Guildhall School: autumn events guide 2014

September ’14

Events September – December 2014 Music Drama Opera Jazz

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School’s world-class building, Milton Court, as part of Open House London, the capital’s largest annual festival of architecture and design. Free tours will be offered on a first come, first served basis every 15 mins, taking in backstage and rehearsal areas as well as the main performance venues. Visitors will also have the opportunity to see student rehearsals which are taking place throughout the day.

Monday 22 September, 1pm St Martin-in-the-Fields

Friday 26 September, 5.45pm Silk Street Music Hall

English Song Prize winner’s recital

Piano duos

Dominick Felix tenor Jiva Housden guitar Melissa Urban piano

Arr. Britten Folk Songs (England Cycle) Britten Songs from the Chinese Finzi A Young Man’s Exhortation (Part 1) Lunchtime recital from tenor Dominick Felix, winner of the Guildhall School’s English Song Prize 2013.

Admission free

Newly-composed works for piano duo from postgraduate pianists and composers.

Admission free Friday 26 September, 6.45pm Barbican foyer

Jazz & Creative Learning Performance from new postgraduate students on the Jazz, Leadership and Music Therapy programmes.

Admission free

Admission free

Friday 26 September, 7.30pm Barbican Hall

Guildhall Symphony Orchestra & Chorus

Mark Shanahan conductor Elisabeth Meister soprano Victoria Simmonds mezzo-soprano Adrian Thompson tenor Derek Welton bass-baritone

Verdi Requiem Verdi’s towering choral masterpiece marks a thrilling start to the Guildhall School’s autumn season of events.

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

Photographs Clive Barda, Simone Canetty Clarke, Paul Cochrane, Matt Holliday, Andrew Lim, Musacchio & Ianniello licensed to EMI Classics, Alexander Newton, Clive Totman, Robin Savage, Morley Von Sternberg, Mitch Jenkins, Sussie Ahlburg Cover photo ’The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other’ (Spring 2014) – Clive Barda

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Thursday 2 October, 6pm Barbican Hall

Monday 13 October, 2.30pm Milton Court Concert Hall

LSO Platforms: Guildhall Artists

Orchestral Artistry open rehearsal: Sir Antonio Pappano

Mihai Ritivoiu piano

Schumann Piano Works

This event is generously supported by BB Energy Holdings NV.

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

Admission free

Total Immersion: John Tavener Remembered

Thursday 2 October Milton Court Theatre 4

Season Preview GUILDHALL CIRCLE & SUPPORTERS EXCLUSIVE

Guildhall Circle members and other supporters are invited behind-the-scenes for an exclusive preview of the new season and future artistic plans with staff and students over a glass of wine.

The evening will include excerpts from our forthcoming productions as well as a sneak preview of the set designs.

Booking required: For further details or to reserve your place, contact Jennifer Slater in the Development office on 020 7382 7179 or jennifer.slater@gsmd.ac.uk

Sunday 5 October, 1pm St Giles’ Cripplegate

The Guildhall Symphony Orchestra rehearses overtures from Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Verdi’s La forza del destino under the baton of Sir Antonio Pappano, Music Director of the Royal Opera House. This project forms part of Orchestral Artistry, a unique postgraduate specialism offered at the Guildhall School in association with the London Symphony Orchestra. Prior to this open rehearsal, the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra will be coached by LSO musicians.

Admission free

Amarins Wierdsma violin Ionel Manciu violin Luba Tunnicliffe viola Yoanna Prodanova cello Alexander Soares piano

Tavener Pratirúpa for solo piano Threnos for solo cello Palin for solo piano The Last Sleep of the Virgin for string quartet and handbells John Tavener stands alone in British music, a mystic, iconoclast and visionary who connected with a mass public. His music achieved a timeless quality whose spiritual inspiration drew from diverse faiths and traditions. As part of the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s acclaimed Total Immersion series, Guildhall School musicians explore some of Tavener’s extraordinary chamber music.

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

Monday 13, Tuesday 14, Wednesday 15, Thursday 16, Friday 17 October, 7.30pm Tuesday 14, Thursday 16 October, 2pm Milton Court Studio Theatre

True Dare Kiss

by Debbie Horsfield Owen Lewis director Alice Walkling designer

The first play by a living female playwright to be performed at the National Theatre, True Dare Kiss follows the coming-of-age of four young women as they try to reconcile their hopes and dreams with the realities of living in 1980s Manchester.

Why does the Queen die?

Wednesday 15 October, 5.30pm Wednesday 15, Thursday 16, Friday 17 October, 8pm O’Reilly Theatre, Keble College, Oxford as part of the Oxford Lieder Festival

Love, lust, domestic turmoil, unemployment, ambition and failure compete to challenge the tight unit that the girls once were.

A new play written and directed by Iain Burnside Aaron Marsden design Victoria Newlyn movement Charlie Jones lighting

Tickets: £10 (£5 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk from 12 September. Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members.

This music theatre piece is the latest in a series of experimental shows developed

by Iain Burnside with the Guildhall School, and has been co-commissioned

by Oxford Lieder for the 2014 Lieder Festival, The Schubert Project. Schubert’s circle of friends in Vienna included more writers and artists than musicians.

His songs are inextricably connected both to these friendships and the city where they flourished. In Why does the Queen die?

Iain Burnside unravels some of these connections through his trademark combination of music and drama.

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Thursday 23 October, 6pm Barbican Hall

LSO Platforms: Guildhall Artists

LSO Platforms: Guildhall Artists

James Kreiling piano

Holly-Marie Bingham soprano Johannes Kammler baritone Ricardo Gosalbo piano

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

Admission free

Songs by Schubert and Wagner Senior musicians from the Guildhall School take to the Barbican stage before LSO concerts with performances of complementary repertoire.

Admission free

Friday 17 October, 7.30pm Silk Street Music Hall 8

Guildhall Jazz Band Directed by Scott Stroman

Five times winner of the BBC Radio 2 Big Band Competition, the Guildhall Jazz Band performs new compositions and arrangements of jazz classics.

Admission free

South Downs

by David Hare The Browning Version

by Terence Rattigan

Tuesday 28 October, 7.30pm Silk Street Music Hall

Monday 20, Tuesday 21, Wednesday 22, Thursday 23, Friday 24, Saturday 25 October, 7.30pm Tuesday 21, Thursday 23 October, 2pm Milton Court Theatre

Guildhall Jazz Singers Directed by Scott Stroman

Wyn Jones director Susannah Henry designer

An evening of close-harmony numbers from the Guildhall Jazz Singers.

Admission free

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Thursday 16 October, 6pm Barbican Hall

South Downs was written as a companion-piece to The Browning Version to celebrate the centenary of Rattigan’s birth.

Set in public schools, one post-war, one pre-Profumo, both plays explore not only the social code, but the things it silences, the pain and loneliness that lie behind the reticence of English society, one from the point of view of a schoolboy who can’t understand or adapt to the ways of the school, the other from that of a master who’s constructed a lifetime’s shell to enable him to survive.

In each play the solitude and selfloathing of these outsiders are pierced by small acts of kindness.

Tickets: £10 (£5 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk from 12 September. Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members.

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The Adventures of Pinocchio (Spring 2014)

Wednesday 5 November, 5.30pm, Wigmore Hall

Beethoven Piano Prize

Voiceworks Alumni Concert

For performance of a complete Beethoven Sonata.

New music for voice by composers, poets, instrumentalists and singers who have taken part in Voiceworks. Voiceworks is a unique collaboration between poets from the Contemporary Poetics research centre at Birkbeck, University of London and composers and singers from the Guildhall School, brought together by Wigmore Hall Learning.

Admission free Tuesday 4 November, 2pm Lecture Recital Room

Max & Peggy Morgan Prize for Viola For the performance of a viola concerto with piano accompaniment.

Admission free

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Monday 3, Wednesday 5, Friday 7, Monday 10 November, 7pm Silk Street Theatre

The Cunning Peasant

by Dvoˇrák sung in English with a translation

by Clive Timms Dominic Wheeler conductor Stephen Medcalf director Francis O’Connor designer John Bishop lighting designer Sarah Fahie choreographer

Admission free but booking required: 020 7935 2141 wigmore-hall.org.uk

The Guildhall School welcomes back its former Resident Producer, Stephen Medcalf, to direct Dvoˇrák’s warm, funny and wonderfully lyrical early opera. Witty ensemble writing, rumbustious choruses and lyrical arias and duets present a perfect challenge to soloists, chorus and orchestra. The production will be sung in an English translation by the School’s former Head of Opera, Clive Timms.

Thursday 6 November, 10am Milton Court Concert Hall

Guildhall Viola Day

Wednesday 5 November, 8pm St Martin-in-the-Fields, Crypt

Guildhall Jazz Singers

Tickets: £25 (£15 concessions) available from the Barbican Box Office from 3 September. Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members.

Directed by Scott Stroman

An evening of close-harmony numbers from the Guildhall Jazz Singers.

Admission free A day of masterclasses, workshops and performances by viola students and professors from the Guildhall School, and special guest Bruno Giuranna. The event is open to all but of particular interest to potential students. Come and explore solo and chamber repertoire, observe or play in a masterclass, learn about postural technique and warm-ups tailor-made for violists, and enjoy a workshop on orchestral playing.

Admission free but booking required: please email lucy.butcher@gsmd.ac.uk

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Monday 3 November, 10am Silk Street Music Hall

Thursday 13 November, 7.30pm Milton Court Concert Hall

Guildhall Jazz Ensemble Directed by Ed Puddick

The Guildhall Jazz Ensemble performs new music by professors from the School’s jazz faculty.

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Friday 7 November, 1pm Silk Street Music Hall

Admission free Monday 10 November, 6.30pm Milton Court Concert Hall

Josephine Hart Poetry Hour Poetry of the First World War With special guests including Dominic West, Freddie Fox and Christian Burgess

As part of the First World War Centenary commemorations, the Guildhall School and the Josephine Hart Poetry Foundation host an evening of WWI poetry, performed by some of the School’s distinguished Acting alumni.

Novelist, poetry anthologist and Guildhall alumna, Josephine Hart founded The Josephine Hart Poetry Hour: a series of events of ‘great poetry read by great actors’ in order to bring poetry in performance to a broad public audience.

Tickets: £15 (£10 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk from 3 September. Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members.

Ubu Ensemble ‘A Very Good Year’

Wednesday 19 November, 2pm Lecture Recital Room

English Song Prize

Simon Wills conductor

Morton Feldman I Met Heine On The Rue Fürstenberg Earle Brown Calder Piece György Kurtág Messages of the Late R.V. Troussova

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The Guildhall School’s Ubu Ensemble captures the spectrum of musical language of the last hundred years. This lunchtime concert features the experimental work of Morton Feldman, Earle Brown and György Kurtág, all born in 1926.

Admission free

World-renowned tenor and Guildhall alumnus Toby Spence adjudicates this year’s English Song Prize, for a performance of a short recital of songs with English text.

Admission free

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Thursday 27 November, 6pm Milton Court Concert Hall

Schubert’s Winterreise Martin Häßler baritone Caroline Palmer piano

Baritone Martin Häßler performs Schubert’s great song cycle with accompaniment from Guildhall professor Caroline Palmer.

Admission free

Thursday 27 November, 7.30pm Barbican Hall

Guildhall Symphony Orchestra

Guildhall Jazz Band Wednesday 19 November, 7.30pm Milton Court Concert Hall

Directed by Scott Stroman

The School’s annual collaboration with the EFG London Jazz Festival sees the Guildhall Jazz Band and special guests present a dynamic evening of music

by British jazz composers from the late 60’s and early 70’s, including Graham Collier, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Neil Ardley, Mike Taylor, Ian Carr and Mike Westbrook.

Tickets: £15 (£10 concessions, free for Guildhall staff and students) available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk from 3 September. Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members.

Yan Pascal Tortelier conductor

Lutosławski Concerto for Orchestra Berlioz Symphonie fantastique, Op 14 Infused with colourful Polish folk melodies, Lutosławski’s 1954 Concerto for Orchestra took four years to complete and is arguably the composer’s best-known work. Here it is paired with Berlioz’s revolutionary Symphonie fantastique, a fanciful depiction of a love-sick artist’s opium-induced dream.

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

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Friday 28, Saturday 29 November, Monday 1, Tuesday 2, Wednesday 3 December, 7.30pm Monday 1, Wednesday 3 December, 2pm Silk Street Theatre

Thursday 27, Friday 28 November, Monday 1, Tuesday 2 December, 7pm Milton Court Studio Theatre

Opera Scenes

Her Naked Skin

by Rebecca Lenkiewicz

Martin Lloyd-Evans director Elizabeth Rowe musical director

An informal performance of classical and contemporary operatic excerpts presented in a workshop setting with piano accompaniment, performed by singers and repetiteurs from the first year of the Guildhall School Opera Course.

Christian Burgess director Agnes Treplin designer Johanna Town lighting designer

Tickets: £10 (£5 concessions, free for Guildhall school staff and students) available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk from 13 October.

London 1913. Militancy in the Suffragette Movement is at its height.

Thousands of women of all classes serve time in Holloway Prison in their fight to win the vote.

This 2008 play by Rebecca Lenkiewicz was the first original play by a female writer to be presented on the Olivier Stage at the National Theatre.

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“Love is just fear, I suppose. Masquerading as a fever. Then you explore each other and suddenly you have licence to become totally pedestrian. And ultimately abusive.”

SUFFRAGETTES LEAVING HOLLOWAY PRISON, 1908 (B/W PHOTO) / LONDON, UK © MIRRORPIX / BRIDGEMAN IMAGES

Tickets: £10 (£5 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk from 28 October. Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members.

What they say...

“An unstintingly ambitious programme of opera productions” What’s on Stage

“Wonderful to hear Jonathan Dove’s The Adventures of Pinocchio realised incredibly at the @guildhallschool tonight. Such a thrilling score.”

“The Guildhall students played with outstanding dexterity and tangible enjoyment” “Fair to say that @guildhallschool production The Guardian on ‘BBC Total Immersion’ of Grand Hotel was one of the most perfect productions I have ever seen. Stunning work!! #wow” “The singing is consistently delightful” The Times on ‘The Adventures of Pinocchio’ “Tears of joy & sadness were f lowing at @guildhallschool’s beautiful production of “It could all transfer to the West End right Grand Hotel tonight. Where did that now… the most professional production I’ve 1 hour & 56 mins go?!?” seen in ages” Classical Source on ‘Grand Hotel’ “Fantastic Opera Scenes at the Guildhall this evening. The talent is just unreal. Fab.”

Friday 5 & Saturday 6 December, 8pm The Place

Sunday 7 December, 3pm Barbican Cinema 1

Guildhall Jazz Choir

London Contemporary Dance School collaborations

Silent Film & Live Music series

Directed by Malcolm Edmonstone

The ever-popular Guildhall Jazz Choir is known for its colourful interpretations of jazz, pop and soul classics.

A showcase of new dance works borne from an annual collaboration between postgraduate composers from the Guildhall School and some of the UK’s most talented young choreographers and dancers from the London Contemporary Dance School.

The pieces that emerge are a bold and imaginative mix of ideas featuring an assortment of live ensembles and electronic scores.

Admission free Thursday 4 December, 1pm Silk Street Music Hall

The Harmony of the World Amarins Wierdsma violin Ionel Manciu violin Luba Tunnicliffe viola Yoanna Prodanova cello Kaoru Wada piano 20

Geoffrey Poole Harmonice Mundi John Tavener The Last Sleep of the Virgin

Thursday 4 December, 6pm Silk Street Music Hall

Guildhall New Music Ensemble Curated by Julian Philips

The Guildhall New Music Ensemble is dedicated to the performance of music from the last 30 years, with each project curated by a different member of staff or guest curator.

Head of Composition Julian Philips curates this concert, which features one of his own works.

Admission free The London premiere of Geoffrey Poole’s Harmonice Mundi, inspired by astronomer, astrologer and metaphysician Johannes Kepler, is performed as part of the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Encore series.

Admission free

Guildhall musicians on the Jazz and Music Therapy programmes perform new music and improvisations live to classic silent films in this annual collaboration with the Barbican, directed by Guildhall professors Carlos Lopez-Real and Ann Sloboda.

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Tuesday 2 December, 8pm Silk Street Music Hall

Tickets: £9.50 (£8.50 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk from early October.

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Friday 17 October, 2pm, Silk Street Music Hall

Thursday 13 November, 6pm, Silk Street Music Hall

Monday 24 November, 6pm, Milton Court Concert Hall

Kenneth Weiss

Graham Johnson

Graham Johnson

Historical Performance Masterclass

Schubert Masterclass

Voice and Accompaniment Masterclass

Monday 17 November, 2pm, Milton Court Concert Hall

Graham Johnson works with senior singers and pianists on French song cycles.

Monday 20 October, 2pm, Silk Street Music Hall Paul Coletti

Viola Masterclass 22 Tuesday 4 November, 6.30pm, Lecture Recital Room Andrzej Jasinski

Piano Masterclass Wednesday 5 November, 2pm, Silk Street Music Hall Ralf Gothóni

Imogen Cooper

Piano Masterclass Thursday 20 November 6pm, Silk Street Music Hall Toby Spence

Voice Masterclass

Peter Ash conductor

Mahler ‘Das irdische Leben’, ‘Urlicht’, ‘Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt’, ‘Scheiden und Meiden’ from Des Knaben Wunderhorn Strauss Don Quixote Wagner Prelude from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Donizetti ‘O mon Fernand’ from La Favorite Verdi ‘O don fatale’ from Don Carlo Humperdinck ‘Witch’s Aria’ from Hänsel und Gretel Tickets: £8 - £24, available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk

Bruce Brubaker

Piano Masterclass

Piano Masterclass

Admission free Saturday 6 December, 4pm Milton Court Concert Hall

Junior Guildhall Wind Orchestra Matthew Down conductor

Junior Guildhall Percussion Ensemble Alex Duggan conductor

Monday 24 November 1pm, St Martin-in-the-Fields

Junior Guildhall String Ensemble Julian Clayton conductor

Dvoˇrák Serenade for Strings Op 22 Admission free All masterclasses are free to attend.

Debussy La Damoiselle Élue

Spencer Down conductor

Piano Masterclass

Idil Biret

Julian Clayton conductor

Junior Guildhall Brass Band

Paul Berkowitz

Friday 21 November, 10am, Milton Court Concert Hall

Chamber Music Masterclass

London Schools Symphony Orchestra Junior Guildhall Symphony Orchestra Jamie Barton mezzo-soprano & Chamber Choir Mats Lidström cello

Wednesday 26 November, 3pm, Milton Court Concert Hall

Monday 1 December, 2.30pm, Lecture Recital Room

Saturday 29 November, 5.30pm Milton Court Concert Hall

Junior Guildhall ensembles present a vibrant end-of-term showcase.

Admission free

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TOBY SPENCE

GRAHAM JOHNSON

IMOGEN COOPER

MASTERCLASSES

Monday 22 September, 7.30pm

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The Seagull (Autumn 2013)

Hearing is Believing: William Barnes’s Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect The dialect poems of William Barnes (1801-1886) have been marginalised because of the rural dialect in which they are written; but when heard in their original pronunciation, they come alive in a remarkable way. Tom Burton (Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Adelaide) explores their potential for dramatic and musical performance, with pianist Ceri Owen, a scholar of Ralph Vaughan Williams, who himself set a number of Barnes’s poems to music.

Wednesday 1 October, 6pm Silk Street Music Hall

The Legacy of Noel Mewton-Wood Presented by composer and British Library Edison Research Fellow Dr Raymond Yiu, this lecture-recital celebrates the life and work of the remarkable Australian pianist and composer Noel Mewton-Wood (192253) who was closely associated with Britten, Tippett, Bliss and other British composers of that generation.

Sunday 23 November, 10.30am Lecture Recital Room

Open Strings – Open Minds: Informing Your String Playing

Part of the Words Becoming Music research strand

Charles Ives Day

Professors from the School’s Research, Historical Performance and String departments in collaboration with the Institute of Musical Research and guests celebrate the launch of George Kennaway’s book Playing the Cello 1780-1930 (Ashgate). This event will be chaired by Professor John Irving.

Wednesday 22 October, 6pm Lecture Recital Room

Melofonetica: the first melophonetic method for sung Italian

Thursday 13 November, 6pm Silk Street Music Hall

Join us to hear how the latest research into Italian phonetics combines with the rules of music and correct singing technique to create an effective method for singers and accompanists. Matteo Dalle Fratte has been leading an exciting two-year research project into the science of sounds in Italian and will demonstrate, with a panel of guest singers and experts, how the new method can be used to achieve a high level of sung Italian.

Graham Johnson leads a masterclass on Schubert’s Winterreise, incorporating a celebration of the complete, three-volume Franz Schubert: The Complete Songs published by Yale University Press in association with the Guildhall School.

Part of the Words Becoming Music research strand

Schubert Masterclass

Tuesday 18 November, 6.30pm Milton Court Theatre

What is the future of Entrepreneurship in the Performing and Creative Arts?

Research events are free to attend but booking is required.

Please visit researchatguildhall.eventbrite.com to book.

The music of Charles Ives is a rich tapestry of musical and textual allusions, from the writings of the Transcendentalists and European poetry to American vernacular music and childhood memories. Ives scholar Prof J Peter Burkholder leads this all-day event, which includes an exploration of Ives’ sources and models, and performances of new Ives-inspired works. Speakers include Prof J Peter Burkholder, Prof William Brooks, Prof Michael Finnissy, Prof David Nicholls, Robin Bowman and Dr Evan Rothstein.

RESEARCH WORKS

Part of the Words Becoming Music research strand

Tuesday 7 October, 11am (all day event) Lecture Recital Room

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Friday 19 September, 6pm Lecture Recital Room

Tickets: £20 (£15 concessions, £10 Guildhall staff and students), available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk This event explores the future of entrepreneurship in the performing and creative arts. It brings together entrepreneurs, funders, organisations running entrepreneurship programmes and Higher Education Institutions addressing the employability agenda. Recent research will form the basis of the discussion.

Friday 28 November, 7pm Silk Street Music Hall Part of the Words Becoming Music research strand

Liszt and Literature Paul Roberts continues his exploration with postgraduate students of the literary sources behind many of Liszt’s greatest piano works. The presentation will include pieces from Harmonies poétiques et religieuses and readings from Lamartine.

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Reflective Conservatoire Conference 2015: ‘Creativity and Changing Cultures’ Join performers, teachers and researchers at the Guildhall School’s 4th international Reflective Conservatoire Conference. Performances, practical workshops, keynote speeches, curated sessions, seminars and round-table discussions explore key issues in Higher Education within music and drama.

Booking is now open. reflectiveconservatoire.org.uk Thursday 29 January 2015, 7pm, Milton Court Concert Hall Guildhall Chamber Orchestra Boris Brovtsyn director/violin

Elgar String Serenade in E minor, Op 20 Panufnik Violin Concerto Bartók Divertimento Tickets: £15, £10 (£5 concessions) available from the Barbican Box Office from 3 November 2014.

Presented by the Guildhall School’s Opera department.

Tickets: £25 (£15 concessions, £5 Guildhall School staff and students) available from the Barbican Box Office from 6 January 2015.

Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members: Supporters and above.

Thursday 19 March 2015, 7.30pm, Barbican Hall Guildhall Symphony Orchestra Pietari Inkinen conductor

Monday 2, Wednesday 4, Friday 6, Monday 9 March 2015, 7pm, Silk Street Theatre Arnold: The Dancing Master (world stage premiere) Donizetti: I pazzi per progetto (UK stage premiere) Martin Lloyd-Evans director

Programme to include: Stravinsky The Firebird Rachmaninov Variations on a Theme of Paganini Tickets: £15, £10 (£5 concessions) available from the Barbican Box Office from 3 November 2014.

Wednesday 15 April, 2pm Milton Court Concert Hall Joyce DiDonato Voice Masterclass

International superstar Joyce DiDonato leads a masterclass with Guildhall School singers as part of the Barbican’s Artist Spotlight series. For all events in the series, visit barbican.org.uk/ didonato

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Wednesday 13 May 2015, 7pm, Barbican Hall The Gold Medal

The centenary of the Guildhall School’s most prestigious prize for musicians. This year is the turn of the singers, who will sing a short programme with piano accompaniment followed by arias with the Guildhall School Symphony Orchestra.

Tickets: £15, £10 (£5 concessions, Guildhall School staff and students) available from the Barbican Box Office from 2 February 2015. Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members.

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Online booking: barbican.org.uk

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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.

The Guildhall School Trust is a Registered Charity No. 1082472

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Every year donations to the Scholarships Fund make it possible for over 300 young musicians, actors and theatre technicians to take up their hard-won places or continue their studies at the Guildhall School.

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Help support students like Tom.

CONTACT & INFORMATION

Guildhall School Scholarships Fund

How to find us

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