Spring Events Guide

Guildhall School eventsJanuary – July 2012 Music • Drama • Opera • Jazz

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to the spring/summer season of events at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, one of Europe’s leading conservatoires based in the heart of the City of London. 2012 promises to be a special year for London, and the School has a host of inspiring performances on offer over the next few months, showcasing the work of our talented actors, musicians and theatre technicians. Join us this season to enjoy world-class performances from artists on the brink of exciting professional careers.

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ContentsSeason series 3

Guildhall Artists at the Barbican 3

Faculty Artist Series 4

Total Immersion 5

Monthly highlights 6

January 6

February 6

March 10

April 14

May 16

June 19

July 21

Prizes / Public Final Recitals 23

Masterclasses 24

Guildhall ResearchWorks 26

Creative Learning 29

Guildhall Young Artists 30

Future events 31

Events at a glance 32

Welcome...

Cover photo: Kurt Egyiawan in the title role in Richard III (2011) © Clive Barda

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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 9 February • 6pm

Bernstein and Copland SongsAnna Gillingham, soprano

Marta Fontanals-Simmons, mezzo-soprano

Ben McAteer, baritone

Eun Duk Kim, Angelina Kuzmina, piano

Wednesday 15 February • 6pm

Piano works by RachmaninovRachmaninov 10 Preludes op. 23

Rachmaninov Humoresque op. 10 no. 5

Ashley Fripp, piano


Works by Shostakovich and TchaikovskyShostakovich 2 Pieces for Octet

Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence

Roberto Gonzalez, Giovanni Guzzo, Pablo Hernan, Viktor Stenjhem, violin

Tetsuumi Nagata, Adam Newman, viola

Timothy Lowe, Brian O’Kane, cello

Thursday 15 March • 6pm

Piano works by BrahmsBrahms Sonata No. 3 in F minor op. 5

Brahms Variations on a theme of Paganini (Book 1)

Ben Schoeman, piano

Sunday 1 April • 6pm

Songs by Mahler Mahler Songs from Das Knaben Wunderhorn

Augusta Hebbert, soprano

Szymek Komasa, baritone

Julia Samojlo, piano

Sunday 3 June • 6pm

Mozart Sonatas for Violin and PianoBartosz Woroch, violin

Jean-Selim Abdelmoula, piano

Thursday 21 June • 6pm

Works by Berg and Beethoven Berg Piano Sonata op. 1

Beethoven Piano Sonata op.109

Mishka Rushdie Momen, piano

Sunday 15 July • 6pm

Ravel Piano TrioRhodes Piano Trio

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Admission free

BARBICAN HALL

Sunday 29 April • 6pm

Works by Debussy and Caplet Debussy Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp

Caplet The Masque of the Red Death for Harp and String Quartet

Debussy Danses sacrée et profane

Carolina Ribeiro Patricio, flute

Marged Hall, Murdo Macrae, Fionnuala Somerville, harp

Roberto Gonzalez, violin

Marko Pop, violin

Rosalind Ventris, viola

Michael Petrov, cello

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Faculty Artist Series

The School’s series of exclusive performances by senior professors gives public, staff and students the opportunity to see some of the country’s finest musicians perform in the intimate setting of the Music Hall.

Monday 5 March • 7.30pm

Krzysztof Smietana violin Assistant Deputy Head of Strings

Caroline Palmer piano Senior Tutor in Keyboard Chamber Music

Programme to include Beethoven and Busoni violin sonatas

Thursday 10 May • 7.30pm

Charles Owen piano

Professor of Piano

Works by Bach, Kurtág, Bartók and Debussy

MUSIC HALL

Faculty Artist Series

The Faculty Artist Series 2011/12 is generously supported by Michael and Mercedes Hoffman

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

Group discount available (020 7382 7211).

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Saturday 28 January • 1pm

Total Immersion: Jonathan HarveyTranquil Abiding Songs of Li Po Vers Tombeau de Messiaen Calling Across Time

Guildhall Symphony Orchestra Richard Baker, conductor

Oriental spirituality, the ancient Chinese desire to live ‘in modest harmony with Nature,’ the nature of consciousness and memory – all these are long-standing preoccupations of Harvey, and they all come together in this concert. Two of the pieces also pay homage to admired fellow composers, one living, one recently deceased.

BARBICAN HALL

Saturday 17 March • 1pm

Total Immersion: Brett DeanPolysomnography Wolf-Lieder* Voices of Angels

Guildhall Chamber Ensemble Jenavieve Moore, soprano Brett Dean, conductor*

These three pieces show the huge range of Dean’s expressive world. Polysomnography evokes the five stages of sleep, Voices of Angels summons a very different kind of angel to the sentimental image of popular imagination, and Wolf-Lieder mingles Hugo Wolf’s music with Brett’s own in a moving portrayal of Wolf’s descent into madness.

BARBICAN HALL


New works by Guildhall composers New works by Jason Anderson, Ben Graves and Peter Yarde-Martin premiered by an ensemble of BBC Symphony and Guildhall School performers as part of the Total Immersion Day.Admission freeMUSIC HALL

Saturday 28 April • 1pm

Total Immersion: Arvo PärtMagnificat Nunc Dimittis Für Alina Spiegel im Spiegel Stabat Mater

Musicians from the Guildhall School Eamonn Duggan, conductor

In amongst the choral pieces are two key chamber works: the tiny piano piece Für Alina, where Pärt discovered his mature style, and Spiegel im Spiegel, known to millions through its use in numerous film scores including Gus van Sant’s Gerry. The three liturgical works project this patterned, circling sound world on to a bigger canvas.

ST GILES CRIPPLEGATE

Tickets: £12 for each concert available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk). Please note the seating at St Giles Cripplegate (28 April) is unreserved.

Full details of the Total Immersion Days at www.bbc.co.uk/symphonyorchestra

Total Immersion Jonathan Harvey, Brett Dean and Arvo Pärt

The Guildhall School is delighted to once again join the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s Total Immersion series exploring the work of three exciting contemporary composers.

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Friday 27 January • 7.30pm

Guildhall Chamber OrchestraAnthony Marwood, director

Brett Dean Short Stories

Beethoven Symphony No. 1

Peteris Vasks Violin Concerto ‘Distant Light’

Musicians from the Guildhall School tackle two contemporary works: Australian composer Brett Dean’s five miniatures, and the violin concerto by Latvian composer Peteris Vasks, which was first performed by Gidon Kremer and is filled with hope for a ‘more ideal world’. Guildhall alumnus and distinguished violinist Anthony Marwood directs the Guildhall Chamber Orchestra in a programme also including Beethoven’s Haydn-inspired first symphony.

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

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February Tuesday 14 February • 1.05pm

Recorder ConsortIan Wilson, director

An illustrated guide to recorder works by 20th-century English composer Edmund Rubbra.

Admission freeLECTURE RECITAL ROOM

Wednesday 25 January • 1.05pm

Rob Garcia TrioNew York-based jazz drummer extraordinaire Rob Garcia brings his trio to the School, featuring Noah Preminger on saxophone and bassist Masa Kamaguchi.Admission freeSUNDIAL COURT MUSIC ROOM

Thursday 26 January • 1.05pm

Takács QuartetBritten String Quartet No. 3 Dvořák String Quartet No. 10 op. 51

Admission freeMUSIC HALL

JanuaryTuesday 10 January • 7.30pm

Guildhall Jazz SingersClassic jazz harmonies from the Guildhall Jazz Singers as part of the Brandenburg Spring Choral Festival 2012.

Tickets: St Martin’s Box Office 020 7766 1100 www.smitf.org

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Trafalgar Square WC2

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Tuesday 24 January • 7.30pm

Guildhall Artists in Recital at Carnegie HallSenior musicians from the Guildhall School visit New York’s Carnegie Hall for the very first time, performing a selection of chamber music including a work by Guildhall School alumnus and renowned British composer Thomas Adès. For friends of the School based in North America, this opportunity to see talented Guildhall School performers in the Weill Recital Hall is not to be missed.

Brahms Sonata for cello and piano no. 1 in E minor op. 38 Thomas Adès Concert Paraphrase on ‘Powder her face’ (Part one) Chopin Barcarolle op. 60 Schoenberg Dank op. 1 no. 1 Rachmaninov 4 Songs Schubert Auf dem Strom

Szymon Komasa, baritone

Michael Petrov, cello

Ashley Fripp, piano

Tickets: $20 ($10 concessions) carnegiehall.org / CarnegieCharge

212-247-7800 / Box Office at 57th and Seventh.

WEILL RECITAL HALL Carnegie Hall, 57th Street and

Seventh Avenue, New York

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Thursday 2, Friday 3, Monday 6, Tuesday 7, Wednesday 8, Thursday 9 February • 7.30pm

Monday 6, Thursday 9 February • 2pm

Nick Bagnall director

Nicky Bunch designer

Unreserved tickets: £8 (£4 concessions, Guildhall staff & students, Equity) available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk) from 3 January.


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Guildhall Circle members

SILK STREET THEATRE

A chilling tale of sexual cynicism and conspiracy – barely out of her convent, a beautiful young girl is the focus of two French aristocrats’ attempts to corrupt.

a play by Christopher Hampton

from the novel by Choderlos de Laclos

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Tuesday 14 February • 7.30pm

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Guitar CelebrationDavid Miller and Robert Brightmore, directors An evening celebrating the chamber music of one of the foremost composers for guitar in the twentieth century, including works with flute, piano and voice.Admission freeLECTURE RECITAL ROOM

Unreserved tickets: £8 (£4 concessions, Guildhall staff & students, Equity) available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk) from 13 January. Group discount available (020 7382 7211).


BRIDEWELL THEATRE

Fleet Street EC4

Monday 13, Tuesday 14, Wednesday 15, Thursday 16 February • 7.30pm

Tuesday 14, Thursday 16 February • 2pm

Sue Lefton director • Susannah Henry designer • Daniel Street lighting designer

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Adapted from the play Her Stepdaughter by Gabriela Preissová which was the basis for Janácek’s opera, this story of betrayal, love and forgiveness in a small, tight-knit community caused a scandal in Prague when it was first performed in the 1890s and was not performed in Britain until five years ago. Guildhall School actors present a rare production of this play.

JEnUfaby Gabriela Preissováadapted by Timberlake Wertenbaker

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BRITTEN A MIDSUMMER

NIGHTIS DREAM

Tuesday 28 February, Thursday 1, Saturday 3, Tuesday 6 March • 7pm

Stephen Barlow conductor

Martin Lloyd-Evans director

Dick Bird designer

Simon Corder lighting designer

Reserved tickets: £25 (£15 concessions, £5 Guildhall staff and students) available now from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891

(www.barbican.org.uk). Group discount available (020 7382 7211).

BARBICAN THEATRE

The Guildhall School’s award-winning Opera programme makes its Barbican Theatre debut in 2012. Ahead of the

one-hundredth anniversary of Benjamin Britten’s birth, Guildhall School singers

and musicians present one of the composer’s most spellbinding works.

Britten and Peter Pears adapted Shakespeare’s play to form the opera’s

libretto, with the finished opera receiving its first performance in Aldeburgh on

11 June 1960. Don’t miss the chance to see Guildhall School opera’s take on this

20th-century masterpiece.

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MarchTuesday 6 March • 1.05pm

Wind and Brass Chamber MusicA showcase of wind and brass chamber groups, including works by Beethoven, Hummel and Krommer.Admission freeLECTURE RECITAL ROOM

Friday 24 February • 7pm

New works by Guildhall School composersNew string and piano duos composed by postgraduate composers and premiered by Guildhall School performers.Admission freeMUSIC HALL


Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Guitar CelebrationDavid Miller and Robert Brightmore, directors

An evening celebrating the chamber music of one of the foremost composers for guitar in the twentieth century, including works with flute, piano and voice.Admission freeLECTURE RECITAL ROOM


German Lied ConcertA concert prepared and presented by Eugene Asti of well-known and interesting lesser-known German Lieder, performed by postgraduate singers and pianists.Admission freeMUSIC HALL


Guildhall Jazz Singers and Ensemble With Eclectic Voices

Scott Stroman, director Martin Hathaway, alto saxophone

A programme of vocal jazz including a suite from the Second Sacred Concert by Duke Ellington.Admission free

MUSIC HALL

Friday 24 February • 7.30pm

The Song GuildWolf Das Italienisches Liederbuch

This evening sees the launch of The Song Guild, an elite group of senior singers and pianists, brought together to perform song repertoire under the leadership of Professor Graham Johnson, one of the world’s leading vocal accompanists. Tonight they present Wolf’s settings of German translations of Italian folk poetry, showcasing some of the School’s outstanding musicians.

Tickets: £15 (£5 concessions, Guildhall staff and students) available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk) from 16 January. Group discount available (020 7382 7211).

LSO ST LUKE’S

Marcos de Portugal CelebrationTwo events to mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of the Portuguese composer famed for his 21 operas.

Wednesday 21 March • 2pm

Marcos de Portugal LectureAn illustrated lecture presented by Antonio Marques, Portuguese authority on the composer.Admission free

LECTURE RECITAL ROOM

Thursday 22 March • 1.05pm

Guildhall Vocal EnsembleSusan Waters, director

Marcos de Portugal Missa Grande Admission free

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Monday 19 – Saturday 24 March

Guildhall Annual Jazz FestivalMajor visiting artists and exciting up-and-coming talent perform at this year’s Jazz Festival, which promises to be bigger and better than ever. Six days of lunchtime, rush hour and evening concerts will see Guildhall jazz musicians and guest artists collaborate. Highlights include:


Guildhall Jazz Band directed by special guest Mike Gibbs

The Guildhall School welcomes back the internationally renowned composer and arranger as guest director of the award-winning Guildhall Jazz Band.

Tickets: £15 (£10 concessions, free for Guildhall staff and students) available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk) from 16 January.

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Tuesday 20 March • 7.30pm

Guildhall Jazz Faculty ConcertThe Guildhall Jazz Faculty divides into two ‘teams’ to present two sets of original music plus some old favourites with a twist.Admission free

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Wednesday 21 March • 7.30pm

Improvised Music Night featuring special guests Phil Minton (voice) and Maggie Nicholls (voice) alongside Guildhall School musicians

Two of the most respected performers in European improvised music perform alongside Guildhall jazz musicians. Phil Minton directs his cross-departmental ‘feral’ choir and Maggie Nichols leads the undergraduate jazz musicians. Admission freeMUSIC HALL


Vintage Jazz Nightfeaturing special guests Malcolm Earle Smith (trombone) and Colin Good (piano) with Guildhall School musicians

A special concert focusing on jazz styles and repertoire pre-1945, featuring small and large ensembles and devised by two of Britain’s leading figures in classic jazz.Admission freeMUSIC HALL

Friday 23 March • 7.30pm

Guildhall Jazz Alumni Ensemble featuring special guest David Friesen (bass) plus faculty members Martin Hathaway (alto saxophone) and Barry Green (piano)

The acclaimed American jazz bassist and educator returns for his third visit to the Guildhall School, reforming his ‘London’ trio and accompanied by the Guildhall Jazz Alumni Ensemble in an exciting new collaboration especially devised for the School’s festival. This concert will feature new arrangements of David Friesen’s music by past and present Guildhall musicians.Admission freeMUSIC HALL


Junior Guildhall Jazz Ensemble directed by Ollie Weston and Jonathan Taylor

Jazz musicians from Junior Guildhall take to the stage presenting an exciting programme of originals and jazz standards.Admission freeLECTURE RECITAL ROOM

Saturday 24 March • 7.30pm

Guildhall Jazz Singers and Ensemble with special guest Liane Carroll (voice/piano) directed by Malcolm Edmonstone and Scott Stroman

The festival finale welcomes one of the most popular and respected musicians in Britain performing alongside the Guildhall Jazz Singers and Ensemble, with new arrangements by Malcolm Edmonstone.


MUSIC HALL

Complete listings for the Guildhall Jazz Festival at www.gsmd.ac.uk/events

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Friday 30 March • 7pm

Guildhall Baroque OrchestraAdrian Butterfield director

Part of the London Handel Festival

Geminiani Enchanted Forrest

Handel Harp Concerto

Handel Fireworks Music

Tickets: £10 (free for Guildhall students) available from the London Handel Festival Box Office 01460 54660 from 1 February (http://booking.london-handel-festival.com from 25 January).

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French Song ConcertA concert of French Song repertoire, presented by Gordon Stewart and performed by postgraduate singers and pianists.Admission freeMUSIC HALL

Friday 30 March • 1.05pm

Guildhall Brass BandChris Houlding, conductor

John McCabe Salamander

Elgar Howarth In Memoriam RK

Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen Hommage to W A Mozart

Peter Graham On the Shoulders of GiantsAdmission freeMUSIC HALL


Guildhall Percussion EnsembleJulian Warburton, director David Ruff, flute

Lou Harrison First Concerto for Flute and Percussion John Cage Living Room Music John Cage Second Construction John Cage Third ConstructionAdmission freeMUSIC HALL

Tuesday 27 March • 7pm

VoiceworksNewly-written works for voice performed by senior singers, pianists, and instrumentalists, alongside more established vocal repertoire of the 20th and 21st centuries.Admission freeLECTURE RECITAL ROOM

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Guildhall Symphony OrchestraJames MacMillan, conductor

MacMillan 3 interludes from The Sacrifice Britten Sinfonia da requiem

Prokofiev Suite from Romeo and Juliet

Anna Gillingham soprano, Matthew Sandy tenor, Laetita Stott horn, Jonathan Chan violin, Pablo Hernan violin, Nigulia Mirzayeva violin, Tetsuumi Negata violin, Michael Petrov cello, Sergio Serra cello, Erdem Misirlioglu piano

Admission free BARBICAN HALL

Preceded by A Portrait of James MacMillan at 6.30pmMacMillan Quintet for Horn and Strings MacMillan The Lament of Mary Queen of Scots

Renowned Scottish composer and conductor James MacMillan directs the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra in a programme that includes orchestral excerpts from his opera The Sacrifice, a work premiered in 2007 by Welsh National Opera which was described as a ‘score of real brilliance’ by The Independent. Two twentieth-century classics are also on the programme: Prokofiev’s first suite from his enduringly popular ballet, and one of Britten’s finest orchestral works, written in the midst of, and as a response to, the horrors of World War II.

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


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Part Oneby David Edgar adapted from the novel by Charles Dickens

Monday 26, Tuesday 27, Wednesday 28, Thursday 29 March • 7.30pm

Tuesday 27, Thursday 29 March • 2pm

Joseph Blatchley director Dora Schweitzer designer

Encounter Kate and Ralph Nickleby, Wackford and Fanny Squeers, the Infant Phenomenon, Newman Noggs, Miss Knag, the Mantalinis, Miss La Creevy, Smike and a host of others, as we journey with Nicholas from Devonshire to a teeming London via

Dotheboys Hall in Yorkshire and Vincent Crummles’ theatre troupe on tour in Portsmouth.

A comic masterpiece by one of our most theatrical of novelists, this landmark adaptation became an instant classic when it premiered in the 1980s. The Guildhall

School celebrates the bicentenary of Dickens’s birth with this new production.

Unreserved tickets: £8 (£4 concessions, Guildhall staff & students, Equity) available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk)

from 27 February. Group discount available (020 7382 7211).


SILK STREET THEATRE

Presented by arrangement with Josef Weinberger Ltd.

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Saturday 28 April • 7.30pm

Guildhall Jazz Band plays Duke EllingtonMartin Hathaway, director

The Guildhall School’s continuing collaboration with the Duke Ellington Society UK features old favourites and rarely-performed scores by the Duke.Admission freeMUSIC HALL

Friday 27 April • 7pm

Italian Vocal MusicA concert presented by Emanuele Moris of Italian song and opera aria repertoire, performed by postgraduate singers and pianists.Admission freeLECTURE RECITAL ROOM

Friday 27 April • 7pm

Duo PerformancesSenior pianists and their instrumental partners are directed by Gordon Back in a concert of duo repertoire.Admission freeMUSIC HALL

AprilThursday 12 April • 9pm

Guildhall Jazz Band with special guest soloist Henry Lowther (trumpet)

Scott Stroman, director

A special concert celebrating the centenary of the birth of legendary jazz arranger Gil Evans, with a performance of ‘Sketches of Spain’. This performance is presented as part of the Incorporated Society of Musicians’ annual conference.

Tickets (balcony seating only): £10 available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk) from 3 January.

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Thursday 19 April • 1.05pm

Recorder ConcertIan Wilson, director

A concert focusing on contemporary repertoire for recorder, including works by Gavin Bryars, Leo Chadburn, and Arvo Pärt.Admission freeLECTURE RECITAL ROOM

Monday 23 April • 7pm

Opera EnsembleA series of well-known and much-loved opera scenes and some lighter music performed by senior singers.Admission freeMUSIC HALL

Thursday 19 April • 7pm

The Silk Street Award RecitalKathryn McAdam, mezzo soprano

Lucy Hall, soprano

A highlight of the Guildhall School calendar for over a decade, the Silk Street Award enables a talented singer to study on the School’s prestigious Opera Course with the support of a large number of individuals. Donors to the award receive regular updates from the recipient, giving an interesting behind-the-scenes insight into the working life of an opera student.

This recital features the current recipient, Kathryn McAdam, together with Lucy Hall, the nominated beneficiary for 2012-2013. Lucy and Kathryn have chosen a programme of duets and solos including some of their favourite pieces from works by Delibes, Handel, Mozart, and Strauss.

For further information about the evening, to make a donation in support of the Silk Street Award for 2011/12 or to reserve a seat at this exciting performance please contact Kate Eberwein in the Development Office on [email protected] or 020 7382 2366.

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Friday 20, Saturday 21, Thursday 26, Friday 27, Saturday 28 April • 7.30pm Saturday 21 April • 2pm, Sunday 22 April • 6pm, Saturday 28 April • 2pm

A Soldier and a Maker by Iain Burnside

A new play based on songs, poems and letters of Ivor Gurney

Iain Burnside director Giuseppe and Emma Belli designers Victoria Newlyn movement

Three-quarters of a century after his death Ivor Gurney is now celebrated as both poet and composer. This Gloucester-born tailor’s son preferred the term ‘maker’. He was many things beside: soldier, cricketer, crack shot, cake eater, nightwalker, wit, faithful if exasperating friend and, for the last 17 years of his life, asylum inmate.

Interweaving new material with Gurney’s own music, poems and letters, Iain Burnside has created a unique piece of music theatre. His cast combines 16 singers, 2 pianists and 1 actor.

For information of the related study day see page 27.

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Unreserved tickets: £15 (£5 concessions, Guildhall staff and students) available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk) from 16 January. Group discount available (020 7382 7211).


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The Gold MedalTuesday 2 May • 7pm

A gala fundraising evening in honour of the winner and finalists of the Gold Medal 2012, raising vital funds for the Guildhall School’s Scholarships Fund.

Tickets: £200 including champagne reception, exclusive recital performance by the Gold Medal winner, three-course dinner with coffee and post-dinner stirrup cup reception, as well as premium seats and reception at the Gold Medal competition itself.

For further information or to book tickets please contact the Development Office on 020 7382 7179 or email [email protected].

Wednesday 16 May

The Gold Medal Dinner

Guildhall Symphony Orchestra

James Judd, conductor

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 to 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 instrumentalists, who will perform a concerto with the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra before a Barbican Hall audience. They will be judged by a prestigious jury panel, including chief culture critic for The Times Richard Morrison, and Martin Campbell-White, Joint Chief Executive of Askonas Holt artist management.

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

BARBICAN HALL


VINTNERS’ HALL, UPPER THAMES STREET, EC4

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Gary Griffiths

Winner of the 2009 Gold Medal

Martyna Jatkauskaite


Natalya Romaniw


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Friday 18 May • 7pm

Guildhall Baroque OrchestraPavlo Beznosiuk, director

Richter String Symphony No. 4 in C

Mozart Symphony No. 1 in Eb

Haydn Symphony No. 49 in F minor ‘La Passione’

Admission free

MUSIC HALL

Friday 18 May • 7.30pm / Wednesday 23 May • 5.30pm

VoiceworksA programme of new vocal works, the culmination of an annual project between Guildhall School composers and singers, poets from Birkbeck College and the Wigmore Hall.Admission freeLECTURE RECITAL ROOM /WIGMORE HALL

Wednesday 30 May • 7pm

Guildhall Percussion EnsembleJulian Warburton, director

Featuring music by Rolf Wallin.Admission freeMUSIC HALL

Thursday 10 May • 1.05pm

Wind Chamber MusicGuildhall musicians perform beautiful French chamber music, lyrical and profound.Admission freeLECTURE RECITAL ROOM


Berg, Schoenberg & WebernA celebration of the School’s ongoing collaboration with the Banff Centre in Canada. The concert will be conducted by Henk Guittart of the Banff Centre, and the soloists both spent a period of study in Banff as part of the collaboration.Admission freeMUSIC HALL

Tuesday 15 May • 1.05pm

Guildhall Harpists and FriendsAn enchanting programme of harp solos and chamber music.Admission freeLECTURE RECITAL ROOM

MayThursday 3 May • 7pm

Guildhall Horn EnsembleHugh Seenan, conductor

J.S Bach arr. Shaw Prelude and Fugue in A minor

Koetsier Cinq Nouvelles

Scarmolin Lento

Tcherepnin Six Pieces

Tippett Sonata

Castelnuovo-Tedesco Choral and Variation

Basler Harambee

Proctor Amazing GraceAdmission freeMUSIC HALL


Russian Song ConcertLada Valesova, director

A concert of Russian song repertoire and Russian opera arias and scenes, performed by postgraduate singers.Admission freeLECTURE RECITAL ROOM

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Vocal Showcase Friday 4 May

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

1.05pm

Light Music Showing: undergraduate singers present songs in a specially devised piece, directed by Victoria Newlyn & Ian Kennedy.

5.45pm

Movement Class Open Workshop: undergraduate singers demonstrate their work in an open Movement class, led by Bryony Williams.

6.30pm

Monteverdi L’incoronazione di Poppea

Undergraduate singers present a reduced version of Monteverdi’s last opera, directed by Sally Burgess with music preparation by Emanuele Moris, Linnhe Robertson and Peter Robinson.

Music Theatre Showing: undergraduate singers present the culmination of their Music Theatre Class, directed by Bridgitta Roy.


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Monday 14, Tuesday 15, Wednesday 16, Thursday 17 May • 7.30pm

Tuesday 15, Thursday 17 May • 2pm

Owen Horsley director

Aristophanes, the greatest comic writer of his time, exuberantly mixes bawdiness and politics in his plea for peace during wartime.

“Tell me, ladies, if I found a way to end the war, would you do anything to help…?”

The wives of the fighting men decide to go on a sex strike.

by AristophanesLysistrata

Please note tickets for this production only are available directly from The Albany.

Unreserved tickets: £8 (£4 concessions, Guildhall staff & students, Equity) available 16 April from The Albany 020 8692 4446 (www.thealbany.org.uk). GC Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members

THE ALBANY, DOUGLAS WAY, DEPTFORD SE8 4AG

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Tuesday 29, Thursday 31 May, Saturday 2, Wednesday 6 June • 7pm

Stephen Medcalf director

Ned Rorem’s intimate chamber opera was first performed at Indiana University on 24 February, 2006. The libretto, by J.D. McClatchy, is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning and widely admired play of the same name by Thornton Wilder and depicts life and events in a small town, Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire. Rorem’s music is lyrical and approachable and will hold an immediate appeal for the audience.

This production of Our Town will be its British and European premiere.

Reserved tickets: £25 (£15 concessions, £5 Guildhall staff and students) available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk) from 29 March. Group discount available (020 7382 7211).


SILK STREET THEATRE

by Ned Rorem

The performance on 29 May will be

preceded by a free performance of opera

arias and overtures by Wind, Brass and

Percussion students in the foyer at 6pm.

Lysistrata

EUROPEAN PREMIERE

JuneFriday 1 June • 7.30pm

Guildhall Jazz Band featuring special guests John Surman (saxophones) and John Warren (composer / director)

A very special concert reuniting two of the most respected names in jazz who have collaborated on many significant projects over a period of 40 years, performing alongside up-and-coming Guildhall jazz musicians.


LSO ST LUKE’S

Sunday 10 June • 4pm

Silent Film and Live MusicGuildhall School musicians continue their collaboration in this series with Electronic Music students contributing new music to accompany classic silent films.

Tickets: www.barbican.org.uk/films

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Tuesday 12 June • 7.30pm

Guildhall GuitarsAn evening of intimate music-making by Guildhall guitarists, featuring a programme of repertoire from the 20th century including works by Phillip Houghton, William Walton, Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Ravel.Admission freeLECTURE RECITAL ROOM

Monday 24 June – Friday 27 July

City of London Festival2012 marks the City of London Festival’s 50th anniversary. The Guildhall School has been part of the Festival since its inaugural year, and continues its close collaboration with the Festival, as senior Guildhall musicians give lunchtime concerts in churches across the City every Tuesday-Friday until 13 July. This year the series focuses on celebrating the 150th anniversary of Debussy’s birth. Further details will be available from April on the City of London Festival website: www.colf.org

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Friday 8 June • 7pm

Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize: Winner’s RecitalThe Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize annually awards an exceptional Guildhall School musician with a Wigmore Hall recital. Pianist Mihkel Poll is the recipient of this year’s award, and his winner’s recital promises to be a special occasion.

Mihkel Poll, piano

Enescu Sonata in F sharp minor op. 24 no. 1 Ligeti Études No. 5 & No. 13 Bartók Out of doors Ravel Ondine from Gaspard de la nuit Mossolov 2 Nocturnes op. 15 Prokofiev Sonata No. 6 in A major op. 82

Tickets: £12 available from the Wigmore Hall Box Office 020 7935 2141 (www.wigmore-hall.org.uk) from 31 January.

WIGMORE HALL

Reserved tickets: £15 (£10 concessions, Guildhall staff & students, Equity) available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk) from 26 April. Group discount available (020 7382 7211).


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Monday 2 and Tuesday 3 July

Summer Gala EveningsCelebrate 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’s Conservatory and Garden Room followed by a performance of Chaplin.

Tickets: £65 including pre-supper drinks reception, two-course supper with wine, entry to the performance of Chaplin, a performance programme and an interval drinks reception. For further information or to book tickets for either evening, contact Rachel Davis on 020 7382 7157 or email [email protected]

Music by Roger Anderson

Lyrics by Lee Goldsmith

Book by Ernest Kinoy

Martin Connor director

Bill Deamer choreographer

Steve Edis music director

Tuesday 26, Wednesday 27, Thursday 28, Friday 29, Saturday 30 June, Wednesday 4 July • 7.30pm

Friday 29 June, Wednesday 4 July • 2pm

Summer Gala evenings: Monday 2, Tuesday 3 July

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In 1889, Charlie Chaplin was born into a theatrical family – both parents were Music Hall entertainers. His early life was beset by poverty and despair; his father died an alcoholic when Charlie was 12, his mother suffered a mental breakdown and he and his older half-brother, Sydney, had to be placed in the workhouse at Lambeth.

Performance was in his blood and this new musical traces his struggle to break free of his humble beginnings and follow a quest for identity and fulfilment.

LONDON PREMIERE

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Friday 6 July • 12pm

Summer Kaleidoscope Concert An end-of-term celebration showcasing the talents of Guildhall wind, brass and percussion players.Admission freeMUSIC HALL

JulyTuesday 3 July • 6pm

Vocal ShowcaseThe culmination of undergraduate singers’ Summer Performance Project combining music, movement, text and drama in a specially-devised collaborative piece. Themes of previous projects have included London Life, Don Juan and the Waltz. Admission free

MUSIC HALL

Wednesday 4 July • 1.05pm

Piccolo ConcertGuildhall School piccolo players amass for an eclectic mix of old and new repertoire.Admission free

MUSIC HALL

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Thursday 5 July

New Music DayA day of events showcasing the work of Guildhall School composers.

1.05pm New works by student composers

7.30pm Twenty-First Century Pierrot: new music ensemble Chroma presents a mixed programme marking Pierrot Lunaire’s 100th Birthday


Prizes

2012 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 2012 final recitals take place on weekdays, 28 May – 2 July. Check our website

www.gsmd.ac.uk/events for detailed listings.

Thursday 17 May • 7pm

The Ivan Sutton Awardfor performance of a chamber work with piano

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

MUSIC HALL


The Chartered Surveyors’ Prizefor solo percussionists.

MUSIC HALL

Saturday 26 May • 2pm

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

MUSIC HALL

Admission free to all prizes, unless otherwise stated

Wednesday 18 April • 7pm

The Needlemakers’ Prizefor performance of a programme of solo repertoire for woodwind instruments.

MUSIC HALL

Tuesday 24 April • 10am

The English Song Prizefor the performance of a short recital of songs with original English texts.



The Gold Medal(see page 16)

BARBICAN HALL


The Susan Longfield Prizefor sopranos and mezzo-sopranos

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

MUSIC HALL

Thursday 1 March • 10am

Romantic Piano Prizefor performance of a piano recital from the Romantic repertoire.

MUSIC HALL


Piano Accompaniment PrizeLECTURE RECITAL ROOM

Wednesday 28 March • 7pm

The Armourers’ and Braziers’ Brass Prizefor the performance of a programme of solo repertoire for brass instruments.

MUSIC HALL

Tuesday 17 April • 7pm

Aria Prizefor performance of opera arias with piano accompaniment.

MUSIC HALL

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Masterclasses

András Schiff

André Previn

Anne Sofie von O

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Alison Balsom

Tuesday 10 January • 10am/2pm

Edith Wiens Voice Masterclass


Wednesday 11 January • 2pm

Andrew Marriner Centre for Orchestra Clarinet Masterclass

MUSIC HALL

Thursday 12 January • 10am

Andrew FindonWind Doubling Instruments Masterclass


Thursday 12 January • 2pm

Rachel Gough Centre for Orchestra Bassoon Masterclass

MUSIC HALL

Monday 16 January • 2.30pm

Thierry CaensTrumpet Masterclass


Tuesday 17 January • 2pm

Richard EgarrKeyboard Masterclass


Monday 23 January • 10am

Anne Sofie von Otter Centre for Orchestra Voice Masterclass

LSO ST LUKE’S

Tuesday 24 January • 1.15pm

Michael Tilson Thomas Centre for Orchestra Artist Conversation

BARBICAN HALL


Takács QuartetOpen Chamber Music Class

MUSIC HALL


Richard GoodePiano Masterclass

MUSIC HALL

Friday 10 February • 2.30pm

Rebecca Gilliver Centre for OrchestraCello Masterclass

LSO ST LUKE’S

Monday 13 February • 2pm

Imogen CooperPiano Masterclass

MUSIC HALL

Thursday 16 February • 10am

Joe Alessi New York PhilharmonicTrombone Masterclass


Thursday 16 February • 10.30am

Chris LambNew York PhilharmonicPercussion Masterclass

MUSIC HALL


Phil SmithNew York PhilharmonicTrumpet Masterclass

FOUNTAIN ROOM, BARBICAN CENTRE


Carter Brey New York Philharmonic Cello Masterclass

MUSIC HALL


Philip MyersNew York Philharmonic Horn Masterclass

BARBICAN HALL

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Sunday 19 February • 1.15pm

André Previn Centre for OrchestraArtist Conversation

BARBICAN HALL

Monday 20 February • 10am/2pm

Gary HoffmanCello Masterclass


Tuesday 21 February • 2pm

Anne-Sophie Mutter, André Previn & Daniel Müller-SchottCentre for OrchestraChamber Music Masterclass

LSO ST LUKE’S


Alison BalsomTrumpet Masterclass

MUSIC HALL

Tuesday 28 February • 11am

Helga StorckHarp Masterclass



Endellion QuartetChamber Music Masterclass


Monday 5 March • 10am

Andrew FindonFlute Masterclass

MUSIC HALL


Stephen Kovacevich Piano Masterclass



Aquiles Delle Vigne Piano Masterclass



Sarah ConnollyCentre for OrchestraVoice Masterclass

LSO ST LUKE’S


Sir Colin DavisCentre for OrchestraConducting Masterclass

LSO ST LUKE’S


Marisa RoblesHarp Masterclass



Belcea QuartetChamber Music MasterclassLECTURE RECITAL ROOM

Wednesday 4 April • 3pm

Daniel HardingCentre for OrchestraConducting Masterclass

LSO ST LUKE’S

Tuesday 17 April • 10am

Emanuel KrasovskyPiano MasterclassLECTURE RECITAL ROOM

Monday 23 April • 2pm



Saturday 28 April • 6.30pm

Christian TetzlaffCentre for OrchestraViolin Masterclass

LSO ST LUKE’S

Tuesday 8 May • 10.30am

Nikolaj ZnaiderCentre for OrchestraViolin Masterclass

LSO ST LUKE’S


Janina FialkowskaPiano Masterclass





Monday 14 May • 6pm

Richard GoodePiano Masterclass

MUSIC HALL

Friday 15 June • 2pm

Andràs SchiffPiano Masterclass

MUSIC HALL

All masterclasses are free admission. Free tickets required for those taking place in LSO St Luke’s only: Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk).

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Performing to the Red Light: the psychology of recording

As a form of performance, recording presents many unique challenges for classical musicians and can be both stressful and problematic, yet there is often little training or guidance available in the process and most musicians learn by experience. Terence Curran (Oxford University) presents recent research exploring some of the challenges posed by recording, how these affect musicians and their ability to perform in a recording situation, and how this influences their attitude and approach to the medium.Admission free but booking is required. To book email [email protected] RECITAL ROOM

Thursday 15 March • 6.15pm – 8.45pm

Beyond Text: how can musicians and actors be creative in approaching and performing texts?

Centre for Creative Performance & Classical Improvisation & ResearchWorks

Professor Daniel Leech-Wilkinson (King’s College London), Ken Rea and David Dolan (Guildhall School), assisted by Guildhall students, will explore creative freedom and personal interpretation in historical recordings from the early 20th century and the notion of improvisation in the performance of a range of texts. Professor John Sloboda will discuss “what animates contemporary audiences”. A round-table discussion and reception will follow. Admission free but booking is required. To book email [email protected] RECITAL ROOM


Guildhall Jazz Festival: Improvised Music Night

See page 11 for details of the ResearchWorks night of the Jazz Festival.


Extraordinary Voices

Vocal students from the Guildhall School, in collaboration with the ensemble EXAUDI directed by James Weeks, present experimental works by John Cage and his contemporaries alongside world première performances of Christopher Fox’s newly commissioned work. These works are brought into dialogue with paintings by Piet Mondrian and Ben Nicholson.Admission free but booking is required. To book email [email protected]

COURTAULD INSTITUTE OF ART

Friday 9 March • 5:30pm – 7pm

Talking with the audience: a roundtable and open discussionChaired by Dr Helena Gaunt and Professor John Sloboda

Live musical events increasingly involve verbal interactions with the audience, from pre-concert talks, through lecture-recitals and public masterclasses, to post-concert feedback sessions. A panel of experienced practitioners will review current and developing practice, focusing on how talk can deepen and strengthen the artistic impact of live events, and examining where opportunities lie for further development. Admission free but booking is required. To book email [email protected] RECITAL ROOM

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Themes

• Repertoire for the 21st century

• Researching performance: practice, discourse and methodologies

• Creative collaborative learning (from one-to-one partnerships to ensembles/companies)

• Artists in society: understanding audiences and life in the real world

Keynote speakers

Sir Nicholas Kenyon: Managing Director of the Barbican Centre, previously the Director of the BBC Proms

Patsy Rodenburg OBE: Head of Voice at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and author of best selling books including Presence and The Right to Speak

Professor Richard Sennett: Professor of Sociology at London School of Economics and New York University, author of The Craftsman and a new book The Performer due to be published in April 2011

GUILDHALL SCHOOL / BARBICAN CENTRESATURDAY 17 MARCH – TUESDAY 20 MARCH

REFLECTIVE CONSERVATOIRE CONFERENCE: Performing at the Heart of Knowledge

An International Conference bringing together leading researchers, performers and teachers in music and drama to address key issues through practical workshops, papers and round table discussions.

Hosted by the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in partnership with the European Association of Conservatoires (AEC), The Culture Capital Exchange (TCCE), the Society for Education, Music & Psychology Research (SEMPRE) and the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice (CMPCP).

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Tickets available from: [email protected]

Conference email: [email protected]

Conference web address: www.gsmd.ac.uk/conference

Conference Package: £350

Single day rate: £100 (supplement of £50 for conference dinner)

Includes registration fee, all meals, entrance to all sessions at the Barbican Conference Centre and Guildhall School and Conference Dinner

Sunday 25 March • 10am – 5.30pm

Study day: Beyond Sleep: the less-known Gurney

This Ivor Gurney study day led by Iain Burnside will feature presentations from Kate Kennedy on the poetry and the asylum years, April Fredrick on the songs and Mark Bebbington on the piano music. Roderick Swanston will open the day, putting Gurney’s work in the context of the rich English musical scene of the period.

Iain Burnside will discuss the creation of his production A Soldier and a Maker (see page 15) and the day will end with a round table discussion.

Tickets: £15 (£5 staff, students and concessions) available from 16 January from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk).

MUSIC HALL

Monday 16 April • 5:30 – 6:30pm

Communication and audience awareness in expert orchestral performance

with Helena Gaunt and Melissa Dobson

Drawing on interviews with musicians from the UK, US and Germany, this talk explores orchestral musicians’ perceptions and awareness of their audiences. Contextualising this issue within broader findings on the importance of social and musical communication in orchestral work, a range of potential implications for orchestral training will be considered.Admission free but booking is required. To book email [email protected] RECITAL ROOM

Friday 20 April • 5pm – 6.30pm

Preludes & Preceptors: a plan for learning the pianoforte in the early nineteenth-century

In this talk, harpsichordist Penelope Cave sheds light on an important, but forgotten, aspect of early pianoforte lessons. The improvised prelude was a common musical form in this period. Penelope Cave will work with Guildhall students to explore a practical approach to this lost tradition. Admission free but booking is required. To book email [email protected] RECITAL ROOM


When Interpretation and Improvisation Meet – the Practice of Creative Performance Dr David Dolan and a group of advanced students from the Guildhall School will explore stylistic extemporised gestures within classical and early romantic repertoire works for piano. They will discuss the use of improvised repeats, fermata points, eingangs and cadenzas; these will be applied to the way performers respond to each others’ extemporisations in a chamber music context.Admission free but booking is required. To book email [email protected] HALL

Thursday 24 & Friday 25 May • 1pm Friday 25 May • 6.30pm & 8.30pm

Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda

Directed by Dr Andrew Lawrence-King

This production reproduces elements of the original performance, re-creating Monteverdi’s thrilling vision of an epic swordfight in music. The evening performances will include a talk by Wallace Collection curator Toby Capwell and the opportunity to view the exhibition The Noble Art of the Sword: Fashion and Fencing in Renaissance Europe.

In collaboration with historical weaponry expert Dr Klim Zhukhov (St Petersburg State University), the Wallace Collection & the Australian Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotion.

Tickets required for evening performances only: £15 (£8.50 concessions) available from the Wallace Collection 020 7563 9567WALLACE COLLECTION

Thursday 24 May • 7pm

Continuo at the Cutting Edge

Linked to the performances at the Wallace Collection, Dr Andrew Lawrence-King will deliver a presentation focusing on questions of Continuo in Monteverdi’s Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda.

Admission free but booking is required. To book email [email protected] 147, GUILDHALL SCHOOL

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Thursday 12, Friday 13, Saturday 14 January • 7.45pm

Saturday 14 January • 3pm

SurvivorA unique collaboration between two artists at the top of their game – Hofesh Shechter and Antony Gormley. Survivor has at its centre an original score by Shechter, set within a visual landscape by Gormley. For the first time Shechter focuses his creative energy on the music and its performance with a 30-strong band including Guildhall School musicians, 200 drummers, and five male performers inhabiting the Barbican stage.

Tickets: £16 – £34 available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk)

BARBICAN THEATRE

Saturday 3 & Sunday 4 March

Barbican Weekender: Urban StoriesFrom Shakespeare to Grime, London is bursting with urban stories. This March Barbican Weekender presents two days of art, dance music, theatre and film for all ages. The weekender will include ‘Dialogue’ – a participatory cross-generational music and story telling performance led by Guildhall School Masters in Leadership students. Check out some of the best rhythms in town with young people from our World in Motion drumming groups, led by Guildhall musicians and alumni.

Part of the London 2012 Festival and Music Nation

Admission freeBARBICAN FOYERS

International Associates ResidenciesNew York Philharmonic residency: Tuesday 14 – Saturday 18 February 2012 (see page 24 for masterclass details)

Royal Concertgebouw residency: Sat 21 April – Mon 21 May (masterclass listings will be available at www.gsmd.ac.uk/events)

As part of the International Associates programme, the Barbican and Guildhall School will be hosting masterclasses with the New York Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestras, alongside their concerts in the Barbican and across East London during 2012. Admission freeGUILDHALL SCHOOL /

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Creative LearningA joint division of the Guildhall School and Barbican Centre

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London Schools Symphony OrchestraCarlos Izcaray, conductor

Matthew Trusler, violin

Ginastera Estancia: Ballet Suite

Korngold Violin Concerto

Castellanos Santa Cruz de Pacairigua

Gershwin An American in Paris

Tickets: £7, £14, £17, £23 available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk). Group discount available (020 7382 7211).

BARBICAN HALL

Wednesday 18 April • 7.30pm

London Schools Symphony OrchestraNicholas Kraemer, conductor

Rameau Suite from Les Boreades

Handel Fireworks Music

Stravinsky Fireworks

Ravel Daphnis and Chloe Suite No. 2

Tickets: £7, £14, £17, £23 available from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 (www.barbican.org.uk). Group discount available (020 7382 7211).

BARBICAN HALL

Junior GuildhallTuesday 21 February • 7.30pm

Junior Guildhall Symphony OrchestraChris Adey, conductor Abraham Wallfisch-Jacobs, cello

Ireland A London Overture Elgar Cello Concerto Glazunov Symphony No. 5 op. 55

Tickets: £15 (£10 concessions) available from 3 January from The Box Office, St. John’s, Smith Square, London SW1P 3HA 020 7222 1061 (www.sjss.org.uk).

ST JOHN’S SMITH SQUARE

Tuesday 10 July • 7.30pm

Junior Guildhall Symphony OrchestraChris Adey, conductor Christopher Dunn, tuba

Programme featuring the 2011 Lutine Prize winner, Christopher Dunn.

Tickets: £15 (£10 concessions) available from June 2012 from The Box Office, St. John’s, Smith Square, London SW1P 3HA 020 7222 1061 (www.sjss.org.uk).

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CENTRE FOR YOUNG MUSICIANS

a division of the Guildhall School

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Junior Guildhall and Centre for Young Musicians have other public performances throughout the year. Visit the website www.gsmd.ac.uk/events for complete listings. You can also request a copy of the Junior Guildhall events brochure by email: [email protected] or telephone: 020 7382 7160.

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Friday 21 September • 7.30pm

Guildhall Symphony Chorus and OrchestraMessiaen Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum

Orff Carmina Burana

Tickets: on sale from 2 July

BARBICAN HALL

Monday 24 September • 7.30pm

London Schools Symphony OrchestraPeter Ash, conductor

Nielsen Helios Overture

Sibelius Songs

Mahler Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen

Sibelius Symphony No. 6

BARBICAN HALL

Tuesday 25 September

Season PreviewAn exclusive insight into the artistic and performance highlights for 2012/13 for Guildhall Circle members.

MUSIC HALL

Wednesday 21 November • 7.30pm

Guildhall Symphony OrchestraSir Colin Davis, conductor

Dvořák Symphony No. 7

Humperdinck Excerpts from Hänsel und Gretel

Tickets on sale from 2 July

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Events at a glance

JanuaryWed 4 7.30pm BH London Schools Symphony Orchestra

Tue 10 10am/2pm LRR Edith Wiens Voice Masterclass

Tue 10 7.30pm SMIF Guildhall Jazz Singers

Wed 11 2pm MH Andrew Marriner Centre for Orchestra Clarinet Masterclass

Thu 12 10am LRR Andrew Findon Wind Doubling Instruments Masterclass

Thu 12 2pm MH Rachel Gough Centre for Orchestra Bassoon Masterclass

Thu 12 7.45pm BTheatre Survivor

Fri 13 7.45pm BTheatre Survivor

Sat 14 3pm BTheatre Survivor

Sat 14 7.45pm BTheatre Survivor

Mon 16 2.30pm LRR Thierry Caens Trumpet Masterclass

Tue 17 2pm LRR Richard Egarr Keyboard Masterclass

Tue 17 7pm LRR Postgraduate String Concert

Mon 23 10am St Lukes Anne Sofie von Otter Centre for Orchestra Voice Masterclass

Mon 23 7pm LRR Jazz Small Bands

Tue 24 1.15pm BH Michael Tilson Thomas Centre for Orchestra Artist Conversation

Tue 24 7.30pm Weill Guildhall Artists in Recital at Carnegie Hall

Wed 25 1.05pm MH Takács Quartet Open Chamber Music Class

Wed 25 1.05pm SMR Rob Garcia Trio

Thu 26 1.05pm MH Takács Quartet

Fri 27 7.30pm St Lukes Guildhall Chamber Orchestra

Sat 28 1pm BH BBC Total Immersion: Jonathan Harvey


FebruaryWed 1 2pm MH Richard Goode Piano Masterclass

Thu 2 7.30pm Silk St Th Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Fri 3 1pm RH Junior Guildhall Brass Band

Fri 3 7.30pm Silk St Th Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Mon 6 2pm Silk St Th Les Liaisons Dangereuses


Mon 6 7.30pm Silk St Th Les Liaisons Dangereuses

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Key to venues:The Albany = The Albany, Deptford, BCinema = Barbican Cinema 1, BFoyer = Barbican Foyer, BH = Barbican Hall, BTheatre = Barbican Theatre, Bridewell = Bridewell Theatre, Fleet Street, Courtauld = The Courtauld Institute of Art, Fountain Rm = Fountain Room, Barbican Centre, LRR = Lecture Recital Room, MH = Music Hall, The Pit = The Pit Theatre, Barbican Centre, RH = Regent Hall, Rm 147 = Room 147, Guildhall School, Silk St Th = Silk Street Theatre, SMR = Sundial Court Music Room, St George’s = St George’s Hanover Square, St Giles = St Giles Cripplegate, SJSS = St John’s Smith Square, St Luke’s = LSO St Luke’s, SMIF = St Martin-in-the-Fields, St Olave’s = St Olave’s Hart Street, Weill = Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, Wigmore = Wigmore Hall.

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Tue 7 7.30pm Silk St Th Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Wed 8 7.30pm Silk St Th Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Thu 9 2pm Silk St Th Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Thu 9 6pm BH Guildhall Artists at the Barbican: Bernstein & Copland

Thu 9 6.15pm Foyer Wind, Brass & Percussion

Thu 9 7.30pm Silk St Th Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Fri 10 2.30pm St Lukes Rebecca Gilliver Centre for Orchestra Cello Masterclass

Mon 13 2pm MH Imogen Cooper Piano Masterclass

Mon 13 7.30pm Bridewell Jenufa

Tue 14 1.05pm LRR Recorder Consort

Tue 14 2pm Bridewell Jenufa

Tue 14 7.30pm Bridewell Jenufa

Tue 14 7.30pm LRR Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Guitar Celebration

Wed 15 6pm BH Guildhall Artists at the Barbican: Rachmaninov

Wed 15 7pm MH Postgraduate String Concert

Wed 15 7.30pm Bridewell Jenufa

Thu 16 10am LRR Joe Alessi New York Philharmonic Trombone Masterclass

Thu 16 10.30am MH Chris Lamb New York Philharmonic Percussion Masterclass

Thu 16 12pm Fountain Rm Phil Smith New York Philharmonic Trumpet Masterclass

Thu 16 1pm MH Carter Brey New York Philharmonic Cello Masterclass

Thu 16 2pm Bridewell Jenufa

Thu 16 7pm MH German Lied Concert

Thu 16 7.30pm Bridewell Jenufa

Fri 17 2pm BH Philip Myers New York Philharmonic Horn Masterclass

Fri 17 7pm LRR Postgraduate Piano Concert

Sat 18 11am MH Junior Guildhall String Ensembles

Sun 19 1.15pm BH André Previn Centre for Orchestra Artist Conversation

Mon 20 10am/2pm LRR Gary Hoffman Cello Masterclass

Tue 21 2pm St Lukes Anne-Sophie Mutter, André Previn & Daniel Müller-Schott Centre for Orchestra Chamber Music Masterclass

Tue 21 7.30pm SJSS Junior Guildhall Symphony Orchestra

Tue 21 7.30pm MH Guildhall Jazz Singers and Ensemble

Wed 22 7pm MH Harp Recital

Thu 23 6pm BH Guildhall Artists at the Barbican: Shostakovich & Tchaikovsky

Fri 24 2pm MH Alison Balsom Trumpet Masterclass

Fri 24 7pm MH New works by Guildhall School composers

Fri 24 7.30pm St Lukes The Song Guild

Sat 25 11.30am MH Junior Guildhall National Tuned Percussion Competition

Mon 27 Open Day: Vocal and Opera booking form at www.gsmd.ac.uk/opendays

Tue 28 11am LRR Helga Storck Harp Masterclass

Tue 28 7pm LRR Undergraduate Strings

Tue 28 7pm BTheatre Britten: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Wed 29 2pm LRR Endellion Quartet Chamber Music Masterclass

Wed 29 7pm MH Undergraduate Strings

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MarchThu 1 10am MH Romantic Piano Prize

Thu 1 7pm BTheatre Britten: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Fri 2 7pm LRR Postgraduate Strings

Sat 3/Sun 4 BFoyer Barbican Weekender: Urban Stories

Sat 3 7pm BTheatre Britten: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Mon 5 10am MH Andrew Findon Flute Masterclass

Mon 5 7.30pm MH Faculty Artist Series: Krzysztof Smietana and Caroline Palmer

Tue 6 1.05pm LRR Wind and Brass Chamber Music

Tue 6 1pm SMIF Junior Guildhall Chamber Choir

Tue 6 6pm LRR Stephen Kovacevich Piano Masterclass

Tue 6 7pm BTheatre Britten: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Thu 8 5pm Courtauld ResearchWorks: Extraordinary Voices

Fri 9 5.30pm LRR ResearchWorks: Talking with the Audience

Mon 12 2..30pm LRR Aquiles Delle Vigne Piano Masterclass

Tue 13 5pm LRR ResearchWorks: Performing to the Red Light

Thu 15 6pm BH Guildhall Artists at the Barbican: Brahms

Thu 15 6.15pm LRR ResearchWorks: Beyond Text

Fri 16 3pm St Lukes Sarah Connolly Centre for Orchestra Voice Masterclass

Sat 17 1pm BH BBC Total Immersion: Brett Dean

Sat 17 7pm MH BBC Total Immersion: New works by Guildhall School composers

Sat 17 – Tue 20 Reflective Conservatoire conference

Mon 19 5pm MH Guildhall Jazz Festival: Small Bands

Mon 19 7.30pm MH Guildhall Jazz Festival: Guildhall Jazz Band

Tue 20 5pm MH Guildhall Jazz Festival: Small Bands

Tue 20 7.30pm MH Guildhall Jazz Festival: Guildhall Jazz Faculty Concert

Wed 21 2pm LRR Marcos de Portugal Lecture

Wed 21 4.30pm MH Guildhall Jazz Festival: Small Bands

Wed 21 6.30pm BH Portrait of James MacMillan

Wed 21 7.30pm MH Guildhall Jazz Festival: Improvised Music Night

Wed 21 7.30pm BH Guildhall Symphony Orchestra

Thu 22 1.05pm St Olaves Guildhall Vocal Ensemble

Thu 22 6.30pm St Lukes Sir Colin Davis Centre for Orchestra Conducting Masterclass

Thu 22 7.30pm MH Guildhall Jazz Festival: Vintage Jazz Night

Fri 23 3pm MH Guildhall Jazz Festival: Jazz Small Bands

Fri 23 4pm LRR Marisa Robles Harp Masterclass

Fri 23 7.30pm MH Guildhall Jazz Festival: Jazz Alumni Ensemble

Sat 24 5pm LRR Guildhall Jazz Festival: Junior Guildhall Jazz Ensemble

Sat 24 7.30pm MH Guildhall Jazz Festival: Guildhall Jazz Singers and Ensemble

Sun 25 10am MH ResearchWorks: Ivor Gurney Study Day

Mon 26 1.05pm MH Guildhall Percussion Ensemble

Mon 26 2.30pm LRR Piano Accompaniment Prize

Mon 26 7.30pm Silk St Th The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Part One)

Tue 27 1.05pm LRR Undergraduate Strings

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Tue 27 2pm Silk St Th The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Part One)

Tue 27 7pm LRR Voiceworks

Tue 27 7.30pm Silk St Th The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Part One)

Wed 28 7pm MH The Armourers’ and Brasiers’ Brass Prize

Wed 28 7.30pm Silk St Th The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Part One)

Thu 29 2pm Silk St Th The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Part One)

Thu 29 2pm LRR Belcea Quartet Chamber Music Masterclass

Thu 29 7pm MH French Song Concert

Thu 29 7.30pm Silk St Th The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Part One)

Fri 30 1.05pm MH Guildhall Brass Band

Fri 30 7pm St George’s Guildhall Baroque Orchestra

Sat 31 4pm MH Junior Guildhall End of Term Concert

AprilSun 1 6pm BH Guildhall Artists at the Barbican: Mahler

Wed 4 3pm St Lukes Daniel Harding Centre for Orchestra Artist Conversation

Thu 12 9pm St Lukes Guildhall Jazz Band

Mon 16 5.30pm LRR ResearchWorks: Communication and audience awareness

Tue 17 10am LRR Emanuel Krasovsky Piano Masterclass

Tue 17 7pm MH Guildhall Aria Prize

Wed 18 7pm MH The Needlemakers’ Wind Prize

Wed 18 7.30pm BH London Schools Symphony Orchestra

Thu 19 1.05pm LRR Recorder Concert

Thu 19 7pm MH Silk Street Award Recital

Fri 20 5pm LRR ResearchWorks: Preludes and Preceptors

Fri 20 7pm MH Postgraduate String Concert

Fri 20 7.30pm The Pit A Soldier and a Maker

Sat 21 2pm The Pit A Soldier and a Maker

Sat 21 7.30pm The Pit A Soldier and a Maker

Sun 22 6pm The Pit A Soldier and a Maker

Mon 23 2pm LRR Endellion Quartet Chamber Music Masterclass

Mon 23 7pm MH Opera Ensemble

Tue 24 10am LRR The English Song Prize

Tue 24 7pm LRR Undergraduate Strings

Thu 26 7.30pm The Pit A Soldier and a Maker

Fri 27 7pm LRR Italian Vocal Music

Fri 27 7pm MH Duo Performances

Fri 27 7.30pm The Pit A Soldier and a Maker

Sat 28 1pm St Giles BBC Total Immersion: Arvo Pärt

Sat 28 2pm The Pit A Soldier and a Maker

Sat 28 6.30pm St Lukes Christian Tetzlaff Centre for Orchestra Violin Masterclass

Sat 28 7.30pm MH Guildhall Jazz Band plays Duke Ellington

Sat 28 7.30pm The Pit A Soldier and a Maker

Sun 29 6pm BH Guildhall Artists at the Barbican: Debussy & Caplet

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MayTue 1 1pm SMIF Junior Guildhall String Ensemble

Wed 2 Open Day: Strings and Keyboard booking form at www.gsmd.ac.uk/opendays

Wed 2 7pm BH The Gold Medal

Thu 3 7pm MH Guildhall Horn Ensemble

Fri 4 1.05pm MH Vocal Showcase

Fri 4 5.45/6.30pm MH Vocal Showcase

Tue 8 10.30am St Lukes Nikolaj Znaider Centre for Orchestra Violin Masterclass

Tue 8 1.05pm LRR Russian Song Concert

Tue 8 2.30pm LRR Janina Fialkowska Piano Masterclass

Tue 8 6.15pm MH The Susan Longfield Prize

Wed 9 7pm MH ResearchWorks: When Interpretation and Improvisation meet

Thu 10 1.05pm LRR Wind Chamber Music

Thu 10 7pm SMR Jazz Small Bands

Thu 10 7.30pm MH Faculty Artist Series: Charles Owen

Fri 11 2pm LRR Endellion Quartet Chamber Music Masterclass

Fri 11 7pm MH Guildhall/Banff collaboration: Berg, Schoenberg & Webern

Fri 11 7pm SMR Jazz Small Bands

Mon 14 6pm MH Richard Goode Piano Masterclass

Mon 14 7.30pm The Albany Lysistrata

Tue 15 1.05pm LRR Guildhall Harpists and Friends

Tue 15 2pm The Albany Lysistrata

Tue 15 7.30pm The Albany Lysistrata

Wed 16 7pm Vintners’ Hall The Gold Medal Dinner

Wed 16 7pm MH Postgraduate Strings

Wed 16 7.30pm The Albany Lysistrata

Thu 17 2pm The Albany Lysistrata

Thu 17 7pm MH The Ivan Sutton Award

Thu 17 7.30pm The Albany Lysistrata

Fri 18 7pm MH Guildhall Baroque Orchestra

Fri 18 7.30pm LRR Voiceworks

Wed 23 5.30pm Wigmore Voiceworks

Wed 23 7pm MH The Chartered Surveyors’ Prize

Thu 24 1pm Wallace Collection ResearchWorks: Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda

Thu 24 7pm Rm 147 ResearchWorks: Continuo at the Cutting Edge

Fri 25 1pm Wallace Collection ResearchWorks: Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda

Fri 25 6.30pm Wallace Collection ResearchWorks: Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda

Fri 25 8.30pm Wallace Collection ResearchWorks: Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda

Sat 26 2pm MH Junior Guildhall Lutine Prize

Tue 29 6pm Foyer Wind Brass & Percussion

Tue 29 7pm Silk St Th Rorem: Our Town

Wed 30 7pm MH Guildhall Percussion Ensemble

Thu 31 7pm Silk St Th Rorem: Our Town

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JuneFri 1 7.30pm St Lukes Guildhall Jazz Band: John Surman and John Warren

Sat 2 7pm Silk St Th Rorem: Our Town

Sun 3 6pm BH Guildhall Artists at the Barbican: Mozart

Wed 6 7pm Silk St Th Rorem: Our Town

Fri 8 7pm Wigmore Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize: Winner’s Recital

Sun 10 4pm BCinema 1 Silent Film and Live Music

Tue 12 7.30pm LRR Guildhall Guitars

Fri 15 2pm MH András Schiff Piano Masterclass

Thu 21 6pm BH Guildhall Artists at the Barbican: Berg & Beethoven

Tue 26 7.30pm Silk Street Th Chaplin

Wed 27 7.30pm Silk Street Th Chaplin

Thu 28 7.30pm Silk Street Th Chaplin

Fri 29 2pm Silk Street Th Chaplin

Fri 29 7.30pm Silk Street Th Chaplin

Sat 30 7.30pm Silk Street Th Chaplin

JulyMon 2 Silk Street Th Chaplin: Summer Gala evening

Tue 3 6pm MH Vocal Showcase

Tue 3 Silk Street Th Chaplin: Summer Gala evening

Wed 4 1.05pm MH Piccolo Concert

Wed 4 2pm Silk Street Th Chaplin

Wed 4 7.30pm Silk Street Th Chaplin

Thu 5 1.05pm MH New Music Day: new works by Guildhall composers

Thu 5 7.30pm MH New Music Day: Twenty-first Century Pierrot

Fri 6 12pm MH Summer Kaleidoscope Concert

Fri 6 1pm RH Junior Guildhall Brass Band

Sat 7 4pm MH Junior Guildhall End of Term Concert

Tue 10 7.30pm SJSS Junior Guildhall Symphony Orchestra

Sun 15 6pm BH Guildhall Artists at the Barbican: Ravel

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Want to know what’s happening at the Guildhall School before anyone else?

Join the Guildhall CircleFor a donation of £30 a year or more you will receive:

• Advance copies of the Guildhall School events guides detailing all operas, plays, musicals, concerts and recitals

• Priority season booking for all major performances requiring tickets (marked with a in this guide)

• Priority annual booking for all opera productions (members at ‘Supporter’ level and above)

• Invitations to exclusive Guildhall Circle events such as the Season Preview on Tuesday 25 September 2012.

In addition, your donation will provide vital support for students at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. For further information pick up a leaflet in the School, visit our website at www.gsmd.ac.uk, email us at [email protected] or call Elise Farmer in the Development Office on 020 7382 7179.

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Find more information on events listed in this programme

tel: 020 7382 7193 e-mail: [email protected] www.gsmd.ac.uk/events

Find out about Junior School events

tel: 020 7382 7160 e-mail: [email protected]

Hire Guildhall School musicians for events

tel: 020 7382 7197 e-mail: [email protected]

Order a prospectustel: 020 7628 2571 www.gsmd.ac.uk/prospectus

Open Dayswww.gsmd.ac.uk/opendays

Support the Guildhall Schooltel: 020 7382 7179e-mail: [email protected]

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Ticketing InformationFor events that are bookable via the Barbican Box Office:

Online booking: www.barbican.org.uk

By telephone: 020 7638 8891 (10am–8pm Mon–Sat; 11am–8pm Sun)

A booking fee applies which includes the return of your tickets by first class post if time permits.

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Calls may be monitored or recorded for quality assurance and training purposes.

In person: Advance Box Office at Silk Street entrance open 10am–9pm Mon–Sat / Sun and Bank Holidays 12 noon–9pm.

Contact us with your postal address and we’ll send you our events guide twice a year.

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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

LINK is the strategic alliance between the London Symphony Orchestra, Guildhall School and Barbican Centre; a unique collaboration which aims to create the world’s leading centre for performance, training and education in the arts.

The entrance is in Silk Street and the nearest underground station is Moorgate. The School should be approached via Moor Lane – stay at street level.

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