"Festival, the 66th, featured a new production by Tim Albery of Britten's opera, ""Peter Grimes"", the complete Church Parables in Orford Church, and new works by Harrison Birtwistle, Wolfgang Rihm, Judith Weir, Magnus Lindberg and Richard Rodney Bennett. In addition to the annual Festival, Aldeburgh Music also runs the Britten–Pears Young Artist Programme (formerly the ""Britten–Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies""), Aldeburgh Residencies – a programme offering bespoke training and development opportunities to UK and international artists – Aldeburgh Young Musicians for exceptionally talented young people between the ages of 8 and 18, The Jerwood Opera Writing Programme, for the"
"organist in the country. In 1965 he took up the directorate of music at the University of East Anglia, where he was also dean of the School of Fine Arts and Music and responsible for the establishment of an award-winning building for the University’s Music Centre, opened in 1973. In 1968, Ledger became an artistic director of the Aldeburgh Festival with Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears, conducting at the Snape Maltings on many occasions including the opening concert after its rebuilding, and playing in first performances of works by Britten. He worked regularly with the English Chamber Orchestra during this"
"1961, celebrating Sir Adrian Boult's tenth anniversary with the London Philharmonic Orchestra (1960). Peter Pears and the Purcell Singers gave the first performance of Priaulx Rainier's ""Requiem"" (1956; tenor and unaccompanied chorus) at the Aldeburgh Festival that year. It was set to the poem ""Requiem"", written for her by David Gascoyne in 1938–1940 in Paris and dedicated to future victims of war. Pears also commissioned Rainier's ""Cycle for Declamation"" (1954) and ""The Bee Oracles"" (1970), a setting of Edith Sitwell's poem ""The Bee-Keeper"" scored for tenor, flute, oboe, violin, cello and harpsichord. Pears first sang it publicly at the Aldeburgh"
"Dance and the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama as well as within British Universities provide world-class music teaching to gifted classical musicians. Notable modern composers include: Peter Maxwell Davies, Julian Anderson, Harrison Birtwistle, George Benjamin, Thomas Ades, Oliver Knussen, James MacMillan and at a more popular level Andrew Lloyd Webber, represent very different strands of composition within UK classical music. The United Kingdom is host to many major orchestras, festivals and venues. The Royal Philharmonic Society (founded 1813) and ""The Proms"" have presented annual music programmes of international status since the early 19th century. The Aldeburgh Festival, founded"
"Peter Pears's first masterclasses at the Snape Maltings, which brought him into contact with Benjamin Britten. In 1976, he formed The Songmakers' Almanac to explore neglected areas of piano-accompanied vocal music, along with founder singers Felicity Lott, Ann Murray, Anthony Rolfe Johnson and Richard Jackson. The Songmakers' Almanac has given over 200 programmes throughout its history and has recorded commercially for such labels as Hyperion Records. Johnson has a long-standing artistic relationship with the Wigmore Hall, as an accompanist and in programming concert series. He devised and accompanied concerts in the hall's re-opening series in 1992, and in its centenary"
"Mstislav Rostropovich, and young stars in the making such as Elisabeth Söderström, Murray Perahia and Julian Bream. At first the Festival used local halls and churches but in 1967, Britten and Pears created a permanent home at Snape, 5 miles from Aldeburgh, by converting the Victorian maltings into an 832-seat venue. Within five years Britten and Pears had reclaimed more buildings on the site to establish a centre for talented young musicians. In 2006 Aldeburgh Music purchased a 999-year lease of the Snape Maltings Concert Hall, investing around £14 million in new studios and rehearsal spaces which came into use"
"programmes for young people and communities with least access to the arts due to rural isolation, geographical location or social exclusion. In 2017, HIF won the Northern Soul Arts Festival of the Year Award. The Harrogate International Festival was set up in response to local demand to re-establish the quality of event that people had been used to between the wars in the town’s spa heyday. In 1966, with the help of composer Benjamin Britten and singer Peter Pears of Aldeburgh Festival fame, and financial support from Harrogate Borough Council and the Arts Council of England, Clive Wilson launched the"
"Easter. Previous conductors of the BPO include Edward Gardner, Oliver Knussen, Kirill Karabits, Vasily Petrenko and Robin Ticciati. The Britten–Pears Baroque Orchestra, formed in 1992, is formed each year to work on baroque repertoire, and previous tutors have included period specialists Richard Egarr, Emmanuelle Haïm, Laurence Cummings, Andreas Scholl and Harry Bicket. They presented Rameau’s Naïs as part of the 2012 Snape Proms under Christophe Rousset. In 2012, as part of the Cultural Olympiad, the Aldeburgh World Orchestra was formed, conducted by Sir Mark Elder. Young musicians from across the globe submitted their auditions on YouTube, and an international ensemble"
"and performed by some of the main ensembles and new music promoters, including Aldeburgh Festival, Almeida Festival, Arditti Quartet, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, ECAT, Edinburgh International Festival, London Sinfonietta, Lontano, Musica Nova, Nash Ensemble, Piano Circus, Schönberg Ensemble, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Slagwerkgroep Den Haag and St. Magnus Festival. Geoffrey King (composer) Geoffrey King (born 1949) is a British composer and teacher. Born in Croydon, England, King's first musical studies were at the Royal School of Church Music at Addington Palace. Later, at the Royal College of Music, he studied with Humphrey Searle, Justin Connolly and Alexander Goehr. As a postgraduate,"
"opera for children. He is probably best known for his Communion and Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in F. He founded the Norwich Festival of Contemporary Church Music and he was a Lay Canon of Norwich Cathedral. For fourteen years he was the conductor of the Aldeburgh Festival Singers. He was also involved with the Sacramento Bach Festival Choir and Orchestra. He was an editor of Baroque music and founded the Tudor Consort and the English Baroque Ensembles. Peter Aston Peter Aston (5 October 1938 – 13 September 2013) was an English composer, academic and conductor who is well known for"
"an upcoming Aldeburgh Festival or concert series. Residencies are supported by the John Ellerman Foundation. Recent artists to benefit from an Aldeburgh Residency include Mark Padmore, Gwyneth Herbert, Netia Jones and Pippa Nissen, I Fagiolini, Exaudi, Alex Wilson (working on a new collaboration with two Malian musicians, preparing for a tour and new CD), the Aurora Orchestra, Mitsuko Uchida and Katie Mitchell. A particular strand of Aldeburgh Residencies entitled the Composer Residency Scheme enables three composers each year to spend three weeks working on individual new projects. Amongst the composers and librettists participating in this programme have been Anna Meredith,"
"between and a reference library, the Holst Library. Over the years, such artists as Dame Joan Sutherland, Ann Murray, Sir Thomas Allen, Galina Vishnevskaya, Murray Perahia, Sir Charles McKerras, Elisabeth Söderström and Dawn Upshaw as well as Pears himself have been notable teachers, while its many alumni have included Thomas Adès, Ian Bostridge, Simon Keenlyside and Dame Felicity Lott. From the beginning, the Festival was committed to working with and for its local community, breaking down the barriers between amateur and professional. Education and working with young people always featured, and this continues today with Aldeburgh Education involving the local"
"Honours for services to music. Steuart Bedford Steuart John Rudolf Bedford, OBE (born 31 July 1939, London) is a British orchestral and opera conductor and pianist. He is the brother of composer David Bedford and of singer Peter Lehmann Bedford and a grandson of Liza Lehmann. Bedford is particularly associated with the music of Benjamin Britten, and conducted the world premiere of ""Death in Venice"" in 1973. Bedford has also conducted Britten's other operas, and made an orchestral suite of music from ""Death in Venice"". Between 1974 and 1998, he was one of the Artistic Directors of the Aldeburgh Festival."
"and Peter Pears, for whom he wrote the cantata ""Boyhood's End"" for tenor and piano. Encouraged by Britten, Tippett made arrangements for the first performance of ""A Child of Our Time"", at London's Adelphi Theatre on 19 March 1944. Goehr conducted the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and Morley's choral forces were augmented by the London Regional Civil Defence Choir. Pears sang the tenor solo part, and other soloists were borrowed from Sadler's Wells Opera. The work was well received by critics and the public, and eventually became one of the most frequently performed large-scale choral works of the post-Second World War"
"at eighteen locations in Britain. Opera productions included ""Owen Wingrave"" at Aldeburgh, ""Billy Budd"" at Glyndebourne, ""Death in Venice"" by English National Opera, ""Gloriana"" by The Royal Opera, and ""Peter Grimes"", ""Death in Venice"" and ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" by Opera North. ""Peter Grimes"" was performed on the beach at Aldeburgh, opening the 2013 Aldeburgh Festival in June 2013, with Steuart Bedford conducting and singers from the Chorus of Opera North and the Chorus of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, described by ""The Guardian"" as ""a remarkable, and surely unrepeatable achievement."" Internationally, the anniversary was marked by performances"
"of London and Tenebrae. Parry is a director of the Eton Choral Courses and has conducted the National Youth Choir of Wales. He conducts Aldeburgh Voices, the resident choir for the Aldeburgh Festival in Snape Maltings, Suffolk. In October 2012 Parry was appointed director of the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain. He was made an Honorary Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in 2013 for his services to the music industry. Parry has made over 70 recordings for EMI, Decca, Collegium, Virgin, Linn and Signum. He is married to violinist Kathryn Parry and they have three children: Freya"
"she moved to Aldeburgh in 1974 and looked after him until his death. Britten's last works include the ""Suite on English Folk Tunes ""A Time There Was"""" (1974); the Third String Quartet (1975), which drew on material from ""Death in Venice""; and the dramatic cantata ""Phaedra"" (1975), written for Janet Baker. In June 1976, the last year of his life, Britten accepted a life peerage – the first composer so honoured – becoming Baron Britten, of Aldeburgh in the County of Suffolk. After the 1976 Aldeburgh Festival, Britten and Pears travelled to Norway, where Britten began writing ""Praise We Great"
"Steuart Bedford Steuart John Rudolf Bedford, OBE (born 31 July 1939, London) is a British orchestral and opera conductor and pianist. He is the brother of composer David Bedford and of singer Peter Lehmann Bedford and a grandson of Liza Lehmann. Bedford is particularly associated with the music of Benjamin Britten, and conducted the world premiere of ""Death in Venice"" in 1973. Bedford has also conducted Britten's other operas, and made an orchestral suite of music from ""Death in Venice"". Between 1974 and 1998, he was one of the Artistic Directors of the Aldeburgh Festival. In 1989, he became joint"
"of the Week in March 2008. John Woolrich John Woolrich (born 1954 in Cirencester) is an English composer. Woolrich has founded a group (the Composers Ensemble), a festival (Hoxton New Music Days), and has been composer in association with the Orchestra of St John's and the Britten Sinfonia. His collaborations with Birmingham Contemporary Music Groupled to his appointment in 2002 as Artist-in-Association. He was guest Artistic Director of the Aldeburgh Festival in 2004 and Associate Artistic Director of the festival from 2005 to 2010. From 2010 to 2013 Woolrich was both Artistic Director of Dartington International Summer School and Professor"
"and electro-acoustic installations. The Studio retains the double-height roof and much of the existing fabric of the original kiln structure. Peter Pears Recital Room, Holst Library, rehearsal rooms. A former barley store, the Britten–Pears Building was officially opened in 1979 by HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. The Holst Library is connected to the Maltings. Many of the original contents were donated by Imogen Holst, who was a close friend of Benjamin Britten and an artistic director of the Aldeburgh Festival from 1956 to 1977, and it was named the Gustav Holst Library as a memorial to her father. According"
"""The Cure"" in 2015. The Aldeburgh Festival has always included the visual arts as well as music, and a number of exhibitions are curated each year to accompany the music programme. From 2011, the main exhibition of contemporary art has been promoted under the title SNAP, at various locations around the Snape Maltings site, organised by Abigail Lane. In 2012, featured artists included Glenn Brown, May Cornet, Brian Eno, Ryan Gander, Maggi Hambling, Mark Limbrick, Emily Richardson and Gavin Turk. Aldeburgh Festival The Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts is an English arts festival devoted mainly to classical music."
"In 1972, he was the first North American to win first prize at the Leeds Piano Competition, helping to cement its reputation for advancing the careers of young pianistic talent. Dame Fanny Waterman has said (in Wendy Thompson's book ""Piano Competition: The Story of the Leeds"") that Mieczysław Horszowski had phoned her prior to the competition, announcing that he would be the winner. In 1973, he worked with Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears at the Aldeburgh Festival, and with fellow pianist Radu Lupu. He was co-artistic director of the Festival from 1981 to 1989. In the 1980s, Perahia was invited"
"Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Music and a Fellow of the Radio Academy. His publications include the volume ""New Music 1989"", in collaboration with Michael Finnissy. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to music. Wright and his wife Rosie, a yoga teacher, have two children, Alice and William. Roger Wright (music administrator) Roger William Wright CBE (born 15 August 1956, Manchester) is an English arts administrator. He is currently the Chief executive of Aldeburgh Music. Wright was educated at Chetham's School of Music, Manchester,"
"John Woolrich John Woolrich (born 1954 in Cirencester) is an English composer. Woolrich has founded a group (the Composers Ensemble), a festival (Hoxton New Music Days), and has been composer in association with the Orchestra of St John's and the Britten Sinfonia. His collaborations with Birmingham Contemporary Music Groupled to his appointment in 2002 as Artist-in-Association. He was guest Artistic Director of the Aldeburgh Festival in 2004 and Associate Artistic Director of the festival from 2005 to 2010. From 2010 to 2013 Woolrich was both Artistic Director of Dartington International Summer School and Professor of Music at Brunel University. From"
"piano accompanist Gerald Moore wrote in his memoirs about playing at all the main music festivals except for Aldeburgh, because ""as the presiding genius there is the greatest accompanist in the world, my services are not needed"". Britten's recital partnership with Pears was his best-known collaboration, but he also accompanied Kathleen Ferrier, Rostropovich, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, James Bowman and John Shirley-Quirk, among others. Though usually too nervous to play piano solos, Britten often performed piano duets with Clifford Curzon or Richter, and chamber music with the Amadeus Quartet. The composers whose works, other than his own, he most often played were"
"years earlier she had acted as the rehearsal pianist before the work's first performance. Holst had formed the Purcell Singers, a small semi-professional choir, in October 1952, largely at the instigation of Pears. From 1954 the choir became regular performers at the Aldeburgh Festival, with programmes ranging from rarely heard medieval music to 20th-century works. Among choir members who later achieved individual distinction were the bass-baritone John Shirley-Quirk, the tenors Robert Tear and Philip Langridge, and the founder and conductor of the Heinrich Schütz Choir, Roger Norrington. Langridge remembered with particular pleasure a performance in Orford church of Thomas Tallis's"
"Walsh, Peter Gregson, Kingslee Daly, Jennifer Stumm, Nitin Sawhney, Kathy Hinde and the Modified Toy Orchestra. The Aldeburgh Festival has always included the visual arts as well as music, and a number of exhibitions are curated each year to accompany the music programme. From 2011, the main exhibition of contemporary art has been promoted under the title SNAP, at various locations around the Snape Maltings site, organized by Abigail Lane. In 2012, featured artists included Glenn Brown, May Cornet, Brian Eno, Ryan Gander, Maggi Hambling, Mark Limbrick, Emily Richardson and Gavin Turk. Aldeburgh Music is also responsible for running the"
"capacity as director of touring, he did much to encourage the development of the regional opera companies and regional theatre. Apart from a brief interlude as general manager of the Aldeburgh Festival, he remained at the Arts Council until his retirement in 1991. In the year of his retirement, he was appointed CBE. Phipps was married twice: firstly to Anne Nichol Smith, in 1950, with whom he had two children, Polly and Simon; and secondly to Sue Pears (the niece of Sir Peter Pears) with whom he had a son, the composer Martin Phipps. Jack Phipps John Richard Noel Phipps"
"Challenger; ""Thanatophobia"" – composer Joanna Lee and writer Hannah Silva; and ""Beyond the Pale"" – composer Benjamin Scheuer, writer Tom Swift and director Tom Creed. The work of Aldeburgh Education has developed far beyond just working with schools and colleges, to encompass high quality creative and performance projects for the whole community, working throughout Suffolk and beyond and including work with juvenile offenders at HMP and YOI Warren Hill. Aldeburgh Education has been at the forefront of engaging young people and artists in music and media projects, developing personal, social, artistic and creative skills, using modern technology to engage with"
"Hindemith and Arnold Schoenberg. He was the only instrumentalist whom Benjamin Britten invited to perform at every Aldeburgh Festival in Britten's lifetime. In 1948, he was commissioned to design the organ for the Royal Festival Hall. When the organ was first unveiled in 1954, it caused some controversy, but it proved to be the beginning of what is now perceived as the classical reform movement in organ design, leaving behind the vast edifices of Victorian civic instruments in favour of a simpler and more cohesive sound, more characteristic of the Baroque era. Although the final result was still not wholly"
"John Reed, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley and Charles Tomlinson, the choreographer Helen Lewis and the founders of the Lyric Theatre, Belfast and written for performers including Peter Pears, Julian Bream, Eric Gruenberg, Cecil Aronowitz, Janet Price, Christopher Austin, Jeremy Huw Williams, David Ogden and the Dartington String Quartet. He has taught a number of composers who have gone on to have significant careers including: Eibhlis Farrell, Philip Hammond, David Byers and Will Todd. Major works include: The Passion (1962), Symphony No.1 (1964) the Violin Concerto (1966), Songs of Old Age (1968), Symphony No.2 (1969), the oratorio Continuing Cities (1989), Symphony"
"composer Richard Baker and sound artist Brian Duffy collaborate on a new work exploring the hidden voices of electronic toys and toy instruments in combination with a small chamber ensemble. TED is a US-led non-profit organisation devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It brings together in international conferences, people from the worlds of Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED), with the mission of “spreading ideas”. The TEDx programme allows organizations and individuals the opportunity to stimulate dialogue through TED-like experiences at a local level. Aldeburgh Music hosted the inaugural TEDx Aldeburgh Conference on November 6, 2010. Hosted by the TED music director"
"Deller. Atypically for Britten, the opera did not include a leading role for his partner Pears, who instead was given the comic drag role of Flute/Thisbe. ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" was first performed on 11 June 1960 at the Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh, UK as part of the Aldeburgh Festival. Conducted by the composer, it was directed by the choreographer John Cranko. The work received wide critical approval following its early performances. Howard Taubman in his review of the Aldeburgh premiere wrote that the orchestral colors of the score conveyed a sense of ""soaring illusion"" that never wavered and concluded: Not"