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Fri 31 Jan 12pm
Part of Friday Lunchtime Concerts
Wind quintet performs programmes including Tomasi, Klughardt, Butler & Knussen.
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Tue 4 Feb - Thu 13 Feb
Emerging string quartets and piano trios in public coaching sessions with inspiring musicians including Isabel Charisius...
Fri 7 Feb 12pm
Emerging string quartets and piano trios present pieces they have been coached on during two weeks with Isabel Charisius...
Fri 7 Feb 2:30pm
Fri 14 Feb 12pm
Fri 14 Feb 2:30pm
Sat 15 Feb 7:30pm
Prometheus Orchestra celebrates this auspicious anniversary by playing all five Beethoven Piano Concertos with soloist N...
Sun 16 Feb 4pm
Fri 21 Feb 12pm
Programmes to include Prokofiev & Rimsky-Korsakov
Fri 21 Feb 4pm
Part of See, Make & Do
Sat 22 Feb 7:30pm
Part of BBC Radio 3 Big Chamber Weekend
Mozart Duo, Debussy Cello Sonata and Tchaikovsky Piano Trio played by BBC New Generation Artists
Sun 23 Feb 2pm
Mozart Piano Sonata K311 and Tchaikovsky The Seasons, played by BBC New Generation Artists
Sun 23 Feb 4pm
Debussy Préludes for piano and Mozart Divertimento played by BBC New Generation Artists
Fri 28 Feb 12pm
Mon 2 Mar - Sat 7 Mar
A six-day festival which showcases the diverse music being made by young people across Suffolk.
Fri 6 Mar 12pm
Programme to include Schumann, Haydn & Ravel
Thu 12 Mar - Fri 13 Mar
An enduring favourite, a story of young love and fidelity.
Fri 13 Mar 12pm
Sat 14 Mar 3pm
Sat 14 Mar 7:30pm
Fri 20 Mar 12pm
Programmes of Scottish baroque music from this early music ensemble
Sat 21 Mar 7:30pm
Vivaldi’s Gloria and Bach’s Easter Oratorio
Fri 27 Mar 12pm
Sat 28 Mar 7:30pm
An epic account of the great prophet’s struggle against every kind of adversity.
Fri 3 Apr 12pm
Programme to include piano trios by Beethoven
Tue 7 Apr 7:30pm
Carmina Burana & orchestral showpieces
Fri 10 Apr 12pm
Part of Easter Weekend
Two piano trios perfectly encapsulate Beethoven's boundless energy and invention and rule-breaking radicalism.
Fri 10 Apr 7:30pm
Bach, Pachelbel and Tallis
Sat 11 Apr 2pm
MacMillan’s 21st-century choral masterpiece and Britten’s Purcell transcription
Sat 11 Apr 5pm
A new opera for teenagers
Sat 11 Apr 7:30pm
Music from the Sistine Chapel
Sun 12 Apr 3pm
Nicholas Mulroy, Roderick Williams, Anna Dennis, Timothy Mead & Britten Sinfonia
Fri 17 Apr 4pm
Fri 24 Apr 7:30pm
Mozart’s sonatas and Beethoven's Diabelli Variations
Sat 2 May 6pm
Bach's B Minor Mass
Fri 22 May - Sun 24 May
Fri 29 May 4pm
Thu 4 Jun 3pm
Composer Hannah Conway and writer Hazel Gould explore how the voice is connected to identity, memory and societal p...
Fri 12 Jun 7.30pm
Part of Aldeburgh Festival
The festival opens in Bury St Edmunds with music by Britten, Cassandra Miller, Mark-Anthony Turnage and John Tavener
Sat 13 Jun 11am
Music by Artist in Residence Mark-Anthony Turnage, with Debussy, Ravel, Knussen and Colin Matthews
Sat 13 Jun 3pm
Joined by choristers of Norwich Cathedral and tenor Samuel Boden for a programme of Britten, Turnage and Rainer
Sat 13 Jun 8pm
World premiere of the first opera by rising-star composer Tom Coult and acclaimed playwright Alice Birch
Sun 14 Jun 10.30am
Sun 14 Jun 3pm
Britten’s Three Divertimenti, Mozart’s Quartet in B-flat and Beethoven's remarkable five-movement work, Op.132
Sun 14 Jun 7.30pm
Two works linked by a film – Britten’s Death in Venice (performed here as a suite) and Mahler’s fifth symphony
Mon 15 Jun 11am
AN Wilson’s film about one of the greatest 20th-century poets begins a day of events dedicated to TS Eliot
Mon 15 - Fri 19 Jun, 2.30pm
Britten–Pears Young Artists join Roderick Williams and a team of tutors to explore what makes a moving song performanc...
Mon 15 Jun 4pm
A re-imagining of two extraordinary works of art: TS Eliot’s poem is interwoven with Beethoven’s String Quartet No.1...
Mon 15 Jun 7.30pm
Britten’s settings of TS Eliot poetry and the world premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s new song cycle
Tue 16 Jun 11am
Two films made a year apart - The Tenor Man’s Story about Peter Pears and The Noble Savage about Percy Grainger
Tue 16 Jun 3pm
Schubert’s ‘Rosamunde’ quartet and two works by Cassandra Miller – one inspired by Beethoven’s Quartet Op.132
Tue 16 Jun 7.30pm
The music of 17th and 18th-century Italy by Monteverdi, Carissimi and Scarlatti
Wed 17 Jun 7.30pm
A programme of sacred music, centred on the works and influences of John Tavener
Thu 18 Jun 11am
Tom Service’s tribute traces the musical and spiritual life of John Tavener
Thu 18 Jun 3pm
John Tavener’s theatrical oboe concerto is paired with music by Mozart and 19th-century Dutch composer van Bree
Thu 18 Jun 7.30pm
Wagner, Birtwistle, and a symphonic arrangement of the final opera in the Ring cycle
Fri 19 Jun 11am
The Britten–Pears Ensemble present music developed on last year’s Contemporary Composition and Performance course
Fri 19 Jun 4pm
Songs of love – both earthly and sacred – by Purcell, Fauré, Messiaen, Wigglesworth and Nadia Boulanger
Fri 19 Jun 7.30pm
Daniel Pioro and Steven Osborne perform Tom Coult’s new Violin Concerto and Britten’s Piano Concerto
Sat 20 Jun 11am
Britten–Pears Young Artists showcase the results of a week exploring what makes a moving song performance
Sat 20 Jun 2.30pm
String sextets by Turnage and Tchaikovsky and the world premiere of Gavin Higgins new work, at Aldeburgh Church
Sat 20 Jun 4.30pm & 5.45pm
Aldeburgh Voices perform Britten’s songs in the garden at The Red House
Sat 20 Jun 7.30pm
Music by Britten and Grainger inspired by folk tunes, Janáček’s Sinfonietta and a UK premiere by Cassandra Miller
Sat 20 Jun 10pm
John Cage’s tranquil String Quartet and Cassandra Miller’s moving tribute to her home in Canada
Sun 21 Jun 11am
Quartets by Beethoven, Haydn and Artist in Residence Mark-Anthony Turnage
Sun 21 Jun 3pm
Music by pioneering North American composers alongside the folk hymns which inspired them
Sun 21 Jun 7pm
For the first time Britten’s passionate plea for peace is performed at Snape Maltings as part of Aldeburgh Festival.
Mon 22 Jun 11am
A moving film about a great artist in which she talks openly about her career
22 – 27 June, 2.30pm – 5.30pm
Young Artists join tutors Anne Schwanewilms and Malcolm Martineau to explore the works of Mahler and his contemporaries
Mon 22 June 3pm
A dramatised song recital devoted to the poetry of Emily Dickinson
Mon 22 Jun 7.30pm
Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien join the Doric Quartet for a programme of Franck, Mendelssohn and Chausson
Tue 23 Jun 11am
Maritime themes in mid-20th century British art and culture, explored by art historian and critic Frances Spalding
Tue 23 Jun 3pm
Bach’s Toccata, Stravinsky’s Petrushka and Rachmaninov’s second sonata, as well as music by Turnage and Hesketh
Tue 23 Jun 8pm
The UK premiere of Julia Bullock’s tribute to world-renowned singer and civil rights activist, Joséphine Baker
Wed 24 Jun 6pm
A biographical background to the letters that Mahler send to his friends about Johanna Richter
Wed 24 Jun 7.30pm
Renaissance madrigals and jazz standards come together in a surprising programme from mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato
Thu 25 Jun 11am
in conversation with John Bridcut
Thu 25 Jun 2pm
An atmospheric programme which opens and closes with Cage, and includes music by Carter, Foss and Copland
Thu 25 Jun 7.30pm
Messiaen’s Oiseaux Exotiques, Mozart’s wind ensemble works and Elliott Carter’s setting of Wallace Stevens' poetry
Fri 26 Jun 11am
An anthology of English song and verse, including Britten, Butterworth and Vaughan Williams
Fri 26 Jun 3pm
Arrangements of two orchestral works by Elgar and little-known organ music by Britten in an Aldeburgh Festival debut
Fri 26 Jun 6pm
Italian accordion virtuoso performs his own transcriptions of familiar works by Bach, Grieg, Ligeti and Mussorgsky
Fri 26 Jun 9pm
This dynamic young male vocal ensemble performs a sequence of music that includes hymns, psalms and plainchant
Sat 27 Jun 11am
Beethoven and Schubert piano landmarks with pieces by two previous Aldeburgh Festival directors
Sat 27 Jun 3pm
A programme celebrating Priaulx Rainier’s music and her enduring friendship with Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears
Sat 27 Jun 7.30pm
A brief immersion into the worldwide Beethoven 250 celebrations from the Salzburg-based Hagen Quartet
Sun 28 Jun 11am
Bach’s works for solo violin played within the in the resonant acoustics of Blythburgh Church
Sun 28 Jun 2pm
A programme of Mahler’s works for voice & piano and that of his lesser performed contemporaries
Sun 28 Jun 5pm
Britten’s Les Illuminations is paired with Turnage, Mussorgsky and Britten's arrangement of Mahler’s largest symphon...
Fri 4 Dec - Sun 13 Dec
A glittering festive journey through memorable film musicals with dazzling song and dance, a live orchestra, stunning st...
