Guildhall School Events Guide | Spring 2016

Music, Drama, Opera, Jazz

EventsJan – Apr 2016

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Contents

Monthly highlightsJanuary 3February 7March 18 April 24

Masterclasses 26

Guildhall Young Artists 28

Research Works 30

Future Events 32

Contact and information 35

PhotographsJeff Goldberg / Esto; courtesy of Carnegie Hall, Paul Cochrane, Morley Von Sternberg, Robin Savage, Matthew Andrews, Matthew Ferguson, Clive Barda, Decca / Andrew Eccles, Anne Van Aerschot, Clive Totman, LSO / Alastair Muir

Cover photoMilan Siljanov as Arlecchino in Le donne curiose (Autumn 2015) © Clive Barda

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

Guildhall Artists at Carnegie Hall Savitri Grier violinStephen Williams clarinetJean-Sélim Abdelmoula piano

Debussy La Terrasse des audiences du clair de lune

Debussy Première RhapsodieStravinsky Three Pieces for Clarinet Solo Ravel Violin SonataJaná c ek In the Mists Bartók Contrasts for violin, clarinet

and piano

The Guildhall School returns to Carnegie Hall, New York, to present three outstanding artists. Their programme takes in stand-out solo works for each instrument, including Stravinsky’s jazz-inspired Three Pieces for clarinet, and piano works by Debussy, before culminating in Bartók’s virtuosic Contrasts for violin, clarinet and piano. London audiences can hear the concert performed in Milton Court a few weeks before.

Admission free for Milton Court concert

Tickets for Carnegie Hall: $20 ($10 concessions), available from carnegiehall.org

Thursday 14 January, 7.30pm Milton Court Concert Hall

GUILDHALL TICKETED EVENT ALUMNI RECITAL SERIES

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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.

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

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

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Sunday 17 January, 5.30pm Barbican Hall

LSO Platforms: Guildhall ArtistsAmarins Wierdsma violinYoanna Prodanova celloMihai Ritivoiu piano

Dvo r ák Piano Trio in E minor Op 90, “Dumky”

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

Admission free

Monday 18 January, 10am Silk Street Music Hall

Public Composers’ Workshop Final-year undergraduate composers work on new pieces for eight voices with EXAUDI vocal ensemble directed by James Weeks.

Admission free

Monday 18 January, 6pm Milton Court Concert Hall

Songs at Six: Angels, Demons & Visionaries Russian songs and arias exploring contrasting themes in Russian poetry exemplified by two poems: Pushkin’s The Angel and Lermontov’s The Demon. Performed by postgraduate singers and pianists, devised and directed by Lada Valešová.

Admission free

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Monday 18 January, 6pm Lecture Recital Room

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

Admission free

Thursday 21 January, 7pm Lecture Recital Room

String Concert Postgraduate students showcase their talents in this free evening concert.

Admission free

Friday 22 January, 6pm Milton Court Concert Hall

Scenes at SixOpera scenes performed by postgraduate singers in the Vocal department.

Admission free

Sunday 24 January, 6pm Barbican Hall

LSO Platforms: Guildhall ArtistsStephen Williams clarinetYundu Wang piano

Berg Piano Sonata Op. 1 Four pieces for clarinet and piano


Admission free

Monday 25 January, 6pm Lecture Recital Room Tuesday 26 January, 6.30pm Lecture Recital Room

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

Admission free

Tuesday 26 January, 1.05pm Lecture Recital Room

Guildhall Harpists & Friends Students from the School’s Harp department present a programme of French chamber music by Ravel, Debussy and Massenet.

Admission free

Wednesday 27 January, 6.30pm Silk Street Music Hall

Chartered Surveyors’ Prize Supported by the Worshipful Company of Chartered Surveyors Finalists present mixed programmes of songs and arias.

Admission free

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Thursday 28 January, 7pm Silk Street Music Hall

Dramatised Song & Poetry Iain Burnside curates and coaches a programme around the theme of Night.

Admission free

Friday 29 January, 6pm Silk Street Music Hall

Strings at SixA performance snapshot from the Strings and Chamber Music departments.

Admission free

Friday 29 January, 7pm Milton Court Concert Hall

Guildhall ConsortDirected by Eamonn Dougan

Stravinsky Fanfare for a New Theatre Mozart Missa Brevis in F major, KV192 Stravinsky Pater Noster, Ave Maria and Mass

The Guildhall Consort performs a programme of sacred works culminating in Stravinsky’s neoclassical Mass for chorus and wind instruments, directed by The Sixteen’s Associate Conductor and Guildhall alumnus Eamonn Dougan.

Admission free

Mountain Language

One for the Road

A New World Order Harold Pinter

Jo McInnes directorAmelia Jane Hankin designerRory Beaton lighting designer*Rosie Stroud sound designer*

Power. Politics. Paranoia. Pinter.Location: Anywhere and Everywhere.

“...packs a visceral, ripped-from-the-headlines punch.” Charles Isherwood, Variety, on Mountain Language

Tickets: £10 (£5 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk from 15 December. Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members.

*Student on the BA (Hons) Technical Theatre Arts programme

Friday 29, Saturday 30 January, Wednesday 3, Thursday 4, Monday 8, Tuesday 9 February, 7.30pm Saturday 30 January, Thursday 4, Tuesday 9 February, 2pm Milton Court Studio Theatre

Monday 1, Tuesday 2, Friday 5, Saturday 6, Wednesday 10, Thursday 11 February, 7.30pm Tuesday 2, Saturday 6, Thursday 11 February, 2pmMilton Court Studio Theatre

Dealer’s ChoicePatrick Marber Mike Alfreds directorAmelia Jane Hankin designerRory Beaton lighting designer*

The hopes, dreams and failings of a group of men unfold during a game of poker. Marber’s enthralling debut success won the 1995 Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy and the Writers’ Guild for Best West End Play.



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Friday 5 February, 6pm Milton Court Concert Hall

Songs at Six: Robert & Clara Schumann Postgraduate singers and pianists perform a programme of songs by the Schumanns devised and directed by Stephan Loges.

Admission free

Thursday 11 February, 6.15pm Silk Street Music Hall

Susan Longfield PrizeSopranos and mezzo-sopranos perform short programmes in a range of musical styles.

Admission free


Scenes at SixA showing of opera scenes performed by postgraduate singers.

Admission free

Saturday 13 February, 1pm Barbican Hall

Total Immersion: The Music of Louis AndriessenGuildhall New Music Ensemble

Louis Andriessen Hout Zilver De Volharding

Hear the doyen of Dutch minimalism Louis Andriessen in conversation about his life and music before Guildhall musicians perform a selection of his dynamic, jazz-influenced work as part of the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s Total Immersion day.

Admission free

Top GirlsCaryl Churchill Joseph Blatchley directorDora Schweitzer designer Dom Baker lighting designer*Rosie Stroud sound designer*

Written in 1982 during the rise of Thatcherism, Caryl Churchill’s ground-breaking play explores an individualist society in which the few survive at the expense of the many.



Monday 8, Tuesday 9, Wednesday 10, Thursday 11, Friday 12, Saturday 13 February, 7.30pmWednesday 10, Friday 12 February, 2pmMilton Court Theatre

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Monday 15 February, 10amSilk Street Music Hall

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

Admission free

Monday 15 February, 6pm Milton Court Concert Hall

Songs at Six: Settings from Des Knaben Wunderhorn Pianist Eugene Asti and acclaimed scholar Susan Youens (University of Notre Dame, USA) lead postgraduate singers and pianists in a programme of songs, setting texts from the collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn. Pre-concert talk (see page 30).

Admission free

Wednesday 17 February, 7pm Silk Street Music Hall

Guildhall Brass EnsembleRichard Bissill conductorEmiko Edwards piano

Guildhall professor Richard Bissill leads the brass band through a sparkling programme of music, including Korngold’s The Sea Hawk (composed for the film of the same name), Gershwin’s ever-popular Rhapsody in Blue, and one of Bissill’s own compositions: his 75th Anniversary Fanfare for the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Admission free

Thursday 18 February, 1.05pm Lecture Recital Room

Song ProjectSecond year undergraduate singers present a selection of songs prepared and presented by Theresa Goble.

Admission free

Thursday 18 February, 6pm Milton Court Concert Hall

Strings at SixA performance snapshot from the Strings and Chamber Music departments.

Admission free

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GUILDHALL TICKETED EVENT

Guildhall String Ensemble Roberto González-Monjas director

Vasks Musica DolorosaHartmann Concerto Fùnebre, for violin

and stringsSchoenberg Verklärte Nacht

(Transfigured Night)

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 Peteris Vasks’s 1983 requiem, Musica Dolorosa, and Karl Hartmann’s most famous work, written during the first months of the Second World War.


Monday 22 February, 6.15pm Silk Street Music Hall

Vocal Studies Opera ScenesA selection of opera scenes performed by postgraduate singers, as a curtain-raiser to the evening opera, The Rape of Lucretia.

Admission free

Thursday 25 February, 6pm Broadway Theatre, Barking & Dagenham

Dialogue: Outside InDialogue is an annual event which celebrates the diversity and creative talent of East London. Working with a wide range of East London communities, Guildhall students and staff bring together musicians, poets and visual artists to produce and create new work inspired by Martin Parr’s exhibition in the Barbican Art Gallery, Strange and Familiar.

Admission free

The Rape of Lucretia Music by Benjamin Britten, libretto by Ronald Duncan, after the play by André Obey

Dominic Wheeler conductor Martin Lloyd-Evans directorJamie Vartan designerMark Jonathan lighting designer

Written as a post-war statement about moral injustice, suffering and the abuse of power, Britten’s 1946 chamber opera has lost none of its power to shock, anger and cause controversy over the 70 years since its premiere, particularly in its ambiguous refraction of its harrowing story through a Christian “lens”.

Its themes resonate as powerfully as ever and present singers and instrumentalists with a technically and emotionally exacting challenge.

Tickets: £25 (£15 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk from 6 January. Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members.

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

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Thursday 25 February, 7.30pm Lecture Recital Room

Richard Campbell 60th birthday celebrationTo honour the life and legacy of viola da gamba virtuoso and Guildhall School alumnus Richard Campbell, his friends, family, former pupils and colleagues have assembled a programme as varied as Richard’s own musical interests.

This concert includes music by Bach, William Lawes, and the premiere of a new work for viola da gamba. It also marks the foundation of a trust created in his memory, which will make two of Richard’s more exotic instruments, the lirone and bandora, available to Guildhall students and the broader London early music community.

Admission free

Friday 26 February, 10am Silk Street Music Hall

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

Admission free

Friday 26 February, 6pm Lecture Recital Room

Songs at Six: Unsung LovesSpanish song and Zarzuela excerpts commemorating the centenary of Enrique Granados’ untimely death. Performed by postgraduate singers and pianists, the programme is devised and directed by Ricardo Gosalbo.

Admission free

Sunday 28 February, 5.30pm Barbican Hall

LSO Platforms: Guildhall ArtistsCapucine Daumas, Sarah Gouzy,

Alison Langer sopranosLawrence Thackeray tenorLjubica Stojanovic, Nathan Tinker piano

Songs based on Shakespeare texts, including:Korngold Nine Shakespeare Songs, Op. 29

and Op. 31 R. Strauss Drei Ophelia Lieder, Op. 67


Admission free

Monday 29 February, 7pm Silk Street Music Hall

The Song GuildGraham Johnson directs Guildhall singers in a programme of Schubert songs. Admission free

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Leap-Day Jazz Spectacular with Liane CarrollLiane Carroll voice and pianoGuildhall Jazz BandsGuildhall Jazz ChoirMalcolm Edmonstone arranger and

musical directorScott Stroman conductor

The jazz department comes out in force for a special concert in collaboration with the award-winning singer-pianist Liane Carroll, whose soulful, emotive artistry was most recently heard on the critically-acclaimed album Seaside, released in September 2015.

This concert includes songs from Seaside with arrangements by Malcolm Edmonstone. Tickets: £15 (£5 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk from 6 January. Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members.

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Thursday 3 March, 6pm Lecture Recital Room

Franz-Schubert-Institut Lieder CompetitionFinalists of this new competition present short programmes of Lieder, competing for scholarships to study at the Franz-Schubert-Institut in Baden, Austria.

Admission free

Friday 4 March, 7pm Silk Street Music Hall

Guildhall Baroque Orchestra

Directed by Pavlo Beznosiuk

Soloists from the Historical Performance department perform a programme of Bach’s Easter Cantatas.

Admission free

Friday 4 March, 7pm Milton Court Concert Hall

The Song GuildGraham Johnson directs Guildhall singers in a programme of Britten songs. The Paul Hamburger Prize for Voice and Piano will be awarded at the end of this concert.

Admission free

Monday 7 March, 6pm Milton Court Concert Hall


Admission free

Friday 11 March, 1pm St George’s, Hanover Square

Heroes and Heroines Guildhall Cantata EnsembleDirected by James Johnstone

The Guildhall Cantata Ensemble performs arias by Handel as part of the London Handel Festival.

Tickets: £10 (free to students), available from the London Handel Festival Box Office: 01460 54660 london-handel-festival.com from 19 January.

Friday 11 March, 6pm Lecture Recital Room

Songs at Six: The Impressionist YearsA recital of French song devised and directed by Gordon Stewart, performed by postgraduate singers and pianists.

Admission free


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

Admission free

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Finnissy Weekend A weekend of events in celebration of Michael Finnissy’s 70th birthday, presented by the Guildhall School in conjunction with EXAUDI. Finnissy has been one of the most dynamic presences on the British new music scene for nearly half a century, as pianist, composer, teacher and animateur. His voluminous, restless oeuvre includes major contributions in every genre. This weekend focuses on two of these: his work for piano and his work for vocal ensemble. Supported by a generous grant from The Hinrichsen Foundation, EXAUDI takes on two of his most ardent and challenging scores from the 1970s, including the world premiere of Tom Fool’s Wooing. The Guildhall New Music Ensemble premieres another recently-revised work from the 1970s, Orfeo, and on Sunday virtuoso British pianist Jonathan Powell performs the complete Verdi Transcriptions for solo piano, written over a 30-year period and comprising more than three hours of music. The weekend includes a symposium exploring the context of these and other Finnissy works, with contributions from leading interpreters, scholars and the composer himself.

Saturday 12 March, 7.30pm Milton Court Concert Hall

Tom Fool’s Wooing EXAUDIGuildhall New Music EnsembleJanneke Brits, James Kreiling pianoJames Weeks director

Michael Finnissy Orfeo (world premiere)Cipriano Wild FlowersTom Fool’s Wooing (world premiere)

Admission free

Sunday 13 March, 10.30am Lecture Recital Room

SymposiumDiscussions and roundtable on various aspects of Finnissy’s work, with contributions from James Weeks, Jonathan Powell and Michael Finnissy.

Admission free

Sunday 13 March, 2pm Silk Street Music Hall

Verdi TranscriptionsJonathan Powell piano

Michael Finnissy Verdi Transcriptions (complete)

Admission free

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Saturday 12, Sunday 13 March, 7.30pm, Milton Court Theatre


Drums and GunsDevised by Iain Burnside

Iain Burnside, Conor Hanratty directorsVictoria Newlyn movement directorSunny Smith designer

The powerful combination of music and literature and the collective talents of three institutions are the foundation stones for an exciting collaborative project led by renowned pianist and Guildhall professor Iain Burnside. Bringing together artists from the Guildhall School, Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin and the Juilliard School, New York, Drums and Guns is a devised piece which explores conflict in war and the impact it has on families left behind. This fresh and engaging production commemorates both World War I and the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin.

Drums and Guns is also performed at The Lir, Dublin (9 & 10 March) and the Juilliard School, New York (28 April).

Tickets: £10 (£5 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office from 6 January. Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members.

Supported by Culture Ireland

Sunday 13 March, 6pm Lecture Recital Room

Berio Folk SongsElim Chan conductor

Italian composer Luciano Berio wrote Folk Songs in 1964 in tribute to the artistry of his wife, singer Cathy Berberian. The songs are richly varied in their origins, from Appalachia to Azerbaijan, and are subtly accompanied by an ensemble of seven instruments.

This performance from Guildhall School musicians – many of whom are training on the School’s Orchestral Artistry specialism with the London Symphony Orchestra – acts as a prelude to the LSO’s evening concert at the Barbican featuring Berio’s Sinfonia.

Admission free

Wednesday 16 March, 7pm Milton Court Concert Hall

EXAUDI and Guildhall ComposersA diverse range of new work by postgraduate composers written for the EXAUDI ensemble, led and directed by James Weeks.

Admission free

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Go, make you ready Patsy Rodenburg directorMark Simmonds designerSue Lefton movement directorRory Beaton lighting designer*Sean Mortimer sound designer*

William Shakespeare’s work changed our theatre, language and even, some say, the perceptions we have of ourselves. His 154 sonnets published in 1609 document his passions, both intellectual and personal. They inform and merge with many of his plays. Using the sonnets as springboards into his creative and personal life, this new devised piece explores the theatre, acting, passions and politics of Shakespeare’s life.

Tickets: £10 (£5 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office from 6 January. Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members This production will tour to Shanghai Grand Theatre on 1 & 2 April: shgtheatre.com


Friday 18, Saturday 19, Monday 21, Tuesday 22, Wednesday 23 March, 7.30pmMonday 21 March, Wednesday 23 March, 2pmSilk Street Theatre

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Wednesday 16, Thursday 17, Tuesday 22 March, 7pm Saturday 19 March, 2.30pm Milton Court Studio Theatre


Opera ScenesKelly Robinson directorElizabeth Rowe 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), available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk from 6 January.

Thursday 17 March, 1pm Lecture Recital Room Sunday 20 March, 3pm Courtauld Gallery, The Strand

Vocal EnsembleDavid Vinden directs second year undergraduate singers performing in consort, at the Guildhall School and one of London’s most beautiful art galleries.

Admission free

Thursday 17 March, 6pm Lecture Recital Room

VoiceworksSongs of the 20th and 21st centuries, performed by final year undergraduate singers directed by soprano Jane Manning.

Admission free

Thursday 17 March, 6pm Milton Court Concert Hall

Songs at Six: Russian SongA recital of Russian song to complement the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra’s evening performance of Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony.

Admission free

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Thursday 17 March, 7.30pm Barbican Hall


Guildhall Symphony OrchestraTakuo Yuasa conductor

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

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: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk


Songs at Six: Composizioni Da CameraEmanuele Moris leads postgraduate singers and pianists in a recital of Composizioni da Camera by Bellini, Donizetti and Verdi.

Admission free

Monday 21 March, 6.30pm Silk Street Music Hall

Needlemakers’ PrizeSupported by the Worshipful Company of Needlemakers

Wind instrumentalists perform a short programme with piano accompaniment.

Admission free

Wednesday 23 March, 6pm Milton Court Studio Theatre


Admission free

Thursday 24 March, 6pm Silk Street Music Hall

Scenes at SixA showing of opera scenes performed by Year 4 undergraduate and Graduate Certificate singers.

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Sunday 3 April, 5.30pm Barbican Hall

LSO Platforms: Guildhall ArtistsAlexandra Griffiths flute Laura Campbell oboe Rachel Coe clarinet Sian Collins horn Antonia Lazenby bassoon

Nielsen Wind Quintet

Admission free

Guildhall Jazz ShowcaseJoin students and professors as the Milton Court Studio Theatre is transformed into a jazz club for this two-day showcase on Wednesday 27 & Thursday 28 April. A packed schedule will offer a wide variety of music, and provide an opportunity to meet recently appointed Guildhall professors, including Iain Ballamy, Gareth Williams and Martin France. Free student performances throughout the day.

Wednesday 27 April, 8pm Milton Court Studio Theatre


Bobo Stenson & Martin Speake Bobo Stenson piano Martin Speake alto saxophone

An exclusive duo set from the influential Swedish jazz pianist Bobo Stenson and acclaimed saxophonist Martin Speake.


Thursday 28 April, 8pm Milton Court Studio Theatre


Anorak Iain Ballamy tenor saxophoneGareth Williams pianoSteve Watts double bassMartin France drums

An intimate performance from Iain Ballamy’s renowned Anorak quartet, known for playing original material that retains strong points of reference to the legacy of jazz from the second half of the 20th century.


Saturday 30 April, 5pm Milton Court Concert Hall

Total Immersion: Henri DutilleuxDutilleux Sonatine for Flute and Piano

Three Preludes for Solo Piano Les citations Ainsi la nuit

Guildhall School musicians present some of Dutilleux’s intricate chamber music.

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

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Wednesday 20 January, 3pm Silk Street Music Hall

Jerome RosePiano Masterclass

Monday 25 January, 1pm Silk Street Music Hall

Cecilia String QuartetChamber Music Masterclass

Friday 29 January, 10am Milton Court Concert Hall

Richard EgarrHistorical Performance Masterclass

Saturday 6 February, 2pm Milton Court Concert Hall

Renée FlemingVocal Masterclass

In this masterclass as part of the Barbican’s Artist Spotlight series, soprano Renée Fleming shares a lifetime’s artistry and insight with Guildhall School singers.

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

Monday 15 February, 10am Milton Court Concert Hall

Sylvain BlasselHarp Masterclass

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A series of masterclasses with distinguished professors from the Guildhall School’s Vocal Studies department.

Wednesday 6 January, 4pm Lecture Recital Room

Susan McCulloch

Thursday 14, Thursday 21, Thursday 28 January, 4pm Lecture Recital Room

Amanda Roocroft

Thursday 11 February, 4pm Lecture Recital Room

Rudolf Piernay

Monday 22 February, 10am Milton Court Concert Hall

Edward HigginbottomHistorical Performance Masterclass

Wednesday 16 March, 6pm Lecture Recital Room

Peter RoseVocal Masterclass

Monday 21 March, 10am Lecture Recital Room

Bruce BrubakerPiano Masterclass

Monday 21 – Wednesday 23 March

Los Angeles Philharmonic Barbican International Associates

Instrumental Masterclasses

Please check gsmd.ac.uk/events from early March for further information.

Wednesday 23 March, 3pm Silk Street Music Hall

Gordon BackPiano Accompaniment Masterclass

Thursday 24 March, 10am Lecture Recital Room

Hie-Yon ChoiPiano Masterclass

All masterclasses are free to attend unless otherwise stated

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Monday 11 January, 7.30pm Barbican Hall

Romantic Splendour London Schools Symphony OrchestraArvo Volmer conductorRoberto González-Monjas violinLouise Hopkins cello

Beethoven Leonore No. 3 Brahms Double Concerto Sibelius Symphony No. 5 The London Schools Symphony Orchestra tackles some of the mightiest works in the orchestral repertoire, joined by two of London’s finest soloists, Roberto González-Monjas and Louise Hopkins (both Guildhall professors). Brahms’ elegiac concerto is contrasted with one of Sibelius’s most epic symphonies. Tickets: £9–£26 available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk


Junior Guildhall Symphony OrchestraJunior Guildhall Symphony OrchestraJunior Guildhall String Ensemblewith members of the Junior Guildhall Drama DepartmentJulian Clayton conductorRowan Jones clarinet

Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet (excerpts)Arensky Variations on a Theme of

TchaikovskyDerek Rodgers Clarinet Concerto (world

premiere)

Few pieces of music can rival the sheer drama of Prokofiev’s ballet score for Romeo and Juliet. The Junior Guildhall Symphony Orchestra performs excerpts from this master work, interspersed with scenes from the Shakespeare play enacted by Junior Guildhall drama students. This

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concert also includes the world premiere of a four-movement concerto for clarinet and strings composed by Head of Junior Guildhall, Derek Rodgers.


Saturday 19 March, 5.30pm Silk Street Music Hall

Junior Guildhall End-of-Term concert This end-of-term showcase features performances from the Junior Guildhall Brass Band, Percussion Ensemble and Jazz Ensemble. Admission free


Centre for Young Musicians Annual Showcase Concert CYM Chamber Orchestra & ChoirCYM Gamelan GroupCYM Brass & Percussion EnsemblesPeter Ash, Stephen Dagg conductors Aneirin Hughes-Watts, Joshua Venables piano

Poulenc Concerto for Two Pianos Handel Zadok the Priest

Showcase concert from the London Centre for Young Musicians, a division of the Guildhall School which provides high quality progressive music training for thousands of children from all of London’s boroughs and beyond.


Tuesday 12 April, 7.30pm Barbican Hall

Elfin Exoticism London Schools Symphony Orchestra with singers from the Guildhall School Dominic Wheeler conductor

Weber Oberon (concert performance sung in English)

A rare performance of Weber’s exhilarating Oberon. This opera sung in English was first presented in London in 1826. Sadly Weber died just before its premiere, so never heard his mischievous fairy extravaganza performed.

Tickets: £9–26, available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk

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Unlocking the Mysteries of the Venetian Cornett: ad imitar piu la voce humanaThis lecture explores the use of modern technologies – CT-scanning, CAD modelling and 3D printing – to understand the tuning and fingering systems of Venetian cornetts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, revealing aspects of the instrument’s design and performing practices that made it particularly adept at imitating the human voice. The presentation includes live demonstrations of 3D-printed and hand-carved replica instruments based on historical originals. Presented by Dr Jamie Savan, Senior Lecturer and Head of Performance at Newcastle University, and a member of His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts.

Admission free please visit researchatguildhall.eventbrite.co.uk

Monday 15 February, 5pm Milton Court Concert Hall

Susan Youens in conversationSusan Youens, Professor of Musicology at the University of Notre Dame, is joined in conversation by Guildhall School professors Graham Johnson, Iain Burnside and Eugene Asti, to explore the endlessly fascinating world of art song and text-music relations. The Guildhall School’s Head of Vocal Studies, Armin Zanner, chairs this event which precedes the Songs at Six concert on settings from Des Knaben Wunderhorn (see page 11).

Admission free (no Eventbrite registration required)

Monday 7 March, 6.30pm Lecture Recital Room

Phantom PhenomenaThis talk grows out of Dr Cormac Newark’s three-year Leverhulme Trust-funded project on the screen adaptations of the 1909-10 novel The Phantom of the Opera. Drawing on examples from crossover, mash-ups and internet fandom, it asks what the global ‘Phantom on Film’ phenomenon tells us about the changing nature of cultural consumption since the first phantom film 100 years ago. Presented by Dr Cormac Newark, Head of Research at the Guildhall School.


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LSO St Luke’s

Getting it Right? 2016: New Music and Dance The third in a series of Guildhall ResearchWorks and London Symphony Orchestra Getting it Right? conferences brings together leading figures and emerging artists from the worlds of new music and dance to explore the dynamic relationship between the two disciplines. An exciting day of talks, debates and seminars convened by Professor of Composition Julian Anderson. Celebrated choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker (pictured below) gives the keynote address.

Tickets: £20 (£15 concessions) available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk

Monday 21 March, 6.30pm Milton Court

Feelings, Findings and Trying not to LieWhat is meant by writing oneself into research findings and narrative reports, and what happens when one goes further and becomes both research subject and researcher? Drifting from a focus on performance to the demands of written thesis, this paper explores the vagaries of memory and the illusion of truth. Presented by Professor John Freeman, Professor of Theatre and Dean of Culture & Languages at the University of St Mark and St John.


Friday 8 April, 7pm Milton Court Studio Theatre

Shakespeare’s SonglinesThe transformative power of Shakespeare’s poetry is of a piece with its music. And Shakespeare created music throughout his career, even though we have nearly lost the ability to hear it. Join the actors, musicians, singers, composers, and scholars of Montreal’s Conversions Project and the Guildhall School for an evening of listening with new ears to the songs in Shakespeare, the music that Shakespeare has inspired, and the music that animates his poetry.


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Barbican Hall

The Gold Medal The Guildhall School’s most prestigious prize for musicians. This year is the turn of the instrumentalists, who will perform a concerto with the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra conducted by Adrian Leaper. Previous winners of the Gold Medal include Jacqueline du Pré (1960), Tasmin Little (1986) and Bryn Terfel (1989).

Tickets: £15, £10 (£5 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.ukfrom 15 February. Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members.

Monday 30 May, 7.30pm Wigmore Hall

Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize: Winner’s Recital Marina Koka piano

Beethoven Piano Sonata Op. 2 No. 3Brahms Klavierstücke, Op. 118Mendelssohn Variations sérieuses, Op. 54 Chopin Nocturnes, Op. 27 Nos. 1 & 2

Ballade No. 3, Op. 47Ravel La Valse

The Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize annually awards an exceptional Guildhall School musician with a Wigmore Hall recital. Award-winning Japanese pianist Marina Koka is this year’s recipient, and her recital promises to be a special occasion.

Tickets: £13 (£11 concessions), available from the Wigmore Hall Box Office: 020 7935 2141 wigmore-hall.org.uk from 5 February.

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Sunday 26 June, 7pm Barbican Hall

The Hogboon London Symphony Orchestra Sir Simon Rattle conductorLSO Discovery ChoirsLondon Symphony ChorusSimon Halsey choral directorGuildhall School musicians

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies The Hogboon (world premiere)

Berlioz Symphonie fantastique

Guildhall musicians join forces with the LSO under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle to premiere a new children’s opera, The Hogboon by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.

Tickets: £10–£29, available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk

Tuesday 28, Thursday 30 June, Saturday 2, Monday 4, Tuesday 5, Wednesday 6 July, 7.30pmFriday 1, Monday 4 July, 2pmSilk Street Theatre

On the Twentieth Century Book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green Music by Cy Coleman

Martin Connor directorAdam Wiltshire designerTim Deiling lighting designer

Guildhall actors take on the Broadway musical On the Twentieth Century, a classic 1930s-era screwball comedy set on a train traveling from Chicago to New York.

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

Wednesday 29 June, Friday 1 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, On the Twentieth Century.

Individual tickets or tables of 12 available.

Tickets: £75 Please visit gsmd.ac.uk/summergala to book or contact [email protected] or 020 7382 7157 for further details. All proceeds will go towards supporting the Guildhall School and its students.

Guildhall School Scholarships Fund

“Studying here is the best, the lecturers are so supportive and I’ve had such fantastic opportunities.” Hellen Bassett, BA Technical Theatre Arts Help support students like Hellen.

Every year donations to the Scholarships Fund make it possible for over 400 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 email [email protected] 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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How to find us

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.

The School’s Silk Street and Milton Court buildings both have main entrances on Silk Street. The closest tube stations are Moorgate and Barbican.

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Milton Court 1 Milton Street, London EC2Y 9BH

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Ticketing Information

For events that are bookable via the Barbican Box Office:

Online booking: barbican.org.uk

By telephone: 020 7638 8891 (10am–8pm Mon–Sat; 11am–8pm Sun & Bank Holidays)

A transaction fee applies which includes the return of your tickets by first class post if time permits.

Transaction Fees: £3 per online transaction, £4 by phone. No fee when tickets are booked in person. Mastercard, Visa and American Express accepted. Calls may be monitored or recorded for quality assurance and training purposes.

In person: Advance Box Office at Silk Street entrance open 10am–9pm Mon–Sat / 12 noon–9pm Sun & Bank Holidays.

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