"Benjamin Britten wanted to be remembered as a composer who served his community, and it's fitting that our final fundraising event was a community bake sale at Lowestoft's Kirkley Centre.

Martin Handley talks to Paul Kildea about Britten and his place in 20th-Century music ...

The former home of a renowned composer and conductor has been protected ... Holst became Benjamin Britten's musical assistant - who was also from Suffolk - and in 1952 she was invited to help ...

Imogen Holst was also a composer and for 12 years she worked as an assistant to Benjamin Britten in Aldeburgh, Suffolk. In 1952, she was invited to help Britten as he worked on the opera Gloriana ...

80 years after the end of WWII, Britten Sinfonia performs musical responses ... scholar Marianne Hirsch and the composer himself, Jewish composer Michael Zev Gordon's new piece "A Kind of Haunting ...

but classical music lovers will know it best as the home of 20th–century composer Benjamin Britten. The composer, conductor and pianist, best known for the epic War Requiem, founded the annual ...

There she meticulously worked her way through Britten's scores, ironing out difficulties and inconsistencies. Whenever the composer was away, she took the opportunity to sort his numerous ...

In 1952, Holst was invited to assist composer Benjamin Britten on his opera, Gloriana, a work which marked the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Holst later became the artistic director of the mainly ...

Aldeburgh is set to welcome back visitors to the Red House, reopening after a winter hiatus. The historic home of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears, the Red House, reopens on April 3. Set in a ...

In 1939, Britten fled to the US where, for a time, he house-shared with fellow musicians, writers and a burlesque dancer, as Philip Clark reveals... Read more England’s most significant composer in ...

Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh, OM (1913–1976) was a British composer, conductor, and pianist. Britten was born on 22nd November 1913 in Lowestoft in Suffolk, the son of a ...