Later, at the Royal College of Music, John Ireland was his composition teacher; Arthur Benjamin (of Jamaica Rumba fame) taught him piano. Britten’s unique voice was quick in arriving and soon after ...

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 ...

The bronze statue will be a life-sized figure of Britten as a boy sitting on top of a wooden groyne A fundraising campaign for a statue to commemorate composer Benjamin Britten in the town of his ...