Britten Pears Young Artist Programme

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The Britten–Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies was founded in 1977 in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, following the success both of the master classes held for singers by Peter Pears from 1972, and of the subsequent courses for string players.

The School grew to offer a varied programme of practical and academic courses for young musicians and singers at the start of their professional career. Master classes have been taught by such distinguished visiting faculty members as Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Murray Perahia and Pierre Fournier.

The successor of the school, the Britten–Pears Young Artist Programme, continues to provide training for outstanding young professionals from around the world and also manages courses for the Britten-Pears Orchestra, formerly The Snape Maltings Training Orchestra.

The contemporary composition and performance course was founded by Oliver Knussen and Colin Matthews in 1992. More recently there has been in addition a digital media course, called New Music/New Media. In September 2012, the course was led by Rolf Wallin, Tansy Davies, and Alexander Refsum Jensenius, co-founder of the Oslo Laptop Orchestra.

String quartets come together each spring and present a weekly recital of "work-in-progress" at the Jubilee Hall, and in late summer the International Academy of String Quartets provides further opportunities for working on repertoire. Menahem Pressler, Pierre-Laurent Aimard and the Arditti Quartet have all taught masterclasses.

References

^ "Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies". Britten-Pears Foundation. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
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List of compositions
Opera and operetta	Paul Bunyan (1941) Peter Grimes (1945) The Rape of Lucretia (1946) Albert Herring (1947) The Little Sweep (1949) Billy Budd (1951) Gloriana (1953) The Turn of the Screw (1954) Noye's Fludde (1958) A Midsummer Night's Dream (1960) Owen Wingrave (1971) Death in Venice (1973)
Church parables	Curlew River (1964) The Burning Fiery Furnace (1966) The Prodigal Son (1968)
Film/Ballet	Plymouth Town (1931) Night Mail (1936) The Prince of the Pagodas (1956)
Orchestral	Sinfonietta (1932) Simple Symphony (1934) Soirées musicales (1937) Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge (1937) Mont Juic (1937) Sinfonia da Requiem (1940) Matinées musicales (1941) An American Overture (1941) The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (1946)
Concertante	Piano Concerto (1938, rev. 1945) Violin Concerto (1939, rev. 1958) Young Apollo (1939) Diversions for Piano Left Hand and Orchestra (1940 rev. 1954) Cello Symphony (1963)
Vocal/Choral Orchestral	Our Hunting Fathers (1936) The Company of Heaven (1937) Les Illuminations (1939) Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings (1943) Saint Nicolas (1948) Spring Symphony (1949) Nocturne (1958) Cantata academica (1959) War Requiem (1961) Cantata misericordium (1963) Children's Crusade (1969) Phaedra (1975)
Vocal	Beware! Three Early Songs (1922–26) Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo (1940) The Holy Sonnets of John Donne (1945) Britten's Purcell realizations (1945)+ 5 Canticles (1947–75, including Canticle I: My beloved is mine and I am his, Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac (1952), Canticle III: Still falls the rain (1954), Canticle IV: The Journey of the Magi (1971) and Canticle V: The Death of Saint Narcissus (1974) A Charm of Lullabies (1947) Winter Words (1954) Songs from the Chinese (1957) Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente (1958) Songs and Proverbs of William Blake (1965) The Poet's Echo (1965) Who Are These Children? (1969) A Birthday Hansel (1975)
Choral	Friday Afternoons (1932–1935) A Boy was Born (1933) Te Deum in C (1934) Advance Democracy (1938) A Ceremony of Carols (1942) Hymn to St Cecilia (1942) Festival Te Deum (1944) Rejoice in the Lamb (1943) Five Flower Songs (1950) Hymn to St Peter (1955) Missa Brevis (1959) A Hymn of St Columba (1962) The Golden Vanity (1966) Children's Crusade (1968) Sacred and Profane (8 medieval lyrics) (1974) Jubilate Deo (1961)
Chamber/Instrumental	String Quartet in D major (1931) Phantasy Quartet (oboe quartet, 1932) String Quartet No. 1 (1941) String Quartet No. 2 (1945) Prelude and Fugue on a Theme of Vittoria (organ, 1946) Six Metamorphoses after Ovid (oboe, 1951) Fanfare for St Edmundsbury (three trumpets, 1959) Cello sonata (1961) Nocturnal after John Dowland (guitar, 1963) Cello suites (1964, 1967, 1972) String Quartet No. 3 (1975) Tema "Sacher" (1976)
Collaborations	Homage to Paderewski (1941) Variations on an Elizabethan Theme (1953)
Film adaptations	War Requiem (1989 film)
Legacy	Aldeburgh Festival Britten Pears Arts Britten Pears Young Artist Programme Britten-Pears Orchestra Snape Maltings Concert Hall The Red House, Aldeburgh
Named after Britten	Benjamin Britten (train) Benjamin Britten Academy Britten Inlet Britten Hall Britten Sinfonia
Related articles	Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century Britten's Children Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten English Opera Group The Dark Tower Scallop (2003)
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