Outstanding concerts, distinctive shops, cafés, galleries and walks - all set against a breathtaking expanse of reeds, water and sky.
Visiting Snape Maltings
Snape Maltings is located in the village of Snape, Suffolk, five miles from Aldeburgh on the Suffolk coast.
Snape Maltings, Snape, Saxmundham, Suffolk IP17 1SP
We have free parking available on site.
Aldeburgh Festival 2020
Friday 12 – Sunday 28 June
The 73rd Aldeburgh Festival features four Artists in Residence who have each curated parts of the festival – composers Mark-Anthony Turnage and Cassandra Miller, and singers Julia Bullock and Allan Clayton.
Other highlights include the opening night in Bury St Edmunds Abbey celebrating the 1,000th anniversary of one of medieval England’s great monasteries, the first performance of Britten’s War Requiem at Snape Maltings as part of Aldeburgh Festival and the world premiere of Violet, a new opera by composer Tom Coult and playwright Alice Birch.
Music
Current opportunities
Snape Maltings is one of the world’s leading centres of music and a place of energy and inspiration.
Residencies
Apply by 17 FebA chance for artists to be creative, curious, to play, to make and to experiment.
BT Acoustic Laboratory
Apply by 17 FebArtistic Residencies at an extraordinary and historic facility.
Aldeburgh Young Musicians
Attend a free taster sessionAn artist development programme for advanced young musicians aged 8-18.
Britten–Pears Young Artist Programme
See 2021 coursesCourses for emerging professional musicians led by high-profile tutors.
Digital Campus
Explore the breadth of work being developed here.
What happens when we sing together?
Read moreNeurological investigations with UCL and the National Youth Choir
Silence Makes Perfect
Read moreTheatre of amplified objects and broken instrument puppets
Tin Men and the Telephone
Read moreContemporary jazz group controlled via a smartphone app