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13 June 2024
‘I’ve always been a glass half full person’:
Aldeburgh festival’s outgoing CEO Roger
Wright
Andrew Clements
After 10 years at the helm of Britten Pears Arts, Wright is stepping down. He looks back
at his festival highlights, and forwards to classical music’s increasingly uncertain future.
Thu 13 Jun 2024 12.49 BST
Roger Wright: ‘A vision of what can music do to transform lives and bring communities together.’
‘You know, had Britten and Pears pitched up on Dragons’ Den with their idea for
turning a disused malting house into a concert hall, they’d have been turned away,” says
Roger Wright. “There was no business plan!”
But what began with Benjamin Britten’s straightforward idea of transforming a former
industrial building by the River Alde in Snape into a hall big enough to house orchestral
