Barnaby has performed, recorded and broadcast music across a diverse range of genres from early to contemporary, symphonic, chamber, opera and film scores. He has collaborated with composers and ensembles including Thomas Adès, the Belcea Quartet, George Fenton, London Sinfonietta, Roderick Williams, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, James Newton Howard and the London Winds. Barnaby studied at the Guildhall School of Music and then as a Fulbright Scholar at The Juilliard School, New York. Barnaby was Principal Clarinet of the Philharmonia Orchestra from 2000-2013 and currently holds the same position with the English National Opera Orchestra. He is a Yamaha Sponsored Artist.
As a composer Barnaby has written and arranged music for film, TV and the concert hall. His library scores can be heard in productions on the BBC, ITV, Netflix and Amazon. Barnaby has arranged a variety of music from Monteverdi to The Cure. His arrangement of ‘The Snow Leopard’ from George Fenton’s BBC ‘Planet Earth’ soundtrack is available on Orchid Classics and has been broadcast on Scala Radio.
Barnaby is Professor of Clarinet at the Royal College of Music and has given master classes in Switzerland, Singapore, Australia and Iceland. He is an adjudicator for BBC Young Musician and a guest examiner at the Royal Academy of Music. His research interests include the clarinet music of Herbert Howells. A previously unheard version of the Howells Clarinet Sonata is featured on Barnaby’s most recent album, which Radio 3 described as “an exhilarating and imaginative celebration of the 20th century clarinet”.
Barnaby is currently studying for an MSc in Performance Science at the Royal College of Music.