Music, Drama, Opera, Live Events
Events
Jan – Apr 2019
Contents Monthly highlights January February
March April
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Masterclasses 26 Guildhall Young Artists
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Research Works
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Future Events
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Contact and information
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Photographs Cover: The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Autumn 2018), Clive Barda Inside: Bernhard Musil DG, Paul Cochrane, Jimmy Katz, VictorHuang, mbbirdy, Grove Artists, AVTG, Clive Barda, Marco Borggreve, shironosov, George Grantham Bain Collection via Wikimedia Commons, Steve Riskind, Sian Trentberth, Clive Totman
Friday 11 January, 6pm Milton Court Concert Hall
Notations & Sketches CD Launch
Keyboard at Six
Guildhall alumnus Alexander Soares returns to the School to perform piano solo works by Boulez, Dutilleux and Messiaen, marking the launch of his debut album, Notations & Sketches, recorded at Milton Court Concert Hall. Admission free
Guildhall musicians offer a varied programme of keyboard repertoire in this early evening concert.
January ’19
Monday 7 January, 6pm Lecture Recital Room
Admission free Friday 11 January, 7pm Silk Street Music Hall
Postgraduate String Concert Wednesday 9 January, 7pm Milton Court Concert Hall G U I L DH A LL T I CK ET ED EVEN T
Guildhall Studio Orchestra
Postgraduate string musicians showcase their talent in an informal evening concert. Admission free
Mark Lockheart saxophone/composer
In the first half of this concert a nonet of musicians from across Guildhall’s Jazz programme joins saxophonist Mark Lockheart in a retrospective of his medium-ensemble output, drawing on compositions from albums including Days Like These. The second half features an hour-long set by Guildhall Studio Orchestra. Tickets: £15 (£5 concessions) available from Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk
Sunday 13 January, 5.30pm Barbican Hall
LSO Platforms: Guildhall Artists Bartók String Quartet No 2 Accendo Quartet Juliette Roos, Sabine Sergejeva violins Alexander McFarlane viola Daniel Benn cello
Musicians from Guildhall School perform chamber music by Bartók, setting the scene for the LSO’s evening performance of the composer’s Concerto for Orchestra under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle. Admission free
Mark Lockheart
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January ’19
Wednesday 16 January, 6pm Milton Court Concert Hall
Friday 18 January, 7pm Silk Street Music Hall
Strings at Six
Undergraduate String Concert
Guildhall musicians offer a varied programme of string repertoire in this early evening concert. Admission free
Admission free
Thursday 17 January, 7.30pm Milton Court Concert Hall
Sunday 20 January, 4pm Barbican Cinema 1
HPSCHD: Music for Electronics and Harpsichord
The General: Silent Film with Live Jazz Accompaniment
Mahan Esfahani harpsichord Guildhall Electronic Musicians
Sunleif Rasmussen Quadroforone (world premiere) Berio Rounds Xenakis Khoaï Anahita Abbasi new work (UK premiere) Cage excerpts from HPSCHD 4
Undergraduate musicians perform a selection of appealing string repertoire.
Martin Hathaway director
The General is one of Keaton’s greatest achievements, remarkable for its innovative stunts, perfectly timed slapstick and dazzling direction. Musicians from the Guildhall Jazz department have been working with Harpsichord virtuoso and Guildhall saxophonist and professor Martin professor Mahan Esfahani explores the Hathaway to create and workshop a broadest possibilities of the instrument in semi-improvised score to underpin this repertoire that includes a world premiere seminal piece of cinema. by Faroese composer Sunleif Rasmussen, Tickets: £12.50 (£11.50 concessions; £6 in collaboration with musicians from under 18s), available from Barbican Box Guildhall’s Electronic Music department. Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk Tickets: £17.50–£25, available from Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk
Mahan Esfahani
Wednesday 23 January, 7pm Silk Street Music Hall
Guildhall Harpists & Friends Ubu Ensemble Ravel Introduction and Allegro Debussy Danse sacrée Prokofiev Dance of the Knights Bach Prelude and Fugue in E flat Damase Sicilienne variée A mixed programme demonstrates the breadth and quality of chamber music for harp and other instruments. Admission free Tuesday 22 January, 6pm Silk Street Music Hall
Scenes at Six Linnhe Robertson music director Dafydd Hall Williams director
Simon Wills director Maria Wlockowska violin
January ’19
Tuesday 22 January, 1pm Lecture Recital Room
Schnittke Violin Concerto No 3 Ustvolskaya Symphony No 3, ‘Jesus Messiah, Save Us!’ Ustvolskaya Composition No 3 Guildhall’s Ubu Ensemble offers two works by Soviet composer Galina Ustvolskaya, a student of Shostakovich whose work has come to wider recognition in recent years, alongside Schnittke’s polystylistic Third Violin Concerto, which features both traditional Russian chant and Romantic references. Admission free
Postgraduate singers present a selection of scenes from the opera.
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Admission free Wednesday 23 January, 1pm Silk Street Music Hall
Wind Ensemble Guildhall Wind Ensemble
Mozart Serenade in B flat Mozart Gran Partita Guildhall Wind Ensemble performs some of Mozart’s finest wind music, including his Gran Partita, whose exquisite Adagio was made famous by the film Amadeus. Admission free Galina Ustvolskaya
January ’19
Thursday 24 January, 7pm Milton Court Concert Hall G U I L DH A L L T I CK ET ED E VE NT
Guildhall String Ensemble Andrew Watkinson director
Purcell King Arthur Shostakovich arr. Lucas Drew String Quartet No 8 Elgar Chanson du Matin Tchaikovsky String Serenade Op 48
Monday 28 January, 6pm Silk Street Music Hall
Songs at Six: Adventures in the Great American Songbook Samantha Malk music director Victoria Newlyn director
Directed by the School’s new Deputy Head of Vocal Studies Samantha Malk, Guildhall singers and pianists bring together music, dance and drama, inspired by repertoire from the Great American Songbook.
Andrew Watkinson, first violinist of the Endellion Quartet, leads listeners on a journey through classic string ensemble repertoire that ranges from the despair of Admission free Shostakovich’s String Quartet No 8 to the joy of Tchaikovsky’s String Serenade. Tickets: £15 (£5 concessions), available from Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk. Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members opens on 3 December.
Samantha Malk
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Chamber Music at Six Guildhall musicians offer a programme of fine chamber music repertoire in an early evening concert.
Tuesday 29 January, 6pm Silk Street Music Hall
Admission free
Songs at Six: Rossini 150 Emanuele Moris director
Postgraduate singers and pianists commemorate the 150th annivesary of Rossini’s death with familiar works from his opera, stage and song repertoire, alongside lesser-known gems. Admission free
G U I L DH A LL T I CK ET ED EVEN T
Rufus Reid with the Guildhall Jazz Orchestra: Quiet Pride – The Elizabeth Catlett Project
was inspired by the sculptures of the African–American artist Elizabeth Catlett, and images of her work will accompany the performance. Tickets: £15 (£5 concessions), available from Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk. Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members from 3 December.
January ’19
Tuesday 29 January, 7.30pm Milton Court Concert Hall
Scott Stroman director
New York bassist Rufus Reid is one of the world’s greatest jazz bass players, who has worked with Eddie Harris, Nancy Wilson, Lee Konitz, Dexter Gordon, Art Farmer, Stan Getz and many others. He performs his 2012 five-movement work for jazz orchestra, Quiet Pride, which
Thursday 31 January, 7pm Lecture Recital Room
Postgraduate String Concert Postgraduate string musicians curate an informal evening concert. Admission free
Rufus Reid
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Friday 1, Saturday 2, Wednesday 6, Thursday 7, Monday 11, Tuesday 12 February, 7.30pm Saturday 2, Thursday 7, Tuesday 12 February, 2pm Milton Court Theatre
Fury by Phoebe Eclair-Powell Nicole Charles director Charlie Cridlan designer Shona Robertson lighting designer* Eleanor Coxall sound designer*
In a council flat in Peckham, young single mum Sam fights to survive, in this powerful modern Medea about motherhood and class. Fury premiered at London’s Soho Theatre in 2016 and won the Soho Theatre Young Writer’s Award. Tickets: £10 (£5 concessions), available from Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk. Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members from 3 December. *Student on BA (Hons) Technical Theatre Arts programme
Friday 8 February, 7pm Milton Court Concert Hall
Baroque Orchestra
Marmen Quartet
Pavlo Beznosiuk violin/director
Johannes Marmen, Ricky Gore violins Bryony Gibson-Cornish viola Steffan Morris cello
Professor of Baroque Violin Pavlo Beznosiuk directs a programme of some of Handel’s best-loved music, including Music for the Royal Fireworks and Water Music. Admission free
Haydn String Quartet Op 50 No 1 Debussy String Quartet in G minor Op 10 Beethoven String Quartet Op 131
Sunday 3 February, 11am, 3pm & 7.30pm Milton Court Concert Hall
The Marmen Quartet, Guildhall String Quartet Fellows and ensemble winner of the 2018 Royal Overseas League Competition, presents three of the cornerstones of string quartet repertoire.
Hungariana
Admission free
An immersive day featuring three concerts that explore the triumvirate of great Wednesday 13 February, 6pm Hungarian composers – Bartók, Ligeti and Milton Court Concert Hall Kurtág – with performances by the Casals Quartet and visuals by Amelia Kosminsky, Songs at Six: from Guildhall’s Video Design for Live Heinrich Heine in Song Performance programme, under the Eugene Asti director creative direction of Gerard McBurney. Tickets: £15–£30, available from Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk.
Heinrich Heine is among the most widely set writers in the song repertoire and in this concert postgraduate singers and pianists explore a selection of those settings by composers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Admission free Wednesday 13 February, 7pm Lecture Recital Room
Guildhall Guitars An evening of German and Austrian chamber music, including compositions by Schein, Apostel, Gragnani and Hindemith. Marmen Quartet
February ’19
Friday 1 February, 7pm Silk Street Music Hall
Admission free
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Monday 4, Tuesday 5, Friday 8, Saturday 9, Wednesday 13, Thursday 14 February 7.30pm Tuesday 5, Saturday 9, Thursday 14 February, 2pm Milton Court Theatre
Detroit by Lisa D’Amour Charlotte Westenra director Charlie Cridlan designer Tom Mackey lighting designer* Eleanor Coxall sound designer*
Ben and Mary fire up their backyard barbecue to welcome Sharon and Kenny into their neighbourhood. As the sausages sizzle and the alcohol flows their new friendship veers rapidly out of control. Lisa D’Amour’s Obie Award winning play is a fresh, offbeat look at what happens when we dare to open ourselves up to something new. Tickets: £10 (£5 concessions), available from Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk. Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members from 3 December. *Student on BA (Hons) Technical Theatre Arts programme
Friday 15 February, 11.15–11.45am LSO St Luke’s
Goldner Quartet & Piers Lane Lunchtime Concert
LSO Discovery Relaxed Concert
Goldner Quartet
Futures
Dene Olding, Dimity Hall violins Irina Morozova viola Julian Smiles cello Piers Lane piano
Postgraduate singer Joël Terrin offers a celebration of the musical voices of our time. Open to everyone, including individuals with autism, sensory and communication impairments and learning disabilities.
Beethoven String Quartet No 11 in F minor Op 95 Elgar Piano Quintet in A minor Op 84 The Goldner Quartet performs Beethoven’s moody ‘Serioso’ Quartet and is joined by fellow Australian Piers Lane in Elgar’s majestic and surprisingly Spanish-sounding Piano Quintet. Admission free Thursday 14 February, 1.05pm Silk Street Foyer
Jazz Valentine Join Guildhall Jazz Singers in the foyer for a free concert of music appropriate to the day. Admission free
February ’19
Thursday 14 February, 1pm Milton Court Concert Hall
Admission free
Friday 15 February, 12.30–1.15pm LSO St Luke’s
LSO Discovery Free Friday Lunchtime Concert Futures Olivia Boen soprano Achinoam Keisar piano Gary Beecher piano Joël Terrin baritone
How will classical music recitals look in 50 years’ time? How will musicians be able to compete with new forms of entertainment? Postgraduate singer Joël Terrin presents a programme that explores the possibilities. Admission free
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Monday 11, Tuesday 12, Wednesday 13, Thursday 14, Friday 15, Saturday 16 February, 7.30pm Tuesday 12, Thursday 14 February, 2pm Milton Court Studio Theatre
Towers A new play created by Ameera Conrad and the Company Ameera Conrad director Susannah Henry designer Sofia Di Lorenzo lighting designer* Abigail Palmer sound designer*
“We’re high above the city. We’re in a room of glass. We’re days away from breaking ground on the biggest regeneration project that this city has seen. Do we really need to deal with these people?” Conflicting views on the development of a South London estate come to a head as developers, architects, researchers and residents clash in this new play created by the Company and Ameera Conrad. Tickets: £10 (£5 concessions), available from Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk. Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members from 3 December. *Student on BA (Hons) Technical Theatre Arts programme
Wednesday 20 February, 6pm Milton Court Concert Hall
Songs at Six: Swansong
Strings at Six
Iain Burnside writer/director
Guildhall musicians offer a rich programme of string repertoire in this early evening concert.
A return for Iain Burnside’s music-theatre piece: Schubert’s 14 Schwanengesang songs are presented interspersed with monologues from 6 characters, real and imagined. Each casts fresh light from a different angle on this collection of masterly songs, and on the genius who created them, months before his death. A collaboration between Guildhall actors, singers and pianists. Admission free Tuesday 19 February, 7.30pm Milton Court Concert Hall
Roderick Williams: An Italian Songbook Guildhall alumnus and Milton Court Artist-in-Residence Roderick Williams explores the drama and passion of Hugo Wolf’s Italian Songbook – his romantic tale of love and loss – alongside other Guildhall alumni. Tickets: £15–£30, available from Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk
Admission free Thursday 21 February Chats Palace, 42-44 Brooksby's Walk, London E9 6DF
Converging Dialogue Join Guildhall students and community groups from East London for a day of workshops and live music. Responding to the Barbican’s 2019 season ‘Life Rewired’, Converging Dialogue explores what it means to be human in the face of technological and scientific change. Admission free 13 Friday 22 February, 6pm Silk Street Music Hall
Classical Winds Musicians from the Historical Performance and Wind, Brass and Percussion departments explore wind and vocal repertoire from the turn of the 19th century. Admission free
Roderick Williams
February ’19
Friday 15 February, 6pm Milton Court Concert Hall
February ’19
Friday 22 February, 6pm Milton Court Concert Hall
Monday 25 February, 6pm Milton Court Concert Hall
Songs at Six: Samuel Barber Song Guild and American Art Song Graham Johnson director Michael McMahon director
In the first song concert of the evening, Canada’s preeminent song pianist and Guildhall visiting artist Michael McMahon curates a concert of postgraduate singers and pianists, presenting American Art Song by Samuel Barber, his compatriots and contemporaries. Admission free
Graham Johnson, Senior Professor of Accompaniment at Guildhall, directs senior singers and pianists in a song recital. Admission free Thursday 28 February, 7pm Milton Court Concert Hall
Guildhall Consort Eamonn Dougan director
Eamonn Dougan, Associate Conductor of The Sixteen, juxtaposes Warlock’s realisations of Dowland and some of his own settings of Elizabethan texts with anthems and songs by Purcell and others. Guildhall Consort sings in a variety of combinations from solo voices to full chorus.
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Admission free
Friday 22 February, 7.30pm Milton Court Concert Hall
The Folksong Legacy of Brahms & Mahler Birgid Steinberger director
In the second song concert of the evening, acclaimed German soprano Birgid Steinberger curates a concert of postgraduate singers and pianists – the culmination of her visiting artist residency – with folksong arrangements by Brahms and settings by Mahler from the folk-inspired collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn. Admission free
Monday 25, Wednesday 27 February, Friday 1, Monday 4 March, 7pm Silk Street Theatre
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Benjamin Britten Dominic Wheeler conductor Martin Lloyd-Evans director Ruari Murchison designer Mark Jonathan lighting designer
Guildhall School’s award-winning Opera department presents Britten’s interpretation of Shakespeare’s magical tale of lovers, fairies and comic mix-ups, one of the most popular of all 20th-century operas. Tickets: £25 (£15 concessions), available from Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk. Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members from 3 December.
March ’19
Friday 1 March, 6pm Silk Street Music Hall
Power, Reformation & Freedom Guildhall musicians from across different departments collaborate to explore music of the Renaissance and Baroque period in this semi-staged performance. In their storytelling, they focus on themes of power, reformation and freedom, which echo through contemporary society. Admission free Saturday 2 March, 1pm Milton Court Concert Hall
BBC Symphony Orchestra Total Immersion: Ligeti
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Ema Nikolovska mezzo-soprano Dominic Degavino piano Julian Warburton director
Ligeti Musica ricercata Ligeti Ten Pieces for Wind Quintet Ligeti Horn Trio Ligeti Síppal, dobbal, nádihegedüvel Guildhall musicians trace Ligeti’s musical development from his Musica ricercata for solo piano, written in the early 1950s, through his exploration of the wind quintet, and culminating in his 1982 Horn Trio, which introduces his final period, synthesising his earlier chromatic and folk-song styles. Tickets: £12, available from Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk
Sunday 3 March, 5.30pm Barbican Hall
LSO Platforms: Guildhall Artists Puccini, Rossini & Respighi Claire Barnett-Jones mezzo-soprano Cole Morrison bass Fanny Fheodoroff, Harriet Haynes violins Michiel Wittink viola Frederick Winterson cello
Puccini Crisantemi Rossini String Sonata No 3 in C major Respighi Il Tramonto Ahead of the London Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Ponchielli, Verdi and Puccini under the baton of Sir Antonio Pappano, Guildhall musicians offer a free concert of Italian vocal and chamber music. Admission free
Monday 4 March, 6pm Milton Court Concert Hall
Chamber Music at Six Guildhall musicians perform a selection of chamber music repertoire in a post-work concert. Admission free
Friday 8 March, 1pm Silk Street Music Hall
G U I L DH A LL T I CK ET ED EVEN T
Jazz Song Writing Concert
Guildhall Jazz Orchestra – Modern Jazz Classics Scott Stroman director
Guildhall Jazz Orchestra has distinguished itself as one of Europe’s top conservatoire ensembles, giving European premieres of the classic suites of Miles Davis and Gil Evans, and performing with guest soloists including Randy Brecker, David Liebman, Kenny Wheeler and Django Bates. Their programme features modern jazz classics including Kenny Wheeler’s Sweet Time Suite, from his ECM recording Music for Large & Small Ensembles, and music by Django Bates including Yellow Hill, Eden Express and Nights at the Circus. Tickets: £15 (£5 concessions), available from Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk. Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members from 3 December. Wednesday 6 March, 2pm Silk Street Music Hall
Piano Accompaniment Prize Each finalist performs a 20-minute programme of instrumental and vocal works. Admission free
Guildhall professor Fini Bearman and musicians from the Jazz department showcase their work from this year’s songwriting class, during which they’ve been investigating how the influence of the great singer–songwriters such as Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan has resulted in today’s multi-genre, jazz-infused scene. Admission free Friday 8 March, 6pm Lecture Recital Room
Franz-Schubert-Institut Lieder Prize The final of this annual competition for Lied duos, incorporating the Vera RózsaNordell Travel Award. Admission free Monday 11 March, 7pm Silk Street Music Hall
New Jazz Compositions A showcase of the writing and playing of musicians from across the Jazz department, who throughout the year have been working on compositional craft with a team of professors including Trish Clowes and Mark Lockheart. Admission free
Wednesday 6 March, 7pm Silk Street Music Hall
Undergraduate String Concert Undergraduate string players come together for an informal evening concert. Admission free
March ’19
Tuesday 5 March, 7.30pm Milton Court Concert Hall
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CosĂŹ fan tutte (Autumn 2018) Photo by Clive Barda
March ’19
Tuesday 12 March, 2pm Milton Court Concert Hall
Thursday 14 March, 6pm Barbican Hall
Romantic Piano Prize
LSO Platforms: Guildhall Artists
Guildhall pianists perform one major work or a programme of shorter works from the Romantic period. Admission free Wednesday 13 March, 7pm Silk Street Music Hall
New Jazz Compositions
Czech Songs Guildhall students perform Czech songs in a free concert that sets the scene for the LSO’s evening performance of Dvořák and Mahler in celebration of the 90th birthday of Bernard Haitink. Admission free
Musicians from across the Jazz department present their latest work. Admission free Thursday 13 March, 1pm Wigmore Hall
Prince Consort Side by Side 20
Guildhall singers and pianists perform at Wigmore Hall alongside Alisdair Hogarth and his collective, The Prince Consort, Associate Artists of the Guildhall Vocal Department. Tickets: £5, available from Wigmore Hall Box Office: 020 7935 2141 wigmore-hall.org.uk
Thursday 14 March, 6pm Milton Court Concert Hall
Keyboard at Six Enjoy a diverse programme of keyboard repertoire in an early evening concert by Guildhall musicians. Admission free Friday 15 March, 1.15pm Presbytery, Ely Cathedral
Guildhall Saxophone Ensemble Led by Christian Forshaw, Guildhall saxophonists present an eclectic programme that exploits the glorious acoustic of Ely Cathedral. Tickets: part of Cathedral entry fee or free with a residents pass.
Ely Cathedral by John Buckler
Song Guild
Wednesday 20, Thursday 21, Tuesday 26 March, 7pm Saturday 23 March, 2.30pm Milton Court Studio Theatre
Singers and pianists join together to GUILDHALL TIC KE T E D E VE NT perform song repertoire under the Opera Scenes leadership of vocal accompanist and professor Graham Johnson. The Paul Lionel Friend music director Hamburger Prize for Voice and Piano Stephen Barlow director will be awarded at the end of this concert. An informal performance of classical Admission free and contemporary operatic excerpts presented in a workshop setting with piano accompaniment by singers and Wednesday 20 March, 6pm repetiteurs from the first year of the Silk Street Music Hall Guildhall School Opera Course.
Dance Music for Piano Duo Repertoire to include: Saint-Saëns Danse macabre Milhaud Brasileira from Scaramouche Ravel arr. Gryaznov Daphnis et Chloé In her annual piano duo concert, Noriko Ogawa directs senior pianists in a programme inspired by the dance and including improvisations. Admission free
Tickets: £10 (£5 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk. Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members from 3 December. Wednesday 20 March, 7.30pm Barbican Hall GUILDHALL TIC KE T E D E VE NT
Guildhall Symphony Orchestra Vassily Sinaisky conductor
Dvořák Symphony No 8 in G Shostakovich Symphony No 10 Russian conductor Vassily Sinaisky leads Guildhall musicians through Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony, written shortly after the death of Stalin as a portrait of the dictator, as well as Dvořák’s spirited Eighth Symphony. Tickets: £15, £10 (£5 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk. Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members from 3 December.
Vassily Sinaisky
March ’19
Monday 18 March, 6pm Milton Court Concert Hall
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March ’19
Thursday 21 March, 6.30pm Silk Street Music Hall
Monday 25 March, 6pm Milton Court Concert Hall
Needlemakers Wind Prize
Spotlight on Wind, Brass & Percussion
Supported by The Worshipful Company of Needlemakers
Alison Teale director
Wind instrumentalists perform a short programme with piano accompaniment in this annual prize.
The oboe and bassoon are featured in this showcase from the Wind, Brass and Percussion department.
Admission free
Admission free
Friday 22 March, 6pm Silk Street Music Hall
Monday 25 March, 6.15pm Silk Street Music Hall
Scenes at Six
Susan Longfield Competition
Clive Timms music director Simon Iorio director
The final of the annual competition for sopranos and mezzo-sopranos, in memory of Susan Longfield.
Postgraduate singers perform a selection of opera scenes.
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Friday 22 March, 7pm Milton Court Concert Hall
EXAUDI James Weeks director
Linda Catlin Smith Uncertain Sylvia Lim paper wings James Saunders constant interchange of the most various kinds Jürg Frey Out of Chorales (UK premiere) Christopher Fox Song Cassandra Miller Rounding (world premiere) Geoff Hannan Pocket Universe (world premiere) Vocal ensemble EXAUDI performs works by Guildhall composers, including a world premiere by new Associate Head of Composition Cassandra Miller. Admission free
Wednesday 27 March, 1pm St George’s, Hanover Square Thursday 28 March, 1.05pm St Mary-le-Bow
Cantata Project James Johnstone’s Cantata Project visits the London Handel Festival with soloists from the Historical Performance department, bringing a programme of Handel’s secular cantatas for solo voice as well as Ferrandini’s Il pianto di Maria, once attributed to Handel. Tickets: £10, available from london-handel-festival.com
Friday 22, Saturday 23, Monday 25, Tuesday 26, Wednesday 27 March, 7.30pm Monday 25, Wednesday 27 March, 2pm Silk Street Theatre
Orestes by Euripedes Translated by Kenneth McLeish Charlotte Gwinner director Charlotte Gwinner director Simon Daw designer Simon Daw designer Elizabeth Purnell composer/sound designer Christopher Harmon lighting designer* A brother and sister face a death sentence for Jordan Lindsay associate sound designer*
the murder of their mother. Disenfranchised A brother andshelter, sister face deathasentence for and without theyahatch terrible plot thealter murder their Disenfranchised to theiroffate. Inmother. the brutal landscape of and radical withoutreworking shelter, they a terrible plot this of hatch Euripides, a to alter their fate. In the brutal by landscape leaderless generation, betrayed its elders, of this reworking rises upradical to exact revenge. of Euripides, a leaderless generation, betrayed by its elders, Tickets: £10 (£5 concessions), available rises up to exact revenge. from Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 Tickets: £10 (£5 concessions), available barbican.org.uk. Priority booking for from Barbican Office: 020 7638 8891 Guildhall Circle Box members from 3 December. barbican.org.uk. Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members from 3 December.
*Student on BA (Hons) Technical Theatre Arts programme
March ’19
Wednesday 27 March, 6pm Milton Court Studio Theatre
Thursday 28 March, 6.30pm Silk Street Music Hall
Scenes at Six
Armourers and Brasiers’ Company Brass Prize
Elizabeth Marcus music director Simon Cole director
Guildhall postgraduate singers present a variety of opera scenes. Admission free Wednesday 27 March, 7pm Milton Court Concert Hall G U I L DH A L L T I CK ET ED E VE NT
Guildhall Studio Orchestra: Jeremy Lubbock – A Life in Music
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An evening of music and song celebrating one of the greatest arrangers in jazz and popular music, Jeremy Lubbock. Born in London, Lubbock’s skill as a composer and arranger soon took him to Los Angeles, where he has enjoyed a career working with producers from David Foster to Quincy Jones. The evening is a retrospective of music by this master composer. Tickets: £15 (£5 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk. Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members from 3 December.
Supported by The Worshipful Company of Armourers and Brasiers Finalists perform a programme of brass repertoire with piano accompaniment in this annual prize. Admission free Friday 29 March, 6pm Milton Court Concert Hall
Songs at Six A performance of the Brahms Liebeslieder Walzer, coached and directed by Julius Drake and visiting professor Stacey Bartsch. Admission free Friday 29 March, 7pm Silk Street Music Hall
Turners’ Consort Launch Concert Bringing music from medieval times to life, this concert features the new Turners’ Consort, a set of eight recorders handcrafted by maker Tim Cranmore. The Consort is supported by The Worshipful Company of Turners. Admission free
Beasts of London Beasts of London imagines a time when the city was filled with a multitude of animals and Londoners shared their home with all kinds of creatures, from the humble pigeon to exotic beasts. Inspired by objects in the Museum Nadia Boulanger of London collection, the exhibition will be a fully interactive multisensory digital installation with video Saturday 6 April, 1pm projection mapping created by Guildhall Milton Court Concert Hall Video Design for Live Performance BBC Symphony Orchestra artists, suitable for ages seven and up. Tickets: museumoflondon.org.uk/beastsoflondon
Total Immersion: Lili and Nadia Boulanger
Lili Boulanger Theme and variations Lili Boulanger D’un matin de printemps Lili Boulanger Deux morceaux Nadia Boulanger Trois pièces Emile Naoumolf In memoriam Lili Boulanger Stravinsky Lied ohne Nahme Guildhall musicians perform chamber and ensemble music by Lili and Nadia Boulanger, curated by Gordon Stewart. Tickets: £12, available from Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk
Beasts of London
April ’19
Friday 5 April 2019 – 5 January 2020 Museum of London
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MASTERCLASSES
Monday 7 January, 2pm Milton Court Concert Hall
Friday 18 January, 2pm Milton Court Concert Hall
Edith Wiens
Ann Murray DBE
Vocal Masterclass
Vocal Masterclass
Vocal Masterclass Series supported by Peter and Corinne Young
Vocal Masterclass Series supported by Peter and Corinne Young
Thursday 10 January, 3pm Silk Street Music Hall
Bernard d’Ascoli Piano Masterclass Wednesday 16 January, 1.30pm Milton Court Concert Hall
Aldo Baerten
Ann Murray DBE
Flute Masterclass
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Wednesday 16 January, 2pm Silk Street Music Hall
Richard Goode
Monday 21 January, 2pm Silk Street Music Hall
Martin Katz Voice & Piano Duo Masterclass
Piano Masterclass Thursday 14 February, 10am Lecture Recital Room
Gabriel Kwok Piano Masterclass Thursday 14 February, 3pm Silk Street Music Hall
Piers Lane Piano Masterclass
Masterclasses are free to attend unless otherwise stated.
Thursday 21 February, 2pm Silk Street Music Hall
Goldner Quartet
Michael McMahon
Chamber Music Masterclass
Vocal Masterclass
Wednesday 20 February, 2pm Silk Street Music Hall
Birgid Steinberger Vocal Masterclass Vocal Masterclass Series supported by Peter and Corinne Young Wednesday 20 February, 2pm Milton Court Concert Hall
Jurek Dybal Double bass masterclass
Vocal Masterclass Series supported by Peter and Corinne Young
MASTERCLASSES
Thursday 14 February, 3pm Milton Court Concert Hall
Wednesday 20 March, 4pm Lecture Recital Room
Jordan De Souza Vocal Masterclass Vocal Masterclass Series supported by Peter and Corinne Young Thursday 28 March, 10am Silk Street Music Hall
Akiko Ebi Piano Masterclass 27
GUILDHALL YOUNG ARTISTS
Monday 7 January, 7.30pm Barbican Hall
Saturday 30 March, 4pm Milton Court Concert Hall
London Schools Symphony Orchestra
Junior Guildhall Symphony Orchestra
Ryan Wigglesworth conductor Rachel Nicholls soprano
Julian Clayton conductor
Strauss Death and Transfiguration Strauss Orchestral Songs Wagner arr. Wigglesworth Twilight of the Gods Founded in 1951, London Schools Symphony Orchestra draws musicians from London schools to work with professional conductors and soloists, and is considered one of the finest youth orchestras in the world. In this programme, Guildhall alumnus Ryan Wigglesworth explores some of the greatest works of German Romanticism.
Junior Guildhall Symphony Orchestra performs Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake with members of the Junior Guildhall Drama department. Tickets: £10 (£5 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk. Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members from 3 December.
Tickets: £9–£26, available from Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk 28 Friday 18 January, 1pm Regent Hall, London W1C 2DJ
Junior Guildhall String Ensemble Julian Clayton conductor
Junior Guildhall musicians perform a programme of much-loved string ensemble repertoire including Suk’s Serenade for Strings. Admission free
Junior Guildhall presents over 80 events every year. To request a copy of the Junior Guildhall events guide, please contact junior@gsmd.ac.uk
Guildhall School Scholarships Fund
“Every day I think of how fortunate I am to be given this opportunity, and this inspires me to work as hard as I possibly can.� Sadie Roach, BMus Jazz Piano Every year donations to the Scholarships Fund make it possible for over 450 young musicians, actors and production artists to take up their hard-won places or continue their studies at the Guildhall School. Contact the Development Office on 020 7382 7179, visit our website gsmd.ac.uk/support or mail development@gsmd.ac.uk and find out more about how you can support our talented students. The Guildhall School Trust is a Registered Charity No. 1082472
RESEARCH WORKS
Monday 21 January, 3–5pm Lecture Recital Room
Monday 18 February, 6–7pm Milton Court Seminar Room
Research Masterclass with Professor John Rink
Historically-informed Singing: Fantasy, Reality or an Irrelevance?
Professor John Rink (University of
Cambridge) conducts a masterclass workshop with new research by current doctoral students. Presented in conjunction with the Institute of Musical Research and Cambridge Centre for Musical Performance Studies. Tuesday 29 January, 7–9pm 22 Mansfield Street, London W1G 9NR
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The phrase ‘historically informed’ is a badge worn by musicians who perform ‘early music’. Professor Richard Wistreich (Royal College of Music) asks what that phrase really means, both in a world of music-making that embraces practitioners and their audiences, and in wider historiographical terms. Monday 4 March, 6–7pm Lecture Recital Room
Hans Keller (1919–1985): Guildhall professor Jacqueline Ross discusses her approach to the understanding A Musician in Dialogue of Brahms’s string writing through the with his Times transcription of his vocal music, and Alison Garnham and Susi Woodhouse illustrates her talk with a performance of present their new centenary biography music by Brahms and his circle. of Hans Keller, published by Routledge, Tickets: £20–£45 in aid of the Nicholas in an evening of music and readings. A Boas Trust for Young Musicians via musician of penetrating insight, Keller bit.ly/researchworksboas. was also an exceptional broadcaster, passionate teacher and compulsive writer, whose remarkable mind dominated Monday 4 February, 6pm British musical life for 40 years after the Milton Court Seminar Room Second World War. Unequal Equalities: Group Music Making as Deliberative Democracy
Over the past century many musical groups have claimed to operate according to democratic principles, in which each participant has an equal say in decisionmaking. Professor Robert Adlington (University of Huddersfield) examines these claims in the light of recent theoretical writing on deliberative democracy, with the aim of arriving at a more nuanced understanding of what ‘equality’ might mean in such contexts.
Unless otherwise stated, Research Works events are free to attend but booking is required. To book, please visit researchatguildhall.eventbrite.co.uk
Monday 18 March, 6–7pm Lecture Recital Room
Research and the Performing Arts: Guildhall School Doctoral Discussion
Restoring King Arthur
A selection of Guildhall School doctoral candidates present their work and discuss current topics in artistic research. This event will be followed by an informal drinks reception to encourage further discussion.
Dr Christopher Suckling, Deputy Head of Academic Studies at Guildhall, reflects on the process of editing, performing and recording Purcell’s King Arthur with the Gabrieli Consort & Players. He suggests how his performance influenced his scholarly practices and examines how the tensions between musical instinct and historical deduction led to a distinctive interpretation.
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Wednesday 20 March, 9.30am–7pm Milton Court Concert Hall
Getting It Right? New Music/New Technologies This day of talks, performances, debates and seminars presented by Guildhall School together with LSO Discovery will address creative uses of new technology in concert hall, opera, improvisation, site-specific music, sound sculpture and more. Calling on expertise from worldclass composers and conductors, the event will explore current issues within creative
technological research, looking at topics such as individual creativity, community, identity, gender and sexuality. The keynote speaker will be pioneering composer Professor George Lewis, of Columbia University, New York, also a renowned trombonist and improviser who has experience of technology in a wide range of different creative contexts. Tickets: £25 (£5 concessions), available via Eventbrite. Part of LSO Futures.
FUTURE EVENTS
Wednesday 1 May – Friday 3 May Milton Court Studio Theatre
Friday 10 May, 7pm Barbican Hall
Jazz Showcase
The Gold Medal
The summer’s Jazz Showcase will feature renowned alumni and artists including Cleveland Waltkiss and Matt Calvert, who will perform his album Typewritten, as well as current postgraduate musicians – offering a sample of the breadth of today’s jazz talent.
The Guildhall School’s premiere music prize was founded and endowed by Sir H. Dixon Kimber in 1915 and since the 1950s it has been open to singers and instrumentalists in alternate years. This year it’s the turn of the singers, who will perform a short programme with piano accompaniment followed by a second half of arias with Guildhall Symphony Orchestra conducted by Richard Farnes. Previous winners include Jacqueline du Pré (1960), Tasmin Little (1986) and Bryn Terfel (1989).
Tickets: Tickets available in April from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk
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Joon Yoon, Gold Medal 2018 winner
Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize Ema Nikolovska mezzo-soprano Dylan Perez piano
The Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize annually rewards an exceptional Guildhall School musician with a Wigmore Hall recital. Ema Nikolovska, who is currently on the Guildhall Opera Course, has already won prizes including the 2018 Susan Longfield Prize at Guildhall and First Prize and Audience Prize at the 25th Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards at Wigmore Hall.
Friday 5 – Sunday 7 July
Chamber Music Festival Following last year’s inaugural Chamber Music Festival this year’s event will feature faculty and student collaborations in Milton Court Concert Hall and a host of events. Faculty performers will include Richard Lester, Levon Chillingirian, Carole Presland, Philippa Davies, Louise Hopkins, Joy Farrall, Fraser MacAulay, Caroline Palmer, Ursula Smith, Beth Randell and Matthew Jones.
FUTURE EVENTS
Saturday 18 May, 7.30pm Wigmore Hall
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Tickets: £15 (£13 concessions), available from Wigmore Hall Box Office: 020 7935 2141 wigmore-hall.org.uk from 1 February. Thursday 20 June, 7.30pm Barbican Hall
London Symphony Orchestra Side by Side Sir Simon Rattle conductor
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis Grainger Lincolnshire Posy Bruckner Symphony No 4 Guildhall musicians have the opportunity to work under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle and next to the experienced players of London Symphony Orchestra. Tickets: £16–£41 (£5 for under-18s), available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk
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