Barney Morse-Brown
An extraordinary musician who has become known for his 'alternative and unique' approach to playing the cello.
A long time member of the BBC Folk Award winning band 'The Imagined Village' a previous member of both Chris Wood's and Eliza Carthy's band plus one half of 'Duotone' who's recent record received critical acclaim with 5 star reviews from Songlines and Maverick Magazine.
The most recent project that Barney has been involved in has been to work with multi platinum artist 'Birdy' who's YouTube hits alone have reached their millions and was recently number 1 in the charts in both France and Australia.
Studio albums
Syrian Dreams - Maya Youssef
The Waters and the Wild - Ninebarrow
Vacancy at NASA - Adam Barnes
AM - Richard Walters
Jackie Oates - Saturnine & The Joy of Living
Oly Ralfe - Notes from Another Sea
Porchlight & Rockingchairs - Jimpster
The Imagined Village
Empire and Love - The Imagined Village
Handmade Life - Chris Wood
Bending the Dark - The Imagined Village
The Sound Inside - Breaks Co-Op
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Live sessions
Amy Macdonald - Live at the Royal Albert Hall
Birdy - Worldwide
Adam Barnes - London, Amsterdam
Maya Youssef - UK/Europe
Eliza Carthy - UK/Europe
TV sessions
Later with Jools Holland - The Imagined Village
Later.. - Eliza Carthy
Taratata - Birdy
Film work
Close - Netflix feature film
Widows Walk - feature film
The Reliant - feature film
Barbarians - feature film
Radio sessions
BBC Radio 1 - Live Lounge (Birdy)
BBC Radio 2 - Birdy
BBC Radio 4 Loose Ends - The Imagined Village & Maya Youssef
Two Piece Orchestra
Jane Griffiths (violin, viola)
and Barney Morse-Brown (cello)
Two highly-experienced string players, at complete ease in the studio environment, whose intuitive musical relationship produces expressive, efficient performance. Both classically trained, we have worked extensively in other genres, which allows great flexibility of approach.