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  1. Think Tank: Music in Later Life

    Music has power to improve quality of life and wellbeing in later life. It encourages connection, reduces isolation and loneliness, improves mood,…

  2. Idrisi Ensemble

    Old Roman chant is a rare window into late antiquity traditions, at a crossroads between the ancient liturgies of Syria, Egypt, Jerusalem and…

  3. Archive Treasures: Slow train to Aldeburgh – Britten and Dr Beeching

    James Callaghan, Roy Jenkins, Barbara Castle: the list of ministers in Harold Wilson’s 1964-1970 Labour government in the UK includes many political…

  4. Insights into Garden Management at The Red House

    Q&A with David Gibbons, Garden Manager at The Red House. David joined Britten Pears Arts as the Garden Manager in August 2022. He joins us…

  5. Insights into Collection and Learning Curation

    A conversation with Joe Carr, Collection and Learning Curator at The Red House. Joe aims to bring education and enrichment to people by engaging them…
  6. Pages from Holst’s 1940 scrapbook about air raids and the internment of Rauter and Müller-Hartmann.

    Archive Treasures: Imogen Holst’s World War II scrapbooks and her émigré musician friends

    Imogen Holst kept a series of large scrapbooks from her student days at the Royal College of Music until the early 1940s when she was working as a…

  7. My Beloved Man: The Letters of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears

    Toward the end of his life Benjamin Britten urged his authorized biographer, Donald Mitchell, to “tell the truth about Peter and me”. Britten’s nearly…

  8. Christian Marclay – Everyday

    Christian Marclay, the Swiss-American visual artist and composer has won worldwide acclaim for his explorations of visual media and sound. After…

  9. Residency: Theo Alexander

    The Art Station x Britten Pears Arts During his month-long residency, Chinese-Malaysian/British composer Theo Alexander set out…

  10. Lia Mice & Odd Lust

    Inspired by process-based music composition card decks such as Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies and Ben Chasny’s The Hexadic System, Lia Mice and Odd…

  11. Jake Mehew

    "The Microcosm work I am creating utilises microscopic visual stimuli, improvised sound design, electro-magnetic frequencies, performance and immersive…

  12. Residency: Chisara Agor – Nocturnal Sun

    Nocturnal Sun is an inter-disciplinary performance piece that combines music, movement and visual art. Chisara's residency time was used to develop a…