Guildhall School events Summer 2014 Music • Drama • Opera • Jazz
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Contents Guildhall Artists at the Barbican
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Monthly highlights
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April May June July
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Masterclasses
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Prizes
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Guildhall ResearchWorks
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Guildhall Young Artists
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Events at a glance
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Guildhall Artists at the Barbican Senior musicians from the Guildhall School take to the Barbican stage before LSO concerts with free performances of complementary repertoire. Thursday 1 May • 6pm
Sunday 22 June • 6pm
Brahms Piano Works
Beethoven Sonatas Beethoven Cello Sonata No 5 in D major Op 102, No 2 Beethoven Violin Sonata No 6 Op 30, No 1 Pablo Hernán violin Yoanna Prodanova cello Erdem Misirlio lu piano Yundu Wang piano
Future events
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Brahms Sonata No 2 in F# minor Op 2 Brahms Four Pieces for Piano Op 119
What they say
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Erdem Misirlio lu piano Thursday 8 May • 6pm
Our partnerships
R. Strauss Cello Sonata
The Guildhall School of Music & Drama is proud to work in partnership with the following organisations:
Leander Kippenberg cello Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula piano
R. Strauss Cello Sonata in F major Op 6
Thursday 12 June • 6pm The Guildhall School is provided by the City of London as part of its contribution to the cultural life of London and the nation
Dvořák Piano Quartet Dvo ák Piano Quartet in E flat Yolanda Bruno violin Miguel Rodriguez viola Yoanna Prodanova cello Mihai Ritivoiu piano
Sunday 29 June • 6pm
Françaix and Milhaud Françaix Wind Quintet No 1 Milhaud La cheminée du Roi René Jemma Freestone flute Rebecca Millard oboe Max Mausen clarinet Stephen Craigen horn Luke Tucker bassoon
Admission free Photographs: Clive Barda, Mitch Jenkins, Clive Totman, Morley Von Sternberg, Simon Corder, Katie Vandyck, Sussie Ahlburg, Michael Wilson, Richard Olivier.
BARBICAN HALL
Cover photo: Rosemary Boyle as Ophelia in Hamlet (February 2014) © Clive Barda Design & print: www.fullcycle.co 2
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April Monday 28 April • 7.30pm
St John Passion Dinis Sousa conductor Bach St John Passion Bach’s iconic masterpiece is presented for the first time in Milton Court by a group of students and alumni of the Guildhall School, alongside musicians from other UK music colleges. Soloists include: Alessandro Fisher tenor, Evangelist David Shipley bass, Christus Alison Rose soprano Meili Li countertenor Martin Häßler bass Admission free MILTON COURT CONCERT HALL
APRIL / MAY 2014
May
Wednesday 30 April • 7pm CONSERVATOIRE DE PARIS, ESPACE MAURICE FLEURET
Saturday 3 May • 7.30pm
Guildhall Jazz Band plays Duke Ellington
Friday 2 May • 8pm
‘The Duke’s’ masterful Shakespearean suite Such Sweet Thunder is performed as the Guildhall School’s jazz department continues its annual collaboration with the Duke Ellington Society UK.
Thursday 1 May • 7pm
ST JOHN’S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
SILK STREET MUSIC HALL
Saturday 3 May • 8pm
Admission free
Stretching the Accordion
GIRTON COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
SILK STREET MUSIC HALL
Jointly presented with the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris, this exciting project brings together composers and instrumentalists from both conservatoires to explore the multifaceted repertoire of French and British chamber music with accordion. The concerts, in Paris and London, feature world premieres by young composers Florent Caron-Darras (Paris Conservatoire) and Oliver Leith (Guildhall School), for accordion, alto saxophone, clarinet, violin, cello, double bass and piano.
An ensemble of sackbut and cornett players from the Guildhall School and other conservatoires join forces with choristers and string musicians from the University of Cambridge for a programme of music by Heinrich Schütz and his contemporaries with Venetian connections.
Bernard Cavanna Trio No 1 for accordion, violin and cello Philippe Leroux De l’épaisseur for accordion, violin and cello Florent Caron-Darras Soleil Mat Rebecca Saunders Quartet for clarinet, accordion, double bass and piano Oliver Leith <>
Flavien Boy conductor Fanny Vicens accordion Vincent Lhermet accordion Max Mausen clarinet Hiroe Yasui saxophone Constance Ronzatti violin Peteris Sokolovskis cello Siret Lust double bass Matthieu Acar piano
Sackbuts and Cornetts
Tickets: www.adcticketing.com
Thursday 8 May • 7pm
Guildhall New Music Ensemble Henk Guittart director Ailsa Mainwaring mezzo-soprano Joseph Padfield baritone Schoenberg’s first Chamber Symphony, a touchstone of early modernism, lies at the heart of this chamber programme directed by co-founder of the Schoenberg Quartet and leading interpreter of the composer’s work, Henk Guittart. Schoenberg Three Pieces for Chamber Orchestra (1910) Strauss (arr. Schoenberg) Kaiserwalzer (Emperor Waltz) Schoenberg Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte Op 41 Das Lied der Waldtaube (Song of the wood dove) from Gurrelieder Chamber Symphony No 1 Op 9 Admission free MILTON COURT CONCERT HALL
Admission free
Friday 2 May • 7.30pm
Alumni Recital Series: Toby Spence & Julian Milford Toby Spence tenor, Julian Milford piano
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Wednesday 30 April • 7pm
The Alumni Recital Series sees the Guildhall School welcome back some of its most highly-acclaimed alumni to perform in the Milton Court Concert Hall. World-renowned tenor Toby Spence and his acclaimed regular recital partner and fellow alumnus Julian Milford return to the School for this special performance.
French Song Concert
Beethoven An Die Ferne Geliebte
Postgraduate singers and pianists perform a programme of French song devised and presented by Gordon Stewart. Admission free
Schubert
Abendbilder Im Abendrot Bei dir allein Des Fischers Liebesglück Am Fenster
SILK STREET MUSIC HALL
Schumann
Dichterliebe
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 (www.barbican.org.uk). MILTON COURT CONCERT HALL
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FEBRUARY MAY 2014
Friday 9 May • 7pm
Sunday 11 May • 3pm
Wednesday 14 May • 7pm
Piano Recital
NEW MALDEN METHODIST CHURCH
Guildhall Harpists & Friends
Postgraduate piano accompanists team up with their instrumental partners for a showcase recital directed by professor Gordon Back.
Wednesday 14 May • 12pm HATCHLANDS PARK
At Home with the Bachs James Johnstone director
SILK STREET MUSIC HALL
CPE Bach Geistliche Gesänge
Saturday 10 May • 9.30am–6pm
JS Bach Anna Magdalena Bach extracts
Harp Day: Move Well, Play Better
JS Bach Quodlibet BWV 524
A workshop for harpists, students (aged 15 and over) and harp teachers, covering essential knowledge of the harpist’s body and how it works in movement. This will be a hands-on, practical and experiential day of discovery for all harpists who would like to play with more freedom and avoid injury.
Musicians from the Historical Performance department bring to life the domestic musical day of the Bach household with a programme of songs and a quodlibet for voices and keyboard. New Malden: Admission free Hatchlands Park: £14 from www.cobbecollection.co.uk
The The Gold Gold Medal Medal Monday 12 May • 7pm
BARBICAN HALL
Magdalena Molendowska winning the 2013 Gold Medal
Admission free
Harpists from the Guildhall School present a beguiling evening of solo and chamber music, from Couperin and Dowland, to Hindemith and the French Impressionists, with some little-known gems along the way. Admission free SILK STREET MUSIC HALL
Friday 16 May • 7.30pm
Four-Hand Piano Project Noriko Ogawa leads a project on French piano music for four hands, with performances given by senior Guildhall pianists. Admission free SILK STREET MUSIC HALL
Cost: £40 (£15 full-time students). Please email harp@gsmd.ac.uk for further details and booking.
Finalists:
SILK STREET BUILDING
Rose Hsien violin Korngold Violin Concerto in D major
Monday 12 May
Max Mausen clarinet Copland Clarinet Concerto
Vocal Showcase A day of performances by undergraduate vocal students, showcasing their work in drama, movement, opera and music theatre.
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Guildhall Symphony Orchestra Dominic Wheeler conductor
4.30pm
Music Theatre Showing Second year undergraduate singers present the culmination of their Music Theatre class, directed and prepared by Bridgitta Roy, Linda Hutchison and Erika Gundesen.
1.05pm
4pm
Light Music Showing
Movement Class Open Workshop
First year undergraduate singers present songs in a specially devised piece, directed by Victoria Newlyn and Ian Kennedy.
First and second year undergraduate singers demonstrate their work in an open Movement class, led by Bryony Williams.
Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro
LECTURE RECITAL ROOM
SILK STREET MUSIC HALL
SILK STREET MUSIC HALL
Third year undergraduate singers present a reduced version of Mozart’s opera, directed by Sally Burgess with music preparation by Linnhe Robertson, Clive Timms and Elizabeth Marcus. Admission free
The Gold Medal, the Guildhall School’s most prestigious prize for musicians, 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), Patricia Rozario (1979), Tasmin Little (1986) and Bryn Terfel (1989). This year is the turn of the instrumentalists, who will perform a concerto with the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra, before a Barbican Hall audience.
Michael Petrov cello Shostakovich Cello Concerto No 1 They will be judged by a prestigious jury panel, including Tasmin Little, renowned violinist and previous Gold Medal winner; Ivan Hewett, Chief Music Critic at The Daily Telegraph; Jonathan Vaughan, Director of Music at the Guildhall School and Dominic Wheeler, Head of Opera and conductor of the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra for the evening. Reserved tickets: £15, £10 (£5 concessions, Guildhall staff and students) available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk).
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Faculty Artist Series The School’s series of exclusive performances by senior professors and their colleagues gives the public, staff and students the opportunity to see some of the country’s finest musicians perform in the Milton Court Concert Hall. Thursday 15 May • 7.30pm
Mozart Piano Quartet in G minor K478 Barber Dover Beach Op 3 Elgar Piano Quintet in A minor Op 84 Stephan Loges bass-baritone, Professor of Vocal Studies Bartosz Woroch violin, Professor of Violin Amarins Wierdsma violin Matthew Jones viola, Senior Tutor of Strings Chamber Music Ursula Smith cello, Professor of Cello Carole Presland piano, Senior Tutor of Keyboard Chamber Music
Reserved tickets: £15 (£10 concessions, free for Guildhall staff and students), available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk). Group discount available (020 7382 7211). MILTON COURT CONCERT HALL
Medtner Day One-day festival dedicated to the artistic output of Russian pianist-composer Nikolay Medtner. 1pm:
Lunchtime concert featuring Medtner’s solo piano works and songs.
3pm:
Hamish Milne Piano Masterclass
5.45pm: Pre-concert talk (see page 20). Alexander Karpeyev discusses Medtner’s life in Russia and England and the role he played in the musical culture of the first half of the 20th century, before introducing the works performed in the evening concert. 7pm:
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Evening concert featuring Medtner’s Piano Quintet, Sonata tragica and Russian Round Dance for two pianos.
Thursday 29 May • 1.10pm
Thursday 29 May • 5.30pm
Guildhall Guitars
Liebeslieder Waltzes
Voiceworks
A concert of music from three centuries including works by Granados, Tedesco, Asencio, Mertz, Dodgson and Laura Snowden.
Sarah Walker directs a lunchtime performance of Brahms’s Liebeslieder Waltzes collection of love songs.
Admission free SILK STREET MUSIC HALL
MILTON COURT STUDIO THEATRE FOYER
A programme of new vocal works, the culmination of an annual project between Guildhall School composers and singers, poets from Birkbeck College, and Wigmore Hall.
Wednesday 28 May • 7pm
Thursday 29 May • 1.05pm
Viola da Gamba +
Die schöne Magelone
Premieres of five new pieces for viola da gamba plus additional elements, devices, instruments and sounds by postgraduate composers, performed by Leo Tolkin and directed by Liam Byrne (Fretwork) and Paul Newland.
Brahms Die schöne Magelone
Admission free
The Faculty Artist Series 2013/14 is generously supported by Michael and Mercedes Hoffman.
Thursday 22 May • 1pm–8.30pm
Tuesday 27 May • 7pm
SILK STREET MUSIC HALL
Admission free
Admission free WIGMORE HALL
Josep-Ramon Olivé baritone Ricardo Gosalbo piano Senior Guildhall musicians give a lunchtime performance of Brahms’s rarely-heard song cycle which sets poems by Ludwig Tieck depicting a medieval fairytale romance. Admission free LECTURE RECITAL ROOM
Wednesday 21 May • 7pm
Monday 26 May • 7.30pm
Piano and String Composition Project
Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize: Winner’s Recital
Premieres of new works by postgraduate composers. This project is directed by visiting tutors Marcus Barcham-Stevens and Roderick Chadwick. Admission free LECTURE RECITAL ROOM
Thursday 22 May • 7pm
Edith Wiens Concert On the final day of her short residency at the Guildhall School, soprano Edith Wiens from the Juilliard School, New York, performs a concert with senior Guildhall singers.
Admission free
Admission free
LECTURE RECITAL ROOM
SILK STREET MUSIC HALL
The Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize annually awards an exceptional Guildhall School musician with a Wigmore Hall recital. Welsh tenor Joshua Owen Mills is the recipient of this year’s award, and his recital promises to be a special occasion. Joshua Owen Mills tenor Rodrigo de Vera piano Mozart Beethoven Liszt Britten Quilter
Die ihr des unermesslichen Weltalls Schöpfer ehrt Der Kuss, Resignation, Lied aus der Ferne Tre Sonetti di Petrarca Winter Words It was a lover and his lass Three Shakespeare Songs Tickets: £12.50 (£10 concessions) available from the Wigmore Hall Box Office 020 7935 2141 www.wigmore-hall.org.uk 9 9
Friday 23, Saturday 24, Tuesday 27, Wednesday 28, Thursday 29, Friday 30, Saturday 31 May • 7.30pm www.gsmd.ac.uk Tuesday 27, Thursday 29 May • 2pm
MAY / JUNE 2014
Thursday 12 June • 11am–5pm
MILTON COURT STUDIO THEATRE & FOYERS
MILTON COURT STUDIO THEATRE
Napoli Milionaria by Eduardo de Filippo
The exuberant, chaotic life of an impoverished Neapolitan family during and after WWII. An affectionate and soul searching look at the cost of survival in a time of war.
Technical Theatre Arts Graduate Exhibition 2014
Design Realisation • Stage and Costume Management • Theatre Technology Joseph Blatchley director Dora Schweitzer designer Max Narula lighting designer Peter Croft sound designer
Unreserved tickets: £10 (£5 concessions, Guildhall staff and students, Equity), available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk) from 23 April. Group discount available (020 7382 7211).
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.
Following the success of last year’s inaugural event, this year the exhibition takes place in the flexible Milton Court Studio Theatre and surrounding foyers, and many of the students will be present to talk about their work. Admission free
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JUNE / JULY 2014
City of London Festival Lunchtime concerts
Wednesday 11, Friday 13, Monday 16, Wednesday 18, Friday 20, Saturday 21 June • 7pm MILTON COURT THEATRE
Julian Perkins conductor Rodula Gaitanou director Simon Corder set and lighting designer Cordelia Chisholm costume designer
THE COOPER
Tuesday 24 June – Thursday 17 July • 1pm The Guildhall School has played an important part in the City of London Festival since its inaugural year, and this year continues its close collaboration as senior Guildhall musicians give free lunchtime concerts in churches across the City.
ARNE
Photo by Simon Corder
SAN GIOVANNI BATTISTA STRADELLA
Inspired by the opportunity to present opera in the new Milton Court Theatre, the Guildhall School is proud to present two contrasting, rarely-performed works: English composer Thomas Arne’s charmingly eccentric comedy, The Cooper, and Italian Baroque composer Alessandro Stradella’s dramatic 1675 oratorio, San Giovanni Battista, which revolves around Herod’s obsession with Salome.
Tuesday 24 June
Friday 27 June
Thursday 3 July
Tuesday 15 July
Beethoven Septet
Villa-Lobos Works
Alexandra Lomeiko violin Luba Tunnicliffe viola Toby White cello Iurii Gavryliuk double bass Ausiàs Garrigós Morant clarinet Alexander Wide horn Gareth Humphreys bassoon
Ricky Gore violin Moira Bette viola Yoanna Prodanova, Toby White cello Zuzanna Olbrys harp Rebecca Carson, Rebecca Griffiths, Jessica Kabirat flute Grace Warren oboe Rebekah Carpio clarinet Molly Flanagan horn Jamie White bassoon
Song from the Asylum
Mozart and Vaughan Williams
Songs by Schumann, Wolf, Gurney, Smetana, Donizetti.
Oliver Cave, Francesca Gilbert, Ionel Manciu violin May Dolan, Sophie Haynes viola Toby White cello Iurii Gavryliuk double bass Bryony Keyse, Hannah Watson piano
ST ANDREW BY THE WARDROBE
Wednesday 25 June
Strauss and Chopin Cello Sonatas
ST BOTOLPH-WITHOUTBISHOPSGATE
Tuesday 1 July
Friday 4 July
Rachmaninoff and Scriabin Piano Works Anna Gogava piano ST SEPULCHRE-WITHOUTNEWGATE
Tuesday 8 July
The Jane Manning Birthday Project
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Works
(see page 14).
Wednesday 9 July
A programme of song devised and directed by Armin Zanner.
Maxwell Davies Ave Maris Stella and Hymnos David Ruff flute / alto flute Oliver Pashley clarinet George Barton marimba Duncan Anderson viola Romana Kaiser cello Siwan Rhys piano
ST OLAVE HART STREET
ST MARGARET PATTENS
Oscar Alabau, Leander Kippenberg cello Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula, Hannah Watson piano ST BRIDE’S FLEET STREET
Thursday 26 June
Guildhall Voices
Wednesday 2 July
Piano Works
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ST JAMES GARLICKHYTHE
Tickets: £25 (£15 concessions, £5 Guildhall staff and students) available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk) from 11 April.
by Beethoven, Brahms and Chopin. Marina Koka piano
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ST GILES CRIPPLEGATE
ST MARY-LE-BOW
Debussy and Chopin Piano Works Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula piano
ST STEPHEN WALBROOK
Wednesday 16 July
Schnittke and Medtner Piano Quintets Esther Kim, Amarins Wierdsma violin Francesca Gilbert viola Thomas Marlin cello Alasdair Macaskill piano
ST LAWRENCE JEWRY
ST DUNSTAN-INTHE-WEST
Thursday 10 July
Thursday 17 July
Lieder concert
Dvořák and Haydn
Works by Schumann, Berg, and Wolf.
Archos Quartet Luba Tunnicliffe viola Toby White cello
ST VEDAST-ALIAS-FOSTER
Friday 11 July
ST MICHAEL CORNHILL
Piano Works by Messiaen, Bach, and Sibelius. Hannah Watson piano ST ANDREW HOLBORN
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June Thursday 5 June • 6pm
Jazz at St John’s Waterloo The Guildhall Jazz Ensemble and Southbank Sinfonia perform new music by Guildhall professors Scott Stroman and Gail Brand. Admission free ST JOHN’S WATERLOO SE1
JUNE/JULY 2014
Tuesday 8, Wednesday 9, Thursday 10, Friday 11, Saturday 12, Wednesday 16 July • 7.30pm Friday 11, Monday 14 July • 2pm
Saturday 21 June • 7pm
Three last symphonies Guildhall School partner the Academy of Ancient Music closes its 40th anniversary season in grand style with a rare performance of the last symphonies of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven. Guildhall singers form part of the AAMplify new generation choir for Beethoven’s epic Ninth Symphony. Tickets: £10-£35 available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk).
July Friday 4 July • 7pm
MMus Ensemble Project The Plus-Minus ensemble, committed to presenting new work alongside landmark modern repertoire, presents five new works by postgraduate Guildhall composers, and a rare opportunity to hear Peter Ablinger’s experimental Amtssee bei Regen. Admission free SILK STREET MUSIC HALL
BARBICAN HALL
Monday 14 and Tuesday 15 July • 5.30pm
Summer Gala Evenings
Friday 6 June • 1.05pm
LECTURE RECITAL ROOM
Tuesday 8 July • 1pm ST MARY-LE-BOW
Part of the City of London Festival
The Jane Manning Birthday Project Guildhall singers and pianists perform 20th and 21st century song repertoire specially selected and prepared by soprano Jane Manning, in celebration of her 75th birthday and her appointment as a Research Associate at the School. Admission free
Celebrate the end of the School’s year in style at the Guildhall School Summer Gala Evenings. Guests are invited to a drinks reception and supper in the Barbican Centre’s Garden Room followed by a performance of Grand Hotel in the Silk Street Theatre. Tickets: £75 including pre-supper drinks reception, two-course supper with wine, entry to the performance of Grand Hotel and a performance programme. All proceeds will go towards supporting the Guildhall School and its students. For further information or to book tickets, please contact Rachel Davis: 020 7382 7157 or email rachel.davis@gsmd.ac.uk
Grand Hotel
SILK STREET THEATRE
Martin Connor director Bill Deamer choreographer Steven Edis musical director Morgan Large designer Richard Howell lighting designer Ben Harrison sound designer
music and lyrics by Robert Wright and George Forrest, with additional lyrics and music by Maury Yeston book by Luther Davis
Grand Hotel is based on the 1929 Vicki Baum novel and play, Menschen im Hotel (People in a Hotel), and the subsequent 1932 MGM feature film. Events take place over the course of a weekend at the Grand Hotel, Berlin, in 1928. The plot intertwines the lives of a fading prima ballerina, a handsome, young but penniless Baron, a terminally ill Jewish bookkeeper who wishes to spend his final days living in luxury, and a businessman who succumbs to temptation in the form of a young typist dreaming of a Hollywood career – all of whom are quietly observed by a cynical, war veteran doctor. The show was first produced on Broadway in 1989 and played in the West End, where it was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best New Musical in 1993.
Reserved tickets: £15 (£10 concessions, Guildhall staff and students, Equity), available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk) from 5 May. Group discount available (020 7382 7211).
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JULY 2014
Sunday 6 July • 4.30pm, Parabola Theatre as part of the Cheltenham Music Festival world premiere Wednesday 6 August • 8pm (6pm pre-concert talk), Lakes Hall as part of Lake District Summer Music
Monday 7 – Friday 11 July
Okeanos presents:
Curious
Tokaido Road – A Journey after Hiroshige This new multi-media chamber opera follows the young artist Hiroshige as he sets out on Japan’s great Eastern sea-coast road, Tokaido Road, in 1832 – an adventure he later brought to life in his famous woodblock prints. Created and commissioned by Western-Japanese music ensemble, Okeanos, the project is led by Kate Romano, Deputy Head of Academic Studies, and features Guildhall students and staff as members of the cast, creative team and in backstage roles.
Music by Nicola LeFanu Libretto by Nancy Gaffield Dominic Wheeler conductor Caroline Clegg director Kimie Nakano designer Daniel Whewell lighting designer Theo Burt, Wynn White images Stuart Calder producer
Cheltenham tickets: £20 (limited number of £5 tickets for under 30s) from www.cheltenhamfestivals.com Lakes Hall tickets: www.ldsm.org.uk Tokaido Road is supported by the Guildhall School’s Research department. Tokaido Road is generously funded by grants from Arts Council England, Britten Pears Foundation, Cheltenham Festival, Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, John S Cohen Foundation, Leche Trust, Radcliffe Trust, RVW Trust and Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation.
Wednesday 9, Thursday 10, Monday 14 July • 7pm Saturday 12 July • 2.30pm
Opera Scenes
Curated by the Guildhall School and Barbican’s joint Creative Learning division, Curious features new and original works by Guildhall Masters in Leadership students and associated artists. Performances include live music, visuals and dance, as well as installations, discussions and open workshops. Find out more at www.gsmd.ac.uk/curious
Friday 11 July • 5pm
Friday 11 July • 7.30pm
Guildhall New Music Ensemble
Guildhall New Music Ensemble and Guildhall Sinfonia
‘Voices behind the Glass’
Diego Masson conductor Alexander Wide horn Alexander Soares piano Messiaen Des canyons aux étoiles
James Weeks conductor Featuring new works by Guildhall School composers, alongside Gesualdo’s Transcriptions, and Salvatore Sciarrino’s Le voci sottovetro. Admission free SILK STREET MUSIC HALL
John Ramster director
Reserved tickets: £10 (£5 concessions, free for Guildhall staff and students) available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk).
Dominic Wheeler 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 Opera Course. Unreserved tickets: £10 (£5 concessions, free for Guildhall staff and students) available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk) from 26 May. MILTON COURT STUDIO THEATRE
French conductor Diego Masson, widely recognised as one of the world’s leading exponents of 20th and 21st century music, conducts Messiaen’s landmark Des canyons aux étoiles (From the canyons to the stars), an orchestral tone poem as vast and unpredictable as the Utah landscape that inspired the composer.
MILTON COURT CONCERT HALL
Monday 14 July • 7pm
Wednesday 16 July • 6pm
Guildhall Percussion Ensemble
Vocal Summer Project
Directed by Richard Benjafield and Julian Warburton Steve Reich Six Marimbas Nick Hayes Shining Through West African Drumming – The Mighty Fontomfrom Admission free
The culmination of undergraduate singers’ Summer Performance Project combining music, movement and drama in a specially devised collaborative piece, directed by Andrew Watts and Bryony Williams. Admission free SILK STREET MUSIC HALL
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MASTERCLASSES / PRIZES
Prizes
Masterclasses
Monday 28 April • 7pm
Thursday 15 May • 6.30pm
The Ivan Sutton Award
The Chartered Surveyors’ Prize
For performance of a chamber work with piano.
Candidates each perform a 15-minute programme of contrasting pieces from opera, operetta, lieder as well as items from the contemporary, early music, music theatre and folk repertoire.
Supported by the City Music Society in commemoration of Ivan Sutton’s lifetime work for music in the City.
Brindley Sherratt
Jeremy Denk
Wednesday 14 May • 10am
Sunday 25 May • 2pm
Voice Masterclass
Piano Masterclass
LECTURE RECITAL ROOM
LECTURE RECITAL ROOM
Brindley Sherratt
Thursday 15 May • 2pm
Boris Berman
Piano Masterclass LECTURE RECITAL ROOM
Jeremy Denk
Edith Wiens Thursday 22 May • 2.30pm
Edith Wiens
Monday 26 May • 10am & 2pm
Emile Naoumoff Piano Masterclass
LECTURE RECITAL ROOM
Voice Masterclass Monday 19 May • 10am Tuesday 20 May • 10am
Takács Quartet
SILK STREET MUSIC HALL
Supported by the Worshipful Company of Chartered Surveyors.
Tuesday 29 April • 7pm For the performance of a programme of solo repertoire for brass instruments.
Friday 30 May • 10am
SILK STREET MUSIC HALL
For a performance of wind and/or brass chamber music.
Wednesday 7 May • 6.15pm
The Susan Longfield Prize
Launchpad Prize
Sponsored by June Emerson Wind Music. SILK STREET MUSIC HALL
For sopranos and mezzo-sopranos. In commemoration of Susan Longfield, who was a student at the School. This prize is generously supported by her family.
Piano Masterclass
SILK STREET MUSIC HALL
Chamber Music Masterclass
Hamish Milne
LECTURE RECITAL ROOM
Piano Masterclass
Monday 12 May • 7pm
Part of Medtner Day (see page 8)
The Gold Medal
LECTURE RECITAL ROOM
SILK STREET MUSIC HALL
The Armourers’ and Brasiers’ Brass Prize
Monday 2 June • 10am
Richard Goode Thursday 22 May • 3pm
SILK STREET MUSIC HALL
MILTON COURT CONCERT HALL
(see page 7)
Saturday 31 May • 2pm
Junior Guildhall Lutine Prize 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. MILTON COURT CONCERT HALL
BARBICAN HALL
Orchestral Artistry Masterclass Monday 19 May • 6pm
Lorenzo Iosco
Clarinet Masterclass The London Symphony Orchestra’s Principal Bass Clarinet Lorenzo Iosco coaches musicians studying on the School’s unique Orchestral Artistry specialism delivered in association with the LSO. LECTURE RECITAL ROOM
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! In 2014 final recitals take place on weekdays, 2 June – 7 July. Check our website www.gsmd.ac.uk/events for detailed listings.
All masterclasses are free to attend and tickets are not required.
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RESEARCHWORKS / GUILDHALL YOUNG ARTISTS
ResearchWorks is a dynamic programme of events centred around the School’s key research strands, bringing together staff, students and guests of international standing.
Thursday 8 May • 6pm
Analysis, Interpretation, and Performance: Hans Keller’s anti-school An evening dedicated to reflection on the unique pedagogical contribution of the legendary Hans Keller (1919-1985), including a critical introduction to Keller’s analytical approaches, archival audio/video, and a panel discussion with artists and teachers who studied with Keller, including Levon Chilingirian, Charles Sewart, Anton Weinberg and David Waterman.
Sunday 11 May • 10am–7.30pm
Tuesday 27 May • 4pm–7pm
Tuesday 3 June • 6pm
‘When England Held Her Breath’ Composing in Wartime: Elgar and his Contemporaries
Opera and its modern audiences: who are they, what do they want?
Scarlatti Revisits Barcelona
Tickets: £20 (£15 Elgar Society members; £5 Guildhall School staff and students) available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk) LECTURE RECITAL ROOM
Anthologies and compilations of texts pose particular problems for the study of text transmission and editing. This lecture from Professor Barry Ife compares and contrasts two manuscript compilations – one poetic and one musical – to illustrate these problems and discuss their implications. This lecture builds on the previous ResearchWorks event on Scarlatti. LECTURE RECITAL ROOM
LECTURE RECITAL ROOM
Friday 20 June • 6pm
Tuesday 3 June • 11am
Music Therapy in mainstream schools
Doctoral Day
Medtner Day pre-concert talk
Doctoral students present their research and discuss their experiences of doctoral study. This event will be followed by a ResearchWorks lecture from Professor Barry Ife, Principal of the Guildhall School, at 6pm.
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How are contemporary audiences experiencing and valuing opera? What impact do new forms of delivery such as live cinema relays have on the reach and public appreciation of opera? What are the implications for opera makers and promoters? The research will be presented and then discussed by an expert panel of people in, or connected to, the opera industry.
Thursday 22 May • 5.45pm
As part of this one-day festival, Alexander Karpeyev discusses Medtner’s life in Russia and England and the role he played in the musical culture of the first half of the 20th century, before introducing the works performed in the evening concert (see page 8).
Tuesday 29 April • 7.30pm
Sunday 22 June • 7pm
Saturday 12 July • 4pm
London Schools Symphony Orchestra
Barbican Young Orchestra
Junior Guildhall Prize Giving Concert
Dominic Wheeler conductor Tom Poster piano
LECTURE RECITAL ROOM
This conference, organised by the London Branch of the Elgar Society and the Guildhall School, explores the music of WWI and its effect on four composers: Gurney, Benjamin, Vaughan Williams, and Elgar.
Guildhall Young Artists
Leana Crookes and Luke Annesley offer differing perspectives on the work of music therapy in mainstream schools for adolescents. LECTURE RECITAL ROOM
Soloists from the Guildhall School’s Opera Course Dukas The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Ravel Piano Concerto in G major Ravel L’Enfant et les sortilèges Tickets: £8 – £24, available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk). BARBICAN HALL
Saturday 24 May • 6.30pm
Junior Guildhall Symphony Orchestra with musicians from the National Youth Chamber Orchestra of Portugal Julian Clayton conductor Rossini William Tell Overture Dvořák Symphony No 8 Reserved tickets: £15 (£10 concessions) available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk). MILTON COURT CONCERT HALL
LECTURE RECITAL ROOM
ResearchWorks events are free to attend but booking is required. Please visit researchatguildhall.eventbrite.co.uk to book your place.
Edward Gardner conductor Michael Petrov cello Walton Cello Concerto Stravinsky Firebird Suite (1919) The Barbican Young Orchestra was set up in 2008 by Sir Colin Davis and Sir Nicholas Kenyon to give young children from all over London the opportunity to play music on an international stage with a world class conductor. Edward Gardner takes on the challenge for 2014 and is joined by Guildhall cellist Michael Petrov for the Orchestra’s first performance in Milton Court. Admission free MILTON COURT CONCERT HALL
Sunday 6 July • 2.30pm
Junior Guildhall Symphony Orchestra
Featuring the Junior Guildhall Symphony Orchestra, String Ensemble, Chamber Choir, Percussion Ensemble and Big Band. Admission free MILTON COURT CONCERT HALL
Monday 4 August • 7pm
London Schools Symphony Orchestra Peter Ash, Richard Blackford conductors Dukas The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Strauss Don Quixote Richard Blackford The Great Animal Orchestra Tickets: www.thsh.co.uk BIRMINGHAM TOWN HALL
Julian Clayton conductor Matilda Lloyd trumpet Britten Four Sea Interludes; Passacaglia from Peter Grimes Pakhmutova Trumpet Concerto Mussorgsky (arr. Ravel) Pictures at an Exhibition Reserved tickets: £15 (£10 concessions) available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk). MILTON COURT CONCERT HALL 21
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EVENT LISTINGS
Events at a glance Key to venues: Barbican Cons = Barbican Conservatory, BH = Barbican Hall, Birmingham TH = Birmingham Town Hall, Cons de Paris = Conservatoire de Paris, Girton College = Girton College, Cambridge, Lakes Hall = Lakes Hall, Lake District Summer Music, LRR = Lecture Recital Room, MCCH = Milton Court Concert Hall, MC Studio = Milton Court Studio Theatre, MC Th = Milton Court Theatre, New Malden = New Maldon Methodist Church, Parabola Theatre = Parabola Theatre, Cheltenham, Regent Hall = Regent Hall, Oxford Street, Silk St MH = Silk Street Music Hall, Silk St Th = Silk Street Theatre, St Andrew = St Andrew by the Wardrobe EC4V, St Botolph = St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate EC2M, St Bride’s = St Bride’s, Fleet Street, St Dunstan = St Dunstan-in-the-West EC4A, St George’s = St George’s, Hanover Square, St Giles = St Giles Cripplegate EC2Y, St James = St James Garlickhythe EC4V, St John’s College = St John’s College, Cambridge, St Lawrence = St Lawrence Jewry EC2V, St Margaret = St Margaret Pattens EC3M, St Michael = St Michael Cornhill EC3V, St Olave = St Olave, Hart Street EC3R, St Sepulchre = St Sepulchre-without-Newgate EC1A, St Stephen’s = St Stephen’s Walbrook EC4N, St Vedast = St Vedast-alias-Foster EC2V.
April
10am
LRR
ResearchWorks: ‘When England Held Her Breath’
Sun 11
3pm
New Malden
At Home with the Bachs
Mon 12
1.05pm
LRR
Vocal Showcase: Light Music Showing
Mon 12
4pm
Silk St MH
Vocal Showcase: Movement Class Open Workshop
Mon 12
4.30pm
Silk St MH
Vocal Showcase: Music Theatre Showing
Mon 12
7pm
BH
The Gold Medal
Tue 13
7pm
Silk St MH
Postgraduate Piano Concert
Wed 14
10am
LRR
Brindley Sherratt Voice Masterclass
Wed 14
12pm
Hatchlands Park
At Home with the Bachs
Wed 14
7pm
Silk St MH
Guildhall Harpists & Friends
Thu 15
2pm
LRR
Boris Berman Piano Masterclass
Mon 28
7pm
Silk St MH
The Ivan Sutton Award
Thu 15
6.30pm
Silk St MH
The Chartered Surveyors’ Prize
Mon 28
7.30pm
MCCH
St John Passion
Thu 15
7.30pm
MCCH
Faculty Artist Series
Tue 29
7pm
Silk St MH
The Armourers’ and Brasiers’ Brass Prize
Fri 16
6pm
LRR
Baroque Trumpets and Timpani
Tue 29
7.30pm
BH
London Schools Symphony Orchestra
Fri 16
7.30pm
Silk St MH
Four-Hand Piano Project
Wed 30
7pm
Silk St MH
French Song Concert
Mon 19
10am
LRR
Takács Quartet Chamber Music Masterclass
Wed 30
7pm
Cons de Paris
Stretching the Accordion
Mon 19
6pm
LRR
Lorenzo Iosco Clarinet Masterclass
Mon 19
7pm
MCCH
String Department Concert
Tue 20
10am
LRR
Takács Quartet Chamber Music Masterclass
May
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Sun 11
Thu 1
1.05pm
LRR
MPerf Final Recital
Tue 20
7pm
Silk St MH
Postgraduate Piano Concert
Thu 1
6pm
BH
Guildhall Artists at the Barbican: Brahms Piano Works
Wed 21
7pm
LRR
Piano and String Composition Project
Thu 1
7pm
Silk St MH
Stretching the Accordion
Thu 22
1pm
LRR
Medtner Day: lunchtime concert
Fri 2
7.30pm
MCCH
Alumni Recital Series: Toby Spence & Julian Milford
Thu 22
2.30pm
Silk St MH
Edith Wiens Voice Masterclass
Fri 2
8pm
St John’s College
Sackbuts and Cornetts
Thu 22
3pm
LRR
Medtner Day: Hamish Milne Piano Masterclass
Sat 3
7.30pm
Silk St MH
Guildhall Jazz Band plays Duke Ellington
Thu 22
5.45pm
LRR
Medtner Day: ResearchWorks pre-concert talk
Sat 3
8pm
Girton College
Sackbuts and Cornetts
Thu 22
7pm
LRR
Medtner Day: evening concert
Tue 6
7pm
LRR
Double Bass Concert
Thu 22
7pm
Silk St MH
Edith Wiens concert
Wed 7
6.15pm
Silk St MH
The Susan Longfield Prize
Fri 23
7pm
Silk St MH
String Department Concert
Thu 8
6pm
BH
Guildhall Artists at the Barbican: R. Strauss Cello Sonata
Fri 23
7.30pm
MC Studio
Napoli Milionaria
Thu 8
6pm
LRR
ResearchWorks: Hans Keller’s anti-school
Sat 24
6.30pm
MCCH
Junior Guildhall Symphony Orchestra
Thu 8
7pm
MCCH
Guildhall New Music Ensemble
Sat 24
7.30pm
MC Studio
Napoli Milionaria
Fri 9
7pm
Silk St MH
Piano Recital
Sun 25
2pm
LRR
Jeremy Denk Piano Masterclass
Sat 10
9.30am
Silk St building
Harp Day: Move Well, Play Better
Mon 26
10am
LRR
Emile Naoumoff Piano Masterclass
Mon 26
2pm
LRR
Emile Naoumoff Piano Masterclass 23
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7.30pm
Wigmore Hall
Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize: Winner’s Recital
Fri 20
7pm
MC Theatre
Stradella & Arne double bill
Tue 27
2pm
MC Studio
Napoli Milionaria
Sat 21
2pm
MCCH
Junior Guildhall String Chamber Music Concert
Tue 27
4pm
LRR
ResearchWorks: Opera and its modern audiences
Sat 21
3pm
MCCH
Junior Guildhall String Chamber Music Concert
Tue 27
7pm
Silk St MH
Guildhall Guitars
Sat 21
5.10pm
MCCH
Junior Guildhall String Chamber Music Concert
Tue 27
7.30pm
MC Studio
Napoli Milionaria
Sat 21
7pm
MC Theatre
Stradella & Arne double bill
Wed 28
7pm
Silk St MH
Viola da Gamba +
Sat 21
7pm
BH
Academy of Ancient Music: Three last symphonies
Wed 28
7.30pm
MC Studio
Napoli Milionaria
Sun 22
6pm
BH
Guildhall Artists at the Barbican: Beethoven Sonatas
Thu 29
1.05pm
LRR
Die schöne Magelone
Sun 22
7pm
MCCH
Barbican Young Orchestra
Thu 29
1.10pm
MC Studio Foyer
Liebeslieder Waltzes
Tue 24
1pm
St Andrew
City of London Festival lunchtime concert
Thu 29
2pm
MC Studio
Napoli Milionaria
Wed 25
1pm
St Bride’s
City of London Festival lunchtime concert
Thu 29
5.30pm
Wigmore Hall
Voiceworks
Thu 26
1pm
St Olave
City of London Festival lunchtime concert
Thu 29
7pm
Silk St MH
String Department Concert
Fri 27
1pm
St Botolph
City of London Festival lunchtime concert
Thu 29
7.30pm
MC
Studio Napoli Milionaria
Sun 29
6pm
BH
Guildhall Artists at the Barbican: Françaix and Milhaud
Fri 30
10am
Silk St MH
Launchpad Prize
Fri 30
7pm
LRR
String Department Concert
Fri 30
7.30pm
MC Studio
Napoli Milionaria
Tue 1
1pm
St Margaret
City of London Festival lunchtime concert
Sat 31
2pm
MCCH
Junior Guildhall Lutine Prize
Wed 2
1pm
St Giles
City of London Festival lunchtime concert
Sat 31
7.30pm
MC Studio
Napoli Milionaria
Thu 3
1pm
St James
City of London Festival lunchtime concert
Fri 4
1pm
St Sepulchre
City of London Festival lunchtime concert
Fri 4
7pm
Silk St MH
MMus Ensemble Project
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Mon 2
10am
MCCH
Richard Goode Piano Masterclass
Sun 6
2.30pm
MCCH
Junior Guildhall Symphony Orchestra
Tue 3
11am
LRR
ResearchWorks: Doctoral Day
Sun 6
4.30pm
Parabola Theatre
Tokaido Road
Tue 3
6pm
LRR
ResearchWorks: Scarlatti Revisits Barcelona
Mon 7
1pm
Regent Hall
Junior Guildhall Brass Band
Thu 5
6pm
St John’s Waterloo Jazz at St John’s Waterloo
Tue 8
1pm
St Mary-le-Bow
City of London Festival lunchtime concert
Fri 6
1.05pm
LRR
The Jane Manning Birthday Project
Tue 8
7.30pm
Silk St Th
Grand Hotel
Wed 11
7pm
MC Theatre
Stradella & Arne double bill
Wed 9
1pm
St Lawrence
City of London Festival lunchtime concert
Thu 12
11am–5pm MC Studio
Technical Theatre Arts Graduate Exhibition
Wed 9
7pm
MC Studio
Opera Scenes
Thu 12
6pm
BH
Guildhall Artists at the Barbican: Dvořák Piano Quartet
Wed 9
7.30pm
Silk St Th
Grand Hotel
Fri 13
7pm
MC Theatre
Stradella & Arne double bill
Thu 10
1pm
St Vedast
City of London Festival lunchtime concert
Sat 14
5.10pm
MCCH
Junior Guildhall String Chamber Music Concert
Thu 10
7pm
MC Studio
Opera Scenes
Mon 16
7pm
MC Theatre
Stradella & Arne double bill
Thu 10
7.30pm
Silk St Th
Grand Hotel
Wed 18
7pm
MC Theatre
Stradella & Arne double bill
Fri 11
1pm
St Andrew Holborn City of London Festival lunchtime concert
Fri 20
6pm
LRR
ResearchWorks: Music Therapy in mainstream schools
Fri 11
2pm
Silk St Th
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2014/15
Fri 11
5pm
Silk St MH
Guildhall New Music Ensemble
Fri 11
7.30pm
MCCH
Guildhall New Music Ensemble & Guildhall Sinfonia
Fri 11
7.30pm
Silk St Th
Grand Hotel
Sat 12
2pm
LRR
Junior Guildhall Vocal Concert
Sat 12
2.30pm
MC Studio
Opera Scenes
Sat 12
4pm
MCCH
Junior Guildhall Prize Giving Concert
Guildhall Artists at the Barbican
Sat 12
7.30pm
Silk St Th
Grand Hotel
Sunday 21 September • 6pm
Mon 14
2pm
Silk St Th
Grand Hotel
Mon 14
5.30pm
Barbican Cons
Summer Gala: Grand Hotel
Mon 14
7pm
Silk St MH
Guildhall Percussion Ensemble
Mon 14
7pm
MC Studio
Opera Scenes
Tue 15
1pm
St Stephen
City of London Festival lunchtime concert
Tue 15
1.05pm
Silk St MH
Piccolo Concert
Tue 15
5.30pm
Barbican Cons
Summer Gala: Grand Hotel
Schubert and Wagner Songs
Wed 16
1pm
St Dunstan
City of London Festival lunchtime concert
Admission free
Tickets: £25 (£15 concessions) available from the Barbican Box Office from September 2014.
Wed 16
6pm
Silk St MH
Vocal Summer Project
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Wed 16
7.30pm
Silk St Th
Grand Hotel
Thu 17
1pm
St Michael
City of London Festival lunchtime concert
August Mon 4
7pm
Birmingham TH
London Schools Symphony Orchestra
Wed 6
8pm
Lakes Hall
Tokaido Road
future events Prokofiev Chamber Music
Monday 3, Wednesday 5, Friday 7, Monday 10 November • 7pm
Dvořák
The Cunning Peasant
Thursday 16 October • 6pm
sung in English with a translation by Clive Timms
Bartók and Tchaikovsky Piano Works
Stephen Medcalf director Dominic Wheeler conductor
Thursday 23 October • 6pm
Presented by the Guildhall School’s Opera Course.
Friday 26 September • 7.30pm
Thursday 27 November • 7.30pm
Wednesday 15 April 2015 • 2pm
Guildhall Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Guildhall Symphony Orchestra
Joyce DiDonato
Mark Shanahan conductor Elisabeth Meister soprano Victoria Simmonds mezzo-soprano
Yan Pascal Tortelier conductor
As part of the Barbican’s Artist Spotlight series, Joyce DiDonato leads a masterclass with Guildhall School singers.
Verdi Requiem Verdi’s towering choral masterpiece marks a thrilling start to the Guildhall School’s autumn season of events. Tickets: £15, £10 (£5 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office from July 2014. BARBICAN HALL
Lutosławski Concerto for Orchestra Berlioz Symphonie fantastique Op 14 Infused with colourful Polish folk melodies, Lutosławski’s 1954 Concerto for Orchestra took four years to complete and is arguably the composer’s best-known work. Here it is paired with Berlioz’s revolutionary Symphonie fantastique, a fanciful depiction of a love-sick artist’s opiuminduced dream.
Voice Masterclass
Tickets: £30 (£10 students) available from the Barbican Box Office. MILTON COURT CONCERT HALL
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Tickets: £15, £10 (£5 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office from July 2014. BARBICAN HALL
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What they say… “the Guildhall students played with outstanding dexterity and tangible enjoyment.” The Guardian, February 2014, on Guildhall musicians at the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s Total Immersion: Thea Musgrave
“…the singing is consistently delightful, and in the case of the three main characters (some roles are double cast), often more than that: Piran Legg’s long-suffering Geppetto is very sensitively done. Anna Gillingham’s Blue Fairy beguiles with her bell-like tone, and Marta Fontanals-Simmons’s Pinocchio has star quality: she may be playing a puppet, but there’s nothing wooden about this young mezzo-soprano’s fabulous performance.” The Times, March 2014, on The Adventures of Pinocchio
“The Guildhall School musicians’ earlier programme of songs and quintets brought its own revelations… more marvellous flute players than I have the space to name.” The Times, March 2014, on Guildhall musicians at the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s Total Immersion: Villa-Lobos
“Yes, the third year Guildhall students have done it again – blown us away with a great interpretation of a legend’s play… I have no concerns about these actors suffering many loose ends within their acting career once they leave Guildhall, as once you astound an audience in a Shakespeare play, you probably have not got much else to worry about.”
Superb work from the Third Year @guildhallschool these last two weeks, tackling Hamlet and Henry V. Brilliant! #gettheetoabrewery
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International Piano, February 2014, on Charles Owen’s Faculty Artist Series performance of JS Bach’s Goldberg Variations
“The future of opera is in good hands, if Tuesday night’s opening of Jonathan Dove’s The Adventures of Pinocchio at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama is any indication. There was much to savour in this imaginative production, with exquisite performances and staging alike.” Bachtrack, March 2014, on The Adventures of Pinocchio
A Younger Theatre, February 2014, on Hamlet
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