Ethel Barns was an English violinist, pianist and composer. She was born in London and entered the Royal Academy of Music

Royal Academy of Music

The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a conservatoire, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas...

 at age 13, where she studied with Emile Sauret

Émile Sauret

Émile Sauret was a French violinist and composer.-Biography:He began studying violin at the Conservatory at Strasburg at the age of six and began concertizing two years later. He studied under Charles de Bériot and later became the student of Henri Vieuxtemps.Sauret made his American debut in 1872...

 for violin, Ebenezer Prout

Ebenezer Prout

Ebenezer Prout , was an English musical theorist, writer, teacher and composer, whose instruction, afterwards embodied in a series of standard works, underpinned the work of many British musicians of succeeding generations....

 for composition and Frederick Westlake for piano.

Barns made her debut as a violinist at The Crystal Palace

The Crystal Palace

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 in London in 1896, and toured in England

England

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 and the United States

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. She married baritone Charles Phillips, and the two established a concert series called the Barns-Phillips Chamber Concerts. Barns became a professor at the Royal Academy of Music and died in Maidenhead.

Works

Selected works include:

• La Chasse for violin and piano, 1928
• Swing Song
• Idylle
• At least 4 violin sonatas

Her music has been recorded and issued on media, including:

• Violin Recital: Howick, Clare - SMYTH, E./MACONCHY, E./POLDOWSKI / TATE, P./BARNS, E. (British Women Composers) Naxos 8.572291
• Swing Song (Sept 20, 2005) Aca Digital
• Idylle - May Mukle (April 13, 1915) Victor