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Aldeburgh Festival
13 – 29 June 2025
An important discussion about the value of long-term artist development, drawing together the experiences of the Britten Pears Young Artist Programme and the Young Classical Artists Trust.
Peter Pears Recital Room, Snape Maltings
A dream team of chamber musicians performs a celebratory programme that includes Schubert’s timeless Octet – the final concert of a tour celebrating 40 years of the Young Classical Artists Trust.
Snape Maltings Concert Hall
A special Festival Walk in the company of author Zoe Gilbert, getting creative with words among the woods.
Departing from Snape Maltings
A moving combination of music and words that evoke the North, curated by leading chamber musicians, combining poignant Grieg, British folksongs, and a major new song cycle from award-winning composer Gavin Higgins.
Britten Studio, Snape Maltings
Midnight sun, verdant landscapes, and folksong at its freshest: the BBC Concert Orchestra and the Iceland Philharmonic Choir celebrate midsummer Nordic-style.
This intimate chamber recital performed by Sophie Bevan, Ryan Wigglesworth and members of the Knussen Chamber Orchestra features Ravel’s ravishing settings of Mallarmé poetry and spotlights the wonderful works of Betsy Jolas.
Recent alumni of the Britten Pears Young Artist Programme work with the renowned Doric String Quartet.
Bill Barclay and Malcolm Bruno discuss this evening’s UK premiere of the extraordinary “new” Bach Passion.
The UK premiere of “a new Bach masterpiece”, produced by Bill Barclay’s Concert Theatre Works and brought to life by the Dunedin Consort with John Butt and actor Joseph Marcell.
Marking Boulez’s centenary and in advance of the Monday 23 June performance of his “Le Marteau sans maître”, a screening of a fascinating 1968 documentary about the work featuring Boulez himself, plus an appreciation of director Barrie Gavin (1935–2024).
Aldeburgh Cinema
With their “luminous beauty of sound”, the Dorics return to the Aldeburgh Festival for a combination of early and late Beethoven with Fantasias by Purcell.
Aldeburgh Church
Edward Gardner and Allan Clayton join forces for Turnage’s Refugee – devastating poetry set to extraordinary music – alongside the Nielsen symphony that evokes “the elemental will to live”.
Centenary celebrations of Pierre Boulez and Luciano Berio with this splendid wind quintet, whose inventive programme also contains a new commission and Salonen’s memorial to Berio himself.
Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh
In the finest Aldeburgh Festival tradition, this recital features six first performances of exciting new works by Young Artist composers, alongside music by their composition tutors Helen Grime, Colin Matthews, and Mark-Anthony Turnage.
A fascinating insight into the exceptional musicianship and research that makes up Gabrieli’s unrivalled production of King Arthur, with artistic director Paul McCreesh.
Early music gets no better than this: the wonderful Gabrieli Consort & Players’ acclaimed interpretation of Purcell’s dramatic masterpiece about the conflict between King Arthur’s Britons and the heathen Saxon invaders.
