The 2024 Concerts
Concerts, talks and events will take place every day throughout The Music Summer School and Festival, across a range of different spaces including the Auden Theatre, the Fishmongers’ Recital Hall in the Britten Music Building, the Dyson Building, the Chapel, and the wonderfully atmospheric outdoor Theatre in the Woods. Summer School pass holders gain free access to all concerts, talks and events.


TALK – Bridging Differences (archive)
Artist: Jonathan Mayer

TALK – On hope in Dante’s Divine Comedy (archive)
Artist: Joseph Gascoigne

As Steals the Morn Upon the Night (archive)
Artist: Brook Street Band

East meets East Anglia (archive)
Artist: Debipriya Sircar, Jonathan Mayer, Sanju Sahai

TALK – Ethics, Artificial Intelligence, and Creative Biofeedback (archive)
Artist: Becky Inkster, Mark Sheppard

The Songs of the Grove (archive)
Artist: Kate Semmens, Steven Devine

On this Island (archive)
Artist: James Gilchrist, Anna Tilbrook


TALK – Field Notes : how birds inspire music (archive)
Artist: Laurence Rose

Music of the Italian Piffari (archive)
Artist: The City Musick

David Titterington – organ (archive)
Artist: David Titterington

Suite of Suites (archive)
Artist: Summer School Baroque Orchestra, Steven Devine


EVENT CANCELLED – TALK – Crafting Music, Crafting Democracy: Gustav Holst’s Pedagogic Initiatives (archive)
Artist: Marilyn Billingham

Emily Sun & Anna Tilbrook (archive)
Artist: Emily Sun, Anna Tilbrook

Musique heard by François Couperin (archive)
Artist: Skip Sempé

The Ghost in the Machine (archive)
Artist: Emily Baines, Arngeir Hauksson

Bach – St John Passion (archive)
Artist: Summer School Choir, Summer School Baroque Orchestra, Andrew Griffiths, James Gilchrist, Ashley Riches

Ruby Hughes and Anna Tilbrook (archive)
Artist: Ruby Hughes, Anna Tilbrook

TALK – ‘Three Score years and Then…’ (archive)
Artist: Gavin Henderson

Transcendental Schubert (archive)
Artist: Florian Mitrea

The sweet surrender of sleep (archive)
Artist: Pippa Dames Longworth, Andrew Smith

TALK – The evolution of the bow and the potential of the instrument in the right hand (archive)
Artist: Raph Hurwitz

Wiggin Wass Duo (archive)
Artist: Huw Wiggin, Oliver Wass

Mahan Esfahani – Invention and Imagination (archive)
Artist: Mahan Esfahani

Home (archive)
Artist: Sarah Gabriel, Yshani Perinpanayagam

TALK – Working with Britten : Colin Matthews ‘In Conversation’ (archive)
Artist: Colin Matthews

Wind Trios (archive)
Artist: Alena Walentin, Alasdair Hill, Anna Hashimoto, Ashley Myall, Chris Beagles, Florian Mitrea

Van Driel & Faber (archive)
Artist: Judith van Driel, David Faber

Paul Archibald & Helen Reid (archive)
Artist: Paul Archibald, Helen Reid

TALK – Mozart Requiem but still no peace (archive)
Artist: Sir Nicholas Kenyon


Spirituals (archive)
Artist: Leon Bosch, Rebeca Omordia

Brahms – Liebeslieder Waltzes (archive)
Artist: Summer School Chamber Choir, Gavin Roberts, Tom Carr

Summer School Advanced Wind Ensemble (archive)
Artist: Summer School Advanced Wind Ensemble, Nicholas Daniel


Making in Sound and Vision (archive)
Artist: Stephen Montague, Alex Julyan

Summer School Wind Band (archive)
Artist: Summer School Wind Band, Steve Dummer