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  1. Announced: Snape Residency artists for 2023 – 2024

    This year you can experience Residencies that explore electronic, jazz, opera, grime, karnatik, classical, psychedelia, early music, ambient, choral,…

  2. Xhosa Cole & Nathan England-Jones Residency

    Nathan England Jones and Xhosa Cole are both improvisers at heart, with a rich wealth of ideas, techniques and musical experiences to draw upon. They…

  3. Roger Wright to step down as Chief Executive

    After 10 years at the helm of the organisation, Roger Wright today announces that he will step down as Chief Executive of Britten Pears Arts in July…
  4. Pears and friends at his Birthday Gala Concert at Snape Maltings

    Archive Treasures: 70th birthday presents by Hockney and Holst

    The 33rd Aldeburgh Festival in 1980 marked the 70th birthday of Peter Pears. His birthday fell on the last day of the festival and a whole day of…

  5. Letters to a Young Poet

    Hannah Lack tells the recently-uncovered full story of Rainer Maria Rilke’s influential letters, soon to be brought to life at the

  6. 73rd Aldeburgh Festival

    03 – 26 June 2022

  7. Benjamin Britten’s String Quartets

    The 2023 Aldeburgh Festival offers a rare chance to hear all three of Britten’s numbered String Quartets, played across three concerts. This essay by…

  8. Charles Byrne – the ‘Irish Giant’

    Wendy Moore explores the history of Charles Byrne – the ‘Irish Giant’ – and the surgeon John Hunter
  9. Celestial Naviagtion, by Joseph Cornell.

    Pavel Kolesnikov's Magic Box

    Camille De Rijck talks to Aldeburgh Festival featured musician Pavel Kolesnikov about his fascination with American…

  10. 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…

  11. 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…

  12. 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…