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This site is a showcase for Barn Cottage Studio, a small, friendly company in Surrey run by musician Robin Bigwood. It specialises in audio recording, production and post-production, bespoke web and print design services, and photography. Recent clients include: (click names for more details)

Sinfonia Classica

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BCS travelled to Tawstock Church in Devon for a two day session with Sinfonia Classica, to produce and record a CD of Haydn Symphonies, including the rarely recorded Divertimento in A, Hob.X.10. After editing and mastering the CD was first issued locally in Devon, and is now issued worldwide on the Landor label. It met with universally high praise, and won a Gramophone Editor's Choice.

Woodhouse Recorder Week

Woodhouse Recorder Week
Woodhouse Recorder Week, a bi-annual music course in Surrey, needed a co-ordinated approach to web and print design. BCS supplied publicity flyers, magazine advertisements, a website, course materials (including a 24 page booklet) and photography.

Mediva

Gabriel's Message CD
BCS recorded Mediva's CD Gabriel's Message late in 2006 and it was edited and manufactured in time for a Christmas release that year.

Swain-Alexander Trust

The Swain-Alexander Trust needed a programme booklet for a Purcell Room concert. BCS designed it for them, carrying out image editing and restoration, and taking care of everything from co-ordination of content to delivery of the finished product.

Faber Music Publishing

Classic Stringfest
The piano accompaniment CDs issued with Faber's Folk Stringfest and Classic Stringfest publications were recorded by BCS using state of the art sampled and modelled piano sounds.

European Union Chamber Orchestra

As part of a funding application, EUCO asked BCS to put together a showreel CD which drew together recordings from a number of different sources. Some of these were poor quality radio broadcasts which needed to be integrated with higher quality material. Using de-noising and spectral repair techniques BCS was able to dovetail the material seamlessly and supplied it on CD-R for short-run replication.

St John's Church Broadbridge Heath

St John's Church in Broadbridge Heath, West Sussex, needed an attractive, informative website that could be updated whenever necessary by the church's Administrator. BCS designed a site that allowed just that, with only minimal technical training required, and which also presented frequently-updated photo and audio content hosted on external sites.

King's College School, Wimbledon

The prestigious King's College School in Wimbledon employed BCS for a series of one-day sessions to record their choir and big band prior to the release of a 'best of' CD. The sessions were carried out using a mix of multi-track and purist classical recording techniques as appropriate to the style of music.

ABRSM

In a further tie-in with King's College School in Wimbledon, BCS recorded tracks for ABRSM's Drum Kit syllabus pilot project. This included recording and mixing 'music minus one' versions of jazz standards, and then preparing the resulting mixes ready for further work in another studio.

To see and hear some recent projects please check out the Audio, Design and Photography pages. There's more about Robin Bigwood and Barn Cottage Studio itself on the About Us page. To get in touch, you can email or use the Contact page to send a short message. And see what projects we're currently working on in the BCS Blog.