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Community Musician Training

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

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

Soundfields

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

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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