Guildhall School Annual Report 2016-17

Annual Report 2016/17

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Contents

Principal’s introduction Chairman’s message Vision and strategic aims

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Higher education

Teaching and learning 9 Performances 13 Staff news 17 Student successes 19 Alumni successes 21 Graduation 23

Our partnerships

The Barbican and City of London

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Young People

Guildhall Young Artists Creative Learning

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Our wider impact

Research and knowledge exchange Enterprise and entrepreneurship

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Sustainability

Development & alumni relations Financials

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Student profile Who’s who

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J2unior Guildhall in rehearsal

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Principal’s introduction

I joined the Guildhall School as Principal in January 2017, at an exciting time in the School’s life. Excellence and innovation in arts education and training has never been so crucial to ensuring a creative and cultural future for 21st century society and in the past year I have been working closely with my colleagues to develop a new strategic plan for the School. It is a privilege to work with such a passionate and committed team and to build on the success of my predecessor, Professor Sir Barry Ife, to set the direction of travel for Guildhall. Our mission: to be a conservatoire for the 21st century, empowering artists to realise their full potential; developing distinctive artistic citizens to enrich the lives of others and lead cultural change. You can see our new strategic objectives on page 7.

There are many aspects of the Guildhall School and its setting that put us at a distinct advantage for delivering an imaginative and purposeful creative education, and this year brought an additional initiative. Culture Mile, which launched in July 2017, promises to change the face of the cultural experience in the City of London, and create many new opportunities for Guildhall School students. We are proud to work with our partners the City of London Corporation, the Barbican, London Symphony Orchestra and Museum of London to lead on this ambitious and transformational initiative, to create a major destination for culture and creativity in our corner of the Square Mile.

2016-17 brought a wealth of other highlights. From staging our very first home-grown opera, The Tale of Januarie, to producing an immersive video design installation in the unique subterranean setting of the Bascule Chamber of Tower Bridge, Guildhall continued to push the boundaries of its artforms.

Our programme for young people under the age of 18 continues to grow, with the launch of a new CYM satellite in Peterborough and programme developments in Junior Guildhall. And our alumni continue to make waves across the industry – this year saw Jodie Whittaker announced as the new Dr. Who, some major orchestral appointments, and a host of prestigious award wins for our graduates across Music, Acting and Technical Theatre, to name but a few.

Despite the challenges of a changing political landscape, I feel very positive about the future and look forward to leading the next chapter of this world-leading conservatoire.

Lynne Williams Principal

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Chairman’s message

This is my third and final report as Chairman of the Board of Governors. I step down from the Chairmanship in May knowing that the School is in a very safe pair of hands with our new Principal, Lynne Williams. Lynne has just completed a year with the Guildhall School and has impressed everyone with her energy, enthusiasm and expertise.

The Board has been involved intimately with the Principal in developing a five-year strategic plan which will improve and diversify our academic offer, upgrade the student experience, challenge how we do things operationally and ensure that our collaboration with other institutions, particularly the Barbican Centre, is mutually beneficial and rewarding. This should ensure that our status as a world-leading conservatoire in maintained and enhanced.

These are challenging times; “Brexit” looms and is a major concern for both our EU students and staff. We are collaborating closely with Universities UK and Conservatoires UK to achieve the best possible outcome for the School and the sector in general. I hope that 2018 will bring much greater clarity for our post-Brexit world.

During my three years as Chairman I have attended very many performances by students and faculty: from concerts by Junior Guildhall and the LSSO, to opera and drama performed by final year students about to launch their professional careers, to recitals by our brilliant teachers. None disappoint, all demonstrate unequivocally the vast range of talent within the Guildhall School, whether it’s in music, drama or production arts. I am confident that this talent will maintain the School at the pinnacle of the City’s and the UK’s cultural offer.

Deputy John Bennett Chairman of the Board of Governors

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Vision and strategic objectives

The Guildhall School vision Craft, creativity and learning at the forefront of cultural change The Guildhall School mission To be a conservatoire for the 21st century: empowering artists to realise their full potential; developing distinctive artistic citizens to enrich the lives of others and lead cultural change Strategic objectives

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Higher education We will deliver distinctive higher education programmes which enable our artists to be world-class; virtuosi in their field; adaptable, purposeful and responsible artistic citizens in society Our partnerships We will strengthen our unique bonds with the Barbican Centre and the City of London, and establish a creative destination in Culture Mile Young people We will refocus our outstanding and wide-reaching Guildhall Young Artists programme which helps young people find their creative voice Our wider impact We will lead positive cultural change which impacts on society, our industry and the wider world through professional development, research and knowledge exchange, and public engagement Sustainability We will ensure an evolving and sustainable institution through the acquisition and retention of world leading staff, futurefocused learning and teaching spaces and resources and fit-forpurpose services, underpinned by a strong financial model.

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Higher education

“Every year the same verdict on a Guildhall School musical: lift this show lock, stock and barrel a couple of miles across London to the West End and the vast majority of the audience couldn’t tell the difference between this incredibly polished student production and a star-studded professional one.”

Musical Theatre Review on Crazy For You, July 2017

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Teaching and learning

Programme Offer 2016/17

Assessment

At the start of the academic year, the School enrolled 1029 students on to the following programmes:

The 2016/17 assessment cycle continued the trend of excellent results across School programmes, particularly in the BA Technical Theatre Arts and postgraduate Music programmes, with the number Drama of higher-class awards in the BMus BA (Hons) in Acting programme seeing a modest increase.

BA (Hons) in Technical Theatre Arts The trend of higher-quality student BA (Hons) in Video Design for Live outcomes year on year is indicative of Performance the continuous enhancements made MA in Acting to the learning experience, ever more MA in Training Actors MA in Collaborative Theatre Production competitive entry and increased attention to approaches to teaching and learning. and Design Music

BMus (Hons) Guildhall Artist Masters MA in Opera Making & Writing MA in Music Therapy Artist Diploma Advanced Certificate

All External Examiners were satisfied with the overall quality of the programmes and highlighted strengths and areas of good practice including:

– inventive programming in performance activities – high quality of teaching and the commitment and enthusiasm of Creative Learning programme teams BA (Hons) in Performance and Creative – high levels of student creativity and Enterprise attainment – inspirational opportunities to develop Research and teaching as creative artists PGCert in Performance Teaching* MPhil/DMus MPhil/PhD *first entry of students in 2016/17

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Comments from External Examiners included:

were borne out by the positive comments of the student representatives who participated in the revalidation events.

“As one would expect within a conservatoire setting, the standard of performance and In the spring term it was agreed that creative work is exceptional” (BMus) the Leadership pathway of the Guildhall Artist Masters programme would be “The programme continues to set a very closed as part of the 2017/18 revalidation high bar for any other institution tempted process and replaced with a new discreet to follow suit” (MA Opera Making MA level programme. The last new and Writing) entrants to the pathway were admitted in September 2017.

“I applaud the Programme Leader and staff team for the ground-breaking work they are doing in developing the Student Feedback programme to provide alternative routes The School considered a wide variety into artistic practice” (BA Performance of student feedback during 2016/17, and Creative Enterprise) including data from the two principle surveys - the National Student Survey (NSS) and Whole School Survey (WSS).

Programme Developments

The MA in Collaborative Theatre Production and Design was revalidated in spring 2017 for a period of five academic years. The revalidation panel commended the tailored support provided to students by both the Programme Team and School staff, and the quality of the students and their articulation of their academic experience. The MA in Opera Making and Writing was revalidated in summer 2017, also for a period of five years. The revalidation panel commended the collaborative ethos and environment of the programme, the level of employability and transferable skills taught, and the quality of student output. In both cases the commendations

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National Student Survey 2017

The National Student Survey (NSS) takes place between January and April of each academic year and asks final year undergraduates to reflect upon their experience of their programme as a whole.

Participation decreased by 10% points to 77.3% (87.4% in 2016) but remained higher than the national response rate of 68.3%.

The importance of NSS outcomes took on an extra dimension as aggregated results for three of the question bands were used as metrics in the Teaching Excellence Framework 2 assessment exercise - quality of teaching, assessment & feedback and academic support.

National Student Survey 2017

Whole School % agree 2017

2016

2015

Overall I am satisfied with the quality of the course

90

85

86

Quality of teaching

90

87

83

Assessment and Feedback

77

68

70

Academic Support

89

87

86

Whole School Survey 2017

The Whole School Survey takes place in the summer term of each academic year.

All students of the School are invited to take part in the survey, which assesses student satisfaction on a range of issues at both programme and module level, as well as satisfaction with professional and support services.

Comments included: “I have experienced GREAT support both in my studies and in my life as a student.

This course is expanding my knowledge and practice from all perspectives.” (BA Performance and Creative Enterprise)

“I value the exceptional level of thought that goes into constantly improving the programme with the times and to fit students’ needs” (BA Acting) “The teaching was of exceptional quality and the course leaders inspiring and very approachable” (PGCert in Performance Teaching)

“What I value most is the way the course challenges my performance skills and encourages personality and individuality” (BMus)

“I. Love. The. Library. Will be so sad not to access it in future… only the most hyperbolic praise for the library”

Whole School Survey 2017

Overall I was satisfied with the quality of teaching on this programme: Programme

% satisfied 2017

% satisfied 2016

% satisfied 2015

BMus

91.9

92.5

87.9

BA/MA Acting

96.1

96.5

98.5

BA Technical Theatre Arts

90.2

82.7

78

BA Performance & Creative Enterprise

100

100

n/a

BA Video Design for Live Performance

100

66.6

n/a

PG Cert in Performance Teaching

88.8

n/a

n/a

Guildhall Artist Masters

95.5

86.9

92.5

MA Music Therapy

93.7

88.9

100

Artist Diploma

90.9

100

92.8

Advanced Certificate

93.3

100

100

MA Opera Making & Writing

100

100

50

MA Training Actors

100

66.6

100

MA Collaborative Theatre Production & Design

100

100

n/a

Research

95.6

86.9

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Whole School Survey 2017

Overall satisfaction with support services: Overall I was satisfied with...

% satisfied 2017

% satisfied 2016

% satisfied 2015

IT

quality of the IT provision

71

63.3

72.4

Library

quality of the Library Services

95.5

93.9

92.9

Registry

quality of advice and service

88.3

84.5

81.5

Finance

helpfulness and efficiency of staff

85.3

82.3

82.4

clarity of information regarding fees and other payments

84.5

83.2

83.5

82

80.9

83.5

75.9 74.8 74.9

77 72.5 75.2

75.4 67 79.8

80.7

72.3

73.8

89

86.1

83.3

Facilities

courtesy & efficiency of front desk and stage door staff catering service provided by – Silk Street Café – Milton Court Café – Green Room

Venues Performance

Overall quality of the advice given

Student Affairs

range of services

Audio Visual

quality of the AV provision

72.7

64.5

68.1

SU

social activities and events provided

65.5

55.2

49.3

77

58.1

51

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Performances

During the 2016/17 season the School mounted a varied and challenging programme of productions in its three theatres, including August (an adaption of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya), The Crucible, Great Expectations, Herons by Simon Stephens, new play The (Imaginary) Misogynist, Nick Payne’s The Same Deep Water As Me, Balm in Gilead and the annual musical, which this year was Crazy For You. Opera audiences enjoyed a double bill of Stravinsky’s Mavra and Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta, the lesser-known original version of Radamisto by Handel, and the very first opera to be created in-house at the School, and sung in middle English: The Tale of Januarie, commissioned from Head of Composition, Julian Philips and Writer in Residence, Stephen Plaice.

The Alumni Recital Series goes from strength to strength, and this year welcomed one-woman play with music Kathleen Ferrier: Whattalife!, a Guitar Spectacular and a memorable performance by cello octet Cellophony.

The Faculty Recital Series offered performances from Ronan O’Hora, András Keller, Louise Hopkins and Matthew Jones, Charles Owen and Katya Apekisheva. Visiting saxophone professor John Harle launched his new book with a performance of speciallywritten premieres for his 60th birthday, and Nicholas Daniel and friends gave a chamber recital which included a Liszt premiere.

The 2017 Music Gold Medal was won

by Josep-Ramon Olivé and awarded at the end of a closely-fought contest at the Barbican Hall. Later in the year, Steffan Cennydd and Oscar Selfridge were awarded the Acting and Technical Theatre Gold Medals respectively. The Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize, a competition run jointly by the School and the Wigmore Hall, with a Wigmore recital as the prize, was won by cellist Michael Petrov and the Junior Guildhall Lutine Prize was won by trumpeter William Thomas.

Josep-Ramon Olivé

The Jazz Department welcomed back alumnus and rising star Anthony Strong for a performance with the Guildhall Jazz Band and Choir, who also performed on the Barbican stage as part of the annual induction event for all students.

Mike Walker and Iain Dixon, two of the most important jazz musicians in

Europe, performed as part of a residency.

The annual Guildhall Jazz Showcase took place in May featuring three days of student combo performances as well as professors Liane Carroll, Ed Rice, Jules Jackson and Ralph Salmins, and visiting artists the John Warren Nonet.

Creative Learning held their annual Dialogue event at Barking’s Broadway Theatre which featured the culmination of work by students and staff with local community groups including projects with homelessness charity St Mungo’s, Barking and Dagenham based group Her Dynamic (a Somali Women’s group), Broadway Playhouse (a group of young people with special needs) and Green Shoes (a mental health support group).

July’s Curious festival took place in the Barbican Exhibition Halls and showcased new work and collaborations between Guildhall School students in Masters in Leadership, BA in Performance and Creative Enterprise and Technical Theatre Arts working alongside students from Central Saint Martins.

Technical Theatre and BA Performance & Creative Enterprise students presented a unique event of video projection mapping and site-specific performance in the Bascule Chamber of Tower Bridge, held over a weekend with a number of public showings. Technical Theatre Arts students also presented the annual Graduate Exhibition later in the year to showcase work of final year students. In Milton Court, Electronic Music students took part in Singing Our Lives, two world premieres for community choirs on the theme of refugees and migration.

Guildhall musicians were involved in many performances with partner organisations: the Barbican’s Steve Reich at 80 Weekend, Sound Unbound 2017, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s Total Immersion celebrations for Richard Rodney Bennett, Philip Glass at 80 and Edgard Varèse. Students joined with Richard Tognetti and the Australian Chamber Orchestra as part of their Barbican residency and performed in a dynamic side-by-side concert with the orchestra in Milton Court. Guildhall singers took part in A Trip to the Moon, the premiere of a community opera with the LSO conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, and a side-by-side of Sibelius’s Second Symphony in the same concert.

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14 Tale of Januarie (February 2017) The

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Simon Rattle and Guildhall students in rehearsal

And pre-LSO concert recitals continued on the stage of the Barbican under the LSO Platforms: Guildhall Artists initiative.

A Trip to the Moon

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Visiting conductors for the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra included Adrian Leaper, Diego Matheuz and Pietari Inkinen, and Levon Chilingirian directed the Guildhall String Ensemble in the British premiere of Tigran Mansurian’s Violin Concerto No. 2. Masterclasses provided a further opportunity for students to work with distinguished musicians including Gerald Finley, Paul Lewis, Richard Goode, Mark Padmore, Jonathan Biss, Edith Wiens and musicians from the New York Philharmonic and Berlin Philharmonic.

Following a number of visits by Guildhall artists to China, the School hosted a reciprocal residency by the Shanghai Grand Theatre Arts Group in May, with two major events: a captivating concert of traditional Chinese music from instrumentalists of the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra, and the UK premiere of The Wager, an original contemporary Chinese opera co-produced by the Guildhall School and Shanghai Opera House.

Staff news

The Guildhall School’s internationallyrenowned teaching staff are at the very heart of the Guildhall student experience.

In 2016/17, the achievements of Guildhall School staff were formally recognised in a number of ways: Staff development

The title of Professor was conferred upon two members of staff, in acknowledgement of a national and international standing in their discipline: (Professor of Theatre) (Professor of Composition) KEN REA

MATTHEW KING

Three members of staff also achieved recognition from the Higher Education Academy under the Catalyst Scheme in 2017: ELIZA MCCARTHY (Fellow) – Contemporary Piano professor AURELIA JONVAUX (Fellow) – Vocal Studies (French Language & Diction) professor KATE EATON (Senior Fellow) – Senior Librarian

Staff achievements

In the 2017 New Year Honours List PROFESSOR BARRY IFE , outgoing Principal of the School, was awarded a Knighthood for services to performing

Barry Ife receiving his knighthood

arts education, and DR STUART WOOD , Research Lead at the School, received an MBE for his services to Music Therapy and Care.

MAHAN ESFAHANI , Professor of Harpsichord, and JULIAN ANDERSON , Professor of Composition & Composerin-Residence, were awarded 2017 BBC Music Magazine Awards. Esfahani received the Instrumental Category Award for his reading of JS Bach’s Goldberg Variations and Anderson was given the Premiere Award for his violin concerto In lieblicher bläue and choralorchestral Alleluia.

PROFESSOR JOHN SLOBODA , Research Professor at the School, was awarded the Society for Education Music and Psychology Research (SEMPRE) Lifetime Achievement Award for his research on cognitive psychology and music. Trombonist PROFESSOR JOHN KENNY was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Trombone Association.

Associate Producer STUART CALDER , Opera Department Manager JANET FARMER , Senior Tutor in Wind, Brass and Percussion Chamber Music JOY FARRALL , former Principal Professor SIR BARRY IFE CBE , Vocal Coach, Staff Accompanist and Professor of Harpsichord ELIZABETH MARCUS , and former Head of Junior Guildhall DEREK RODGERS were all made Fellows of the Guildhall School at the 2016 Graduation Ceremony.

BBC Music Magazine Awards 2017

The School’s promotional video ‘We Are Guildhall’, produced by the Marketing 17

COBB , Visiting Professor of Trumpet, NICK BETTS , Professor of Trumpet, BETH RANDELL , Professor of Horn, NICHOLAS FLEURY , Professor of Horn, ADRIAN ROWLANDS , Professor of Reed Making, REBECCA GILLIVER , Professor of Cello, AKIKO ONO , Professor

of Violin,

BENJAMIN APPL , Professor of German

Song, NIGEL THOMAS , Professor of Timpani and Percussion, ROBERT PERCIVAL , Professor of Composition, SIMON ROWLAND-JONES , Professor of Chamber Music, RUBY PHILOGENE , Professor of Voice, and ULRICH EICHENAUER , Professor of Viola. ISOBEL CLARKE , EMILY PAYNE , ALLAN MOORE , MARIA RAZUMOWSKAYA and STEVEN POTTER all joined as Academic Studies professors.

Graduation 2016

& Communications department, was recognised in the Council for Advancement and Support of Education’s (CASE) Circle of Excellence Awards, receiving Gold in the category of General Information Videos (Short).

Appointments and retirements

Whilst the School welcomed a new Principal, LYNNE WILLIAMS , who joined from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney, Australia, staff and students also said a fond farewell to PROFESSOR SIR BARRY IFE who led the School for over 12 years. Professor Ife stepped down to focus on teaching and research, continuing at the School as an Honorary Senior Research Fellow.

The Jazz Department appointed a range of new staff, including professors CHARLIE WOOD , JAMES MADDREN , JASON REBELLO , JULES JACKSON , RYAN QUIGLEY , TINA MAY and PERCY PURSGLOVE .

The Drama Department welcomed JOHN RAMSTER , DAFYDD HALL WILLIAMS and SIMON IORIO as Professors of Drama, and CAITLIN FRETWELL , Professor of Movement. KATE MOYSE , JON ARMSTRONG and SAM BULL joined the Theatre Technology department as lecturers, and CAROLINE MOORES became Stage Management Lecturer.

The School bid farewell to JANET FARMER after more than 30 years working in the Music Department, as well as DUNCAN BARKER, Head of Development, after 11 years.

Finally, the School sadly announced the passing of TERRY CHANDLER , one ANDY TAYLOR , formerly Lecturer in of the School’s long-serving Facilities Sound, was appointed Head of Technical Assistants, who had worked at the Theatre following the departure of School for 10 years and passed away STEVE HUTTLY , who retired after working suddenly in April. at the School for over 20 years, six of them as Head of Theatre Technology. joined the School and the Barbican as Director of Operations and Buildings.

JONATHON POYNER

The Music Department appointed MATTHEW JONES as Head of Chamber Music and DR CHRISTOPHER SUCKLING as Deputy Head of Academic Studies.

The department also welcomed a number of new professors: JOHN HARLE , Visiting Professor of Saxophone, PHILIP 18

Student successes

The talent of Guildhall School students has been recognised in award ceremonies and competitions across the globe. Successes for 2016/17 included:

JEAN-SELIM ABDELMOULA (Piano Fellow), selected for representation

by Young Classical Artists Trust

Chamber Music Vocal & Opera

(MMus Vocal Studies) Winner, Singers' Prize, Gerald Moore Award JAMES NEWBY

JAMES WAY (MMus Vocal Studies) 2nd Prize, Kathleen Ferrier Awards James Way

(BMus Vocal Studies) Winner, Freda Parry Scholarship Competition KAYLEIGH MCEVOY

GEORGIA BISHOP (Opera Course) 2nd Prize, Wagner Society’s Singing Competition 2016 SIAN DICKER (MMus Vocal Studies) Winner, Dunraven Welsh Young Singer of the Year 2017 MIRJAM MESAK (MMus Vocal Studies) 2nd Prize, 2017 Somerset Song Prize

(Opera Course) Jette Parker Young Artist 2017, Royal Opera House DOMINIC SEDGEWICK

Keyboard

(Artist Diploma Piano Accompaniment) Winner, Main Accompanists’ Prize, Gerald Moore Award DYLAN PEREZ

(MPerf Piano) Winner, Jaques Samuel Intercollegiate Piano Competition JONATHAN FERRUCCI

RYAN DRUCKER (MMus Piano) Joint Winner, 2017 Brant International Piano Competition, and winner, Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe 2017 Piano Scholarship

OLIVER WASS (MMus Harp) with the Pelleas Ensemble, Elias Fawcett Award for Outstanding Chamber Ensemble Royal Over-Seas League Competition 2017, and Winner, Royal Philharmonic Society’s Henderson Chamber Ensemble Award

Strings RAY LIU (MMus Violin) Winner, Queen Sophie Charlotte International Violin Competition

(Artist Diploma Violin) as part of ensemble, Winner, Special Achievement Award, International Classic Music Awards (ICMA) TING-RU LAI

MANON BROWNING (BMus Harp) Winner, Nansi Richards Harp Scholarship 2017

Wind, Brass & Percussion HEATHER RYALL (MMus Clarinet) Winner, D’Addario Single Reed Wind Prize GIDEON BROOKS (MMus Trumpet) Winner, 2017 Christopher Horn Trust Award, and Winner, Coro Nuovo Young Musician of the Year 2017

Composition

(Doctoral Composerin-Residence) for 4.48 Psychosis, Winner, Achievement in Opera Award, UK Theatre Awards 2016, Winner, Large-Scale Composition, Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards 2017 and Olivier Award nominee, Best New Opera Production 2017 PHILIP VENABLES

MICHAEL SIKICH (MMus Piano Accompaniment) Pianist’s Prize, 2017 Somerset Song Prize

(MPerf Piano) Senior Award Winner, Hattori Foundation 2017 Awards, and Winner, Kenneth Loveland Gift 2017 Award

ANTONINA SUHANOVA

THIBAULT CHARRIN (MMus Piano) 2nd Prize, 7th Piano Composition Competition Fidelio

Philip Venables

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Rupert Henderson

DANIEL KIDANE (PhD Composition) Winner, Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award and selected for Composers’ Hub, Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO)

(MComp Composition) and SOPHYA POLEVAYA (BMus Composition), selected for the 2017 LSO Panufnik Composers Scheme JAMES HOYLE

Drama

Final year actors went on to a number of prestigious roles:

FODE SIMBO Young Marx (dir. Nicholas Hytner) at Bridge Theatre; Little Women – TV Series (dir. Vanessa Caswill, BBC One) LUKE THALLON Albion (by Mike Bartlett, dir. Rupert Goold) at Almeida Theatre; Bent (dir. Stephen Daldry), and Alice by Heart (dir. Timothy Shaeder) at National Theatre; Out Theatre (dir. Steven Dexter) at Riverside Studios; Winner, Michael Bryant Award 2017; Nominated, Emerging Talent Award, Evening Standard Awards 2017

SAMUEL BLENKIN Scorpius in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (dir. John Tiffany) at Palace Theatre STEFFAN CENNYDD Company in Under Milk Wood (dir. Brendan O'Hea) at Watermill Theatre

Much Ado About Nothing (dir. Matthew Dunster) at Shakespeare’s Globe

ANYA CHALOTRA

RUPERT HENDERSON James Potter in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (dir.

John Tiffany) at Palace Theatre SHUBHAM SARAF Dinesh Gupta in Lions and Tigers (dir. Pooja Ghai) at Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe; The Bodyguard – TV Series (Jed Mercurio, World Productions for BBC One); Overlord – Feature Film (J. J. Abrams, Paramount Pictures)

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Shubham Saraf

Alumni successes

Guildhall alumni achieve extraordinary things and are recognised in appointments and awards across the globe. Here are just some of their highlights from 2016/17: Music

(Tuba 2011) Appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic

BEN GERNON

(Conducting 1986) Appointed CEO of Los Angeles Philharmonic

SIMON WOODS

(Vocal Studies 2012) Nominated, Gramophone Classical Music Awards for Heimat

BENJAMIN APPL

(Tenor Trombone 2014) Appointed Principal Trombone of the Oslo Philharmonic

AUDUN BREEN

(Bassoon 2003) Appointed Principal Bassoon of Opera North

ADAM MACKENZIE

OSCAR COLOMINA BOSCH (Composition 2005) Appointed Musical Director of the Yehudi Menuhin School

(Composition 2008) Nominated for a BAFTA and an Academy Award for her score for the motion picture Jackie

MICA LEVI

NARDUS WILLIAMS (Opera 2017) Winner, 1st Prize and Audience Prize, Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards

Nardus Williams

LLIAM PATERSON (Piano 2014) Named one of The Scotsman’s Ones to Watch in 2017

(Trumpet 2016), CATIE (Horn 2014), KRIS GARFITT (Trombone 2015) and GEORGE ELLIS (Tuba 2014), aka Ellis Brass Winners, Jan Koetsier International Brass Quintet competition in Munich

KATIE SMITH IGOE

(Baritone 1988) Awarded a knighthood in the New Year’s Honours 2017

SIR BRYN TERFEL

RODERICK WILLIAMS (Opera 1995) Appointed OBE in Queen’s Birthday Honours 2017

(Opera 1995), (Composition 2014), TANSY DAVIES (Composition 1998) and LEO CHADBURN (Composition 2004) Winners, British Composer Awards 2016 RODERICK WILLIAMS OLIVER LEITH

Drama

(Acting 2005), BESSIE (Acting 2016) and LEONIE BENESCH (Acting 2016) all starred in the new BBC adaptation of Howard's End (dir. Hettie MacDonald, BBC One)

HAYLEY ATWELL CARTER

MARCELLO CRUZ (Acting 2016) Appeared in the Shakespeare's Globe production of Much Ado About Nothing (dir. Matthew Dunster)

Ben Gernon

PAAPA ESSIEDU (Acting 2012) Winner, UK Theatre Awards for Best Performance in a Play for the title role in Hamlet (dir. Simon Godwin, Royal Shakespeare Company) and winner, Ian Charleson Award for title role in

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Tom Glynn-Carney

Hamlet and Edmund in King Lear (dir. Gregory Doran, Royal Shakespeare Company) (Acting 2015) Produced a new documentary, The Actor’s Apprenticeship, about the UK repertory theatre system, which premiered at Milton Court in June 2017

NIALL RANSOME (Acting 2015) Premiered his new play Fcuk’d in early 2017, nominated for three Off-West End Awards

LUKE DALE

(Acting 2016) and SHIRLEY HENDERSON (Acting 1986) Cast in The Old Vic production of Girl from the North Country (dir. Conor McPherson) CLAUDIA JOLLY

(Acting 2016) Cast in feature film Dunkirk (dir.

Christopher Nolan), The Last Post (dir.

Jonny Campbell and Miranda Bowen, BBC One) and in Jez Butterworth’s The Ferryman (dir. Sam Mendes, Royal Court Theatre)

TOM GLYNN-CARNEY

(Acting 2010) Starred in feature film Baby Driver (dir. Edgar Wright)

LILY JAMES

JODIE WHITTAKER (Acting 2005) Cast as the new Doctor in Doctor Who (BBC One, due to air in 2017/18)

(Acting 1986) Appointed OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2017 and winner, BAFTA award for Best Leading Actress for Happy Valley (dir. Euros Lyn/Sally Wainwright/Tim Fywell, BBC One).

SARAH LANCASHIRE

Claudia Jolly

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CLIVE ROWE (Acting 1987) Appointed MBE in the New Year’s Honours 2017 NEIL AUSTIN (Technical Theatre 1992) Winner, Best Lighting Design at the What’s On Stage Awards and winner, Best Lighting Design, Lawrence Olivier Awards for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child MEGAN SMITH (Technical Theatre 2017) Highly Commended, GDS Student Achievement Award at the National Stage Management Awards GEMMA TONGE (Technical Theatre 2002) and JANICE HEYES (Technical Theatre 1994) Appointed Company Manager and Deputy Company Manager at the Company Managers Office at the National Theatre

Graduation

The School’s Graduation ceremony celebrates the efforts and achievements of Guildhall students and marks their entry into the profession.

Graduation Day 2016 took place in the Great Hall of the Guildhall on Friday 4 November and for the first time two separate ceremonies were required to accommodate the 200+ graduands, their friends and family.

Throughout the day, Fellowships and Honorary Fellowships were conferred by the Board of Governors on a number of figures from the arts industries in recognition of their services to the School and the profession. These included: Acting alumna LILY JAMES ; Opera alumna KATE ROYAL ; two key figures from the City of London who worked on the School’s Milton Court project - former Chamberlain CHRIS BILSLAND and former Chairman of the Policy & Resources Committee SIR MICHAEL SNYDER ; classical pianist and composer

STEPHEN HOUGH CBE ; Artistic Director

of the Southbank Centre JUDE KELLY CBE ; and long-term supporter of the

School and former Chairman of the Guildhall School Trust PETER YOUNG .

Music alumna and Guildhall Professor of Harpsichord ELIZABETH MARCUS and Music Director of The Royal Opera SIR ANTONIO PAPPANO , who also received fellowships, gave acceptance speeches on behalf of the honorands.

Fellowships were also awarded to six members of staff, including outgoing Guildhall Principal, Professor Barry Ife CBE (see page 17).

Graduation 2016

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Partnerships

“The sheer joy of performing that the ACO projects so vividly had clearly been transmitted to the students privileged enough to be working with them.�

The Guardian on Guildhall musicians performing with the Australian Chamber Orchestra/Richard Tognetti, March 2017

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Partnerships with the Barbican and City of London

This year saw the start of a new phase in the School’s alliance with the Barbican Centre. Building on the common platform that has focused on operational infrastructure and the development of Creative Learning as a shared division, attention is increasingly turning to artistic and educational work. Immediate highlights included violinist Richard Tognetti’s residence with the Australian Chamber Orchestra which involved students in several immersive performance projects showcased in Milton Court, Guildhall musicians taking part in the Barbican’s Steve Reich at 80 and Sound Unbound weekends, and a collaboration between artist Zara Hussain and Guildhall video projection mapping students on a Barbican Foyer projection.

The alliance was also reinforced through the launch in July of Culture Mile, a major destination for culture and creativity in the heart of the Square Mile. The Guildhall School and Barbican are central partners in this exciting initiative, along with the Museum of London, London Symphony Orchestra and the City of London Corporation. It marks a growing focus on culture and education across the city of London, providing important opportunities for us at the Guildhall School to showcase student talent, the breadth of our work, and to engage new audiences.

Other major partnerships

The School also holds artistic partnerships with a number of other major performing arts organisations.

Outputs this year included: - Guildhall singers and musicians took part in a LSO concert featuring A Trip to the Moon, the premiere of Andrew Norman’s opera, and a side-by-side of Sibelius’s Second Symphony, both conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, in advance of him joining the School and Barbican as Artist in Association later in the year - Pre-LSO concert recitals continued on the stage of the Barbican under the LSO Platforms: Guildhall Artists initiative, and Guildhall musicians also took part in LSO Family Concerts during the year - Guildhall musicians presented concerts in three BBC Symphony Orchestra Total Immersion days, focusing on the works of Richard Rodney Bennett, Philip Glass at 80, and Edgard Varèse; and took part in a BBC Symphony Orchestra Tchaikovsky Project called Beloved Friend, exploring the relationship between the great Romantic composer and his patron - Cellist Michael Petrov was the recipient of the annual Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize, and performed his recital there in June.

Launch of Culture Mile (July 2017)

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Young People

“The project was amazing! The best part was the overall process of working on our music and having the time to improve on things without being rushed.�

Creative Learning participant, Young Songwriters programme

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Guildhall Young Artists

The Guildhall School is the largest specialist music education provider for under 18s in the country, with the longestablished Junior Guildhall, which also offers training in drama, and Centre for Young Musicians (now boasting five branches). Highlights of activity for 2016/17 included: Teaching and learning

CYM Peterborough opened in October, joining a national network of Centres which include provision in Norwich (2013), Taunton (2014), Saffron Walden (2015) and the more established Centre in London (1970). After an expansion of student numbers across the network, CYM Taunton moved from its founding home in Hestercombe House to more purpose-built accommodation in Richard Huish Sixth Form College, Taunton in April. In collaboration with Junior Guildhall, CYM London launched a new Primary Years Programme which saw children in school Years 1 and 2 attending classes for the first time. It also opened a new Composition Department led by Guildhall alumnus Ehud Freedman.

Croydon was established which enables talented musicians at Whitgift School to attend Junior Guildhall. Links were also established with both the European String Teachers Association and the National Youth String Orchestra.

This year, Junior Guildhall established a Parents’ Forum to enable parents to meet informally on a termly basis to raise issues and give suggestions.

Performances

Junior Guildhall arranges over 100 concerts and events annually, ranging from weekly Open House Concerts and String Training Programme concerts to formal Public Concerts.

The extensive String Chamber Music Programme gave 12 separate concerts over the year providing platforms for all chamber groups to perform; the vocal department delivered three concerts, one at the end of each term; there were Piano Ensemble and Guitar Ensemble concerts and additionally End of Term concerts for each for the large ensembles: Symphony Orchestra, String Ensembles, At Junior Guildhall, a new Brass Training Chamber Choir, Brass Band, Big Band, Wind Orchestra and Brass Band. There Programme was set up to run as a pilot were also performances by various Junior scheme during the subsequent academic Guildhall ensembles at Charlton House year, focusing on specialist brass training for young people. This enabled a pathway and Regent Hall across the year. for more students on the Kindergarden Course to continue into Junior Guildhall. Mark Wigglesworth came in as guest conductor to work with the orchestra A partnership with Whitgift School in 27

and give an informal performance in November, while in February, virtuoso horn player Frank Lloyd gave a public masterclass in Milton Court.

The Lutine Prize and Singers Prize were won by William Thomas (trumpet) and Isobel Irvine (voice). The Charlton House Young Artists Award was won

by William Harmer (piano).

CYM London and LSSO students performed at the Barbican Centre, Royal Festival Hall, Symphony Hall Birmingham (Music for Youth) and prestigious venues in the national programme – Saffron Hall, Peterborough and Norwich Cathedrals, Holkham Hall, St. Andrew’s Hall Norwich, Hestercombe Gardens and the Brewhouse Theatre Taunton.

The LSSO presented three Barbican Hall concerts with conductors Sian Edwards, Paul Hoskins and Peter Ash. The orchestra also toured to Dresden

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and Leipzig, and the London Youth Wind Band to Cologne. Saffron CYM students performed alongside members of the Britten Sinfonia in Saffron Hall, conducted by Tim Redmond, and Norfolk CYM students performed with singer and Guildhall alumnus Roderick Williams and pianist Iain Burnside at Holkham Hall, Norfolk.

As part of a diverse programme of activity connecting CYM centres to the Guildhall School’s higher education offer, 17 Guildhall undergraduate ensembles visited CYM host schools and Centres over the year.

Student successes BEN PEASE BARTON (Norfolk CYM) was a winner in the Royal Opera House’s Fanfare composition prize, which sees his music played by the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House under the direction of Sir Antonio Pappano.

(Junior Guildhall Composition) won the Royal Scottish National Orchestra’s Notes from Scotland competition. The Live Final took place in Glasgow in June where his piece Progeny was performed by the orchestra.

ALEX PAPP

Junior Guildhall composer LILLY won the 2016 Clarinet & Saxophone Society of Great Britain Saxophone Composition Competition.

Her work was performed at the gala concert of the 40th Anniversary Clarinet and Saxophone Single Reed Day in October at the Guildhall School.

VADANEAUX Lutine Prize 2017

Solo Strings Class and second prize in the S5 class for 16 Years & Under Solo Strings Class.

AMELIA HARDING (Junior Guildhall violin) won the Vice Chancellor’s Scholarships for Music to Durham University and David Wheeler won the Ash Music Scholarship at Imperial College London. MOLLY KAVANAGH (Junior Guildhall flute) won the Bristol Vice Chancellors Scholarship.

Ten-year-old LEIA ZHU (Junior Guildhall violin) made history when she became the youngest ever musician to perform in the Salzburg Festival. Leia’s WILL HARMER (Junior Guildhall Piano/ Composition) was a winner in this year’s performances this year also included the Leonidas Kavakos masterclass in Greece, BBC Proms Inspire Young Composers’ the St Petersburg State Capella under Competition. His piece The Whole the baton of Diego Martin Etxebarria, Heaven on Fire was played at the BBC Radio Theatre by the Aurora Orchestra, a tour as soloist with Festival Strings and broadcast on Radio 3. The prize also Lucerne for Mozartfest in Germany and the Tel Aviv opera house. Leia also includes a BBC commission. won the Kocian Violin Competition in Junior Guildhall singer JASMINE HIGGS Czech Republic. won the Glyndebourne Bill Weston Young Singers’ Award for an ELECTRA MAKRIS was a finalist in the ‘exceptionally promising young singer’. American Protégé competition held at Carnegie Hall, which resulted in her being invited back to perform again at Cellist ELLEN BAUMRING-GLEDHILL won the Gerwyn Parry Memorial Trophy Carnegie Hall in June. for The Most Promising Young String Player at the Southend Musical Festival, 10 Junior Guildhall students progressed and the 17 Years & Under Senior Recital to the School’s BMus course in September 2016, 11 took up places at other Class at the Hatfield Festival. conservatoires and 5 chose to study music at university. 12 Junior Guildhall At the Beckenham Festival, double students and 8 LSSO students were bassist LOUIS RICHARDSON won the 11 selected to join the National Youth Years & Under Class and violinist ELLA RICHARDSON won the 14 Years & Under Orchestra. In CYM, 17 students graduated to conservatoires or university music Class. Ellen went on to be awarded the Cynthia Whitfield Bursary for the most courses from the London Centre together with cohorts now graduating promising string player at the festival. from Norfolk and Saffron Walden.

MICHAEL ANNING (Junior Guildhall Jazz Saxophone) won the Woodwind Alumni successes Category in the Norfolk Young Musician of the Year competition in BARNEY WALSH (Junior Guildhall 2016) January 2017 and came third overall. was cast as Young Arthur in the 2017 motion picture King Arthur: Legend CAILTLIN CHAN (Junior Guildhall of the Sword, directed by Guy Ritchie. cello) won the title of Havering Junior CYM London alumni saw a number Musician of the Year 2017. of exciting successes: pianist TOKIO MYERS won the ITV reality show Britain’s LEO ZHU (Junior Guildhall violin) Got Talent 2017, singer/songwriter performed in the Winners’ Concert of SHAKKA PHILIP (known simply as the Tynedale Music Festival in the Shakka) was nominated for 2 MOBO Queen Hall in Hexham after winning Awards, and TIMUCIN OZLUER was first prize in the S3 class for 11 Years & nominated for a Grammy.

Under Solo Strings Class, second prize in the S4 class for 13 Years & Under 29

Creative Learning

Over the course of 2016/17, Creative Learning activity reached 35,000 people, with 13,000 engaged as active participants in our programmes.

Public Events

Creative Learning’s Young Creative ensembles such as Future Band and (Im)Possible Works bring together Guildhall students with young people and community members to perform in public events including The Barbican at Broadway Festival and Walthamstow Garden Party. The Messengers, a collaboration between the School and service users of St Mungo’s, performed on the main stage at Walthamstow Garden Party in a collaboration with US musician Doug Hream Blunt.

In the Barbican’s Exhibition Halls, Curious showcased the work of students from BA (Hons) in Performance and Creative Enterprise (PACE) and Masters in Leadership to a total of 335 audience members (see page 13).

animations created by BA and MA students from University of the Arts London.

As part of their module Outside In, all first year PACE students assisted in Big Barbican Workshops gaining valuable experience in workshop leadership skills within a participatory setting, whilst first year Leadership students have each undertaken placements in one of three local schools.

Young Creatives

134 young people took part in our 2016/17 training programmes for young artists, which include Future Band, Young Reviewers, Young Visual Arts Group, (Im)Possibilities, Young Poets, Young Photographers, Young Programmers and Young Songwriters.

Young Songwriters was a new widening participation project launched in 16/17.

Working with a group of 10 young people, the programme was designed to respond to identified priorities for the Guildhall School to reach young Community people in East London who might not The 2017 Dialogue project brought necessarily be thinking about further together community-based groups with study at HE level. As part of the project, Guildhall School students and creative the young people were mentored by learning ensembles to work towards two artists who teach at the School, as well nights of performances at the Broadway as being introduced to careers that exist Theatre, Barking in February. Taking within the arts. Through mentoring initial inspiration from Bedwyr Williams’ sessions, which include music talent and Barbican exhibition, The Gulch, this year’s personal development, participants festival, entitled Where the water curves, were coached to create and write their included projects with homelessness own music, which was performed at the charity St Mungo’s, Barking and Walthamstow Garden Party in July 2017.

Dagenham based group Her Dynamic (a Somali Women’s group), Broadway The second Summer Arts Camp took Playhouse (a group of young people place in the first week of August 2017, with special needs) and Green Shoes led by Director & Theatre Practitioner (a mental health support group).

Jules Tipton. In partnership with Guildhall Enterprise, this incomegenerating programme provided Schools and Colleges participating young people with the It has been a notable year for Barbican Box, Creative Learning’s flagship schools opportunity to experience multiple art project, which worked with 33 schools forms and work with guest artists from across the Barbican and Guildhall from across eight London boroughs programme and partner companies. and Manchester. This year’s Barbican Music Box was delivered in partnership with Barbican Music associates, Serious.

Emerging and Practising Artists Students had the unique opportunity As well as working with all Guildhall to work with Guildhall School graduate undergraduate music students, Creative and beatbox artist Bellatrix, who curated Learning has continued to deliver the a Box on the theme ‘finding your voice’. BA (Hons) in Performance and Creative Students performed their own group Enterprise (PACE) and Masters in compositions to an audience in the Leadership. Having now completed a Barbican Hall, supported visually by very successful first two years of 30

activity, second year students of BA PACE had the opportunity to undertake public pop-up performances in the Bascule Chamber of Tower Bridge, deliver workshops with St Mungos, as well as commissions from the Museum of London, Apples and Snakes, and Rich Mix. Meanwhile, the second cohort of 14 students, starting in September 2016, produced some very high quality shows, working collaboratively with both in-house tutors, and practitioners such as Ned Glasier, Chetna Pandya and Endy Mckay.

Seoul, South Korea, saw us deliver a series of presentations and workshops for arts education administrators, practitioners and policy makers. This year’s Young Creatives ensemble Future Band, has been delivered in partnership with Waltham Forest Music service and has included placements and professional development opportunities for music service staff and teachers.

Creative Learning has delivered a range of training for practitioners, both onsite and beyond. As well as the Creative Music Leadership Summer School held onsite in August 2017, we have provided training programmes to colleagues at Worshipful Company of Musicians, De Montfort University and further afield.

January 2017’s visit by the Director of Learning and Engagement and the Head of Creative Learning to KACES (Korean Arts and Culture Education Service) in 31

32 in Gilead (March 2017) Balm

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Our wider impact

“The Guildhall School’s son et lumiere ‘Terra Incognita – Here be Dragons’ really takes you into your unchartered mind. […] The installation is fast moving and beautifully crafted to this highly unusual location.”

This is London on Terra Incognita: Here Be Dragons in the Bascule Chamber of Tower Bridge, February 2017

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Research and knowledge exchange

Research activity in this academic year continued to flourish, with new areas of work developing and growth of the research active community.

New appointments and awards solidified Arts and Health as a significant programme of research for the School.

Dr Stuart Wood was granted Wellcome Seed Award Funding of £62,000 to support Aeriel, a project that explores musically how carers and people living with dementia communicate in everyday situations. Dr Alex Mermikides, an established scholar in the intersection between performance and medicine/ health, was appointed as Doctoral Programme Leader. Dr Mermikides has directed performances on medical themes and is currently working on a monograph on theatre, medicine and concepts of the human.

Supported by the AHRC Cross Language Dynamics project led by the University of Manchester, The Tale of Januarie, a new opera by composer Professor Julian Philips and librettist Stephen Plaice premiered at the School to wide interest and lively critical debate about the function and quality of text within opera.

Professor Julian Anderson premiered The Imaginary Museum at the BBC Proms to wide critical acclaim. 4.48 Psychosis composed by Guildhall/Royal Opera House Doctoral Composer in Residence 2016 Philip Venables won the Royal Philharmonic Society Award for

The Tale of Januarie

Large-Scale Composition, won the British Composer Award for Stage Works, and was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best New Production.

A revival is planned in April 2018 at the Lyric Hammersmith. Daniel Kidane, a first-year doctoral student composer, received a £50,000 Paul Hamlyn Award for Artists.

Research into the Social Impact of Making Music developed in collaboration with the international SIMM network.

Professor John Sloboda hosted the second international SIMM-posium, bringing together researchers, practitioners and policymakers to deepen understanding of how active participatory music making may be used to bring measurable social benefits.

Addressing the joint Guildhall Barbican question of developing an archive to document and showcase the history of our institutions, Drs Matthew Harle and Tom Overton were appointed as GuildhallBarbican Postdoctoral Research Fellows (job-share).

Technical Theatre and Acting continued to grow in the doctoral programme with new students accepted to pursue directorial approaches to acting, applied theatre techniques for teachers, the ethics of representation in costume design, continuing the trend of broadening the areas of research within the programme, which enjoyed another large intake, including four staff members. Dr Biranda Ford was appointed as Graduate Training Leader, tasked with developing the doctoral training provision and research-led teaching across the School.

In September, the School hosted the annual Royal Musical Association conference, with the largest ever programme and attendance - 240 delegates - over three days. Attracting a record 130 proposals, delegates from across Europe, USA, Australia, New Zealand, China enjoyed the conference thoroughly. The ResearchWorks series showcased the School’s research strengths and invited experts in new areas, attracting 700 attendees during the academic year. Highlights included The New Librettist: The Role of the Writer in Opera, addressing a part of the industry that feel under-represented, which received a large response.

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Enterprise and entrepreneurship

Through enterprise activity, the School aims to create a sustainable and flourishing institution by facilitating income generation and developing innovative schemes to support the artists of today and tomorrow.

Video Projection Mapping

The School has continued to grow its portfolio of video projection mapping work. Our external artistic partnerships provide opportunities to students on the BA (Hons) Video Design for Live Performance to work on live, artistically innovative and technically ambitious events.

Three major events in 2016/17 included animated projections at Bangor University (a bespoke commissioned piece inspired around fairy tales, which was projected on the walls within the Pontio Arts Centre during the interval and post performances of Snow White); the City of London Police Museum (two video installations including a 3D hologram exhibit); and a unique projection project in Tower Bridge’s Bascule Chamber, in partnership with BA Performance & Creative Enterprise students.

Combined audiences for video projection events reached over 200,000 for the third year running.

Guildhall Creative Entrepreneurs

Since its launch in 2013, the scheme has supported the creation of over 30 performing arts businesses ranging from new performing ensembles to production companies and online music platforms. In 2016, the School’s incubator welcomed its first cohort of creative businesses set up by external applicants, as well as those by Guildhall alumni and staff.

Structured as a 12-month part-time business-training programme, the scheme offers aspiring entrepreneurs the knowledge, tools and resources to turn a creative idea into a sustainable, long-term enterprise: personalised teaching - including business planning, marketing, sales and fundraising - as well as bespoke mentoring, coaching and access to central-London office space. Entrepreneurs also get the opportunity to pitch at a high profile event. This year’s event was compered by renowned theatre entrepreneur Sir Howard Panter, with the four shortlisted creative businesses pitching for two awards totalling £8,000.

Highlights from the 2016/17 programme included: – Real Voices: a collection of forward-thinking, contemporary, amateur choirs Starting their year on the scheme with just one choir, Real Voices now run four choirs across South London and are on course to further growth.

– Alexandra Dariescu Productions: ‘daring to dream’ by staging a series of cross-arts projects. Alexandra wanted to diversify the audiences for classical music by bringing a new experience to her performance as a pianist. The company went on to debut its first project The Nutcracker and I, a new and innovative 50-minute live performance for piano, ballerina and digital projected proanimation in December 2017 with two sold-out performances in Milton Court.

Creative Entrepreneurs pitching event

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– Actor’s Net: an online space created for actors by actors.This initiative, set up by two actors, aims to build a safe forum which enables actors to connect with each other, support each other, help each other, work with each other.

Short courses

Terra Incognita – Here Be Dragons

This year, we also launched our first creative entrepreneurship short course to a very positive response. And the School provided bespoke support to young musicians through a collaboration with the European Federation of National Youth Orchestras. This growth in entrepreneurship support come out of our continuous commitment to reach as many creatives as we can; providing short, light-touch advice and professional development as well as the intensive support offered on the main scheme.

Short courses

The Guildhall School’s short course programmes provide opportunities for people of all ages and abilities to engage with the School; young people experiencing the arts for the first time, aspiring artists looking for a taste of conservatoire training, and seasoned professionals continuing to hone their craft.

In 2016/17 the School welcomed almost 600 short course participants across thirty courses representing a wide range of Guildhall specialisms in music, drama and technical theatre.

doubled the intake of participants from their inaugural courses in 2016.

Three new and distinctive summer courses launched in 2016/17. The Creative Entrepreneurs Short Course provided advice and guidance for fledgling start-ups in the performing arts. The Performing Arts Summer School (the second short course to be developed with Creative Learning) gave young artists with backgrounds in multiple artforms the opportunity to collaborate on an original piece of work.

Contemporary A Cappella offered participants the chance to record a professionally arranged song as part of a newly formed vocal group, and to find out more about what it takes to make it in the modern music industry. This was the first short course to be developed and led by a Guildhall alumnus who was not a member of professorial staff.

Testament to the success of this collaboration, the alumnus in question has since joined the School as a member of the jazz teaching faculty.

Established offers such as Jazz & Rock and the drama summer schools continued to perform well, alongside newer courses such as Brass & Percussion and the Summer Arts Camp – run in partnership with Barbican Creative Learning - which 37

Sustainability

“I always had a dream to study at Guildhall but was also very conscious of the sheer expense of living and studying in London.

I was immensely grateful when I was awarded a place and a scholarship to the School.�

Student, Guildhall Artist Masters - Performance (Piano Accompaniment)

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Development & Alumni Relations

In 2016 –17 the Development Office received cash donations and pledges of over £2.4 million, generously given in support of scholarships, Creative Learning projects, and other School priorities.

We are so grateful for the donations of the many trusts, foundations, companies, individuals, City liveries and legacy pledgers whose support is vital to the School and our ambitions moving forward. In particular, we thank those supporters who choose to give their gifts as unrestricted income, allowing us to respond where the need is greatest.

Multi-year pledges and donations from individuals, trusts and foundations totalled over £300,000 and the School is particularly indebted to a number of individuals, trusts and foundations who have made multi-year pledges and donations. In particular we would like to thank The Henocq Law Trust, The Hargreaves & Ball Trust, M&C Saatchi & The Josephine Hart Poetry Foundation and The Amar-Franses & Foster-Jenkins Trust for their generosity and continued support.

Just over £935,000 was raised for named scholarships (gifts of £5000+) during the year. In total, 429 students - nearly 43% of the student body - are receiving scholarships via named and general awards.

The School was also delighted to welcome its founding corporate partner, international law firm Eversheds Sutherland. The partnership encompasses a variety of cultural exchange opportunities and external engagement activities. We hope that in 2017-18, this connection will be further strengthened, and will look to grow our corporate partnership portfolio further.

The Development Office also hosted a number of bespoke fundraising events in our state-of-the-art venues and hospitality spaces, including The Elegant East, a City of London event celebrating ties in business and culture between London and China, and our biennial fundraising gala, Take to the Stage.

Alumni

The Development and Alumni Relations Office facilitated a number of alumni events this year. The team hosted reunions at home and abroad, and welcomed over 150 graduands to the 2016 Graduation ceremony. The Alumni Recital Series continues to be an excellent way to welcome back some of our world-class artists such as Elizabeth Marcus, who returned as music director for Kathleen Ferrier: Whattalife!, the world-renowned octet Cellophony, and a number of highprofile guitarists for Guitar Spectacular, including Christina Schorn, Jørgen Skogmo and the M-ela Guitar Quartet.

A particular highlight of the year was the return of Daniel Craig to the School, 27 years after he graduated. The James Bond star held a Q&A with current acting students.

During this year, the team also revamped the alumni magazine PLAY to include exciting new features to promote audience engagement. The magazine goes out to over 8,000 Guildhall alumni across the world and now contains more cross-arts features that profile Guildhall alumni, staff and students, addressing their inspirations, challenges and shared experiences.

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Major Donors

The Worshipful Company of Innholders

The Amar-Franses & Foster-Jenkins Trust

The Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors

Mr Ian Andrews, in memory of Peter Roland Andrews

The Worshipful Company of Skinners

The Boltini Trust

The Worshipful Company of Tobacco Pipe Makers

Sir Nicolas Bratza

Mr & Mrs Peter and Corinne Young

The late Stella Currie Ms Elmira Darvarova

Founding Corporate Partner

The D'Oyly Carte Charitable Trust The Drapers' Company Albert & Eugenie Frost Music Trust Norman Gee Foundation The Girdlers' Company The late Ms Muriel Green The Haberdashers' Company The Henocq Law Trust Mr and Mrs Michael and Mercedes Hoffman The Leathersellers' Company The Leverhulme Trust London Symphony Orchestra Andrew & Cindy Peck The Sidney Perry Foundation The Stanley Picker Trust M&C Saatchi and the Josephine Hart Poetry Foundation Dr Michael Shipley and Mr Philip Rudge The South Square Trust The late Mrs Gisela Stone Ms Averil Williams, FGS The Wolfson Foundation Henry Wood Accommodation Trust The late Mr Cecil Douglas Woodward The Worshipful Company of Cordwainers The Worshipful Company of Dyers The Worshipful Company of Fishmongers The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths The Worshipful Company of Grocers

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This list acknowledges support of major donors during the financial year 1 August 2016- 31 July 2017.

The Guildhall School Trust is a registered charity no. 1082472

Financials Income

£000

HE tuition fees

8,927

Guildhall School Trust scholarships

1,632

Grants

5,928

City of London contribution

8,074

Income generation and other activities

4,764

Guildhall Young Artists tuition fees

2,603 Total 2016/17

31,928

Total 2015/16

25,901

£000

Expenditure

HE teaching and teaching departments

9,730

Academic services

3,428

Student support services

1,833

Central administration services

3,658

Income generating activities

1,978

Guildhall Young Artists activity and outreach

2,495

Premises & residential

6,553 29,675

Total 2015/16

26,476

6,553 Premises & residential

Guildhall Young Artists activity and outreach

Income generating activities

2,495

3,658

3,428 Academic services

Central administration services

9,730 HE Teaching and teaching departments

1,833 2,603 Guildhall Young Artists tuition fees

Student support services

4,764 Income generation and other activities

8,074 City of London contribution

5,928 Grants

Guildhall School Trust scholarships

1,978

Expenditure (£000)

Total 2016/17: 29,675

1,632

Income (£000)

Total 2016/17: 31,928

8,927 HE tuition fees

Total 2016/17

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Qualifications Qualifications awarded for 2016/17 cycle (as at October 2017)

Undergraduate student cohort

Total

Bachelors degrees

159

Masters degrees

154

Artist Diplomas

12 Total 2016/17

325

Total 2015/16

317

Programme

Total (FTE)

BA in Acting

64

BA in Technical Theatre Arts

105

BA Video Design for Live Performance

9

BMus

411

BA Performance & Creative Enterprise

42

Total 2016/17

609

Total 2015/16

571

14% BME

85% White

Ethnicity

15% Declared

85% None

Disability

52% Male

Sex

48% Female

2016 new enrolment

20

1% Information refused

Student profile

Total (FTE)

Programme

13

MA in Acting MA in Training Actors

3

MA in Collaborative Theatre Production & Design

3

Artist Diploma

22

Extended Guildhall Artist Masters

15

Guildhall Artist Masters Part 1 Performance

129

Guildhall Artist Masters Part 1 Composition

6

Guildhall Artist Masters Part 1 Leadership

13

Guildhall Artist Masters Part 2 (all pathways)

78

MA in Music Therapy

23 6

MA in Opera Making & Writing

33.5

MPhil/DMus/PhD

6

MPGCert in Performance Teaching

350.5

Total 2015/16

315.5

80% White

18% BME

Ethnicity

7% Declared

93% None

Disability

42% Male

Sex

58% Female

2016 new enrolment

Total 2016/17

2% Information refused

Postgraduate student cohort

Other Programme

Total (FTE)

AGSM

0

Advanced Certificate

â€

Fellows are students only in respect of their extra-mural tuition.

Fellows are shown as headcount.

23.5

Fellows â€

33

UG & PG Short-Term Programme

1.5 Total 2016/17

58

Total 2015/16

62 43

Junior Guildhall Student Cohort

2016/17

Music Course

257

String Training Programme

185

Drama Course

Centre for Young Musicians

Total 2016/17

491

Total 2015/16

467

8% Info refused

4% Not known

29% BME

2016/17

Student Cohort

London Centre

447

Norfolk Centre

119

Taunton Centre

65

Saffron Centre

119 66

Peterborough Centre (new)

143

London Schools Symphony Orchestra (LSSO)

44

59% White

Ethnicity

7% Info refused

10% Declared

83% None

Disability

3% Home educated

5% Other

49% Independent

43% State

Schooling

44% Male

56% Female

Sex

49

Total 2015/16

959

Total 2014/15

811

Peterborough

21% BME

Peterborough

61% State

32% Independent

4% Info refused

3% Home educated

91% State

8% Independent

Peterborough

31% Info refused

8% Declared

48% Male

52% Female

35% Male

65% Female

53% Male Peterborough

48% White

25% BME

Saffron

6% Info refused

Saffron

1% Home educated

84% State

11% Independent

Saffron

92% None

5% Declared

47% Female

41% Male

59% Female

Saffron

69% White

8% BME

Taunton

5% Home educated

Taunton

95% None

Taunton

84% State

8% Independent

2% Info refused

35% Male

65% Female

Taunton

92% White

Norfolk

9% Declared

Norfolk

6% Home educated

80% State

20% Independent

Norfolk

16% BME

91% None

7% Declared

93% None

78% State

Norfolk

84% White

6% BME

26% Info refused

London

68% White

Ethnicity

47% Male

London

34% BME

Disability*

16% Independent

53% Female

London

2% Info refused

4% Home educated

Schooling

2% Declared

98% None

London

18% Info refused

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Who’s who

Patron

Senior leadership

The Right Hon. The Lord Mayor

Principal

Professor Sir Barry Ife cbe (until February 2017) Chairman of the Board of Governors

Deputy John Bennett

Lynne Williams (from February 2017) Vice Principal and Director of Music

Deputy Chairman of the Board of Governors

Vivienne Littlechild

Jonathan Vaughan Vice Principal and Director of Drama

Christian Burgess Vice Principal and Director of Academic Affairs

Board members

Deputy John Barker obe (until March 2017) Sir Andrew Burns kcmg Michael Cassidy (from April 2017)

Professor Helena Gaunt Director of Acting

Wyn Jones Director of Technical Theatre

Ben Sumner Director of Learning & Engagement

Deputy John Chapman

Sean Gregory

Christina Coker obe

Academic Registrar & Director of Student Experience

Professor Geoffrey Crossick Stuart John Fraser obe

Katharine Lewis Chief Operating & Financial Officer

Marianne Fredericks

Sandeep Dwesar

Lucy Frew (until September 2016)

Director of Buildings & Operations

Shreela Ghosh (from April 2017) Alderman David Graves Jo Hensel, elected by the Academic Staff Gareth Higgins, elected by Administrative Staff

Jonathon Poyner Head of Junior Guildhall

Alison Mears Director of Centre for Young Musicians National Strategy

Stephen Dagg

Michael Hoffman Professor Barry Ife obe as Principal of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama (until February 2017) Jeremy Mayhew Graham Packham (from April 2017) Alderman William Russell Jeremy Simons Tom Steer as President of the Students’ Union Lynne Williams as Principal of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama (from February 2017) Photo credits

Mark Allen, Simon Annand, Clive Barda, Marc Brenner, Paul Cochrane, Lucy Coker, Manuel Harlan, John Millar, Johan Persson, Robert Piwko, Clive Totman, Morley Von Sternberg, Tim Whitby 48

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