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    Creative Care in Community: Britten Pears Arts’ PARTICIPATE programme evaluation

    Between January and March 2025, Britten Pears Arts (BPA) partnered with Mindful Care Training and Consultancy (MCTC) to independently evaluate…

  2. Empowering Return: Reflections on the SWAP’ra Retreat

    In March 2025, SWAP’ra (Supporting Women and Parents in Opera), in partnership with Britten Pears Arts, hosted a transformative week-long retreat at…

  3. 2025 Aldeburgh Festival Press Reviews

    Read the press reviews from our 76th Aldeburgh Festival performances:
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    Composer Spotlight: Amy Bryce

    Each year Britten Pears Arts brings together over 1,200 performers from schools across the county for a special week-long event called…

  5. Tenor Allan Clayton at the Aldeburgh Festival

    Aldeburgh Festival 2025 Featured Artist, Allan Clayton shares his thoughts and experiences in a special interview for Britten Pears Arts.

  6. The Idea of North

    “What and where is North? Well, North is North. It's a point on a compass. But what kind of North depends on where you are geographically and what your…
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    In Conversation with Violinist Leila Josefowicz

    Aldeburgh Festival 2025 Featured Artist, Leila Josefowicz shares her thoughts and experiences in a special interview for Britten Pears Arts.
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    Miyabi Duo at HMP Hollesley Bay

    Over the past year, a new and exciting programme from Britten Pears Arts has demonstrated the transformative power of live performance at two prisons…

  9. The ‘B’ List

    We are celebrating the ‘B’ list of composers featured in this year’s Festival. Watch our introductory video, and find out more about the…

  10. Britten’s A.M.D.G.

    As we look forward to the BBC Singers’ performance at the 76th Aldeburgh Festival, we dive deeper into the ‘hidden gem’ that is Britten’s…

  11. Archive Treasures: The story of a Holocaust survivor and a musical legacy

    We mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, and of the liberation of the death camps with the story of a special…

  12. Britten Pears Young Artists: Trio Brontë

    Trio Brontë was founded in Berlin in 2022 and consists of German-Italian violinist Chiara Sannicandro, Bulgarian pianist Lili Bogdanova, and…