Britten Pears Arts is a pioneering cultural charity based in Suffolk. It emerged from the determination of composer Benjamin Britten and his partner, singer Peter Pears, to ensure that everyone could enjoy and experience music. Britten Pears Arts aims to continue their legacy to develop talent, celebrate their heritage and engage with communities.
We use music to transform people’s lives, to bring communities together and enhance daily life. We want the arts to effect powerful positive change in, and for, society; or, as Britten himself would have put it, making the arts “useful.”
The organisation has a long history dating back to when Britten and Pears founded the Aldeburgh Festival in 1948 and moved into The Red House in Aldeburgh in 1957. It became Britten Pears Arts in April 2020 when Snape Maltings, formerly Aldeburgh Music, and the Britten-Pears Foundation, that ran Britten and Pears' estate, merged.
Inspired by our founders, we value enterprise, innovation and creative risk. We look for authentic and unexpected ways to engage audiences.
We bring commitment and integrity to our work in order to aim for excellence across everything we do and to deliver an ambitious business model.
We are rooted in partnership. We work across our sites, departments and collaborations to amplify our impact.
Learning, freedom of expression and openness are fundamental to our ethos. We seek to respect and support everyone in the organisation to use and develop their expertise.
We are an equal opportunities employer and believe that diversity both strengthens and enriches us. We positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates of all ages and from all backgrounds, in particular from minority ethnic backgrounds and disabled candidates who are currently under-represented at Britten Pears Arts. Britten and Pears shared a progressive vision for music and the arts to be useful, helping people enhance and bring joy into their lives. To achieve this vision, equality of access is paramount. Discriminatory behaviour has no place here. We take pride in acting with care and compassion, and everyone who works, visits and performs here is entitled to be treated with dignity and respect. We are welcoming to all. We ask everyone to be open, patient and kind. If we don’t meet this standard, please let us know.
To find out more, check out our diversity and inclusion statement here.
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