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  1. Think Tank: 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…

  2. Residency: Hold the Drama

    Hold the Drama create non-verbal shows that use music and drama to start conversations about mental health and emotional wellbeing...

  3. Residency: t l k – compositions about loss and grief

    The next phase of development for a new t l k EP
  4. A group of people singong on stage

    Vox Pop: A Verbatim Musical

    A verbatim musical which follows the people of Cardiff in the days before, during, and after the general election in December 2019...

  5. The School Britten and Pears Built

    Britten and Pears founded a special kind of Music School. This year it celebrates its 50th year, and an important project is underway…
  6. Queen Elizabeth II opening Snape Maltings in 1967

    10 things you may not know about Benjamin Britten and the Royal Family

    1. Benjamin Britten composed four works for the Royal Family, and arranged the National Anthem specially for Queen Elizabeth II (his version is often…

  7. Music in the Criminal Justice System

    For over 20 years, Britten Pears Arts enjoyed a relationship with HMP Warren Hill, a male adult prison situated only a 15-minute drive from Snape…

  8. Something in the Water: Aldeburgh Festival moments that made it famous

    Towering silent sentinels afloat on the Alde. Projections on a nuclear power station. Night walks and alfresco piano recitals at dawn. Aldeburgh…

  9. Rapasa: Nyatiti Master

    Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Rapasa Nyatrapasa Otieno is from Kenya and based in Newcastle upon Tyne. His main…

  10. Mark Bowden, on Aldeburgh Young Musicians

    Following a couple of years of delivering workshops and masterclasses via Zoom, it was wonderful to travel to Aldeburgh once more to deliver an…

  11. Archive Treasures: The Birth of a Music School

    The Britten Pears Young Artist Programme (previously the Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies) has been offering opportunities for the…

  12. SECRETS: The Last Five Days of Sandra

    Leon Clowes is a conceptual artist who compassionately and unflinchingly explores lived trauma. His award winning artworks have been selected for…