Snape Maltings, Snape, Suffolk IP17 1SP

Update, 12 April 2021:
All our shops, the Maltings Gallery and our outdoor covered café are now open. You can also book River Trips along the River Alde and Pizza in the Tipi. Concerts will restart in late May. Read our re-opening plans here.

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Community Musician Training

Connecting local musicians with communities across East Suffolk
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BPYAP: Looking forward

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Alex Groves' Residency Diary

Examining our relationship with the natural world in an age of climate catastrophe.
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Joseph Peach & Charlie Grey

A Scotland-based fiddle/piano duo who are working towards launching a podcast series
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Composition, Alternative Performance & Performance Art 2020

Working online and remotely, this was the first Britten–Pears Young Artist Programme course for many months, and the first ever to take place entirely online.
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Nick Ryan Acoustic Labs

Exploring how we create meaning from sound and whether this is measurable
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The Murder of Bridget Cleary

Maz O'Connor's new music theatre piece about woman murdered by her husband because he believed her to be a faery changeling
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Max Baillie & Vahakn Matossian

Creating an explorational sound journey using analog and organic sounds
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Dom Bouffard: Vengeful Ghost

Creating an immersive work for electric guitars
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Curlews, Japanese theatre and queer culture

Thick & Tight incorporating Japanese Noh and Kyogen Theatre into their own dance work
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Letty Stott: The Hornblower

Exploring the visual and sonic possibilities of ancient horn instruments
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Young People, Digital Music Making and Mental Health

A creative conversation about how can we better embed digital tools to engage, improve well-being and measure change
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Sonatas, Rituals and Folksong

"Where else in the country could you expect these wildly differing practices to mingle?"
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Empowering Musicality in Early Years Practice

Workshops and discussion for early years educators working with 0-5 year olds, led by Magic Acorns
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I Can't Sing

A Snape Maltings visitor talks about her difficult relationship with singing
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Music at Pear Tree Lodge

Perspectives on a music session within a residential care setting
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Sound Voice

An enquiry residency exploring how the voice is connected to identity, memory and societal perception
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Being an Aldeburgh Young Musician

A young musician's insight into the activity and opportunities offered by AYM
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Oedipa

A collaboration between opera makers and speech and language therapists
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Beyond Waltham Forest

A young person shares their experience of performing at our Criminal Justice Arts showcase.
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Music as a Sense of Time

A Thinktank examining how music can impact our perception of time
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Singing and Mental Health Sandpit Day

Exploring practice and research around the impacts of singing on mental health
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A broadside ballad for the 21st century

Aldeburgh Young Musicians with members of The Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments
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Tragic Ways of Killing a Woman

Working on a new opera with unusual accompaniment
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Singing on prescription

How do we prepare singing practitioners for Social Prescribing?
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The Future Hospital

Exploring how we integrate cultural, technological, natural & human aspects to create the hospitals of the future
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Silence Makes Perfect

Theatre of amplified objects and broken instrument puppets
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Sam Lee: Old Wow

Reimagining folksong to celebrate nature and promote conservation
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Kit Downes & Tom Challenger: Dreamlife of Debris

Re-arranging a jazz study of Suffolk's church organs
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Rahman & Yermakova

Creating a sitar concerto informed by neuroscience
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Fatty

Filming an uneasy love letter to TV culture, with sculpture and music
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Nicolls & Bugge

Climate science conveyed through music
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Reload

Breaking through anxiety by writing hip hop exploring fatherhood
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Tin Men and the Telephone

Contemporary jazz group controlled via a smartphone app
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Voicescolourmotion

Interactive sound and light installation controlled by human motion.
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What happens when we sing together?

Neurological investigations with UCL and the National Youth Choir
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Emily Foulkes: Singing for Chronic Pain

Exploring the use of singing in the management of chronic pain
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HerStory: The Catchpole Chronicles

A new operatic work for performers living with Parkinson's
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Musician Resilience

How do we support creative practitioners to make and facilitate quality work?
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Opera Arias

Masterclasses on operatic repertoire led by Antonio Pappano
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Music and Wellbeing in Early Childhood

Examining how music impacts our early development.
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Singing and Maternal Mental Health

Examining new research around singing for post-natal depression
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Arts Health Research Intensive

Introducing the positive impact of the arts in health and wellbeing.
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Impacts of singing on health and wellbeing

A Thinktank looking at the impacts of singing on health and wellbeing across the lifespan
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Bastard Assignments

Four composer-performers developing a shared creative practice
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A Time of Listening

A new music theatre work on the fallibility of memory
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NAALA

Creating a multi-sensory show - sound, light, chocolate and perfume
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Seven Ways The Blues Can Improve Your Life

A tongue-in-cheek celebration of the Blues
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Horse Whisperer

Writing an endless looping online opera
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Perhaps Contraption

Progressive brass band developing a theatrical show
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Composition, Alternative Performance and Performance Art

Larry Goves' course for new creators
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The 21st Century Singer

John Fisher, Matthew Rose and Julia Faulkner examine what it means to be a singer today.
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Propellor

Clarinettist creating a new ensemble combining folk, classical and improvisation.
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A new opera that re-imagines the selfie
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Strauss Lieder & Arias

BPYAP masterclasses with Angelika Kirchschlager and Malcolm Martineau
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The Sleeping Thousand

Writing an operatic parable of a broken country
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Group A at Aldeburgh Carnival

Our youth choir create a gypsy-jazz carnival parade
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Sarah Saviet & Lawrence Dunn

A violinist working with a composer on a new work
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The Other Side of the Sea

Creating a one-woman opera about language with a librettist and filmmaker.
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Group A at Music for Youth National Festival

Our unauditioned youth choir perform in Birmingham
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Permutations

An interactive installation combining acoustics, architecture and music
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Bill Fontana: Acoustic Visions

A sound installation echoing Snape Maltings' industrial past and natural environment
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Parallelist

Using music, tape and a live telephone exchange to bring an allegory of consciousness to life.
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Sing to Beat Parkinson's Practitioner Training

Training leaders of singing groups for people with Parkinson's
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Firefly Burning: Breathe Shallow

Expanding the instrumentation of an art-folk group for new material
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Sweet Tooth

Elaine Mitchener casts a unique look upon the history of the sugar trade.
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The Discovery of Bomarzo

Renaissance music with sound design in a concert inspired by a forgotten sculpture garden.
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Vyamanikal

Mixing composition with improvisation, inspired by the huge variety of organs and church acoustics in Suffolk.
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Lily Hunter Green: Bee Composed

Developing an ecology-inspired installation into a live performance piece.
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Ayanna Witter-Johnson: Roadrunner

Writing an EP to chronicle the experience of being a woman in the 21st century
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Acoustic Experiments of Francis Bacon

The Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments recreate Sylva Sylvarum
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Writing for Vocal Ensemble

Michael Finnissy and EXAUDI vocal ensemble lead a course on composition.
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The Chimes Hour

Using close recording techniques inspired by local folklore
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Earthquake Mass

EXAUDI and Russell Haswell transform Brumel’s renaissance masterpiece
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An Aldeburgh Musicircus

Over 1000 performers in a single piece on Aldeburgh Beach, recreated digitally.
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Nocturnal

An installation by Atom Egoyan and John Wynne which turns a building into a camera obscura
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Game

Richard Baker and Brian Duffy explore the hidden voices of electronic toys and toy instruments
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In Britten's Footsteps

Chris Watson retraces Britten’s daily composing walks around Aldeburgh in a piece of sound art
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Roots

Six musicians re-interpret the folk songs that inspired Britten
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GoPlay

Pekka Kuusisto, Peter Gregson and Reactify play with music
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Richard Skelton and the Elysian Quartet

New sounds inspired by Suffolk
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Star-Shaped Biscuit

Experimental composer David Toop creating an opera for improvising musicians.
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I burn for you

Death metal and vocal improvisers in a new version of Dracula
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Symmetry

Marcus du Sautoy takes inspiration from the walls of the Alhambra and the variations of Bach.
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Fall Back

Connecting the legacy of Dubstep with some of the earliest experiments in electronic music and projection
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Christian Marclay – Everyday

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Soundfields

Three projects translating weather and audio recordings into sound art
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Rhythm of Strings

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Spheres & Splinters

Tod Machover and Peter Gregson explore the properties of acoustic and electronic music
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Brainwaves

Exploring the world of the brain six degrees of separation
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