Guildhall School: spring events guide 2015

Events January – April 2015 Music Drama Opera Jazz

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Contents Monthly highlights January February March April

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Reflective Conservatoire

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Masterclasses 30 Guildhall Young Artists

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Future Events

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Contact and information

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Photographs ROH /AKA, Clive Barda, Morley Von Sternberg, Paul Cochrane, Alexander Newton, Clive Totman, Katie Henfrey, Kaupo Kikkas, Matthew Andrews, Marco Borggreve, Trevor Leighton Cover photo Guildhall Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mark Shanahan (Autumn 2014) ŠPaul Cochrane

FACULTY ARTIST SERIES

Shining Armour

by Iain Burnside Roderick Williams baritone Iain Burnside piano

January ’15

Wednesday 14 January, 7.30pm Milton Court Concert Hall

(Professor of Collaborative Piano) with Alison Rose soprano and Victoria Newlyn as Clara Schumann (Movement/Drama Tutor – Opera & Vocal)

Tuesday 13, Wednesday 14, Friday 16, Saturday 17, Tuesday 20, Wednesday 21, Friday 23, Saturday 24 January, 7.30pm Roundhouse

Orfeo Michael Boyd director Tom Piper set designer Jean Kalman lighting designer

The Roundhouse and The Royal Opera join forces as Michael Boyd directs a muchanticipated new production of Monteverdi’s masterpiece L’Orfeo, the first great opera.

Nine postgraduate singers from Guildhall School’s opera and vocal departments perform in the production, and understudy the principal singers in the cast: Thomas Atkins, Jessica Dandy, John Findon, David Ireland, Johannes Kammler, Bethan Langford, Meili Li, Raphaela Papadakis and Jennie Witton. Orfeo is conducted by early music specialist and Guildhall alumnus Christian Curnyn.

Tickets: £10-£75, available from the Royal Opera House Box Office: 020 7304 4000 roh.org.uk

Brahms’s Die schöne Magelone is a tale of chivalric love, of knights in shining armour.

Alone of the Romantic song cycles, it needs a connecting narrative – to flesh out the story, to make sense. But what if there’s another story going on underneath? And what if Clara Schumann tells it? Iain Burnside casts new light on Brahms’s masterpiece in song, with Guildhall alumni Roderick Williams and Victoria Newlyn, and opera student Alison Rose. 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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January ’15

Monday 19 January, 10am Silk Street Music Hall

Thursday 29 January, 7pm Milton Court Concert Hall

Public Composers’ Workshop

Guildhall Chamber Orchestra

The EXAUDI vocal ensemble reads new pieces by BMus and Doctoral composers.

Boris Brovtsyn director/violin

Admission free

Elgar String Serenade in E minor, Op 20 Panufnik Violin Concerto Bartók Divertimento

Monday 19 January, 10am Milton Court Concert Hall

Romantic Piano Prize Guildhall pianists perform one major work or a programme of shorter works from the Romantic period.

Admission free

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Thursday 22 January, 6.30pm Silk Street Music Hall

Chartered Surveyors’ Prize Supported by the Worshipful Company of Chartered Surveyors

Guildhall singers perform a short programme of contrasting pieces, taking in anything from opera, operetta, lieder, contemporary repertoire, early music, music theatre or folk song.

Admission free Monday 26 January, 6pm Lecture Recital Room

Jazz Small Bands From reworked jazz standards to new compositions, jazz students direct their own ensembles in a variety of different settings.

Admission free

Andrzej Panufnik’s Violin Concerto was written for Yehudi Menuhin at the great violinist’s request, and quickly became one of the Polish composer’s most played and recorded works. In this concert which celebrates repertoire for strings, acclaimed violinist Boris Brovtsyn and the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra bring Panufnik’s work to the Milton Court Concert Hall, a stone’s throw from where it was first premiered by Menuhin in the City of London’s Guildhall in 1972.

Tickets: £15, £10 (£5 concessions) available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk

Public Composers’ Workshop A day of composition workshops led by cellist Oliver Coates, with a string quartet reading new pieces by third year composers.

January ’15

Friday 30 January, 10am Silk Street Music Hall

Admission free Tuesday 27 January, 1pm Lecture Recital Room

Guildhall Harpists & Friends A lunchtime programme of solo works, ranging from Scarlatti to Hindemith and Grandjany.

Friday 30 January, 7pm Silk Street Music Hall

String Concert Students from the School’s strings faculty showcase their talents in this free evening concert.

Admission free

Admission free Saturday 31 January, 2pm LSO St Luke’s

Total Immersion: Percussion Guildhall Percussion Ensemble

Brian Ferneyhough Fanfare for Klaus Huber Steve Reich Music for Pieces of Wood Kagel Rrrrrrr...

Helmut Lachenmann Guero From Steve Reich’s masterly Music for Pieces of Wood (1973), borne from a desire to make music with the simplest possible means and ‘one of the loudest pieces I have ever composed’, to Brian Ferneyhough’s tiny but striking tribute to his teacher Klaus Huber, this dynamic programme from the Guildhall Percussion Ensemble forms part of the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s acclaimed Total Immersion series.

Tickets: £12, available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk

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February ’15

Monday 2 February, 6pm Tuesday 3 February, 7pm Lecture Recital Room

Jazz Small Bands From reworked jazz standards to new compositions, jazz students direct their own ensembles in a variety of different settings.

Admission free Monday 2 February, 7pm Silk Street Music Hall

Brahms Quintets Caroline Palmer piano (Professor of Piano) Rachel Roberts viola (Professor of Viola) Pierre Doumenge cello (Professor of Cello) Amarins Wierdsma violin Venetia Jollands violin Stephen Williams clarinet

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Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op 115 Piano Quintet in F minor, Op 34 Guildhall staff and students perform Brahms’s melancholic Clarinet Quintet, alongside what is perhaps the composer’s best-known chamber work, the Piano Quintet.

Admission free Wednesday 4 February, 7pm Silk Street Music Hall

Clare Hammond CD launch Pianist and Guildhall School alumna Clare Hammond launches her second disc for BIS Records, of études by Unsuk Chin, Nikolai Kapustin, Sergei Lyapunov and Karol Szymanowski.

Admission free but booking required.

Please email info@clarehammond.com to reserve your place.

Wednesday 4 February, 1pm Lecture Recital Room

Scandinavian Song Concert Undergraduate singers perform a selection of Scandinavian Song, prepared and presented by Theresa Goble. The programme features Grieg, Sibelius and Nielsen alongside lesser-known composers Ture Rangström, Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, and Gunnar de Frumerie.

Admission free Thursday 5 February, 7pm Lecture Recital Room

String Concert Students from the School’s strings faculty showcase their talents in this free evening concert.

Admission free

A Midsummer Night’s Dream William Shakespeare Monday 9, Tuesday 10, Wednesday 11, A Duke woos a conquered Queen.

The King and Queen of Fairies fight Thursday 12, Friday 13, Saturday 14 over a changeling boy. Four lovers find February, 7.30pm Tuesday 10, Thursday 12 February, 2pm their love tested. And some amateur actors rehearse a play.

Milton Court Studio Theatre

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Patsy Rodenburg director Mark Simmonds designer Rory Beaton lighting designer*

Tickets: £10 (£5 concessions) available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk from 6 January.

Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members.

*Rory Beaton is a student on the BA (Hons) Technical Theatre Arts programme

Monday 16, Tuesday 17, Wednesday 18, Thursday 19, Friday 20, Saturday 21 February, 7.30pm Tuesday 17, Thursday 19 February, 2pm Milton Court Theatre Mike Alfreds director Dinah England designer Neville Billimoria lighting designer* Illyria is a Land of Delusions where the sands are always shifting and no-one is quite what he – or is it she? – seems.

Tickets: £10 (£5 concessions) available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk from 6 January.

Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members.

*Neville Billimoria is a student on the BA (Hons) Technical Theatre Arts programme

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Twelfth Night William Shakespeare

February ’15

Tuesday 17 February, 7pm Milton Court Concert Hall ALUMNI RECITAL SERIES

Joan Havill Celebration With special guests Sa Chen, Paul Lewis, Serhiy Salov, Chenyin Li, Tom Poster, Stephen de Pledge, Lucy Parham, and Ruya Taner

Former students of Joan Havill – a roll call of esteemed pianists – return to the School to celebrate her 35 years teaching at Guildhall.

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

Thursday 19 February, 6pm Barbican Hall

Monday 23 February, 7pm Silk Street Music Hall

LSO Platforms: Guildhall Artists

French Song

Ana Gogava piano

Iain Burnside works with undergraduate singers and postgraduate pianists on this evening song recital which features music

by Fauré, Chabrier, Debussy and Ravel.

Rachmaninoff Études-Tableaux (selection) Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op 36 Senior musicians from the Guildhall School take to the Barbican stage before LSO concerts with performances of complementary repertoire.

Admission free

Iain Burnside director

Admission free

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February ’15

Wednesday 25 February, 5.30pm Milton Court Theatre

Wednesday 25 February, 6pm Silk Street Music Hall

Tokaido Road: A Journey after Hiroshige

Guildhall Percussion Ensemble

Music by Nicola LeFanu Libretto by Nancy Gaffield Caroline Clegg director Dominic Wheeler conductor

Philip Glass Music in Similar Motion John Cage Second Construction Philip Glass Music in Fifths Peter Garland Apple Blossom John Cage Third Construction

Okeanos

Nicola LeFanu’s acclaimed piece of music theatre, composed for Okeanos’s unique blend of Western and Japanese instruments, receives its London premiere. Through art, poetry, mime and music, Tokaido Road tells the story of the artist Hiroshige and his travels on Japan’s ancient Eastern sea road from Edo to Kyoto.

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Tickets: £10 (£5 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk from 6 January.

Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members.

Directed by Julian Warburton

John Cage’s Constructions, scored for unorthodox percussion instruments, are performed alongside two early minimalist works by Philip Glass, and Peter Garland’s meditative Apple Blossom for marimba.

Admission free Thursday 26 February, 6pm Freestage, Barbican Foyers

Dialogue: People Songs Join us for Dialogue, a celebration of the creativity and talent of East London.

Dialogue sees MMus Leadership students from the Guildhall School work with community groups to create new music around this year’s theme, People Songs.

Admission free

(world stage premiere)

Donizetti: I pazzi per progetto (UK stage premiere)

Dominic Wheeler conductor Martin Lloyd-Evans director Yannis Thavoris designer

March ’15

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Arnold: The Dancing Master

Monday 2, Wednesday 4, Friday 6, Monday 9 March, 7pm Silk Street Theatre

The Guildhall School’s award-winning Opera department presents a double bill of comic opera in which madness, misunderstandings and mistaken identity come to the fore. Sir Malcolm Arnold’s The Dancing Master (1952) with a libretto by Joe Mendoza, receives its long overdue world stage premiere eight years after the composer’s death.

Based on Wycherley’s bawdy Restoration comedy, the plot follows the heroine, Miranda, and her two suitors, while the score fizzes with Arnold’s customary wit and flamboyance. Donizetti’s I pazzi per progetto (Madmen by Design) is farce in its purest form - here receiving its UK stage premiere.

Tickets: £25 (£15 concessions, £5 Guildhall staff and students) available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk from 6 January.

Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members.

San Giovanni Battista

(Summer 2014)

March ’15

Sunday 1 March, 6pm Barbican Hall

Thursday 12 March, 7pm Silk Street Music Hall

LSO Platforms: Guildhall Artists

Opera Scenes Concert

Claire Lees soprano Jessica Dandy mezzo-soprano Dominic Sedgwick baritone Dylan Perez piano

Debussy songs Admission free

Singers from the Vocal Studies department perform opera scenes under the music directorship of Linnhe Robertson, staged by Simon Cole, Dinah Stabb and Shirley Keane.

Admission free Friday 13 March, 1pm Milton Court Concert Hall

ECHO Rising Stars Michael Petrov cello Ashley Fripp piano Monday 2 March, 1pm Silk Street Music Hall

Bach Motets Lunchtime concert directed by Susan Waters.

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Admission free Tuesday 3 March, 7pm Lecture Recital Room

Russian Song Devised and presented by Lada Valešová.

Admission free Thursday 5 March, 6.30pm Silk Street Music Hall

Needlemakers’ Prize Supported by the Worshipful Company of Needlemakers

Wind instrumentalists perform a short programme with piano accompaniment.

Admission free

Stravinsky Suite Italienne Chopin Berceuse Three Waltzes, Op 70 Barcarolle Franck Sonata in A major Guildhall graduates Michael Petrov and Ashley Fripp – both winners of the School’s prestigious Gold Medal competition – are the Barbican Centre’s nomination for the Europe-wide ECHO Rising Stars programme.

Together, they’ll be flying the flag for London in major concert halls across Europe.

Tickets: £10, available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk

English Song Postgraduate singers and pianists perform a selection of English song in a programme devised and presented by Richard Jackson.

March ’15

Friday 13 March, 7pm Silk Street Music Hall

Admission free Monday 16 March, 7pm Milton Court Concert Hall

The Song Guild Graham Johnson directs senior singers and pianists in a performance of Schubert’s Winterreise.

Admission free Friday 13 March, 1pm St George’s, Hanover Square

Monday 16 March, 7pm Silk Street Music Hall

Guildhall Cantata Ensemble

String Concert

Directed by James Johnstone

Students from the School’s strings faculty showcase their talents in this free evening concert.

Charpentier Actéon

Admission free

The Guildhall Cantata Ensemble continues its exploration of Charpentier’s influence on Handel through the former’s teacher, Giacomo Carissimi. Accompanied by recorders, violins, gamba, cello, theorbo and harpsichord, this lunchtime concert presents what many believe to be Charpentier’s finest piece of musical theatre, a Pastorale in the form of a tragédie en musique depicting the tragic and gory demise of the hunter Actéon.

Part of the London Handel Festival.

Tickets: available from the London Handel Festival Box Office: 01460 54660 london-handel-festival.com from 19 January.

Tuesday 17 March, 2pm Lecture Recital Room

Piano Accompaniment Prize Each finalist performs a 20 minute programme of instrumental and vocal works.

Admission free

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March ’15

Wednesday 18 March, 7pm Milton Court Concert Hall

Opera Scenes Concert Postgraduate singers from the Vocal Studies department perform opera scenes under the music directorship of Linnhe Robertson, staged by Simon Cole, Dinah Stabb and Shirley Keane.

Admission free

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Thursday 19 March, 6pm Milton Court Concert Hall

Friday 20 March, 7pm Silk Street Music Hall

Visions de l’Amen

The Song Guild

James Kreiling and Janneke Brits piano

A virtuosic showpiece for two pianos, Messiaen’s Visions de l’Amen is a complex and exhilarating seven-movement work.

Graham Johnson curates a programme of both well-known and lesser-known French song cycles. The Paul Hamburger Prize for Voice and Piano will be awarded at the end of this concert.

Admission free

Admission free

Thursday 19 March, 7.30pm Barbican Hall

Guildhall Symphony Orchestra Pietari Inkinen conductor

Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Stravinsky The Firebird Suite Sibelius Symphony No. 2 Sibelius was a master of the symphonic form. Here his grandiose Second Symphony is performed by the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra under rising young Finnish conductor Pietari Inkinen.

Tickets: £15, £10 (£5 concessions) available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk

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Saturday 21 – Friday 27 March

Saturday 21 March, 4pm Milton Court Concert Hall

Junior Guildhall Guildhall Jazz Band Jazz Festival &

by Oliver Weston and Improvisation Fringe Directed Jonathan Taylor

From Billie Holiday to Kenny Wheeler, vintage jazz to improvised, Guildhall musicians celebrate the best of jazz over seven performance-packed days. Major visiting artists visit the School to collaborate with exciting up-and-coming talent, offering a rich and varied programme of performances.

Small group and Big Band jazz from the Guildhall School’s thriving Junior department.

Admission free Saturday 21 March, 7.30pm Milton Court Concert Hall

Guildhall Jazz Choir Directed by Malcolm Edmonstone The ever-popular Guildhall Jazz Choir kicks the festival off in style with an evening performance in the Milton Court Concert Hall.

Tickets: £15 (£10 concessions, free for Guildhall staff and students), available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk from 6 January.

Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members.

Sunday 22 March, 7.30pm Silk Street Music Hall

Tribute to Billie Holiday Guildhall Jazz Band directed by Ed Puddick

New arrangements of the legendary jazz singer’s signature output.

Admission free

Friday 27 March, 7.30pm Milton Court Concert Hall

Guildhall Alumni Jazz Ensemble

Tribute to Kenny Wheeler

Directed by Carlos Lopez-Real

Guildhall Jazz Band & Singers Directed by Scott Stroman

Former students return to the School to lead a dynamic evening of music directed by Professor of Saxophone Carlos Lopez-Real.

Admission free Wednesday 25 March, 7.30pm Silk Street Music Hall

Vintage Jazz Night Directed by Martin Hathaway The much-loved Vintage Jazz Night returns with small group jazz favourites from the 1920s and 30s.

Admission free Thursday 26 March, 7.30pm Silk Street Music Hall

Improvised Music Night Guildhall Improvised Music Ensemble Directed by Sarah Gail Brand with special guest Mark Sanders percussion

Expect the unexpected at the festival’s Improvised Music Night, which this year pays tribute to visionary British drummer John Stevens and the free improvisation group he co-founded in the mid-60s, the Spontaneous Music Ensemble.

The festival finale pays tribute to the late, great Kenny Wheeler – trumpeter, composer and innovator – with a special programme that includes a performance of his landmark Sweet Time Suite.

JAZZ FESTIVAL

Tuesday 24 March, 7.30pm Silk Street Music Hall

Tickets: £15 (£10 concessions, free for Guildhall staff and students), available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk from 6 January.

Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members.

Sunday 22 March, 3pm & 4pm Monday 23 March, 3pm & 4pm Tuesday 24 March, 3pm & 4pm Wednesday 25 March, 3pm & 4pm Thursday 26 March, 4.30pm & 5.30pm Silk Street Music Hall Friday 27 March, 1pm & 2pm Milton Court Concert Hall

Jazz Small Bands Throughout the festival Guildhall musicians direct their own ensembles in a variety of different settings.

Admission free

Admission free

Full details of the festival will be available at gsmd.ac.uk/events

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March ’15

Wednesday 25, Thursday 26, Tuesday 31 March, 7pm Saturday 28 March, 2.30pm Milton Court Studio Theatre

Opera Scenes Victoria Newlyn director Susanna Stranders musical director

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

Tickets: £10 (£5 concessions, free for Guildhall School staff and students) available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk from 25 February.

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Wednesday 25 March, 7pm Lecture Recital Room

Saturday 28 March, 6pm Institut Français du Royaume Uni

String Concert

Hands of Tomorrow

Students from the School’s strings faculty showcase their talents in this free evening concert.

Guildhall students Sophia Dee and Marina Koka collaborate with Paris Conservatoire students Justine Leroux and Tanguy de Williencourt in this special concert which forms part of the It’s All About Piano! festival at the Institut Français.

Admission free

The concert will be recorded by BBC Radio 3 for future broadcast.

Tickets: £12 / £10 members / £6 students, available from 020 7871 3515 itsallaboutpiano.co.uk

Friday 27, Saturday 28, Monday 30, Tuesday 31 March, Wednesday 1 April, 7.30pm Monday 30 March, Wednesday 1 April, 2pm Silk Street Theatre

Machinal Sophie Treadwell Ed Dick director

Inspired by the sensational trial of Ruth Snyder, a Long Island housewife who murdered her husband and died in the electric chair in 1927, Machinal is a powerful drama by campaigning journalist and playwright Sophie Treadwell.

Nine actresses share the role of the ‘Young Woman’ in scenes that explore the explosive pressures of American industrial life in this Expressionistic classic.

“This is a play written in anger. In the dead wasteland of male society – it seems to ask – isn’t it necessary for certain women, at least, to resort to murder?”

Nicholas Wright Tickets: £10 (£5 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk from 2 February.

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Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members.

March ’15 EXAUDI

Monday 30 March, 6.15pm Silk Street Music Hall

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Tuesday 31 March, 7pm Silk Street Music Hall

Susan Longfield Prize Piano and Composition Project Sopranos and mezzo-sopranos perform a short programme taking in a range of musical styles.

Admission free Monday 30 March, 7pm Milton Court Concert Hall

EXAUDI James Weeks director

Vocal ensemble EXAUDI performs new pieces for six voices by composers on the MMus Composition programme.

Admission free

Directed by Rolf Hind New works inspired by the extraordinary Nobel-prizewinning Swedish poet Tomas TranstrĂśmer, a keen musician who lost the use of his right hand after suffering a stroke. A tradition of pieces for left hand has developed in Sweden inspired by his life and works, and in this concert a few more will be added.

Admission free Tuesday 31 March, 7pm Lecture Recital Room

German Lied Postgraduate singers and pianists perform a selection of German song in a programme devised and presented by Eugene Asti.

Admission free

Thursday 2 April, 7pm Lecture Recital Room

Vocal Studies Opera Showcase

Voiceworks

Singers on the Masters in Performance programme showcase repertoire from operas including Così fan tutte, La Cenerentola and Eugene Onegin, directed by Simon Cole, with music direction by Elizabeth Marcus.

Undergraduate singers perform new songs written specially by Guildhall School composers alongside more established vocal repertoire of the 20th and 21st centuries selected and prepared by Jane Manning.

Admission free

Admission free

Wednesday 8 April, 6pm Barbican Hall

Wednesday 1 April, 7pm Silk Street Music Hall

LSO Platforms: Guildhall Artists

Viva Venezia

Ricky Gore violin Ionel Manciu violin Henry Tong violin Amarins Wierdsma violin May Dolan viola Christoph Slenczka viola Thomas Marlin cello Yoanna Prodanova cello

Shostakovich Two Pieces for String Octet String Quartet No. 9

Pavlo Beznosiuk directs this concert of multi-part Sonatas and Canzonas from Venice’s ‘golden age’, performed by wind and string players from the School’s Historical Performance department.

Composers include Giovanni Gabrieli, Dario Castello, Biagio Marini, Giovanni Picchi and Marco Uccellini.

Admission free

April ’15

Wednesday 1 April, 6pm Milton Court Studio Theatre

Senior musicians from the Guildhall School take to the Barbican stage before LSO concerts with performances of complementary repertoire.

Admission free

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True Dare Kiss

(Autumn 2014)

April ’15

Monday 27 April, 7.30pm Milton Court Concert Hall FACULTY ARTIST SERIES

Mahan Esfahani

Thursday 30 April, 6pm Barbican Hall

LSO Platforms: Guildhall Artists 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.

Mahan Esfahani harpsichord

(Professor of Harpsichord)

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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 flat, Fk. 5 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 from 6 January.

Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members.

Admission free

April ’15

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Thursday 26 February – Sunday 1 March 2015

Reflective Conservatoire Conference 2015: ‘Creativity and Changing Cultures’

Join performers, teachers and researchers at the Guildhall School’s fourth international Reflective Conservatoire Conference.

Performances, practical workshops, research presentations, keynote speeches, curated sessions, seminars and round-table discussions explore key issues in Higher Education within music and drama.

Themes in 2015:

· Creativity, playfulness and improvisation · Interdisciplinary connections · The world in 2020 and beyond · Viewpoints on the developing artist Keynote speakers include:

Ricardo Castro Pianist, conductor and founder of Brazil’s NEOJIBA youth music training programme.

Liz Lerman Choreographer, dancer, educator, writer and creator of the Critical Response Process, a rigorous feedback system for developing work in progress.

Conference Director Professor Helena Gaunt, Vice-Principal & Director of Academic Affairs

For more information and to book tickets, visit reflectiveconservatoire.org.uk

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JOYCE DIDONATO

GORDON BACK

MASTERCLASSES

FELICITY LOTT

Friday 30 January, 2pm Milton Court Concert Hall

Wednesday 18 February, 2pm, Silk Street Music Hall

Felicity Lott

Aquiles Delle Vigne

Wednesday 15 April, 2pm, Milton Court Concert Hall

Voice Masterclass

Piano Masterclass

Joyce DiDonato

Voice Masterclass

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Friday 6 February, 2pm Silk Street Music Hall

Tuesday 3 March, 10am Lecture Recital Room

Martin Katz

Ralf Gothóni

Piano Masterclass

Chamber Music Masterclass

Wednesday 11 – Friday 13 February

Monday 30 March, 10am Lecture Recital Room

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra musicians

Finghin Collins

Instrumental Masterclasses See gsmd.ac.uk for further information

Piano Masterclass

International superstar Joyce DiDonato leads a masterclass with Guildhall singers as part of the Barbican’s Artist Spotlight series.

Tickets: £30 (£10 students) available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk

Thursday 2 April, 2pm Silk Street Music Hall Gordon Back

Piano Masterclass

All masterclasses are free to attend unless otherwise stated

Saturday 14 February, 4pm Milton Court Concert Hall

London Schools Junior Guildhall Symphony Orchestra Symphony Orchestra Edward Gardner conductor Louis Schwizgebel piano

Nielsen Helios Overture Grieg Piano Concerto Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2 Tickets: £8 - £25 (£5 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk Saturday 14 February, 4pm Milton Court Concert Hall

Young Orchestra for London

Julian Clayton conductor

Michael Daugherty Route 66 Szymanowski Violin Concerto No. 1 Brahms Symphony No. 2 Brahms’s joyous Second Symphony provides the perfect centrepiece for Junior Guildhall’s spring orchestral showcase.

Tickets: £15 (£5 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk Junior Guildhall presents over 80 events every year. To request a copy of the Junior Guildhall events guide, please contact junior@gsmd.ac.uk

Sir Simon Rattle conductor Tuesday 14 April, 7.30pm Barbican Hall

London Schools Symphony Orchestra Ainars Rubikis conductor Maria João Pires and Julien Libeer piano With Equinox Chorus, a Social and Artistic project under the leadership of Maria João Pires

The Young Orchestra for London is a new ensemble made up of musicians aged 11-21 from across the capital. They will be brought together for 5 days during the Berlin Philharmonic’s London residency, to present new and existing repertoire conducted by Sir Simon Rattle. Come and watch their first rehearsal.

Admission free but booking required via the Barbican Box Office, in person or by phone: 020 7638 8891

Mozart Concerto for Two Pianos Mendelssohn Incidental music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream Tickets: £8 - £25 (£5 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk

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Wednesday 7 January, 7.30pm Barbican Hall

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Friday 1, Saturday 2 May, 7.30pm; Saturday 2, Sunday 3 May, 2pm, Milton Court Studio Theatre

Wednesday 13 May, 7pm Barbican Hall

Faculty Artist Series

The Gold Medal

Piano Extravaganza

Why does the Queen die?

A new play written and directed by Iain Burnside

Following its successful premiere at the Oxford Lieder Festival, Why does the Queen die? comes to Milton Court for three performances.

Developed by Iain Burnside with the Guildhall School, this music theatre piece explores Schubert’s Viennese connections through Burnside’s trademark combination of music and drama.

Tickets: £10 (£5 concessions) available from the Barbican Box Office from 2 February.

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Tuesday 5 May, 7pm Milton Court Concert Hall

Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members.

THE GOLD MEDAL 2013

Martin Roscoe, Noriko Ogawa, Charles Owen, Katya Apekisheva, Ronan O’Hora piano with George English, Pedro Segundo percussion

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.

Mozart Sonata in D major K. 448 Bartók Sonata for Two Tickets: £15, £10 (£5 Pianos and Percussion concessions, Guildhall staff Ravel La Valse and students) available from Brahms Variations on a the Barbican Box Office Theme of Haydn, Op 56b Stravinsky The Rite of Spring from 2 February.

Tickets: £15 (£10 concessions), Priority booking for Guildhall available from the Barbican Circle members.

Box Office from 2 February.

Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members.

Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members.

Monday 29 June, 7.30pm Wigmore Hall Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize: Winner’s Recital Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula piano

LUCY PARHAM AND SIMON RUSSELL BEALE

Friday 15 May, 7.30pm Milton Court Concert Hall Faculty Artist Series Levon Chilingirian violin Chilingirian Quartet with Matthew Jones viola

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

“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 Tickets: £15 (£10 concessions) available from the Barbican Box Office from 2 February.

Tickets: £15 (£10 concessions), Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members. available from the Barbican Box Office from 2 February.

Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members.

Sunday 17 May, 7pm Milton Court Concert Hall Alumni Recital Series

Rêverie: The life and loves of Claude Debussy Lucy Parham piano Simon Russell Beale narrator

Monday 8, Wednesday 10, Friday 12, Monday 15 June, 7pm Silk Street Theatre Hans Werner Henze: Phaedra and Ein Landarzt Timothy Redmond conductor Ashley Dean director Cordelia Chisholm designer

The Guildhall School’s Opera department presents a summer double bill of 20th century opera by German composer Hans Werner Henze (1926-2012).

FUTURE EVENTS

Tickets: £25 (£15 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office from 8 April.

J. S. Bach Prelude and Fugue No. 8 in E f lat minor from The Well-Tempered Clavier Debussy Images, Book 2 Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula Variations fantômes Chopin Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op 52 Schubert Sonata No. 21 in B f lat major, D. 960 Tickets: £13 (£11 concessions) available from the Wigmore Hall Box Office: 020 7935 2141 wigmore-hall.org.uk from 3 February.

Monday 13, Tuesday 14 July, 5.30pm Summer Gala Evenings

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.

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.

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Guildhall School Scholarships Fund

“My scholarship has allowed me to spend more time focusing on developing as a musician.�

Vijay Prakash, MMus Jazz Trombone Help support students like Vijay.

Every year donations to the Scholarships Fund make it possible for over 300 young musicians, actors and theatre technicians 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

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