Events April - July 2015
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Contents Monthly highlights April May June July
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Masterclasses 30 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 Clive Barda, Marco Borggreve, Paul Cochrane, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Mat Hennek (EMI Classics), Lebrecht Music & Arts, Alexander Newton, Clive Totman, Amy T. Zielinski Cover photo Emma Kerr as Prue in The Dancing Master (Spring 2015) Š Clive Barda
Guildhall Cantata Ensemble Emily Owen soprano Jenni Harper soprano Directed by Pavlo Beznosiuk
Monday 27 April, 7.30pm Milton Court Concert Hall FACULTY ARTIST SERIES
Mahan Esfahani Mahan Esfahani harpsichord
(Professor of Harpsichord)
Tomkins Barafostus’ Dream Gibbons Pavan in G Scheidt Also geht’s, also steht’s J.S. Bach ‘English’ Suite in D minor, BWV 811 Patrick Jones Santoor Suite Kalabis Akvarely, Op 53 Daniel Kidane Six Etudes W.F. Bach Sonata in E f lat, Fk. 5
J.S. Bach Cantata BWV 82: Ich habe genug Sonata for Violin and Obbligato Harpsichord in C minor BWV 1017 Trio Sonata in G major BWV 1038 Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in E flat major BWV 998 Wedding Cantata BWV 202: Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten The Guildhall Cantata Ensemble presents some of J.S. Bach’s chamber masterpieces and two of his best-loved cantatas. Tickets: £13.50 in advance, £15 on the door: tilbach.org.uk
April ’15
Saturday 25 April, 7.30pm St Andrews Parish Church, Farnham
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Guildhall School is delighted to welcome world-renowned harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani praised as ‘his instrument’s leading champion’ – to its professorial staff in spring. His Faculty Artist Series concert marks the inaugural outing of the School’s new harpsichord – a reproduction of an early 18th century Michael Mietke instrument, made by Alan Gotto in 2005 and generously donated to the School by David and Sandra Herbert. The Faculty Artist Series 2014/15 is generously supported by Michael and Mercedes Hoffman. Tickets: £15 (£10 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk
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Wednesday 29 April, 7pm Silk Street Music Hall
Thursday 30 April, 6pm Barbican Hall
Armourers and Brasiers’ Brass Prize
LSO Platforms: Guildhall Artists
Supported by The Worshipful Company of Armourers and Brasiers
Finalists perform a programme of brass repertoire with piano accompaniment. Admission free
Viktor Stenhjem violin Oliver Pashley clarinet Mihai Ritivoiu piano Kaoru Wada piano
Bartók Contrasts Violin Sonata No. 2 Senior musicians from the Guildhall School take to the Barbican stage before LSO concerts with free performances of complementary repertoire. Admission free
Why does the Queen die? Friday 1, Saturday 2 May, 7.30pm Saturday 2, Sunday 3 May, 2pm Milton Court Studio Theatre A new play written and directed by Iain Burnside, featuring Guildhall School singers and pianists Aaron Marsden, Catherine Morgan design Victoria Newlyn movement Charlie Jones lighting
This music theatre piece is the latest in a series of experimental shows developed by Iain Burnside with the Guildhall School, and comes to Milton Court following its successful premiere at the Oxford Lieder Festival. Schubert’s circle of friends in Vienna included more writers and artists than musicians. His songs are inextricably connected both to these friendships and the city where they flourished. In Why does the Queen die? Iain Burnside unravels some of these connections through his trademark combination of music and drama.
LEBRECHT MUSIC & ARTS
Tickets: £10 (£5 concessions) available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk
May ’15
Friday 1 May, 7pm Milton Court Concert Hall
Tuesday 5 May, 7pm Milton Court Concert Hall
Unknown Symphonies
FACULTY ARTIST SERIES
Guildhall Baroque Orchestra Directed by Pavlo Beznosiuk
Piano Extravaganza
In the anniversary year of Johan Agrell (died 1765) and Georg Christoph Wagenseil (born 1715), the Guildhall Baroque Orchestra presents works by these two important early symphonists.
Martin Roscoe, Noriko Ogawa, Charles Owen, Katya Apekisheva, Ronan O’Hora piano with George English, Pedro Segundo percussion
Admission free
Mozart Sonata for Two Pianos in D major K. 448 Bartók Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion Ravel La Valse (for two pianos) Brahms Variations on a Theme of Haydn, Op 56b Stravinsky The Rite of Spring
Saturday 2 May, 7.30pm Silk Street Music Hall
Guildhall Big Band Directed by Martin Hathaway
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The jazz department continues its close association with the Duke Ellington Society UK. This concert celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ellington’s close collaborator, Billy Strayhorn. Admission free Monday 4 May, 7pm Silk Street Music Hall
Russian Piano Duos Noriko Ogawa curates this recital of Russian piano duos. The programme includes works by Rachmaninoff, Scriabin and Stravinsky, providing an introduction to the Faculty Artist Series: Piano Extravaganza concert the following evening. Admission free
From the playful to the percussive, Guildhall piano professors join forces to perform some of the most memorable music written for four hands. Beginning with Mozart’s only sonata for two pianos, the programme includes Ravel’s great ‘dance macabre’ and Bartók’s exhilarating and inventive Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, with Guildhall alumni George English and Pedro Segundo. The Faculty Artist Series 2014/15 is generously supported by Michael and Mercedes Hoffman. Tickets: £15 (£10 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk
LSO Platforms: Guildhall Artists
May ’15
Thursday 7 May, 6pm Barbican Hall
Rose Hsien violin Gaelle-Anne Michel violin Edward Liddall piano Kristiina Rokaševitš piano
Wednesday 6 May, 7pm Milton Court Concert Hall
Guildhall Percussion Ensemble Richard Benjafield and Chris Brannick with Canada Connected: Daniel Tones, Russell Hartenberger, Owen Underhill
Russell Hartenberger The Invisible Proverb (UK premiere) Steve Reich Music for Pieces of Wood John Cage Third Construction Russell Hartenberger Raghavan Owen Underhill Cloud over Water Stephen Montague Philup Glass West African Drumming arr. Ensemble Bash Russell Hartenberger (Nexus, Steve Reich and Musicians) and soloist Daniel Tones join the Guildhall Percussion Ensemble for a one-off performance. Inspired by the rhythms of West Africa, the programme includes Canadian music new to London, classics of the genre by Reich and Cage, and two flamboyant pieces of West African drumming. Tickets: £15, £10 (£5 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk
Brahms Violin sonata in G major Scherzo Senior musicians from the Guildhall School take to the Barbican stage before LSO concerts with free performances of complementary repertoire. Admission free
Thursday 7 May, 7pm Lecture Recital Room
French Song Postgraduate singers and pianists perform a programme of French song devised and presented by Gordon Stewart. Admission free
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May ’15
Sunday 10 May, 3pm New Malden Methodist Church Monday 11 May, 1pm Blackheath Halls
Guildhall Cantata Ensemble Directed by James Johnstone Charpentier Actéon changé en biche Possibly Charpentier’s finest piece of musical theatre, this Pastorale in the form of a tragédie en musique depicts the gory demise of the hunter Actéon. Admission free
Tuesday 12 May, 6pm Barbican Hall
LSO Platforms: Guildhall Artists Eliza Safjan soprano Sally Dodds mezzo-soprano Aaron Burrows piano Kaoru Wada piano
Songs by Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich Senior musicians from the Guildhall School take to the Barbican stage before LSO concerts with free performances of complementary repertoire. Admission free
Monday 11 May, 7pm Silk Street Music Hall
Italian Song 8
Wednesday 13 May, 2pm Silk Street Music Hall
Dialogues of the Carmelites Third year undergraduate singers present a reduced version of Poulenc’s opera, directed by Sally Burgess with music preparation by Linnhe Robertson and Clive Timms. Admission free
Postgraduate singers perform a programme of Italian repertoire devised and presented by Emanuele Moris. Admission free
Wednesday 13, Thursday 14 May, 7pm Silk Street Music Hall
String Concerts Students from the School’s strings faculty showcase their talents in these free evening concerts. Admission free
The Gold Medal
Wednesday 13 May, 7pm Barbican Hall
The centenary of the Guildhall School’s most prestigious prize for musicians. This year is the turn of the singers, who will sing a short programme with piano accompaniment followed by arias with the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra. The Gold Medal was founded and endowed by Sir Dixon Kimber in 1915. Since 1950 it has been open to singers and instrumentalists in alternate years. Previous winners include William Primrose (1922), Jacqueline du Pré (1960), Tasmin Little (1986) and Bryn Terfel (1989).
The Finalists Milan Siljanov bass-baritone Songs and arias by Schubert, Handel, Rachmaninoff and Wagner Marta Fontanals-Simmons
mezzo soprano Songs and arias by Britten, Mozart, Bellini and Rossini Thomas Atkins tenor
Songs and arias by Strauss, Britten, Gounod and Giordano Jennifer Witton soprano
Songs and arias by Debussy, Poulenc, Massenet and Berg Guildhall Symphony Orchestra Dominic Wheeler conductor
The Jury Sally Matthews
Tickets: £15, £10 (£5 concessions, Guildhall staff and students) available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk
Soprano and alumna (Opera 2000) Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Presenter, BBC Radio 3 Alan Opie OBE
Baritone and alumnus (Opera 1969) David Syrus
Head of Music, Royal Opera House Jonathan Vaughan
Director of Music, Guildhall School Dominic Wheeler
Conductor, Guildhall Symphony Orchestra and Head of Opera, Guildhall School
May ’15
Friday 15 May
Vocal Showcase
Friday 15 May, 7.30pm Milton Court Concert Hall
A day of performances by undergraduate vocal students, showcasing their work in drama, movement, opera and music theatre. Admission free 1pm, Lecture Recital Room
Channel Hopping First year undergraduate singers present lighter repertoire in a piece specially devised by Ian Kennedy and Simon Cole.
FACULTY ARTIST SERIES
Levon Chilingirian & Friends Levon Chilingirian violin
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5.30pm, Silk Street Music Hall
(Professor of Violin)
Movement showcase
with Matthew Jones viola (Professor of Viola)
First and second year undergraduate singers demonstrate their work in an open Movement class, led by Bryony Williams. 6pm, Silk Street Music Hall
The Street Second year undergraduate singers present the culmination of their music and theatre performance project, directed and devised by Shirley Keane, Linda Hutchinson and Erika Gundesen. 7.15pm, Silk Street Music Hall
Dialogues of the Carmelites Third year undergraduate singers present a reduced version of Poulenc’s opera, directed by Sally Burgess with music preparation by Linnhe Robertson and Clive Timms.
Chilingirian Quartet
Bartók String Quartet No. 4 Haydn String Quartet in B f lat major, Op 55 No. 3 Mozart String Quintet No. 4 in G minor, K. 516 The Chilingirian Quartet is one of the world’s most celebrated and widely-travelled ensembles, renowned for its thrilling interpretations of the great quartets and commanding performances of contemporary repertoire. Described by The Times as “indispensable pillars of British musical life”, the Quartet is composed of Levon Chilingirian (violin), Stephen Orton (cello), Ronald Birks (violin), and Susie Mészáros (viola). For this concert they are joined on stage by Guildhall professor and acclaimed violist Matthew Jones for Mozart’s melancholic ‘viola quintet’. The Faculty Artist Series 2014/15 is generously supported by Michael and Mercedes Hoffman. Tickets: £15 (£10 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 *Neville Billimoria is a8891 studentbarbican.org.uk on the BA (Hons) Technical Theatre Arts programme
ALUMNI RECITAL SERIES
Rêverie: The life and loves of Claude Debussy Lucy Parham piano Simon Russell Beale narrator
“Lucy Parham’s trailblazing evening concerts in which she fuses music and words with the help of some of our most distinguished thespians, have become one of the must-see events on the musical calendar.” BBC Music Magazine
Lucy Parham’s composer portrait ‘Rêverie’ evokes Debussy’s complex emotional life through a personal and revealing journal, illuminated by a sequence of his most famous and atmospheric works for piano. For this special performance, Lucy is joined on stage by fellow Guildhall alumnus and acclaimed actor Simon Russell Beale. The Alumni Recital Series is in support of the School’s Scholarships Fund. Tickets: £15 (£10 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk
Monday 18 May, 7pm Silk Street Music Hall
Thursday 21 May, 7pm Silk Street Music Hall
Piano and String Composition Project
Guildhall Guitars
Premieres of new works by postgraduate composers in a project directed by Marcus Barcham-Stevens and Mark Knoop. Admission free Wednesday 20 May, 7pm Lecture Recital Room
String Concert Students from the School’s strings faculty showcase their talents in this free evening concert. Admission free
May ’15
Sunday 17 May, 7pm Milton Court Concert Hall
Directed by David Miller Roberta Diamond, Antonia Gentile, Joana Gil sopranos Simon Williams flute Guildhall guitarists perform a concert of 20th and 21st century chamber music, in memory of Stephen Dodgson (1924-2013). The programme includes quartets and trios by Dodgson alongside works by Roberto Gerhard, Paul Meranger and Joaquín Rodrigo. Admission free
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May ’15
Friday 22 May, 7pm Silk Street Music Hall
Monday 25 May, 7pm Silk Street Music Hall
The Ivan Sutton Award Guildhall Harpists & Friends Supported by the City Music Society in commemoration of Ivan Sutton’s lifetime work for music in the City.
Finalists perform a chamber work with piano.
20th century repertoire for solo harp and harp with voice, including works by Caplet, Hindemith and Philip Cannon.
Admission free
Admission free
Sunday 24 May, 6pm Barbican Hall
Tuesday 26 May, 5.30pm Wigmore Hall
LSO Platforms: Guildhall Artists
Voiceworks A programme of new vocal works, the culmination of an annual collaboration between composers and singers from the Guildhall School and poets from Birkbeck, brought together by Wigmore Hall Learning. Admission free
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Tuesday 26 May, 7pm Lecture Recital Room Venetia Jollands violin Christoph Slenczka viola Peteris Sokolovskis cello Iurii Gavryliuk double bass Jamie Louise White bassoon Alejandro José Villanueva Cánovas clarinet Jonathan Quaintrell-Evans horn
Beethoven Septet in E flat, Op 20 Senior musicians from the Guildhall School take to the Barbican stage before LSO concerts with free performances of complementary repertoire. Admission free
String Concert Students from the School’s strings faculty showcase their talents in this free evening concert. Admission free
Burnt by the Sun by Nikita Mikhalkov & Rustam Ibragimbekov adapted by Peter Flannery
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May ’15
Tuesday 26 May, 7.30pm Milton Court Concert Hall
Thursday 28 May, 7pm Silk Street Music Hall
Homage to Pavel Haas
Two Quintets Krysia Osostowicz violin (Professor of Violin) Luba Tunnicliffe viola Peteris Sokolovskis cello Iurii Gavryliuk double bass Charles Owen piano (Professor of Piano) Edward Liddall piano
Vaughan Williams Quintet in C minor Schubert Quintet in A, D.667 ‘The Trout’
Anita Watson soprano Anna Starushkevych mezzo-soprano Nicky Spence tenor James Platt bass Lada Valešová piano
(Professor of Russian Vocal Repertoire)
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Haas Fata Morgana, Op 6 (UK premiere) Seven Songs in Folk Style, Op 18 Chinese Songs for alto and piano, Op 4 Four songs on Chinese Poetry Pavel Haas (1899–1944) was a Czech-Jewish composer, pupil of Leoš Janácˇek, who perished in Auschwitz after spending nearly three years of detention in the Terezín concentration camp. Directed by pianist and Guildhall School professor Lada Valešová, this concert celebrates the music and life of this witty, life-affirming and original composer. The programme includes the UK premiere of Haas’s Fata Morgana, inspired by the love poems of Rabindranath Tagore, and song cycles performed by acclaimed young singers including Guildhall alumni Nicky Spence, James Platt and Anna Starushkevych. Admission free
Guildhall staff and students perform two quintets scored for the unusual combination of piano, violin, viola, cello, and double bass. Admission free Friday 29 May, 7pm Silk Street Music Hall
Double Bass Concert
Guildhall double bassists perform a varied programme in this evening concert directed by Luis Cabrera. Admission free
Public Final Recitals All final recitals for undergraduate and postgraduate musicians are open to the public with free admission. A great way to spot the stars of the future! Recitals take place on weekdays, 1 June –14 July. Visit gsmd.ac.uk/events for further details.
Sunday 7 June, 6pm Barbican Hall
LSO Platforms: Guildhall Artists
June ’15
Monday 1 June – Tuesday 14 July
Pablo Hernán Benedi violin Michael Petrov cello Erdem Misirliog ˘lu piano
Korngold Piano Trio Senior musicians from the Guildhall School take to the Barbican stage before LSO concerts with free performances of complementary repertoire. Admission free
Monday 8 June, 7.30pm Lecture Recital Room
Double Bass Concert Wednesday 3 June, 12pm Hatchlands Park, Guildford
Guildhall Cantata Ensemble Directed by James Johnstone ‘A la Fuentes!’: a colourful programme of 18th-century Latin American vocal gems taken from manuscripts in Sucre, Lima, Bogota, Quito and Puebla. Performed by voice, violins, recorders, guitar, harpsichord and percussion. Tickets: £14, available from cobbecollection.co.uk
Luis Cabrera double bass (Professor of Double Bass) Justyna Maj piano Elvina Oh violin
Haydn Violin Concerto in G, H.VIIa No. 4, arr. for double bass Franck Sonata in A arr. for double bass and piano Bottesini Gran Duo Concertante for double bass and violin Luis Cabrera leads this evening chamber concert which culminates in a work by 19th century Italian composer Giovanni Bottesini, known as the ‘Paganini of the Double Bass’. Admission free
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Monday 8, Wednesday 10, Friday 12, Monday 15 June, 7pm Silk Street Theatre Timothy Redmond conductor Ashley Dean director Cordelia Chisholm designer Mark Doubleday lighting designer Victoria Newlyn movement director
Hans Werner Henze: Phaedra and Ein Landarzt A double bill of contrasting works by one of the towering and most prolific figures in late 20th and early 21st century opera, German composer Hans Werner Henze. Ein Landarzt (1951) is an early work based on a Kafka short story, originally written as a radio opera before Henze adapted the piece as a monodrama for the great German baritone, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. This version is presented as a curtain raiser to the strikingly different opera, Phaedra (2007), written for the Berlin State Opera five years before the composer’s death. Both works testify to Henze’s extraordinary dramatic imagination and promise an exciting evening in the theatre. Tickets: £25 (£15 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office from 8 April. Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members.
Technical Theatre Graduate Exhibition 2015
June ’15
Wednesday 10 – Thursday 11 June, 11am–5pm Milton Court Studio Theatre & foyers
This end-of-year showcase presents some of the outstanding work of final year students on the Guildhall School’s Technical Theatre Arts programme. It’s a chance to see up close a range of props, scenery, costumes, light and projection displays created for the School’s public operas, dramas and musicals, as well as for students’ own personal projects. Now in its third year, the exhibition promises to be bigger than ever, and many of the students will be present to talk about their work. Admission free 19
June ’15
Summer Harp Festival Wednesday 17 June, 7pm Silk Street Music Hall
In the Footsteps of a Châtelaine: A Musical Portrait of Micheline Kahn Alexander Rider harp
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Harpist Micheline Kahn’s (1889-1987) commitment to new scores helped to build a stunning literature for the harp. Yet her early retirement from the stage made her an enigmatic figure, whose importance has somewhat fallen into shadow. Using letters, reviews and contemporary accounts as well as music by composers who admired her, Harp Fellow Alexander Rider paints a portrait of Fauré’s Châtelaine. The recital also includes the premiere of Robert Saxton’s Toccata, Passacaglia Canonica and Dance for solo harp. Admission free Thursday 18 June, 1pm Silk Street Music Hall
Chantal Mathieu in Recital Chantal Mathieu harp
Internationally-acclaimed harpist Chantal Mathieu gives a lunchtime recital in addition to two masterclasses (see page 30) as part of the Summer Harp festival. Admission free
Friday 26 June, 7pm Silk Street Music Hall
Composition Ensemble Project The Plus Minus ensemble presents new works by postgraduate Guildhall composers. Admission free Monday 29 June, 7.30pm Wigmore Hall
Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize: Winner’s Recital Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula piano
J. S. Bach Prelude and fugue No. 8 in E flat minor from The Well-Tempered Clavier Debussy Images, Book 2 Abdelmoula Variations fantômes Chopin Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op 52 Schubert Sonata No. 21 in B flat major, D. 960 The Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize annually awards an exceptional Guildhall School musician with a Wigmore Hall recital. Award-winning Swiss pianist and composer Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula is this year’s recipient, and his recital promises to be a special occasion. Tickets: £13 (£11 concessions) available from the Wigmore Hall Box Office: 020 7935 2141 wigmore-hall.org.uk
Sunday 5 July, 7.30pm Barbican Hall
The Spirit of Venice
The Monster in the Maze
Academy of Ancient Music Choir of Canterbury Cathedral Guildhall School musicians
July ’15
Thursday 2 July, 7.45pm St Mary’s Church, Walmer
Part of the Deal Festival, this concert celebrates sixteenth and seventeenth century Venice at the height of its powers with the music of Giovanni Gabrieli and his contemporaries. The Guildhall School’s cornetts, sackbuts, and Woodwork Recorder Consort perform alongside the Academy of Ancient Music and Choir of Canterbury Cathedral. Tickets: £20 (£6 students) available from dealfestival.co.uk
Monday 6 – Tuesday 7 July The Rag Factory
Curious Curious is an annual celebration of the experimental multi-artform work by current students and graduates of the Guildhall Masters in Leadership programme and design students from Central Saint Martins, working alongside professional guest artists. Curated by Barbican Guildhall Creative Learning, performances include live music, visuals and dance from established artists as well as installations, discussions and open workshops. Details will be published at gsmd.ac.uk/curious from May 2015
London Symphony Orchestra Guildhall Symphony Orchestra LSO Discovery Junior and Senior Choirs LSO Community Choir Sir Simon Rattle conductor
Jonathan Dove The Monster in the Maze (UK premiere) Walton Symphony No. 1 The Guildhall Symphony Orchestra joins the LSO under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle for a new children’s opera, The Monster in the Maze by Jonathan Dove. Following this, Guildhall School musicians play sideby-side with LSO musicians in Walton’s tempestuous First Symphony. Tickets: £10 - £38, available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk
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Tuesday 7, Wednesday 8, Thursday 9, Friday 10, Saturday 11, Wednesday 15 July, 7.30pm Friday 10, Monday 13 July, 2pm Silk Street Theatre
Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser Book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows Martin Connor director Bill Deamer choreographer Michael Haslam musical director Adam Wiltshire designer Tim Lutkin lighting designer Gareth Owen sound designer Léon Charles assistant musical director
Written in 1950 and sometimes called “A Musical Fable of Broadway”, Guys and Dolls is unquestionably one of the major milestones of American Musical Theatre. Guys and Dolls is an adaptation of Damon Runyon’s short stories about the New York underworld, written in the 1920s and 30s. Songs include such standards as ‘If I Were a Bell’, ‘I’ve Never Been in Love Before’, ‘Luck Be a Lady’, ‘Sit Down You’re Rockin’ the Boat’ and many more. Tickets: £15 (£10 concessions, Guildhall staff and students, Equity), available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk from 20 April. Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members
Guys and Dolls
Summer Gala Evenings
Monday 13 July, 7pm Silk Street Music Hall
Vocal Summer Project
July ’15
Monday 13, Tuesday 14 July, 5.30pm
Celebrate the end of the School’s year in style. Guests are invited to a drinks reception and supper, followed by a performance of the summer musical, Guys and Dolls. Individual tickets or tables of 12 available. Tickets: £75 Please contact rachel.davis@gsmd.ac.uk or 020 7382 7157 for further details and to book. The culmination of undergraduate singers’ summer performance project combining music and movement devised and directed by Andrew Watts and Bryony Williams. Admission free
Wednesday 8, Thursday 9, Monday 13 July, 7pm Saturday 11 July, 2.30pm Milton Court Studio Theatre
Opera Scenes
Martin Lloyd-Evans director Dominic Wheeler musical director Louis Carver designer Cassie Mitchell lighting designer
Performed by singers and repetiteurs from the first year of the Guildhall Opera Course, this term’s Scenes feature three exciting new works written by composers and librettists on the School’s MA in Opera Making & Writing programme. This innovative programme delivered in association with the Royal Opera House enables writers and composers to write specifically for the singers, and to develop the pieces with them. The operas will be performed with a small orchestral ensemble, and will be linked by scenes from existing opera repertoire performed with piano accompaniment. Tickets: £10 (£5 concessions, free for Guildhall staff and students) available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk from 8 June.
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I pazzi per progetto
(Spring 2015)
July ’15
Wednesday 15 July, 6pm Milton Court foyers
Wednesday 15 July, 7pm Milton Court Studio Theatre
Excerpts from Staatstheater
Vocal Studies Opera Showcase
Mezzo-soprano Loré Lixenberg directs Guildhall students in excerpts from Mauricio Kagel’s 1971 work, Staatstheater, before the Guildhall New Music Ensemble evening concert.
Singers on the Masters in Performance programme showcase opera scenes, directed by Dafydd Hall Williams with music direction by Elizabeth Marcus.
Admission free Wednesday 15 July, 7pm Milton Court Concert Hall
Guildhall New Music Ensemble
Admission free Thursday 16 July, 1pm Silk Street Music Hall
Guildhall Wind Ensemble & Choir
Oliver Pashley clarinet and director James Weeks director 28
John Adams Gnarly Buttons New works by Guildhall School composers John Adams’s clarinet concerto Gnarly Buttons (1996) draws on influences as varied as a Protestant shape-note hymn and a Western hoedown. In this concert it is paired with new compositions by postgraduate Guildhall School composers, written in response to the music of medieval French poet and composer Guillaume de Machaut. Admission free
Eric Crees conductor David Vinden chorus master
Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms A lunchtime performance of Stravinsky’s choral symphony, his best-known religious work. Admission free
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MASTERCLASSES
Wednesday 29 April, 6.30pm Lecture Recital Room
Monday 11 May, 10am, Lecture Recital Room; Monday 11 May, 2pm, Milton Court Concert Hall; Tuesday 12 May, 2pm Lecture Recital Room
Robert Levin Creative Performance & Classical Improvisation Masterclass Monday 18 May, 10am and 3pm Milton Court Concert Hall
Richard Goode Midori
Piano Masterclass
Violin Masterclass Part of the LSO International Violin Festival
Wednesday 20 May, 6pm Silk Street Music Hall
Admission free but booking required via the Barbican Box Office, in person or by phone: 020 7638 8891
Julian Milford Piano Accompaniment Masterclass Thursday 21 May, 6.30pm Lecture Recital Room
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Stephen Kovacevich
Roger Bobo
Piano Masterclass
Brass Ensembles Masterclass
Friday 22 May, 6pm Milton Court Concert Hall
Thursday 7 May, 1pm Lecture Recital Room
Edith Wiens
Sherban Lupu
Vocal Masterclass
Violin Masterclass Monday 11 May, 2pm Lecture Recital Room
Peter Frankl Piano Masterclass
Wednesday 17 June, 1.30pm Thursday 18 June, 3.30pm Silk Street Music Hall
Chantal Mathieu Harp Masterclass Part of the Summer Harp Festival (see page 20) *All masterclasses are free to attend unless otherwise stated
Saturday 30 May, 2pm Milton Court Concert Hall
Lutine Prize Final The Lutine Prize is Junior Guildhall’s most prestigious award. Six finalists compete for a cash prize and a chance to perform a concerto with a Junior Guildhall ensemble. Admission free Friday 3 July, 1pm Regent Hall, Oxford Street
Junior Guildhall Brass Band
Saturday 4 July, 6pm Milton Court Concert Hall
Junior Guildhall Symphony Orchestra & Prize Giving Concert Verity Lloyd percussion Julian Clayton conductor
Tchaikovsky Extracts from Swan Lake Emmanuel Séjourné Concerto for Marimba and Strings Ravel La Valse A colourful programme featuring French composer Emmanuel Séjourné’s Concerto for Marimba and Strings (2006) performed by Verity Lloyd, winner of the Lutine Prize 2014. This concert will also include Junior Guildhall’s end-of-year prize giving. Tickets: £15 (£5 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk Saturday 11 July, 4pm Milton Court Concert Hall
Junior Guildhall End of Year Concert Junior Guildhall String Ensemble Julian Clayton conductor Spencer Down conductor
Junior Guildhall’s flagship brass band gives a free lunchtime performance in Regent Hall as part of its ongoing performance series. Admission free
Junior Guildhall Chamber Choir Peter Asprey conductor Junior Guildhall Wind Orchestra Matthew Down conductor Junior Guildhall Jazz Ensembles
Junior Guildhall ensembles present a vibrant end-of-term showcase. Admission free
GUILDHALL YOUNG ARTISTS
Junior Guildhall presents over 80 events every year. To request a copy of the Junior Guildhall events guide, please contact junior@gsmd.ac.uk
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RESEARCH WORKS
Monday 11 May, 7pm Milton Court Concert Hall
Wednesday 27 May, 5.30pm Silk Street Music Hall
Robert Levin Lecture-Recital: Creative Repetitions
Repeating a piece on a concert programme
Robert Levin (Harvard University, and International Chair of the Centre for Creative Performance & Classical Improvisation, Guildhall School), gives a lecture recital focusing on how to approach repeats creatively. His performance will include piano sonatas by Mozart (K. 330 and K. 333) with improvised repeats.
Part of the Understanding Audiences research strand
Robert Levin will also give three public masterclasses with Guildhall School students (see page 30). Admission free
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Repeating a work within a live concert is an established tradition within contemporary classical performance, but the effects on audiences are not well understood. John Sloboda and Andrea Halpern, in collaboration with Richard Benjafield, James Weeks, and Julian Anderson, collected audience data on liking and perceived understanding during two different live performances. In this event, they discuss the findings from both scientific and performer perspectives. Admission free please visit researchatguildhall.eventbrite.co.uk
Wednesday 25 November, 7.30pm Barbican Hall
Guildhall Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Guildhall Symphony Orchestra
Elgar The Music Makers, Op 69 Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky
Michail Jurowski conductor
Guildhall musicians take on one of the most renowned choral works of the 20th century, Prokofiev’s dramatic soundtrack to the 1938 Sergei Eisenstein film, Alexander Nevsky, which he later rearranged for mezzo-soprano, chorus, and orchestra. Tickets: £15, £10 (£5 concessions) available from the Barbican Box Office from July 2015. Monday 2, Wednesday 4, Friday 6, Monday 9 November Silk Street Theatre
Wolf-Ferrari: Le donne curiose Mark Shanahan conductor Stephen Barlow director
The Guildhall School’s award-winning Opera department presents Wolf-Ferrari’s Le donne curiose (The Inquisitive Women), a witty and intricate ensemble piece set in 18th-century Venice. Tickets: £25 (£15 concessions) available from the Barbican Box Office from September 2015. Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members.
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1 Shostakovich Symphony No. 10 Written in 1953 following the death of Stalin and considered as a commentary on the Soviet dictator’s rule, Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony has been described as ‘forty-eight minutes of tragedy, despair and terror, followed by two minutes of triumph’. The Guildhall Symphony Orchestra welcomes esteemed conductor Michail Jurowski to the podium to conduct this powerful work.
FUTURE EVENTS
Friday 25 September, 7.30pm Barbican Hall
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