Coming up
Friday 11 June 2010 - Sunday 27 June 2010
63rd Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts
Highlights of the 63rd Aldeburgh Festival
Artistic Director Pierre-Laurent Aimard
Associate Artistic Director John Woolrich
• John Eliot Gardiner conducts The Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists in Bach’s B minor Mass, Friday 25 June
• Pierre Boulez conducts Ensemble Intercontemporain in the world premiere of Elliott Carter’s What are Years?, Saturday 26 June
• Leon Fleisher as recitalist and chamber musician
• Featured composer George Benjamin’s Into the Little Hill and Berio’s Recital 1 with The Opera Group and London Sinfonietta, on Friday 11 and Friday 18 June
• Oliver Knussen conducts the Britten–Pears Orchestra in Britten, Knussen, and Benjamin, Thursday 24 June
• Artistic Director Pierre-Laurent Aimard in recital with Christiane Oelze and Thomas Zehetmair on Wednesday 23 June, as soloist and conductor with Britten Sinfonia on Saturday 12 June, and in a solo recital – the premiere of a new Collage-Montage
• The Way to the Sea - an homage to Britten’s On This Island - including newly commissioned film and installations at various locations in Thorpeness, Thursday 17 and Saturday 19 June
• Aldeburgh debut for Jonathan Nott conducting the CBSO in Benjamin, Boulez, and Stravinsky’s Firebird, Saturday 19 June
• Closing concerts from Arcanto Quartet including Mozart, Debussy, Schubert, and Schumann Piano Quintet with Alexander Lonquich, Sunday 27 June
Programme subject to change
More details available in January 2010
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BOX OFFICE
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EXHIBITIONS
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Also:
• Ian Bostridge in recital
• The Hebrides Ensemble in chamber music by Britten and his Aldeburgh Festival successors Oliver Knussen, Thomas Adès, and John Woolrich
• An illustrated lecture from Alfred Brendel
• A celebration of Peter Pears on his centenary
• Zehetmair Quartet with Schumann and Shostakovich
Plus exhibitions, films, lectures, walks, masterclasses, the return of Open Air events to Aldeburgh and Thorpeness beaches, and weekends at the Pumphouse