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Trainee Music Leader, Charly Jolly
Charly Jolly, this year’s Trainee Music Leader with Britten Pears Arts and Spitalfields Music, talks about her time with the inspirational team at…![Snape Maltings' Head Buyer, Heather Fortmann]()
12 Years In The Making
A chat with our Head Buyer, Heather Fortmann, about her journey from Liberty London, and how she decides which items end up on our shelves...![]()
Moina Moin
Born in Stroud in 1998 and working in expanded sculpture at Goldsmiths (2019) and Margate’s Open School East (2021-22) Moina has carved out a…![Anna Helena Mc Lean with string instrument]()
Anna-Helena McLean
Anna-Helena McLean is a multi-disciplinary music and theatre artist, director and researcher.![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…![Queen Elizabeth II walking with Benjamin Britten]()
In Memoriam, Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II
Queen Elizabeth II established a connection with Aldeburgh that was both public and personal. With the sad news of Her Majesty’s passing, we take this…![A photograph of two people looking at the camera smiling.]()
Music and later life
During the summer of 2021, Britten Pears Arts (BPA) redesigned and relaunched ‘Participate’ as part of the Community team’s Later Life programme. Our…![]()
ThinkTank: Exploring Co-production in Music and the Arts
ThinkTanks are facilitated discussions held at Britten Pears Arts’ unique site at Snape Maltings. They bring together a broad range of stakeholders and…![]()
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…![]()
Archive Treasure - What might have been: Britten, Milligan and Lewis Carroll
The archive at the Red House documents the careers of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears in great detail. Making up a fascinating sub-set of the archive…![]()
Young Musicians' Health & Wellbeing
We brought together some great minds to discuss the health and wellbeing of young musicians, in our latest Britten Pears Arts Think Tank. The…![]()
Hold the Drama
Hold the Drama create non-verbal shows that use music and drama to start conversations about mental health and emotional wellbeing...
