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  1. Britten Pears Young Artists | Community Course

    As a musician, community work might be an extension of your artistic output, or a core part of your career. Britten Pears Young Artists take part in a…

  2. Returning to Snape Maltings: Barbara Hepworth’s The Family of Man

    The Family of Man is a set of sculptures by Barbara Hepworth, with a deeply ingrained history at Snape Maltings. A total of nine distinct figures…

  3. IN REVERSE

    IN REVERSE is a new duo created by Madison Willing and Athena Varosio. Madison and Athena are two independent composers who have joined forces to form…

  4. Aldeburgh Festival Podcast

    This weekly podcast gets up close with some of the artists taking part in the Festival. If you want to know more about the Aldeburgh Festival, this…

  5. 74th Aldeburgh Festival trailer featuring Roderick Williams

    Watch the official trailer for Aldeburgh Festival 2023. In the short film, baritone Roderick Williams sings the folksong O Waly, Waly, on a windswept…

  6. A Day at Snape Maltings

    From morning until night, there’s more than you thought to a day at one of Suffolk’s best-loved destinations...

  7. ThinkTank: Music in Later Life

    Music has power to improve quality of life and wellbeing in later life. It encourages connection, reduces isolation and loneliness, improves mood,…

  8. Idrisi Ensemble

    Old Roman chant is a rare window into late antiquity traditions, at a crossroads between the ancient liturgies of Syria, Egypt, Jerusalem and…

  9. Archive Treasures: Slow train to Aldeburgh – Britten and Dr Beeching

    James Callaghan, Roy Jenkins, Barbara Castle: the list of Ministers in Harold Wilson’s 1964-1970 Labour government in the UK includes many political…
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    Insights into Programming

    With Summer at Snape around the corner, we talked with Fraser Wilson, Head of Performance & Public Engagement, about how the process works, his…
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    The Story of HerStory

    East Suffolk Skylarks is a fun and friendly singing group for people…
  12. James Bowman as Oberon

    James Bowman, 1941–2023

    “Have you done any stage work?” Britten asked James Bowman on a July afternoon in 1966. They were in the Crush Bar at Covent Garden where Bowman, 24 at…