Stories

Imogen Holst | In Her Own Orbit

Composer, teacher, conductor, arranger, dancer and knitter-together of people, Holst was an indefatigable champion of music in all guises, whether performed by the Vienna Philharmonic or in a country pub on a couple of tin spoons...
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Dress rehearsal for Grimes on the Beach, Aldeburgh Festival

Something in the Water: Aldeburgh Festival moments that made it famous

Towering silent sentinels afloat on the Alde. Projections on a nuclear power station. Piano recitals at dawn. Aldeburgh transformed into a living set for Punchdrunk’s Peter Grimes...
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Britten Pears Arts X Art Station Residency

We are delighted to announce that the recipient of the Art Station / Britten Pears Arts residency artist is Theo Alexander...
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A group of schoolchildren singing.

Changing Lives With Music

Explore our work in arts, health and wellbeing, in the prison service, with young people and with adults living with long-term health conditions.
Benjamin Britten conducting a rehearsal at the Red House

Benjamin Britten

Find out more about our founder, the composer Benjamin Britten.
People in a derelict building at Snape Maltings

Festival of New

Four years of mind-bending brilliance, in short videos to watch and share.

Peter Pears

Find out more about our founder, the singer Peter Pears.

Explore Archive Treasures

  1. Choir boys in their costumes for The Golden Vanity playing in Blythburgh churchyard, 1969

    Archive Treasures: ‘my favourite choir at my favourite school’

    Our archive has recently established a link with former members of the Wandsworth School Boys’ Choir – a choir with whom Britten and Pears worked on…
  2. Mono recording of T.H. White reading from The Sword in the Stone, Argo Record Company Limited EAF 63, 1963

    Archive Treasures: Britten, Myth and Radio

    ‘Read some Ingoldsby legends in evening’, Britten recorded in his diary on the 15 August 1932. The young composer was enjoying a collection of…

  3. Archive Treasures: The Absent Composer

    In our archive we hold a short note, in Britten’s frail hand, sent to Snape Maltings on the first performance of his final opera Death in Venice on…

Explore Work of the Week

  1. Work of the Week 52. A Ceremony of Carols

    Presented by Ben Vonberg-Clark

  2. Work of the Week 51. Winter Words

    Presented by Marta Fontanals-Simmons and Lana Bode

  3. Work of the Week 50. The Prince of the Pagodas

    Presented by Olivia Bloore