About us
Hennessey Brown Music represents a roster of world class artists with an outward looking and collaborative spirit.
Hennessey Brown Music sees no genre as superior to another but does identify as inherently a classical music agency. It functions exactly as such; finding work for its artists with imagination and tenacity, working on contracts, organising tours and logistics. The team at HBM is in close contact with its carefully chosen group of world class artists and does not intend to grow into an impersonal or corporate organization. However success and ambition is very much encouraged as is musical excellence at every juncture.
“HBM” has promoted and curated productions at venues from Cathedrals to the Cadogan Hall and our own concert series had social justice and collections for charities at its core. As our roster has grown to include world renowned artists and composers we have reluctantly paused putting on our own events to focus on serving our artists who work in all territories around the world.
We are passionate about inclusivity in the music industry and aim to promote and work with very diverse talent. Hennessey Brown Music feels that this diversity should include artists of all ages, beliefs, social class and also neurodiversity.
We have a dedicated team of professionals that work alongside Jonny, our funding director, from artists managers and an executive assistant to website builders, accountants, administration support and database researchers.
We feel a heartfelt empathy with the people that are supported by charities such as Mind. Oakleaf and Inherit Your Rights and have had collections for all these charities at events.
People in recovery from or suffering with mental health issues, such as addiction, bipolar, OCD and anxiety can be found in any part of society and the music industry is no exception. HBM does its bit to empower people to talk about it without shame.
Our co-director Jonathan Hennessey-Brown lives with bipolar and is in recovery himself. Jonny has, for many years, worked with mental health charities by increasing awareness through blogs, radio interviews, talking at concerts and writing newspaper articles. He feels that the best way of dispelling prejudice against people with mental health conditions is to be open about living with them and be kind, generous and easy to deal with.
Jonny has raised thousands of pounds for different mental health through sponsorship, bucket collections at concerts and donating percentages of album sales as the founder member of Santiago Quartet. Where possible and when appropriate he aims to encourage promoters to collect for mental health charities.