Guildhall School Events Guide | Autumn 2015

Music, Drama, Opera, Jazz

Events

Sept – Dec 2015

Contents Monthly highlights September October November December

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Sunday 20 September, 11am-5pm Milton Court

A unique opportunity to explore the Guildhall Masterclasses 24 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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Our partnerships The Guildhall School is proud to work in partnership with the following organisations:

Photographs Hugo Glendinning, Hong Wei, Alexander Newton, Molina Visuals/Harmonia Mundi, Mitch Jenkins, Clive Totman, Paul Cochrane, Clive Barda, Michael Leckie, Jeff Goldberg/Esto Cover photo Katrina McKeever as Miss Adelaide in Guys and Dolls (Summer 2015) ©Clive Barda

School’s world-class building, Milton Court, as part of Open House London, the capital’s largest annual festival of architecture and design.

Free tours will be offered on a first come, first served basis every 15 mins, taking in backstage and rehearsal areas as well as the main performance venues. Visitors will also have the opportunity to see student rehearsals which are taking place throughout the day.

Admission free

ALUMNI RECITAL SERIES

Sa Chen

Chopin Mazurkas Liszt Sonata in B minor, S178 Internationally-acclaimed pianist Sa Chen returns to her alma mater to give an intimate solo recital in Milton Court.

Known as one of the most charismatic pianists of her generation and a renowned interpreter of Chopin’s music, her programme includes a selection of the composer’s colourful mazurkas followed

by Liszt’s Sonata in B minor, one of the most technically demanding and dazzling works in the Romantic piano repertoire.

September ’15

Thursday 17 September, 7.30pm Milton Court Concert Hall

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

Thursday 24 September, 6pm Milton Court Concert Hall

Friday 25 September, 6.30pm Barbican Freestage

Between Heaven and the Clouds: Messiaen 2015

Jazz & Creative Learning

Guildhall School alumna Cordelia Williams performs movements of Messiaen’s piano masterpiece Vingt Regards sur L’Enfant-Jésus, interspersed with new works by postgraduate composers and pianists inspired by the poetry and art commissioned for Messiaen 2015.

The concert will include readings of poems

by Michael Symmons, and display of the paintings by Sophie Hacker selected by the composers as their starting point.

Admission free

Postgraduate musicians on the Jazz, Leadership and Music Therapy programmes celebrate diversity and the meeting of minds with a brand new composition.

Admission free

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Friday 25 September, 7.30pm Barbican Hall

Elgar The Music Makers, Op. 69 Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky

Guildhall Symphony Orchestra & Chorus

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. The programme opens with Elgar’s popular cantata The Music Makers, a setting of poet Arthur O’Shaughnessy’s ode to the dreaming artist.

James Blair conductor Elizabeth Desbruslais mezzo-soprano Catherine Backhouse mezzo-soprano

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

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Monday 28 September, 7pm Milton Court Theatre

Poet in the City: Samuel Beckett Poet in the City, in partnership with Guildhall School, present a special celebration of Samuel Beckett’s poetry.

Live staged readings from celebrated Beckett actress Lisa Dwan and Guildhall graduates are performed alongside discussion from a panel of leading Beckett experts, including acclaimed editor John Pilling and Beckett biographer James Knowlson, as we explore the fascinating poetry of this iconic writer and dramatist.

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

Season Preview EXCLUSIVELY FOR SUPPORTERS OF THE GUILDHALL SCHOOL

Supporters of the Guildhall School 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 as well as a sneak preview of the set designs.

For further information on the Season Preview and other supporter events please contact Jennifer Slater in the Development office on 020 7382 7179 or jennifer.slater@gsmd.ac.uk

Friday 2 October, 6pm Silk Street Music Hall

Saturday 3 October, 5.30pm St Giles Cripplegate

Strike up the Band!

Total Immersion: Henryk Górecki

Guildhall Symphonic Wind Orchestra Keith Brion conductor

Wagner ‘Introduction to Act III’, Lohengrin H. L. Clarke From the Shores of the Mighty Pacific Grainger Colonial Song and Handel in the Strand J. Strauss ‘Adele’s Laughing Song’ from Die Fledermaus Puccini ‘O Mio Babbino Caro’ from Gianni Schicchi Sousa The American Maid (The Glassblowers) Gershwin Strike Up the Band Sousa The Mingling of the Wets and Drys Kern All the Things You Are Wagner The Ride of the Valkyries

LEBRECHT MUSIC & ARTS

A feast of operatic overtures, arias, solos and famous marches celebrating the musical genius of legendary American composer, conductor and arranger John Philip Sousa (1854-1932). Keith Brion, the world’s authority on Sousa, conducts the Guildhall Symphonic Wind Orchestra in this concert, before the orchestra’s recording sessions for Naxos.

Admission free

October ’15

Thursday 1 October

BBC Singers David Hill conductor Emiko Edwards piano

Guildhall pianist Emiko Edwards performs Górecki’s Piano Sonata and Four Preludes in this concert from the BBC Singers, which includes a selection of the composer’s rarely-heard Church Songs.

Tickets: £12, available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891

Monday 5, Monday 12 October, 6pm Lecture Recital Room

Jazz Small Bands Guildhall students perform music directed by leading jazz performers, educators and composers.

Admission free

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The Secret Rapture David Hare

Monday 12, Tuesday 13, Wednesday 14, Thursday 15, Friday 16, Saturday 17 October, 7.30pm Tuesday 13, Thursday 15 October, 2pm Milton Court Studio Theatre Stephen Unwin director Louis Carver designer

Good does not need to do anything to drive Bad crazy. Bad hates Good for simply existing.

David Hare’s acclaimed play, set in Thatcher’s Britain, remains exceptionally timely.

Tickets: £10 (£5 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk from 11 September. Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members.

Thursday 15 October, 6pm Milton Court Concert Hall

His Name was Wolf Song Recital Dream: The World of Guildhall singers and pianists present a selection of Wolf’s Mörike Lieder to Walter de la Mare complement the repertoire in the recital Iain Burnside leads postgraduate singers and pianists in a specially devised programme of English Song.

presented by Sophie Karthäuser and Eugene Asti later this evening.

October ’15

Friday 9 October, 7pm Silk Street Music Hall

Admission free

Admission free Monday 12 October, 7pm Silk Street Music Hall

Strings Concert Postgraduate students from the School’s strings faculty showcase their talents in this free evening concert.

Admission free Thursday 15 October, 7.30pm Milton Court Concert Hall ALUMNI RECITAL SERIES

Sophie Karthäuser and Eugene Asti Sophie Karthäuser soprano Eugene Asti piano (Professor of Collaborative Piano)

Guildhall alumna Sophie Karthäuser and song professor Eugene Asti perform Mörike settings by Wolf, Éluard settings

by Poulenc and a new group of Éluard settings by Eugene Asti. The Alumni Recital Series is in support of the School’s Scholarships Fund.

Tickets: £15 (£10 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office from 6 August. Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members.

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In pre-war Germany a group of theatre workers face the National Socialists’ rise to power. Some resist, some are caught unawares and some pay with their lives.

But one of them, a provincial actor and professed communist, sells his soul to Nazi patronage for popularity, fame and power.

Tickets: £10 (£5 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk from 11 September. Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members.

Mephisto Adapted by Ariane Mnouchkine Based on the novel by Klaus Mann Translated by Timberlake Wertenbaker Monday 19, Tuesday 20, Wednesday 21, Thursday 22, Friday 23, Saturday 24 October, 7.30pm Tuesday 20, Thursday 22 October, 2pm Milton Court Theatre Wyn Jones director Susannah Henry designer

ALUMNI RECITAL SERIES

Guitar Spectacular Jørgen Skogmo, Ahmed Dickinson Cárdenas, Maria Camahort

October ’15

Tuesday 20 October, 7pm Milton Court Concert Hall

with Laura Ruhí-Vidal soprano Violeta Garcia violin and voice Lyrit Milgram, Marc Charles Montesinos violin Joe Bronstein viola Auriol Evans, Sergio Serra cello Melissa Favell-Wright double bass Pablo Domínguez percussion and guitar

Friday 16 October, 7.30pm Silk Street Music Hall

Guildhall Jazz Band Directed by Scott Stroman Original music for Big Band including a celebration of the late Pete Saberton, British jazz pianist and Guildhall jazz professor.

Admission free Monday 19 October, 6pm Lecture Recital Room

Jazz Small Bands Guildhall students perform music directed by leading jazz performers, educators and composers.

Admission free

Leo Brouwer Quintet for guitar and strings Johann Kaspar Mertz ‘An Malvina’, ‘Abendlied’ and ‘Unruhe’ from Bardenklänge, Op. 13 Phillip Houghton Stélé Nikita Koshkin Merlin’s Dream F. Mompou Song and Dance No. 7 and Cantar del Alma Chano Domínguez Pa mi niño M. Camahort, lyrics by F. García Lorca: Poema de la Solea, Las Morillas De Jaén, En el Café de Chinitas Eduardo Martín Acrílicos en el Destino (UK premiere) and Hasta Alicia Baila Guitarists Maria Camahort, Ahmed Dickinson Cárdenas and Jørgen Skogmo have been enjoying flourishing international careers since graduating from the Guildhall School.

Here they make a welcome return to present a varied programme of solo and ensemble guitar works. 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 from 6 August. Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members.

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October ’15

Monday 26 October, 7.30pm Milton Court Concert Hall ALUMNI RECITAL SERIES

Toby Spence and Julian Milford with Joana Gil soprano Claire Bournez, Emily Kyte, Lucy Waring mezzo sopranos

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Janácˇek The Diary of One Who Disappeared Butterworth A Shropshire Lad Britten Folksong arrangements World-renowned tenor Toby Spence returns to Milton Court for his first London performance of Janácˇek’s song-cycle, together with fellow alumnus Julian Milford and singers from the Guildhall School.

Janácˇek’s mysterious The Diary of One Who Disappeared tells the story of a village boy who runs away from home when he is seduced by a gypsy girl.

The pastoral theme continues with Butterworth’s settings of A.E. Housman’s signature poems, and a selection of Britten’s folksong arrangements. The Alumni Recital Series is in support of the School’s Scholarships Fund.

Tickets: £15 (£10 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office from 6 August. Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members.

Monday 26 October, 8pm Silk Street Music Hall

Guildhall Jazz Singers Directed by Scott Stroman A concert of original music and arrangements of favourite jazz standards.

Admission free

Christian Forshaw Songs of Solace Michael Nyman Six Celan Songs

Songs of Solace

Songs of Solace is a musical response to Julie Nicholson’s book, A Song for Jenny, which relates the tragic death of her daughter in the 2005 London bombings.

Grace Davidson soprano Christian Forshaw saxophone

(Professor of Saxophone)

Guildhall Saxophone Ensemble Guildhall Percussion Ensemble

The music was featured in the BBC dramatisation of the book, which starred Emily Watson and aired in July this year to mark the 10th anniversary. It contains settings of text by Shakespeare, Tennyson, Wheeler Wilcox and from the book of Ecclesiastes, as well as a number of powerful songs without words.

October ’15

Tuesday 27 October, 7pm Milton Court Concert Hall

Tickets: £15 (£10 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk from 6 August. Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members.

Tuesday 27 October, 7pm Silk Street Music Hall

Thursday 29 October, 6pm Barbican Hall

Strings Concert

LSO Platforms: Guildhall Artists

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

Simon Wills conductor

Admission free

John Adams Scratchband and Chamber Symphony

Thursday 29 October, 1.05pm St Mary-le-Bow

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

Guildhall Cantata Ensemble Directed by James Johnstone The School’s flagship early music ensemble performs Lamentations and Responsories by Italian composer Emilio de’ Cavalieri.

Admission free

Admission free

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The Dancing Master

(Spring 2015)

Le donne curiose An Opera in Three Acts by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari Text by Luigi Sugana after the play

by Carlo Goldoni Monday 2, Wednesday 4, Friday 6, Monday 9 November, 7pm Silk Street Theatre Mark Shanahan conductor Stephen Barlow director Yannis Thavoris designer Howard Hudson lighting designer

Wolf-Ferrari’s intricate and witty ensemble piece was the opera that first brought its composer to international recognition, and was subsequently performed all over the world by many of the finest singers and conductors of the day. It concerns attempts by the “inquisitive ladies” of the title to find out what actually goes on at their husbands’ “club” and is packed with the kind of vocal virtuosity for which the current crop of Opera Course singers have shown particular flair.

The School welcomes back regular collaborators Stephen Barlow and Yannis Thavoris to direct and design, alongside conductor Mark Shanahan, following the success of last year’s Verdi Requiem.

Tickets: £25 (£15 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office from 11 September. Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members.

PERFORMANCES GIVEN BY ARRANGEMENT WITH JOSEF WEINBERGER LIMITED.

Tuesday 10 November, 5.30pm Wigmore Hall

Strings Concert

Voiceworks A showcase of new music for voice by composers, poets, instrumentalists and singers who have taken part in the Voiceworks programme. Now in its 10th year, Voiceworks is a unique collaboration between poets from Birkbeck and composers and singers from the Guildhall School, brought together by Wigmore Hall Learning.

November ’15

Wednesday 4 November, 7pm Silk Street Music Hall

Admission free but booking required: 020 7935 2141 wigmore-hall.org.uk

Wednesday 11 November, 7pm Silk Street Music Hall

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

Admission free Friday 6 November, 10am Lecture Recital Room

Max and Peggy Morgan Prize For the performance of a major post-Baroque violin concerto with piano accompaniment.

Admission free

Glass Sellers’ Beethoven Piano Prize Supported by The Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers For the performance of a major piano work

by Beethoven.

Admission free

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Thursday 12 November, 6pm Barbican Hall

Monday 16 November, 6.30pm Lecture Recital Room

LSO Platforms: Guildhall Artists

Jazz Small Bands

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

Admission free

Guildhall jazz students perform music directed by leading jazz performers, educators and composers.

Admission free Monday 16 November, 7pm Silk Street Music Hall

Strings Concert Undergraduate students from the School’s strings faculty showcase their talents in this free evening concert.

Admission free

Wednesday 25 November, 6pm Milton Court Concert Hall

English Song Prize

Preludes

Finalists perform a short recital of songs with English language texts.

Antonina Suhanova piano

Admission free Monday 23, Monday 30 November, 6pm Lecture Recital Room

Jazz Small Bands

Shostakovich 2 Preludes and Fugues Rachmaninoff 13 Preludes, Op. 32 Pianist Antonina Suhanova performs a selection of Russian preludes in Milton Court as a precursor to the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra evening concert.

November ’15

Monday 23 November, 10am Lecture Recital Room

Admission free

Guildhall jazz students perform music directed by leading jazz performers, educators and composers.

Admission free

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Guildhall Symphony Orchestra Michail Jurowski conductor Julian Clef piano

Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1 in C, Op. 15 Shostakovich Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93 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. Before this, Guildhall pianist Julian Clef joins the orchestra for Beethoven’s playful Piano Concerto No. 1.

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

November ’15

Thursday 26, Friday 27, Monday 30 November, Tuesday 1 December, 7pm Milton Court Studio Theatre

Opera Scenes Martin Lloyd-Evans director Dominic Wheeler music 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), available from the Barbican Box Office from 26 October.

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Guildhall Big Band Directed by Scott Stroman with special guest John Taylor

Jazz legend John Taylor joins the Guildhall Big Band for a unique performance in Milton Court.

From working with Cleo Laine and Ronnie Scott to forming the influential Azimuth trio with Norma Winstone and Kenny Wheeler, Taylor’s illustrious fourdecade career as a pianist and composer has earned him a reputation as one of the foremost figures in British jazz.

Tickets: £15 (£5 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk from 11 September. Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members.

Friday 27, Saturday 28, Monday 30 November, Tuesday 1, Wednesday 2 December, 7.30pm Monday 30 November, Wednesday 2 December, 2pm Silk Street Theatre Christian Burgess director Agnes Treplin designer Johanna Town lighting designer

Lulu Frank Wedekind In a version by Nicholas Wright

Wedekind described his 1894 play as a “monster tragedy”. We present Nicholas Wright’s thrilling and explicit version of the original text, with five actresses sharing the role of Lulu, in a kaleidoscopic journey of sex and death through Germany, Paris and London.

Tickets: £10 (£5 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk from 26 October. Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members.

December ’15

Tuesday 1 December, 8pm Silk Street Music Hall

Thursday 3 December, 7pm Milton Court Concert Hall

Guildhall Jazz Choir Directed by Scott Stroman

Surface, Depth and Colour

The much-loved jazz choir presents a concert of gospel music.

Guildhall New Music Ensemble Directed by James Weeks

Admission free

Jo Kondo Surface, Depth and Colour Jurg Frey Circular Time Study No.2 Laurence Crane Seven Short Pieces Ian Vine Fifty Objects Bryn Harrison To be (an ever opening flower) Simon Holt Disparate

Wednesday 2 December, 6pm Silk Street Music Hall

Ubu Ensemble Simon Wills conductor

A concert of contemporary works centred around eminent Japanese composer Jo Kondo’s meditative Surface, Depth and Colour (2008) for 12 instruments.

Admission free Friday 4, Saturday 5 December, 7pm The Place

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Danceworks

Schoenberg Chamber Symphony No.1, Op.9 Zimmermann Musique pour les soupers du Roi Ubu Music by Hans Eisler A vibrant programme of 20th century music, including Schoenberg’s iconic singlemovement symphony and Zimmerman’s ‘ballet noir’ in which he quotes a vast swathe of composers from Bach and Beethoven to Stockhausen and Henze.

Admission free

A showcase of new dance works borne from an annual collaboration between postgraduate composers from the Guildhall School and some of the UK’s most talented young choreographers and dancers from the London Contemporary Dance School. The pieces that emerge are a bold and imaginative mix of ideas featuring an assortment of live ensembles and electronic scores.

Tickets: £10 (£7 concessions, free for students), available from The Place: 020 7121 1100 theplace.org.uk

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Burnt by the Sun

(Summer 2015)

MASTERCLASSES

Friday 2 October, 11am Milton Court Concert Hall

Friday 20 November, 7pm Silk Street Music Hall

Brian Zeger

Graham Johnson

Vocal Masterclass

Schubert Masterclass

Friday 2 October, 2pm Milton Court Concert Hall

Tuesday 24 November, 10am Lecture Recital Room

Angela Hewitt

Claron McFadden

Piano Masterclass

Vocal Masterclass

Tuesday 20 October, 11am Milton Court Concert Hall

Acclaimed American soprano Claron McFadden leads a masterclass on repertoire from the Baroque to the new.

Edith Wiens Vocal Masterclass

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Monday 26 October, 10am & 2pm Milton Court Concert Hall Tuesday 27 October, 10am Lecture Recital Room

Dominique Merlet Piano Masterclass Tuesday 29 October, 4pm Lecture Recital Room

Janice Watson Vocal Masterclass Wednesday 4 November, 2pm Silk Street Music Hall

Richard Goode Piano Masterclass

Monday 30 November, 7pm Milton Court Concert Hall

Graham Johnson Britten Masterclass

GUILDHALL YOUNG ARTISTS

Tuesday 22 September, 7.30pm Barbican Hall

Fantastical Journeys London Schools Symphony Orchestra Peter Ash conductor Richard Watkins, Nigel Black, Michael Thompson, Katy Woolley horns

Chabrier España Schumann Konzertstück for four horns and orchestra Berlioz Symphonie fantastique A concert of Romantic orchestral pieces evoking a journey across Europe and beyond. From Chabrier’s evocation of Spain to Schumann’s homage to the forests of Germany, the journey concludes with a symphony inspired by the fevered fantasies of a romantic composer’s lovesick imagination: Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, written in 1830.

Tickets: £9 - £26 available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk Saturday 21 November, 5.30pm Milton Court Concert Hall

Junior Guildhall Concert Brass Band Percussion Ensemble Jazz Ensembles Wind Orchestra

Saturday 28 November, 5.30pm Milton Court Concert Hall

Junior Guildhall Concert String Ensemble Symphony Orchestra Julian Clayton conductor

Junior Guildhall’s end-of-term orchestral showcase.

Admission free

Junior Guildhall ensembles take to the Milton Court stage to present a colourful programme of music.

Admission free

Junior Guildhall presents over 80 events every year. To request a copy of the Junior Guildhall events guide, please contact junior@gsmd.ac.uk

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RESEARCH WORKS

Monday 28 September, 10.30am-4pm* Silk Street Music Hall

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Mindfulness in Music & Art This symposium is part of a programme of events around the world premiere performances of Lost in Thought – the world’s first ‘mindfulness opera’ by Guildhall School professor Rolf Hind co-produced by Mahogany Opera Group and the Barbican. The symposium brings together artists, researchers and those with an interest in mindfulness and its relationship to the arts to explore its practice and potential.

Friday 25 September, 6pm Saturday 26, Sunday 27 September, 12pm LSO St Luke’s

Lost in Thought: A Mindfulness Opera Frederic Wake-Walker director Lore Lixenberg mezzo-soprano Mahogany Opera Group Rolf Hind music and concept

Building on the School’s pioneering development and research on mindfulness, the day will include contributions from the creative team of Lost in Thought, a roundtable of mindfulness practitioners and a focus on audience experience and engagement in the opera. The event will be of particular interest to those who are keen to explore the practice, and those who participated in a performance of Lost in Thought and want to find out more.

Guildhall School, Mahogany Opera Group and Barbican Centre in partnership

Rolf Hind Lost in Thought (world premiere)

Tickets: £20 (£15 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk Lunch is provided as part of the day.

Lost in Thought is the world’s first ‘mindfulness opera’. This four-hour event is a pioneering hybrid of immersive musical performance and guided meditation, structured by Rolf Hind’s music, in which there is no boundary between participants and audience.

The Guildhall School is also offering a free Mindfulness Taster Session on Sunday 13 September. This is an opportunity for those attending Lost in Thought to experience the practice of mindfulness in advance of the performance. To book, please visit researchatguildhall.eventbrite.co.uk

Tickets: £45 available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk

*Registration from 10am

Friday 9 October, 6.30pm, Milton Court Concert Hall

Admission free please visit researchatguildhall.eventbrite.co.uk Monday 26 October, 6.30pm, Milton Court Rehearsal Room 1

Education and Learning Distinctive Excellence: through Ancient Wisdom, the local conservatoire Humanity, Creativity and UK higher education institutions are under great pressure to demonstrate world-class Embodiment excellence and global reach. Conservatoires This session explores insights from neurology and artistic practice, and how they connect. Through discussion and practical demonstration, Iain McGilchrist (psychiatrist and author of The Master and his Emissary) and Patsy Rodenburg (Head of Voice, Guildhall School Drama Department) address questions of attention, empathy, trust, decisionmaking and leadership, and how these function in cultures of learning.

Tickets: £10 (£5 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk Monday 19 October, 6.30pm, Silk Street Music Hall

Citizens or Subjects?

El Sistema in Critical Perspective José Antonio Abreu, founder of the Venezuelan youth orchestra programme El Sistema, claims that ‘when you train musicians you train better citizens’, while conductor Gustavo Dudamel believes that ‘the best example of what a community can be is the orchestra’. Presented by Geoffrey Baker (Royal Holloway), this talk shines a critical light on these

RESEARCH WORKS

Changing practices, changing institutions

statements and on the broader question of music education and citizenship.

are well positioned to contribute to this discourse of success. However, with music graduates in need of diverse employment opportunities, conservatoires are beginning to look at how the local might be worldclass too. Presented by Biranda Ford (Guildhall School).

Admission free please visit researchatguildhall.eventbrite.co.uk Monday 16 November, 6.30pm, Milton Court Rehearsal Room 1

Women Conductors and Cultures of Leadership Alice Farnham in conversation with Richard Baker

Alice Farnham trained at the St Petersburg State Conservatoire. Following an interview on BBC Radio Four about the lack of women conductors, she co-founded a programme at Morley College to address the question. She is now running workshops throughout the UK, and comes to Guildhall ahead of conducting David Bruce’s The Firework-Maker’s Daughter at the Royal Opera House in December.

Admission free please visit researchatguildhall.eventbrite.co.uk

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FUTURE EVENTS

Thursday 14 January 2016, 7.30pm Milton Court Concert Hall ALUMNI RECITAL SERIES

The Film & TV Music of Debbie Wiseman mbe Guildhall Chamber Orchestra Debbie Wiseman conductor

Guildhall School alumna Debbie Wiseman is one of the UK’s most in-demand composers, whose film and TV scores have won many accolades. She is currently Classic FM’s Composer in Residence, and her soundtrack to the recent BBC TV series Wolf Hall went straight to the top of the classical music charts. Here she makes a special return to the School to conduct the Guildhall Chamber Orchestra in a programme of her music.

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Debbie Wiseman Wilde West (Wilde), Tom’s Midnight Garden, Wilde, Wolf Hall, The Truth About Love, Flood, Lesbian Vampire Killers, A Poet in New York, Father Brown, Haunted, The Whale, Arsène Lupin – Suite, Jubilee Gigue

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Friday 8 January 2016, 6pm Milton Court Concert Hall Wednesday 20 January 2016, 8pm Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall

Guildhall Artists at Carnegie Hall Savitri Grier violin Stephen Williams clarinet Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula piano

Programme to include Bartók’s Contrasts

Tickets: £15 (£10 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office from 26 October. Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members.

The Guildhall School returns to the world-renowned Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York, to present three highly-acclaimed artists. Their programme includes Bartók’s Contrasts for clarinet, violin and piano. London audiences can hear the concert in Milton Court a few weeks before.

Tickets: £20 (£10 concessions), available from carnegiehall.org from 20 October.

Thursday 17 March 2016, 7.30pm Barbican Hall

Guildhall String Ensemble

Guildhall Symphony Orchestra

Roberto González-Monjas director

Takuo Yuasa conductor

Vasks Musica Dolorosa Hartmann Concerto Fùnebre, for violin and strings Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night)

Webern Passacaglia R. Strauss Der Rosenkavalier Suite Prokofiev Symphony No.5 in B f lat, Op. 100

FUTURE EVENTS

Friday 19 February 2016, 7pm Milton Court Concert Hall

Schoenberg’s richly expressive Verklärte Nacht lies at the heart of this string ensemble programme directed by one of the Guildhall School’s youngest professors, acclaimed violinist Roberto González-Monjas. The concert opens with Latvian composer Pe¯teris Vasks’s 1983 requiem, Musica Dolorosa, and Karl Hartmann’s most famous work, written during the first months of the Second World War. Tickets: £15 (£5 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office from 26 October.

Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members.

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Monday 22, Wednesday 24, Friday 26, Monday 29 February 2016, 7pm Silk Street Theatre

Britten: The Rape of Lucretia Dominic Wheeler conductor Martin Lloyd-Evans director

The Guildhall School’s Opera department presents Britten’s haunting chamber opera.

Tickets: £25 (£15 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office from 6 January 2016. Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members.

Prokofiev described his Fifth Symphony as “a hymn to free and happy Man, to his mighty powers, his pure and noble spirit”, and it remains one of his most popular works. Takuo Yuasa makes a welcome return to conduct the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra, with Webern and Strauss completing the programme.

Tickets: £15, £10 (£5 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office from 26 October.

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João Seara, BMus Double Bass (2014); now Co-Principal Double Bass of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra

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The Guildhall School is located in the heart of the City of London, in the midst of an exciting cultural hub which includes the Barbican Centre, LSO St Luke’s and the Museum of London. There is a good selection of restaurants and bars nearby on Whitecross Street, Old Street and in Farringdon and Spitalfields, for those looking for a pre-concert or pre-theatre meal.

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