Thursday 8th May 2025

6pm (Doors & Bar open at 5.30pm)

Tickets: £15

Tickets available HERE

By phoning 01728 454022, or in person Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10-12pm at the AJH corner office.

Sarah Small viola da gamba

Viola da gamba player Sarah Small is on a mission to demonstrate how touring can be done differently.

Disillusioned by the lack of support for sustainable touring within the arts, along with concerns about the impact and cost of audience travel from rural areas to venues in cities, she’s taking matters into her own hands and cycling from venue to venue to share her programme Good Again? with audiences far and wide.

Centred around the title work Good Againe by Tobias Hume, this programme for solo viola da gamba features music expressing the feelings of grief, contemplation, and hope felt by many of us during these unstable times, along with tales from the road that remind us of the beauty in slow travel. The programme includes Marais’ Les Voix Humaines (the human voice), Forqueray’s La Girouette (the weather vane), Sainte-Colombe’s Les Pleurs (the tears) and Hume’s galvanising The Spirit of Gambo.

Sarah also plays a specially commissioned piece by composer Lillie Harris, pondering our wish to return to what was before and whether the future can, in fact, be brighter.

The seating is unallocated. The performance is 75 minutes with no interval.  

Saturday 10th May – Sunday 11th May 2025

Saturday 10 May, 3pm: ‘Savitri’ & ‘The Wandering Scholar’ by Gustav Holst / Tickets £40 available HERE

Sunday 11 May, 12 noon: Open Rehearsal led by Dame Felicity Palmer / Tickets £20 available HERE

Sunday 11 May, 5pm: A recital of works focusing on Imogen Holst / Tickets £40 available HERE

‘Tomorrow shall be my dancing day’

Cameratina is hosting a weekend celebrating the music of Gustav and Imogen Holst.

Gustav needs no introduction, although his operas are less well -known. Conversely, Imogen, his daughter, is only now becoming established as a fine composer in her own right.

Susanna Stranders of the Royal Opera House has created the programme, working with Dame Felicity Palmer, who has not only recorded works by Gustav Holst but also worked alongside Imogen Holst.

Four young opera singers will explore the Holsts’ music, performing two of Gustav’s short operas, Savitri and The Wandering Scholar. This will be a matinee.

The singers will also support Dame Felicity in a Recital of works by Imogen and her contemporaries. The performances will be accompanied throughout by the Ellipsis Ensemble.

The operas will be co-directed by Dame Felicity and Nick Fowler.

Dame Felicity will also lead an Open Rehearsal, giving the audience a ‘behind-the-scenes’ insight into the delightful subtleties of Imogen’s music.

Artists:

Further information is at www.cameratina.org

Tickets available through the links above, by phoning 01728 454022, or in person Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10-12pm at the AJH corner office.

Saturday 17th May 2025, 10am – 1pm

Free entry

Come to our Spring Farmers Market, for fine Suffolk produce and crafts.

This is a friendly market offering an excellent range of high-quality local produce and products.

Stall holders

If you are interested in booking a stall, please contact manager@aldeburghjubileehall.co.uk.

We are open to producers who operate within a 25-mile radius of Aldeburgh.

No re-sellers please, only primary producers.

Spaces will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis, and producers may be put on a waiting list dependant on other confirmed stall holders and what they offer.

Sunday 18th May, 4pm

Doors open at 3.30pm

Tickets: £15.50 (free for under 12s) available HERE

Join the Suffolk Chamber Orchestra for a captivating afternoon of classical music by the sea.

This fresh, dynamic and exciting new ensemble presents an afternoon of timeless masterpieces, featuring Benjamin Britten’s lively Simple Symphony, Elgar’s elegant Serenade for Strings, and Mozart’s joyful Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.

This concert marks their debut at the Jubilee Hall in Aldeburgh, set next to the stunning Suffolk coastline – this is an ensemble you won’t want to miss.
A real must for music lovers of all ages!

1 hour concert with no interval

Tickets available through the link above, by phoning 01728 454022, or in person Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10-12pm at the AJH corner office.

Saturday 24th May 2025

7.30pm (Doors & Bar open at 7pm)

Tickets: £15

Tickets available HERE

By phoning 01728 454022, or in person Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10-12pm at the AJH corner office.

There is nothing quite like the sound of a Big Band.

Horn Factory perform an impressive and extensive range of contemporary big band jazz by composers such as Buddy Rich, , Maynard Ferguson, James Morrison, Bobby Shew, Thelonious Monk, Chuck Mangione, Chick Corea and many more!

An evening of fast moving, hard hitting, toe tapping jazz from a spectacular 18-piece big band that features soloists and ensemble players from around East Anglia.

The seating is a mix of tables at the front and tiered seating

Monday 26th May, 2pm

Doors open at 1.30pm

Tickets: £12/£15 available HERE

Friday 30th May, 7.00pm

Doors open at 6.30pm

Tickets: £8 available HERE

Saturday 31st May, 7.30pm

Doors open at 7pm

Tickets £15 available HERE

A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2

BY LUCAS HNATH

At the end of Ibsen’s classic, ground breaking 1879 play, A Doll’s House Nora walks out on her marriage, home and young children.

Playwright Lucas Hnath builds on Ibsen’s seminal work by imagining what happens when Nora returns years later with an urgent request.

Old School Theatre Company presents Hnath’s rich, stand alone sequel, eloquently exploring traditional gender roles and social class still inherent in today’s society.

A Doll’s House, Part 2 received its UK premiere at the Donmar Warehouse, London in 2022.

Tickets available through the links above, by phoning 01728 454022, or in person Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10-12pm at the AJH corner office.

Saturday 7th June 2025

7.30pm (Doors & Bar open at 7pm)

Tickets: £20

Tickets available HERE

By phoning 01728 454022, or in person Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10-12pm at the AJH corner office.

“One of the tiny handful of undeniably perfect jazz musicians” The Observer

Saxophonist Art Themen has been an engaging and inventive presence on the British jazz circuit for over 60 years. This living legend has played in the bands of Alexis Korner and Stan Tracey as well as on recordings with Joe Cocker, Jack Bruce and even Bing Crosby. Recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Worshipful Company of Musicians and shortlisted for the Jazz Instrumentalist of the year in the recent Parliamentary Jazz Awards, he remains as brilliant and inimitable as ever, with his trio featuring organist Pete Whittaker, formerly of The Nigel Price Organ Trio, and drummer George Double who has worked as sideman to Shirley Bassey and Jack Jones. The band’s groove-led re-imaginings of quirky curiosities from the jazz canon are a perfect vehicle for the twinkly mischief of this genuine grandee of British jazz and have delighted crowds at major London jazz venues including Ronnie Scotts, and across the UK. The Trio’s third album Live In Soho is released on Ubuntu Music and captures a magical night at PizzaExpressLive in Dean Street in August 2023.

For tonight’s concert, the trio are joined by pianist Jim Watson. Jim is co-promoter of Jazz@Jubilee and has worked with Sting, the BBC Big Band, the BBC’s ‘Strictly’ band and of course…Wet, Wet, Wet.

“A perfectly melded unit… A masterclass in tenor technique” Jazz Journal
“One of the most distinguished trios on Britain’s scene today” Jazz Rag
“the total performance a joy” Jazzwise

Watch the trio in action here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdANh6fOqvI

Monday 16th June 2025 at 10.30am 

Doors open at 10am

Tickets: £15, £12.50; under 30s half price

Tickets are available from Britten Pears Arts’ website HERE

A fascinating morning of expert discussion and creative writing inspired by the idea of North, and the music of Helen Grime and Gavin Higgins that brings it to life.

… I come
From a land of poems trudged across the fells
Like coffins … (Katie Hale, from Offcomer)

In a special conversation chaired by Northumbria University historian Professor Julian Wright, Gavin Higgins will be joined by artists including poet Katrina Porteous and singer Claire Booth to discuss the way words and music have come together in this new song book, and to continue the conversation about our contemporary sense of northern-ness and the notions of living at the margins.

In Gavin Higgins’ new work Speak of the North, poetry and music are woven with the sound of the folk violin – the Hardanger fiddle which once inspired the Norwegian composer Grieg in his exploration of the sound world of historic Norway. Inspired by the way Grieg deepened his appreciation of landscape and history through folk resonance, Claire Booth and Christopher Glynn asked Gavin to develop a new English song book, one that resonates in its own folk-inspired sound world, seeking out the rhythm and beauty of a contemporary English north and bringing that to life in words and music.

With its beautifully curated selection of contemporary poetry, the song book explores “northern-ness” as we might find it at the borders of England, in the derelict farms or mines of the Pennines, or the lonely heart of northern towns. This is a world where our minds are drawn to the border, to places where our own solitariness aches for space and music.

Claire Booth soprano
Gavin Higgins composer
Katrina Porteous poet
Prof Julian Wright historian

Friday 20th June 2025 at 11am 

Doors open at 10.30am

Tickets: £23, £17.50; under 30s half price

Tickets are available from Britten Pears Arts’ website HERE

Thursday 26th June 2025 at 10.30am 

Doors open at 10am

Tickets: £15, £12.50; under 30s half price

Tickets are available from Britten Pears Arts’ website HERE

Friday 27th June 2025 at 11am 

Doors open at 10.30am

Tickets: £23, £17.50; under 30s half price

Tickets are available from Britten Pears Arts’ website HERE

Friday 11th July, 7.30pm

Doors open at 7pm

Tickets: £15 available HERE