Fenella Barton enjoys a dynamic career as both a soloist and chamber musician. The Strad hailed her as "gifted and decisive," and classicalsource.com wrote about her recital at Wigmore Hall with pianist Simone Dinnerstein "In this most powerful of performances, their strong, exuberant pulse drove ahead with exhilarating thrust and bold, brash gaiety. Their playing was a delight"

As a soloist, she has performed in the Los Angeles Chamber Concert Series, at the Cheltenham, Huddersfield, Aldeburgh and Manchester Festivals, Snape Proms, Dartington Hall, and for the British Council and has given duo recitals at the Purcell Room and Wigmore Hall with Simone Dinnerstein. Recently she gave a solo recital playing unaccompanied Bach at La Salle Cortot, Paris. She also gave two performances of Bach Partita in D minor in Bath Abbey and at Getty Images, New York alongside a sequence of photos of the Iraq war taken by Pulitzer nominated, American war photographer Chris Hondros.She has recently been featured on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour and In Tune, BBC Radio 3.

As a chamber musician, her collaborators, in addition to pianist Simone Dinnerstein, have included Martin Lovett of the Amadeus Quartet; horn virtuoso Hermann Baumann; Piers Lane; Thomas Carroll; Mayumi Seiler; Sigrun Edvaldsdottir; Katya Apekisheva; Charles Owen and the Gaudier Ensemble (consisting of the principals from the Chamber Orchestra of Europe), with which she performed at the Wigmore Hall and on a tour of Holland. In addition, she appeared with the Vellinger Quartet at the Davos Festival in Switzerland in a concert that was broadcast on Swiss radio, a performance with the Medici Quartet at the Rubin Museum, New York and has recorded with the Schubert Ensemble. For fifteen years, she has been a frequent participant in the International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove.

She is a member of the Pomegranate Piano Trio with Robin Green and Rebecca Hughes and was a member of the Kandinsky Piano Trio with Katya Apekisheva and Alexei Sarkissov for eight years, which has broadcast on BBC Radio 3, and has performed at Kings Place, Bridgewater Hall, Conway Hall  and festivals and clubs around the UK. For twelve years she led Configure8, about which The Strad Magazine wrote "… impeccable ensemble…. I was riveted by the gorgeous sound combinations these players could achieve, enhanced by each others' undoubted virtuosity" and led Jane's Minstrels for ten years. She has appeared at the BBC Proms, the Queen Elizabeth Hall at festivals in Aldeburgh, Bath, Ultima (Norway), Aarhus (Denmark), Turku (Finland), Italy, Belgium, Cyprus, Bermuda, India and tours of the East and West coasts of the United States. She was co-leader of the Goldberg Ensemble for several years. 
 
Ms. Barton is often invited to guest lead ensembles including the contemporary music group Red Note and the chamber ensemble Fibonacci Sequence. Ms. Barton can regularly be heard on broadcasts on BBC Radio 3. Her three recordings with the Minstrels on the NMC record label were highly praised; one was selected as a Record of the Year by Gramophone magazine. Also for NMC, she has recorded the world premiere commercial release of Of Knots and Skeins by Anthony Payne (a piece written for Ms. Barton and Ms. Dinnerstein for their Purcell Room duo recital). She will be recording Chaconne Variations for violin and piano by Philip Lasser (premiered by her and Simone Dinnerstein at Wigmore Hall) with the composer and SonaPartita for solo violin also by Lasser, both written for her early next year in New York.