Events
june, 2025
Event Details
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
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Event Details
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
Time
(Monday) 10:30 am
Location
Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall
Event Details
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
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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
The Berio Sequenza is a tour de force for the solo flute, while his playful and virtuosic Ricorrenze is a brilliant work for the whole quintet.
Boulez dedicated his “Dialogue d’ombre double” to Berio on his 60th birthday. The clarinetist records a tape which is played back in performance while they add a live element too.
We are delighted to feature a new commission for this occasion and ensemble from the leading composer Cheryl Frances-Hoad.
Ensemble Renard comprises five of the country’s most outstanding young musicians. Together, they exist to explore a wide range of timbral possibilities within modern day chamber performance. Ensemble Renard’s frequent collaboration with composers and guest instrumentalists allows them to showcase a prismatic variety of colours.
Ensemble Renard:
Ellie Blamires flute
Patrick Bolton bassoon
Francesca Cox oboe
James Gilbert clarinet
George Strivens French horn
Main image: Ensemble Renard
Time
(Friday) 11:00 am
Location
Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall
Event Details
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
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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
Our Featured Artist will lead a fascinating study of topics such as stage anxiety, interpretation from a non-musical point of view, and other matters to do with performance. A lovely opportunity to get closer to the music and to hear insights from a leading international artist.
Light refreshments will be available to purchase on arrival.
Main image: Leila Josefowicz © Tom Zimberoff
Time
(Thursday) 10:30 am
Location
Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall
Event Details
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
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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
This is a delightful recital of the new record from these accomplished artists. It contains world-premiere recordings of featured artist Daniel Kidane’s recent cycle Songs of Illumination and Festival legend Imogen Holst’s Four Songs.
The programme is completed by Britten’s 1953 Winter Words, one of his most moving cycles with its setting of Thomas Hardy. Its cumulative power builds to the poignant final song, A Time There Was.
Daniel Kidane says: “It is really special to go into the marshes and think of Britten and William Blake. I admire Britten and Holst’s music a lot, and it is an honour to be at their festival. And now I will be here too. Like them, my songs have lush harmonies, and all three of us composers are interested in how the voice works – so it is a good combination”.
Nick Pritchard tenor
Ian Tindale piano
Time
(Friday) 11:00 am
Location
Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall
28jun11:00 amAldeburgh Festival Big Day Out: Family CeilidhA fun hour of family-friendly dancing
Event Details
Saturday 28th June 2025 at 11am Doors open at 10.30am Tickets: Free entry but please book Tickets are available from Britten Pears Arts’ website HERE
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Saturday 28th June 2025 at 11am
Doors open at 10.30am
Tickets: Free entry but please book
Tickets are available from Britten Pears Arts’ website HERE
This event is one hour long.
Time
(Saturday) 11:00 am
Location
Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall
Event Details
Saturday 28th June 2025 at 3pm Doors open at 2.30pm Tickets: Free entry but please book Tickets are available from Britten Pears Arts’ website HERE
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Saturday 28th June 2025 at 3pm
Doors open at 2.30pm
Tickets: Free entry but please book
Tickets are available from Britten Pears Arts’ website HERE
The workshop is about the joy of sharing music and playing together, and there will be parts and options for all abilities. Feel free to bring your own instrument, though descant recorders will be available for all to use for free.
The event celebrates the 70th anniversary of Benjamin Britten’s Alpine Suite, which Britten wrote in 1955 while holidaying in the Swiss mountain resort of Zermatt with Peter Pears and the artist Mary Potter. Mary Potter fell and injured her leg on the first day of the holiday, so was confined to the hotel. Pears, Potter and Britten were competent recorderists, so the composer felt that a short piece of music for three recorders (2 descant and 1 treble) that the three of them could play, would be a good idea. And so it was created.
In partnership with The Early Music Shop.
Time
(Saturday) 3:00 pm
Location
Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall