Annual Review 2018 - 19

Welcome to Snape Maltings’ Annual Review4 Achievements

10 Artistic Planning & Performance

12 Learning & Inclusion

16 Aldeburgh Young Musicians

18 Britten–Pears Young Artist Programme

20 Residencies

22 Creative Health

24 Financial Summary

26 Support Us

This year, I am pleased to report that we have continued to build on our reputation as a renowned performance centre and artist development hub. We have widened our critically-acclaimed Learning & Inclusion work and we are an emerging leader in the field of creative health.

With this in mind, we now look to the future. Our plans remain ambitious and build ever stronger resonance with the vision of our founders, Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears.

At a time when there is increasing pressure on the public purse, it is important to recognise those organisations, individuals and businesses whose support is vital as we continue to develop our unique work. We never take their commitment for granted. Each year their contribution enables us to develop our distinctive work and to reach as many people and communities as possible.

We are hugely grateful to Arts Council England and for the regular financial support from the Britten–Pears Foundation, without which so many of our activities would not be possible. In the exciting year ahead we are planning our merger with the Britten–Pears Foundation with the aim of launching our new organisation in 2020.

On behalf of the Board of Trustees, I would like to extend our personal thanks to you – our Friends, Individuals, Trusts and Foundations, Corporate supporters and audiences – for all that you do for us. Without you, we simply could not hope to deliver this extraordinary programme of activity, as together, we change even more lives through the power of music.

Sir Simon Robey, Chair, Snape MaltingsPhotos relate to activity in 2018-19

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Our Learning & Inclusion team reached out to 9,464 people, including young people, those with life-limiting conditions and people in areas of social deprivation

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Learning & Inclusion sessions were

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Achievements

Snape Maltings is a registered charity using music to change and enrich thousands of lives every year: from nurturing young emerging artists to supporting people in challenging conditions, all whilst bringing world-class music to Suffolk.

Inspired by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears’ founding vision, our creative campus at Snape is a place where artists at all career stages are given the time and space to develop. It is also home to life-changing community projects, making the most of music’s ability to help in the most difficult of circumstances.

Figures relate to the financial year ending 31.03.18

young people performed at Snape Maltings as part of Celebration and our Big Sing initiativeof bookers visited us for the first time

Broadcasts reached more than

listeners around the world

86,429tickets sold:

more than a fifth of these were £10 or less

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The Britten–Pears Young Artist Programme offered development opportunities to 250 emerging professional artists from 22 countries around the world

The Jerwood Opera Writing Programme saw 10 emerging artists develop 4 original operas

New partnerships brought together musicians, researchers and communities to explore the positive impact of music on health

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235residencies gave

artists the career-enhancing opportunity to develop

new work

people took part in health & wellbeing sessions to support conditions including dementia and Parkinson’s

days of life-changing courses were offered to 54 Aldeburgh Young

Musicians aged 8-18

Hervé Niquet and Le Concert Spirituel at Ely Cathedral at Aldeburgh Festival 2018

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Artistic Planning & Performance

The 71st Aldeburgh Festival opened with the premiere of Emily Howard’s new opera To See the Invisible. Howard’s music was featured in the Festival and there was new work by other British composers, including Harrison Birtwistle and Simon Holt.

The conductor John Wilson led the opening weekend in celebration of Britten and his American connections. Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and flautist Claire Chase also curated significant parts of the Festival.

The Belcea Quartet, Anne Sofie von Otter, Vilde Frang, Orsino Ensemble and Cedric Tiberghien were all featured performers and special projects such as the theatrical concert Bye-Bye Beethoven and Feldman at Sunrise provided unique musical experiences. New life was breathed into The Pumphouse fringe programme. Major residencies from Le Concert Spirituel and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra provided unforgettable musical experiences.

The Snape Proms were notable for the sheer variety and quality on display. West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and Daniel Barenboim made their Snape debuts, and other performers included Britten-Pears Orchestra with Marin Alsop, Hailey Tuck, The Dime Notes and Courtney Pine.

Other notable newcomers included Gretchen Peters and Abdullah Ibrahim amongst a third of the artists who made Snape debuts – refreshing and revitalising our performance programme.

The Britten Weekend celebrated his work for string quartets with the Doric Quartet in residence, and included a dramatised interpretation of the Third Quartet. Two one-off events - Blind Boys of Alabama in October and The Lost Words in February - were artistic highlights and brought new audiences to Snape.

We continue to develop a public programme that both reflects and absorbs the creative energy of our year-round work.

To See The Invisible by Emily Howard at Aldeburgh Festival 2018 photo: Stephen Cummiskey

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Learning & Inclusion: Young People

Our Learning & Inclusion team connects communities through music, working in a variety of settings from schools, care homes and prisons, to events taking place at Snape Maltings.

The Friday Afternoons programme continues to expand its reach nationally; over 60 songs, including all our new commissions, are now available free of charge to support singing in schools at fridayafternoonsmusic.co.uk

In November, 800 school pupils performed at Snape Maltings as part of the Big Sing. New resources were developed for teachers to create further engagement pathways into Friday Afternoons.

In March 2019, Celebration offered over 1,500 young people from Suffolk schools the chance to participate, learn and discover their potential with the opportunity to perform on the world-famous Snape Maltings stage for the first time. In-school performance skills workshops provided creative bridges for schools and teachers from the classroom to the Concert Hall.

Group A is an un-auditioned youth group for 8-18 year olds in Suffolk that uses music to build positive communities by singing together. A second group was launched in Ipswich in 2018 and follows the successful model of workshops and performance that we have delivered in Lowestoft since 2013.

New activity working with Pupil Referral Units in Ipswich will help support engagement with those at risk of offending.

Friday Afternoons has enabled me to kickstart projects that would not otherwise have happened. It has enabled these projects to have a far greater value in terms of the music, the playing and singing level that is expected from students and that they could reach. It has shown pupils and local teachers that high aspirations at national and international levels can be achieved locally.

Teacher, Friday Afternoons

13Friday Afternoons Big Sing 2018

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Learning & Inclusion: Building Communities

Participate, monthly music-making sessions for carers and cared-for, went from strength to strength, developing an inclusive and cross-generational creative community group for all ages.

Our Tea Dances, in which people of all ages and abilities come to dance together, continued to celebrate community diversity with our highest ever attendance at two events.

Prior to these events, activity within local care settings aimed at those affected by dementia, continued to explore the use of music as a tool for communication. Artists also provided learning and support for carers and staff.

Our 20 year partnership with HMP Warren Hill delivered high quality song-writing and performance to develop cohesion between residents and officers. This is the longest collaboration between a prison and an arts organisation in the UK. A new training programme was developed for ex-offenders to work within the community as music leaders.

The Tea Dance gave my parents a much-needed lift. It has been a difficult year and as the atmosphere was so relaxed and friendly, it has given them hope that they can still socialise and enjoy music and dancing again.

Daughter of Tea Dance Participant

15Tea Dance, Friday Afternoons Big Sing, Celebration

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Aldeburgh Young Musicians

Aldeburgh Young Musicians (AYM) continues to flourish as a distinctive Centre for Advanced Training, designed to realise the artistic potential of up to 60 exceptionally talented young musicians across a wide range of disciplines. Through intensive residential courses, mentoring and performance, AYM nurtures the innovative musicians of tomorrow.

After more than ten years of this ground-breaking programme, many Alumni are now emerging as professional musicians. Many have developed their own ensembles or recorded their own projects on site using facilities and other support made available under AYM’s Open House programme.

AYM continues to answer the need for high-quality tuition and mentorship for the most promising young musicians outside London conservatoires, regardless of means.

… AYM is a shining example of how to put together an inspirational and creative programme that has a great vision yet retains an inherent flexibility that allows it to respond to the realities that young musicians face.

Aldeburgh Young Musician

17Aldeburgh Young Musician, AYM @ Ten

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Britten–Pears Young Artist Programme

Established in the 1970s, the internationally-renowned Britten–Pears Young Artist Programme is the UK’s biggest residential artist development programme.

The 2018-19 season began with Handel’s Theodora, taught by Christian Curnyn and Sarah Connolly. Vocal courses covered a wide range of skills. Our Classical Song course was led by Anne Sofie von Otter and Kristian Bezuidenhout. John Fisher, Julia Faulkner and Matthew Rose focused on how to be a singer in the 21st century and Roger Vignoles concluded our vocal year with a course on Wolf Lieder.

Our instrumental offer ranged from Transatlantic Encounters for string quartets and trios, led by Alasdair Tait and eminent chamber musicians from the US & EU. Brass Elements explored orchestral skills for Brass players. For the first time, Marin Alsop’s large-scale symphony orchestra course also included an element for emerging conductors, who were taught by Marin and her assistant Valentina Peleggi.

The composition element this season featured a newly-devised and exceptionally well-received course, Composition, Alternative Performance and Performance Art, led by Larry Goves.

Alongside the above, alumni and current Britten–Pears Young Artists performed in concerts across the season, including the Aldeburgh Festival and Snape Proms. The Tunnard Young Artist Scheme supported one outstanding collaborative pianist in creating their first professional recording.

The Britten–Pears Young Artist Programme is absolutely vital for a developing young artist. To be able to study the music of Britten in the very place he composed and premiered it is a once in a lifetime opportunity. The audiences’ warm and welcoming energy gives us the freedom and comfort to take risks and discover new facets of musicality.

Britten–Pears Young Artist

19BPO with Marin Alsop, Britten–Pears Young Artists

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Residencies

Our Residencies programme gives artists at any stage of their career space to be creative, curious and to experiment with new ideas, which will enable a significant step-change in their professional lives. The scheme is bespoke and tailored to each artist’s individual needs.

The programme was over-subscribed, with the quantity of applications being matched by their quality and ambition. We were therefore able to work with a hugely varied array of artists, as well as continuing relationships with ensembles Bastard Assignments and Perhaps Contraption, who have had long-term development opportunities with us through the Open Space scheme.

In September 2018, we launched our first Festival of New, which was curated to celebrate the diverse range of music genres that come through the Residency programme.

We continue to deepen our European connections through the European Network of Opera Academies and Ulysses programmes. Both networks enable better connection with European music organisations, primarily with a focus on operatic and contemporary repertoire and the creation of new work. Participating artists are sent on “artistic journeys” between the organisations and are thus able to take part in much broader artist development projects, tailored to their needs.

21Perhaps Contraption Residency

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Creative Health

Over the next ten years, we are placing health and wellbeing at the heart of our work. Our creative campus will continue to support musicians as creators, collaborators and performers alongside new partnerships exploring the impact of music on health and wellbeing.

In 2018, we continued to expand our network across a variety of sectors as we developed this new strand of work. Our aim is for Snape Maltings to become a global laboratory for all those engaged in music – a site buzzing with activity and bringing varied people together through a wide-ranging programme with international reach, national benefit and local impact.

Residencies brought together musicians, researchers and communities to investigate the role of singing for those living with chronic pain. MOT courses provided time and space for musicians to refresh, develop and test their practice.

Cross-sector training was delivered to early years specialists, singing leaders, language therapists and international early career researchers. Creative Thinktanks also brought together people from different disciplines and contexts to come up with new ideas, proposals or further questions for research around the topics of ‘Singing & Wellbeing across the Lifespan’ and ‘Singing and Maternal Mental Health’.

I still think about the week every time I play. I feel so, so lucky to have been a part of it, it was without doubt one of the most valuable weeks of my professional life.

Participant, MOT for Musicians

23Sing to Beat Parkinson’s 2018

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Financial Summary

This is the annual review of Snape Maltings (reg. charity no 261383), which is an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation.

Key Findings:

• The grant from Arts Council England represents only a quarter of our income

• Ticket sales make up less than 20% of the costs of our activities

• We rely on donations to support the majority of our work.

The valued contributions from box office and our trading activities do not fully cover the cost of delivering our charitable activity, and we rely on donations to support the majority of our work. The small amount spent on fundraising to achieve the significant levels of income generated means that 96% of all income we receive is used in the delivery and operational support of our activities.

We are indebted to many individuals, organisations and businesses for their generous support of our artistic activities, including: Arts Council England, Department for Education, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Jerwood Charitable Foundation, The Leverhulme Trust and The Monument Trust.

In particular, the long-term relationships with Britten–Pears Foundation and Aldeburgh Music Endowment Fund are highly valued. Significant grants from both organisations over the years have made a hugely positive impact on the range and quality of the performances we can present and the distinctive artist development work that is offered throughout the year.

We also gratefully acknowledge the receipt of legacies from our supporters to help strengthen our Endowment Fund.

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Figures relate to the financial year ending 31.03.19

Total income

£5.3m

Total expenditure

£5.2m

TOTAL EXPENDITURE £5.2m

BREAKDOWN BELOW:

Artistic Activities £3.7m (71%)

Operational Support £1.3m (25%)

Fundraising £0.2m (4%)

TOTAL INCOME £5.3m

BREAKDOWN BELOW:

Arts Council England £1.4m (26%)

Britten–Pears Foundation £0.2m (4%)

Other Philanthropy £1.5m (28%)

Ticket Sales £1.0m (17%)

Trading £0.4m (7%)

Other Earned Income £0.4m (7%)

Other Public Funding £0.4m (7%)

Endowment Fund £0.2m (4%)

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Your Support is Vital

If you are passionate about our work, please help us to secure it for the future.

Snape Maltings is a registered charity using music to change thousands of lives every year: from nurturing young emerging artists to supporting people in the most challenging of circumstances, all whilst bringing world-class music and music making to Suffolk.

Less than 20% of our costs are covered by ticket sales, so the majority of the activity happening across our broad artistic programme - both on-site and within schools, prisons, care homes and more - can only take place thanks to people like you.

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Legacies

If our work is close to your heart, please consider remembering us in your will. It is a wonderful and enduring way of perpetuating your relationship with us whilst ensuring that future generations can continue to share in the joy that music brings.

In recent years, the Endowment Fund has received over £200,000 from people remembering us in their wills, enabling us to achieve some of these amazing projects and programmes.

The Government offers tax incentives for charitable legacies. Estates that leave at least 10% to charity are able to take advantage of a reduced rate of Inheritance Tax from 40% down to 36%.

To help secure our work for the future, please contact Kat Reading, Friends & Memberships Manager, on 01728 687131 or email kreading@snapemaltings.co.uk

* For tax purposes, the amounts shown comprise a suggested donation and a benefit amount. For all Friends levels, this is £9. You may purchase benefits separately at the minimum amount, although please note that this will not support the charitable work of Snape Maltings, which relies fundamentally on philanthropic donations. To purchase benefits only or to make an alternative donation, please contact Kat Reading on 01728 687131

Registered Charity Number: 261383

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