Guildhall School Events Guide | Summer 2016

Music, Drama, Opera, Jazz

Events

Apr – Jul 2016

Contents Monthly highlights April May

June July

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Masterclasses 28 Guildhall Young Artists

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Research Works

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Future Events

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Contact and information

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Our partnerships The Guildhall School is proud to work in partnership with the following organisations:

Photographs Paul Cochrane, Clive Totman, Shigeto Imura, Clive Barda, Matthew Ferguson, LSO / Alastair Muir, REX/Shutterstock Cover photo Guildhall musicians in rehearsal with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Simon Rattle (July 2015) Š LSO / Alastair Muir

The Music of Duke Ellington Guildhall Repertory Jazz Orchestra

April ’16

Saturday 23 April, 7.30pm Silk Street Music Hall

Directed by Martin Hathaway

Thursday 21 April, 5.30pm Silk Street Music Hall

Armourers and Brasiers’ Brass Prize Supported by The Worshipful Company of Armourers and Brasiers Finalists perform a programme of brass repertoire with piano accompaniment.

Admission free Friday 22 April, 7pm Milton Court Concert Hall

Guildhall Baroque Orchestra J.S. Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, BWV 1047 J.S. Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 6, BWV 1051 Quantz Flute Concerto in G major QV5:174 J.S. Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 4, BWV 1049 Landmark works of the Baroque era, the great Brandenburg Concertos lie at the heart of this evening concert presented by musicians from the Historical Performance department.

Admission free

A spectacular evening of Duke Ellington’s music. This concert represents the School’s relationship with the Duke Ellington Society UK, which tirelessly supports the revival of the music of the most important composer in jazz.

Admission free Sunday 24 April, 5.30pm Barbican Hall

LSO Platforms: Guildhall Artists Jean-Max Lattemann countertenor James Way, Adam Sullivan tenor Jake Muffett baritone Matthew Horn horn Dylan Perez piano

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

Admission free

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April ’16

Sunday 24 April, 7pm Barbican Hall

The Dream of Gerontius Elgar The Dream of Gerontius Guildhall singers form the semi chorus in this London Symphony Orchestra concert conducted by Mark Elder.

Tickets: £10 - £40 available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk

Monday 25 – Tuesday 26 April

The Improvisatory State of Mind in Performance Professor Robert Levin

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Following last year’s memorable visit, Professor Robert Levin returns to Guildhall for his second annual visit as the International Chair of the Centre for Creative Performance & Classical Improvisation. His performances and lectures focus on the impact of improvisational concept on performing a range of styles within western art-music.

As a performer and Harvard University scholar, Robert Levin is one of the most influential living classical improvisers. His residency begins with a lecture-concert in Milton Court, followed by a series of public masterclasses with Guildhall School musicians (see page 28) and a second lecture with musical demonstrations.

Monday 25 April, 7.30pm Milton Court Concert Hall

Lecture-concert Tuesday 26 April, 7.30pm Silk Street Music Hall

Lecture and demonstration Admission free

Thursday 28 April, 7.30pm Rosemary and Meredith Willson Theater, New York

Drums and Guns Devised by Iain Burnside Iain Burnside, Conor Hanratty directors Victoria Newlyn movement director Sunny Smith designer Duncan Coombe lighting designer Stuart Calder executive producer

Bringing together artists from the Guildhall School, Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin and the Juilliard School, New York, Drums and Guns is a devised piece which explores conflict in war and the impact it has on families left behind. Led by renowned pianist and Guildhall professor Iain Burnside, this fresh and engaging production commemorates both World War I and the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin, and tours to New York following performances at the Guildhall School in March.

Admission free Friday 29 April, 7pm Lecture Recital Room

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

Admission free

April ’16 Saturday 30 April, 5pm Milton Court Concert Hall

Total Immersion: Henri Dutilleux Barbican Quartet: Amarins Wierdsma violin Ionel Manciu violin Christoph Slenczka viola Yoanna Prodanova cello Ruth Harrison flute Laura Campbell oboe José Moreira bass Dorothy Raphael percussion Daniel Evans, Hannah Watson piano Kristiina Rokaševitš harpsichord

Dutilleux Sonatine for flute and piano Three Preludes for solo piano Les citations Ainsi la nuit Guildhall musicians present some of Dutilleux’s intricate chamber music, including the wonderfully fluent string quartet Ainsi la nuit, considered by many to be one of the finest quartets of the

post-war period. The Sonatine for flute and piano takes a very French tradition into enigmatic new realms while the darker Les citations pays homage to a composer who died fighting in the Second World War. Part of the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s Total Immersion series.

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

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April ’16

Guildhall Jazz Showcase Join students and professors as the Milton Court Studio Theatre is transformed into a jazz club for this two-day showcase. During the day, students showcase their work in small ensembles – expect a diverse range of music covering the history and stylistic breadth of jazz as it stands in the 21st century. The evenings bring performances from celebrated artists Bobo Stenson and Martin Speake, and Iain Ballamy’s Anorak quartet.

Wednesday 27 April

Student combos

4pm Rekkha Rajendran voice Matthew Grenz saxophone Alex Brain trumpet Joe Smith Sands guitar Alex Chalstrey piano Marcus Pritchard bass Adrian Ortman drums 5pm Morgan Stewart voice Maddison Douch voice Darcey Williams voice Alex Shaw saxophone Toby Comeau piano Bragi Ólafsson guitar Joseph Lee bass Floyer Sydenham drums

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12pm Crawford McInally-Kier voice Clara Serra voice Tom Bennett saxophone James Brady trumpet Daniele Ciuffreda guitar Matthew Read bass Tom Jiggins drums

3pm Dominic Ingham violin Gustavo Clayton bass clarinet Sam Knight saxophone Joseph Fenning trombone Nicholas Fitch guitar Joseph Hill piano Marcus Pritchard bass Adrian Ortman drums

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1pm Marco Marotta saxophone Charlotte Keeffe trumpet Ed Parr trombone Diego Sampieri guitar Matt Gedrych bass John Yardley drums

2pm Pamina Beroff voice Jack Mizzi voice Johanna Bernard violin Alex Western-King saxophone James Mayhew trumpet Benedict Wood guitar Neil Birse piano Jonny Wickham bass Arthur Newell drums

Admission free

Wednesday 27 April, 8pm Milton Court Studio Theatre GUILDHA LL T I C KE T E D E VE NT

Bobo Stenson & Martin Speake

Bobo Stenson piano Martin Speake alto saxophone

International ECM Records artist Bobo Stenson joins Guildhall professor Martin Speake in an intimate duo setting, marking the return of this stellar musical partnership.

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

Student combos

1pm Natalia Kawka voice Lara Eidi voice Aidan Pearson clarinet Helena Kay saxophone Michael Redfern guitar Ed Ireland bass Robbie Ellison drums

Admission free

Thursday 28 April, 8pm Milton Court Studio Theatre GUILDHALL TIC KE T E D E VE NT

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2pm Renata Berczy voice Elsa Hackett Estaban voice Daniel McConkey saxophone Sahvannah Fekarurhobo-Chinwuko

5pm Claire Pheonix voice Ami Oprenova voice Mervyn John Fletcher saxophone Gero Schipmann guitar Ed Rice piano Håvard Mathisen Tanner bass Alexander Martin Jones drums

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Curtis Volp guitar Michael Horner piano Joseph Lee bass Robert Ellison drums

3pm Rosina Bullen voice Maria Rehakova flute Giles Thornton saxophone Ewan Gilchrist trumpet James Maltby guitar David Swan piano Oliver Copeland bass Alex Martin-Jones drums 4pm Anne den Boer voice Charlotte Storer voice Inês Loubet Franco voice Appolonie Sinko voice Rachel Kerry saxophone Jacob Burgess saxophone Jack Courtney trumpet Matthew Hurley guitar Lyle Barton piano Jack Tustin bass Thomas Hutchison drums

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Thursday 28 April

Anorak

Iain Ballamy saxophones Gareth Williams piano Steve Watts bass Martin France drums

Iain Ballamy’s critically-acclaimed band Anorak perform at the School to celebrate each member’s appointment to the jazz faculty. While bassist Steve Watts has long been an integral part of the department, pianist Gareth Williams and drummer Martin France are joined by Iain Ballamy in their recent professorships.

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

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May ’16

3 May – 1 July

Public Final Recitals All final recitals for undergraduate and postgraduate musicians are open to the public with free admission. A great way to spot the stars of the future!

Recitals take place on weekdays. Visit gsmd.ac.uk/events for further details.

Admission free Wednesday 4 May, 7pm Silk Street Music Hall

Guildhall Saxophone Ensemble Directed by Graham Fitkin Award-winning British composer Graham Fitkin directs a concert of his works.

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Programme to include: Graham Fitkin Sciosophy Aract Cud Vamp Frame Hook Hard Fairy

Wednesday 11 May, 7pm Lecture Recital Room

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

Admission free

Admission free Monday 9 May, 7pm Silk Street Music Hall

The Ivan Sutton Award Supported by the City Music Society in commemoration of Ivan Sutton’s lifetime work for music in the City.

Finalists perform a chamber work with piano.

Admission free

Thursday 12 May, 6pm Silk Street Music Hall

Aria Prize Singers from the School’s Vocal Studies department perform a selection of opera arias as they compete for the Aria Prize.

Admission free

Friday 6 May, 7pm Barbican Hall

The Gold Medal The Guildhall School’s most prestigious prize for musicians. This year is the turn of the instrumentalists, who will perform a concerto with the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra conducted by Adrian Leaper. The Gold Medal was founded and endowed by Sir Dixon Kimber in 1915. Since 1950 it has been open to singers and instrumentalists in alternate years. Previous winners include William Primrose (1922), Jacqueline du Pré (1960), Tasmin Little (1986) and Bryn Terfel (1989).

The Finalists Antonina Suhanova piano

Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 16 Oliver Wass harp Ginastera Concerto for Harp, Op. 25 Scott MacIsaac piano Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op.18 Adrian Leaper conductor Guildhall Symphony Orchestra The Jury Pietari Inkinen conductor Adrian Leaper conductor Ian Maclay managing director, Royal

Philharmonic Orchestra Jonathan Vaughan Vice-Principal & Director of Music, Guildhall School Tickets: £15, £10 (£5 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk

May ’16

Vocal Showcase Performances by undergraduate vocal students, showcasing their work in drama, movement, opera and music theatre.

Sunday 15 May, 3pm, New Malden Methodist Church Monday 16 May, 1pm, Blackheath Halls Tuesday 17 May, 2pm, Gresham Centre Wednesday 18 May, 12pm, Hatchlands Park

Guildhall Cantata Project Friday 13 May, 6pm Silk Street Music Hall

Happily (n)ever after...

Music from opera, operetta, oratorio, musical theatre and The Beatles all feature in this entertaining culmination of the Year 2 devised Performance Craft project.

Directed by Shirley Keane, Ian Kennedy and Bryony Williams.

Admission free Wednesday 11, Friday 13 May, 7pm Silk Street Music Hall 10

The Cunning Little Vixen Third year undergraduate singers present a reduced version of Janácˇek’s inspirational opera, directed by Sally Burgess with music preparation by Linnhe Robertson and Clive Timms.

Admission free

Directed by James Johnstone Blow Venus and Adonis The Guildhall Cantata Ensemble present the last masque to be composed for the Tudor court, an inspiration for Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas.

Admission free for New Malden, Blackheath Halls and Gresham Centre Tickets for Hatchlands Park: £15, from cobbecollection.co.uk Monday 16 May, 6pm Milton Court Concert Hall

Stephen Endelman Film Music Platform A showcase of new music for film written and performed by students from the Electronic Music department. This is the culmination of a weekly series of Film Music Workshops led by Grammynominated composer and Guildhall alumnus Stephen Endelman.

Admission free Monday 16 May, 7.30pm Silk Street Music Hall

Piano and String Composition Project Premiere of new duos for piano and strings written by postgraduate Guildhall composers in a project directed by Mark Knoop and Marcus Barcham-Stevens.

Admission free

LSO Platforms: Guildhall Artists

May ’16

Thursday 19 May, 6pm Barbican Hall

Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8 Savitri Grier, Catherine Poplyansky violin Alexander McFarlane viola Leander Kippenberg cello

Wednesday 18 May, 1pm Wigmore Hall

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

Side by Side

Admission free

Brahms Liebeslieder-Walzer, Op. 52 Stephen Hough Other Love Songs Performing side by side with members of The Prince Consort directed by Alisdair Hogarth, Guildhall singers and pianists present a composition by renowned pianist Stephen Hough.

Tickets: £5, available from the Wigmore Hall Box Office: 020 7935 2141 wigmore-hall.org.uk

Thursday 19 May, 7pm Lecture Recital Room

String Concert Postgraduate students from the School’s strings faculty showcase their talents.

Admission free Friday 20 May, 6pm Milton Court Concert Hall

Wednesday 18 May, 7pm Silk Street Music Hall

Guildhall Harpists & Friends A delightful selection of solos and chamber music for harp, including works

by J.S. Bach, Khachaturian and Godefroid.

Admission free

Songs at Six: Chausson & Duparc Postgraduate singers and pianists in recital, directed by Pamela Lidiard.

Admission free Sunday 22 May, 3pm, Courtauld Gallery

Voiceworks A short concert of new songs for voice and one instrument in the magnificent surroundings of the Courtauld Gallery.

Admission free

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The Rape of Lucretia

(Spring 2016)

May ’16

Tuesday 24, Thursday 26, Friday 27, Saturday 28 May, 7.30pm Lyric Hammersmith

4.48 Psychosis Philip Venables music Richard Baker conductor Ted Huffman director Hannah Clark designer D.M. Wood lighting designer Pierre Martin video designer Sarah Fahie movement director

4.48 Psychosis was the astonishing final work of the radical British playwright Sarah Kane. Detailing the experience of clinical depression, the play harrowingly reveals, through poetry, anger and dark humour, an individual’s struggle to come to terms with their own psychosis, the numbers in the title referring to the time in the early morning when clarity and bleak despair strike together.

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Philip Venables, the Guildhall School and Royal Opera’s first Doctoral Composerin-Residence, is a British composer with a strong musical language and visceral sense of theatre. In his new operatic adaptation of Kane’s play, directed by Ted Huffman, the search for love and happiness and the struggle for identity are explored through a fusion of opera with spoken and visual text. Presented at the Lyric Hammersmith, this is a production that promises to bring a new resonance to the last creative utterances of one of the most courageous young British writers of her generation.

Tickets: £20 – £35, from roh.org.uk

Tuesday 31 May, Thursday 2, Saturday 4, Monday 6 June, 7pm Silk Street Theatre

Ariane and Alexandre bis Music by Bohuslav Martinu ˚ Ariane: Libretto by Bohuslav Martinu ˚ after Georges Neveux’ play Le voyage de Thésée Alexandre bis: Libretto by André Wurmser Timothy Redmond conductor Rodula Gaitanou director Simon Corder set and lighting designer Cordelia Chisholm costume designer

An evening of delightfully surreal French opera from Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu˚ .

Ariane (1958) is a short opera based on the myth of Theseus, Ariadne and the Minotaur, which reflects Martinu˚’s great admiration for the celebrity singer Maria Callas in the virtuosic style of its title role. Set in Paris, the earlier Alexandre bis (1937) was written when the city was at the centre of Surrealism, a movement that considerably influenced the composer and is reflected in the opera’s curious subtitle, ‘The Tragedy of a Man who Had His Beard Cut’.

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

May ’16

Thursday 26 May, 1pm Wigmore Hall

Voiceworks A programme of new vocal works, the culmination of a collaboration between postgraduate composers, singers and writers from the Guildhall School’s MA in Opera Making & Writing programme.

Admission free but booking required via the Wigmore Hall Box Office: 020 7935 2141 wigmore-hall.org.uk

Monday 30 May, 7.30pm Wigmore Hall GUILDHA LL T I C KE T E D E VE NT

Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize: Winner’s Recital Friday 27 May, 6pm Milton Court Concert Hall

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A performance snapshot from the Strings and Chamber Music departments.

Admission free

Marina Koka piano

Beethoven Piano Sonata, Op. 2 No. 3 Brahms Klavierstücke, Op. 118 Mendelssohn Variations sérieuses, Op. 54 Chopin Nocturnes, Op. 27 Nos. 1 & 2 Ballade No. 3, Op. 47 Ravel La Valse The Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize annually awards an exceptional Guildhall School musician with a Wigmore Hall recital. Award-winning Japanese pianist Marina Koka is this year’s recipient. Her recital takes in Beethoven’s virtuosic Piano Sonata No. 3 alongside favourite Chopin nocturnes, before culminating in Ravel’s exhilarating La Valse.

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

Thursday 2, Friday 3 June, 11am - 5pm Milton Court Studio Theatre & foyers

Technical Theatre Arts Graduate Exhibition 2016 This end-of-year showcase presents some of the outstanding work of final year students on the Guildhall School’s Technical Theatre Arts programme.

It’s a chance to see up close a range of props, scenery, costumes, light and projection displays created for the School’s public operas, dramas and musicals, as well as for students’ own personal projects, and many of the students will be present to talk about their work.

Admission free

June ’16

Sunday 5 June, 5.30pm Barbican Hall

Friday 24 June, 7.30pm Silk Street Music Hall

LSO Platforms: Guildhall Artists

Composition Ensemble Project

Mahler and Wolf Songs Bianca Andrew mezzo-soprano Eduard Mas Bacardit tenor Bertie Watson baritone Maya Irgalina, Dylan Perez piano

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

Admission free

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Exciting new works by postgraduate composers working with contemporary music specialists Plus Minus, in a project directed by Julian Anderson and Paul Newland.

Admission free Sunday 26 June, 7pm Barbican Hall

The Hogboon

Thursday 9 June, 6pm Barbican Hall

London Symphony Orchestra Sir Simon Rattle conductor LSO Discovery Choirs London Symphony Chorus Simon Halsey choral director Guildhall School musicians

LSO Platforms: Guildhall Artists

Maxwell Davies The Hogboon (world premiere) Berlioz Symphonie fantastique

Dvorˇák Wind Serenade in D minor, Op. 44

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

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

Admission free

Tickets: £10 - £29, from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk Wednesday 29 June, Friday 1 July, 5.30pm

Monday 20 June, 7pm Lecture Recital Room

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

Admission free

Summer Gala Evenings Celebrate the end of the School’s year in style. Guests are invited to a drinks reception and supper, followed by the summer musical, On the Twentieth Century.

Individual tickets or tables of 12 available.

Tickets: £75 Please contact rachel.davis@gsmd.ac.uk or 020 7382 7157 All proceeds will go towards supporting the Guildhall School and its students.

Tuesday 28, Thursday 30 June, Saturday 2, Monday 4, Tuesday 5, Wednesday 6 July, 7.30pm Friday 1, Monday 4 July, 2pm Silk Street Theatre

On the Twentieth Century Book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green Music by Cy Coleman Martin Connor director Dan Jackson musical director Adam Wiltshire designer Tim Deiling lighting designer Aboard a luxury locomotive travelling from Chicago to New York, a down-on-his-luck theatre producer attempts to rekindle his romance with a glamorous Hollywood starlet and lure her back to Broadway to save himself from bankruptcy. Based on the classic Howard Hawks film of the same name, this madcap 1930s-era screwball comedy catapults full steam ahead with fun and farce in the first-class carriages.

Tickets: ÂŁ15 (ÂŁ10 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office from 15 April.

Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members.

June ’16

Wednesday 29 June, 6pm Silk Street Music Hall

New Music Double Bill Guildhall New Music Ensemble Directed by James Weeks

Wednesday 29 June, 12.30pm Silk Street Music Hall

Guildhall Percussion & Horn Ensembles Guildhall Percussion Ensemble Julian Warburton conductor Richard Benjafield djembé

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Amadeo Roldán Ritmica No.6 Cornelius Cardew Treatise (excerpt) Lou Harrison Labyrinth / The Drums of Orpheus Lampa, Kuku & Lamlo Drumming from Guinea and Senegal, arr. Emmanuel Osei Awuku & Ensemble Bash Guildhall Horn Ensemble Alec Frank-Gemmill conductor

Glinka (arr. Bissill) Ruslan and Ludmilla Overture Weber (arr. Wallendorf) Freischütz Mahler (arr. Wagendristel) Urlicht Bizet (arr. Turner) Carmen Queen (arr. Bissill) Bohemian Rhapsody From Cuban composer Amadeo Roldán – one of the first composers to write for solo percussion ensemble – to Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody, this lunchtime concert promises to pack a punch.

Admission free

Thomas Fournil artistic director Claire Bournez, Latana Phoung voice Caoimhe de Paor, Emily Baines recorder James Bramley lute/theorbo Essa Flett medieval fiddle, viola Molly Lopresti, Rosie Bergonzi percussion

New works in response to Petrarch’s Canzoniere, and troubadour songs.

Admission free Thursday 30 June, 6pm Silk Street Music Hall

Strings at Six A performance snapshot from the Strings and Chamber Music departments.

Admission free

June ’16 Wednesday 29, Thursday 30 June, Monday 4 July, 7pm Saturday 2 July, 2.30pm Milton Court Studio Theatre G U I L D H A L L T I CK ET ED EVEN T

Opera Makers

Door

Rhiannon Randle composer Daniel Solon librettist

Harbour

Charles Barker composer Lila Palmer librettist

Watchers

Joe Steele composer Zoë Palmer librettist John Ramster director Dominic Wheeler musical director

Performed by singers and repetiteurs from the first year of the Guildhall Opera

Course, this term’s Scenes feature three exciting new works written by composers and librettists on the School’s MA in Opera Making & Writing programme.

This innovative programme delivered in association with the Royal Opera House enables writers and composers to write specifically for the singers, and to develop the pieces with them. The new operas will be performed with a small orchestral ensemble, and will be linked by scenes from existing opera repertoire performed with piano accompaniment.

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

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Mountain Language

(Spring 2016)

June ’16

Summer lunchtime concerts From chamber music to song, the words of Walt Whitman to the music of Mendelssohn, these lunchtime concerts presented by senior Guildhall musicians offer something for all classical music enthusiasts to enjoy.

Debussy and Ravel Ruth Harrison flute Abigail Heath clarinet

Admission free

Programme to include: Debussy Danse sacrée et danse profane Ravel Introduction and Allegro for harp, strings, flute and clarinet

Tuesday 21 June, 1pm Lecture Recital Room

Tuesday 28 June, 1pm Lecture Recital Room

Walt Whitman

Jane Manning Voiceworks

Postgraduate singers and pianists present a programme of songs setting texts by American poet Walt Whitman. Curated

by Armin Zanner.

Postgraduate singers and pianists present the first of two concerts of 20th and 21st century songs, devised and prepared by soprano Jane Manning.

Wednesday 22 June, 1pm Lecture Recital Room 24

Friday 24 June, 1pm Lecture Recital Room

Piano Recital Kristiina Rokaševitš piano

W.F. Bach 12 Polonaises, F. 12 Nos. 9 & 10 Schubert Four Impromptus, D. 935 Thursday 23 June, 1pm Lecture Recital Room

Trisquel Arts Ensemble Antonio Oyarzabal piano Paloma Cueto-Felgueroso Mejías viola Ausiàs Garrigós Morant clarinet

Mozart ‘Kegelstatt’ Trio K. 498 for viola, clarinet and piano Françaix Trio for viola, clarinet and piano

Wednesday 29 June, 1pm Lecture Recital Room

Piano Recital Jonathan Morris piano

Beethoven Piano Sonata Op. 2, No. 2 Chopin Étude Op. 25, No. 7 Liszt Au Bord d’un Source Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 7 Thursday 30 June, 1pm Lecture Recital Room

Strauss, Fauré & American Songs Francesca Chiejina, Capucine Daumas

soprano Dylan Perez piano

A programme of songs by Richard Strauss, Fauré and Debussy alongside selections from the Great American Songbook.

July ’16

Friday 1 July, 1pm Lecture Recital Room

The Manciu Trio Ionel Manciu violin Francesca Gilbert viola Sophie Haynes cello with Ruth Harrison flute

Mozart Flute Quartet in D major, K. 285 Beethoven String Trio in E flat, Op. 3 Tuesday 5 July, 1pm Silk Street Music Hall

Jane Manning Voiceworks Postgraduate singers and pianists perform a second selection of 20th and 21st century songs, devised and prepared by soprano Jane Manning.

Wednesday 6 July, 1pm Lecture Recital Room

Piano Recital Yundu Wang piano

Mozart Piano Sonata No. 3 in B flat, K. 281 Brahms Three Intermezzi, Op. 117 Berg Piano Sonata, Op. 1 Chopin Polonaise-Fantaisie, Op. 61 Thursday 7 July, 1pm Silk Street Music Hall

Aramis Piano Trio Ionel Manciu violin Leander Kippenberg cello Krzysztof Moskalewicz piano

Beethoven Piano Trio Op. 70, No. 1 ‘Ghost’ Brahms Piano Trio in B major, Op. 8

Friday 8 July, 1pm Lecture Recital Room

Mendelssohn Chamber Works Ashley Garfitt solo clarinet Sophie Creaner solo basset horn Emily Potter flute Janice Chen, Emily Penn oboe Ryan James, Mark Howlings horn Michael Elderkin, Thomas Moss bassoon Timothy Chua, William Newell violin Tim Hansson viola Thomas Vidal cello

Mendelssohn Concertpiece No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 113 String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 13 Concertpiece No. 2 in D minor, Op. 114

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July ’16

Friday 1 July, 7pm Silk Street Music Hall

Vocal Summer Project The culmination of Year 1 & 2 undergraduate singers’ summer performance project, directed by Andrew Watts.

Admission free Monday 4 – Thursday 7 July The Rose Lipman Building, Dalston

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Curious is an annual celebration of the experimental, multi-artform work by current students and graduates of the Guildhall Masters in Leadership programme and design students from Central Saint Martins, working alongside professional guest artists. This year, students from the School’s new BA in Performance & Creative Enterprise programme also take part.

Curated by Barbican Guildhall Creative Learning, performances include live music and visuals from a variety of artists, as well as panel discussions and open workshops.

Details will be published at gsmd.ac.uk/curious from June.

Wednesday 6 July, 6pm Milton Court Studio Theatre

Scenes at Six Postgraduate singers showcase opera scenes, directed by Simon Cole with music direction by Elizabeth Marcus.

Admission free

Wednesday 6 July, 7.30pm St Mary’s Arts Centre, Sandwich

Guildhall Baroque Orchestra with the Academy of Ancient Music Directed by John Butt Guildhall musicians join forces with the Academy of Ancient Music to celebrate the music of J.S. Bach, from his most intimate chamber work to his magnificent cantatas. John Butt, Musical Director of the Dunedin Consort, directs this Deal Festival concert.

Tickets: £20 (£10 students), available from The Astor Theatre, Deal: 01304 370220 theastor.org from 16 May.

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MASTERCLASSES

Tuesday 19 April, 2pm Silk Street Music Hall

Friday 6 May, 3pm Milton Court Concert Hall

Sa Chen

Christian Curnyn

Piano Masterclass

Historical Performance Masterclass

Wednesday 20 April, 3pm Silk Street Music Hall

Barbara Nissman Piano Masterclass Monday 25 April, 10am Milton Court Concert Hall

Ralf Gothóni Chamber Music Masterclass

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Monday 25 April, 2pm Tuesday 26 April, 10am Lecture Recital Room Tuesday 26 April, 2.30pm Silk Street Music Hall

Robert Levin Creative Performance & Classical Improvisation Masterclass Thursday 28 April, 6.30pm Silk Street Music Hall

Monday 9 May, 10am Lecture Recital Room

Robert Ehrlich Recorder Masterclass Tuesday 10 May, 10am Lecture Recital Room

Bernard d’Ascoli Piano Masterclass Friday 13 May, 6pm Lecture Recital Room

Julian Milford Piano Accompaniment Masterclass Wednesday 18 May, 6pm Lecture Recital Room

Richard Goode Piano Masterclass

Pedja Muzijevic

Friday 20 May, 2pm Milton Court Concert Hall

Piano Masterclass

Edith Wiens

Thursday 5 May, 10am Lecture Recital Room

Vocal Masterclass

Edward Auer

Wednesday 1 June, 10am Silk Street Music Hall

Piano Masterclass

Steven Osborne Piano Masterclass

All masterclasses are free to attend

Lutine Prize Final The Lutine Prize is Junior Guildhall’s most prestigious award. Six finalists compete for a cash prize and a chance to perform a concerto with a Junior Guildhall ensemble.

Admission free Saturday 25 June, 6pm Milton Court Concert Hall Sunday 3 July, 7.30pm Thaxted Festival

Junior Guildhall Symphony Orchestra Julian Clayton conductor Dan-Iulian Drutac violin

Vaughan Williams Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1 in E minor Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D, Op. 35 Holst The Planets, Op. 32 Dan-Iulian Drutac, winner of the Lutine Prize 2015, performs Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, full of natural lyricism and one of the composer’s most challenging works for a violinist. The programme is completed with Holst’s ever-popular The Planets and Vaughan Williams’ atmospheric and haunting Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1, based on folk songs.

Saturday 9 July, 4pm Milton Court Concert Hall

Junior Guildhall End of Year Concert

February ’16 GUILDHALL YOUNG ARTISTS

Saturday 21 May, 2pm Silk Street Music Hall

Junior Guildhall String Ensemble Julian Clayton conductor Junior Guildhall Chamber Choir Peter Asprey conductor Junior Guildhall Wind Orchestra Matthew Down conductor Junior Guildhall Percussion Ensemble Alexander Duggan conductor

A vibrant end-of-term showcase, including a performance of Symphonie d’archets (1948) by Jacques Françaix.

Admission free

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

Tickets for Thaxted Festival: £18 - £28, available from the-trumpet.co.uk

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

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RESEARCH WORKS

Staff and students across the School are engaged in exploratory work; this summer’s Research Works programme is conceived as a showcase of their curiosity and creativity.

Monday 18 April, 2.30pm Milton Court Rehearsal Room 3

Transformational feedback for artists Findings from Professor Helena Gaunt’s Higher Education Academy-funded research into the focused development of Liz Lerman’s Critical Response Process and formal coaching skills at the School.

The presentation, to include overview evaluation and individual case studies, will be followed by a panel discussion exploring wider implications, application and potential impact of this work in the performing arts and higher education.

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Monday 25 April, 6pm Milton Court Rehearsal Room 3

Movement and dance then and now Danny McGrath, Head of Physical Actor

Training, looks at movement and its purpose, while Sue Lefton asks ‘Why did Elizabeth I only allow a man to become part of her Cabinet if he could dance?’

Monday 9 May, 6pm Lecture Recital Room

New opera-makers Head of Composition Professor Julian Philips and Writer in Residence Stephen Plaice will be joined by composers Mo Fan and Li Ruixiang from Shanghai Opera House in an exploration of contemporary opera. The discussion, chaired by Principal Professor Barry Ife, will preview The Merchant’s Tale (Philips and Plaice) and The Wager (Wen Deqing), both due to be performed in London next year.

Monday 16 May, 6pm Milton Court Seminar Room

Kodály and Dalcroze in action In this practical presentation, Mary O’Connor and Christine Wrigley from Junior Guildhall invite you to participate in Kodály and Dalcroze-inspired activities that will open your heart, mind and body to exciting musical possibilities.

Monday 20 June, 6pm Milton Court Rehearsal Room 3

Orchestral composition in Britain today

What and how we teach at conservatoire

Guildhall composers Professor Julian Anderson, Dr Paul Newland and Matthew Kaner give accounts of recent works written for the London Philharmonic, the London Symphony and the BBC Scottish Orchestras. From their different experiences during these recent collaborations emerges a more general picture of the changing relations of UK orchestras with the living composer, as well as some hints about what the future might hold.

Traditions and specialisation vs creativity for the conservatoire instrumentalist: Ian Clarke’s first-study Player Development through Creativity on the Instrument pilot explores methods of re-balancing the opposition through integration.

Kate Paterson and Carlos Lopez-Real’s project seeks new ways of encouraging collaborative rapport between conservatoire teachers, using video footage of one-to-one lessons to prompt reflection and dialogue about teaching practice.

Monday 6 June, Monday 13 June, 6pm Milton Court Seminar Room

Wednesday 29 June, 6.30pm Milton Court Rehearsal Room 1

Explorations in Creative Learning

Brahms’s Clarinet Quintet re-heard

Tutors and students from the Masters in Leadership programme present collaborative practical research projects across art forms. Topics include contemporary audio-visual interpretation of pre-Colombian artefacts; new collaborations between a Middle Eastern musician and UK electronic musicians; participatory composition and architecture; the spoken word, identity and ‘maleness’. Detta Danford and Natasha Zielanski’s research investigates the varied definitions of, and approaches to, collaboration and composition across the School.

Head of Historical Performance Jane Booth joins colleagues including Germán Clavijo and Pierre Doumenge in an exploration of this late masterpiece curated

by Professor Jacqueline Ross.

Monday 4 July, 6pm Milton Court Rehearsal Room 2

Institutional change Curated by Professor Helena Gaunt, this session brings together doctoral students and colleagues to explore new experiences of change within the performing arts from various perspectives – artistic, educational, personal and organisational – and considers the degree to which they are triggering a paradigm-shift in professional practices.

All Research Works events are free to attend but booking is required. Please visit researchatguildhall.eventbrite.co.uk to book.

RESEARCH WORKS

Monday 23 May, 6pm Milton Court Seminar Room

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Saturday 3 – Monday 5 September

Royal Musical Association 52nd Annual Conference The Guildhall School hosts the prestigious and long-running Royal Musical Association Annual Conference at our world-class Milton Court facilities.

Featuring a packed schedule of panel sessions and papers, lecture recitals and lectures, presentations will encompass a wide variety of music and performance related disciplines. With wonderful opportunities for networking and engagement, this three-day conference promises to be diverse, lively and unmissable for anyone interested in the study of music and/or performance.

Highlights include: Peter Le Huray lecture by Graham Vick CBE (Artistic Director of Birmingham Opera Company) Edward Dent Award Medal Lecture

by Professor Marina Frolova-Walker (Reader in Music History, University of Cambridge and Director of Studies in Music, Clare College) For full details visit gsmd.ac.uk/RMA2016 Tickets: early bird tickets £30 - £80 available from the Barbican Box Office until 23 July.

Guildhall Symphony Orchestra & Chorus Adrian Leaper conductor

Brahms Academic Festival Overture Walton Belshazzar’s Feast Guildhall musicians open the autumn season in style, presenting a jazz collaboration with Iain Ballamy followed by two magnificent classical choral works.

Tickets: available from the Barbican Box Office from July 2016.

Monday 31 October, Wednesday 2, Friday 4, Monday 7 November, 7pm Silk Street Theatre

Stravinsky: Mavra Tchaikovsky: Iolanta Dominic Wheeler conductor Kelly Robinson director

The Guildhall School’s award-winning opera department presents a double bill of Stravinsky’s Mavra and Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta – works which both composers considered among their very best.

Tickets: available from the Barbican Box Office from September 2016. Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members.

Wednesday 9 November, 7.30pm Barbican Hall

Friday 23 September, 7.30pm Barbican Hall

Guildhall Jazz, Symphony Orchestra & Chorus Guildhall Jazz Band & Choir Iain Ballamy composer & saxophone Malcolm Edmonstone arranger & piano Scott Stroman conductor

21st Century Pastoral – The Music of Iain Ballamy

Guildhall Symphony Orchestra Diego Matheuz conductor

Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade Beethoven Symphony No. 5 Rising star Diego Matheuz, a graduate of Venezuela’s El Sistema programme, makes his debut appearance with the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra.

Tickets: available from the Barbican Box Office from July 2016.

Try something new this summer The Guildhall School’s programme of short courses offers a range of opportunities for people of all ages to explore music and drama, whether taking their very first steps or putting building blocks in place for a professional career.

Summer Arts Camp

Summer Arts Camp for 11-14 years Acting courses

Shakespeare & Contemporary Theatre Musical Theatre Drama Summer School for 16-17 years Technical Theatre courses

Stage Management courses Stage Lighting Skills Practical Theatre Sound Skills Video Projection Mapping Prop Making Skills Introduction to Costume Introduction to Automation for the Entertainment Industry Music courses

Brass and Percussion Week Jazz and Rock Week Jazz Singers’ Weekend A Cappella Choral Training in Classical Voice Music Theory and Aural Skills Advanced instrumental courses Find out more and apply online at gsmd.ac.uk/summer

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Contact the Development Office on 020 7382 7179, visit our website gsmd.ac.uk/support or mail development@gsmd.ac.uk and find out more about how you can support our talented students.

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