Helena Ricci returns to Snape Maltings as a Britten Pears Young Artist alumna.

In addition to the 50th anniversary of the Britten Pears Young Artist Programme, 2022 marks 30 years since the flagship Composition and Performance Course was founded by Oliver Knussen and Colin Matthews. The intensive week-long course, with composers and performers working closely together, gives participants a uniquely collaborative and in-depth experience of music-making. In November 2022, the course will continue to support the next generation of composers and performers specialising in contemporary music.

The pieces in this playlist were written on the Composition and Performance Course in 2019 and performed in the Aldeburgh Festival in June 2022.

Helena Ricci’s debut single release of her own transcription of Rameau’s ethereal and moving "Le Rappel des Oiseaux” is featured on this week’s Spotify “New Classical Releases” playlist.

About this music, Helena says: "Le Rappel des Oiseaux" is dedicated to my grandparents who recently celebrated 60 years together. It's a recording I did for them honouring how they approach life with love, resilience, forgiveness and battle the storms of life together like the two birds in Rameau's delightful, sorrowful yet hopeful music. We're all apart from people we love these days, so this is a longing for the time when we can hug those we love.”

Listen to the single on Spotify