Barnes Music Festival in South West London is an annual celebration of music-making which includes choral, instrumental, orchestral, opera, jazz and film events with international stars and local groups and schools performing at venues across Barnes.

The Festival celebrates music-making of the highest standard in conjunction with established and emerging stars.

The Barnes Music Festival’s Youth Programme is now established as an integral part of the festival. With the ‘Under 12 Free Entry’ scheme we like to encourage parents to bring their children to festival events. The festival’s youth projects provide opportunities for local school children (Barnes Young Musician of the Year Award), and to experience music making with others (Schools’ Programme). The participating age groups range from Primary to Sixth Form.

Our 2019 Festival Theme

Music & Invention

In 2018 we welcomed James Day as our new Artistic Director. James is Director of Music of the Pimlico Music Foundation and Director of Tiffin Boys’ Choir. A prize-winning Choral Conductor at the Royal Academy of Music James has worked with conductors Gustavo Dudamel, Bernard Haitink, Jakub Hruša, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Vladimir Jurowski and Simon Halsey and has prepared choruses for the London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonia, London Philharmonic Orchestra and Los Angeles Philharmonic. He has been broadcasted on BBC, ITV, Chanel4 and ClassicFM.

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