Events Guide autumn 2013

Guildhall School events September – December 2013 Music • Drama • Opera • Jazz Including the inaugural season in Milton Court

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Welcome... to the autumn 2013 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.

This season marks an exciting milestone for us as we open three world-class performance venues in our new building, Milton Court, to add to our existing facilities just across the road on Silk Street, allowing our musicians, actors and theatre technicians more scope than ever to present extraordinary performances.

The Guildhall Symphony Orchestra & Chorus open our stunning state-of-the-art 600-seat Milton Court Concert Hall before we welcome back some of our most highly-acclaimed music alumni for our first ever Alumni Recital Series, and our talented actors raise the curtain in the Milton Court Theatre and intimate Studio Theatre in style with a Chekhov double bill.

Add to this a British theatre premiere, opera, jazz, contemporary and chamber music, masterclasses with guest musicians and collaborations with the LSO, Barbican, Academy of Ancient Music, London Jazz Festival and more – many of which are free to attend – and there are more opportunities than ever to see the Guildhall School’s stars of tomorrow.

Contents Season series

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Monthly highlights

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September October November December

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Guildhall ResearchWorks

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Masterclasses

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Guildhall Young Artists

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Events at a glance

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Future events

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What they say

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Photographs: Clive Barda, Clive Totman, Nina Large, Alexander Newton, Brian Voice, Ewa-Marie Rundquist, David Crookes, Trevor Leighton, Grzegorz Monkiewicz, Mykel Nicolaou, Rachel Otterway, Mat Hennek, Jordi Avellà, Mark Allan, Lisa Marie Mazzucco, Sim Canetty-Clarke, Sasha Gusov, Ascherman, Jeff Goldberg / Esto.

Levitan I.I. Vladimirka Road. 1892, canvas, oil, 79 x 123 cm. Inv.1485 (The Three Sisters) Cover photo: Samantha Crawford and Lucy Hall in Le nozze di Figaro (2013) ⓒ Clive Barda 2

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September SEASON Series 2009

Alumni Recital Series The Guildhall School welcomes back some of its most highly-acclaimed alumni to perform in the new Milton Court Concert Hall during its inaugural season.

Tuesday 5 November 2013 • 7.30pm

Wednesday 26 February 2014 • 7.30pm

Thomas Adès & Friends

Tasmin Little & Martin Roscoe

Thomas Adès piano Anthony Marwood violin Matthew Hunt clarinet Louise Hopkins cello Britten Suite for Violin and Piano Gerald Barry Low Adès Lieux retrouvés Stravinsky Suite from The Soldier’s Tale Adès Catch Court Studies Saturday 23 November 2013 • 7.30pm

Anne Sofie von Otter & Friends Anne Sofie von Otter mezzo-soprano Bengt Forsberg piano Bengan Janson accordion

Douce France: French mélodies and chansons including works by Debussy, Fauré, Ravel, and Saint-Saëns.

Tasmin Little violin Martin Roscoe piano Mozart Sonata No 21 in E minor K 304 Fauré Sonata No 1 in A major Op 13 Ravel Sonate posthume Franck Sonata in A major

Friday 2 May 2014 • 7.30pm

Toby Spence & Friends Toby Spence tenor Julian Milford piano Beethoven An Die Ferne Geliebte Schubert Abendbilder Im Abendrot Bei dir allein Des Fischers Liebesglück Am Fenster Schumann Dichterliebe

Milton Court Concert Hall

Tickets: £15 (£10 concessions) available now from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk).

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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 3 October • 6pm

Wednesday 20 November • 6pm

Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky Songs

Schubert Piano Sonata

Thursday 31 October • 6pm

Franck Piano Quintet Friday 1 November • 6pm

Schubert Piano Sonata in B flat D960 Thursday 5 December • 6pm

Dvořák and Janáček Songs

Royal Philharmonic Society Guildhall Student Composer Commissions

Full repertoire and performers will be available at www.gsmd.ac.uk/events in September.

Premiere of new works by Guildhall School alumni Benjamin Graves, Ella Jarman-Pinto and Joshua Kaye.

Admission free BARBICAN HALL

Sunday 3 November • 6pm

Chabrier Chabrier Pièces pittoresques and a selection of Chabrier songs

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SEASON Series

Faculty Artist Series

The School’s series of exclusive performances by senior professors and their colleagues gives public, staff and students the opportunity to see some of the country’s finest musicians perform in the stunning new Milton Court Concert Hall.

Dame Felicity Lott Adrian Thompson Stephen Varcoe

Graham Johnson

Rolf Hind

Thursday 7 November • 7.30pm

Thursday 5 December • 7.30pm

Graham Johnson & Friends

Rolf Hind

Graham Johnson piano Senior Professor in Vocal Accompaniment

Rolf Hind piano Professor of Piano

Dame Felicity Lott soprano

Per Nørgård Turn

Adrian Thompson tenor Professor of Vocal Studies

Hind a single hair, a jasmine petal, seven mattresses, a pea

Stephen Varcoe baritone

John Adams Phrygian Gates

Part of the Poulenc Festival (see page 7).

Mark Simpson Barkham Fantasy Helmut Lachenmann Serynade

MILTON COURT CONCERT HALL

Reserved tickets: £15 (£10 concessions, free for Guildhall staff and students) available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk) from 4 September.

GC Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members

The Faculty Artist Series 2013/14 is generously supported by Michael and Mercedes Hoffman.

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September Friday 13 September • 10.15pm

The Stamp Collective

From the heart of London comes a group of inspired young musicians who love folk music and reflect the diverse styles of the big city. This 20-strong band, made up primarily of Guildhall School musicians, includes everything from virtuoso fiddlers to master drummers, monster bass riffs and beautiful voices.

Tickets: www.kingsplace.co.uk

October Tuesday 1 October

Season Preview Guildhall Circle members are invited behind-the-scenes for an exclusive preview of the new season and future artistic plans with staff and students over a glass of wine.

The evening will include excerpts from our forthcoming productions of Chekhov’s The Seagull and The Three Sisters, and our opera double bill of Debussy’s L’enfant prodigue and Donizetti’s Francesca di Foix as well as a sneak preview of the set designs for our autumn term productions.

Booking Required: For further details or to reserve your place, contact Jennifer Slater in the Development office on 020 7382 7179 or jennifer.slater@gsmd.ac.uk

GC Guildhall Circle Exclusive See page 21 for details of Guildhall Circle membership.

SILK STREET MUSIC HALL

KINGS PLACE

First event in the new Milton Court Concert Hall Friday 4 October • 7.30pm

Guildhall Symphony Orchestra & Chorus James Gaffigan conductor Katherine Broderick soprano Cátia Moreso mezzo-soprano Timothy Robinson tenor David Stout baritone

James Gaffigan

Julian Philips Come forth to play Elgar Cockaigne Overture Beethoven Symphony No 9 To celebrate the opening of the School’s new Milton Court Concert Hall, American conductor James Gaffigan joins the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for one of the most famous and enduring works of classical music ever written, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, featuring soloists who are alumni of the School. The programme is completed with Elgar’s colourful homage to London life and the world premiere of a new catch for brass, organ and percussion by Head of Composition Julian Philips.

MILTON COURT CONCERT HALL

Reserved tickets: £15, £10 (£5 concessions, Guildhall staff and students) available now from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk).

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September/OCTOBER 2013

Tuesday 8 October • 1pm

Guildhall Cantata Project James Johnstone director Musicians from the Historical Performance Department perform cantatas and instrumental works by Buxtehude and his contemporaries.

Admission free ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS

Thursday 10 October • 1.05pm

Guildhall Trombone and Horn Ensembles Chris Houlding conductor Scheidt arr. Houlding Battle Suite Wagner arr. Sweedy Wotan’s Farewell and Magic Fire Music James Horner arr. Bissill Titanic Fantasy

Friday 18 October – Tuesday 12 November

Poulenc Festival The mélodies of Francis Poulenc were the last great flowering of the French song tradition. To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the composer’s death, Graham Johnson, together with senior singers and pianists at the Guildhall School, presents a series of recitals to celebrate this wonderful repertoire. The series begins with a lecture on Poulenc and his Poets (see page 18), and includes a Faculty Artist Series performance by Graham Johnson & Friends in Milton Court (see page 5). Full details of Poulenc Festival events will be announced in September at www.gsmd.ac.uk/events Friday 18 October • 6pm Tuesday 29 October • 1.05pm Wednesday 6 November • 7pm Thursday 7 November • 7.30pm Tuesday 12 November • 7pm Admission free LECTURE RECITAL ROOM / SILK STREET MUSIC HALL / MILTON COURT CONCERT HALL

John Williams arr. McKinney Star Wars Main Title Admission free SILK STREET MUSIC HALL

Friday 18 October • 7.30pm

Guildhall Jazz Band and the London Jazz Orchestra: A Tribute to Pete Saberton Scott Stroman director The Guildhall Jazz Band and London Jazz Orchestra join forces to celebrate the big band music of the late Pete Saberton, former Professor of Jazz Piano at the Guildhall School and one of the most respected pianists and composers of his generation. The performance will be recorded for a future CD release.

Admission free SILK STREET MUSIC HALL

Tuesday 29 October • 7.30pm

Guildhall Jazz Singers and Ensemble Scott Stroman director The jazz department’s close-harmony group performs new compositions and arrangements of favourite jazz standards.

Admission free SILK STREET MUSIC HALL

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First productions in the new Milton Court theatres

the

seagull

BY AnTON CHeKHOV in a version by Peter Gill Christian Burgess director Agnes Treplin designer Johanna Town lighting designer

Thursday 17, Friday 18, Saturday 19, Monday 21, Wednesday 23, Thursday 24 October • 7.30pm Friday 18, Tuesday 22, Thursday 24 October • 2pm Milton Court Studio THEATRE

Unreserved tickets: £10 (£5 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk) from 10 September. Group discount available (020 7382 7211).

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September OCTOBER 2013 2009

On the threshold of the twentieth century, a family find themselves exiled from home, in the last stop to nowhere.

The Three

Sisters

by Anton Chekhov adapted by David Mamet

Saturday 19, Monday 21, Tuesday 22, Wednesday 23, Thursday 24, Friday 25, Saturday 26 October • 7.30pm

Wyn Jones director

Monday 21, Thursday 24 October • 2pm

Paul Colwell lighting designer

Milton Court THEATRE

Libby Watson designer James Garner composer

Reserved tickets: £10 (£5 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk) from 10 September. Group discount available (020 7382 7211).

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Inspired by Alex Ross’ book The Rest Is Noise The Guildhall School is delighted to be a part of Southbank Centre’s The Rest Is Noise festival, which explores how war, race, sex and politics shaped the most important music of the 20th century. Throughout the autumn, Guildhall musicians perform four programmes of key works from the second half of the 20th century, with selected performances previewed in the School’s Silk Street Music Hall.

Guildhall Percussion Ensemble

Ubu Ensemble

Guildhall Singers

Friday 1 November • 1.05pm

Sunday 3 November • 12pm

Friday 4 October • 1.05pm

Simon Wills conductor

James Weeks director John Tilbury presenter

Admission free

Louis Andriessen De Staat

Silk Street Music Hall

Sunday 6 October • 1pm & 3pm Admission free The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall

Cage Second Construction Xenakis Okho Cage Credo in US

Silk Street Music Hall

Sunday 3 November • 5pm

Julian Warburton director George Barton solo percussion Siwan Rhys piano Xenakis Psappha

Admission free

Simon Wills conductor Louis Andriessen De Staat Excerpts from Henze’s Voices performed by students from the Royal College of Music Queen Elizabeth Hall*

Cardew Extracts from The Great Learning: Paragraph 5 The Weston Roof Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall *

Works for Soprano Saturday 7 December • 5pm Weir King Harald’s Saga Knussen Whitman Settings Payne Evening Land Payne Adlestrop Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall*

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OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2013

Monday 4, Wednesday 6, Friday 8, Monday 11 November • 7pm

Debussy

L’enfant prodigue Donizetti

Francesca di Foix Dominic Wheeler conductor Stephen Barlow director Yannis Thavoris designer David Howe lighting designer Based on the Bible story of The Prodigal Son, Debussy’s tender examination of family love, a ‘lyric scene’, met with great acclaim upon its premiere in 1884 and won the composer the coveted Prix de Rome. Here it is paired with Donizetti’s neglected comic gem, Francesca di Foix, a cautionary tale about the perils of being an overprotective husband, which influenced much of the composer’s later work. The current cohort of singers on the Guildhall School’s Opera Course have shown a particular feeling for French and Italian repertoire, making this double bill of contrasting rarities an ideal showcase.

Reserved tickets: £25 (£15 concessions, £5 Guildhall staff and students) available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk) from 4 September.

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Friday 8, Saturday 9 November • 7.30pm Sunday 10 November • 2pm

by Iain Burnside Iain Burnside director Susannah Wood costume

Giuseppe Belli designer Stephen Pelton movement

Benjamin Britten’s song cycle Les Illuminations sets poems by the 19th century French bad-boy poet Arthur Rimbaud. Rimbaud wrote his prose poems in London, while Britten finished his cycle in America. Taking as his starting point both songs and journeys, Iain Burnside explores two very different creative personalities, working at key moments in their lives. This new play spans two centuries and three continents. Following the success of A Soldier and a Maker Burnside again fuses text, music and movement in a new genre of music theatre he has made his own. Journeying Boys has been developed in association with the Royal College of Music and forms part of Illuminating Britten.

MILTON COURT THEATRE

Suitable for ages 16+

Reserved tickets: £10 (£5 concessions, free for Guildhall staff and students) available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk) from 4 September.

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Friday 8 November – Sunday 10 November

Barbican Britten: Illuminating Britten Illuminating Britten is a three day celebration featuring film screenings, talks, panel discussions and performances by Guildhall School musicians. Curated by John Bridcut.

For a full schedule and ticketing information visit www.barbican.org.uk

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NOVEmber 2013

November Monday 4 November • 2pm

Beethoven Piano Prize

Tuesday 5 November • 6pm

Monday 11 November • 7pm

Adès Piano Works

Passacaglia

James Kreiling piano Ashley Fripp piano

James Willshire piano

For performance of a complete Beethoven Sonata.

Adès Darkness Visible

Admission free

Concert Paraphrase on Powder Her Face

LECTURE RECITAL ROOM

Traced Overhead

For performance of a short recital of songs with English text.

A programme of solo piano works before Adès himself takes to the stage for his Alumni Recital Series performance later this evening (see page 3).

Admission free

Admission free

LECTURE RECITAL ROOM

MILTON COURT CONCERT HALL

Tuesday 5 November • 1.30pm

English Song Prize

Ronald Stevenson Passacaglia on DSCH Acclaimed pianist and Guildhall School alumnus James Willshire performs this extraordinary single-movement work for solo piano, a virtuosic showpiece written by Scottish composer Ronald Stevenson in the 1960s.

Admission free SILK STREET MUSIC HALL

Thursday 21 November • 1.05pm

Double Reed Ensembles Handel Arrival of the Queen of Sheba Mozart The Queen of the Night David Gordon The Queen’s Farewell Stomp Richard Bissill Triangulation for 8 bassoons James Willshire

Admission free LECTURE RECITAL ROOM

Thursday 14 November • 7.30pm

The Dankworth Family with Guildhall Jazz Band Alec Dankworth director & double bass British Jazz Awards winner Alec Dankworth makes a special visit to the School to direct a concert of small group jazz and big band music composed by his father, the late Sir John Dankworth. The concert will include some surprise special guests and celebrates the donation of a double bass to the School’s jazz department from the Wavendon Foundation.

Reserved tickets: £15 (£10 concessions, free for Guildhall staff and students) available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk) from 4 September.

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Alec Dankworth

MILTON COURT CONCERT HALL

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London Jazz Festival Friday 22 November • 7.30pm

Sunday 24 November • 5pm

Geoff Gascoyne 50th birthday concert

East London Creative Jazz Orchestra

Guildhall School professor Geoff Gascoyne, one of Britain’s pre-eminent jazz bass players, celebrates his 50th birthday with Guildhall musicians and special guests, including Jim Mullen (guitar), Tom Cawley (piano), Martin Hathaway (alto sax), Trudy Kerr (voice) and Ian Shaw (voice), in a variety of settings from large ensemble to small groups.

The East London Creative Jazz Orchestra is made up of musicians aged 18 and under mentored by students from the Guildhall School’s Leadership and Jazz programmes. This highlight performance is the culmination of an exciting collaboration with jazz trailblazers Sons of Kemet (Shabaka Hutchings on saxophone/clarinet, Oren Marshall on tuba, and Seb Rochford and Tom Skinner on drums), under the direction of Paul Griffiths.

Reserved tickets: £15 (£10 concessions, free for Guildhall staff and students) available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 from 4 September.

GC Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members

Admission free Barbican Freestage

MILTON COURT CONCERT HALL

Thursday 28, Friday 29 November, Monday 2, Tuesday 3 December • 7pm

Opera Scenes Martin Lloyd-Evans director An informal performance of classical and contemporary operatic excerpts presented in a workshop setting with piano accompaniment, performed by singers and repetiteurs from the first year of the Guildhall Opera Course.

Unreserved tickets: £10 (£5 concessions, free for Guildhall staff and students) available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk) from 14 October.

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Friday 29 November • 7.30pm

Guildhall Symphony Orchestra Takuo Yuasa conductor Schoenberg Pelleas und Melisande Strauss Ein Heldenleben In the second of two Guildhall Symphony Orchestra autumn concerts, Japanese conductor Takuo Yuasa returns to the School to conduct two late-Romantic masterpieces: Schoenberg’s sensuous and haunting Pelleas und Melisande, and Strauss’ tone poem, ‘A Hero’s Life’, a dramatic rollercoaster of a work which places the composer as the ‘hero’ at the centre.

Reserved tickets: £15, £10 (£5 concessions, Guildhall staff and students) available now from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk).

BARBICAN HALL

December

Academy of Ancient Music

Tuesday 3 December • 1.05pm

Guildhall Consort Eamonn Dougan director Eamonn Dougan, Associate Conductor of The Sixteen, leads a programme of works by Britten, Rubbra and James MacMillan.

Admission free SILK STREET MUSIC HALL

Wednesday 4 December • 1.05pm

Academy of Ancient Music Side-by-Side

Tuesday 3 December • 7.30pm

Pavlo Beznosiuk director

Guildhall Jazz Choir and Ensemble

Rebel Les Caractères de la Danse Handel Concerto Grosso Op 3 No 3 Purcell Theatre Music Telemann Don Quixote Suite As part of a new partnership with the Academy of Ancient Music, musicians from the School’s Historical Performance department perform alongside principal players.

Malcolm Edmonstone director The ever-popular Jazz Choir raises the roof once again with a selection of jazz, pop and soul classics specially arranged for this evening’s performance.

Admission free

Admission free SILK STREET MUSIC HALL

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Friday 29, Saturday 30 November, Monday 2, Tuesday 3, Wednesday 4 December • 7.30pm Monday 2, Wednesday 4 December • 2pm

MARATHON ’33

by June Havoc Rachel Grunwald director

1933: the height of the Great Depression. A savage contest is about to kick off. This is a Dance Marathon, an endurance test in which couples must dance perpetually, until one by one they succumb to exhaustion and madness, in a spectacle of cruelty rigged to keep audience members hooked and spending.

Eighty years on, in an era of reality TV and ‘poverty porn’, the Guildhall School presents the British premiere of this extraordinary, visceral show.

Unreserved tickets: £10 (£5 concessions, Guildhall staff and students), available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk) from 28 October.

Group discount available (020 7382 7211).

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November/DECember 2013

Thursday 5 December • 1.05pm

Thursday 5 December • 2.30pm

Guildhall Brass Band

Max and Peggy Morgan Prize for Violin

Chris Houlding conductor Celebrating the 200th anniversaries of Wagner and Verdi, and the 150th anniversary of Mascagni, with excerpts from classic operas arranged for brass band.

Wagner arr. Lorriman Rienzi, Overture

For the performance of a concerto with piano accompaniment.

Admission free SILK STREET MUSIC HALL

Verdi arr. Houlding Don Carlo, Dio che nell’alma infondere Mascagni arr. Wright Cavalleria rusticana, Grand Selection Verdi arr. Wright La Forza del Destino, Overture Wagner arr. Snell Das Rheingold, Entry of the Gods into Valhalla Admission free SILK STREET MUSIC HALL

Sunday 8 December • 4pm

Silent Film Project Guildhall musicians on the Jazz, Composition and Music Therapy programmes perform new music and improvisations live to classic silent films in this annual collaboration with the Barbican, directed by Guildhall professors Martin Hathaway, Gail Brand, Ann Sloboda and Julian Philips.

Tickets: £10.50 online / £11.50 on the door (£9.50 online / £10.50 on the door for concessions; under 18s £6), available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk).

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ResearchWorks is a dynamic programme of events centred around the School’s key research strands, bringing together staff, students and guests of international standing.

Thursday 10 October • 6.30pm

Wednesday 27 – Thursday 28 November

Vaughan Williams Song and the Idea of Englishness

Between Extemporisation and Repertoire Performance – The Performer as Creator

Masters student Ceri Owen presents and interprets new archival material which enables scholars to trace Vaughan Williams’ conversion to the power of folk in English national music.

This lecture-recital includes a performance by Guildhall musicians.

LECTURE RECITAL ROOM

Friday 18 October • 6pm

Poulenc and his Poets Senior Professor in Vocal Accompaniment Graham Johnson introduces the Poulenc Festival (see page 7) in this early evening lecture, which highlights the recent launch of his new 4-CD box set of the complete Poulenc songs released on Hyperion.

LECTURE RECITAL ROOM

Centre for Creative Performance & Classical Improvisation in collaboration with ResearchWorks Classical Improvisaton used to be a part of the norm of art-music making until the 20th century. Pianist and scholar, Professor Robert Levin (Harvard University), is one of the world’s leading authorities on Mozart, classical improvisation and its integration in repertoire performance. He will lead workshops and masterclasses (see page 19) and two lecture-recitals: Wednesday 27 November • 6pm Lecture-recital on the revival of classical improvisation SILK STREET MUSIC HALL

Thursday 28 November • 6pm Lecture-recital on the integration of improvisational approaches to repertoire performance, followed by a reception SILK STREET MUSIC HALL

Friday 15 November • 5.30pm

Spreading Activation: creativity at the interface of composition and performance Professor Eric Clarke, Heather Professor of Music at the University of Oxford, examines some of the fascinating ways in which creativity is distributed between composers and performers in the making of new music.

LECTURE RECITAL ROOM

All ResearchWorks events are free to attend but booking is required. Please visit researchatguildhall.eventbrite.co.uk to book your place.

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Wednesday 13 November

Schoenberg Study Day In advance of the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Schoenberg’s Pelleas und Melisande (see page 15), this Study Day explores the diversity of Schoenberg’s output, from the early tonal works to the expressionist and serial pieces, and asks how performers can best approach this notorious composer. Speakers will include performers, musicologists and Guildhall School professors.

Please check www.gsmd.ac.uk/research for details closer to the time.

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RESEARCHWORKS/MASTERCLASSES

Richard Goode Piano Masterclass SILK STREET MUSIC HALL

Monday 7 October • 9am & 2pm

Tong Wei Dong

Wednesday 23 October – Wednesday 30 October

Leipzig Gewandhaus musicians Instrumental Masterclasses See www.gsmd.ac.uk for further information.

Robert Levin

Friday 20 September • 6pm

Richard Goode

Gerald Finley

Emanuel Ax

Masterclasses Masterclasses

Thursday 28 November • 10am

Robert Levin Piano Masterclass See page 18 for details of Robert Levin’s lecture-recitals.

LECTURE RECITAL ROOM

Violin Masterclass LECTURE RECITAL ROOM

Tuesday 29 October • 2.30pm

Wednesday 9 October • 3pm

Ralf Gothóni

Emanuel Ax Centre for Orchestra Piano Masterclass LSO ST LUKE’S

Chamber Music Masterclass LECTURE RECITAL ROOM

Monday 4 November • 10am

Wednesday 16 October • 2.30pm

Thomas Adès

Gerald Finley

Renowned composer and Guildhall alumnus Thomas Adès leads a masterclass with pianists James Kreiling and Ashley Fripp in preparation for their early evening concert on 5 November (see page 13).

Voice Masterclass SILK STREET MUSIC HALL

Monday 21 October • 10am & 2pm Tuesday 22 October • 10am & 2pm

MILTON COURT CONCERT HALL

Emanuel Krasovsky Piano Masterclass LECTURE RECITAL ROOM/ Silk Street MUSIC HALL

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All masterclasses are free to attend. Free tickets are required for the Emanuel Ax Centre for Orchestra masterclass only, available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891.

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Guildhall Young Artists Tuesday 24 September • 7.30pm

Saturday 7 December • 6pm

London Schools Symphony Orchestra

Junior Guildhall Symphony Orchestra & Chorus

Peter Ash conductor Emily Hindrichs soprano

Young musicians from Junior Guildhall team up with their drama counterparts for an eclectic end-of-year orchestral showcase.

Mussorgsky arr. Rimsky-Korsakov A Night on the Bare Mountain Glière Concerto for Coloratura Soprano Strauss Alpine Symphony Tickets: £8 – £24, available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk) BARBICAN HALL

For more information about Centre for Young Musicians events see www.cym.org.uk

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Reserved tickets: £15 (£10 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk) from 4 September.

MILTON COURT CONCERT HALL

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Events at a glance Key to venues: BCinema = Barbican Cinema, BH = Barbican Hall, BTheatre = Barbican Theatre, KP = Kings Place, LRR = Lecture Recital Room, MCCH = Milton Court Concert Hall, MC Studio = Milton Court Studio Theatre, MC Th = Milton Court Theatre, Silk St MH = Silk Street Music Hall, Silk St Th = Silk Street Theatre, SMIF = St Martin-in-the-Fields, Southbank = Southbank Centre, St Luke’s = LSO St Luke’s

September Fri 13

10.15pm

Kings Place

The Stamp Collective

Fri 20

6pm

Silk St MH

Richard Goode Piano Masterclass

Tue 24

Open Evening: Music Therapy • Booking form at www.gsmd.ac.uk/opendays

Tue 24

BH

London Schools Symphony Orchestra

Tue 1

Silk St MH

Season Preview

Thu 3

6pm

BH

Guildhall Artists at the Barbican: Tchaikovsky & Mussorgsky

Fri 4

1.05pm

Silk St MH

Guildhall Percussion Ensemble

7.30pm

October

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Fri 4

7.30pm

MCCH

Guildhall Symphony Orchestra & Chorus

Sun 6

1pm

Southbank

The Rest is Noise: Guildhall Percussion Ensemble

Sun 6

3pm

Southbank

The Rest is Noise: Guildhall Percussion Ensemble

Mon 7

9am

LRR

Tong Wei Dong Violin Masterclass

Mon 7

2pm

LRR

Tong Wei Dong Violin Masterclass

Mon 7

6pm

LRR

Jazz Small Bands

Tue 8

1pm

SMIF

Guildhall Cantata Project

Wed 9

3pm

St Luke’s

Emanuel Ax Piano Masterclass

Thu 10

1.05pm

Silk St MH

Guildhall Trombone and Horn Ensembles

Thu 10

6.30pm

LRR

ResearchWorks: Vaughan Williams Song and the Idea of Englishness

Fri 11

7pm

LRR

Strings Concert

Mon 14

6pm

LRR

Jazz Small Bands

Wed 16

2.30pm

Silk St MH

Gerald Finley Voice Masterclass

Thu 17

7.30pm

MC Studio

The Seagull

Fri 18

2pm

MC Studio

The Seagull

Fri 18

6pm

LRR

ResearchWorks: Poulenc and his Poets

Fri 18

7.30pm

Silk St MH

Guildhall Jazz Band and the London Jazz Orchestra

Fri 18

7.30pm

MC Studio

The Seagull

Sat 19

7.30pm

MC Studio

The Seagull

Sat 19

7.30pm

MC Th

The Three Sisters

Mon 21

10am

LRR

Emanuel Krasovsky Piano Masterclass

Event listings

Mon 21

2pm

MC Th

The Three Sisters

Mon 21

2pm

Silk St MH

Emanuel Krasovsky Piano Masterclass

Mon 21

6pm

LRR

Jazz Small Bands

Mon 21

7.30pm

MC Studio

The Seagull

Mon 21

7.30pm

MC Th

The Three Sisters

Tue 22

10am

LRR

Emanuel Krasovsky Piano Masterclass

Tue 22

2pm

MC Studio

The Seagull

Tue 22

2pm

LRR

Emanuel Krasovsky Piano Masterclass

Tue 22

7.30pm

MC Th

The Three Sisters

Wed 23

7.30pm

MC Studio

The Seagull

Wed 23

7.30pm

MC Th

The Three Sisters

Thu 24

2pm

MC Studio

The Seagull

Thu 24

2pm

MC Th

The Three Sisters

Thu 24

7.30pm

MC Studio

The Seagull

Thu 24

7.30pm

MC Th

The Three Sisters

Fri 25

7pm

LRR

Strings Concert

Fri 25

7.30pm

MC Th

The Three Sisters

Sat 26

7.30pm

MC Th

The Three Sisters

Tue 29

1.05pm

LRR

Poulenc Festival

Tue 29

2.30pm

LRR

Ralf Gothóni Chamber Music Masterclass

Tue 29

7.30pm

Silk St MH

Guildhall Jazz Singers and Ensemble

Wed 30

Open Day: Music Therapy • Booking form at www.gsmd.ac.uk/opendays

Thu 31

BH

6pm

Guildhall Artists at the Barbican: Franck

November Fri 1

1.05pm

Silk St MH

Ubu Ensemble

Fri 1

6pm

BH

Guildhall Artists at the Barbican: RPS Commissions

Fri 1

7pm

Silk St MH

Postgraduate Piano Concert

Sun 3

12pm

Southbank

The Rest is Noise: Guildhall Singers

Sun 3

5pm

Southbank

The Rest is Noise: Ubu Ensemble

Sun 3

6pm

BH

Guildhall Artists at the Barbican: Chabrier

Mon 4

10am

MCCH

Thomas Adès Piano Masterclass

Mon 4

2pm

LRR

Beethoven Piano Prize

Mon 4

7pm

Silk St Th

Debussy and Donizetti Opera Double Bill

Tue 5

1.30pm

LRR

English Song Prize

Tue 5

6pm

MCCH

Adès Piano Works

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7.30pm

MCCH

Alumni Recital Series: Thomas Adès & Friends

Wed 6

7pm

Silk St MH

Poulenc Festival

Wed 6

7pm

Silk St Th

Debussy and Donizetti Opera Double Bill

Thu 7

Open Day: Viola • Booking form at www.gsmd.ac.uk/opendays

Thu 7

7.30pm

MCCH

Faculty Artist Series: Graham Johnson & Friends

Fri 8

7pm

Silk St MH

Strings Concert

Fri 8

7pm

Silk St Th

Debussy and Donizetti Opera Double Bill

Fri 8

7.30pm

MC Th

Journeying Boys

Fri 8

Barbican Britten: Illuminating Britten • www.barbican.org.uk

Sat 9

Barbican Britten: Illuminating Britten • www.barbican.org.uk

Sat 9

MC Th

7.30pm

Barbican Britten: Illuminating Britten • www.barbican.org.uk

Sun 10

2pm

MC Th

Mon 11

7pm

Silk St MH

Passacaglia

Mon 11

7pm

Silk St Th

Debussy and Donizetti Opera Double Bill

Tue 12

7pm

LRR

Poulenc Festival

Silk St MH

Schoenberg Study Day

Wed 13 Thu 14

Journeying Boys

Open Day: Jazz • Booking form at www.gsmd.ac.uk/opendays

Thu 14

7.30pm

MCCH

The Dankworth Family with Guildhall Jazz Band

Fri 15

5.30pm

LRR

ResearchWorks: Spreading activation

Sat 16

5.10pm

MCCH

Junior Guildhall String Chamber Music Concert

Mon 18

6pm

LRR

Jazz Small Bands

Wed 20

4.30pm

LRR

Recorder Consort

Wed 20

6pm

BH

Guildhall Artists at the Barbican: Schubert

Thu 21

1.05pm

LRR

Double Reed Ensembles

Fri 22

7pm

Silk St MH

Postgraduate Piano Concert

Fri 22

7.30pm

MCCH

London Jazz Festival: Geoff Gascoyne 50th birthday concert

Sat 23

2pm

LRR

Junior Guildhall String Chamber Music Concert

Sat 23

3pm

LRR

Junior Guildhall String Chamber Music Concert

Sat 23

5.10pm

LRR

Junior Guildhall String Chamber Music Concert

Sat 23

7.30pm

MCCH

Alumni Recital Series: Anne Sofie von Otter & Friends

Sun 24

5pm

Barbican Freestage London Jazz Festival: East London Creative Jazz Orchestra

Mon 25 Mon 25

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Journeying Boys

Sun 10

6pm

Open Day: Composition & Electronic Music • Booking form www.gsmd.ac.uk/opendays LRR

Jazz Small Bands

Event listings

Wed 27

6pm

Silk St MH

ResearchWorks: Robert Levin lecture-recital

Thu 28

10am

LRR

Robert Levin Piano Masterclass

Thu 28

6pm

Silk St MH

ResearchWorks: Robert Levin lecture-recital

Thu 28

7pm

MC Studio

Opera Scenes

Fri 29

Open Day: Wind, Brass & Percussion / Leadership • Booking form www.gsmd.ac.uk/opendays

Fri 29

7pm

MC Studio

Opera Scenes

Fri 29

7.30pm

BH

Guildhall Symphony Orchestra

Fri 29

7.30pm

Silk St Th

Marathon ‘33

Sat 30

7.30pm

Silk St Th

Marathon ‘33

December Mon 2

2pm

Silk St Th

Marathon ‘33

Mon 2

6pm

LRR

Jazz Small Bands

Mon 2

7pm

Silk St MH

Strings Concert

Mon 2

7pm

MC Studio

Opera Scenes

Mon 2

7.30pm

Silk St Th

Marathon ‘33

Tue 3

1.05pm

Silk St MH

Guildhall Consort

Tue 3

7pm

MC Studio

Opera Scenes

Tue 3

7.30pm

Silk St MH

Guildhall Jazz Choir and Ensemble

Tue 3

7.30pm

Silk St Th

Marathon ‘33

Wed 4

Open Day: Historical Performance • Booking form at www.gsmd.ac.uk/opendays

Wed 4

1.05pm

Silk St MH

Academy of Ancient Music Side-by-Side

Wed 4

2pm

Silk St Th

Marathon ‘33

Wed 4

7.30pm

Silk St Th

Marathon ‘33

Thu 5

1.05pm

Silk St MH

Guildhall Brass Band

Thu 5

2.30pm

Silk St MH

Max and Peggy Morgan Prize

Thu 5

6pm

BH

Guildhall Artists at the Barbican: Dvorˇák & Janácˇek

Thu 5

7.30pm

MCCH

Faculty Artist Series: Rolf Hind

Sat 7

2pm

LRR

Junior Guildhall Vocal Concert

Sat 7

6pm

MCCH

Junior Guildhall Symphony Orchestra & Chorus

Sat 7

5pm

Southbank

The Rest is Noise: Works for Soprano

Sun 8

4pm

BCinema

Silent Film Project

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future events 2013/14 Guildhall Artists at the Barbican Sunday 12 January • 6pm Haydn Piano Trios Sunday 2 February • 6pm Maxwell Davies Hymnos and Ave Maris Stella

Tuesday 4, Thursday 6, Saturday 8, Monday 10 March • 7pm GC

Wednesday 26, Thursday 27 March, Tuesday 1 April • 7pm

Jonathan Dove: The Adventures of Pinocchio

Saturday 29 March • 2.30pm

One of the most acclaimed contemporary operas to hit the stage in recent years, this version of the classic fairytale promises a veritable feast for the senses.

Tickets: on sale in February

Wednesday 5 February • 6pm Dvořák Sextet in A Op 48

Tickets: on sale 6 January

Sunday 23 February • 6pm Hugo Wolf Songs

Thursday 20 March • 7.30pm GC

Admission free BARBICAN HALL

SILK STREET THEATRE

Guildhall Symphony Orchestra

Opera Scenes MILTON COURT STUDIO THEATRE

Monday 12 May • 7pm GC

The Gold Medal The School’s most prestigious award for musicians, this year for instrumentalists.

Tickets: on sale in February BARBICAN HALL

Jaime Martin conductor Thursday 23 January • 7.30pm GC

Guildhall Chamber Orchestra

Bartók Concerto for Orchestra Brahms Symphony No 4 Tickets: on sale 4 November BARBICAN HALL

Alexander Janiczek director & violin Schubert Symphony No 5 in B flat D485 Mozart Sinfonia Concertante for violin, viola and orchestra K364 Stravinsky Concertino for 12 instruments Dvořák Serenade in E major Op 22 for strings Tickets: on sale 4 November MILTON COURT CONCERT HALL

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Thursday 23 January • 8pm

Guildhall Artists at Carnegie Hall Tickets: on sale 25 November from www.carnegiehall.org WEILL RECITAL HALL, CARNEGIE HALL, NEW YORK

Event listings/Getting in Touch September 2009

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Your donation will help provide the very best facilities for future generations of young artists.

Seats are available from ÂŁ500 with engraved plaque.

Further information: www.gsmd.ac.uk/takeyourseat or contact Jennifer Slater in the Development Office: jennifer.slater@gsmd.ac.uk / 020 7382 7179

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What they say…

“The most powerful sense I had throughout the evening was of the strength and infectiousness and verse of the pulse of the music, that beat in the room…

At some time between now and the start of the Guildhall’s seventh festival next March, the secret of how good it is needs to get out.”

LondonJazz, March 2013, on the closing night of the Guildhall Jazz Festival (Guildhall Jazz Singers and Ensemble with Ian Shaw)

“[The] Guildhall Opera Department continues to mount excellent productions which can hold their own with any British opera house.”

Classical Source, June 2013, on Owen Wingrave

“…the chorus, recruited from Opera North and the Guildhall School and combining their unmiked live voices with prerecordings, was hard to fault.”

The Guardian, June 2013, on Peter Grimes on the Beach at Aldeburgh Festival

“With the local area accommodating long-standing arts organisations – the London Symphony Orchestra, LSO St Luke’s and Museum of London as well as the Barbican Centre and Guildhall School – Milton Court will, when it opens, reinvigorate the City’s impressive culture infrastructure.”

The Londonist, April 2013, on the Guildhall School’s new building, Milton Court

On Twitter What an amazing concert @guildhallschool. That rep was so powerful! And cellist in first half blew my mind. 100% inspired.

@guildhallschool’s The Laramie Project punched me in the gut and made me question myself tonight #whyIlovetheatre

Brilliant vintage jazz night @guildhallschool so worth the trip for such an authentic sound!

Powerfully moved by #TheLaramieProject @guildhallschool . The heartfelt emotional performances from your amazing students left me in tears

May ’08 @guildhallschool was brilliant! Very funny and the talent was outstanding!

Well done!

Open-hearted, rapturous performances win Polish soprano Magdalena Molendowska the @guildhallschool #GoldMedal at the Barbican. Deserved.

Looking forward to today’s big event: @guildhallschool Final Year showcase. Hugely talented group, fantastic training.

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The @guildhallschool production of #thelaramieproject is a shattering, uplifting and very, very beautiful experience – go see it!!!

Congratulations to 3rd Year @guildhallschool #graduates for an excellent #showcase this week!

Fantastic performances from all at @guildhallschool this evening.

Congratulations to all of you.

“Being a student at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama is a very prestigious thing indeed. The seemingly endless roll-call of talent that has graduated from Silk Street and gone on to make their mark on theatre, film or television is testament enough for this. After witnessing the Guildhall’s latest batch perform The Laramie Project, it is clear that they are still churning out talent.”

A Younger Theatre, April 2013, on The Laramie Project

“Quite frankly there was never anything to suggest that this was a ‘student orchestra’; the innocent ear would have easily been led to thinking that this was the LSO itself.”

Classical Source, March 2013, on the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gianandrea Noseda

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September 2009

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