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The Spring Events Guide from the Guildhall School of Music & DramaTRANSCRIPT
Guildhall School eventsJanuary – July 2012 Music • Drama • Opera • Jazz
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to the spring/summer season of events at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, one of Europe’s leading conservatoires based in the heart of the City of London. 2012 promises to be a special year for London, and the School has a host of inspiring performances on offer over the next few months, showcasing the work of our talented actors, musicians and theatre technicians. Join us this season to enjoy world-class performances from artists on the brink of exciting professional careers.
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ContentsSeason series 3
Guildhall Artists at the Barbican 3
Faculty Artist Series 4
Total Immersion 5
Monthly highlights 6
January 6
February 6
March 10
April 14
May 16
June 19
July 21
Prizes / Public Final Recitals 23
Masterclasses 24
Guildhall ResearchWorks 26
Creative Learning 29
Guildhall Young Artists 30
Future events 31
Events at a glance 32
Welcome...
Cover photo: Kurt Egyiawan in the title role in Richard III (2011) © Clive Barda
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Guildhall Artists at the Barbican
Senior musicians from the Guildhall School take to the Barbican stage before LSO concerts with free performances of complementary repertoire.
Thursday 9 February • 6pm
Bernstein and Copland SongsAnna Gillingham, soprano
Marta Fontanals-Simmons, mezzo-soprano
Ben McAteer, baritone
Eun Duk Kim, Angelina Kuzmina, piano
Wednesday 15 February • 6pm
Piano works by RachmaninovRachmaninov 10 Preludes op. 23
Rachmaninov Humoresque op. 10 no. 5
Ashley Fripp, piano
Thursday 23 February • 6pm
Works by Shostakovich and TchaikovskyShostakovich 2 Pieces for Octet
Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence
Roberto Gonzalez, Giovanni Guzzo, Pablo Hernan, Viktor Stenjhem, violin
Tetsuumi Nagata, Adam Newman, viola
Timothy Lowe, Brian O’Kane, cello
Thursday 15 March • 6pm
Piano works by BrahmsBrahms Sonata No. 3 in F minor op. 5
Brahms Variations on a theme of Paganini (Book 1)
Ben Schoeman, piano
Sunday 1 April • 6pm
Songs by Mahler Mahler Songs from Das Knaben Wunderhorn
Augusta Hebbert, soprano
Szymek Komasa, baritone
Julia Samojlo, piano
Sunday 3 June • 6pm
Mozart Sonatas for Violin and PianoBartosz Woroch, violin
Jean-Selim Abdelmoula, piano
Thursday 21 June • 6pm
Works by Berg and Beethoven Berg Piano Sonata op. 1
Beethoven Piano Sonata op.109
Mishka Rushdie Momen, piano
Sunday 15 July • 6pm
Ravel Piano TrioRhodes Piano Trio
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Admission free
BARBICAN HALL
Sunday 29 April • 6pm
Works by Debussy and Caplet Debussy Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp
Caplet The Masque of the Red Death for Harp and String Quartet
Debussy Danses sacrée et profane
Carolina Ribeiro Patricio, flute
Marged Hall, Murdo Macrae, Fionnuala Somerville, harp
Roberto Gonzalez, violin
Marko Pop, violin
Rosalind Ventris, viola
Michael Petrov, cello
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Faculty Artist Series
The School’s series of exclusive performances by senior professors gives public, staff and students the opportunity to see some of the country’s finest musicians perform in the intimate setting of the Music Hall.
Monday 5 March • 7.30pm
Krzysztof Smietana violin Assistant Deputy Head of Strings
Caroline Palmer piano Senior Tutor in Keyboard Chamber Music
Programme to include Beethoven and Busoni violin sonatas
Thursday 10 May • 7.30pm
Charles Owen piano
Professor of Piano
Works by Bach, Kurtág, Bartók and Debussy
MUSIC HALL
Faculty Artist Series
The Faculty Artist Series 2011/12 is generously supported by Michael and Mercedes Hoffman
Reserved tickets: £15 (£10 concessions, free for Guildhall staff and students) available now from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk).
Group discount available (020 7382 7211).
GC Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members
Caroline Palm
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Krzysztof Sm
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Charles O
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Saturday 28 January • 1pm
Total Immersion: Jonathan HarveyTranquil Abiding Songs of Li Po Vers Tombeau de Messiaen Calling Across Time
Guildhall Symphony Orchestra Richard Baker, conductor
Oriental spirituality, the ancient Chinese desire to live ‘in modest harmony with Nature,’ the nature of consciousness and memory – all these are long-standing preoccupations of Harvey, and they all come together in this concert. Two of the pieces also pay homage to admired fellow composers, one living, one recently deceased.
BARBICAN HALL
Saturday 17 March • 1pm
Total Immersion: Brett DeanPolysomnography Wolf-Lieder* Voices of Angels
Guildhall Chamber Ensemble Jenavieve Moore, soprano Brett Dean, conductor*
These three pieces show the huge range of Dean’s expressive world. Polysomnography evokes the five stages of sleep, Voices of Angels summons a very different kind of angel to the sentimental image of popular imagination, and Wolf-Lieder mingles Hugo Wolf’s music with Brett’s own in a moving portrayal of Wolf’s descent into madness.
BARBICAN HALL
Saturday 17 March • 7pm
New works by Guildhall composers New works by Jason Anderson, Ben Graves and Peter Yarde-Martin premiered by an ensemble of BBC Symphony and Guildhall School performers as part of the Total Immersion Day.Admission freeMUSIC HALL
Saturday 28 April • 1pm
Total Immersion: Arvo PärtMagnificat Nunc Dimittis Für Alina Spiegel im Spiegel Stabat Mater
Musicians from the Guildhall School Eamonn Duggan, conductor
In amongst the choral pieces are two key chamber works: the tiny piano piece Für Alina, where Pärt discovered his mature style, and Spiegel im Spiegel, known to millions through its use in numerous film scores including Gus van Sant’s Gerry. The three liturgical works project this patterned, circling sound world on to a bigger canvas.
ST GILES CRIPPLEGATE
Tickets: £12 for each concert available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk). Please note the seating at St Giles Cripplegate (28 April) is unreserved.
Full details of the Total Immersion Days at www.bbc.co.uk/symphonyorchestra
Total Immersion Jonathan Harvey, Brett Dean and Arvo Pärt
The Guildhall School is delighted to once again join the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s Total Immersion series exploring the work of three exciting contemporary composers.
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Friday 27 January • 7.30pm
Guildhall Chamber OrchestraAnthony Marwood, director
Brett Dean Short Stories
Beethoven Symphony No. 1
Peteris Vasks Violin Concerto ‘Distant Light’
Musicians from the Guildhall School tackle two contemporary works: Australian composer Brett Dean’s five miniatures, and the violin concerto by Latvian composer Peteris Vasks, which was first performed by Gidon Kremer and is filled with hope for a ‘more ideal world’. Guildhall alumnus and distinguished violinist Anthony Marwood directs the Guildhall Chamber Orchestra in a programme also including Beethoven’s Haydn-inspired first symphony.
Reserved tickets: £15, £10 (£5 concessions, Guildhall staff and students) available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk). Group discount available (020 7382 7211).
LSO ST LUKE’S
February Tuesday 14 February • 1.05pm
Recorder ConsortIan Wilson, director
An illustrated guide to recorder works by 20th-century English composer Edmund Rubbra.
Admission freeLECTURE RECITAL ROOM
Wednesday 25 January • 1.05pm
Rob Garcia TrioNew York-based jazz drummer extraordinaire Rob Garcia brings his trio to the School, featuring Noah Preminger on saxophone and bassist Masa Kamaguchi.Admission freeSUNDIAL COURT MUSIC ROOM
Thursday 26 January • 1.05pm
Takács QuartetBritten String Quartet No. 3 Dvořák String Quartet No. 10 op. 51
Admission freeMUSIC HALL
JanuaryTuesday 10 January • 7.30pm
Guildhall Jazz SingersClassic jazz harmonies from the Guildhall Jazz Singers as part of the Brandenburg Spring Choral Festival 2012.
Tickets: St Martin’s Box Office 020 7766 1100 www.smitf.org
ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS
Trafalgar Square WC2
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Tuesday 24 January • 7.30pm
Guildhall Artists in Recital at Carnegie HallSenior musicians from the Guildhall School visit New York’s Carnegie Hall for the very first time, performing a selection of chamber music including a work by Guildhall School alumnus and renowned British composer Thomas Adès. For friends of the School based in North America, this opportunity to see talented Guildhall School performers in the Weill Recital Hall is not to be missed.
Brahms Sonata for cello and piano no. 1 in E minor op. 38 Thomas Adès Concert Paraphrase on ‘Powder her face’ (Part one) Chopin Barcarolle op. 60 Schoenberg Dank op. 1 no. 1 Rachmaninov 4 Songs Schubert Auf dem Strom
Szymon Komasa, baritone
Michael Petrov, cello
Ashley Fripp, piano
Tickets: $20 ($10 concessions) carnegiehall.org / CarnegieCharge
212-247-7800 / Box Office at 57th and Seventh.
WEILL RECITAL HALL Carnegie Hall, 57th Street and
Seventh Avenue, New York
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Thursday 2, Friday 3, Monday 6, Tuesday 7, Wednesday 8, Thursday 9 February • 7.30pm
Monday 6, Thursday 9 February • 2pm
Nick Bagnall director
Nicky Bunch designer
Unreserved tickets: £8 (£4 concessions, Guildhall staff & students, Equity) available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk) from 3 January.
Group discount available (020 7382 7211).
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Guildhall Circle members
SILK STREET THEATRE
A chilling tale of sexual cynicism and conspiracy – barely out of her convent, a beautiful young girl is the focus of two French aristocrats’ attempts to corrupt.
a play by Christopher Hampton
from the novel by Choderlos de Laclos
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Tuesday 14 February • 7.30pm
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Guitar CelebrationDavid Miller and Robert Brightmore, directors An evening celebrating the chamber music of one of the foremost composers for guitar in the twentieth century, including works with flute, piano and voice.Admission freeLECTURE RECITAL ROOM
Unreserved tickets: £8 (£4 concessions, Guildhall staff & students, Equity) available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk) from 13 January. Group discount available (020 7382 7211).
GC Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members
BRIDEWELL THEATRE
Fleet Street EC4
Monday 13, Tuesday 14, Wednesday 15, Thursday 16 February • 7.30pm
Tuesday 14, Thursday 16 February • 2pm
Sue Lefton director • Susannah Henry designer • Daniel Street lighting designer
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Adapted from the play Her Stepdaughter by Gabriela Preissová which was the basis for Janácek’s opera, this story of betrayal, love and forgiveness in a small, tight-knit community caused a scandal in Prague when it was first performed in the 1890s and was not performed in Britain until five years ago. Guildhall School actors present a rare production of this play.
JEnUfaby Gabriela Preissováadapted by Timberlake Wertenbaker
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BRITTEN A MIDSUMMER
NIGHTIS DREAM
Tuesday 28 February, Thursday 1, Saturday 3, Tuesday 6 March • 7pm
Stephen Barlow conductor
Martin Lloyd-Evans director
Dick Bird designer
Simon Corder lighting designer
Reserved tickets: £25 (£15 concessions, £5 Guildhall staff and students) available now from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891
(www.barbican.org.uk). Group discount available (020 7382 7211).
BARBICAN THEATRE
The Guildhall School’s award-winning Opera programme makes its Barbican Theatre debut in 2012. Ahead of the
one-hundredth anniversary of Benjamin Britten’s birth, Guildhall School singers
and musicians present one of the composer’s most spellbinding works.
Britten and Peter Pears adapted Shakespeare’s play to form the opera’s
libretto, with the finished opera receiving its first performance in Aldeburgh on
11 June 1960. Don’t miss the chance to see Guildhall School opera’s take on this
20th-century masterpiece.
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MarchTuesday 6 March • 1.05pm
Wind and Brass Chamber MusicA showcase of wind and brass chamber groups, including works by Beethoven, Hummel and Krommer.Admission freeLECTURE RECITAL ROOM
Friday 24 February • 7pm
New works by Guildhall School composersNew string and piano duos composed by postgraduate composers and premiered by Guildhall School performers.Admission freeMUSIC HALL
Tuesday 14 February • 7.30pm
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Guitar CelebrationDavid Miller and Robert Brightmore, directors
An evening celebrating the chamber music of one of the foremost composers for guitar in the twentieth century, including works with flute, piano and voice.Admission freeLECTURE RECITAL ROOM
Thursday 16 February • 7pm
German Lied ConcertA concert prepared and presented by Eugene Asti of well-known and interesting lesser-known German Lieder, performed by postgraduate singers and pianists.Admission freeMUSIC HALL
Tuesday 21 February • 7.30pm
Guildhall Jazz Singers and Ensemble With Eclectic Voices
Scott Stroman, director Martin Hathaway, alto saxophone
A programme of vocal jazz including a suite from the Second Sacred Concert by Duke Ellington.Admission free
MUSIC HALL
Friday 24 February • 7.30pm
The Song GuildWolf Das Italienisches Liederbuch
This evening sees the launch of The Song Guild, an elite group of senior singers and pianists, brought together to perform song repertoire under the leadership of Professor Graham Johnson, one of the world’s leading vocal accompanists. Tonight they present Wolf’s settings of German translations of Italian folk poetry, showcasing some of the School’s outstanding musicians.
Tickets: £15 (£5 concessions, Guildhall staff and students) available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk) from 16 January. Group discount available (020 7382 7211).
LSO ST LUKE’S
Marcos de Portugal CelebrationTwo events to mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of the Portuguese composer famed for his 21 operas.
Wednesday 21 March • 2pm
Marcos de Portugal LectureAn illustrated lecture presented by Antonio Marques, Portuguese authority on the composer.Admission free
LECTURE RECITAL ROOM
Thursday 22 March • 1.05pm
Guildhall Vocal EnsembleSusan Waters, director
Marcos de Portugal Missa Grande Admission free
ST OLAVE’S CHURCH, HART STREET EC3
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Monday 19 – Saturday 24 March
Guildhall Annual Jazz FestivalMajor visiting artists and exciting up-and-coming talent perform at this year’s Jazz Festival, which promises to be bigger and better than ever. Six days of lunchtime, rush hour and evening concerts will see Guildhall jazz musicians and guest artists collaborate. Highlights include:
Monday 19 March • 7.30pm
Guildhall Jazz Band directed by special guest Mike Gibbs
The Guildhall School welcomes back the internationally renowned composer and arranger as guest director of the award-winning Guildhall Jazz Band.
Tickets: £15 (£10 concessions, free for Guildhall staff and students) available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk) from 16 January.
MUSIC HALL
Tuesday 20 March • 7.30pm
Guildhall Jazz Faculty ConcertThe Guildhall Jazz Faculty divides into two ‘teams’ to present two sets of original music plus some old favourites with a twist.Admission free
MUSIC HALL
Wednesday 21 March • 7.30pm
Improvised Music Night featuring special guests Phil Minton (voice) and Maggie Nicholls (voice) alongside Guildhall School musicians
Two of the most respected performers in European improvised music perform alongside Guildhall jazz musicians. Phil Minton directs his cross-departmental ‘feral’ choir and Maggie Nichols leads the undergraduate jazz musicians. Admission freeMUSIC HALL
Thursday 22 March • 7.30pm
Vintage Jazz Nightfeaturing special guests Malcolm Earle Smith (trombone) and Colin Good (piano) with Guildhall School musicians
A special concert focusing on jazz styles and repertoire pre-1945, featuring small and large ensembles and devised by two of Britain’s leading figures in classic jazz.Admission freeMUSIC HALL
Friday 23 March • 7.30pm
Guildhall Jazz Alumni Ensemble featuring special guest David Friesen (bass) plus faculty members Martin Hathaway (alto saxophone) and Barry Green (piano)
The acclaimed American jazz bassist and educator returns for his third visit to the Guildhall School, reforming his ‘London’ trio and accompanied by the Guildhall Jazz Alumni Ensemble in an exciting new collaboration especially devised for the School’s festival. This concert will feature new arrangements of David Friesen’s music by past and present Guildhall musicians.Admission freeMUSIC HALL
Saturday 24 March • 5pm
Junior Guildhall Jazz Ensemble directed by Ollie Weston and Jonathan Taylor
Jazz musicians from Junior Guildhall take to the stage presenting an exciting programme of originals and jazz standards.Admission freeLECTURE RECITAL ROOM
Saturday 24 March • 7.30pm
Guildhall Jazz Singers and Ensemble with special guest Liane Carroll (voice/piano) directed by Malcolm Edmonstone and Scott Stroman
The festival finale welcomes one of the most popular and respected musicians in Britain performing alongside the Guildhall Jazz Singers and Ensemble, with new arrangements by Malcolm Edmonstone.
Tickets: £15 (£10 concessions, free for Guildhall staff and students) available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk) from 16 January.
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Complete listings for the Guildhall Jazz Festival at www.gsmd.ac.uk/events
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Friday 30 March • 7pm
Guildhall Baroque OrchestraAdrian Butterfield director
Part of the London Handel Festival
Geminiani Enchanted Forrest
Handel Harp Concerto
Handel Fireworks Music
Tickets: £10 (free for Guildhall students) available from the London Handel Festival Box Office 01460 54660 from 1 February (http://booking.london-handel-festival.com from 25 January).
ST GEORGE’S HANOVER SQUARE
Thursday 29 March • 7pm
French Song ConcertA concert of French Song repertoire, presented by Gordon Stewart and performed by postgraduate singers and pianists.Admission freeMUSIC HALL
Friday 30 March • 1.05pm
Guildhall Brass BandChris Houlding, conductor
John McCabe Salamander
Elgar Howarth In Memoriam RK
Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen Hommage to W A Mozart
Peter Graham On the Shoulders of GiantsAdmission freeMUSIC HALL
Monday 26 March • 1.05pm
Guildhall Percussion EnsembleJulian Warburton, director David Ruff, flute
Lou Harrison First Concerto for Flute and Percussion John Cage Living Room Music John Cage Second Construction John Cage Third ConstructionAdmission freeMUSIC HALL
Tuesday 27 March • 7pm
VoiceworksNewly-written works for voice performed by senior singers, pianists, and instrumentalists, alongside more established vocal repertoire of the 20th and 21st centuries.Admission freeLECTURE RECITAL ROOM
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Wednesday 21 March • 7.30pm
Guildhall Symphony OrchestraJames MacMillan, conductor
MacMillan 3 interludes from The Sacrifice Britten Sinfonia da requiem
Prokofiev Suite from Romeo and Juliet
Anna Gillingham soprano, Matthew Sandy tenor, Laetita Stott horn, Jonathan Chan violin, Pablo Hernan violin, Nigulia Mirzayeva violin, Tetsuumi Negata violin, Michael Petrov cello, Sergio Serra cello, Erdem Misirlioglu piano
Admission free BARBICAN HALL
Preceded by A Portrait of James MacMillan at 6.30pmMacMillan Quintet for Horn and Strings MacMillan The Lament of Mary Queen of Scots
Renowned Scottish composer and conductor James MacMillan directs the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra in a programme that includes orchestral excerpts from his opera The Sacrifice, a work premiered in 2007 by Welsh National Opera which was described as a ‘score of real brilliance’ by The Independent. Two twentieth-century classics are also on the programme: Prokofiev’s first suite from his enduringly popular ballet, and one of Britten’s finest orchestral works, written in the midst of, and as a response to, the horrors of World War II.
Reserved tickets: £15, £10 (£5 concessions) available now from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk).
Group discount available (020 7382 7211).
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Part Oneby David Edgar adapted from the novel by Charles Dickens
Monday 26, Tuesday 27, Wednesday 28, Thursday 29 March • 7.30pm
Tuesday 27, Thursday 29 March • 2pm
Joseph Blatchley director Dora Schweitzer designer
Encounter Kate and Ralph Nickleby, Wackford and Fanny Squeers, the Infant Phenomenon, Newman Noggs, Miss Knag, the Mantalinis, Miss La Creevy, Smike and a host of others, as we journey with Nicholas from Devonshire to a teeming London via
Dotheboys Hall in Yorkshire and Vincent Crummles’ theatre troupe on tour in Portsmouth.
A comic masterpiece by one of our most theatrical of novelists, this landmark adaptation became an instant classic when it premiered in the 1980s. The Guildhall
School celebrates the bicentenary of Dickens’s birth with this new production.
Unreserved tickets: £8 (£4 concessions, Guildhall staff & students, Equity) available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk)
from 27 February. Group discount available (020 7382 7211).
GC Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members
SILK STREET THEATRE
Presented by arrangement with Josef Weinberger Ltd.
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Saturday 28 April • 7.30pm
Guildhall Jazz Band plays Duke EllingtonMartin Hathaway, director
The Guildhall School’s continuing collaboration with the Duke Ellington Society UK features old favourites and rarely-performed scores by the Duke.Admission freeMUSIC HALL
Friday 27 April • 7pm
Italian Vocal MusicA concert presented by Emanuele Moris of Italian song and opera aria repertoire, performed by postgraduate singers and pianists.Admission freeLECTURE RECITAL ROOM
Friday 27 April • 7pm
Duo PerformancesSenior pianists and their instrumental partners are directed by Gordon Back in a concert of duo repertoire.Admission freeMUSIC HALL
AprilThursday 12 April • 9pm
Guildhall Jazz Band with special guest soloist Henry Lowther (trumpet)
Scott Stroman, director
A special concert celebrating the centenary of the birth of legendary jazz arranger Gil Evans, with a performance of ‘Sketches of Spain’. This performance is presented as part of the Incorporated Society of Musicians’ annual conference.
Tickets (balcony seating only): £10 available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk) from 3 January.
LSO ST LUKE’S
Thursday 19 April • 1.05pm
Recorder ConcertIan Wilson, director
A concert focusing on contemporary repertoire for recorder, including works by Gavin Bryars, Leo Chadburn, and Arvo Pärt.Admission freeLECTURE RECITAL ROOM
Monday 23 April • 7pm
Opera EnsembleA series of well-known and much-loved opera scenes and some lighter music performed by senior singers.Admission freeMUSIC HALL
Thursday 19 April • 7pm
The Silk Street Award RecitalKathryn McAdam, mezzo soprano
Lucy Hall, soprano
A highlight of the Guildhall School calendar for over a decade, the Silk Street Award enables a talented singer to study on the School’s prestigious Opera Course with the support of a large number of individuals. Donors to the award receive regular updates from the recipient, giving an interesting behind-the-scenes insight into the working life of an opera student.
This recital features the current recipient, Kathryn McAdam, together with Lucy Hall, the nominated beneficiary for 2012-2013. Lucy and Kathryn have chosen a programme of duets and solos including some of their favourite pieces from works by Delibes, Handel, Mozart, and Strauss.
For further information about the evening, to make a donation in support of the Silk Street Award for 2011/12 or to reserve a seat at this exciting performance please contact Kate Eberwein in the Development Office on [email protected] or 020 7382 2366.
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Friday 20, Saturday 21, Thursday 26, Friday 27, Saturday 28 April • 7.30pm Saturday 21 April • 2pm, Sunday 22 April • 6pm, Saturday 28 April • 2pm
A Soldier and a Maker by Iain Burnside
A new play based on songs, poems and letters of Ivor Gurney
Iain Burnside director Giuseppe and Emma Belli designers Victoria Newlyn movement
Three-quarters of a century after his death Ivor Gurney is now celebrated as both poet and composer. This Gloucester-born tailor’s son preferred the term ‘maker’. He was many things beside: soldier, cricketer, crack shot, cake eater, nightwalker, wit, faithful if exasperating friend and, for the last 17 years of his life, asylum inmate.
Interweaving new material with Gurney’s own music, poems and letters, Iain Burnside has created a unique piece of music theatre. His cast combines 16 singers, 2 pianists and 1 actor.
For information of the related study day see page 27.
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Unreserved tickets: £15 (£5 concessions, Guildhall staff and students) available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk) from 16 January. Group discount available (020 7382 7211).
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The Gold MedalTuesday 2 May • 7pm
A gala fundraising evening in honour of the winner and finalists of the Gold Medal 2012, raising vital funds for the Guildhall School’s Scholarships Fund.
Tickets: £200 including champagne reception, exclusive recital performance by the Gold Medal winner, three-course dinner with coffee and post-dinner stirrup cup reception, as well as premium seats and reception at the Gold Medal competition itself.
For further information or to book tickets please contact the Development Office on 020 7382 7179 or email [email protected].
Wednesday 16 May
The Gold Medal Dinner
Guildhall Symphony Orchestra
James Judd, conductor
The Gold Medal, the Guildhall School’s most prestigious prize for musicians, was founded and endowed by Sir Dixon Kimber in 1915. Since 1950 it has been to open to singers and instrumentalists in alternate years. Previous winners include William Primrose (1922), Jacqueline du Pré (1960), Patricia Rozario (1979), Tasmin Little (1986) and Bryn Terfel (1989). This year is the turn of instrumentalists, who will perform a concerto with the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra before a Barbican Hall audience. They will be judged by a prestigious jury panel, including chief culture critic for The Times Richard Morrison, and Martin Campbell-White, Joint Chief Executive of Askonas Holt artist management.
Reserved tickets: £15, £10 (£5 concessions, Guildhall staff and students) available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk) from 15 February.
BARBICAN HALL
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Gary Griffiths
Winner of the 2009 Gold Medal
Martyna Jatkauskaite
Winner of the 2010 Gold Medal
Natalya Romaniw
Winner of the 2011 Gold Medal
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Friday 18 May • 7pm
Guildhall Baroque OrchestraPavlo Beznosiuk, director
Richter String Symphony No. 4 in C
Mozart Symphony No. 1 in Eb
Haydn Symphony No. 49 in F minor ‘La Passione’
Admission free
MUSIC HALL
Friday 18 May • 7.30pm / Wednesday 23 May • 5.30pm
VoiceworksA programme of new vocal works, the culmination of an annual project between Guildhall School composers and singers, poets from Birkbeck College and the Wigmore Hall.Admission freeLECTURE RECITAL ROOM /WIGMORE HALL
Wednesday 30 May • 7pm
Guildhall Percussion EnsembleJulian Warburton, director
Featuring music by Rolf Wallin.Admission freeMUSIC HALL
Thursday 10 May • 1.05pm
Wind Chamber MusicGuildhall musicians perform beautiful French chamber music, lyrical and profound.Admission freeLECTURE RECITAL ROOM
Friday 11 May • 7pm
Berg, Schoenberg & WebernA celebration of the School’s ongoing collaboration with the Banff Centre in Canada. The concert will be conducted by Henk Guittart of the Banff Centre, and the soloists both spent a period of study in Banff as part of the collaboration.Admission freeMUSIC HALL
Tuesday 15 May • 1.05pm
Guildhall Harpists and FriendsAn enchanting programme of harp solos and chamber music.Admission freeLECTURE RECITAL ROOM
MayThursday 3 May • 7pm
Guildhall Horn EnsembleHugh Seenan, conductor
J.S Bach arr. Shaw Prelude and Fugue in A minor
Koetsier Cinq Nouvelles
Scarmolin Lento
Tcherepnin Six Pieces
Tippett Sonata
Castelnuovo-Tedesco Choral and Variation
Basler Harambee
Proctor Amazing GraceAdmission freeMUSIC HALL
Tuesday 8 May • 1.05pm
Russian Song ConcertLada Valesova, director
A concert of Russian song repertoire and Russian opera arias and scenes, performed by postgraduate singers.Admission freeLECTURE RECITAL ROOM
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Vocal Showcase Friday 4 May
A day of performances by undergraduate vocal students, showcasing their work in drama, movement, opera and music theatre.
1.05pm
Light Music Showing: undergraduate singers present songs in a specially devised piece, directed by Victoria Newlyn & Ian Kennedy.
5.45pm
Movement Class Open Workshop: undergraduate singers demonstrate their work in an open Movement class, led by Bryony Williams.
6.30pm
Monteverdi L’incoronazione di Poppea
Undergraduate singers present a reduced version of Monteverdi’s last opera, directed by Sally Burgess with music preparation by Emanuele Moris, Linnhe Robertson and Peter Robinson.
Music Theatre Showing: undergraduate singers present the culmination of their Music Theatre Class, directed by Bridgitta Roy.
Admission freeMUSIC HALL
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Monday 14, Tuesday 15, Wednesday 16, Thursday 17 May • 7.30pm
Tuesday 15, Thursday 17 May • 2pm
Owen Horsley director
Aristophanes, the greatest comic writer of his time, exuberantly mixes bawdiness and politics in his plea for peace during wartime.
“Tell me, ladies, if I found a way to end the war, would you do anything to help…?”
The wives of the fighting men decide to go on a sex strike.
by AristophanesLysistrata
Please note tickets for this production only are available directly from The Albany.
Unreserved tickets: £8 (£4 concessions, Guildhall staff & students, Equity) available 16 April from The Albany 020 8692 4446 (www.thealbany.org.uk). GC Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members
THE ALBANY, DOUGLAS WAY, DEPTFORD SE8 4AG
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Tuesday 29, Thursday 31 May, Saturday 2, Wednesday 6 June • 7pm
Stephen Medcalf director
Ned Rorem’s intimate chamber opera was first performed at Indiana University on 24 February, 2006. The libretto, by J.D. McClatchy, is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning and widely admired play of the same name by Thornton Wilder and depicts life and events in a small town, Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire. Rorem’s music is lyrical and approachable and will hold an immediate appeal for the audience.
This production of Our Town will be its British and European premiere.
Reserved tickets: £25 (£15 concessions, £5 Guildhall staff and students) available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk) from 29 March. Group discount available (020 7382 7211).
GC Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members
SILK STREET THEATRE
by Ned Rorem
The performance on 29 May will be
preceded by a free performance of opera
arias and overtures by Wind, Brass and
Percussion students in the foyer at 6pm.
Lysistrata
EUROPEAN PREMIERE
JuneFriday 1 June • 7.30pm
Guildhall Jazz Band featuring special guests John Surman (saxophones) and John Warren (composer / director)
A very special concert reuniting two of the most respected names in jazz who have collaborated on many significant projects over a period of 40 years, performing alongside up-and-coming Guildhall jazz musicians.
Tickets: £15 (£10 concessions, free for Guildhall staff and students) available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk) from 16 January.
LSO ST LUKE’S
Sunday 10 June • 4pm
Silent Film and Live MusicGuildhall School musicians continue their collaboration in this series with Electronic Music students contributing new music to accompany classic silent films.
Tickets: www.barbican.org.uk/films
BARBICAN CINEMA 1
Tuesday 12 June • 7.30pm
Guildhall GuitarsAn evening of intimate music-making by Guildhall guitarists, featuring a programme of repertoire from the 20th century including works by Phillip Houghton, William Walton, Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Ravel.Admission freeLECTURE RECITAL ROOM
Monday 24 June – Friday 27 July
City of London Festival2012 marks the City of London Festival’s 50th anniversary. The Guildhall School has been part of the Festival since its inaugural year, and continues its close collaboration with the Festival, as senior Guildhall musicians give lunchtime concerts in churches across the City every Tuesday-Friday until 13 July. This year the series focuses on celebrating the 150th anniversary of Debussy’s birth. Further details will be available from April on the City of London Festival website: www.colf.org
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Friday 8 June • 7pm
Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize: Winner’s RecitalThe Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize annually awards an exceptional Guildhall School musician with a Wigmore Hall recital. Pianist Mihkel Poll is the recipient of this year’s award, and his winner’s recital promises to be a special occasion.
Mihkel Poll, piano
Enescu Sonata in F sharp minor op. 24 no. 1 Ligeti Études No. 5 & No. 13 Bartók Out of doors Ravel Ondine from Gaspard de la nuit Mossolov 2 Nocturnes op. 15 Prokofiev Sonata No. 6 in A major op. 82
Tickets: £12 available from the Wigmore Hall Box Office 020 7935 2141 (www.wigmore-hall.org.uk) from 31 January.
WIGMORE HALL
Reserved tickets: £15 (£10 concessions, Guildhall staff & students, Equity) available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk) from 26 April. Group discount available (020 7382 7211).
GC Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members
SILK STREET THEATRE
JUne/JULY
Monday 2 and Tuesday 3 July
Summer Gala EveningsCelebrate the end of the School’s year in style at the Guildhall School Summer Gala Evenings. Guests are invited to a drinks reception and supper in the Barbican’s Conservatory and Garden Room followed by a performance of Chaplin.
Tickets: £65 including pre-supper drinks reception, two-course supper with wine, entry to the performance of Chaplin, a performance programme and an interval drinks reception. For further information or to book tickets for either evening, contact Rachel Davis on 020 7382 7157 or email [email protected]
Music by Roger Anderson
Lyrics by Lee Goldsmith
Book by Ernest Kinoy
Martin Connor director
Bill Deamer choreographer
Steve Edis music director
Tuesday 26, Wednesday 27, Thursday 28, Friday 29, Saturday 30 June, Wednesday 4 July • 7.30pm
Friday 29 June, Wednesday 4 July • 2pm
Summer Gala evenings: Monday 2, Tuesday 3 July
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In 1889, Charlie Chaplin was born into a theatrical family – both parents were Music Hall entertainers. His early life was beset by poverty and despair; his father died an alcoholic when Charlie was 12, his mother suffered a mental breakdown and he and his older half-brother, Sydney, had to be placed in the workhouse at Lambeth.
Performance was in his blood and this new musical traces his struggle to break free of his humble beginnings and follow a quest for identity and fulfilment.
LONDON PREMIERE
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Friday 6 July • 12pm
Summer Kaleidoscope Concert An end-of-term celebration showcasing the talents of Guildhall wind, brass and percussion players.Admission freeMUSIC HALL
JulyTuesday 3 July • 6pm
Vocal ShowcaseThe culmination of undergraduate singers’ Summer Performance Project combining music, movement, text and drama in a specially-devised collaborative piece. Themes of previous projects have included London Life, Don Juan and the Waltz. Admission free
MUSIC HALL
Wednesday 4 July • 1.05pm
Piccolo ConcertGuildhall School piccolo players amass for an eclectic mix of old and new repertoire.Admission free
MUSIC HALL
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Thursday 5 July
New Music DayA day of events showcasing the work of Guildhall School composers.
1.05pm New works by student composers
7.30pm Twenty-First Century Pierrot: new music ensemble Chroma presents a mixed programme marking Pierrot Lunaire’s 100th Birthday
Admission freeMUSIC HALL
Prizes
2012 Public Final recitals
All final recitals for undergraduate and postgraduate musicians are open to the
public with free admission. A great way to spot the stars of the future!
In 2012 final recitals take place on weekdays, 28 May – 2 July. Check our website
www.gsmd.ac.uk/events for detailed listings.
Thursday 17 May • 7pm
The Ivan Sutton Awardfor performance of a chamber work with piano
Supported by the City Music Society in commemoration of Ivan Sutton’s lifetime work for music in the City.
MUSIC HALL
Wednesday 23 May • 7pm
The Chartered Surveyors’ Prizefor solo percussionists.
MUSIC HALL
Saturday 26 May • 2pm
Junior Guildhall Lutine PrizeJunior Guildhall’s most prestigious award. Six finalists compete for a cash prize and a chance to perform a concerto with a Junior Guildhall ensemble.
MUSIC HALL
Admission free to all prizes, unless otherwise stated
Wednesday 18 April • 7pm
The Needlemakers’ Prizefor performance of a programme of solo repertoire for woodwind instruments.
MUSIC HALL
Tuesday 24 April • 10am
The English Song Prizefor the performance of a short recital of songs with original English texts.
LECTURE RECITAL ROOM
Wednesday 2 May • 7pm
The Gold Medal(see page 16)
BARBICAN HALL
Tuesday 8 May • 6.15pm
The Susan Longfield Prizefor sopranos and mezzo-sopranos
In commemoration of Susan Longfield, who was a student at the School. This prize is generously supported by her family.
MUSIC HALL
Thursday 1 March • 10am
Romantic Piano Prizefor performance of a piano recital from the Romantic repertoire.
MUSIC HALL
Monday 26 March • 2.30pm
Piano Accompaniment PrizeLECTURE RECITAL ROOM
Wednesday 28 March • 7pm
The Armourers’ and Braziers’ Brass Prizefor the performance of a programme of solo repertoire for brass instruments.
MUSIC HALL
Tuesday 17 April • 7pm
Aria Prizefor performance of opera arias with piano accompaniment.
MUSIC HALL
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Masterclasses
András Schiff
André Previn
Anne Sofie von O
tter
Alison Balsom
Tuesday 10 January • 10am/2pm
Edith Wiens Voice Masterclass
LECTURE RECITAL ROOM
Wednesday 11 January • 2pm
Andrew Marriner Centre for Orchestra Clarinet Masterclass
MUSIC HALL
Thursday 12 January • 10am
Andrew FindonWind Doubling Instruments Masterclass
LECTURE RECITAL ROOM
Thursday 12 January • 2pm
Rachel Gough Centre for Orchestra Bassoon Masterclass
MUSIC HALL
Monday 16 January • 2.30pm
Thierry CaensTrumpet Masterclass
LECTURE RECITAL ROOM
Tuesday 17 January • 2pm
Richard EgarrKeyboard Masterclass
LECTURE RECITAL ROOM
Monday 23 January • 10am
Anne Sofie von Otter Centre for Orchestra Voice Masterclass
LSO ST LUKE’S
Tuesday 24 January • 1.15pm
Michael Tilson Thomas Centre for Orchestra Artist Conversation
BARBICAN HALL
Wednesday 25 January • 1.05pm
Takács QuartetOpen Chamber Music Class
MUSIC HALL
Wednesday 1 February • 2pm
Richard GoodePiano Masterclass
MUSIC HALL
Friday 10 February • 2.30pm
Rebecca Gilliver Centre for OrchestraCello Masterclass
LSO ST LUKE’S
Monday 13 February • 2pm
Imogen CooperPiano Masterclass
MUSIC HALL
Thursday 16 February • 10am
Joe Alessi New York PhilharmonicTrombone Masterclass
LECTURE RECITAL ROOM
Thursday 16 February • 10.30am
Chris LambNew York PhilharmonicPercussion Masterclass
MUSIC HALL
Thursday 16 February • 12pm
Phil SmithNew York PhilharmonicTrumpet Masterclass
FOUNTAIN ROOM, BARBICAN CENTRE
Thursday 16 February • 1pm
Carter Brey New York Philharmonic Cello Masterclass
MUSIC HALL
Friday 17 February • 2pm
Philip MyersNew York Philharmonic Horn Masterclass
BARBICAN HALL
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Sunday 19 February • 1.15pm
André Previn Centre for OrchestraArtist Conversation
BARBICAN HALL
Monday 20 February • 10am/2pm
Gary HoffmanCello Masterclass
LECTURE RECITAL ROOM
Tuesday 21 February • 2pm
Anne-Sophie Mutter, André Previn & Daniel Müller-SchottCentre for OrchestraChamber Music Masterclass
LSO ST LUKE’S
Friday 24 February • 2pm
Alison BalsomTrumpet Masterclass
MUSIC HALL
Tuesday 28 February • 11am
Helga StorckHarp Masterclass
LECTURE RECITAL ROOM
Wednesday 29 February • 2pm
Endellion QuartetChamber Music Masterclass
LECTURE RECITAL ROOM
Monday 5 March • 10am
Andrew FindonFlute Masterclass
MUSIC HALL
Tuesday 6 March • 6pm
Stephen Kovacevich Piano Masterclass
LECTURE RECITAL ROOM
Monday 12 March • 2.30pm
Aquiles Delle Vigne Piano Masterclass
LECTURE RECITAL ROOM
Friday 16 March • 3pm
Sarah ConnollyCentre for OrchestraVoice Masterclass
LSO ST LUKE’S
Thursday 22 March • 6.30pm
Sir Colin DavisCentre for OrchestraConducting Masterclass
LSO ST LUKE’S
Friday 23 March • 4pm
Marisa RoblesHarp Masterclass
LECTURE RECITAL ROOM
Thursday 29 March • 2pm
Belcea QuartetChamber Music MasterclassLECTURE RECITAL ROOM
Wednesday 4 April • 3pm
Daniel HardingCentre for OrchestraConducting Masterclass
LSO ST LUKE’S
Tuesday 17 April • 10am
Emanuel KrasovskyPiano MasterclassLECTURE RECITAL ROOM
Monday 23 April • 2pm
Endellion QuartetChamber Music Masterclass
LECTURE RECITAL ROOM
Saturday 28 April • 6.30pm
Christian TetzlaffCentre for OrchestraViolin Masterclass
LSO ST LUKE’S
Tuesday 8 May • 10.30am
Nikolaj ZnaiderCentre for OrchestraViolin Masterclass
LSO ST LUKE’S
Tuesday 8 May • 2.30pm
Janina FialkowskaPiano Masterclass
LECTURE RECITAL ROOM
Friday 11 May • 2pm
Endellion QuartetChamber Music Masterclass
LECTURE RECITAL ROOM
Monday 14 May • 6pm
Richard GoodePiano Masterclass
MUSIC HALL
Friday 15 June • 2pm
Andràs SchiffPiano Masterclass
MUSIC HALL
All masterclasses are free admission. Free tickets required for those taking place in LSO St Luke’s only: Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk).
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Tuesday 13 March • 5pm
Performing to the Red Light: the psychology of recording
As a form of performance, recording presents many unique challenges for classical musicians and can be both stressful and problematic, yet there is often little training or guidance available in the process and most musicians learn by experience. Terence Curran (Oxford University) presents recent research exploring some of the challenges posed by recording, how these affect musicians and their ability to perform in a recording situation, and how this influences their attitude and approach to the medium.Admission free but booking is required. To book email [email protected] RECITAL ROOM
Thursday 15 March • 6.15pm – 8.45pm
Beyond Text: how can musicians and actors be creative in approaching and performing texts?
Centre for Creative Performance & Classical Improvisation & ResearchWorks
Professor Daniel Leech-Wilkinson (King’s College London), Ken Rea and David Dolan (Guildhall School), assisted by Guildhall students, will explore creative freedom and personal interpretation in historical recordings from the early 20th century and the notion of improvisation in the performance of a range of texts. Professor John Sloboda will discuss “what animates contemporary audiences”. A round-table discussion and reception will follow. Admission free but booking is required. To book email [email protected] RECITAL ROOM
Wednesday 21 March • 7.30pm
Guildhall Jazz Festival: Improvised Music Night
See page 11 for details of the ResearchWorks night of the Jazz Festival.
Thursday 8 March • 5pm
Extraordinary Voices
Vocal students from the Guildhall School, in collaboration with the ensemble EXAUDI directed by James Weeks, present experimental works by John Cage and his contemporaries alongside world première performances of Christopher Fox’s newly commissioned work. These works are brought into dialogue with paintings by Piet Mondrian and Ben Nicholson.Admission free but booking is required. To book email [email protected]
COURTAULD INSTITUTE OF ART
Friday 9 March • 5:30pm – 7pm
Talking with the audience: a roundtable and open discussionChaired by Dr Helena Gaunt and Professor John Sloboda
Live musical events increasingly involve verbal interactions with the audience, from pre-concert talks, through lecture-recitals and public masterclasses, to post-concert feedback sessions. A panel of experienced practitioners will review current and developing practice, focusing on how talk can deepen and strengthen the artistic impact of live events, and examining where opportunities lie for further development. Admission free but booking is required. To book email [email protected] RECITAL ROOM
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Themes
• Repertoire for the 21st century
• Researching performance: practice, discourse and methodologies
• Creative collaborative learning (from one-to-one partnerships to ensembles/companies)
• Artists in society: understanding audiences and life in the real world
Keynote speakers
Sir Nicholas Kenyon: Managing Director of the Barbican Centre, previously the Director of the BBC Proms
Patsy Rodenburg OBE: Head of Voice at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and author of best selling books including Presence and The Right to Speak
Professor Richard Sennett: Professor of Sociology at London School of Economics and New York University, author of The Craftsman and a new book The Performer due to be published in April 2011
GUILDHALL SCHOOL / BARBICAN CENTRESATURDAY 17 MARCH – TUESDAY 20 MARCH
REFLECTIVE CONSERVATOIRE CONFERENCE: Performing at the Heart of Knowledge
An International Conference bringing together leading researchers, performers and teachers in music and drama to address key issues through practical workshops, papers and round table discussions.
Hosted by the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in partnership with the European Association of Conservatoires (AEC), The Culture Capital Exchange (TCCE), the Society for Education, Music & Psychology Research (SEMPRE) and the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice (CMPCP).
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Tickets available from: [email protected]
Conference email: [email protected]
Conference web address: www.gsmd.ac.uk/conference
Conference Package: £350
Single day rate: £100 (supplement of £50 for conference dinner)
Includes registration fee, all meals, entrance to all sessions at the Barbican Conference Centre and Guildhall School and Conference Dinner
Sunday 25 March • 10am – 5.30pm
Study day: Beyond Sleep: the less-known Gurney
This Ivor Gurney study day led by Iain Burnside will feature presentations from Kate Kennedy on the poetry and the asylum years, April Fredrick on the songs and Mark Bebbington on the piano music. Roderick Swanston will open the day, putting Gurney’s work in the context of the rich English musical scene of the period.
Iain Burnside will discuss the creation of his production A Soldier and a Maker (see page 15) and the day will end with a round table discussion.
Tickets: £15 (£5 staff, students and concessions) available from 16 January from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk).
MUSIC HALL
Monday 16 April • 5:30 – 6:30pm
Communication and audience awareness in expert orchestral performance
with Helena Gaunt and Melissa Dobson
Drawing on interviews with musicians from the UK, US and Germany, this talk explores orchestral musicians’ perceptions and awareness of their audiences. Contextualising this issue within broader findings on the importance of social and musical communication in orchestral work, a range of potential implications for orchestral training will be considered.Admission free but booking is required. To book email [email protected] RECITAL ROOM
Friday 20 April • 5pm – 6.30pm
Preludes & Preceptors: a plan for learning the pianoforte in the early nineteenth-century
In this talk, harpsichordist Penelope Cave sheds light on an important, but forgotten, aspect of early pianoforte lessons. The improvised prelude was a common musical form in this period. Penelope Cave will work with Guildhall students to explore a practical approach to this lost tradition. Admission free but booking is required. To book email [email protected] RECITAL ROOM
Wednesday 9 May • 7pm
When Interpretation and Improvisation Meet – the Practice of Creative Performance Dr David Dolan and a group of advanced students from the Guildhall School will explore stylistic extemporised gestures within classical and early romantic repertoire works for piano. They will discuss the use of improvised repeats, fermata points, eingangs and cadenzas; these will be applied to the way performers respond to each others’ extemporisations in a chamber music context.Admission free but booking is required. To book email [email protected] HALL
Thursday 24 & Friday 25 May • 1pm Friday 25 May • 6.30pm & 8.30pm
Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
Directed by Dr Andrew Lawrence-King
This production reproduces elements of the original performance, re-creating Monteverdi’s thrilling vision of an epic swordfight in music. The evening performances will include a talk by Wallace Collection curator Toby Capwell and the opportunity to view the exhibition The Noble Art of the Sword: Fashion and Fencing in Renaissance Europe.
In collaboration with historical weaponry expert Dr Klim Zhukhov (St Petersburg State University), the Wallace Collection & the Australian Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotion.
Tickets required for evening performances only: £15 (£8.50 concessions) available from the Wallace Collection 020 7563 9567WALLACE COLLECTION
Thursday 24 May • 7pm
Continuo at the Cutting Edge
Linked to the performances at the Wallace Collection, Dr Andrew Lawrence-King will deliver a presentation focusing on questions of Continuo in Monteverdi’s Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda.
Admission free but booking is required. To book email [email protected] 147, GUILDHALL SCHOOL
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Thursday 12, Friday 13, Saturday 14 January • 7.45pm
Saturday 14 January • 3pm
SurvivorA unique collaboration between two artists at the top of their game – Hofesh Shechter and Antony Gormley. Survivor has at its centre an original score by Shechter, set within a visual landscape by Gormley. For the first time Shechter focuses his creative energy on the music and its performance with a 30-strong band including Guildhall School musicians, 200 drummers, and five male performers inhabiting the Barbican stage.
Tickets: £16 – £34 available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk)
BARBICAN THEATRE
Saturday 3 & Sunday 4 March
Barbican Weekender: Urban StoriesFrom Shakespeare to Grime, London is bursting with urban stories. This March Barbican Weekender presents two days of art, dance music, theatre and film for all ages. The weekender will include ‘Dialogue’ – a participatory cross-generational music and story telling performance led by Guildhall School Masters in Leadership students. Check out some of the best rhythms in town with young people from our World in Motion drumming groups, led by Guildhall musicians and alumni.
Part of the London 2012 Festival and Music Nation
Admission freeBARBICAN FOYERS
International Associates ResidenciesNew York Philharmonic residency: Tuesday 14 – Saturday 18 February 2012 (see page 24 for masterclass details)
Royal Concertgebouw residency: Sat 21 April – Mon 21 May (masterclass listings will be available at www.gsmd.ac.uk/events)
As part of the International Associates programme, the Barbican and Guildhall School will be hosting masterclasses with the New York Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestras, alongside their concerts in the Barbican and across East London during 2012. Admission freeGUILDHALL SCHOOL /
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Creative LearningA joint division of the Guildhall School and Barbican Centre
reSearCHWorKS/CreatiVe LearninG
Wednesday 4 January • 7.30pm
London Schools Symphony OrchestraCarlos Izcaray, conductor
Matthew Trusler, violin
Ginastera Estancia: Ballet Suite
Korngold Violin Concerto
Castellanos Santa Cruz de Pacairigua
Gershwin An American in Paris
Tickets: £7, £14, £17, £23 available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk). Group discount available (020 7382 7211).
BARBICAN HALL
Wednesday 18 April • 7.30pm
London Schools Symphony OrchestraNicholas Kraemer, conductor
Rameau Suite from Les Boreades
Handel Fireworks Music
Stravinsky Fireworks
Ravel Daphnis and Chloe Suite No. 2
Tickets: £7, £14, £17, £23 available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk). Group discount available (020 7382 7211).
BARBICAN HALL
Junior GuildhallTuesday 21 February • 7.30pm
Junior Guildhall Symphony OrchestraChris Adey, conductor Abraham Wallfisch-Jacobs, cello
Ireland A London Overture Elgar Cello Concerto Glazunov Symphony No. 5 op. 55
Tickets: £15 (£10 concessions) available from 3 January from The Box Office, St. John’s, Smith Square, London SW1P 3HA 020 7222 1061 (www.sjss.org.uk).
ST JOHN’S SMITH SQUARE
Tuesday 10 July • 7.30pm
Junior Guildhall Symphony OrchestraChris Adey, conductor Christopher Dunn, tuba
Programme featuring the 2011 Lutine Prize winner, Christopher Dunn.
Tickets: £15 (£10 concessions) available from June 2012 from The Box Office, St. John’s, Smith Square, London SW1P 3HA 020 7222 1061 (www.sjss.org.uk).
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Junior Guildhall and Centre for Young Musicians have other public performances throughout the year. Visit the website www.gsmd.ac.uk/events for complete listings. You can also request a copy of the Junior Guildhall events brochure by email: [email protected] or telephone: 020 7382 7160.
GuildHAll YounG ARTisTs
Friday 21 September • 7.30pm
Guildhall Symphony Chorus and OrchestraMessiaen Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum
Orff Carmina Burana
Tickets: on sale from 2 July
BARBICAN HALL
Monday 24 September • 7.30pm
London Schools Symphony OrchestraPeter Ash, conductor
Nielsen Helios Overture
Sibelius Songs
Mahler Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen
Sibelius Symphony No. 6
BARBICAN HALL
Tuesday 25 September
Season PreviewAn exclusive insight into the artistic and performance highlights for 2012/13 for Guildhall Circle members.
MUSIC HALL
Wednesday 21 November • 7.30pm
Guildhall Symphony OrchestraSir Colin Davis, conductor
Dvořák Symphony No. 7
Humperdinck Excerpts from Hänsel und Gretel
Tickets on sale from 2 July
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Events at a glance
JanuaryWed 4 7.30pm BH London Schools Symphony Orchestra
Tue 10 10am/2pm LRR Edith Wiens Voice Masterclass
Tue 10 7.30pm SMIF Guildhall Jazz Singers
Wed 11 2pm MH Andrew Marriner Centre for Orchestra Clarinet Masterclass
Thu 12 10am LRR Andrew Findon Wind Doubling Instruments Masterclass
Thu 12 2pm MH Rachel Gough Centre for Orchestra Bassoon Masterclass
Thu 12 7.45pm BTheatre Survivor
Fri 13 7.45pm BTheatre Survivor
Sat 14 3pm BTheatre Survivor
Sat 14 7.45pm BTheatre Survivor
Mon 16 2.30pm LRR Thierry Caens Trumpet Masterclass
Tue 17 2pm LRR Richard Egarr Keyboard Masterclass
Tue 17 7pm LRR Postgraduate String Concert
Mon 23 10am St Lukes Anne Sofie von Otter Centre for Orchestra Voice Masterclass
Mon 23 7pm LRR Jazz Small Bands
Tue 24 1.15pm BH Michael Tilson Thomas Centre for Orchestra Artist Conversation
Tue 24 7.30pm Weill Guildhall Artists in Recital at Carnegie Hall
Wed 25 1.05pm MH Takács Quartet Open Chamber Music Class
Wed 25 1.05pm SMR Rob Garcia Trio
Thu 26 1.05pm MH Takács Quartet
Fri 27 7.30pm St Lukes Guildhall Chamber Orchestra
Sat 28 1pm BH BBC Total Immersion: Jonathan Harvey
Mon 30 7pm LRR Jazz Small Bands
FebruaryWed 1 2pm MH Richard Goode Piano Masterclass
Thu 2 7.30pm Silk St Th Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Fri 3 1pm RH Junior Guildhall Brass Band
Fri 3 7.30pm Silk St Th Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Mon 6 2pm Silk St Th Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Mon 6 7pm LRR Jazz Small Bands
Mon 6 7.30pm Silk St Th Les Liaisons Dangereuses
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Key to venues:The Albany = The Albany, Deptford, BCinema = Barbican Cinema 1, BFoyer = Barbican Foyer, BH = Barbican Hall, BTheatre = Barbican Theatre, Bridewell = Bridewell Theatre, Fleet Street, Courtauld = The Courtauld Institute of Art, Fountain Rm = Fountain Room, Barbican Centre, LRR = Lecture Recital Room, MH = Music Hall, The Pit = The Pit Theatre, Barbican Centre, RH = Regent Hall, Rm 147 = Room 147, Guildhall School, Silk St Th = Silk Street Theatre, SMR = Sundial Court Music Room, St George’s = St George’s Hanover Square, St Giles = St Giles Cripplegate, SJSS = St John’s Smith Square, St Luke’s = LSO St Luke’s, SMIF = St Martin-in-the-Fields, St Olave’s = St Olave’s Hart Street, Weill = Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, Wigmore = Wigmore Hall.
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Wed 8 7.30pm Silk St Th Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Thu 9 2pm Silk St Th Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Thu 9 6pm BH Guildhall Artists at the Barbican: Bernstein & Copland
Thu 9 6.15pm Foyer Wind, Brass & Percussion
Thu 9 7.30pm Silk St Th Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Fri 10 2.30pm St Lukes Rebecca Gilliver Centre for Orchestra Cello Masterclass
Mon 13 2pm MH Imogen Cooper Piano Masterclass
Mon 13 7.30pm Bridewell Jenufa
Tue 14 1.05pm LRR Recorder Consort
Tue 14 2pm Bridewell Jenufa
Tue 14 7.30pm Bridewell Jenufa
Tue 14 7.30pm LRR Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Guitar Celebration
Wed 15 6pm BH Guildhall Artists at the Barbican: Rachmaninov
Wed 15 7pm MH Postgraduate String Concert
Wed 15 7.30pm Bridewell Jenufa
Thu 16 10am LRR Joe Alessi New York Philharmonic Trombone Masterclass
Thu 16 10.30am MH Chris Lamb New York Philharmonic Percussion Masterclass
Thu 16 12pm Fountain Rm Phil Smith New York Philharmonic Trumpet Masterclass
Thu 16 1pm MH Carter Brey New York Philharmonic Cello Masterclass
Thu 16 2pm Bridewell Jenufa
Thu 16 7pm MH German Lied Concert
Thu 16 7.30pm Bridewell Jenufa
Fri 17 2pm BH Philip Myers New York Philharmonic Horn Masterclass
Fri 17 7pm LRR Postgraduate Piano Concert
Sat 18 11am MH Junior Guildhall String Ensembles
Sun 19 1.15pm BH André Previn Centre for Orchestra Artist Conversation
Mon 20 10am/2pm LRR Gary Hoffman Cello Masterclass
Tue 21 2pm St Lukes Anne-Sophie Mutter, André Previn & Daniel Müller-Schott Centre for Orchestra Chamber Music Masterclass
Tue 21 7.30pm SJSS Junior Guildhall Symphony Orchestra
Tue 21 7.30pm MH Guildhall Jazz Singers and Ensemble
Wed 22 7pm MH Harp Recital
Thu 23 6pm BH Guildhall Artists at the Barbican: Shostakovich & Tchaikovsky
Fri 24 2pm MH Alison Balsom Trumpet Masterclass
Fri 24 7pm MH New works by Guildhall School composers
Fri 24 7.30pm St Lukes The Song Guild
Sat 25 11.30am MH Junior Guildhall National Tuned Percussion Competition
Mon 27 Open Day: Vocal and Opera booking form at www.gsmd.ac.uk/opendays
Tue 28 11am LRR Helga Storck Harp Masterclass
Tue 28 7pm LRR Undergraduate Strings
Tue 28 7pm BTheatre Britten: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Wed 29 2pm LRR Endellion Quartet Chamber Music Masterclass
Wed 29 7pm MH Undergraduate Strings
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MarchThu 1 10am MH Romantic Piano Prize
Thu 1 7pm BTheatre Britten: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Fri 2 7pm LRR Postgraduate Strings
Sat 3/Sun 4 BFoyer Barbican Weekender: Urban Stories
Sat 3 7pm BTheatre Britten: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Mon 5 10am MH Andrew Findon Flute Masterclass
Mon 5 7.30pm MH Faculty Artist Series: Krzysztof Smietana and Caroline Palmer
Tue 6 1.05pm LRR Wind and Brass Chamber Music
Tue 6 1pm SMIF Junior Guildhall Chamber Choir
Tue 6 6pm LRR Stephen Kovacevich Piano Masterclass
Tue 6 7pm BTheatre Britten: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Thu 8 5pm Courtauld ResearchWorks: Extraordinary Voices
Fri 9 5.30pm LRR ResearchWorks: Talking with the Audience
Mon 12 2..30pm LRR Aquiles Delle Vigne Piano Masterclass
Tue 13 5pm LRR ResearchWorks: Performing to the Red Light
Thu 15 6pm BH Guildhall Artists at the Barbican: Brahms
Thu 15 6.15pm LRR ResearchWorks: Beyond Text
Fri 16 3pm St Lukes Sarah Connolly Centre for Orchestra Voice Masterclass
Sat 17 1pm BH BBC Total Immersion: Brett Dean
Sat 17 7pm MH BBC Total Immersion: New works by Guildhall School composers
Sat 17 – Tue 20 Reflective Conservatoire conference
Mon 19 5pm MH Guildhall Jazz Festival: Small Bands
Mon 19 7.30pm MH Guildhall Jazz Festival: Guildhall Jazz Band
Tue 20 5pm MH Guildhall Jazz Festival: Small Bands
Tue 20 7.30pm MH Guildhall Jazz Festival: Guildhall Jazz Faculty Concert
Wed 21 2pm LRR Marcos de Portugal Lecture
Wed 21 4.30pm MH Guildhall Jazz Festival: Small Bands
Wed 21 6.30pm BH Portrait of James MacMillan
Wed 21 7.30pm MH Guildhall Jazz Festival: Improvised Music Night
Wed 21 7.30pm BH Guildhall Symphony Orchestra
Thu 22 1.05pm St Olaves Guildhall Vocal Ensemble
Thu 22 6.30pm St Lukes Sir Colin Davis Centre for Orchestra Conducting Masterclass
Thu 22 7.30pm MH Guildhall Jazz Festival: Vintage Jazz Night
Fri 23 3pm MH Guildhall Jazz Festival: Jazz Small Bands
Fri 23 4pm LRR Marisa Robles Harp Masterclass
Fri 23 7.30pm MH Guildhall Jazz Festival: Jazz Alumni Ensemble
Sat 24 5pm LRR Guildhall Jazz Festival: Junior Guildhall Jazz Ensemble
Sat 24 7.30pm MH Guildhall Jazz Festival: Guildhall Jazz Singers and Ensemble
Sun 25 10am MH ResearchWorks: Ivor Gurney Study Day
Mon 26 1.05pm MH Guildhall Percussion Ensemble
Mon 26 2.30pm LRR Piano Accompaniment Prize
Mon 26 7.30pm Silk St Th The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Part One)
Tue 27 1.05pm LRR Undergraduate Strings
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Tue 27 2pm Silk St Th The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Part One)
Tue 27 7pm LRR Voiceworks
Tue 27 7.30pm Silk St Th The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Part One)
Wed 28 7pm MH The Armourers’ and Brasiers’ Brass Prize
Wed 28 7.30pm Silk St Th The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Part One)
Thu 29 2pm Silk St Th The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Part One)
Thu 29 2pm LRR Belcea Quartet Chamber Music Masterclass
Thu 29 7pm MH French Song Concert
Thu 29 7.30pm Silk St Th The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Part One)
Fri 30 1.05pm MH Guildhall Brass Band
Fri 30 7pm St George’s Guildhall Baroque Orchestra
Sat 31 4pm MH Junior Guildhall End of Term Concert
AprilSun 1 6pm BH Guildhall Artists at the Barbican: Mahler
Wed 4 3pm St Lukes Daniel Harding Centre for Orchestra Artist Conversation
Thu 12 9pm St Lukes Guildhall Jazz Band
Mon 16 5.30pm LRR ResearchWorks: Communication and audience awareness
Tue 17 10am LRR Emanuel Krasovsky Piano Masterclass
Tue 17 7pm MH Guildhall Aria Prize
Wed 18 7pm MH The Needlemakers’ Wind Prize
Wed 18 7.30pm BH London Schools Symphony Orchestra
Thu 19 1.05pm LRR Recorder Concert
Thu 19 7pm MH Silk Street Award Recital
Fri 20 5pm LRR ResearchWorks: Preludes and Preceptors
Fri 20 7pm MH Postgraduate String Concert
Fri 20 7.30pm The Pit A Soldier and a Maker
Sat 21 2pm The Pit A Soldier and a Maker
Sat 21 7.30pm The Pit A Soldier and a Maker
Sun 22 6pm The Pit A Soldier and a Maker
Mon 23 2pm LRR Endellion Quartet Chamber Music Masterclass
Mon 23 7pm MH Opera Ensemble
Tue 24 10am LRR The English Song Prize
Tue 24 7pm LRR Undergraduate Strings
Thu 26 7.30pm The Pit A Soldier and a Maker
Fri 27 7pm LRR Italian Vocal Music
Fri 27 7pm MH Duo Performances
Fri 27 7.30pm The Pit A Soldier and a Maker
Sat 28 1pm St Giles BBC Total Immersion: Arvo Pärt
Sat 28 2pm The Pit A Soldier and a Maker
Sat 28 6.30pm St Lukes Christian Tetzlaff Centre for Orchestra Violin Masterclass
Sat 28 7.30pm MH Guildhall Jazz Band plays Duke Ellington
Sat 28 7.30pm The Pit A Soldier and a Maker
Sun 29 6pm BH Guildhall Artists at the Barbican: Debussy & Caplet
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MayTue 1 1pm SMIF Junior Guildhall String Ensemble
Wed 2 Open Day: Strings and Keyboard booking form at www.gsmd.ac.uk/opendays
Wed 2 7pm BH The Gold Medal
Thu 3 7pm MH Guildhall Horn Ensemble
Fri 4 1.05pm MH Vocal Showcase
Fri 4 5.45/6.30pm MH Vocal Showcase
Tue 8 10.30am St Lukes Nikolaj Znaider Centre for Orchestra Violin Masterclass
Tue 8 1.05pm LRR Russian Song Concert
Tue 8 2.30pm LRR Janina Fialkowska Piano Masterclass
Tue 8 6.15pm MH The Susan Longfield Prize
Wed 9 7pm MH ResearchWorks: When Interpretation and Improvisation meet
Thu 10 1.05pm LRR Wind Chamber Music
Thu 10 7pm SMR Jazz Small Bands
Thu 10 7.30pm MH Faculty Artist Series: Charles Owen
Fri 11 2pm LRR Endellion Quartet Chamber Music Masterclass
Fri 11 7pm MH Guildhall/Banff collaboration: Berg, Schoenberg & Webern
Fri 11 7pm SMR Jazz Small Bands
Mon 14 6pm MH Richard Goode Piano Masterclass
Mon 14 7.30pm The Albany Lysistrata
Tue 15 1.05pm LRR Guildhall Harpists and Friends
Tue 15 2pm The Albany Lysistrata
Tue 15 7.30pm The Albany Lysistrata
Wed 16 7pm Vintners’ Hall The Gold Medal Dinner
Wed 16 7pm MH Postgraduate Strings
Wed 16 7.30pm The Albany Lysistrata
Thu 17 2pm The Albany Lysistrata
Thu 17 7pm MH The Ivan Sutton Award
Thu 17 7.30pm The Albany Lysistrata
Fri 18 7pm MH Guildhall Baroque Orchestra
Fri 18 7.30pm LRR Voiceworks
Wed 23 5.30pm Wigmore Voiceworks
Wed 23 7pm MH The Chartered Surveyors’ Prize
Thu 24 1pm Wallace Collection ResearchWorks: Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
Thu 24 7pm Rm 147 ResearchWorks: Continuo at the Cutting Edge
Fri 25 1pm Wallace Collection ResearchWorks: Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
Fri 25 6.30pm Wallace Collection ResearchWorks: Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
Fri 25 8.30pm Wallace Collection ResearchWorks: Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
Sat 26 2pm MH Junior Guildhall Lutine Prize
Tue 29 6pm Foyer Wind Brass & Percussion
Tue 29 7pm Silk St Th Rorem: Our Town
Wed 30 7pm MH Guildhall Percussion Ensemble
Thu 31 7pm Silk St Th Rorem: Our Town
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Sat 2 7pm Silk St Th Rorem: Our Town
Sun 3 6pm BH Guildhall Artists at the Barbican: Mozart
Wed 6 7pm Silk St Th Rorem: Our Town
Fri 8 7pm Wigmore Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize: Winner’s Recital
Sun 10 4pm BCinema 1 Silent Film and Live Music
Tue 12 7.30pm LRR Guildhall Guitars
Fri 15 2pm MH András Schiff Piano Masterclass
Thu 21 6pm BH Guildhall Artists at the Barbican: Berg & Beethoven
Tue 26 7.30pm Silk Street Th Chaplin
Wed 27 7.30pm Silk Street Th Chaplin
Thu 28 7.30pm Silk Street Th Chaplin
Fri 29 2pm Silk Street Th Chaplin
Fri 29 7.30pm Silk Street Th Chaplin
Sat 30 7.30pm Silk Street Th Chaplin
JulyMon 2 Silk Street Th Chaplin: Summer Gala evening
Tue 3 6pm MH Vocal Showcase
Tue 3 Silk Street Th Chaplin: Summer Gala evening
Wed 4 1.05pm MH Piccolo Concert
Wed 4 2pm Silk Street Th Chaplin
Wed 4 7.30pm Silk Street Th Chaplin
Thu 5 1.05pm MH New Music Day: new works by Guildhall composers
Thu 5 7.30pm MH New Music Day: Twenty-first Century Pierrot
Fri 6 12pm MH Summer Kaleidoscope Concert
Fri 6 1pm RH Junior Guildhall Brass Band
Sat 7 4pm MH Junior Guildhall End of Term Concert
Tue 10 7.30pm SJSS Junior Guildhall Symphony Orchestra
Sun 15 6pm BH Guildhall Artists at the Barbican: Ravel
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• Advance copies of the Guildhall School events guides detailing all operas, plays, musicals, concerts and recitals
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Ticketing InformationFor events that are bookable via the Barbican Box Office:
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