News, Interviews and Podcasts:

Fenella will be playing on the BBC Radio 3 broadcast,"In Tune" on December 11th at 5.15pm and in the London Chamber Music Society series at Kings Place, Kings Cross on 13th December at 6.30pm.

You can listen to her playing with the Kandinsky Trio on "In Tune" Radio 3 on iplayer here.

Fenella and Simone Dinnerstein were recently interviewed (and played the 1st movement of the Bach Violin Sonata no.4 in C minor with an excerpt of 1st movement of the Schubert Fantasie) on Radio 4 - "Woman's Hour" you can listen to it here.

This summer she gave a solo recital at La Salle Cortot, Paris and also gave performances of the Bach Partita in D minor alongside a sequence of photos of the Iraq war taken by noted war phographer, Chris Hondros at Bath Abbey, Getty, New York and the Earls Court Festival.

Biography:

Fenella Barton enjoys a dynamic career as both a soloist and chamber musician. The Strad hailed her as “gifted and decisive,” and classicalsource.com wrote about her recital at Wigmore Hall with pianist Simone Dinnerstein “(Kreutzer Sonata) In this most powerful of performances, their strong, exuberant pulse drove ahead with exhilarating thrust and bold, brash gaiety. Schubert’s Fantasy was a delight”

As a soloist, she has performed in the Los Angeles Chamber Concert Series, at the Cheltenham, Huddersfield, Aldeburgh and Manchester Festivals, Snape Proms, Dartington Hall, and for the British Council and has given duo recitals at the Purcell Room and Wigmore Hall with Simone Dinnerstein. Recently she gave a solo recital playing unaccompanied Bach at La Salle Cortot, Paris. She also gave two performances of Bach Partita in D minor in Bath Abbey and at Getty Images, New York alongside a sequence of photos of the Iraq war taken by Pulitzer nominated, American war photographer Chris Hondros. She has recently been featured on BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour, In Tune, BBC Radio 3 , Classic FM, The Strad, MUSO and Classical Music magazines.

As a chamber musician, Ms. Barton led Jane’s Minstrels for ten years, and was co-leader of the Goldberg Ensemble for several years.  She has appeared at the BBC Proms, the Queen Elizabeth Hall at festivals in Aldeburgh, Bath, Ultima (Norway), Aarhus (Denmark), Turku (Finland), Italy, and Belgium and on tours of the East and West coasts of the United States. Her collaborators, in addition to pianist Simone Dinnerstein, have included Martin Lovett of the Amadeus Quartet; horn virtuoso Hermann Baumann; and the Gaudier Ensemble (consisting of the principals from the Chamber Orchestra of Europe), with which she performed at the Wigmore Hall and on a tour of Holland. In addition, she appeared with the Vellinger Quartet at the Davos Festival in Switzerland in a concert that was broadcast on Swiss radio and has recorded with the Schubert Ensemble.

Ms. Barton is often invited to guest lead ensembles including the contemporary music group Capricorn and the chamber ensemble Fibonacci Sequence. For fifteen years, she has been a frequent participant in the International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove. She currently leads Configure8, and is a member of the Kandinsky piano trio with pianist Katya Apekisheva and cellist Alexei Sarkissov. Her trio will play at Kings Place, London in December.

Ms. Barton can regularly be heard on broadcasts on BBC Radio 3. Her three recordings with the Minstrels on the NMC record label were highly praised; one was selected as a Record of the Year by Gramophone magazine. Also for NMC, she has recorded the world premiere commercial release of Of Knots and Skeins by Anthony Payne (a piece written for Ms. Barton and Ms. Dinnerstein for their Purcell Room duo recital).

Ms. Barton is a winner of the Fulbright Scholarship , English Speaking Union scholarships and Martin Musical awards.