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SATURDAY 18 SEPTEMBER 2010
Faster Than Sound - Brainwaves

An evening of new works inspired by Brainwaves with composers Mira Calix, Anna Meredith & Mathias Gmachl and an installation by Loop.pH.


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  • Friday 19 November 2010 - Saturday 20 November 2010

    Akram Khan Dance Company - Vertical Road

    Vertical Road is Akram Khan’s latest contemporary ensemble work, with a specially commissioned score by long-term collaborator composer Nitin Sawhney

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  • Friday 26 November 2010

    English Touring Opera - Promised End

    The world premiere production, Promised End is a new opera by leading British composer, Alexander Goehr

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  • Saturday 27 November 2010

    English Touring Opera - The Duenna

    An opera which created theatrical history, The Duenna was for 75 years the nation’s favourite and most successful opera, amassing the fortunes of Covent Garden.

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  • Sunday 5 December 2010

    Revenge of the Folksingers

    Revisiting their surprisingly common heritage, an astonishing line-up of leading traditional musicians from England, Scotland and Canada join the ever-inventive period instrument group Concerto Caledonia

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  • Sunday 5 December 2010

    Group A - The Voice

    Aldeburgh Music’s youth group has been working throughout this term to create a new performance based on the voice.

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  • Friday 10 December 2010

    Christmas Concert

    The Britten–Pears Chamber Choir joins forces with Aldeburgh Music’s Group A

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  • Saturday 1 January 2011 - Thursday 9 June 2011

    Spring 2011

    With string quartets opening the season in January and dance, opera and the Easter Weekend rounding off the mix, Spring at Aldeburgh is a perfect time to sample some music before the Festival in June

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EXHIBITIONS
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BEHIND THE SCENES

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