Rob is an Australian pianist and composer, and he will be writing a new piece for our friends at @madsongensemble, who will premiere the work in this year’s season. (1/2)

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100 years on we love playing Webern’s arrangement of Schoenberg’s gorgeous Chamber Symphony! It was a delight to play it this week, and you can catch us doing it again in May!

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Come and write some music for us!

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🚨Composers! Send us your music!
We’re very excited to be commissioning our first piece, to be premiered by @madsongensemble at this year’s festival. The commission is for a 5–10 minute piece for ensemble (fl, cl, pno, vln, vcl, cond) thanks to support from the Leche Trust.
(1/2)

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We’re so excited to share our first CD feature! 🕺🏻
It was a delight to join @JonHargreaves5 from
@_Octandre_ 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!
https://t.co/pjtOjpoyvX

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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!

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It’s tonight! Come and join us for a smorgasbord of fantastic music!

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Less than a week until we perform this cracking programme!
Come along on Friday for a feast of music from the last few decades.
https://t.co/NFeDSTTMn3