Guildhall School Events Guide Summer 2014

Guildhall School events Summer 2014 Music • Drama • Opera • Jazz

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Contents Guildhall Artists at the Barbican

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Monthly highlights

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April May June July

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Masterclasses

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Prizes

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Guildhall ResearchWorks

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Guildhall Young Artists

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Events at a glance

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

Thursday 1 May • 6pm

Sunday 22 June • 6pm

Brahms Piano Works

Beethoven Sonatas Beethoven Cello Sonata No 5 in D major Op 102, No 2 Beethoven Violin Sonata No 6 Op 30, No 1 Pablo Hernán violin Yoanna Prodanova cello Erdem Misirlio lu piano Yundu Wang piano

Future events

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Brahms Sonata No 2 in F# minor Op 2 Brahms Four Pieces for Piano Op 119

What they say

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Erdem Misirlio lu piano Thursday 8 May • 6pm

Our partnerships

R. Strauss Cello Sonata

The Guildhall School of Music & Drama is proud to work in partnership with the following organisations:

Leander Kippenberg cello Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula piano

R. Strauss Cello Sonata in F major Op 6

Thursday 12 June • 6pm The Guildhall School is provided by the City of London as part of its contribution to the cultural life of London and the nation

Dvořák Piano Quartet Dvo ák Piano Quartet in E flat Yolanda Bruno violin Miguel Rodriguez viola Yoanna Prodanova cello Mihai Ritivoiu piano

Sunday 29 June • 6pm

Françaix and Milhaud Françaix Wind Quintet No 1 Milhaud La cheminée du Roi René Jemma Freestone flute Rebecca Millard oboe Max Mausen clarinet Stephen Craigen horn Luke Tucker bassoon

Admission free Photographs: Clive Barda, Mitch Jenkins, Clive Totman, Morley Von Sternberg, Simon Corder, Katie Vandyck, Sussie Ahlburg, Michael Wilson, Richard Olivier.

BARBICAN HALL

Cover photo: Rosemary Boyle as Ophelia in Hamlet (February 2014) © Clive Barda Design & print: www.fullcycle.co 2

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April Monday 28 April • 7.30pm

St John Passion Dinis Sousa conductor Bach St John Passion Bach’s iconic masterpiece is presented for the first time in Milton Court by a group of students and alumni of the Guildhall School, alongside musicians from other UK music colleges.

Soloists include: Alessandro Fisher tenor, Evangelist David Shipley bass, Christus Alison Rose soprano Meili Li countertenor Martin Häßler bass Admission free MILTON COURT CONCERT HALL

APRIL / MAY 2014

May

Wednesday 30 April • 7pm CONSERVATOIRE DE PARIS, ESPACE MAURICE FLEURET

Saturday 3 May • 7.30pm

Guildhall Jazz Band plays Duke Ellington

Friday 2 May • 8pm

‘The Duke’s’ masterful Shakespearean suite Such Sweet Thunder is performed as the Guildhall School’s jazz department continues its annual collaboration with the Duke Ellington Society UK.

Thursday 1 May • 7pm

ST JOHN’S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE

SILK STREET MUSIC HALL

Saturday 3 May • 8pm

Admission free

Stretching the Accordion

GIRTON COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE

SILK STREET MUSIC HALL

Jointly presented with the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris, this exciting project brings together composers and instrumentalists from both conservatoires to explore the multifaceted repertoire of French and British chamber music with accordion. The concerts, in Paris and London, feature world premieres by young composers Florent Caron-Darras (Paris Conservatoire) and Oliver Leith (Guildhall School), for accordion, alto saxophone, clarinet, violin, cello, double bass and piano.

An ensemble of sackbut and cornett players from the Guildhall School and other conservatoires join forces with choristers and string musicians from the University of Cambridge for a programme of music by Heinrich Schütz and his contemporaries with Venetian connections.

Bernard Cavanna Trio No 1 for accordion, violin and cello Philippe Leroux De l’épaisseur for accordion, violin and cello Florent Caron-Darras Soleil Mat Rebecca Saunders Quartet for clarinet, accordion, double bass and piano Oliver Leith <>

Flavien Boy conductor Fanny Vicens accordion Vincent Lhermet accordion Max Mausen clarinet Hiroe Yasui saxophone Constance Ronzatti violin Peteris Sokolovskis cello Siret Lust double bass Matthieu Acar piano

Sackbuts and Cornetts

Tickets: www.adcticketing.com

Thursday 8 May • 7pm

Guildhall New Music Ensemble Henk Guittart director Ailsa Mainwaring mezzo-soprano Joseph Padfield baritone Schoenberg’s first Chamber Symphony, a touchstone of early modernism, lies at the heart of this chamber programme directed by co-founder of the Schoenberg Quartet and leading interpreter of the composer’s work, Henk Guittart.

Schoenberg Three Pieces for Chamber Orchestra (1910) Strauss (arr. Schoenberg) Kaiserwalzer (Emperor Waltz) Schoenberg Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte Op 41 Das Lied der Waldtaube (Song of the wood dove) from Gurrelieder Chamber Symphony No 1 Op 9 Admission free MILTON COURT CONCERT HALL

Admission free

Friday 2 May • 7.30pm

Alumni Recital Series: Toby Spence & Julian Milford Toby Spence tenor, Julian Milford piano

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Wednesday 30 April • 7pm

The Alumni Recital Series sees the Guildhall School welcome back some of its most highly-acclaimed alumni to perform in the Milton Court Concert Hall. World-renowned tenor Toby Spence and his acclaimed regular recital partner and fellow alumnus Julian Milford return to the School for this special performance.

French Song Concert

Beethoven An Die Ferne Geliebte

Postgraduate singers and pianists perform a programme of French song devised and presented by Gordon Stewart.

Admission free

Schubert

Abendbilder Im Abendrot Bei dir allein Des Fischers Liebesglück Am Fenster

SILK STREET MUSIC HALL

Schumann

Dichterliebe

The Alumni Recital Series is in support of the School’s Scholarships Fund.

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

MILTON COURT CONCERT HALL

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FEBRUARY MAY 2014

Friday 9 May • 7pm

Sunday 11 May • 3pm

Wednesday 14 May • 7pm

Piano Recital

NEW MALDEN METHODIST CHURCH

Guildhall Harpists & Friends

Postgraduate piano accompanists team up with their instrumental partners for a showcase recital directed by professor Gordon Back.

Wednesday 14 May • 12pm HATCHLANDS PARK

At Home with the Bachs James Johnstone director

SILK STREET MUSIC HALL

CPE Bach Geistliche Gesänge

Saturday 10 May • 9.30am–6pm

JS Bach Anna Magdalena Bach extracts

Harp Day: Move Well, Play Better

JS Bach Quodlibet BWV 524

A workshop for harpists, students (aged 15 and over) and harp teachers, covering essential knowledge of the harpist’s body and how it works in movement.

This will be a hands-on, practical and experiential day of discovery for all harpists who would like to play with more freedom and avoid injury.

Musicians from the Historical Performance department bring to life the domestic musical day of the Bach household with a programme of songs and a quodlibet for voices and keyboard.

New Malden: Admission free Hatchlands Park: £14 from www.cobbecollection.co.uk

The The Gold Gold Medal Medal Monday 12 May • 7pm

BARBICAN HALL

Magdalena Molendowska winning the 2013 Gold Medal

Admission free

Harpists from the Guildhall School present a beguiling evening of solo and chamber music, from Couperin and Dowland, to Hindemith and the French Impressionists, with some little-known gems along the way.

Admission free SILK STREET MUSIC HALL

Friday 16 May • 7.30pm

Four-Hand Piano Project Noriko Ogawa leads a project on French piano music for four hands, with performances given by senior Guildhall pianists.

Admission free SILK STREET MUSIC HALL

Cost: £40 (£15 full-time students).

Please email harp@gsmd.ac.uk for further details and booking.

Finalists:

SILK STREET BUILDING

Rose Hsien violin Korngold Violin Concerto in D major

Monday 12 May

Max Mausen clarinet Copland Clarinet Concerto

Vocal Showcase A day of performances by undergraduate vocal students, showcasing their work in drama, movement, opera and music theatre.

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Guildhall Symphony Orchestra Dominic Wheeler conductor

4.30pm

Music Theatre Showing Second year undergraduate singers present the culmination of their Music Theatre class, directed and prepared by Bridgitta Roy, Linda Hutchison and Erika Gundesen.

1.05pm

4pm

Light Music Showing

Movement Class Open Workshop

First year undergraduate singers present songs in a specially devised piece, directed by Victoria Newlyn and Ian Kennedy.

First and second year undergraduate singers demonstrate their work in an open Movement class, led by Bryony Williams.

Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro

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Third year undergraduate singers present a reduced version of Mozart’s opera, directed by Sally Burgess with music preparation by Linnhe Robertson, Clive Timms and Elizabeth Marcus.

Admission free

The Gold Medal, the Guildhall School’s most prestigious prize for musicians, 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), Patricia Rozario (1979), Tasmin Little (1986) and Bryn Terfel (1989). This year is the turn of the instrumentalists, who will perform a concerto with the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra, before a Barbican Hall audience.

Michael Petrov cello Shostakovich Cello Concerto No 1 They will be judged by a prestigious jury panel, including Tasmin Little, renowned violinist and previous Gold Medal winner; Ivan Hewett, Chief Music Critic at The Daily Telegraph; Jonathan Vaughan, Director of Music at the Guildhall School and Dominic Wheeler, Head of Opera and conductor of the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra for the evening.

Reserved tickets: £15, £10 (£5 concessions, Guildhall staff and students) available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk).

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Faculty Artist Series The School’s series of exclusive performances by senior professors and their colleagues gives the public, staff and students the opportunity to see some of the country’s finest musicians perform in the Milton Court Concert Hall.

Thursday 15 May • 7.30pm

Mozart Piano Quartet in G minor K478 Barber Dover Beach Op 3 Elgar Piano Quintet in A minor Op 84 Stephan Loges bass-baritone, Professor of Vocal Studies Bartosz Woroch violin, Professor of Violin Amarins Wierdsma violin Matthew Jones viola, Senior Tutor of Strings Chamber Music Ursula Smith cello, Professor of Cello Carole Presland piano, Senior Tutor of Keyboard Chamber Music

Reserved tickets: £15 (£10 concessions, free for Guildhall staff and students), available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk).

Group discount available (020 7382 7211).

MILTON COURT CONCERT HALL

Medtner Day One-day festival dedicated to the artistic output of Russian pianist-composer Nikolay Medtner.

1pm:

Lunchtime concert featuring Medtner’s solo piano works and songs.

3pm:

Hamish Milne Piano Masterclass

5.45pm: Pre-concert talk (see page 20). Alexander Karpeyev discusses Medtner’s life in Russia and England and the role he played in the musical culture of the first half of the 20th century, before introducing the works performed in the evening concert.

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Evening concert featuring Medtner’s Piano Quintet, Sonata tragica and Russian Round Dance for two pianos.

Thursday 29 May • 1.10pm

Thursday 29 May • 5.30pm

Guildhall Guitars

Liebeslieder Waltzes

Voiceworks

A concert of music from three centuries including works by Granados, Tedesco, Asencio, Mertz, Dodgson and Laura Snowden.

Sarah Walker directs a lunchtime performance of Brahms’s Liebeslieder Waltzes collection of love songs.

Admission free SILK STREET MUSIC HALL

MILTON COURT STUDIO THEATRE FOYER

A programme of new vocal works, the culmination of an annual project between Guildhall School composers and singers, poets from Birkbeck College, and Wigmore Hall.

Wednesday 28 May • 7pm

Thursday 29 May • 1.05pm

Viola da Gamba +

Die schöne Magelone

Premieres of five new pieces for viola da gamba plus additional elements, devices, instruments and sounds by postgraduate composers, performed by Leo Tolkin and directed by Liam Byrne (Fretwork) and Paul Newland.

Brahms Die schöne Magelone

Admission free

The Faculty Artist Series 2013/14 is generously supported by Michael and Mercedes Hoffman.

Thursday 22 May • 1pm–8.30pm

Tuesday 27 May • 7pm

SILK STREET MUSIC HALL

Admission free

Admission free WIGMORE HALL

Josep-Ramon Olivé baritone Ricardo Gosalbo piano Senior Guildhall musicians give a lunchtime performance of Brahms’s rarely-heard song cycle which sets poems by Ludwig Tieck depicting a medieval fairytale romance.

Admission free LECTURE RECITAL ROOM

Wednesday 21 May • 7pm

Monday 26 May • 7.30pm

Piano and String Composition Project

Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize: Winner’s Recital

Premieres of new works by postgraduate composers. This project is directed by visiting tutors Marcus Barcham-Stevens and Roderick Chadwick.

Admission free LECTURE RECITAL ROOM

Thursday 22 May • 7pm

Edith Wiens Concert On the final day of her short residency at the Guildhall School, soprano Edith Wiens from the Juilliard School, New York, performs a concert with senior Guildhall singers.

Admission free

Admission free

LECTURE RECITAL ROOM

SILK STREET MUSIC HALL

The Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize annually awards an exceptional Guildhall School musician with a Wigmore Hall recital. Welsh tenor Joshua Owen Mills is the recipient of this year’s award, and his recital promises to be a special occasion.

Joshua Owen Mills tenor Rodrigo de Vera piano Mozart Beethoven Liszt Britten Quilter

Die ihr des unermesslichen Weltalls Schöpfer ehrt Der Kuss, Resignation, Lied aus der Ferne Tre Sonetti di Petrarca Winter Words It was a lover and his lass Three Shakespeare Songs Tickets: £12.50 (£10 concessions) available from the Wigmore Hall Box Office 020 7935 2141 www.wigmore-hall.org.uk 9 9

Friday 23, Saturday 24, Tuesday 27, Wednesday 28, Thursday 29, Friday 30, Saturday 31 May • 7.30pm www.gsmd.ac.uk Tuesday 27, Thursday 29 May • 2pm

MAY / JUNE 2014

Thursday 12 June • 11am–5pm

MILTON COURT STUDIO THEATRE & FOYERS

MILTON COURT STUDIO THEATRE

Napoli Milionaria

by Eduardo de Filippo

The exuberant, chaotic life of an impoverished Neapolitan family during and after WWII. An affectionate and soul searching look at the cost of survival in a time of war.

Technical Theatre Arts Graduate Exhibition 2014

Design Realisation • Stage and Costume Management • Theatre Technology Joseph Blatchley director Dora Schweitzer designer Max Narula lighting designer Peter Croft sound designer

Unreserved tickets: £10 (£5 concessions, Guildhall staff and students, Equity), available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk) from 23 April.

Group discount available (020 7382 7211).

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.

Following the success of last year’s inaugural event, this year the exhibition takes place in the flexible Milton Court Studio Theatre and surrounding foyers, and many of the students will be present to talk about their work.

Admission free

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JUNE / JULY 2014

City of London Festival Lunchtime concerts

Wednesday 11, Friday 13, Monday 16, Wednesday 18, Friday 20, Saturday 21 June • 7pm MILTON COURT THEATRE

Julian Perkins conductor Rodula Gaitanou director Simon Corder set and lighting designer Cordelia Chisholm costume designer

THE COOPER

Tuesday 24 June – Thursday 17 July • 1pm The Guildhall School has played an important part in the City of London Festival since its inaugural year, and this year continues its close collaboration as senior Guildhall musicians give free lunchtime concerts in churches across the City.

ARNE

Photo by Simon Corder

SAN GIOVANNI BATTISTA STRADELLA

Inspired by the opportunity to present opera in the new Milton Court Theatre, the Guildhall School is proud to present two contrasting, rarely-performed works: English composer Thomas Arne’s charmingly eccentric comedy, The Cooper, and Italian Baroque composer Alessandro Stradella’s dramatic 1675 oratorio, San Giovanni Battista, which revolves around Herod’s obsession with Salome.

Tuesday 24 June

Friday 27 June

Thursday 3 July

Tuesday 15 July

Beethoven Septet

Villa-Lobos Works

Alexandra Lomeiko violin Luba Tunnicliffe viola Toby White cello Iurii Gavryliuk double bass Ausiàs Garrigós Morant clarinet Alexander Wide horn Gareth Humphreys bassoon

Ricky Gore violin Moira Bette viola Yoanna Prodanova, Toby White cello Zuzanna Olbrys harp Rebecca Carson, Rebecca Griffiths, Jessica Kabirat flute Grace Warren oboe Rebekah Carpio clarinet Molly Flanagan horn Jamie White bassoon

Song from the Asylum

Mozart and Vaughan Williams

Songs by Schumann, Wolf, Gurney, Smetana, Donizetti.

Oliver Cave, Francesca Gilbert, Ionel Manciu violin May Dolan, Sophie Haynes viola Toby White cello Iurii Gavryliuk double bass Bryony Keyse, Hannah Watson piano

ST ANDREW BY THE WARDROBE

Wednesday 25 June

Strauss and Chopin Cello Sonatas

ST BOTOLPH-WITHOUTBISHOPSGATE

Tuesday 1 July

Friday 4 July

Rachmaninoff and Scriabin Piano Works Anna Gogava piano ST SEPULCHRE-WITHOUTNEWGATE

Tuesday 8 July

The Jane Manning Birthday Project

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Works

(see page 14).

Wednesday 9 July

A programme of song devised and directed by Armin Zanner.

Maxwell Davies Ave Maris Stella and Hymnos David Ruff flute / alto flute Oliver Pashley clarinet George Barton marimba Duncan Anderson viola Romana Kaiser cello Siwan Rhys piano

ST OLAVE HART STREET

ST MARGARET PATTENS

Oscar Alabau, Leander Kippenberg cello Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula, Hannah Watson piano ST BRIDE’S FLEET STREET

Thursday 26 June

Guildhall Voices

Wednesday 2 July

Piano Works

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ST JAMES GARLICKHYTHE

Tickets: £25 (£15 concessions, £5 Guildhall staff and students) available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk) from 11 April.

by Beethoven, Brahms and Chopin.

Marina Koka piano

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ST GILES CRIPPLEGATE

ST MARY-LE-BOW

Debussy and Chopin Piano Works Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula piano

ST STEPHEN WALBROOK

Wednesday 16 July

Schnittke and Medtner Piano Quintets Esther Kim, Amarins Wierdsma violin Francesca Gilbert viola Thomas Marlin cello Alasdair Macaskill piano

ST LAWRENCE JEWRY

ST DUNSTAN-INTHE-WEST

Thursday 10 July

Thursday 17 July

Lieder concert

Dvořák and Haydn

Works by Schumann, Berg, and Wolf.

Archos Quartet Luba Tunnicliffe viola Toby White cello

ST VEDAST-ALIAS-FOSTER

Friday 11 July

ST MICHAEL CORNHILL

Piano Works

by Messiaen, Bach, and Sibelius.

Hannah Watson piano ST ANDREW HOLBORN

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June Thursday 5 June • 6pm

Jazz at St John’s Waterloo The Guildhall Jazz Ensemble and Southbank Sinfonia perform new music by Guildhall professors Scott Stroman and Gail Brand.

Admission free ST JOHN’S WATERLOO SE1

JUNE/JULY 2014

Tuesday 8, Wednesday 9, Thursday 10, Friday 11, Saturday 12, Wednesday 16 July • 7.30pm Friday 11, Monday 14 July • 2pm

Saturday 21 June • 7pm

Three last symphonies Guildhall School partner the Academy of Ancient Music closes its 40th anniversary season in grand style with a rare performance of the last symphonies of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven. Guildhall singers form part of the AAMplify new generation choir for Beethoven’s epic Ninth Symphony.

Tickets: £10-£35 available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk).

July Friday 4 July • 7pm

MMus Ensemble Project The Plus-Minus ensemble, committed to presenting new work alongside landmark modern repertoire, presents five new works by postgraduate Guildhall composers, and a rare opportunity to hear Peter Ablinger’s experimental Amtssee bei Regen.

Admission free SILK STREET MUSIC HALL

BARBICAN HALL

Monday 14 and Tuesday 15 July • 5.30pm

Summer Gala Evenings

Friday 6 June • 1.05pm

LECTURE RECITAL ROOM

Tuesday 8 July • 1pm ST MARY-LE-BOW

Part of the City of London Festival

The Jane Manning Birthday Project Guildhall singers and pianists perform 20th and 21st century song repertoire specially selected and prepared by soprano Jane Manning, in celebration of her 75th birthday and her appointment as a Research Associate at the School.

Admission free

Celebrate the end of the School’s year in style at the Guildhall School Summer Gala Evenings. Guests are invited to a drinks reception and supper in the Barbican Centre’s Garden Room followed by a performance of Grand Hotel in the Silk Street Theatre.

Tickets: £75 including pre-supper drinks reception, two-course supper with wine, entry to the performance of Grand Hotel and a performance programme. All proceeds will go towards supporting the Guildhall School and its students.

For further information or to book tickets, please contact Rachel Davis: 020 7382 7157 or email rachel.davis@gsmd.ac.uk

Grand Hotel

SILK STREET THEATRE

Martin Connor director Bill Deamer choreographer Steven Edis musical director Morgan Large designer Richard Howell lighting designer Ben Harrison sound designer

music and lyrics by Robert Wright and George Forrest, with additional lyrics and music by Maury Yeston book by Luther Davis

Grand Hotel is based on the 1929 Vicki Baum novel and play, Menschen im Hotel (People in a Hotel), and the subsequent 1932 MGM feature film. Events take place over the course of a weekend at the Grand Hotel, Berlin, in 1928.

The plot intertwines the lives of a fading prima ballerina, a handsome, young but penniless Baron, a terminally ill Jewish bookkeeper who wishes to spend his final days living in luxury, and a businessman who succumbs to temptation in the form of a young typist dreaming of a Hollywood career – all of whom are quietly observed by a cynical, war veteran doctor.

The show was first produced on Broadway in 1989 and played in the West End, where it was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best New Musical in 1993.

Reserved tickets: £15 (£10 concessions, Guildhall staff and students, Equity), available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk) from 5 May. Group discount available (020 7382 7211).

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JULY 2014

Sunday 6 July • 4.30pm, Parabola Theatre as part of the Cheltenham Music Festival world premiere Wednesday 6 August • 8pm (6pm pre-concert talk), Lakes Hall as part of Lake District Summer Music

Monday 7 – Friday 11 July

Okeanos presents:

Curious

Tokaido Road – A Journey after Hiroshige This new multi-media chamber opera follows the young artist Hiroshige as he sets out on Japan’s great Eastern sea-coast road, Tokaido Road, in 1832 – an adventure he later brought to life in his famous woodblock prints. Created and commissioned by Western-Japanese music ensemble, Okeanos, the project is led by Kate Romano, Deputy Head of Academic Studies, and features Guildhall students and staff as members of the cast, creative team and in backstage roles.

Music by Nicola LeFanu Libretto by Nancy Gaffield Dominic Wheeler conductor Caroline Clegg director Kimie Nakano designer Daniel Whewell lighting designer Theo Burt, Wynn White images Stuart Calder producer

Cheltenham tickets: £20 (limited number of £5 tickets for under 30s) from www.cheltenhamfestivals.com Lakes Hall tickets: www.ldsm.org.uk Tokaido Road is supported by the Guildhall School’s Research department.

Tokaido Road is generously funded by grants from Arts Council England, Britten Pears Foundation, Cheltenham Festival, Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, John S Cohen Foundation, Leche Trust, Radcliffe Trust, RVW Trust and Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation.

Wednesday 9, Thursday 10, Monday 14 July • 7pm Saturday 12 July • 2.30pm

Opera Scenes

Curated by the Guildhall School and Barbican’s joint Creative Learning division, Curious features new and original works

by Guildhall Masters in Leadership students and associated artists. Performances include live music, visuals and dance, as well as installations, discussions and open workshops.

Find out more at www.gsmd.ac.uk/curious

Friday 11 July • 5pm

Friday 11 July • 7.30pm

Guildhall New Music Ensemble

Guildhall New Music Ensemble and Guildhall Sinfonia

‘Voices behind the Glass’

Diego Masson conductor Alexander Wide horn Alexander Soares piano Messiaen Des canyons aux étoiles

James Weeks conductor Featuring new works by Guildhall School composers, alongside Gesualdo’s Transcriptions, and Salvatore Sciarrino’s Le voci sottovetro.

Admission free SILK STREET MUSIC HALL

John Ramster director

Reserved tickets: £10 (£5 concessions, free for Guildhall staff and students) available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk).

Dominic Wheeler 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 Opera Course.

Unreserved tickets: £10 (£5 concessions, free for Guildhall staff and students) available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk) from 26 May. MILTON COURT STUDIO THEATRE

French conductor Diego Masson, widely recognised as one of the world’s leading exponents of 20th and 21st century music, conducts Messiaen’s landmark Des canyons aux étoiles (From the canyons to the stars), an orchestral tone poem as vast and unpredictable as the Utah landscape that inspired the composer.

MILTON COURT CONCERT HALL

Monday 14 July • 7pm

Wednesday 16 July • 6pm

Guildhall Percussion Ensemble

Vocal Summer Project

Directed by Richard Benjafield and Julian Warburton Steve Reich Six Marimbas Nick Hayes Shining Through West African Drumming – The Mighty Fontomfrom Admission free

The culmination of undergraduate singers’ Summer Performance Project combining music, movement and drama in a specially devised collaborative piece, directed by Andrew Watts and Bryony Williams.

Admission free SILK STREET MUSIC HALL

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MASTERCLASSES / PRIZES

Prizes

Masterclasses

Monday 28 April • 7pm

Thursday 15 May • 6.30pm

The Ivan Sutton Award

The Chartered Surveyors’ Prize

For performance of a chamber work with piano.

Candidates each perform a 15-minute programme of contrasting pieces from opera, operetta, lieder as well as items from the contemporary, early music, music theatre and folk repertoire.

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

Brindley Sherratt

Jeremy Denk

Wednesday 14 May • 10am

Sunday 25 May • 2pm

Voice Masterclass

Piano Masterclass

LECTURE RECITAL ROOM

LECTURE RECITAL ROOM

Brindley Sherratt

Thursday 15 May • 2pm

Boris Berman

Piano Masterclass LECTURE RECITAL ROOM

Jeremy Denk

Edith Wiens Thursday 22 May • 2.30pm

Edith Wiens

Monday 26 May • 10am & 2pm

Emile Naoumoff Piano Masterclass

LECTURE RECITAL ROOM

Voice Masterclass Monday 19 May • 10am Tuesday 20 May • 10am

Takács Quartet

SILK STREET MUSIC HALL

Supported by the Worshipful Company of Chartered Surveyors.

Tuesday 29 April • 7pm For the performance of a programme of solo repertoire for brass instruments.

Friday 30 May • 10am

SILK STREET MUSIC HALL

For a performance of wind and/or brass chamber music.

Wednesday 7 May • 6.15pm

The Susan Longfield Prize

Launchpad Prize

Sponsored by June Emerson Wind Music.

SILK STREET MUSIC HALL

For sopranos and mezzo-sopranos.

In commemoration of Susan Longfield, who was a student at the School. This prize is generously supported by her family.

Piano Masterclass

SILK STREET MUSIC HALL

Chamber Music Masterclass

Hamish Milne

LECTURE RECITAL ROOM

Piano Masterclass

Monday 12 May • 7pm

Part of Medtner Day (see page 8)

The Gold Medal

LECTURE RECITAL ROOM

SILK STREET MUSIC HALL

The Armourers’ and Brasiers’ Brass Prize

Monday 2 June • 10am

Richard Goode Thursday 22 May • 3pm

SILK STREET MUSIC HALL

MILTON COURT CONCERT HALL

(see page 7)

Saturday 31 May • 2pm

Junior Guildhall Lutine Prize 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.

MILTON COURT CONCERT HALL

BARBICAN HALL

Orchestral Artistry Masterclass Monday 19 May • 6pm

Lorenzo Iosco

Clarinet Masterclass The London Symphony Orchestra’s Principal Bass Clarinet Lorenzo Iosco coaches musicians studying on the School’s unique Orchestral Artistry specialism delivered in association with the LSO. LECTURE RECITAL ROOM

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!

In 2014 final recitals take place on weekdays, 2 June – 7 July. Check our website www.gsmd.ac.uk/events for detailed listings.

All masterclasses are free to attend and tickets are not required.

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ResearchWorks is a dynamic programme of events centred around the School’s key research strands, bringing together staff, students and guests of international standing.

Thursday 8 May • 6pm

Analysis, Interpretation, and Performance: Hans Keller’s anti-school An evening dedicated to reflection on the unique pedagogical contribution of the legendary Hans Keller (1919-1985), including a critical introduction to Keller’s analytical approaches, archival audio/video, and a panel discussion with artists and teachers who studied with Keller, including Levon Chilingirian, Charles Sewart, Anton Weinberg and David Waterman.

Sunday 11 May • 10am–7.30pm

Tuesday 27 May • 4pm–7pm

Tuesday 3 June • 6pm

‘When England Held Her Breath’ Composing in Wartime: Elgar and his Contemporaries

Opera and its modern audiences: who are they, what do they want?

Scarlatti Revisits Barcelona

Tickets: £20 (£15 Elgar Society members; £5 Guildhall School staff and students) available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk) LECTURE RECITAL ROOM

Anthologies and compilations of texts pose particular problems for the study of text transmission and editing. This lecture from Professor Barry Ife compares and contrasts two manuscript compilations – one poetic and one musical – to illustrate these problems and discuss their implications. This lecture builds on the previous ResearchWorks event on Scarlatti.

LECTURE RECITAL ROOM

LECTURE RECITAL ROOM

Friday 20 June • 6pm

Tuesday 3 June • 11am

Music Therapy in mainstream schools

Doctoral Day

Medtner Day pre-concert talk

Doctoral students present their research and discuss their experiences of doctoral study.

This event will be followed by a ResearchWorks lecture from Professor Barry Ife, Principal of the Guildhall School, at 6pm.

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How are contemporary audiences experiencing and valuing opera?

What impact do new forms of delivery such as live cinema relays have on the reach and public appreciation of opera? What are the implications for opera makers and promoters? The research will be presented and then discussed by an expert panel of people in, or connected to, the opera industry.

Thursday 22 May • 5.45pm

As part of this one-day festival, Alexander Karpeyev discusses Medtner’s life in Russia and England and the role he played in the musical culture of the first half of the 20th century, before introducing the works performed in the evening concert (see page 8).

Tuesday 29 April • 7.30pm

Sunday 22 June • 7pm

Saturday 12 July • 4pm

London Schools Symphony Orchestra

Barbican Young Orchestra

Junior Guildhall Prize Giving Concert

Dominic Wheeler conductor Tom Poster piano

LECTURE RECITAL ROOM

This conference, organised by the London Branch of the Elgar Society and the Guildhall School, explores the music of WWI and its effect on four composers: Gurney, Benjamin, Vaughan Williams, and Elgar.

Guildhall Young Artists

Leana Crookes and Luke Annesley offer differing perspectives on the work of music therapy in mainstream schools for adolescents.

LECTURE RECITAL ROOM

Soloists from the Guildhall School’s Opera Course Dukas The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Ravel Piano Concerto in G major Ravel L’Enfant et les sortilèges Tickets: £8 – £24, available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk).

BARBICAN HALL

Saturday 24 May • 6.30pm

Junior Guildhall Symphony Orchestra with musicians from the National Youth Chamber Orchestra of Portugal Julian Clayton conductor Rossini William Tell Overture Dvořák Symphony No 8 Reserved tickets: £15 (£10 concessions) available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk).

MILTON COURT CONCERT HALL

LECTURE RECITAL ROOM

ResearchWorks events are free to attend but booking is required. Please visit researchatguildhall.eventbrite.co.uk to book your place.

Edward Gardner conductor Michael Petrov cello Walton Cello Concerto Stravinsky Firebird Suite (1919) The Barbican Young Orchestra was set up in 2008 by Sir Colin Davis and Sir Nicholas Kenyon to give young children from all over London the opportunity to play music on an international stage with a world class conductor. Edward Gardner takes on the challenge for 2014 and is joined by Guildhall cellist Michael Petrov for the Orchestra’s first performance in Milton Court.

Admission free MILTON COURT CONCERT HALL

Sunday 6 July • 2.30pm

Junior Guildhall Symphony Orchestra

Featuring the Junior Guildhall Symphony Orchestra, String Ensemble, Chamber Choir, Percussion Ensemble and Big Band.

Admission free MILTON COURT CONCERT HALL

Monday 4 August • 7pm

London Schools Symphony Orchestra Peter Ash, Richard Blackford conductors Dukas The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Strauss Don Quixote Richard Blackford The Great Animal Orchestra Tickets: www.thsh.co.uk BIRMINGHAM TOWN HALL

Julian Clayton conductor Matilda Lloyd trumpet Britten Four Sea Interludes; Passacaglia from Peter Grimes Pakhmutova Trumpet Concerto Mussorgsky (arr. Ravel) Pictures at an Exhibition Reserved tickets: £15 (£10 concessions) available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk).

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Events at a glance Key to venues: Barbican Cons = Barbican Conservatory, BH = Barbican Hall, Birmingham TH = Birmingham Town Hall, Cons de Paris = Conservatoire de Paris, Girton College = Girton College, Cambridge, Lakes Hall = Lakes Hall, Lake District Summer Music, LRR = Lecture Recital Room, MCCH = Milton Court Concert Hall, MC Studio = Milton Court Studio Theatre, MC Th = Milton Court Theatre, New Malden = New Maldon Methodist Church, Parabola Theatre = Parabola Theatre, Cheltenham, Regent Hall = Regent Hall, Oxford Street, Silk St MH = Silk Street Music Hall, Silk St Th = Silk Street Theatre, St Andrew = St Andrew by the Wardrobe EC4V, St Botolph = St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate EC2M, St Bride’s = St Bride’s, Fleet Street, St Dunstan = St Dunstan-in-the-West EC4A, St George’s = St George’s, Hanover Square, St Giles = St Giles Cripplegate EC2Y, St James = St James Garlickhythe EC4V, St John’s College = St John’s College, Cambridge, St Lawrence = St Lawrence Jewry EC2V, St Margaret = St Margaret Pattens EC3M, St Michael = St Michael Cornhill EC3V, St Olave = St Olave, Hart Street EC3R, St Sepulchre = St Sepulchre-without-Newgate EC1A, St Stephen’s = St Stephen’s Walbrook EC4N, St Vedast = St Vedast-alias-Foster EC2V.

April

10am

LRR

ResearchWorks: ‘When England Held Her Breath’

Sun 11

3pm

New Malden

At Home with the Bachs

Mon 12

1.05pm

LRR

Vocal Showcase: Light Music Showing

Mon 12

4pm

Silk St MH

Vocal Showcase: Movement Class Open Workshop

Mon 12

4.30pm

Silk St MH

Vocal Showcase: Music Theatre Showing

Mon 12

7pm

BH

The Gold Medal

Tue 13

7pm

Silk St MH

Postgraduate Piano Concert

Wed 14

10am

LRR

Brindley Sherratt Voice Masterclass

Wed 14

12pm

Hatchlands Park

At Home with the Bachs

Wed 14

7pm

Silk St MH

Guildhall Harpists & Friends

Thu 15

2pm

LRR

Boris Berman Piano Masterclass

Mon 28

7pm

Silk St MH

The Ivan Sutton Award

Thu 15

6.30pm

Silk St MH

The Chartered Surveyors’ Prize

Mon 28

7.30pm

MCCH

St John Passion

Thu 15

7.30pm

MCCH

Faculty Artist Series

Tue 29

7pm

Silk St MH

The Armourers’ and Brasiers’ Brass Prize

Fri 16

6pm

LRR

Baroque Trumpets and Timpani

Tue 29

7.30pm

BH

London Schools Symphony Orchestra

Fri 16

7.30pm

Silk St MH

Four-Hand Piano Project

Wed 30

7pm

Silk St MH

French Song Concert

Mon 19

10am

LRR

Takács Quartet Chamber Music Masterclass

Wed 30

7pm

Cons de Paris

Stretching the Accordion

Mon 19

6pm

LRR

Lorenzo Iosco Clarinet Masterclass

Mon 19

7pm

MCCH

String Department Concert

Tue 20

10am

LRR

Takács Quartet Chamber Music Masterclass

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Thu 1

1.05pm

LRR

MPerf Final Recital

Tue 20

7pm

Silk St MH

Postgraduate Piano Concert

Thu 1

6pm

BH

Guildhall Artists at the Barbican: Brahms Piano Works

Wed 21

7pm

LRR

Piano and String Composition Project

Thu 1

7pm

Silk St MH

Stretching the Accordion

Thu 22

1pm

LRR

Medtner Day: lunchtime concert

Fri 2

7.30pm

MCCH

Alumni Recital Series: Toby Spence & Julian Milford

Thu 22

2.30pm

Silk St MH

Edith Wiens Voice Masterclass

Fri 2

8pm

St John’s College

Sackbuts and Cornetts

Thu 22

3pm

LRR

Medtner Day: Hamish Milne Piano Masterclass

Sat 3

7.30pm

Silk St MH

Guildhall Jazz Band plays Duke Ellington

Thu 22

5.45pm

LRR

Medtner Day: ResearchWorks pre-concert talk

Sat 3

8pm

Girton College

Sackbuts and Cornetts

Thu 22

7pm

LRR

Medtner Day: evening concert

Tue 6

7pm

LRR

Double Bass Concert

Thu 22

7pm

Silk St MH

Edith Wiens concert

Wed 7

6.15pm

Silk St MH

The Susan Longfield Prize

Fri 23

7pm

Silk St MH

String Department Concert

Thu 8

6pm

BH

Guildhall Artists at the Barbican: R. Strauss Cello Sonata

Fri 23

7.30pm

MC Studio

Napoli Milionaria

Thu 8

6pm

LRR

ResearchWorks: Hans Keller’s anti-school

Sat 24

6.30pm

MCCH

Junior Guildhall Symphony Orchestra

Thu 8

7pm

MCCH

Guildhall New Music Ensemble

Sat 24

7.30pm

MC Studio

Napoli Milionaria

Fri 9

7pm

Silk St MH

Piano Recital

Sun 25

2pm

LRR

Jeremy Denk Piano Masterclass

Sat 10

9.30am

Silk St building

Harp Day: Move Well, Play Better

Mon 26

10am

LRR

Emile Naoumoff Piano Masterclass

Mon 26

2pm

LRR

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Wigmore Hall

Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize: Winner’s Recital

Fri 20

7pm

MC Theatre

Stradella & Arne double bill

Tue 27

2pm

MC Studio

Napoli Milionaria

Sat 21

2pm

MCCH

Junior Guildhall String Chamber Music Concert

Tue 27

4pm

LRR

ResearchWorks: Opera and its modern audiences

Sat 21

3pm

MCCH

Junior Guildhall String Chamber Music Concert

Tue 27

7pm

Silk St MH

Guildhall Guitars

Sat 21

5.10pm

MCCH

Junior Guildhall String Chamber Music Concert

Tue 27

7.30pm

MC Studio

Napoli Milionaria

Sat 21

7pm

MC Theatre

Stradella & Arne double bill

Wed 28

7pm

Silk St MH

Viola da Gamba +

Sat 21

7pm

BH

Academy of Ancient Music: Three last symphonies

Wed 28

7.30pm

MC Studio

Napoli Milionaria

Sun 22

6pm

BH

Guildhall Artists at the Barbican: Beethoven Sonatas

Thu 29

1.05pm

LRR

Die schöne Magelone

Sun 22

7pm

MCCH

Barbican Young Orchestra

Thu 29

1.10pm

MC Studio Foyer

Liebeslieder Waltzes

Tue 24

1pm

St Andrew

City of London Festival lunchtime concert

Thu 29

2pm

MC Studio

Napoli Milionaria

Wed 25

1pm

St Bride’s

City of London Festival lunchtime concert

Thu 29

5.30pm

Wigmore Hall

Voiceworks

Thu 26

1pm

St Olave

City of London Festival lunchtime concert

Thu 29

7pm

Silk St MH

String Department Concert

Fri 27

1pm

St Botolph

City of London Festival lunchtime concert

Thu 29

7.30pm

MC

Studio Napoli Milionaria

Sun 29

6pm

BH

Guildhall Artists at the Barbican: Françaix and Milhaud

Fri 30

10am

Silk St MH

Launchpad Prize

Fri 30

7pm

LRR

String Department Concert

Fri 30

7.30pm

MC Studio

Napoli Milionaria

Tue 1

1pm

St Margaret

City of London Festival lunchtime concert

Sat 31

2pm

MCCH

Junior Guildhall Lutine Prize

Wed 2

1pm

St Giles

City of London Festival lunchtime concert

Sat 31

7.30pm

MC Studio

Napoli Milionaria

Thu 3

1pm

St James

City of London Festival lunchtime concert

Fri 4

1pm

St Sepulchre

City of London Festival lunchtime concert

Fri 4

7pm

Silk St MH

MMus Ensemble Project

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10am

MCCH

Richard Goode Piano Masterclass

Sun 6

2.30pm

MCCH

Junior Guildhall Symphony Orchestra

Tue 3

11am

LRR

ResearchWorks: Doctoral Day

Sun 6

4.30pm

Parabola Theatre

Tokaido Road

Tue 3

6pm

LRR

ResearchWorks: Scarlatti Revisits Barcelona

Mon 7

1pm

Regent Hall

Junior Guildhall Brass Band

Thu 5

6pm

St John’s Waterloo Jazz at St John’s Waterloo

Tue 8

1pm

St Mary-le-Bow

City of London Festival lunchtime concert

Fri 6

1.05pm

LRR

The Jane Manning Birthday Project

Tue 8

7.30pm

Silk St Th

Grand Hotel

Wed 11

7pm

MC Theatre

Stradella & Arne double bill

Wed 9

1pm

St Lawrence

City of London Festival lunchtime concert

Thu 12

11am–5pm MC Studio

Technical Theatre Arts Graduate Exhibition

Wed 9

7pm

MC Studio

Opera Scenes

Thu 12

6pm

BH

Guildhall Artists at the Barbican: Dvořák Piano Quartet

Wed 9

7.30pm

Silk St Th

Grand Hotel

Fri 13

7pm

MC Theatre

Stradella & Arne double bill

Thu 10

1pm

St Vedast

City of London Festival lunchtime concert

Sat 14

5.10pm

MCCH

Junior Guildhall String Chamber Music Concert

Thu 10

7pm

MC Studio

Opera Scenes

Mon 16

7pm

MC Theatre

Stradella & Arne double bill

Thu 10

7.30pm

Silk St Th

Grand Hotel

Wed 18

7pm

MC Theatre

Stradella & Arne double bill

Fri 11

1pm

St Andrew Holborn City of London Festival lunchtime concert

Fri 20

6pm

LRR

ResearchWorks: Music Therapy in mainstream schools

Fri 11

2pm

Silk St Th

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2014/15

Fri 11

5pm

Silk St MH

Guildhall New Music Ensemble

Fri 11

7.30pm

MCCH

Guildhall New Music Ensemble & Guildhall Sinfonia

Fri 11

7.30pm

Silk St Th

Grand Hotel

Sat 12

2pm

LRR

Junior Guildhall Vocal Concert

Sat 12

2.30pm

MC Studio

Opera Scenes

Sat 12

4pm

MCCH

Junior Guildhall Prize Giving Concert

Guildhall Artists at the Barbican

Sat 12

7.30pm

Silk St Th

Grand Hotel

Sunday 21 September • 6pm

Mon 14

2pm

Silk St Th

Grand Hotel

Mon 14

5.30pm

Barbican Cons

Summer Gala: Grand Hotel

Mon 14

7pm

Silk St MH

Guildhall Percussion Ensemble

Mon 14

7pm

MC Studio

Opera Scenes

Tue 15

1pm

St Stephen

City of London Festival lunchtime concert

Tue 15

1.05pm

Silk St MH

Piccolo Concert

Tue 15

5.30pm

Barbican Cons

Summer Gala: Grand Hotel

Schubert and Wagner Songs

Wed 16

1pm

St Dunstan

City of London Festival lunchtime concert

Admission free

Tickets: £25 (£15 concessions) available from the Barbican Box Office from September 2014.

Wed 16

6pm

Silk St MH

Vocal Summer Project

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Wed 16

7.30pm

Silk St Th

Grand Hotel

Thu 17

1pm

St Michael

City of London Festival lunchtime concert

August Mon 4

7pm

Birmingham TH

London Schools Symphony Orchestra

Wed 6

8pm

Lakes Hall

Tokaido Road

future events Prokofiev Chamber Music

Monday 3, Wednesday 5, Friday 7, Monday 10 November • 7pm

Dvořák

The Cunning Peasant

Thursday 16 October • 6pm

sung in English with a translation

by Clive Timms

Bartók and Tchaikovsky Piano Works

Stephen Medcalf director Dominic Wheeler conductor

Thursday 23 October • 6pm

Presented by the Guildhall School’s Opera Course.

Friday 26 September • 7.30pm

Thursday 27 November • 7.30pm

Wednesday 15 April 2015 • 2pm

Guildhall Symphony Orchestra & Chorus

Guildhall Symphony Orchestra

Joyce DiDonato

Mark Shanahan conductor Elisabeth Meister soprano Victoria Simmonds mezzo-soprano

Yan Pascal Tortelier conductor

As part of the Barbican’s Artist Spotlight series, Joyce DiDonato leads a masterclass with Guildhall School singers.

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 from July 2014.

BARBICAN HALL

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 opiuminduced dream.

Voice Masterclass

Tickets: £30 (£10 students) available from the Barbican Box Office.

MILTON COURT CONCERT HALL

For all events in the series, visit www.barbican.org.uk/didonato

Tickets: £15, £10 (£5 concessions), available from the Barbican Box Office from July 2014.

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The Guardian, February 2014, on Guildhall musicians at the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s Total Immersion: Thea Musgrave

“…the singing is consistently delightful, and in the case of the three main characters (some roles are double cast), often more than that: Piran Legg’s long-suffering Geppetto is very sensitively done.

Anna Gillingham’s Blue Fairy beguiles with her bell-like tone, and Marta Fontanals-Simmons’s Pinocchio has star quality: she may be playing a puppet, but there’s nothing wooden about this young mezzo-soprano’s fabulous performance.”

The Times, March 2014, on The Adventures of Pinocchio

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The Times, March 2014, on Guildhall musicians at the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s Total Immersion: Villa-Lobos

“Yes, the third year Guildhall students have done it again – blown us away with a great interpretation of a legend’s play… I have no concerns about these actors suffering many loose ends within their acting career once they leave Guildhall, as once you astound an audience in a Shakespeare play, you probably have not got much else to worry about.”

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Fantastic programme beautifully played. A real treat.

@guildhallschool Wonderful performance of Henry V tonight.

Very talented cast indeed.

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International Piano, February 2014, on Charles Owen’s Faculty Artist Series performance of JS Bach’s Goldberg Variations

“The future of opera is in good hands, if Tuesday night’s opening of Jonathan Dove’s The Adventures of Pinocchio at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama is any indication. There was much to savour in this imaginative production, with exquisite performances and staging alike.”

Bachtrack, March 2014, on The Adventures of Pinocchio

A Younger Theatre, February 2014, on Hamlet

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Charles Owen is a pianist who makes spontaneous decisions and is prepared to take a risk in performance and thus breathe new life into a familiar work.”

Fantastic Pinocchio from @guildhallschool last night!

Bravo to all involved!! @guildhallschool really blown away by the production.

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