The Britten Pears Arts Residency Programme offers artists the time, space, and support to slow down, experiment, and take creative risks. This year’s residencies are rooted in deep listening, embodied practice, and the exploration of liminal states: between sound and silence, waking and dreaming, history and myth, body and landscape.

Across the next twelve months, artists will explore how memory is carried through place and voice, how technology can reveal what is usually imperceptible, and how performance can hold complexity, vulnerability, and transformation.

We’re very happy to announce that our Residency Artists for 2026–27 are:

Find out more:

Michelle Hromin
Willow Hazell
Verity Monroe
John Biddulph
HAUI
April Koyejo-Audiger & Kamilla Arku

Daniel Inzani
Bekah Simms
Beibei Wang
Simon Whetham
Lucinka Eisler

Every residency at Britten Pears Arts concludes with an Open Session, an informal, welcoming sharing where artists invite audiences into their work as it is being shaped. Over the coming year, these Open Sessions will span intimate acts of listening, immersive installations, exploratory opera and performance, and experiments at the edge of perception. They offer a rare opportunity to encounter ideas in formation, to sit close to uncertainty, and to experience how new work takes root. Find out more and book an Open Session here.

You can find out more about our Residency programme here.

Our Residencies are kindly supported by PPL.