Recent & Upcoming Events
2024
Wednesday 17th April, 8.45pm
Rachmaninoff, Vocalise, Op. 34
Barber, Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24
Dvorak, 'Going Home'
Pollack Hall, Schulich School of Music, Montréal
Members of McGill Symphony Orchestra & Galilei Uajenenisa Njembo
Thursday 28th March, 8pm
Benjamin Lavastre, Mapping
Pollack Hall, Schulich School of Music, Montréal
McGill Percussion Ensemble
Monday 25th March, 8pm
Felix Mendelssohn, Die Hebriden, Op. 26
Pollack Hall, Schulich School of Music, Montréal
McGill Beethoven Orchestra
Wednesday 24th January, 8pm
Mozart, Symphony No. 41, 'Jupiter'
Pollack Hall, Schulich School of Music, Montréal
McGill Symphony Orchestra
2023
Thursday 23rd November, 8pm
Rob Hao, Commedia
Helen Grime, Seven Pierrot Miniatures
Arnold Schoenberg, Pierrot lunaire
Mad Song & Rebekah Jones
Monday 13th November, 7.30pm
Pollack Hall, Schulich School of Music, Montréal
Beethoven, Symphony No. 3
McGill Beethoven Orchestra
Friday 14th July, 8pm
St John the Baptist Church, High Barnet
Rob Hao, Commedia
Helen Grime, Seven Pierrot Miniatures
Arnold Schoenberg, Pierrot lunaire
Mad Song & Rebekah Jones
Friday 3rd July, 7.30pm
St John the Baptist Church, High Barnet
Carol J. Jones, chrysalis
Lili Boulanger, Two pieces from Trois Morceaux
Grace Williams, Sea Sketches
Josef Suk, Serenade
The New London Orchestra
part of the High Barnet Chamber Music Festival
Wednesday 17th May, 1.15pm
St Pancras Parish Church
Ballance, Lord I am not worthy
Choir of St Pancras Church, Chris Batchelor
part of the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music
Friday 12th May, 7.30pm
St Pancras Parish Church
Ballance, Kyrie from Missa Brevis pro Baccalarius
LFCCM Festival Singers, Soloists of The Sarum Consort, Alastair Carey
part of the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music
Thursday 4th May, 7.30pm
Sophie's Barn, Chacombe
Schoenberg arr. Ballance/Crowley, Sechs kleine Stücke, Op. 19
Helen Grime, Seven Pierrot Miniatures
Schoenberg arr. Webern, Kammersymphonie No. 1, Op. 9
Mad Song
Saturday 1st April, 2.30pm
St Peter's Church, Hereford
Brahms, Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56
Mozart, Horn Concerto No. 4 K. 495
Haydn, Symphony No. 104 Hob. I: 104
Hereford Symphony Orchestra and Zoe Tweed
Wednesday 29th March, 1pm
St Olave's Church, Hart Street
Schoenberg arr. Ballance/Crowley, Sechs kleine Stücke, Op. 19
Helen Grime, Seven Pierrot MIniatures
Schoenberg arr. Webern, Kammersymphonie No. 1, Op. 9
Mad Song
Friday 3rd February, 7.30pm
St Saviour's Wendell Park
Anna Clyne, Just As They Are
Judith Weir, Blue-Green Hill
Richard Causton, Phoenix
Mad Song
2022
Friday 2nd December, 1.15pm
St Saviour's Church, Pimlico
Anna Clyne, Just As They Are
Judith Weir, Blue-Green Hill
Richard Causton, Phoenix
Mad Song
Thursday 27th October – Tuesday 1st November
The Round Chapel, Hackney
Louise Bertin, arr. Joshua Ballance, Le Loup-Garou
Gothic Opera
Friday 15th July, 8pm
The Friends' Recital Hall at QE
Joan Tower, Noon Dance
Steve Reich, Double Sextet
Mad Song
part of the High Barnet Chamber Music Festival
Saturday 2nd July, 7.30pm
St John the Baptist Church, Barnet
Ailsa Dixon, Nocturnal Scherzo
Benjamin Britten, Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings
Arnold Schoenberg, Verklärte Nacht
The New London Orchestra, Brenton Spiteri, Annemarie Federle
part of the High Barnet Chamber Music Festival
Saturday 25th June, 7.30pm
Leominster Priory
Schubert: Rosamunde Overture
Schumann: Cello Concerto
Bartholomew LaFollette & Hereford Symphony Orchestra
Thursday 16th June, 7pm
Woolwich Works
Frank Denyer: Five View of the Path
Octandre Ensemble
Friday 17th June
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
Ballance: Webern's Macroharmony through the Discrete Fourier Transform
Music After 1900 Conference
Saturday 7th May, 7pm
Cardiff University Concert Hall
Anna Semple: After Torcello
Richard Causton: Phoenix
Judith Weir: Blue-Green Hill
Maxwell Davies: Eight Songs for a Mad King
Benedict Nelson & Mad Song
this concert has been moved due to the COVID-19 outbreak
Friday 11th February
Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, Vancouver
Ballance: Webern's Macroharmony through the Discrete Fourier Transform
part of the University of British Columbia Colloquium Series
2021
Saturday 27th November, 7.30pm
St John's Methodist Church, Hereford
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, Op. 67
Hereford Symphony Orchestra
this concert has been moved due to the COVID-19 outbreak
Saturday 30th October, 2.30pm
St Laurence's Church, Ludlow
Ballance: They Were Too Much Wanting To Be Loved
Emma Roberts & Gamal Khamis
part of the Ludlow English Song Weekend
this concert has been moved due to the COVID-19 outbreak
Friday 29th October, 4pm
Ludlow Assembly Rooms
Ballance: They Were Too Much Wanting To Be Loved
Emma Roberts & Gamal Khamis
public masterclass with Rhian Samuel
part of the Ludlow English Song Weekend
this concert has been moved due to the COVID-19 outbreak
Tuesday 14th–Thursday 16th September
University of Newcastle
Ballance: The Viennese Trichord in the Music of Anton Webern
57th Royal Musical Association Annual Conference
Wednesday 28th–Friday 30th July
Ballance: Interval Analysis in the Music of Anton Webern
8th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology
Thursday 22nd July, 7.30pm
St John the Baptist Church, High Barnet
Müller-Hermann: Lieder, Opp. 11 & 32
Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen,
Schoenberg: Kammersymphonie No. 1
Anita Monserrat & Mad Song
part of the High Barnet Chamber Music Festival
Sunday 3rd July,
Ballance: Interval Analysis in the Music of Anton Webern
KVNM-RMA International Postgraduate Symposium in Music Research
Monday 14th June, 7.30pm
City University, London
Soosan Lolavar: Girl
Bainbridge: Four Primo Levi Settings
Ian Pace: Matière: Le Palais de la mort
Maxwell Davies: Eight Songs for a Mad King
Georgia Mae Bishop, Benedict Nelson, & City Pierrot Ensemble
Tuesday 27th April, 5.15pm
Ballance: Interval Analysis in the Music of Anton Webern
Oxford University Colloquium Series
Tuesday 16th March, 6pm
Ballance & Lloyd-Owen: This Little Island of Me
Edwin Hughes & Toby Stanford
part of the Oxford Contemporary Opera Opera for One
Thursday 28th January, 6pm
Ballance: Diptych
public masterclass with the Solem Quartet
Friday 22nd January, 2pm
Ballance: The Viennese Trichord in the Music of Anton Webern
Joint SMI & ICTM-IE Postgraduate Conference
2020
Saturday 28th November, 7.30pm
Holy Trinity Church, Hereford
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3
Hereford Symphony Orchestra
this concert has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 outbreak
Wednesday 18th November
Ballance: Pitch-Class Distributions in the Music of Anton Webern
Computational Humanities Research Workshop 2020
Friday 31st July, 1.30pm
Aberystwyth Musicfest
Bach, arr. Maxwell Davies: Two Preludes & Fugues
Schoenberg, arr. Webern: Kammersymphonie No. 1
Mad Song
this concert has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 outbreak
Friday 31st July, 11am
Aberystwyth Musicfest
Composers' Workshop
Mad Song
this concert has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 outbreak
Thursday 7th May, 7.30pm
St James's Piccadilly
Gerhard: Libra
Mad Song
this concert has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 outbreak
Thursday 9th April, 4pm
Leiston Abbey
Elgar: Serenade for Strings
Pro Corda Junior Course Orchestra
this concert has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 outbreak
Monday 2nd March, 12pm
Faculty of Music, Oxford University
Ballance: Macroharmony in the Music of Anton Webern
GRACIAS (Graduate Research Seminar)
Friday 14th February, 11am
Jacqueline du Pré Building, Oxford
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7, Op. 92
Masterclass with Marios Papadopoulos
Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra
Saturday 8th February, 8pm
Chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge
Elgar: Sea Pictures
Britten: Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
Williams: Sea Sketches
J. Thurlow: Light - dark - sea
Saturday 4th January, 3pm
Leiston Abbey
Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings, i. Pezzo in forma di sonatina
Pro Corda Senior Course Orchestra
2019
Saturday 7th December
Anthony Burgess Foundation
Ballance: Manuscript Ruined by Water
No Dice Collective, Joe Chesterman-March
Sunday 24th November, 6pm
St Pancras Church, London
Ballance: St Pancras Magnificat
Choir of St Pancras Church, Chris Batchelor
Saturday 23rd November, 5pm
Huddersfield Town Hall
Denyer: The Fish that became the Sun
Octandre Ensemble, New London Chamber Choir, Jon Hargreaves
Wednesday 25th September, 7.30pm
St James' Piccadilly
Ballance: Mere Ripples
Project40 Ensemble, Michael Karcher-Young
Tuesday 13th August, 4pm
Leiston Abbey
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Pro Corda Intermediate Course Orchestra
Friday 2nd August, 2.30pm
Aberystwyth MusicFest
Composers' Workshop
Mad Song
Friday 2nd August, 1.30pm
Aberystwyth MusicFest
Anna Semple: After Torcello (World Premiere)
Maxwell Davies: Eight Songs for a Mad King
Barney Wolstenholme & Mad Song
Saturday 29th June, 7.30pm
Leominster Priory
Sibelius: Symphony No. 1, Op. 39
Hereford String Orchestra
Wednesday 15th May, 3.30pm
St Pancras Church, London
Ballance: St Pancras Magnificat
Choir of St Pancras Church, Chris Batchelor
part of the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music
This service was broadcast on BBC Radio 3, listen here
Friday 3rd May, 5pm
Recital Room, Cambridge University Faculty of Music
Presenting 'Harmonic Syntax in Webern's Opp. 9, 10, & 11: A Digital Approach'
Saturday 23rd March, 9pm
Chiesa Di Santa Maria Degli Angeli e San Francesco, Milan
Ballance: Lord I am not worthy
King's Voices, Ben Parry
Saturday 16th March, 7.30pm
St James's Piccadilly, London
Ballance: The Willow Song
Ronald Corp OBE, Alexander Wells, and the New London Children's Choir
Monday 11th March 5.30pm
Chapel of King's College, Cambridge
Ballance: Lord I am not worthy
King's Voices, Ben Parry
Sunday 24th February
Chapel of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Ballance: A Song of Humility
Chapel Choir of Emmanuel College, Peter Foggitt
Sunday 3rd February, 8.30pm
King's College Hall
C. Schumann: Drei Romanzen
Elgar: Symphony No. 1
King's College Symphony Orchestra
Sunday 27th January
Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances
Leicester Symphony Orchestra
Saturday 5th January
Leiston Abbey
Nielsen: Kleine Suite, Op. 1: Movt. i & ii.
Pro Corda Senior Course Orchestra
2018
Saturday 24th November, 7.30pm
Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Copland: Appalachian Spring
Hereford String Orchestra
Sunday 7th October, 8pm
Chapel of King's College, Cambridge
Matthias: Organ Concerto
Donal McCann & King's College Symphony Orchestra
Tuesday 19th June, 10.15am
Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge
Presenting 'A Digital Approach to Proportions: Analysing Common Practice Period Forms with music21'
Monday 18th June, 7pm
Chapel of King's College, Cambridge
Strauss, R.: Suite from Der Rosenkavalier
King's College Symphony Orchestra
Saturday 26th May, 6.40pm
Chapel of King's College, Cambridge
Ballance: Lady, Flower of Everything
Henry Websdale
Monday 30th April, 5.30pm
Chapel of King's College, Cambridge
Ballance: Lord, I am not worthy
King's Voices
Saturday 17th March, 7.30pm
St James' Piccadilly, London
Ballance: The Willow Song
Ronald Corp OBE, Alexander Wells, and the New London Children's Choir
Thursday 15th March, 8pm
West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge
Wagner: Prelude to Meistersinger
Mahler: Rückert-Lieder, Helena Moore (soprano)
Cambridge University Symphony Orchestra
Wednesday 14th March, 9pm
Chapel of Jesus College, Cambridge
New Music, inc.:
Ballance: New Work
Sunday 11th March, 8.30pm
King's College Hall
Muhly: Sentences, Joseph Zubier
King's College Symphony Orchestra
Wednesday 28th February, 9.30pm
Chapel of Robinson College, Cambridge
New Music, inc.:
Ballance: Rose light enflamed the eastern sky
Thurlow: Ultradian rhythms
Sunday 25th February, 8pm
King's College Hall
Berio: O King, Joseph Zubier
Maxwell Davies: Eight Songs for a Mad
King, Barney Wolstenholme
King's College Contemporary Ensemble
Saturday 3rd February, 9.30pm
Hall of King's College, Cambridge
Messiaen: Et exspecto resurrectionem
mortuorum
King's College Symphony Orchestra
Sunday 28th January, 3.30pm
Chapel of King's College, Cambridge
Hymn to the Virgin: Mary, Queen of
Paradise (WP)
Henry Websdale
Saturday 13th January, 5.30pm
Chapel of King's College, Cambridge
Ballance: Lord, I am not worthy
King's Voices, Ben Parry
2017
Monday 27th November, 8.30pm
Chapel of King's College, Cambridge
Ballance: Dark Across A Darkening Sky
Joseph Zubier, Barney Wolstenholme,
King's College Contemporary Ensemble
Sunday 26th November, 9.30pm
Chapel of Jesus College, Cambridge
Ballance: Decision Music
Monday 20th November, 8pm
West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14
Cambridge University Symphony
Orchestra
Saturday 18th November, 1.15pm
Chapel of Queens' College, Cambridge
Hymn to the Virgin: Lady, flower of everything (WP)
Henry Websdale
Sunday 5th November, 9pm
Chapel of King's College, Cambridge
Ballance: Der Mond läuft über hohe Eichen (WP)
Moritz Grimm - Soloist
King's College Contemporary Players
Sunday 5th November, 5.20pm
Chapel of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
Ballance: Hymn to the Virgin: Of one who is so fair and bright (WP)
Henry Websdale
Monday 6th November, 7pm
Murray Edwards College, Cambridge
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Tuesday 31st October, 1pm
West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge
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Sunday 29th October, 9pm
King's College Hall
Françaix: Neuf pièces caractéristiques
Bernard: Divertissement
IAS Wind Dectet
Sunday 8th October, 8pm
Chapel of King's College, Cambridge
Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie
King's College Symphony Orchestra
Thursday 24th August
Leiston Abbey
Bartok: Divertimento, Movement i.
Pro Corda Senior Course Orchestra
Saturday 29th July
Aberystwyth Conductors' Course
Elliot, R. I.: rotten ware
The Orion Orchestra
Monday 19th June
Chapel of King's College, Cambridge
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G
Richard Gowers & King's College Symphony Orchestra
Saturday 20th May
Chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge
Verdi: Overture to La forza del destino
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor
Julien Cohen & Cambridge University Symphony Orchestra
