
Friday 5 March 2010
Piatti Quartet
Finalists in the 2009 Royal Overseas League competition and winners of the Tunnell Trust Award 2010/2011, the Piatti String Quartet are fast emerging as the UK's leading young string quartet.
Monday 8 March 2010 - Saturday 13 March 2010
A Celebration of Schools’ Music
An opportunity to experience a selection of the wide-ranging work currently being produced within Suffolk schools. Approximately 1500 pupils from 50 schools will perform in jazz and rock bands, choirs, orchestras, ensembles and cross-arts pieces.
Friday 12 March 2010
Brodowski Quartet
First Prize Winners of the 2008 Royal Overseas League Competition, the Brodowski Quartet are ‘the new kids on the London scene’ (The Times).
Friday 19 March 2010 - Sunday 21 March 2010
Hush House – A Sound Installation by Kathrine Sandys
A site-specific sound installation at the de-commissioned Cold War airbase, RAF Bentwaters, near Woodbridge.
Saturday 20 March 2010
Faster Than Sound: Parallel Lives
Curated by The Wire, this edition of Faster Than Sound brings together Norwegian vocalist and electronic improviser and composer, Maja Ratkje, independent artist Kathy Hinde, and New York-based artist and composer, Marina Rosenfeld.
2-10 September
Strauss and Wolf Lieder
Lieder pianist Roger Vignoles explores the interpretation of masterpieces by two of the greatest song composers with singers and pianists from the Britten–Pears Programme. Vocal consultant Penny Mackay assists with input from Lieder specialist Susan Youens.
13-22 September
International Academy of String Quartets
Aldeburgh's world-renowned annual programme for developing young quartets kicks off with masterclasses by Isabel Charisius. She is joined this year by violinist Ilan Gronich, former member of the Israeli and kreuzberger Quartets
4-8 October
The Rare Theatricall
This young London-based vocal and instrumental ensemble specialises in the music of Henry Purcell and his contemporaries. The Rare Theatricall will spend a week in residence semi-staging a 17th century English play with theatre director Tom Morris
11-16 October
Britten Weekend - Guy Johnston
Guy Johnston explores Britten music for cello including an unpublished work with piano and 2nd Suite
1-4 December
Revenge of the Folksingers
Scottish based baroque/folk fusion group Concal explore British song repertoire from both sides of the English-Scottish border with singers including Martin Carthy and Glasgow legend Michael Marra. The intention is to stage a “good-humoured revenge” of the traditional artists for what some might see as the gentrification of their culture in the folk song arrangements of Britten and Pears