Events at Snape Maltings

Breakfast Club with Live Jazz

A lovely way to ease into a Sunday morning, the Breakfast Club with Live Jazz takes place in the River View Café & Bar at Snape Maltings, set against sweeping views across the reed beds and the River Alde. Snape Maltings' resident jazz band provides a laid-back soundtrack from 9am, while the…

Red House Tour

Gain an intimate view of The Red House. Lasting an hour, you will be guided through Britten and Pears’ house, composition studio and library plus a visit to the archive where you will get a chance to see the gems of the collection.

Little Curators

Step inside the creative world of The Red House with a brand-new sensory session designed just for our youngest visitors.

Red House Art Tour

The Red House Art Tour is a guided 90-minute tour of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears' former home in Aldeburgh, led by expert guides who highlight key artworks from the collection and share the stories and insights behind the pieces the pair chose to live with. Britten and Pears assembled around…

Participate 2026: Kesgrave

Participate 2026: Woodbridge

Participate 2026: Leiston

Participate 2026: Saxmundham

Skylarks: Kesgrave

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Skylarks 2026: Snape & Aldeburgh

Spooky Sounds

Visit the Red House this October Half term to hear some spooky Suffolk tales and learn how we can bring the stories alive by adding spooky sounds.

Open Session: John Biddulph - The Sonic Microscope

The Sonic Microscope is a practice-based exploration of sound at the threshold of perception

ETO: Pre Performance Talk: Orpheus and Eurydice

A chance to get under the skin of one of opera's most beloved myths before the curtain rises. English Touring Opera's pre-performance talk accompanies their new autumn 2026 production of Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice, directed by Jenny Ogilvie, a specialist in movement and physical theatre. The…

Friday Lunchtime Concert: AERA Ensemble

Fun-loving music from Beethoven, romantically expressive music by Bruch and Stravinsky's cautionary tale.

English Touring Opera: Orpheus and Eurydice

A timeless story of love and loss in ETO's new production of Gluck's most popular work.

English Touring Opera: Ariadne | Dido & Aeneas

A double bill of stories of love and loss.

ETO: Pre Performance Talk: Ariadne/Dido & Aeneas

This pre-performance talk, offered by English Touring Opera ahead of that evening's double bill, is a chance to get under the skin of two very different works united by a shared theme. The double bill pairs Elena Langer's Ariadne, a 20-minute setting of Glyn Maxwell's poem for soprano and a small…

An afternoon in memory of Anne Cuddigan

Matthew Rose, Katherine Broderick and friends perform an afternoon of music including Britten, Mahler, Strauss and Bach.

Friday Lunchtime Concerts: Lydia Shariff & Francesca Lauri - Into The Gathering Dark

‘Into The Gathering Dark’ is the title of this recital as inspired the autumnal themes of the songs programmed within it.

Snape Maltings Farmers Market

A monthly farmers' market at Snape Maltings on the first Saturday of the month, from 9.30am to 1pm. The Maltings' shops open from 10am, with local produce in the Food Hall, and there are walks in the countryside around the site, plus coffee and cake at MALT or the River View Café and Bar.

Family Concert: The Littlest Yak

This musical adaptation of the award-winning children’s book will delight audiences young and old with beautiful puppets, catchy tunes and an uplifting tale of self-acceptance for all the family.

Friday Lunchtime Concert: Kleio Quartet

First Prize and Commission Prize winners at the 2023 Carl Nielsen International Chamber Music Competition, the Kleio Quartet are rapidly emerging as one of the most exciting young string quartets on the international stage.

Christ Church Cathedral Choir at 500

Christ Church Cathedral Choir continues its 500th anniversary celebrations in a programme that showcases the rich musical legacy of a unique Foundation

Friday Lunchtime Concert: Ewan Millar

An enticing programme of works for solo oboe.

A Christmas Miracle

Inspired by Britten’s unrealised plans for his intergenerational community opera of the Christmas Story (titled A Christmas Sequence), and using text from the Chester Mystery Plays, the new opera by Errollyn Wallen includes special settings of much-loved Christmas carols for everyone to sing along…

Britten's Birthday: The Red House Open Day

To celebrate Benjamin Britten's 115th birthday, a special open day and guided tours will be held at The Red House - and there will be cake.

Every Natural Sound

Annabel Kennedy and Daniel Silcock present a recital on Britten’s Birthday in The Red House Library.

AW26: Members Quiz Night

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Friday Lunchtime Concerts: London Chamber Soloists

A musical stroll through sun-dappled woods, a melancholic rarity by Debussy and atmospheric Argentinian tango.

Open Session: Can you hear the alarm?

A work-in-progress performance of a new piece reimagining Bela Bartok's opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle.

Aldeburgh Music Club presents Christmas Oratorio

Following their sell-out performance of Messiah last year, Aldeburgh Music Club return to Snape Maltings to launch the 2026 Christmas season with one of the best-loved choral works of all time – J.S. Bach’s CHRISTMAS ORATORIO.

Little Curators

Step inside the creative world of The Red House with a brand-new sensory session designed just for our youngest visitors.

Britten's Legacy Tours

Join a special tour of The Red House as we mark the anniversary of Britten's death

Britten Weekend: Timothy Ridout & James Baillieu - Schubert

FRANZ SCHUBERT: Sonatina no.1 D-Major BENJAMIN BRITTEN: Lachrymae FRANZ SCHUBERT: Sonata for Arpeggione in A minor, D821

Open Session: Tiresias

Tiresias is a music-led performance work where canticles, spoken word, and sound shift and transform to reclaim the legacy of the legendary blind seer.

Britten Weekend: Guy Johnston and Melvyn Tan

The superb cellist and pianist perform a recital that includes Britten's astonishing Cello Sonata.

AW26: Members Post-Concert Drinks

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Britten Weekend: Saint Nicolas

Britten's joyous cantata telling the tale of the saint that inspired Santa Claus.

Britten Weekend: Study Morning with Dr Lucy Walker

Dr Lucy Walker is joined by mezzo-soprano Alice Coote and pianist Christian Blackshaw for a wide ranging discussion on Britten's music and legacy.

Britten Weekend: Winterreise

One of classical music's greatest song cycles performed by Alice Coote and Christian Blackshaw.

Snape Maltings Farmers Market

A monthly farmers' market at Snape Maltings on the first Saturday of the month, from 9.30am to 1pm. The Maltings' shops open from 10am, with local produce in the Food Hall, and there are walks in the countryside around the site, plus coffee and cake at MALT or the River View Café and Bar.

Britten Weekend: Britten Oboe Quartet

Nicholas Daniel's Britten Oboe Quartet opens this afternoon's concert with the enticing Phantasy Quartet by Britten.

Britten Weekend: A Celebration of East Anglia's Young Musicians

Celebrate the next generation of musical talent in this inspiring end of term performance by some of the region's finest young musicuians.

78th Aldeburgh Festival Launch

Join them for a special reveal of the 2027 Aldeburgh Festival.

Scratch Choir: A Ceremony of Carols

An invigorating and inspiring day of choral singing, learning and performing Britten's A Ceremony of Carols.

Tea Dance

A festive afternoon of food, dancing and music. A delicious afternoon tea and an opportunity to waltz, foxtrot and cha-cha-cha to a live band.

Christmas Wreath Making at The Red House

Make your own Christmas wreath with evergreens from the beautiful Red House Garden.

A Festive 'Friday Night is Music Night'

An atmospheric celebration of the Christmas Season including new takes on old favourites.

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse with Live Orchestra

Charlie Mackesy's heart-warming tale of unlikely friendship brought to life on the concert hall stage performed live by the BBC Concert Orchestra.

Britten: Canticles

Britten's haunting Canticles performed by a superb roster of singers and instrumentalists.

Charlie Mackesy - Book Signing

Carols at The Red House

Join them for a festive sing-a-long followed by warming drinks and mince pies.

Magic of Christmas

A stunning new musical show bursting with energy, from the UK’s largest youth musical theatre group celebrating 20 years at Snape Maltings.

Snape Maltings Christmas Farmers' Market 2026

Snape Maltings' special Christmas Farmers' Market is its largest market of the year, filling a marquee on the Henry Moore lawn beside the Concert Hall with artisan local food and drink producers from 9.30am on Tuesday 22 December. There is festive face painting and craft activities for children.

Little Curators

Step inside the creative world of The Red House with a brand-new sensory session designed just for our youngest visitors.

Friday Lunchtime Concert: Trio E.T.A I

Dramatic, graceful and deeply satisfying, Mozart’s Trio is like a concerto in miniature.

JP Stonard Lecture I

1: Redemption Road. Our place in the world shown in landscape painting, Nicolas Poussin, Thomas Gainsborough, into the modern world and the search for wilderness, and how works of art can be images of redemption in our contemporary world.

Friday Lunchtime Concert: Trio E.T.A II

Saint-Saëns’ Second Piano Trio moves from desolation to breathless energy – one of chamber- music’s most intriguing pieces.

Roly Poly

A sensory musical playscape for under-twos and their caregivers. See our website for more details here: www.rolypolyshow.com

JP Stonard Lecture II

2: On the Tōkaidō Road. On the great series of prints by Hiroshige, Kunisada and others, showing the Tōkaidō Road, or 'Eastern Sea Road', with echoes in our native Suffolk landscape. The human sense of place, of being anchored in the world, and the theme of humility.

Friday Lunchtime Concert: Velvet Quartet I

Beethoven’s profound and extraordinarily moving late masterpiece, his String Quartet No.15.

Open Session: Daniel Inzani

New Music that blends traditional and improvisation from the genre-defying pianist and composer

Open Session: The Place Between Dreams - April Koyejo-Audiger & Kamilla Arku

Dream or reality? Explore the fleeting moment between sleep and waking with this opera installation

A Celebration of East Anglia's Young Musicians

Celebrate the next generation of musical talent in this inspiring end of term performance by some of the region's finest young musicuians.

JP Stonard Lecture III

3: The Suffering Road. Greek art and the theme of suffering. Redemption in the visible world of painting in the work of Pieter Bruegel and Jan Van Eyck — questioning the human body as the measure of all things. Was Greek art the wrong road?

Friday Lunchtime Concert: Velvet Quartet II

A ground-breaking quartet by Haydn rubs shoulders with the spare precision and clarity of a quartet by Gottfried von Einem.

JP Stonard Lecture IV

4: The Celestial Road. On images of animals, the origin of the constellations, and the idea that images of animals (non-human animals) define an alternative tradition. Might works of art themselves be like animals?

Friday Lunchtime Concert: A-Delta Trio I

Gershwin’s quintessential example of classical-jazz fusion, the Three Preludes, with this trailblazing saxophone trio.

J P Stonard Lecture V

5: The Open Road. On Leonardo da Vinci, animals and the images created by zoologists to impose order on the natural world, and the discovery of evolution and deep time through images and art.

Friday Lunchtime Concert: A-Delta Trio II

Two of Mussorgsky’s moodily atmospheric musical portraits from Pictures at an Exhibition feature in this concert for saxophone trio.

JP Stonard Lecture VI

6: The Road Home. How do works of art reveal the truth about the world? We look back to paintings made one hundred years ago in Germany, and consider one of the greatest essays written on art, 'The Origin of the Work of Art', by Martin Heidegger.

Friday Lunchtime Concert: Helix Trio I

Ravel’s technical brilliance shines through in his Piano Trio, the three instruments sounding almost orchestral.

Friday Lunchtime Concert: Helix Trio II

The gentle melodies of Schumann’s ‘Fantasy pieces’ take centre stage in this concert from a trio acclaimed for their passionate and accomplished performances.

Open Session: Beibei Wang

Uniting Chinese and Western Classical percussion traditions, Beibei Wang is a singular force, here showcasing new work in development.

Britten's contemporaries: Women's History Month Study Morning

Snape Sessions: Luke Una

Celebration

Monday 13 JulyBirchwood Primary SchoolCedarwood Primary SchoolDebenham High School and Sir Robert Hitcham CEVA Primary SchoolRendlesham Community Primary S

Friday Lunchtime Concert: Arete Quartet I

Britten’s witty, high energy Three Divertimenti, paired with Beethoven’s triumphant String Quartet No.12.

Friday Lunchtime Concert: Arete Quartet II

A moving sense of serenity is the unifying theme of this programme, pairing final quartets by Britten and Beethoven

Easter Family Fun at The Red House

Join us at The Red House this Easter for some Easter Arts and Crafts as well as interactive Easter storytelling. Explore the gardens of The Red House on our audio Easter Egg Hunt, as you find the hidden sounds to collect your Easter prize

Hidden Treasures: Imogen Holst's Choral Library

In her work for the Aldeburgh Festival, Imogen Holst assembled an extraordinary collection of choral music, reflecting both her formidable scholarship and her boundless enthusiasm for singing.

A Cat called Scratch

‘Scratch the cat had a terrible itch. A flea in his fur was making him twitch…’ Scratch is being tormented by a tickly little flea that simply refuses to leave him in peace. Scratch has several imaginative ideas to get rid of it, but will any of them work? Or is the flea here to stay?’

BBC New Generation Artists 2027 - ACROSS the Night

BBC New Generation Artists - KINGS (A)CROSS

BBC New Generation Artists 2027 - Across across across

Scratch Choir

Scores will be provided, and there will be an informal run-through for friends and family at 3.30pm.

Funding the Future

Curious to find out more about how we fund our work across Snape Maltings and Britten Pears Arts? Join CEO Andrew Comben, along with a panel of speakers from our Senior Leadership Team as they give a behind the scenes look at our financial model and how we're planning for the future. We'll be…

East Anglian Windband Workshop

Open Session: Lucinka Eisler

Theatre maker, director and actor, Lucinka Eisler explores notions of landscape and how it can be evoked in sound through this new work in progress

Open Session: Channelling (Obsolete Media) Simon Whetham

A work in progress performance of a new work that features recorded and live radio broadcasts

Tenebrae at Ely Cathedral

Beautiful, ecstatic and spiritually charged, Joby Talbot’s ‘Path of Miracles’ sees minimalism meet plainchant in a unique musical pilgrimage.

FolkEast

Expect a warm welcome, a lively atmosphere and a celebration of all folk as we look ahead to another unforgettable FolkEast. Bring your dancing shoes!

Ben Vonberg-Clark & Hugh Millington

A Celebration of East Anglia's Young Musicians

Celebrate the next generation of musical talent in this inspiring end of term performance by some of the region's finest young musicuians.