"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.

Born in Lowestoft, living in Aldeburgh, the composer Benjamin Britten was a child of Suffolk and remained forever rooted in ...

“People say, ‘Why do you like Britten so much? Why do you think he’s such a great composer?’ I’m not in love with his music because he writes in code or because he’s a pacifist or ...

Benjamin Britten was an English composer who was born and lived in Suffolk. He started composing as a child and by the age of 18 he'd written more than 700 pieces! He wrote the opera 'Peter Grimes ...

Read more England’s most significant composer in the second half of the 20th ... John Ireland was his composition teacher; Arthur Benjamin (of Jamaica Rumba fame) taught him piano. Britten’s unique ...

GRAMMY®-winning tenor Karim Sulayman returns to the Symphony stage for Benjamin Britten’s haunting Serenade for Tenor, Horn, ...

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 ...

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