Nestled beside the River Alde, Snape Matlings is a complex of buidlings, developed under the founding leadership of Benjamim Britten and Peter Pears, that form a creative music campus. It is run by Aldeburgh Music. The primary space is the 832 seat Snape Maltings Concert Hall which includes a Concert Hall Gallery. In addition there is a 340 seat Britten Studio in the Hoffmann Building which also has a gallery space, the Jerwood Kiln Studion. The Britten-Pears Building with a recital studion completes the complex.