Guildhall School events September – December 2012 Music • Drama • Opera • Jazz
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to a new autumn 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. The coming months offer you a host of opportunities to experience the work of our talented young artists, many of whom are on the brink of exciting professional careers. Join us this season to enjoy world-class performances.
Contents Season series Guildhall Artists at the Barbican
Monthly highlights
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September
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October
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November
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December
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Guildhall Young Artists
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Guildhall ResearchWorks
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Masterclasses
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Events at a glance
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Future events
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Open House London: Sunday 23 September In addition to our autumn season, don’t forget the School throws open its doors as part of Open House London’s annual event. From 11.15am–5pm, visitors can take tours of the School’s backstage areas, sit in on rehearsals, and walk the corridors of the conservatoire where Bryn Terfel, Daniel Craig, Orlando Bloom and Tasmin Little all studied. Further information at www.openhouselondon.org Cover photo: Michaela Coel and Danielle Harrison in Lysistrata (2012) ⓒ Clive Barda 2
Listen again! Many of our concerts are available in audio and/or video on the Euroclassical website at classicalplanet.com/ euroclassical
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September 2012 September/October Season Series 2011
September Tuesday 25 September
Season Preview
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 4 October • 6pm
Sunday 25 November • 6pm
Mozart Chamber Music Mahler and Schumann Piano Quartets Mozart Wind Divertimento in E flat K252 Mozart Wind Serenade in C minor K388
Mahler Piano Quartet in A minor Schumann Piano Quartet in E flat op. 47
Tuesday 6 November • 6pm
Songs by Schoenberg and Richard Strauss
Admission free BARBICAN HALL
Tuesday 11 December • 6pm
Songs by Chopin and Szymanowski
incorporating launch of ‘Take Your Seat’
GC Guildhall Circle Exclusive Booking required
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 Blood Wedding and Toast, and from our first two opera productions of the year, the Massenet/Martinů triple bill and Le nozze di Figaro, as well as a sneak preview of the set designs for our autumn term productions. In addition, this year’s event marks one year until the official opening of the School’s new facilities at Milton Court and will feature the launch of our ‘Take Your Seat’ appeal offering individuals the opportunity to name seats in the new Concert Hall and Theatre. For further details or to reserve your place, contact Elise Farmer in the Development Office on 020 7382 7179 or elise.farmer@gsmd.ac.uk See page 23 for details of ‘Take Your Seat’ and page 17 for Guildhall Circle membership. MUSIC HALL
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Friday 21 September • 7.30pm
Guildhall Symphony Orchestra and Chorus Takuo Yuasa, conductor Lucy Hall, soprano
Tom Verney, countertenor Ben McAteer, baritone
Messiaen Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum Orff Carmina Burana Messiaen’s fanfare for winds and massed percussion kicks off the School’s orchestral year – commissioned to commemorate the French dead of two World Wars, it’s an earth-shattering, physical work. No less arresting is Orff’s cantata which opens and closes with the famous ‘O Fortuna’. Japanese conductor Takuo Yuasa leads the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra, Chorus and Guildhall soloists in what promises to be an exhilarating start to the season. Reserved tickets: £15, £10 (£5 concessions, 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 HALL
Preceded by a Composition, Jazz, Keyboard, Leadership & Music Therapy Showcase in the School’s Music Hall at 5pm.
October
Friday 19 October • 7pm
Guildhall Brass Band and Percussion Ensemble
Sunday 14 October • 6.30pm
Chris Houlding, conductor
The Song Guild and Guildhall Vocal Ensemble
Steve Reich Sextet Robert Simpson Volcano Paul Whalley Death, Transfiguration and Resurrection Simon Dobson Torsion (world premiere) Derek Bourgeois Blitz
Graham Johnson and Susan Waters, directors Schumann Lieder und Gesänge aus Wilhelm Meister op. 98a Schumann Requiem op. 148 Two of the School’s leading ensembles of senior singers and pianists perform works by Schumann, including his rarely-heard Requiem. This concludes a study day focusing on the late works of Robert Schumann (see page 15).
Admission free MUSIC HALL
Thursday 25 October • 1.05pm
Recorder Concert
Admission free
Guildhall musicians perform a selection of chamber music for recorder consort.
Music Hall
Admission free LECTURE RECITAL ROOM
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September/October 2012
Thursday 4, Friday 5, Saturday 6, Monday 8, Tuesday 9 October • 7.30pm Friday 5, Monday 8 October • 2pm
Federico García Lorca
Blood Wedding (Bodas de Sangre)
in a version by Ted Hughes
Christian Burgess, director Agnes Treplin, designer Neill Brinkworth, lighting designer Sue Lefton, director of movement Music by Maria Camahort and Julian Philips
Lorca’s Blood Wedding is a classic of twentieth-century theatre. The story is based on a newspaper fragment which told of a family vendetta and a bride who ran away with the son of the enemy family. Lorca uses it to investigate the subjects which fascinated him: desire, repression, ritual and the constraints and commitments of the rural Spanish community in which the play is rooted. Ted Hughes’ version stays close in spirit to the original Spanish. With visceral directness, he fuses Lorca’s vision to his own, and the result is a powerful, poetic text which captures all the violence and pathos of the play for an English speaking audience. Unreserved tickets: £8 (£4 concessions, Guildhall staff & students, Equity) available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk) from 3 September. Group discount available (020 7382 7211).
GC Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members
Tuesday 9 October • 6pm
Pre-performance platform At this platform, the creative team for Blood Wedding will discuss the challenges of bringing text, music, movement and dance, design, lighting and video together to mount this production. Admission free SILK STREET THEATRE
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Monday 15, Tuesday 16, Wednesday 17, Thursday 18 October • 7.30pm
Jo McInnes, director
Tuesday 16, Thursday 18 October • 2pm
Adam Dallman, lighting designer
Tom Hadley, designer
“This bakehouse is my church.”
by Richard Bean
Premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in 1999, the play tells the story of seven men who work in a bread factory. One Sunday night, so worn down from a lifetime making dough, Nellie loses his vest in the mix. A detailed analysis of the mysteries of bread-making, unearthing the undisclosed hierarchies, the latent power struggles, the petty – and not so petty – jealousies and rivalries. An investigation into the collective psychology of male night-workers – brilliant, touching, funny.
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Unreserved tickets: £8 (£4 concessions, Guildhall staff & students, Equity) available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk) from 14 September. Group discount available (020 7382 7211).
GC Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members BRIDEWELL THEATRE Bride Lane, Fleet Street EC4
October/November 2012
Colours in Sound: The Piano Music of Claude Debussy Four recitals to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Debussy’s birth, the culmination of a project with postgraduate musicians led by Debussy specialists and Professors of Piano Paul Roberts and Noriko Ogawa.
Wednesday 31 October • 7.30pm
Faculty Artist Lecture Recital: Paul Roberts Preludes Book II Tickets: £15 (£10 concessions, free for Guildhall staff and students) available from 3 September from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk).
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Wednesday 7 November • 7pm
Student Recital Suite Bergamasque Pour le piano Estampes Images I Admission free
Monday 12 November • 7pm
Student Recital L’isle joyeuse Masques Images Book II Preludes Book I Admission free
Thursday 15 November • 7.30pm
Faculty Artist Recital: Noriko Ogawa with a lecture by Paul Roberts Douze Etudes Tickets: £15 (£10 concessions, free for Guildhall staff and students) available from 3 September from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk).
GC The Faculty Artist Series 2012/13 is generously supported by Michael and Mercedes Hoffman
Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members
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Celebrating the Viola Much-maligned, the viola is not just a larger, darker-sounding alternative to the violin, but an agile, dynamic instrument increasingly championed by players and composers alike. This autumn the Guildhall School explores the alto voice of the string family with a series of celebratory events. Wednesday 31 October • 6pm
Nobuko Imai Viola Masterclass An opportunity to observe a masterclass with one of the world’s leading violists. Admission free See page 16 for a full listing of this season’s masterclasses. LECTURE RECITAL ROOM
Monday 5 November • 10.30am
The Complete Violist: Guildhall Viola Day A day of masterclasses, workshops and performances by viola students and professors from the Guildhall School and guests, open to all but of particular interest to potential
November Friday 2 November • 1pm
Admission free but registration required. Email corinna.sanett@gsmd.ac.uk to attend. LECTURE RECITAL ROOM
Thursday 15 November • 10am
Max and Peggy Morgan Prize The final of the Max and Peggy Morgan award for performance of a viola concerto with piano accompaniment. Admission free LECTURE RECITAL ROOM
Friday 16 November • 7pm
Cinderella No More: a celebration of the viola An evening of performances of solo, duo and multiple viola works by students and professors, including the winner of the Max and Peggy Morgan Prize. Admission free MUSIC HALL
Saturday 3 & Sunday 4 November • 11am – 6pm
Barbican Weekender: Natural Circuits
Guildhall School musicians perform works for sopranos, harp, theorbo, harpsichord and organ by Gesualdo, Luzzaschi and Caccini at this lunchtime concert in one of London’s most famous churches.
A free programme of music, film, theatre and visual art across the Barbican foyers. The combined force of human creativity and Mother Nature take the centre stage as the weekend celebrates the influence of digital technology on the arts with a range of activity for everyone. Join Guildhall School electronic musicians to create your own microphone before exploring the building to record your very own soundscape. The Guildhall musicians will then download your recording to make their very own sound installation for others to listen to in the Barbican Foyers throughout the weekend.
Admission free
Admission free
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students. Come and explore solo and chamber repertoire including works for multiple violas, observe or play in a masterclass, learn about specific postural technique and warmups tailor-made for violists, enjoy a workshop on orchestral playing, excerpts and auditions with an LSO violist, and be part of an open discussion about the role of the viola in chamber music.
October/November 2012
Thursday 1, Saturday 3, Monday 5, Wednesday 7 November • 7pm
Massenet
La Navarraise Le Portrait de Manon Martinu
Comedy on the Bridge Peter Robinson, conductor Stephen Barlow, director
Yannis Thavoris, designer David Howe, lighting designer
Conceived in the spirit of Puccini’s ‘Il trittico’, the Guildhall School tackles three distinctive styles of opera in one evening, tailored to the strengths of this year’s gifted crop of singers. This triple bill contrasts visceral Massenet in La Navarraise with his lighter, more lyrical and most famous opera Manon, followed by Martinů’s surreal, anti-war Comedy on the Bridge.
The School welcomes back Peter Robinson, Stephen Barlow and Yannis Thavoris as creative team in what promises to be an exciting evening. Both works by Massenet will be sung in French with English surtitles. The performance on 1 November will be preceded by Brass Music on the Bridge: a free performance by Guildhall School brass musicians in the foyer at 6.15pm.
Reserved tickets: £25 (£15 concessions, £5 Guildhall staff and students) available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk) from 3 September. Group discount available (020 7382 7211).
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Sunday 4 November • 1pm
Thursday 8 November • 1pm, 6pm, 7.30pm
Total Immersion: Oliver Knussen
Homage to Catalunya
Guildhall School musicians take part in a day of music, talks and films celebrating the music of Oliver Knussen, one of the most inspirational figures in British music. Equally gifted as composer, conductor and teacher, Knussen has produced an extraordinary body of work. The Guildhall School is delighted to once again join the BBC Symphony Orchestra in exploring the work of an exciting contemporary composer.
Montsalvatge • Toldrá • Mompou
Océan de terre Trumpets Masks Elegiac Arabesques Three Little Fantasies Songs Without Voices
• piano music on ballet themes, including music that Montsalvatge and Mompou co-wrote for the ballet Don Perlimplín, played by Marisa Gupta
Guildhall New Music Ensemble Richard Baker, conductor Unreserved tickets: £12 available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk). Full details of the Total Immersion Day at www.bbc.co.uk/symphonyorchestra MUSIC HALL
Friday 16 November • 6pm Wednesday 21 November • 7pm Thursday 22 November • 7pm
Rediscovering Mendelssohn: His Songs with Words This year’s autumn song festival focuses on the songs of Felix Mendelssohn, directed by Eugene Asti, and incorporating the Paul Hamburger Prize for voice and piano duos. Featured works include a substantial number of the rare and unknown songs that had remained unpublished since the composer’s death in 1847, and which Asti recently edited and published. Admission free LECTURE RECITAL ROOM / MUSIC HALL
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Three concerts of songs, instrumental and chamber music celebrating three of the most important Catalan composers of the twentieth century, all with significant anniversaries this year. Highlights include: • Frederic Mompou’s song cycle Combat del somni, together with songs by Xavier Montsalvatge and Eduardo Toldrá, sung by Alba Bosch Teixidor (soprano)
• solo and chamber pieces by Montsalvatge and Toldrá, led by Alejandra Díaz (cello) Sponsored by the Institut Ramon Llull and the Associació Xavier Montsalvatge
Admission free MUSIC HALL
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London Jazz Festival The Guildhall School’s renowned Jazz Department showcases its work in three performances at this year’s London Jazz Festival.
Friday 9 November • 7.30pm
Guildhall Jazz Band with Nikki Iles Six-time winners of the BBC Big Band contest, the Guildhall Jazz Band has performed with a host of international guest soloists over the years, and former band members include several well-known names in British jazz. Special guest pianist and composer Nikki Iles joins the ensemble for the evening, directed by Scott Stroman. Unreserved tickets: £15 (£10 concessions, free for Guildhall staff & students) available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org. uk) from 3 September.
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Guildhall Jazz Ensemble with Marcus Roberts Hot on the heels of two sold-out nights at Ronnie Scott’s, Marcus Roberts brings his consummate trio with Jason Marsalis and Rodney Jordan to King’s Place, and joins forces with the Guildhall Jazz Ensemble to explore the jazz tradition through the fresh and riveting insight of a contemporary jazz master. Saturday 17 November • 3pm
Saturday 17 November • 8pm
New Orleans Meets Harlem
Romance Swing and the Blues
A geography-jumping look back at two crucibles of jazz, featuring the music of Roberts’ pianist predecessors Jelly Roll Morton, Bud Powell and Earl Hines in both small and larger ensembles.
Marcus Roberts explores the rich tapestry of the jazz and swing repertoire, with classics by Basie, Ellington and other defining figures of the big band tradition. The programme will also include original music from his own acclaimed suite, Romance, Swing, and the Blues.
Tickets for each Kings Place concert: £29.50, £24.50, £19.50, £14.50 (Savers £9.50) from the Kings Place Box Office 020 7520 1490 (www.kingsplace.co.uk). KINGS PLACE
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The Life & Adventures of
Part Two by David Edgar adapted from the novel by Charles Dickens Thursday 22, Friday 23, Saturday 24, Monday 26, Tuesday 27, Wednesday 28 November • 7.30pm Monday 26, Wednesday 28 November • 2pm Joseph Blatchley, director Dora Schweitzer, designer Neill Brinkworth, lighting designer
Following the success of Nicholas Nickleby Part 1 at the Guildhall School in March, Nicholas’s adventures are concluded by a new ensemble of actors who conjure up a gallery of favourite characters. This comic masterpiece by one of our most theatrical of novelists demonstrates that ‘mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries’. Unreserved tickets: £8 (£4 concessions, Guildhall staff & students, Equity) available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk) from 22 October. Group discount available (020 7382 7211).
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November 2012
Preceded by a Guildhall Artists at the Barbican performance at 6pm:
Wednesday 21 November • 7.30pm
Guildhall Symphony Orchestra Sir Colin Davis, conductor Dvo˘rák Symphony No. 7 in D minor Humperdinck arr. Wallace Suite from Hänsel und Gretel Sir Colin Davis’s longstanding relationship with the Guildhall School continues as he directs the Symphony Orchestra in Dvo˘rák’s attempt to ‘stir the world’ – a
symphony that is both tragic and glorious, and one filled with Slavonic folk idioms. The orchestral suite from Humperdinck’s fairy tale opera completes the programme.
Dvo˘rák 4 Cypresses for String Quartet Dvo˘rák Piano Quintet in A Major op. 81 Admission free BARBICAN 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). Group discount available (020 7382 7211). BARBICAN HALL
Thursday 29 November • 1.05pm Friday 23 & Saturday 24 November • 7.15pm Saturday 24 November • 2.30pm
Unleashed Made by the young people of Barbican Guildhall Creative Learning and Artistic Associate, Boy Blue Entertainment, directed by Walter Meierjohann Featuring the inspirational talent of Boy Blue Entertainment’s Da Bratz and Blues, and 300 of the Barbican’s young poets, drummers, filmmakers and musicians, Unleashed is a new show which brings together a professional theatre team and students from the Guildhall School’s Leadership and Electronic Music courses working with the ideas and inspiration of these young artists. Yearning, new awakening, the dreams and sacrifices of youth are explored in this high energy urban tale as the voice of the young people of East London is Unleashed on the Barbican main stage.
Woodwind Chamber Music A showcase of chamber music for woodwind instruments. Admission free LECTURE RECITAL ROOM
Thursday 29 November • 1.05pm
The Music of Giovanni Gabrieli Brass and vocal music presented by Historical Performance musicians. Admission free MUSIC HALL
Tickets: £12.50 available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk) BARBICAN THEATRE
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December
Friday 14 December • 6pm
Saturday 15 December • 8pm
Philip Glass Celebrations
The Stamp Collective
Sunday 9 December • 3pm
Silent Film and Live Music Guildhall jazz musicians and music therapists perform original notated and improvised music accompanying classic silent films, directed by Martin Hathaway, Ann Sloboda and Gail Brand. Tickets: www.barbican.org.uk/film BARBICAN CINEMA
Pop-up performances of Philip Glass’s music by Guildhall School musicians across the Barbican’s foyers as part of the celebrations for the composer’s 75th birthday. The event also includes masterclasses and debates. Admission free BARBICAN FOYERS
The Stamp Collective folk band was formed in 2009 and comprises a dedicated crew of Guildhall School musicians and graduates, led by virtuoso violinists Joe Brougton and Paloma Trigas. The band’s unique sound, made up of over 20 instrumentalist and vocalists, takes tunes and songs from all over the globe and works them into a superb assortment of energetic arrangements. Tickets: www.forgevenue.org THE FORGE Delancey Street NW1
Guildhall Young Artists CENTRE FOR YOUNG MUSICIANS
Junior Guildhall
a division of the Guildhall School Saturday 20 October Monday 24 September • 7.30pm
Junior Guildhall String Day
London Schools Symphony Orchestra
Join students and staff for a full day’s activities focusing on stringed instruments, including workshops, concerts and masterclasses.
Peter Ash, conductor Jamie Barton, mezzo soprano Rimsky-Korsakov Russian Easter Festival Overture Elgar Sea Pictures Sibelius Symphony No. 1 Tickets: £7, £14, £17, £23 available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk). BARBICAN HALL
Saturday 1 December • 4pm
Junior Guildhall End of Term Concert Admission free but tickets are required.
Further details from the Junior Guildhall office: Email: junior@gsmd.ac.uk Tel: 020 7382 7160 www.gsmd.ac.uk/juniors MUSIC HALL
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December/Guildhall Young Artists/ResearchWorks
ResearchWorks is a dynamic programme of events centred around the School’s key research strands, bringing together staff, students and guests of international standing.
Sunday 14 October • 10.30am
Friday 26 October • 5.30–7pm
Schumann Study Day
Movers and Shakers: Should audiences at classical concerts respond to music by moving?
Dr Susan Youens will lead a study day at LSO St Luke’s looking at the late songs and chamber works of Robert Schumann. She will be joined by Dr Laura Tunbridge, Graham Johnson, Eugene Asti and Laura Roberts. The day will conclude with an early evening concert at the Guildhall School consisting of Lieder und Gesänge aus Wilhelm Meister and a rare performance of Schumann’s Requiem for Mignon. Tickets: £15 (£5 concessions, Guildhall staff and students) available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk) from 3 September.
Some audience members describe attending classical music concerts as a stifling and inhibiting experience by contrast with other types of music. Is there a way of creating space at classical concerts for audience members to move during the performance? Researchers John Sloboda and Melissa Dobson join with conductors John Landor and Christopher Gayford to present research findings and reflections on a pilot classical music movement workshop, and open up a debate about audience behaviour at classical concerts. Admission free. Booking required via research@gsmd.ac.uk
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Monday 22 October • 6pm
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The Great 21st Century Audience Hunt: Can we bring digital consumers to the live arts? A lively discussion and debate with representatives from diverse arts organisations, universities and artists themselves to explore the intersection between digital engagement and live audiences. Part of Creativeworks London, one of four AHRC funded ‘Knowledge Exchange Hubs for the Creative Economy’ building new partnerships and commercial opportunities between academia and the ‘creative economy.’ Admission free but booking is required. Tickets available from www.theculturecapitalexchange.co.uk
Friday 2 November • 10am–7pm
Total Immersion: Oliver Knussen at 60 Co-hosted by the Institute of Musical Research and Guildhall School, this one day event explores and celebrates the extraordinary achievements of one of Britain’s most inspirational musicians. Speakers including Julian Anderson, George Benjamin, Arnold Whittall and Edward Venn offer their perspective on Knussen’s music and his career as composer, conductor and teacher. This is an invaluable opportunity to place the music of Oliver Knussen in a wide and imaginative context before hearing repertoire performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Guildhall students on Sunday 4 November at the Barbican. Tickets: £25 (£15 students) available from music@sas.ac.uk tel: 020 7664 4685 Chancellor’s Hall Senate House, Malet Street London WC1
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Leonidas Kavakos
Richard Goode
Angela Hewitt
Ian Bostridge
Masterclasses Thursday 4 October • 3.30pm
Tuesday 16 October • 2.30pm
Tuesday 20 November • 2pm
David Pyatt
Angela Hewitt
Richard Goode
Centre for Orchestra Horn Masterclass
Piano Masterclass
Piano Masterclass
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Monday 22 October • 2.30pm
Monday 26 November • 2pm
Frank Epstein
Peter Donohoe
Cymbal Masterclass
Piano Masterclass
Centre for Orchestra Voice Masterclass
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LECTURE RECITAL ROOM
LSO ST LUKE’S
Friday 26 October • 10am
Saturday 8 December • 1.15pm
Barry Snyder
Leonidas Kavakos
Piano Masterclass
Centre for Orchestra Artist Conversation
LSO ST LUKE’S
Monday 8 October • 10am
Ian Bostridge
Monday 8 October • 2.30pm
Carl Vine Composition Masterclass LECTURE RECITAL ROOM
Tuesday 9 October • 10am
Steven Devine Keyboard Masterclass LECTURE RECITAL ROOM
Friday 12 October • 2pm
Wednesday 31 October • 6pm
Nobuko Imai Viola Masterclass LECTURE RECITAL ROOM
Tuesday 13 November • 10am/2pm
FOUNTAIN ROOM, Barbican Centre
Tuesday 11 December • 6pm
Leonidas Kavakos Centre for Orchestra Violin Masterclass MUSIC HALL
Erich Hobarth
All masterclasses are free admission.
Piano Masterclass
Violin & Chamber Music Masterclass
MUSIC HALL
LECTURE RECITAL ROOM
Free tickets required for those taking place in LSO St Luke’s and Barbican Centre only: Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891
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Events at a glance Key to venues: BCinema = Barbican Cinema, BFoyer = Barbican Foyer, BH = Barbican Hall, BTheatre = Barbican Theatre, Bridewell = Bridewell Theatre, Fleet Street, Fountain Rm = Fountain Room, Barbican Centre, LRR = Lecture Recital Room, MH = Music Hall, Silk St Th = Silk Street Theatre, SMIF = St Martin-in-the-Fields, SMR = Sundial Court Music Room, St Luke’s = LSO St Luke’s
September Fri 21
5pm
MH
Composition, Jazz, Keyboard, Leadership & Music Therapy Showcase
Fri 21
7.30pm
BH
Guildhall Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Mon 24
7.30pm
BH
London Schools Symphony Orchestra
MH
Season Preview
Tue 25
October
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Mon 1
6pm
SMR
Jazz Small Bands
Thu 4
3.30pm
St Luke’s
David Pyatt Centre for Orchestra Horn Masterclass
Thu 4
6pm
BH
Guildhall Artists at the Barbican: Mozart
Thu 4
7.30pm
Silk St Th
Blood Wedding
Fri 5
2pm
Silk St Th
Blood Wedding
Fri 5
7.30pm
Silk St Th
Blood Wedding
Sat 6
7.30pm
Silk St Th
Blood Wedding
Mon 8
10am
St Luke’s
Ian Bostridge Centre for Orchestra Voice Masterclass
Mon 8
2pm
Silk St Th
Blood Wedding
Mon 8
2.30pm
LRR
Carl Vine Composition Masterclass
Mon 8
6pm
SMR
Jazz Small Bands
Mon 8
7.30pm
Silk St Th
Blood Wedding
Tue 9
10am
LRR
Steven Devine Keyboard Masterclass
Tue 9
6pm
Silk St Th
Blood Wedding: Pre-performance platform
Tue 9
7.30pm
MH
Guildhall Jazz Band
Tue 9
7.30pm
Silk St Th
Blood Wedding
Fri 12
2pm
MH
Katya Apekisheva Piano Masterclass
Sun 14
10.30am
St Luke’s
ResearchWorks: Schumann Study Day
Sun 14
6.30pm
MH
The Song Guild and Guildhall Vocal Ensemble
Mon 15
6pm
SMR
Jazz Small Bands
Mon 15
7.30pm
Bridewell
Toast
Tue 16
2pm
Bridewell
Toast
Tue 16
2.30pm
LRR
Angela Hewitt Piano Masterclass
Tue 16
7.30pm
Bridewell
Toast
Wed 17
7.30pm
Bridewell
Toast
Thu 18
2pm
Bridewell
Toast
Thu 18
7.30pm
Bridewell
Toast
Event listings
Fri 19
7pm
MH
Guildhall Brass Band and Percussion Ensemble
Sat 20
Junior Guildhall String Day
Mon 22
2.30pm
LRR
Frank Epstein Cymbal Masterclass
Mon 22
6pm
Fountain Rm
ResearchWorks: The Great 21st Century Audience Hunt
Tue 23
Open Day: Electronic Music, Composition & Leadership booking form at www.gsmd.ac.uk/opendays
Tue 23
8pm
Wed 24
Open Day: Music Therapy
booking form at www.gsmd.ac.uk/opendays
Thu 25
1.05pm
LRR
Recorder Concert
Fri 26
10am
MH
Barry Snyder Piano Masterclass
Fri 26
5.30pm
LRR
ResearchWorks: Movers and shakers
Fri 26
7pm
MH
String Concert
Mon 29
10am
LRR
Beethoven Piano Prize
Wed 31
6pm
LRR
Celebrating the Viola: Nobuko Imai Viola Masterclass
Wed 31
7.30pm
MH
Colours in Sound: Paul Roberts Faculty Artist Recital
MH
Guildhall Jazz Singers
November Thu 1
6.15pm
Foyer
Brass Music on the Bridge
Thu 1
7pm
Silk St Th
Massenet and Martinů Triple Bill
Fri 2
10am
Senate House
ResearchWorks: Oliver Knussen at 60
Fri 2
1pm
SMIF
Concerto delle Donne
Fri 2
7pm
MH
Postgraduate Piano Concert
Sat 3/Sun 4
11am
Barbican Weekender: Natural Circuits
Sat 3
7pm
Silk St Th
Massenet and Martinů Triple Bill
Sun 4
1pm
MH
BBC Total Immersion: Oliver Knussen
Mon 5
10.30am
LRR
Celebrating the Viola: Viola Day: ‘The Complete Violist’
Mon 5
6pm
SMR
Jazz Small Bands
Mon 5
7pm
Silk St Th
Massenet and Martinů Triple Bill
Tue 6
6pm
BH
Guildhall Artists at the Barbican: Schoenberg & Strauss
Wed 7
1.05pm
MH
Guildhall Saxophone Ensemble
Wed 7
7pm
MH
Colours in Sound: Student Recital
Wed 7
7pm
Silk St Th
Massenet and Martinů Triple Bill
Thu 8
1pm
MH
Homage to Catalunya
Thu 8
6pm
MH
Homage to Catalunya
Thu 8
7.30pm
MH
Homage to Catalunya
Fri 9
Open Day: Jazz
booking form at www.gsmd.ac.uk/opendays
Fri 9
7.30pm
MH
London Jazz Festival: Guildhall Jazz Band
Mon 12
7pm
MH
Colours in Sound: Student Recital
Tue 13
10am/2pm LRR
Erich Hobarth Violin & Chamber Music Masterclass
Thu 15
10am
LRR
Celebrating the Viola: Max and Peggy Morgan Prize
Thu 15
7.30pm
MH
Colours in Sound: Noriko Ogawa Faculty Artist Recital
Fri 16
6pm
LRR
Rediscovering Mendelssohn 19
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Fri 16
7pm
MH
Celebrating the Viola: Cinderella No More
Sat 17
3pm
Kings Place
London Jazz Festival: Guildhall Jazz Ensemble
Sat 17
8pm
Kings Place
London Jazz Festival: Guildhall Jazz Ensemble
Mon 19
6pm
SMR
Jazz Small Bands
Tue 20
2pm
LRR
Richard Goode Piano Masterclass
Wed 21
Open Day: Wind, Brass & Percussion booking form at www.gsmd.ac.uk/opendays
Wed 21
6pm
BH
Dvoห rรกk Chamber Music
Wed 21
7pm
MH
Rediscovering Mendelssohn
Wed 21
7.30pm
BH
Guildhall Symphony Orchestra
Thu 22
7pm
MH
Rediscovering Mendelssohn
Thu 22
7.30pm
Silk St Th
Nicholas Nickleby Part II
Fri 23
7.30pm
Silk St Th
Nicholas Nickleby Part II
Fri 23
7.15pm
BTheatre
Unleashed
Sat 24
2.30pm
BTheatre
Unleashed
Sat 24
7.15pm
BTheatre
Unleashed
Sat 24
7.30pm
Silk St Th
Nicholas Nickleby Part II
Sun 25
6pm
BH
Guildhall Artists at the Barbican: Mahler & Schumann
Mon 26
2pm
LRR
Peter Donohoe Piano Masterclass
Mon 26
2pm
Silk St Th
Nicholas Nickleby Part II
Mon 26
6pm
SMR
Jazz Small Bands
Mon 26
7.30pm
Silk St Th
Nicholas Nickleby Part II
Tue 27
7.30pm
Silk St Th
Nicholas Nickleby Part II
Tue 27
7.30pm
MH
Guildhall Jazz Singers
Wed 28
2pm
Silk St Th
Nicholas Nickleby Part II
Wed 28
7.30pm
Silk St Th
Nicholas Nickleby Part II
Thu 29
Open Day: Historical Performance booking form at www.gsmd.ac.uk/opendays
Thu 29
1.05pm
LRR
Woodwind Chamber Music
Thu 29
1.05pm
MH
The Music of Giovanni Gabrieli
December
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Sat 1
4pm
MH
Junior Guildhall End of Term Concert
Sat 8
1.15pm
Fountain Rm
Leonidas Kavakos Centre for Orchestra Artist Conversation
Sun 9
3pm
BCinema 1
Silent Film and Live Music
Tue 11
6pm
BH
Guildhall Artists at the Barbican: Chopin & Szymanowski
Tue 11
6pm
MH
Leonidas Kavakos Centre for Orchestra Violin Masterclass
Fri 14
6pm
BFoyer
Philip Glass 75th Birthday Celebrations
Sat 15
8pm
The Forge
The Stamp Collective
FUTURE EVENTS 2013
future events 2013 Wednesday 9 January • 7.30pm
London Schools Symphony Orchestra H K Gruber Frankenstein H K Gruber, conductor/ chansonnier Tickets on sale now. BARBICAN HALL
Friday 25 January • 7.30pm
Guildhall Chamber Orchestra
GC
Candida Thompson, director Joshua Mills, tenor Alexander Edmundson, horn Shostakovich arr. Barshai String Quartet No. 10 Britten Serenade for tenor, horn & strings Mozart Symphony No. 40 in G minor Tickets on sale 1 November. LSO ST LUKE’S
Monday 11 February • 7.30pm
Faculty Artist Series
GC
Guildhall Artists at the Barbican Sunday 13 January • 6pm
Wednesday 12 June • 6pm
Elgar Sonata for Violin and Piano Elgar Sea Pictures
Britten Night Piece
Tuesday 5 February • 6pm Beethoven Piano Trios
Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues
Saturday 30 March • 6pm
Sunday 16 June • 6pm
Brahms String Sextet No. 2 in G major
Songs by Schubert
Copland Night Thoughts Copland Piano Variations
Tuesday 11 June • 6pm
BARBICAN HALL
Britten 3 Divertimenti for String Quartet Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 1 Copland Sextet
Thursday 21 March • 7.30pm
Thursday 16 May • 7.30pm
Guildhall Symphony Orchestra
Faculty Artist Series
GC
Gianandrea Noseda, conductor Michael Petrov, cello Prokofiev Sinfonia Concertante
Alison Teale, oboe and Joy Farrall, clarinet
Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2 in E minor
Tickets on sale 1 November.
Tickets on sale 7 January.
MUSIC HALL
BARBICAN HALL
Thursday 28 February, Saturday 2, Monday 4, Wednesday 6 March • 7pm
Thursday 2 May • 7.30pm
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro
GC
Our spring opera is one of the greatest comic operas ever written – a whirlwind day in the household of Count Almaviva. Tickets on sale 7 January.
Admission free
The Gold Medal
GC
Guildhall Symphony Orchestra David Syrus, conductor The School’s most prestigious award for musicians, this year for singers.
GC
Carlos Lopez Real, saxophone Tickets on sale 7 January. MUSIC HALL
Friday 21 June • 7pm
Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize: winner’s recital The Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize annually awards an exceptional Guildhall School musician with a Wigmore Hall recital. Tickets on sale 31 January. WIGMORE HALL
Tickets on sale 15 February. BARBICAN HALL
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Ticketing Information For events that are bookable via the Barbican Box Office: Online booking: www.barbican.org.uk By telephone: 020 7638 8891 (10am–8pm Mon–Sat; 11am–8pm Sun & Bank Holidays) A booking fee applies which includes the return of your tickets by first class post if time permits. Mastercard, Visa and American Express accepted. Calls may be monitored or recorded for quality assurance and training purposes. In person: Advance Box Office at Silk Street entrance open 10am–9pm Mon–Sat / Sun and Bank Holidays 12 noon–9pm.
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Event listings/Getting in Touch September 2009
TakeYour Seat An exceptional opportunity to put your name on a world-class performance venue Be a part of our exciting new building at Milton Court, opening in 2013, and take a leading role by naming a seat in the Concert Hall or Theatre. 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 Elise Farmer in the Development Office: elise.farmer@gsmd.ac.uk / 020 7382 7179
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