Guildhall School Annual Report 2015-16

Annual Report 2015/16

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Contents

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

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Exceptional teaching

Teaching and learning Research & knowledge exchange 4.48 Psychosis in the media Staff successes

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Exceptional students

Student successes Graduation Alumni successes Widening Participation

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Exceptional opportunities

Performances 27 Partnerships 29 Internationalisation 31 Creative Learning 33

A sustainable, world-class institution

Enterprise, innovation 35 & entrepreneurship Development 37 Estates and facilities 39 Student profile 42 Financials 46 Who’s who 48

Debbie Wiseman conducts the Guildhall Chamber Orchestra 4 (January 2016)

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Principal’s introduction

2016 will certainly go down in history as an extraordinary year, but the news was not all bad. Perhaps the most significant achievement for the Guildhall School was the outcome of the HEFCE review of institution-specific funding, which judged the School’s teaching to be ‘world-leading’ and brought with it a welcome injection of extra funding. The feedback made heartwarming mention of the ‘formidable impact’ of our recent alumni, who are, after all, what we are here for.

As a result, the School’s resource base is stronger than ever, fully on a par with our competitors in the specialist sector, with additional investment from the City of London to support those areas where Guildhall adds something special: high production values in drama and opera; industry-standard training in technical theatre arts; clinical training and research in music therapy; extensive specialist music education at the under-18 level; and a growing international touring programme.

Some of our 2016 highlights play to these priorities. 2016 saw the opening of a third Centre for Young Musicians at Saffron Hall, further consolidating Guildhall’s role in delivering the national music education plan. 2016 was also the year of Shakespeare400, and Patsy Rodenburg devised a wonderful ensemble piece – Go, Make You Ready - based on his life and work. That played here in the Silk St Theatre to great acclaim and then toured to China as part of the British Council’s ‘Shakespeare Lives’ project. 2016 was also the fourth centenary of the death of Cervantes, and your Principal was busy speaking at conferences in Oxford, Cork, Alcalá de Henares, Alicante and Shakespeare’s Globe.

The Guildhall name continues to be recognised and respected around the world. More and more people, practitioners, audiences and aspiring students, know us for what we are: professional, engaged, creative, joyful and ‘open for business’.

If we stick to those core values, we will not go too far wrong.

It has been an honour and a privilege to be your principal for the past twelve and a half years and I will miss the buzz that everyone recognises when they come through the doors. But Trudi and I will continue to support you through our annual B&T scholarship, through our research and publications and, from time to time, cheering from the stalls in the theatres and concert rooms. We wish you all, and your new principal, Lynne Williams, every success and happiness for the future.

Professor Sir Barry Ife CBE Principal

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Chairman’s message

2015-16 is my second year as Chairman of the Board of Governors and it has proved to be an eventful year. Early in the period covered by this Report the Principal indicated to me his wish to retire at the end of this academic year. After an extensive international search process we have been fortunate to recruit as our new Principal Lynne Williams, who comes to us from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney, Australia, where she held the post of Chief Executive. Lynne’s experience stretches across the performing arts and we are already looking forward immensely to her arrival in February 2017.

The Principal has referred to the very significant funding we have received from HEFCE, which resulted from the School being judged ‘world-leading’ in its teaching. This is one of the most outstanding achievements of the Guildhall School in its recent history, and the School’s staff and students should be very proud indeed of this accolade. It should not, however, lead to complacency. These standards must be maintained in order for the School to continue to attract the world class individuals who all contribute to the in-house performances and to the performing arts in the UK and internationally.

The Principal also referred to the Guildhall School as ‘professional, engaged, creative, joyful and “open for business”’.

I endorse this sentiment completely and continue to be greatly impressed by the talent of our students and teaching staff. The coming years will have their challenges, particularly post-Brexit, but I am confident that the School will rise to, and meet, these challenges to ensure it keeps its position as the top conservatoire in the UK. Deputy John Bennett Chairman of the Board of Governors

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The Guildhall School’s vision To be an international centre of excellence and global leader of creative and professional practice in the performing arts

Vision and strategic aims

The Guildhall School’s mission To train and educate musicians, actors and theatre technicians to the highest international standards; support creativity, innovation and risk; lead cultural change; excite and inspire as many people as we can reach Strategic aims The School has four strategic aims for its development, addressed in this report. They are:

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Exceptional Teaching Engage world-class staff to deliver innovative teaching, research and knowledge exchange, encourage experiment and lead ground-breaking creative and professional practice Exceptional Students Recruit the most outstanding aspiring young musicians, actors and theatre technicians from around the world, train and educate them to the highest international standards, support them with continually improved services and facilities, and prepare them for successful careers in the performing arts Exceptional Opportunities Work with partners to create an international arts and learning centre without rival; encourage staff and students to find their voice, develop their craft and artistry, draw inspiration from practitioners across the art forms and engage with the audiences of the future A Sustainable, World-Class Institution Deliver the transformational investment needed to sustain a world-class centre of excellence for training and performance

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Exceptional teaching

“Guildhall cultivates ensemble culture. They have incredible teachers and a lot of the teaching is about appreciating other actors.

They remind you that what is most exciting is the frisson between actors, the energy.�

Paapa Essiedu speaking to The Observer, March 2016

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Teaching and learning

Programme offer in 2015/16

At the start of the academic year, the School enrolled 997 students on to the following programmes: Drama

5. Graduates who excel at all levels across a range of styles, disciplines and sectors The HEFCE Board decided that the School had satisfied all the criteria, with the review panel commenting:

BA (Hons) in Acting BA (Hons) in Technical Theatre Arts BA (Hons) in Video Design for Live Performance* BA (Hons) in Performance and Creative Enterprise* MA in Acting MA in Training Actors MA in Collaborative Theatre Production and Design*

“… the practice of performing arts in general was seen as being influenced

by Guildhall’s teaching outputs. The institution’s advocacy of student-centred artistic education and socially engaged practice were seen as distinguishing features. Also, the formidable impact of recent graduates was a compelling factor in support of the case.”

*first entry of students in 2015/16

Assessment

Music

The 2015/16 assessment cycle continued the trend of excellent results across School programmes, particularly in the BA Technical Theatre Arts, Artist Diploma and Guildhall Artist Masters programmes.

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

MPhil/DMus MPhil/PhD HEFCE institution-specific review

In a major accolade for the institution, the Guildhall School’s teaching was judged as ‘world-leading’ in the 2016 Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) institution-specific review, the funding outcomes of which were released by HEFCE in May. Institutions including the Guildhall School were asked to provide evidence about how concentrated their provision is, their higher costs and to describe their world-leading teaching outputs, in order to demonstrate that they met the criteria for funding. The Guildhall School’s submission was based on five key factors: 1. Specialised teaching and learning across and between music and drama 2. Internationally-recognised innovations in pedagogy and professional development 3. Collaborations with international practitioners, ensembles and institutions 4. Socially-engaged practice beyond the conservatoire

All External Examiners were satisfied with the overall quality of the programmes and highlighted a number of strengths and areas of good practice including: - The high quality of teaching and the commitment and enthusiasm of programme teams - The attention paid to the specific needs of students and the generally high level of academic support provided - The inventive programming in performance activities Comments from examiners included: “Innovative opportunities for students” [BA Video Design for Live Performance] “High levels of student morale and attainment” [BMus] “The graduating students from the Guildhall School are recognised in the industry as being among the best” [BA Technical Theatre Arts]

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Programme developments

A new PGCert in Performance Teaching was validated in the autumn term. The programme fills a gap in provision at the School, providing students at Masters level with the opportunity to specialise in performance teaching. The rationale for the programme is underpinned by sector developments in arts education as a whole, pointing to the need for more highly-trained performing arts teachers.

Two programmes were validated in spring/summer 2016: the MA in Music Therapy and the Doctoral programme.

In both cases the revalidation panel commended the strength of the programme and the high quality of teaching and supervision, which was borne out by the positive comments of the student representatives who participated in the revalidation events.

In the autumn term, an agreement was signed with the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing for the establishment of a new BA in Acting Studies programme, with the first and fourth years delivered in Beijing, and the second and third years delivered at the School (see page 31). The programme was validated in November 2016 and will see its first intake come to the Guildhall School from Beijing in September 2017.

Student feedback

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 increased by 12% to 87.4% in 2016 (up from 75.4% in 2015), far higher than the national response rate of 72%.

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

All students of the School 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 from the Whole School Survey included: “What I find most valuable are the many opportunities to get experience on stage. The production process is very professional, and prepares us well for the professional world” [Opera] “The quality of the lessons is exceptional; they are wholly engaging, challenging both physically and mentally, and the development I feel I am undergoing is as a person as well as an actor” [Acting] “The thing I have most valued has been being a part of a student body, wholly dedicated to music, for the first time in my life. This has challenged me and inspired me to work harder” [BMus]

The School considered a wide variety of student feedback during 2015/16, including data from the two principle surveys - the National Student Survey (NSS) and Whole School Survey (WSS).

National Student Survey 2016 Question

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Whole School % agree 2016

2015

2014

The School’s aim is to prepare talented young performers and theatre technicians for careers in their respective professions. I am confident that the School has provided me with the tools to take up my chosen profession.

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95

Overall, I am satisfied with the quality of the course.

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Whole School Survey 2016

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

Programme

% satisfied 2016

% satisfied 2015

BMus

92.5

87.9

BA/MA Acting

96.5

98.5

BA Technical Theatre Arts

82.7

78

BA Performance & Creative Enterprise

100

n/a

BA Video Design for Live Performance

66.6

n/a

Guildhall Artist Masters

86.9

92.5

MA Music Therapy

88.9

100

Artist Diploma

100

92.8

Advanced Certificate

100

100

MA Opera Making & Writing

100

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MA Training Actors

66.6

100

MA Collaborative Theatre Production & Design

100

n/a

Research

86.9

83.3

% satisfied 2016

% satisfied 2015

Whole School Survey 2016

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

IT

the quality of the IT provision

63.3

72.4

Library

the quality of the Library Services

93.9

92.9

Registry

the quality of advice and service

84.5

81.5

Finance

the helpfulness and efficiency of staff

82.3

82.4

the clarity of information regarding fees and other payments

83.2

83.5

80.9

83.5

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75.4 67 79.8

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

Venues

the availability of Performance Venues staff

77.1

79.2

Student Affairs

the range of services

86.1

83.3

Audio Visual

the quality of the AV provision

64.5

68.1

SU

the social activities and events provided

55.2

49.3

SU communication, and staff availability

58.1

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Junior Guildhall

Centre for Young Musicians (CYM)

Junior Guildhall’s partnership with Felsted School continued to develop with an increase in the number of students studying at the String Training Programme at Felsted, a satellite version of the highly successful and unique programme which has been oversubscribed in London for many years. Student numbers doubled at Felsted during 2015/16. Instrumental lessons are now available on violin, viola, cello and bass with additional study piano.

The new Saffron Walden Centre opened in October 2015, and had enrolled 90 students by the end of the academic year.

Plans for a Centre in Peterborough were completed by the end of the academic year with the new Centre due to open in October. During the course of the year further dialogue was opened with the Bristol Plays Music HUB and Bristol Cathedral School, where a pilot CYM project was planned for the new academic year 16-17.

Developments in the Junior Guildhall jazz course included a wider range of first study instruments to include jazz voice and an increase in the number of jazz ensembles available to both specialist and non-specialist jazz musicians, including the introduction of a jazz choir.

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Research & knowledge exchange

The extra £160,000 of HEFCE funding earned by Guildhall researchers in the Research Excellence Framework 2014 helped the School navigate a challenging financial landscape in 2015-16. Research activity continued to expand, and was given an extra boost in the shape of the very positive feedback on research from HEFCE’s institution-specific review, which commented: “World-leading pedagogic research originating from the institution was seen as indicative of an institution producing teaching outputs that have had a positive and significant impact on the way people look at teaching and learning music.”

Accordingly, new posts were advertised to support exciting new developments in the School’s work on catalysing institutional change: two Creative Exchange Managers were appointed, to start at the beginning of 2016-17. A new Research Co-ordinator was also recruited to fill the post left vacant in January 2015.

successful hosting of the Royal Musical Association annual conference, which enjoyed its highest-ever number of submissions (including 13 accepted from Guildhall staff) and its highest-ever number of attendees. Similarly successful ICONgo and ICON seminar events were held in Vienna, Queensland and Oslo.

As well as esteem, these activities generated around £12,000 of funding for re-investment in research.

Lastly, 2015-16 saw a number of major prizes and awards, above all for staff researching in the area of composition.

These included Matthew Kaner, who was winner of BBC Radio 3’s ‘Embedded: Composer in 3’, an initiative devised in partnership with Sound and Music; and Philip Venables, the School’s Doctoral Composer-in-Residence at the Royal Opera. Philip’s 4.48 Psychosis, premiered at The Lyric Hammersmith in May 2016, was a resounding critical success and went on to win Best Achievement in Opera at the UK Theatre Awards.

See next page for a summary of media

coverage for this production.

Other new areas of work were concentrated in the doctoral programme, which was successfully revalidated in June 2016: students were admitted to pursue projects in Technical Theatre (prop-making and scenography), opera administration, and queer theory in performance. Overall the programme welcomed another large intake, including three students fully-funded under partnership agreements with the Royal Opera House, the Barbican and the Victoria & Albert Museum (the latter an Arts and Humanities Research Council collaborative doctorate). Other students benefited from support from other prestigious funders, including the Gulbenkian Foundation and the Chinese Government, and three staff were admitted with full fee-waivers.

This was a good year for grant income, from the AHRC in particular, which committed funds of around £370,000, including £230,000 for Dr Karen Wise’s ‘Finding a Voice’ study. Also funded was Professor Julian Philips’s new opera project The Tale of Januarie, through a £4million One World Research Initiative led by Manchester University.

The School’s leading position as producer of research/practice events across the world was further consolidated by a very

Matthew Kaner

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4.48 Psychosis in the media

“Philip Venables’ operatic version of Sarah "4:48 Psychosis is a remarkable Kane’s final play is both startling and achievement. The Royal Opera and the immensely moving.”

Guildhall School of Music & Drama should be congratulated on commissioning The Stage (4* review) it as part of their joint doctoral composerin-residence scheme. And above all, it “Philip Venables’s 4.48 Psychosis – the first confirms Philip Venables’s reputation as opera to emerge from the Royal Opera’s one of the finest of the younger generation joint Composer-in-Residence doctorate of composers working today." with the Guildhall School of Music & Drama – gives the company its first truly The Guardian home-grown hit.”

“The revelation is how Venables has The Arts Desk enriched [Sarah Kane's] play through music. He challenges the conventions “4.48 Psychosis is an arresting, affecting, of opera. Via an array of resources he haunting whirlwind, perfectly ambushes and refreshes an old art form.” encapsulating the chaotic, discordant The Observer “Where this first ever operatic setting

by Royal Opera/Guildhall composerin-residence Philip Venables succeeds is through simple honesty.”

The Independent (5* review)

world inside the mind of a declining manic depressive… Under conductor Richard Baker’s baton, Venables’ uncomfortably beautiful, stripped-back but richly textured orchestration and discomfiting mix of prerecorded and live sounds beautifully convey and complement the natural percussive cadences and often lyrical nature of Kane’s raw, powerful words.”

“He [Venables] manages to enhance Kane’s groundbreaking format with his own The Upcoming (4* review) unbuttoned imagination… It’s unhinged and chilling, albeit laced with Kane’s “Venables’ score, played by the CHROMA trademark humour. Most of all, it is Ensemble conducted by Richard Baker, is dizzyingly colourful.” poignant and atmospheric and suits the Financial Times (4* review) words very well. It allows some to be uttered slowly, and others to be rattled through in “Rawly powerful…This is an urgent a haze, signifying how someone’s thoughts message from black-dog hell, and it should can rush in and pile on top of each other.” not go unheeded.”

Music OMH (4* review) The Telegraph (4* review) “Philip Venables’s opera 4.48 Psychosis… finds a musical vocabulary for the substances with which we treat depression…

Every self-harming syllable of the text is clear… I can only praise the musicality, discipline and bravery shown by [the singers]” The Times (4* review) “An intense theatrical experience.

In contemporary opera, that is a rare achievement.”

Opera magazine

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“A drum, a hammer and a saw pound accusingly, or ping question marks; the emphasis, the emotion, comes through in the voice of the instrument as much as in the written word. This doesn't sound all that, but boy does it work in the space; 4.48 Psychosis is worth watching just for those sections…There are also dotted instances of real fizzing energy, with Venables' score rising to the challenges of Kane's text with thrilling urgency.”

What’s on Stage (3* review)

4.48 Psychosis

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Staff successes

The Guildhall School’s internationallyrenowned teaching staff are at the core of the Guildhall student experience. In 2015/16, the achievements of Guildhall School staff were formally recognised in a number of ways: Staff development

The title Professor was conferred upon four members of staff, in acknowledgement of a national and international standing in their discipline: JANICE CHAPMAN (Professor of Vocal Studies) DR NYE PARRY (Professor of Composition) SIMON WILLS (Professor of Trombone) IAN WILSON (Professor of Recorder)

A significant number of staff also achieved recognition from the Higher Education Academy under the Catalyst Scheme in 2016.

The following staff were made Fellows of the Higher Education Academy: CECELIA BRUGGEMEYER DAVID CORKHILL CATHERINE FLEMING

EMILY WHITE , Sackbutt Professor, won a Gramophone Award with the English Cornett and Sackbutt Ensemble for their recording The Spy’s Choirbook.

STEVE HUTTLY , Head of Theatre

Technology, won the ABTT Theatre Technician of the Year Award, which was presented to him at the ABTT Show by Guildhall honorary fellow Mark Jonathan.

Estates & Facilities Senior Projects Manager HANNAH BIBBINS , Orchestral Manager JIM DEAN , Head of Physical Actor Training DANNY MCGRATH , Piano Professor CAROLINE PALMER , and Vice Principal and Director of Music JONATHAN VAUGHAN were all made Fellows of the Guildhall School at the 2015 Graduation Ceremony (see page 21).

Appointments and retirements

After many years of teaching in the department, MALCOLM EDMONSTONE was appointed Head of Jazz in March.

JENNY MOLLICA was appointed Head of Creative Learning, and CARLOS LOPEZREAL was appointed Programme Leader for the new PGCert in Performance Teaching programme.

MATTEO DALLE FRATTE RICK HOLLAND MATTHEW KING ELIZABETH MARCUS SARAH PRING DR CHRISTOPHER SUCKLING

And two staff were made Senior Fellows of the Higher Education Academy: IAN CLARKE SARAH NEWBOLD

Staff achievements MATTHEW KANER , Guildhall alumnus and Professor of Composition, was selected for BBC Radio 3's 'Embedded: Composer in 3 Scheme', working closely with Radio 3’s programme makers over a 70-day period, composing a number of short pieces and talking about the process of composing classical music today. Elsewhere in Composition, JULIAN ANDERSON won a prestigious RPS Music Award in the Chamber Scale Composition category for his work Van Gogh Blue.

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The Guildhall School welcomed a number of new faces to the professorial staff in 2015-16. ANDRÁS KELLER was appointed Professor of Violin, JULIUS DRAKE as Professor of Piano Accompaniment, GARETH DAVIES as Professor of Flute, DOMINIC MORGAN as Professor of Contra Bassoon, MAHAN ESFAHANI as Professor of Harpsichord, and ROBERT AULT as Professor of Bass Clarinet.

The Jazz Department saw a range of new staff appointed, including LIANE CARROLL , IAIN BALLAMY , LAURENCE COTTLE , ALEC DANKWORTH ,

Steve Huttly

Lynne Williams

BARNABY DICKINSON , MARTIN

Finally, in July it was announced that

FRANCE , CHRISTIAN GARRICK , ADAM

LYNNE WILLIAMS , currently Director/

GOLDSMITH , JAMES KNIGHT , MIKE

CEO of the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney, Australia, would succeed PROFESSOR BARRY IFE as Principal of the Guildhall School, and would take up her post in February 2017.

OUTRAM , PERCY PURSGLOVE , BARAK SCHMOOL , ROSS STANLEY , NICHOL THOMPSON

and GARETH WILLIAMS .

As the new BA Performance and Creative Enterprise welcomed its first student intake, a number of staff were appointed to deliver the programme, including RICK HOLLAND , ZARA MCFARLANE , JUSTIN O’SHAUGHNESSY , RACHAEL PERRIN , and JACOB SAM-LA-ROSE .

And this year the School bid farewell to three long-serving members of staff: DEREK RODGERS , Head of Junior Guildhall, retired after 33 years working at the School; HEATHER SWAIN retired as Deputy Registrar (Assessment & Progression) after 27 years’ service; and NICK HIRST , Facilities Assistant, retired after 32 years.

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Exceptional students

“Students at the Guildhall School’s opera course were throwing heart, soul and terrific talent into pieces they’d worked up for their final assessment. There were scenes from standard works…plus three half-hour mini-operas composed by the students. For two or three hours the intensity of these students took me away.”

The Times (Matthew Parris), on Opera Makers, July 2016

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Student successes

Guildhall School students are recognised in appointments, award ceremonies and competitions across the globe. Successes for 2015/16 included: Vocal & Opera

(Opera Course) 1st Prize, Wigmore Hall Song Competition

MILAN SILJANOV

(MPerf Vocal Studies) Song Prize, Kathleen Ferrier Awards

BIANCA ANDREW

(BMus Voice) and ROBERT LEWIS (BMus Voice) 2nd Prize and 3rd Prize, Kathleen Ferrier Society Bursary for Young Singers Competition JACK ROBERTS

MARTA FONTANALS-SIMMONS

(Artist Diploma Vocal Studies) and (Piano Fellow) 'Prix de Lied', Concours International de chant-piano Nadia et Lili Boulanger RICARDO GOSALBO

FRANCESCA CHIEJINA (MMus Vocal Studies) and TOM ATKINS (Opera Course) Accepted onto the Royal Opera House Jette Parker Young Artists Programme 2016

(Artist Diploma Vocal Studies) Park Lane Group Young Artist; accepted into the National Opera Studio

LIZZIE KARANI

MAYA IRGALINA (MMus Piano Accompaniment) Accompanist's Prize, Kathleen Ferrier Society Bursary for Young Singers Competition

(MPerf Piano Accompaniment) and EDWARD LIDDALL (Piano Fellow) Joint winners, Accompanist Prize at the Maureen Lehane Competition NATALIE BURCH

(DMus Piano) Named as a City Music Foundation Artist

ALEXANDER SOARES

ANTONIO OYARZABAL (Artist Diploma Piano) Winner of the finalist prize and the audience special prize, Campillos International Piano Competition

(BMus Piano) Runnerup, 2016 Norah Sande Award

DANIEL EVANS

Chamber Music

(Pablo Hernán Benedí, Michael Petrov, Erdem Misirlioglu) 1st Prize and Audience Prize, Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition

TRIO ISIMSIZ

PELLEAS ENSEMBLE (Henry Roberts, Luba Tunnicliffe, Oliver Wass) 1st Prize and Audience Prize, St Martins' Chamber Music Competition

(Artist Diploma Violin) and EDWARD LIDDALL (Piano Fellow) 2nd Prize, BPSE Beethoven Chamber Music Competition

AMARINS WIERDSMA

(MPerf Vocal Studies) 2nd Prize, Association of English Singers & Speakers Patricia Routledge National English Song Competition

JONATHAN HYDE

(Opera Course) Emerging Artist at Scottish Opera ELGAN THOMAS

Keyboard

(BMus Piano) Grand Prize, 2015 Montreal Symphony Competition, and Winner, Sylvia Gelber Music Foundation Award

SCOTT MACISAAC

JONATHAN MORRIS (MPerf Piano) Piano Prize, Deena Shypitka Awards

(Artist Diploma Piano) Worshipful Company of Musicians silver medal MARINA KOKA

(MMus Piano), Winner, Musicians' Company's 2016 Carnwath Piano Scholarship

SOPHIA DEE Pelleas Ensemble

Strings ELISABETH EDER (MPerf Harp) Winner, VIII Concorso Musicale Filadelfia, Italy OLIVER WASS (MMus Harp) St John's Smith Square Young Artist

(BMus Cello) 2nd Prize, 21st Kobe International Music Competition

TAMAKI SUGIMOTO

Wind, Brass & Percussion

(BMus Flute) Winner, Instrumental Solo competition for under-25s at the Urdd Eisteddfod 2016

ENLLI PARRI

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Composition

(MMus Composition) and DONGHOON SHIN (MComp Composition) Winners, 2016 Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize

JACK SHEEN

(Trumpet) Brass finalist in BBC Young Musician 2016

ZAK EASTOP

(Percussion) Percussion finalist in BBC Young Musician 2016

HRISTIYAN HRISTOV

(Cello) Winner, Emunah Young Musician of the Year 2016

ELLEN BAUMRING-GLEDHILL

Drama

Final year actors went on to a number of prestigious roles: TOM GLYNN-CARNEY Dunkirk – Feature Film (dir. Christopher Nolan); The Last Post - TV series (Bonafide Films for the BBC) Bessie Carter

JOSH DYLAN Allied – Feature Film (dir. Robert Zemickis); Sheppy (dir. Paul Miller) at the Orange Tree Theatre LEONIE BENESCH Babylon Berlin – TV Series (dirs. Tom Tykwer, Achim von Borries, Hendrik Handloegten); The Crown – Season 2, TV Series (dir.

Stephen Daldry)

946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips (dir. Emma Rice) UK and US touring production

AKPORE UZOH

The Roundabout (dir.

Hugh Ross) at Park Theatre (‘a star performance from Bessie Carter’ Evening Standard); King Lear (dir. Deborah Warner) at the Old Vic Theatre

BESSIE CARTER

ROSE D’AULBY Pride and Prejudice (dir.

Deborah Bruce) at Regents Park Theatre and UK tour

Two Technical Theatre students won awards at the Association of British Theatre Technicians Show: ELENA PITSIAELI

GDS Student Achievement Award RORY BEATON

Michael Northen Bursary Junior Guildhall

(Violin) Winner, International Russian Rotary Children's Music Competition in Moscow, and winner of Russia’s prestigious Nutcracker competition

LEIA ZHU

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ALEXANDER PAPP (Violin/Composition) Runner-up, Royal Philharmonic Society Duet Young Composer Competition CHRIS BREWSTER (Euphonium/ Trombone) Appointment, London Symphony Orchestra Brass Academy SAM RUDD-JONES (Composition) Winner, BBC Proms Inspire Young Composers’ Competition 2016 LILLY VADANEAUX (Composition/Piano) Highly Commended, BBC Proms Inspire Young Composers’ Competition 2016

(Trumpet) 1st Prize at the Northern and Eastern Europe round of the German music competition 'Jugend Musiziert'

RUBEN EMSON

TORRIN WILLIAMS (Guitar) Leader of the National Youth Guitar Ensemble EZO SARICI (Violin) 2nd Prize, Josef Micka International Competition in Prague, and joint winner, Woking Musician of the Year

14 Junior Guildhall students were selected for the National Youth Orchestra, one for the National Youth Wind Ensemble and one in the National Youth Wind Orchestra.

Centre for Young Musicians TAD DAVIES , CATHERINE MCCARDEL

and ESTHER SKIPP (CYM Norwich) Selected for the Britten Sinfonia Academy (CYM Norwich) Winner, Michael Badminton Prize for the most promising string player in the Norfolk Young Musician Competition

CATHERINE MCCARDEL

Three CYM Hestercombe students were selected to have their composition performed at the BBC Ten Pieces II Proms on 23 and 24 July 2016.

Graduation

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

Fellowships were also awarded to five members of staff (see page 16). Jodie Whittaker gave an acceptance speech on behalf of the honorands.

Graduation Day 2015 took place in the Great Hall of the Guildhall on Friday 6 November with over 200 graduands in attendance to receive their awards in front of friends and family. At the ceremony, 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: Wigmore Hall Artistic and Executive Director JOHN GILHOOLY OBE , Chief Executive of Arts Council England DARREN HENLEY OBE , lighting designer JOHANNA TOWN , Deputy Chairman of the School (and outgoing Chairman) ALDERMAN DAVID GRAVES , and Acting alumna JODIE WHITTAKER .

Graduation 2015: Professor Sir Barry Ife, Johanna Town, Danny McGrath, Jodie Whittaker, Mark Jonathan

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Alumni successes

Lily James in War and Peace

Guildhall alumni work across the globe, achieving extraordinary things.

Highlights in 2015/16 included:

MARK SIMPSON

Music

BENJAMIN APPL

ALESSANDRO FISHER (Voice 2013) Joint winner, Kathleen Ferrier Competition ASHOK GUPTA (Repetiteur 2012) Accompanist's Prize, Kathleen Ferrier Competition PALISANDER QUARTET (Miriam Nerval, Caoimhe de Paor, Lydia Gosnell, and Hannah Fisher, Recorder alumni from 2014 and 2015) St John's Smith Square Young Artists' Scheme 2016-2017 CLARE HAMMOND (Piano 2011) Winner, RPS Awards in the Young Artists category RODERICK WILLIAMS (Opera 1995) Winner, RPS Awards in the Singers category

(Opera 2012) Winner, Welsh Singer Competition

SIONED GWEN DAVIES

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PRACH BOONDISKULCHOK (Piano 2010) and VLADIMIR WALTHAM (Cello 2012) of the Linos Piano Trio, 1st Prize in the Piano Trio section of the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition 2015

(Composition 2012) Winner, South Bank Sky Arts Award in the Classical category

(Voice 2016) Signed to Sony Classical record label (Trumpet/Composition 2006) Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album for Sylva with Snarky Puppy and the Metropole Orkest

JULES BUCKLEY

(Flute 1994) Elected Chairman of the London Symphony Orchestra

GARETH DAVIES

GAVIN REID (Trumpet 1991) Appointed Chief Executive of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra

(Cello 2014) Appointed Assistant Conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

JONATHAN BLOXHAM

SAMEETA GAHIR (Flute 2013) Appointed Principal Piccolo of Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (where she joins fellow alumni Cormac Henry and Fiona Fulton to form an allGuildhall flute section) MAGRETHE LYSHOLM (Horn 2014) Appointed Tutti Horn at Aalborg Symphony Orchestra

FABIAN SCHMIDT (Trombone 2011) Appointed to the Trombone section of the Brandenburg State Orchestra

CHARLES HAINES

SARAH OLIVER (Cello 2011) Appointed No. 4 Cello in the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

ANNA MATTHEWS (Technical Theatre 2005) Highly commended by the Stage Management Association for her work in The Chairs

(Trumpet 1998) Appointed OBE in the Queen's birthday honours 2016

(Technical Theatre 1980) Winner, ABTT Product of the Year

ALISON BALSOM

(Technical Theatre 2008) Winner, Award for Outstanding Achievement in Media Server Programming at the 2015 Technical PAUL LEWIS (Piano 1995) Appointed CBE in the Queen's birthday honours 2016 Theatre Awards LESLIE EAST (Former Director of Music) Appointed OBE in the New Year’s Honours 2016 PROFESSOR HELEN ODELL-MILLER

(Music Therapy 1977) Appointed OBE in the New Year’s Honours 2016 (Violin 2004) Appointed MBE in the New Year’s Honours 2016 ALINA IBRAGIMOVA

ALEXANDRA DARIESCU (Piano 2011) Appointed Special Ambassador to Romania

Technical Theatre JOCELYN BUNDY (Stage Management 1983) Appointed Honorary Associate (HonARAM) by the Royal Academy of Music

JONATHAN LYLE

Acting

(Acting 2012) Winner of a BAFTA award for Best Female Performance in a Comedy and two Royal Television Society Awards (Breakthrough and Best Comedy Performance) for Chewing Gum

MICHAELA COEL

FREDDIE FOX (Acting 2010) 3rd Prize, Ian Charleson Awards for his performance in Romeo and Juliet at the Crucible, Sheffield

(Acting 2007) Nominated for a Tony Award (Best Actor in a Featured Role in a Play) for his performance in King Charles III

RICHARD GOULDING

EILEEN ATKINS (Speech & Drama 1953) Received the 2015 Gielgud Award for Excellence in the Dramatic Arts at the UK Theatre Awards 2015

Amongst many exciting castings for Acting alumni, the BBC’s new adaptation of War and Peace featured a host of Guildhall graduates, including LILY JAMES (Acting 2010) as Natasha Rostova, KATE PHILLIPS (Acting 2014) as Lise Bolkonskaya, OLIVIA ROSS (Acting 2011) as Mademoiselle Bourienne, CHLOE PIRRIE (Acting 2009) as Julie Karegina and BEN LLOYD-HUGHES (Acting 2011) as Tsar Alexander.

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Widening Participation

The Guildhall School seeks to identify and develop the most talented young artists regardless of background. The role of widening participation is to increase the proportion of applications and enrolments to the Guildhall School from young people who have backgrounds that are underrepresented in higher education, including: state school attendees; black and minority ethnic groups; young people with disabilities; and those from neighbourhoods with a low number of participants in higher education.

There are a number of initiatives in widening participation at the Guildhall School which are targeted at specific London boroughs, mostly in East London. These target boroughs represent the reach of the Centre for Young Musicians (CYM) and the reach of Creative Learning (see page 33). The School’s access projects aim to provide progressive and sustained learning opportunities in order to increase the skills and aspirations of young people in these areas.

Application fee waivers

During 2015/16, the Guildhall School piloted a system of application fee waivers for two of its undergraduate programmes. Application fee waivers were made available to young people from low income households who lived

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in the School’s target boroughs, who were otherwise unable to meet the cost of the School’s application process. 54 young people were given application fee waivers and, subsequently, four were offered and accepted places onto an undergraduate programme. In the next academic year, the Guildhall School will be increasing the number of application fee waivers from 60 to 170 and will be extending them to all undergraduate programmes.

Summer Schools

The School provides free places for courses on its summer school programme for students who meet the eligibility criteria. Eligibility is means-tested to the same scale as the Department of Education’s Music & Dance award. These free places enable young people to experience a taste of conservatoire study as well as increase their familiarity with the Guildhall School. In 2015/16, 27 young people were given a free summer school place.

Junior Guildhall

Junior Guildhall has a range of scholarships and bursaries to enable young people from a low-income background to take advantage of intensive music tuition. To encourage uptake of these scholarships from young people in East London, Junior Guildhall

skills of young artists, and projects that develop the aspirations and knowledge of young people seeking to develop careers in the performing arts. The School aims to build on Creative Learning’s existing relationships with young people in East London in order to increase the number of applications and enrolments to the Guildhall School from targeted areas.

CYM assisted places

Acting workshop in Dagenham

and the School’s Widening Participation Officer developed a taster event in wind & brass. 37 young people, who play a wide range of wind and brass instruments, attended this event, from nine different East London boroughs.

Acting outreach

During the year, the School piloted a range of acting workshops in targeted London boroughs, delivered by Guildhall graduates in schools, colleges and theatres. From February 2016 to August 2016, Guildhall graduates delivered 15 workshops designed to give a taste of the type of actor training provided by the Guildhall School. The School has received very positive feedback on the sessions from both the participants and the teachers, and many of the young people involved made use of the School’s application fee waivers in order to apply to the BA Acting programme. Others have gone on to join more sustained workshops offered in 2016/17.

Centre for Young Musicians (CYM) is a division of the Guildhall School and provides intensive and progressive music tuition for under-18s. Their London Saturday school is situated in Morley College in Lambeth and offers tuition in both classical and jazz disciplines. The Guildhall School provides a range of scholarships to help young people at CYM from lowincome backgrounds with the cost of their music tuition. In 2015/16 the School awarded just over £80,900 of access scholarships to 30 children at CYM. At the end of 2016, two students who received scholarships left CYM to pursue further study: one to study music at Birmingham Conservatoire and the other to the prestigious Harrow School on a music scholarship.

Creative Learning outreach

Creative Learning (see page 33) delivers the majority of the School’s outreach and community engagement work in East London. Creative Learning’s work ranges from ‘first access’ to the performing arts for young children, long-term projects to increase the

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Exceptional opportunities

“Yet again, this was an unusual performance in that the LSO members were joined by student players from the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra. It was remarkable how Rattle and his diverse forces achieved near flawless ensemble, with extraordinary finesse to the string tone, exceptional energy in the brass and striking vitality from the woodwind.�

The Guardian, June 2016

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Performances

In 2015/2016 third year actors tackled some exciting material in the Milton Court Theatres. Productions in the Milton Court Studio Theatre included The Secret Rapture by David Hare and Mountain Language, One for the Road and A New World Order by Harold Pinter and Dealer’s Choice by Patrick Marber.

In Milton Court Theatre productions included Mephisto, a novel by Klaus Mann adapted by Ariane Mnouchkine, and Top Girls by Caryl Churchill.

The Alumni Recital Series continued in 2015/16 and welcomed Sa Chen, Sophie Karthäuser and Eugene Asti, Toby Spence and Julian Milford, a guitar showcase with JØrgen Skogmo, Ahmed Dickinson Cardenas and Maria Camahort, and also included the film and TV music of Debbie Wiseman, conducted by Debbie herself.

Over in Silk Street, opera audiences were thrilled by works including Le donne curiose by Ermanno WolfFerrari, The Rape of Lucretia by Benjamin Britten and two lesser ° known works by Martinu: Ariane and Alexandre bis. Opera audiences were also able to see the culmination of the School and Royal Opera’s first Doctoral Composer-in-Residence with a new operatic adaption of 4.48 Psychosis, based on the final work of British playwright Sarah Kane, at the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith (see page 14).

Iain Burnside’s new play Drums and Guns brought together artists from the Guildhall School, Royal Irish Academy of Music and the Juilliard School for this devised piece which explored conflict in war and the impact it has on families left behind. This production was also performed in The Lir, Dublin and Juilliard School in New York. Also across the Atlantic, three senior students gave a chamber music recital in New York’s Carnegie Hall, which the School visits on a bi-annual basis.

The 2016 Gold Medal was the year of the harp – Oliver Wass was the overall winner with a performance of Ginastera’s Harp Concerto. 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 pianist Marina Koka and the Junior Guildhall Lutine Prize was won by violinist Didier Osindero. Gold Medals were also awarded in Acting, to Claudia Jolly, and in Technical Theatre, to stage manager Victoria Shillingford.

The School continued its association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra through the Total Immersion series, which this year featured music by Henryk Górecki, Louis Andriessen and Henri Dutilleux. Following the cancellation of the City of London Festival Guildhall musicians produced a series of 12 lunchtime chamber music concerts at the School, and there were also 10 pre-LSO concerts on the Barbican stage as part of the LSO Platforms: Guildhall Artists series.

The Guildhall Jazz Festival transformed the Milton Court Studio Theatre into a jazz club for two days, culminating in performances by Bob Stenson, Martin Speake and the band Anorak. The jazz department also came out in force for a special concert in collaboration with the award-winning singer-pianist Liane Carroll. Technical Theatre took video mapping to a number of high profile external events, including Shakespeare: Son et Lumière in Guildhall Yard (see page 36) and Glastonbury Festival, to name but a few.

Top Girls (February 2016)

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sonnets entitled Go, make you ready directed by Patsy Rodenburg showcased the versatility of Guildhall actors; the latter toured to China for five performances in Shanghai, Beijing and Chongqing as part of the Shakespeare 400 celebrations. On the Twentieth Century, the summer musical, was a spectacular end-of-year finale. The Technical Theatre Arts Graduate Exhibition, now in its third year, was a huge success and provided a networking opportunity for 34 graduating students.

Oliver Wass, Gold Medal 2016 winner

In 2015/16, the School presented over 300 public performances, with 33 major ticketed productions and events across the year. Gross ticket income for performances was £107,555, down from £128,146 in 2014/15, while average audience attendance at ticketed events was 86%, up from 73% the previous year, reflecting that unsold tickets were more proactively distributed for free to groups from widening participation activities and Junior Guildhall/CYM. Visiting artists

Visiting conductors included Sir Simon Rattle, who returned to conduct Guildhall musicians and the LSO in a premiere of the late Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s The Hogboon; James Blair, Adrian Leaper, Michail Jurowski and Takuo Yuasa. Masterclasses provided a further opportunity for students to work with distinguished musicians, including sessions from pianists Sa Chen, Angela Hewitt and Richard Goode, and globallyrenowned singers Claron McFadden and Renée Fleming.

Musicians from the Los Angeles Philharmonic gave instrumental masterclasses as part of their Barbican International Associate work. Film composers Stephen Endleman and Harry Gregson-Williams, both Guildhall alumni, continued their work with the Electronic Music department.

Visiting opera directors included Rodula Gaitanou and Stephen Barlow, and Timothy Redmond conducted the opera orchestra in the Martinu° double bill. Alumni Elizabeth Desbruslais and Catherine Backhouse returned to the School as soloists in the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 30

performance of Elgar’s The Music Makers and Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky.

Acting worked with directors including Jo McInnes, Stephen Unwin, Mike Alfreds and Jo Blatchley while Technical Theatre welcomed a number of designers and lighting designers, including Louis Carver, Simon Corder, Amelia Jane Hankin, Howard Hudson, Mark Jonathan, Dora Schweitzer, Mark Simmonds, Yannis Thavoris, Johanna Town, Agnes Treplin and Jamie Vartan.

Junior Guildhall

Junior Guildhall presents over 80 concerts across the year. This year’s external performances included concerts at Charlton House, Regent Hall, and Thaxted Festival, where Junior Guildhall Symphony Orchestra performed Holst’s The Planets in the composer’s beloved church as part of the Holst centenary celebrations.

Visiting guests at Junior Guildhall this year included a composer workshop with Sasha Siem, the Padeiro Repique Duo from Brazil, and a conducting workshop with Mark Wigglesworth.

Centre for Young Musicians

At CYM there are also performance opportunities for students throughout the year. The London Schools Symphony Orchestra gives three Barbican Hall concerts during the year as well as an annual international tour, and the London Youth Wind Band two performances.

External performance highlights for CYM in 2015/16 included: CYM London students Anton May, Yohan Rodas and Louis Lodder sang the roles of The Three Boys in the ENO production of The Magic Flute; the CYM London Chamber Choir was invited to perform at the memorial service for Sir Peter Maxwell Davies at St John’s Smith Square; four students from CYM Norfolk took part in a chamber concert with pianist Peter Donohoe; and three students from CYM Somerset performed their composition alongside the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra as part of the BBC Ten Pieces Prom in July.

Partnerships

Sir Simon Rattle conducts the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra in rehearsal

The School has developed partnerships with several major performing arts organisations, which provide exceptional opportunities for Guildhall students. In 2015/16, partnership activity included: Barbican Centre

Summer Arts Camp

- Masterclasses with members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, who are International Associates at the Barbican, and also with worldrenowned soprano Renée Fleming as part of the Barbican’s Artist Spotlight series - Electronic musicians from the Guildhall School helped to design a digital interactive installation for the Barbican Foyers called Towards the Mean, and performed in live events alongside it (see page 33) - Creative Learning, the joint outreach division of the Guildhall School and the Barbican, was involved in several major collaborations this year, including the launch of the new BA Performance & Creative Enterprise in association with the Barbican. They also brought Guildhall musicians together with Barbican International Associate ensemble Jazz at Lincoln Center, and were involved in the launch of a new Summer Arts Camp at the School delivered in association with the Barbican - As part of the ongoing development of the research degree programme at the

Guildhall School, 2016 saw the launch of a new, fully-funded studentship in partnership with the Barbican Centre, offering a doctoral candidate the opportunity to work full-time for three years on a research project in the Barbican in the area of understanding audiences.

London Symphony Orchestra

- Guildhall musicians, including those studying on Orchestral Artistry, the School’s postgraduate specialism in association with the LSO, joined the orchestra under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle for the premiere of the late Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s new children’s opera The Hogboon - Guildhall singers formed the semichorus in a LSO performance of Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius at the Barbican, conducted by Sir Mark Elder - The Guildhall Artists at the Barbican series continued with 10 pre-LSO concert performances by senior Guildhall musicians on the Barbican stage.

BBC Symphony Orchestra

- The BBCSO series Total Immersion, which celebrates contemporary composers, continued with performances by Guildhall musicians of works by Henryk Górecki, Louis Andriessen and Henri Dutilleux.

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Opera Makers (January 2016)

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Royal Opera House

Academy of Ancient Music

- Philip Venables’s 4.48 Psychosis, a co-commission between the Royal Opera and the Guildhall School in association with The Lyric Hammersmith, received its premiere in May 2016 to critical acclaim (see page 14). Based on the final work of the radical British playwright Sarah Kane, the opera was the culmination of Venables’s work as Doctoral Composer in Residence at the Guildhall School and the Royal Opera House, and went on to win a UK Theatre Award - Opera Makers, a performance of three new works by composers and librettists studying on the School’s MA in Opera Making and Writing in association with the Royal Opera House, received a performance at the Royal Opera House’s Clore Studio in January 2016, as well as its annual showcase at the Guildhall School.

- Guildhall musicians joined forces with the AAM to celebrate the music of J.S. Bach in a concert at the Deal Festival, conducted by John Butt, Musical Director of the Dunedin Consort.

Other collaborations this year included performances with the London Contemporary Dance School, Wigmore Hall, London Jazz Festival, EXAUDI and Poet in the City.

Internationalisation

In a year when internationalisation came to the forefront of concerns for the higher education sector, the School’s international activity saw Guildhall staff and students working in partnership with prestigious organisations across the globe. Opportunities for international performance, teaching and cultural exchange included: China

In December 2015, the School announced a major new partnership with the Central Academy of Drama, Beijing to deliver a joint Bachelor’s Degree in Acting Studies for Chinese students. Professor Barry Ife signed the agreement, the first of its kind, at a ceremony at the Dongcheng Campus of the Central Academy of Drama (CAD), Beijing, alongside its President Professor Xu Xiang.

The two-year London programme will allow 25 CAD students to follow, as far as possible, an equivalent training process to that of Guildhall’s BA Acting students; they will study in Beijing for the first and fourth year of the course and in London for the second and third years. The course will start in September 2016 and those eligible will receive a joint BA in Acting Studies from the Guildhall School and the Central Academy of Drama.

Another Guildhall School tour of major Chinese venues took place when Head of Voice Patsy Rodenburg devised and directed a new work based on Shakespeare excerpts called Go, Make You Ready, which Guildhall actors toured for five performances in Shanghai, Beijing and Chongqing as part of the Shakespeare400 celebrations.

In October 2015 the School co-hosted the Sino-UK Performing Arts Forum at the China Shanghai International Arts Festival, focusing on creating stronger performing arts synergies between China and the UK. Professor Barry Ife presented a case study at the symposium with Emilie Wang, Head of Learning & Participation at Shanghai Grand Theatre.

North America

Iain Burnside’s production of Drums and Guns, a devised piece exploring the conflict in war, was performed at the Juilliard School in New York in April 2016, after performances at the Guildhall School and The Lir in Dublin.

Bringing together artists from the Guildhall School, Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin and the Juilliard, the work commemorated World War I and the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin.

Also in New York, Guildhall students Savitri Grier, Stephen Williams and

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to be called into question from 2018 onwards, as will visa-free travel for EU nationals. After the referendum result was announced, the School made a statement to confirm that the institution remains open for business and EU students and staff are an essential part of its cultural fabric.

The School will be working closely with advocacy bodies Universities UK and London Higher to seek further clarity from the government on its plans for higher education, as well as seeking to make positive statements about the institution’s commitment and enthusiasm for internationalisation, tolerance and global connectivity.

Guildhall Symphony Orchestra without EU students

Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula presented a chamber music recital in the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in January as part of the School’s bi-annual visit there. In the same month, the School held its annual auditions in New York for students based in North America, following auditions in Asia in autumn.

Carnegie Hall

Europe and the EU Referendum

2016 was of course dominated by Brexit, and in May the School released a photo of its principal ensemble, the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra, with and without its EU students to demonstrate the impact that a vote to leave the European Union could have on the institution.

42 students out of the orchestra’s 109 members (38%) hailed from countries in the European Union, and the School emphasised that these students make an enormous contribution to the institution, enriching academic life, and broadening UK students’ cultural horizons. The School supported the Universities for Europe campaign by Universities UK to highlight the value of EU membership to British universities.

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Creative Learning

Since the launch of the School’s creative learning partnership with the Barbican Centre in 2009, more than 42,000 children, young people, teachers, families, artists and communities have participated in learning programmes and activities, while more than 300,000 people have enjoyed a programme of free events produced alongside our partners.

Public Events

Towards the Mean was a digital interactive installation for the Barbican Foyers which received over 11,500 interactions. The piece, which explored how national identity is determined and defined in a multi-cultural and globalised society, was designed by artist Marianne Holm Hansen in association with Seth Scott and electronic musicians from the Guildhall School.

Community

Dialogue: Outside In celebrated Creative Learning’s socially-engaged work across a range of diverse, intergenerational communities. The project brought Guildhall School students together with a wide range of community groups, including St Mungo Community Housing Association, Excel Women’s Centre in Barking, Golden Lane Family Centre, Whipps Cross Hospital, and young people with assisted learning needs from the Broadway Playhouse.

Together they produced new work inspired by the Barbican Art Gallery exhibition, Strange and Familiar: Britain as Revealed by International Photographers. 338 participants took part in the project, ranging from 7 – 61 years of age. The final performance took place at the Broadway Theatre in Barking, to an audience of 300 friends, family and members of the public.

Schools and Colleges

Creative Learning’s flagship schools programme, Barbican Box, reached over 700 school and college school students from East London, with a targeted focus on outer East London boroughs, where there is a known discrepancy in the proportion of young people accessing arts and culture.

Young Creatives

Young Jazz East Big Band brought together 25 young people aged 11–18 with students and faculty from the School’s Jazz Department. The project culminated in a performance alongside Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra soloists and the National Youth Jazz Orchestra.

Young Orchestra East brought together 115 young people to work in partnership with the LA Philharmonic, culminating in an open rehearsal with Gustavo Dudamel in the Barbican Hall attended by over 800 people.

Sound East was a unique collaborative concert, co-produced by Creative Learning and its East London music hub partners to celebrate both the quality and diversity of music-making in East London. Young musicians from across eight boroughs took part in a day-long festival which culminated in an evening showcase in the Barbican Hall. The event gave a platform to performers at every stage of their musical education, from a first access group to a scratch orchestra of mixed ability students. Over 350 young people took part, with an audience of close to 500.

Emerging and Practising Artists

The first cohort of BA (Hons) in Performance and Creative Enterprise (PACE) students began the programme in September 2015. PACE was conceived and developed in direct response to the need to train skilled, entrepreneurial, cross-arts, portfolio practitioners who can lead in a range of socially-engaged and participatory contexts.

Curious took place in the Rose Lipman Building in Hackney, and celebrated the practice of Masters in Leadership students. It featured collaborations with students from Central St Martins as well as performances and sharing of work in progress.

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A sustainable, world-class institution

“I welcome the Guildhall School of Music & Drama’s Creative Entrepreneurs programme. It’s been running successfully for three years.... Since the scheme began, 22 creative businesses have launched as a direct result.”

The Stage, March 2016

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Enterprise, innovation and entrepreneurship

Creative Entrepreneurs awards & pitching ceremony (July 2016)

Entrepreneurship and enterprise activities continue to engage staff, students and alumni at the Guildhall School, as well as building a diverse range of external audiences.

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

Guildhall Creative Entrepreneurs

The School’s business incubator supports creative enterprise, and is the first initiative of its kind for the performing arts in the UK. Since its launch in 2013, the scheme has incubated over 25 businesses led by Guildhall alumni or staff, with 91% of entrepreneurs still being operational.

The 12 month programme comprises training on all aspects of creative entrepreneurship, including business plan development, artistic planning, marketing, sales and fundraising, as well as bespoke mentoring, coaching and provision of office space.

Creative Entrepreneurs awards & pitching ceremony (July 2016)

Entrepreneurs also get the opportunity to pitch at a high profile event. This year’s event was compered by Simon Callow CBE with eleven businesses pitching for

awards totalling £9,000. Successes of the 2015/16 programme include: - Lyribox, a digital learning platform providing pioneering tools and educational resources to classical singers. During their time on the Scheme their website launched a new fee-paying subscription model, and started generating revenue - Gestalt Arts, a collective of operamakers and visual artists creating new works in unusual spaces. The company keeps growing in activity and reach with various collaborators, including the Horniman Museum and the London Symphony Orchestra - Vox Integra, a company offering an integrated educational approach to singing with recent courses including an audition preparation course at the National Opera Studio While during the first three years of its development the Scheme has been exclusive to Guildhall alumni and staff, September 2016 marked the launch of Guildhall Creative Entrepreneurs to public applications.

Short Courses and Summer Schools

Guildhall short course programmes offer a taste of the School, providing inspiring learning experiences for young people first accessing the arts, aspiring artists and seasoned professionals. The Guildhall Summer 37

Video projection mapping at Glastonbury

Schools programme comprised 23 courses in this academic year, 7 of which were new for 2015/16, providing training across a range of Guildhall specialisms. The 2015/16 programme welcomed 554 participants and once again received excellent feedback, with a focus on teaching quality and student experience.

The School expanded the popular Drama Summer School for 16-17 years and Jazz and Rock Week this year, with over 100 participants attending each course, and Technical Theatre courses including Lighting, Sound, Video Projection Mapping and Stage Management also proved very popular.

2016 also saw the launch of the Summer Arts Camp for 11-14 years, the first short course in collaboration with the Barbican. The course engaged the School and Barbican’s extensive network of leading creative artists to offer a unique cross-arts experience for 11–14 year olds.

Continuing Professional Development

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The Guildhall School’s first Training in Classical Voice course ran in summer 2016 – a new five-day intensive course offering singers and singing teachers the opportunity to take part in the world’s only multi-disciplinary,

pedagogical approach to voice training.

The course recruited very strongly, with 45 singers and singing teachers in attendance from all over the world, including the UK, Australia, Singapore, Sweden, Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, Canada and the US. Video Projection Mapping

Video projection mapping work has enabled the School to produce a unique and pioneering model which balances a new educational programme (BA Video Design for Live Performance) with an external artistic arm.

This year creative partnerships were developed with organisations across England and Wales, with Technical Theatre students supported to work on live projects. Events included animated projections at Pontio (Bangor University), the British Museum, Glastonbury Festival and an ambitious event at the Guildhall Yard for Shakespeare 400. This ‘son et lumière’ production generated significant media interest across TV and social media and attracted some 14,200 visitors to the event. Combined audiences for video projection events reached over 200,000 for the second year running.

Development

Each year an increasing number of individuals and organisations provide generous philanthropic support for the Guildhall School and its students through activities led by the Development & Alumni Relations Office. Collectively, these vital donations enable the School to award much-needed scholarships to its students, to provide young musicians, actors and theatre technicians with unique artistic experiences during their professional training, and to maintain the institution’s world-leading standard of teaching and its state-of-the-art specialist facilities.

Almost £2.5million was received by the School in donations and pledges over the course of the year and this impressive sum will have a significant impact in transforming the lives and careers of talented young people seeking to fulfil their artistic potential. The Guildhall School is enormously grateful to every single individual, trust, City livery company and business that made a donation over the past year either directly or through one of the institution’s linked charities: the Guildhall School Trust, the Guildhall School Development Fund or the Foundation for Young Musicians.

Over the course of 2015-16, fundraising activity largely focused on student support, reflecting the increasing demand on the School’s Scholarship and Hardship Funds each year. Guildhall is currently in the fortunate position of being able

Thank You Day

to offer financial awards to almost half of enrolled HE students, but as tuition fees increase and the range of courses the School offers expands, the number of students in need of support is growing too. The School is immensely grateful to the 657 Guildhall alumni who took the time to speak with student callers during the course of the telephone campaign in April 2016 and is delighted that 179 former students took the opportunity to make donations. Similarly, the institution is also indebted to the many individuals, largely audience members, who gave through the Playing Your Part appeal over the course of the summer term.

Through these two initiatives alone an astonishing £75,000 was pledged towards student support over the next five years: this money will make a real difference to Guildhall School students.

Other fundraising was marked by a significant number of large, multi-year pledges from City livery companies totalling over £200,000. The School is particularly indebted to the Leathersellers’, Goldsmiths’, Cordwainers’, Girdlers’ and Haberdashers’ Companies for their incredible generosity and continued support, as well as to all the other companies who provide for individual named scholarship awards or make general donations towards the overall Scholarships Fund. In addition, the School was delighted to receive a renewed commitment of almost £500,000 from The Leverhulme Trust in support of Leverhulme Arts Scholars at postgraduate level in music and within Junior Guildhall and the Centre for Young Musicians over the next three years.

In terms of alumni activity, the Development Office facilitated a record number of recent graduates to attend the 2015 Graduation ceremony as a way of welcoming them to the wider alumni community. There were five performances by former students over the year as part of the Alumni Recital Series, including composer Debbie Wiseman conducting the Guildhall Chamber Orchestra in a concert of her film and television works in January, and a talk by Guy Chambers to composition students in May. Lastly, Guildhall staff met with various groups of alumni across the world as part of their ongoing teaching and recruitment activities.

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Major donors

The Amar-Franses & Foster-Jenkins Trust

The Worshipful Company of Cordwainers

Mr Robert Ball

The Worshipful Company of Innholders

BB Energy Holdings NV

Student Callers

The Wolfson Foundation

The Behrens Foundation

The Worshipful Company of Tobacco Pipe Makers

British Schools and University Foundation

The Worshipful Company of Wax Chandlers

The Anthony Edward Brookes Discretionary Will Trust

Henry Wood Accommodation Trust

Lady Rona Delves Broughton The Dorset Foundation, in memory of Harry M Weinrebe

Estate of the late Mary Beatrice Wilton Mr & Mrs Peter and Corinne Young

The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust The Drapers’ Company Ms Marianne Falk The Fishmongers’ Company Albert & Eugenie Frost Trust Norman Gee Foundation The Girdlers’ Company Charitable Trust The Goldsmiths’ Company The Haberdashers’ Company The Headley Trust Mr & Mrs Michael and Mercedes Hoffman Professor Sir Barry Ife CBE & Dr Trudi Darby, Lady Ife The Leathersellers’ Company The Leverhulme Trust Linklaters M&C Saatchi and The Josephine Hart Poetry Foundation The Mercers’ Company Estate of the late Philippa Micklethwait Mr Clive Morris Estate of the late Lady Beryl Mustill Estate of the late Billy Newman Jane Rigler and Ken Ollerton The Sidney Perry Foundation The Stanley Picker Trust The Skinners’ Company The South Square Trust Estate of the late Hugh Walter Stern 40

The Guildhall School Trust is a registered charity no. 1082472 and the Guildhall School Development Fund is a registered charity no. 1130102.

Estates and facilities

Milton Court has been in operation for three years and continues to host a range of public performances as well as conferences and other incomegenerating events.

commenced a project to improve the efficiency and temperature of the hot water system as well as working to improve the pressure and distribution of hot water throughout Sundial Court.

Across other buildings on the School’s campus the programme of external and internal building works progressed to include the decorative repairs within the Silk Street Building of up to ten practice rooms and offices. Within the John Hosier Annexe 44 practice rooms were decorated together with the corridors and foyer space.

The programme of works to enhance the student accommodation at Sundial Court continued with decorative repairs carried out in the main foyer, student flats, meeting rooms and a refresh of kitchen furniture.

Work also commenced to address the water proofing and structural issues in Sundial Music Room. Engineering

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Harold Pinter triple bill (February 2016) 42

Student profile

2015 new enrolment

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Qualifications Total

Qualifications awarded for 2015/16 cycle (as at October 2016)

Bachelors degrees

132

Masters degrees

170

Artist Diplomas

15 Total 2015/16

317

Total 2014/15

269

Programme

Total (FTE)

BA in Acting

59

BA in Technical Theatre Arts

104

BA Video Design for Live Performance

3

BMus

399

BA Performance & Creative Enterprise

44

Total 2015/16

571

Total 2014/15

552

1% Information refused

11% BME

88% White

Ethnicity

11% Declared

89% None

Disability

54% Male

46% Female

Sex

6

Postgraduate Total (FTE)

Programme

20

MA in Acting MA in Training Actors

4

MA in Collaborative Theatre Production & Design

5

Artist Diploma

23

Extended Guildhall Masters

13

Guildhall Artist Masters Part 1 Performance

126

Guildhall Artist Masters Part 1 Composition

5.5

Guildhall Artist Masters Part 1 Leadership

10

Guildhall Artist Masters Part 2 (all pathways)

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MA in Music Therapy

25 6

MA in Opera Making & Writing

27

MPhil/DMus/PhD

315.5

Total 2014/15

315

3% Information refused

15% BME

82% White

40% Male

Ethnicity

6% Declared

Disability

94% None

Sex

60% Female

2015 new enrolment

Total 2015/16

Other Programme

Total (FTE)

AGSM

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

Fellows are shown as headcount.

1

Advanced Certificate

23

Fellows

38

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Total 2015/16

62

Total 2014/15

45

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Student Cohort

2015/16

Music Course

251

String Training Programme

170

Drama Course Total 2015/16

467

Total 2014/15

460

3% Info refused

13% Not known

24% BME

60% White

Ethnicity

12% Info refused

10% Declared

78% None

5% Other

Disability

2% Home educated

49% Independent

44% State

Schooling

45% Male

55% Female

Sex

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2015/16

Student Cohort

London Centre

429

Norfolk Centre

111

Somerset Centre

44

Saffron Centre

97

London Schools Symphony Orchestra (LSSO)

130

Total 2015/16

811

Total 2014/15

577* *(London/Norfolk/Somerset only)

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10% Info refused

Saffron

8% Info refused

33% Independent

59% State

8% Independent

Saffron

26% BME

Somerset

41% Male

59% Female

47% Male

53% Female

43% Male

Saffron

64% White

Saffron

92% State

2% Info refused

7% Independent

Somerset

9% BME

4% Declared

57% Female

31% Male

69% Female

Somerset

91% White

Norfolk

17% BME

Norfolk

91% State

3% Info refused

21% Independent

76% State

Norfolk

96% None

5% Declared

95% None

Norfolk

83% White

23% Info refused

London

7% BME

Ethnicity

70% White

London

49% Male

Disability*

1% Info refused

51% Female

London

7% Independent

92% State

Schooling

4% Declared

96% None

London

11% Info refused

37% BME

52% White

Sex LSSO

LSSO

*No data was available for Somerset and LSSO

LSSO

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Financials Income

£000

HE tuition fees

8,416

Guildhall School Trust scholarships

1,252

Grants

1,978

City of London contribution

8,242

Income generation and other activities

3,629

Guildhall Young Artists tuition fees

2,384 Total 2015/16

25,901

Total 2014/15

25,156

Expenditure

£000

HE teaching and teaching departments

9,442

Academic services

3,418

Student support services

1,546

Central administration services

3,789

Income generating activities

678

Guildhall Young Artists activity and outreach

2,190

Premises & residential

5,413 Total 2015/16

26,476

Total 2014/15

25,298

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5,413

3,789 Central administration services

Premises & residential

1,546 Student support services

2,190

3,418 Academic services

Guildhall Young Artists activity and outreach

9,442 HE Teaching and teaching departments

678

2,384 Guildhall Young Artists tuition fees

Income generating activities

3629

City of London contribution

Expenditure (£000) Total 2015/16: 26,476

Income generation and other activities

1,978 Grants

8,242

1,252 HE tuition fees

8,416 Guildhall School Trust scholarships

Income (£000) Total 2015/16: 25,901

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Who’s who

Patron

Senior leadership

The Right Hon. The Lord Mayor

Principal

Professor Sir Barry Ife cbe Chairman of the Board of Governors

Deputy John Bennett

Vice Principal and Director of Music

Jonathan Vaughan Vice Principal and Director of Drama

Christian Burgess Deputy Chairman of the Board of Governors

Alderman David Graves (until April 2016) Vivienne Littlechild (from April 2016)

Vice Principal and Director of Academic Affairs

Professor Helena Gaunt Director of Acting

Wyn Jones Director of Technical Theatre

Board members

Deputy John Barker obe (from April 2016)

Ben Sumner Director of Creative Learning

Sean Gregory

Sir Andrew Burns kcmg

Academic Registrar & Director of Student Experience

Deputy John Chapman

Katharine Lewis

Christina Coker obe

Chief Operating & Financial Officer

Neil Constable (until April 2016) Stuart John Fraser cbe (from May 2016) Marianne Fredericks Lucy Frew Jo Hensel, elected by the Academic Staff

Sandeep Dwesar Head of Junior Guildhall

Derek Rodgers Director of Centre for Young Musicians National Strategy

Stephen Dagg

Gareth Higgins, elected by the Administrative Staff Michael Hoffman Sir Paul Hughes (until April 2016) Professor Sir Barry Ife cbe as Principal of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama Jeremy Mayhew Kathryn McDowell cbe dl (until June 2016) Alderman William Russell John Scott (until April 2016) Jeremy Simons Angela Starling (until April 2016) Alex Tostdevine as President of the Students’ Union

Photo credits

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Clive Barda, Paul Cochrane, ROH/ Stephen Cummiskey, Matthew Ferguson, Markus Kinch, Carlos Lopez-Real, Morley Von Sternberg, Sam Shrimpton, Clive Totman, Robert Workman

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Guildhall School is provided by the City of London as part of its contribution to the cultural life of London and the nation.