Supporters.

Patrons.

Sophie and Tamara Britten — Great-Nieces of Benjamin Britten

Supporters.

David Charles Abell — Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Philly POPS

Peter Aldous MP — Member of Parliament for Waveney

Sir Thomas Allen CBE FRCM — Baritone, Chancellor of Durham University

Kate Argyle — Local Heritage Education Manager, Historic England

Phil Aves* — Chair of the Lowestoft Rising Cultural Education Partnership

Dame Janet Baker CH DBE FRSA — Mezzo-Soprano

Ricardo Barros ARAM — Director of Mercurius Company

The Lord Berkeley of Knighton, CBE — Michael Berkeley, composer, broadcaster and member of the House of Lords

The Baroness (Deborah) Bull, CBE — Vice President & Vice-Principal, Kings College London

Britten Pears Arts

Peter Byatt — Kirkley Councillor and Labour Group Leader

Adrian Butterfield — Musical Director, Tilford Bach Society; Associate Musical Director, London Handel Festival; Professor of Baroque Violin, Royal College of Music

Jenny Ceresa — Councillor for Arts, Heritage and Culture, East Suffolk County Council

The Countess of Euston, Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk

Hester Cockcroft — Chief Executive, Awards for Young Musicians

Martin Cullingford* — Editor, Gramophone Magazine

Dame Judi Dench CH DBE FRSA — Actor

Professor Peter Dickinson — Chairman, Rainbow Dickinson Trust

Suzyi Digby OBE — Conductor, ORA Singers and music educator

Peter Donovan — Chairman, Thaxted Festival Foundation

Martin Duncan — Opera Director

David Eagle — Community Enabler, Community Action Suffolk, Broadcaster

John Elwes — Tenor, friend of Benjamin Britten

The Right Honorable The Lord Fellowes of West Stafford — Screenwriter

Emma Freud, OBE — Writer, Broadcaster, Producer of Comic Relief

Louise Gooch — Kirkley and Pakefield Councillor, East Suffolk District Council

Peter Hewitt — Chief Executive, Benslow Music

Philip Hoare — Author, Broadcaster and Curator

Sir Stephen Hough CBE — Classical Pianist, Composer and Writer

Sir Christopher Howes — Trustee Britten Pears Foundation; Director the Britten Estate Limited

Hazel Johnson — Director, Enterprise Lowestoft

Brian Kay — Founder The King's Singers; Broadcaster and Conductor

Martha Kearney — Presenter, BBC Radio 4’s The Today Programme

Andrew Keener — Independent Classical Recording Producer

Paul King* — Founder and former Chair of Heritage Open Days, Lowestoft; former Chair of Kirkley People’s Forum and Founder of The Friends of Kensington Gardens

David Lawrence — Chair, Kirkley People's Forum

Mhairi Lawson — Soprano, Professor of Voice and Historical Performance, Guildhall School of Music and Drama

Tasmin Little CBE — Violinist, broadcaster, music education advocate

Ben and Charmaine Llewellyn — Managers of Claremont Pier, Lowestoft

Adam Low — BAFTA and EMMY award-winning director. Films include Alan Bennett and The Habit of Art, on Auden and Britten

Benjamin Luxon CBE — Baritone

James Mayhew* — Illustrator & Children’s Author

Diana Moore* — Mezzo-Soprano. Chair of Heritage Open Days

Richard Mundy* — Chairman, Lowestoft Archaeology and Local History Society

Geoffrey Munn OBE MVO — BBC Antiques Roadshow Presenter & Historian

Ben Parry — Composer, Conductor, Director of National Youth Choirs of Great Britain

Lady Penn LVO RCM — Friend and Colleague of Benjamin Britten (d.2023)