Saturday 8 May 2021 7pm

Gold Medal 2021

Finalists Thando Mjandana Laura Lolita Perešivana Olivia Boen Tom Mole Guildhall Symphony Orchestra Natalie Murray Beale conductor Guildhall School of Music & Drama Founded in 1880 by the City of London Corporation Chairman of the Board of Governors Vivienne Littlechild Principal Lynne Williams am Vice Principal & Director of Music Professor Jonathan Vaughan Please visit our website at gsmd.ac.uk

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Saturday 8 May 2021 7pm The Gold Medal, Guildhall School’s most prestigious award for musicians, was founded and endowed in 1915 by Sir H. Dixon Kimber Bt MA

Finalists Thando Mjandana Laura Lolita Perešivana soprano Olivia Boen soprano Tom Mole

The Jury Jordan de Souza Huw Humphreys Natalie Murray Beale Gweneth Ann Rand Professor Jonathan Vaughan (chair) Guildhall Symphony Orchestra Natalie Murray Beale conductor

Performed at the Barbican Hall on Thursday 6 May 2021 and recorded and produced live by Guildhall School’s Recording & Audio Visual department. Gold Medal winners since 1915

Singers 1977 Clive Birch 1941 Pauline Sedgrove 1979 Patricia Rozario 1942 Joan Goossens 1915 Lilian Stiles-Allen 1981 Susan Bickley 1946 Brenda Farrow 1916 Rene Maxwell 1983 Carol Smith 1947 Mary O White 1917 Dora Labbette 1985 Peter Rose 1948 Jeremy White 1918 Percy Kemp 1987 Juliet Booth 1948 Susanne Rozsa 1919 Arnold Stoker 1989 Bryn Terfel 1950 Leonard Friedman 1921 Marjorie Claridge 1991 William Dazeley 1952 Alfred Wheatcroft 1922 Marion Browne 1993 Nathan Berg 1954 Joyce Lewis 1923 Esther Coleman 1995 Jane Stevenson 1956 Joan Cohen 1924 Linda Seymour 1997 Konrad Jarnot 1958 Michael Davis 1925 John Turner 1999 Natasha Jouhl 1960 Jacqueline du Pré 1927 Marie Fisher 2001 Sarah Redgwick 1962 Robert Bell 1927 Agostino Pellegrini 2003 Susanna Andersson 1964 Sharon McKinley 1928 Stanley Pope 2005 Anna Stéphany 1966 Anthony Pleeth 1929 Elsie Learner 2007 Katherine Broderick 1968 David Loukes 1930 Doreen Bristoll 2009 Gary Griffiths 1970 Jeremy Painter 1932 Charles Mayhew 2011 Natalya Romaniw 1972 Gillian Spragg 1933 Joyce Newton 2013 Magdalena Molendowska 1974 Charles Renwick 1934 Martin Boddey 2015 Marta Fontanals-Simmons 1976 James Shenton 1934 Margaret Tann Williams & Jennifer Witton 1978 Iain King 1935 2017 Josep-Ramon Olivé 1980 Julian Tear 1936 Louise Hayward 2019 Samantha Clarke 1982 Simon Emes 1936 Arthur Reckless 1984 Kyoko Kimura 1937 Gwen Catley 1986 Tasmin Little 1937 David Lloyd Instrumentalists 1988 Simon Smith 1938 Gordon Holdom 1990 Eryl Lloyd-Williams 1939 Rose Hill 1915 Margaret Harrison 1992 Katharine Gowers 1940 John Nesden 1916 Antoinette Trydell 1994 Richard Jenkinson 1941 Sylvia Roth 1917 Margaret Fairless 1996 Stephen de Pledge 1942 1918 Frank Laffitte 1998 Alexander Somov 1943 Vera Mogg 1919 Marie Dare 2000 Maxim Rysanov 1944 George Hummerston 1920 Horace Somerville 2002 David Cohen 1945 Beryl Hatt 1922 William Primrose 2004 Boris Brovtsyn 1946 Ethel Giles 1923 Walter Nunn 2006 Anna-Liisa Bezrodny 1947 Pamela Woolmore 1924 Sidney Harrison 2008 Sasha Grynyuk 1949 Richard Standen 1926 Sidney Bowman 2010 Martyna Jatkauskaite 1951 William McAlpine 1928 Allen Ford 2012 Ashley Fripp 1953 Margaret Kilbey 1929 Roger Briggs 2014 Michael Petrov 1955 Daniel McCoshan 1930 Daphne Serre 2016 Oliver Wass 1957 Iona Jones 1931 Katherine L J Mapple 2018 Joon Yoon 1959 Josephine W Allen 1931 Max Jaffa 2020 Soohong Park 1961 Edgar Thomas 1933 Joshua Glazier 1963 Benjamin Luxon 1934 Ursula Kantrovich 1965 Verity-Ann Bates 1935 Vera Kantrovich 1967 Wynford Evans 1935 Phyllis Simons 1969 Charles Corp 1936 Lois Turner 1971 David Fieldsend 1937 Kenneth Moore 1973 Graham Trew 1939 Carmen Hill 1975 Ian Kennedy 1940 Marie Gold Medal 2021

Voice and piano Thando Mjandana accompanied by Josh Ridley Laura Lolita Perešivana accompanied by Toby Hession Olivia Boen accompanied by Toby Hession Tom Mole accompanied by Inês Costa

INTERVAL

Verdi La forza del destino: Overture

Voice and orchestra Thando Mjandana Laura Lolita Perešivana Olivia Boen Tom Mole

The presentation of the Gold Medal will take place after the final performance and adjudication. Welcome

Welcome to Guildhall School’s 2021 Gold Medal. This is the 106th consecutive year that the competition has taken place. It has continued through two world wars and last year’s COVID-19 lockdown without hesitation, repetition or deviation! Last year we achieved great global success with our adventure into low latency broadcasting. Despite this monumental achievement in multi-venue synchronicity by our AV team, it is, nevertheless, a real joy to be back in one single live venue, the Barbican Hall, albeit with no audience. I am delighted to welcome our panel of expert judges: Huw Humphreys, Gweneth Ann Rand, Jordan de Souza and Natalie Murray Beale. Natalie will also be tonight’s performance. We have a mouth-watering prospect in store from our four wonderful finalists this evening who will be taking us on a whistle-stop tour of the vocal and operatic repertoire. Thank you to all of our supporters. In a year of such financial difficulty for so many families, your help has never been more essential or more appreciated. My heartfelt thanks to all of our individual givers, trusts and foundations, livery companies and the City of London who all help to support our students and the School. I hope you enjoy this evening’s performance.

Professor Jonathan Vaughan Vice Principal & Director of Music Dedication to Adrian Thorne

From then on, he was hugely valued as a dedicated, collegiate and supportive member of the Academic Studies department, bringing legendary insights and perspectives into his musical analysis and history teaching, aural training, keyboard skills and stylistic-composition lessons. A man of great musical passion, skill and expertise, we remember his teaching for his imaginative and individual methods that would nurture and develop students’ musical knowledge and confidence through the integration of musical skills. He possessed a life-long professional and pedagogical commitment to strip the musical discourse of overly rigid theoretical constructs (of which he was, nevertheless, an avid and expert reader), instead directing students’ (and colleagues’) attention to music as practice and music as experience. With him, there always was a sense of wonder and discovery in how This year’s Gold Medal performance is close attention to small musical details dedicated to Adrian Thorne, who sadly would generate and ground the richest passed away suddenly in December 2020. and most rewarding subjective experience, For over 50 years, Adrian was a most highly illuminating the way music works as a regarded and much-loved teacher, colleague powerful artistic practice. In doing this, and member of Guildhall School’s he has significantly influenced and inspired community. The son of Gordon Thorne, several generations of students, and has Principal of Guildhall School from 1959 given colleagues over the years valuable to 1965, Adrian graduated from Guildhall and generous advice, and a legacy to uphold. School as a postgraduate student in piano, musical analysis and conducting in 1969, and immediately took up a teaching Alessandro Timossi position, initially as a tutor at Guildhall, Head of Music Programmes & and then in 1970 becoming a professor Head of Academic Studies of Academic Music. He was awarded a Fellowship in 1976. Thando Mjandana

Voice and piano Voice and orchestra Marie – the ‘daughter of the regiment’ – in marriage. ‘My friends, what a day to Vincenzo Bellini Una celebrate! Here I am, La ricordanza – Recollection furtiva lagrima (L’elisir a soldier and a husband.’ d’amore) Bellini used this melody again in his I puritani. Shy young Nemorino is in The lover begs his beloved love with the unattainable for mercy; she places his Adina, whom he attempts to hand on her heart and win with the aid of a magic assures him that she loves ‘elixir’ (actually red wine). him alone. After this She appears to resist his supreme moment of bliss, it advances, but he has noticed would be wonderful to die. a furtive tear in her eye – a sure sign that she loves him. Mbeki ‘Dikela’ Mbali Now there is nothing more Buya – Come back to me he could wish for, and he could die happy. Born in South Africa, Mbeki Mbali draws on the resources of Zulu folk song. The Se di lauri il crine adorno singer longs for the return (Mitridate, re di Ponto) of his beloved Nomvula, remembering how happy Mitridate was Mozart’s first they once were. He calls on operatic triumph, written the mountains that stand when he was only 14. between them to fall so that Mithridates, king of Pontus he can see her again. on the Black Sea, has been defeated by the Roman Leoncavallo general Pompey. ‘Though I Mattinata – Morning do not return home crowned with laurel, yet I am not The dawn, dressed in white, disgraced. Even in defeat I opens the door to the sun still bring you a great heart.’ and caresses the flowers; but you do not appear, and Gaetano Donizetti Ah! mes I am longing to sing to you. amis (La fille du régiment) Put on your white dress and open the door to your singer! Tonio is in jubilant mood: Where you are not, there is not only has he enlisted in no light; where you are, love the army, but he has also is born. been promised the hand of

Thando Mjandana tenor b. South Africa Training University of Cape Town; Cape Town Opera; currently second year Guildhall School Opera Course studying with Adrian Thompson. Scholarships Lesley Ferguson Scholarship; Oppenheimer Memorial Trust. Competitions 2nd runner up and Song Prize, Voices of South Africa International Singing Competition. Experience Haydn Creation, KwaZulu Natal Philharmonic Orchestra; Mozart , Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra; Rossini Petite messe solennelle, North London Chorus. Operatic experience: Renzo The Little Green Swallow, Peppe Rita, Guildhall School; Nelson Porgy and Bess, ENO; , ; Porgy and Bess, Dutch National Opera; Il viaggio a Reims, La traviata, Le nozze di Figaro, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Carmen, , Mandela Trilogy, Porgy and Bess, Sibusiso Njeza’s Blood of Mine, Angelique Mouyis’s The Blue-Eyed Xhosa, University of Cape Town; Tamino Die Zauberflöte, Cape Town Opera; Count Almaviva Il barbiere di Sivilglia, Royal Opera House (Jette Parker Young Artists Summer Performance 2019). Future plans Beginnings: New and Early Opera, Guildhall School; Nemorino L’elisir d’amore, Waterperry Opera, August 2021; Jette Parker Young Artists Programme 2021/2022.

Laura Lolita Perešivana

Voice and piano Petersburg Conservatory night? Will someone else with Rimsky-Korsakov be listening to you in tears? and became Professor of Though you may fly over Animal Passion Composition there. Later every land and every village, (Natural Selection) he conducted the Latvian you will not find anyone American composer Jake National Opera and founded more unhappy than I am.’ Heggie is best known for his the first Latvian Academy , including Dead Man of Music. ‘I have so many Voice and orchestra Walking, but has also written children – three girls, two some 250 songs. ‘Natural boys. Five mouths to feed, Selection’ is a song cycle and my lazy old husband Dunque i lacci... Ah, crudel composed in 1997 tracing does nothing to help... Oh (Rinaldo) a young girl’s search for no, we need to run! Here Rejected by the knight identity; ‘Animal Passion’ come the shepherds with Rinaldo, the sorceress depicts the first wild their dog.’ stirrings of her sexuality – Armida is tormented by conflicting emotions. ‘Could ‘Fierce as a bobcat’s spring...’ Sergei Rachmaninov not the charms of my face, Zdes khorosho – How lovely the promise of bliss, or the Heiss' it is here (Op 21 No 7) terrors of Hell hold him? mich nicht reden – Don't How lovely it is here! The Yet I love him... No, let my ask me to speak (Lieder und Gesänge aus Wilhelm river is ablaze with gold, anger awaken, let him fall Meister, Op 98a No 5) the meadows are carpeted in dead at my feet. But no, he is colour, the clouds are pure too handsome! Cruel man, Don’t ask me to speak, ask me white. In the silence there let my tears move you to pity. to be silent; I’d like to reveal is no one here but God and Faithless man, you will taste my hidden feelings, but fate myself, with the flowers, the the cruelty of my desire.’ has sworn me to secrecy. In old pine tree – and you, my due time, the sun will dispel dream. Bel raggio the darkness and the earth lusinghier (Semiramide) will open her springs. Others Alexander Alyabyev Solovey Semiramis, Queen of may pour out their hearts in The nightingale the arms of a friend; but my Babylon, awaits the arrival lips are sealed, and only a god Loved by Tchaikovsky, of Prince Arsace, whom she may open them. arranged and transcribed believes is in love with her. by Glinka, Balakirev and ‘A bright ray of hope shines Liszt, Alyabyev’s most on me at last; Arsace has J zeps V tols Zaku m te – famous composition has returned and my sufferings Mother rabbit (Songs for acquired almost the status are over. After my torment, Children, Op 58 No 11) of a Russian folk song. ‘My how precious will be this Latvian composer J zeps sweet-voiced nightingale, moment of peace and love.’ V tols studied at the St where will you sing all

Laura Lolita Perešivana soprano b. Riga, Latvia Training BMus (1 and 2), Royal Academy of Music; BMus (Hons) in Vocal Studies, Guildhall School; currently second year Guildhall School Opera course studying with Janice Chapman. Scholarships Derek Butler Trust Scholarship; City of London Scholarship; Mercers’ Scholarship. Competitions Extraordinary Prize, Tenor Viñas International Singing Competition; Very Highly Commended, London Song Festival Schubert Prize. Experience lunchtime concert; Pushkin House Russian Music Festival. Operatic experience: Barbarina The Little Green Swallow, Rita Rita, The Princess La bella dormente nel bosco, Guildhall School; Zerlina , British Youth Opera; Pamina Die Zauberflöte, Berlin Opera Academy; Lauretta , Latvian National Opera; First Knabe Die Zauberflöte, Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre; Accademia 2020. Future plans Beginnings: New and Early Opera, Guildhall School; Berenice L’occasione fa il ladro, British Youth Opera. Olivia Boen

Voice and piano by Thomas Traherne. A that she might have a lover. newborn child marvels at Hearing birdsong, she looks the wonders of the glorious up and sees a flock of birds. Olivier Messiaen Résurrection world around him, with Unlike her, they are free (Chants de terre et de ciel) himself ‘the cream and to follow their desires; the Alleluia! The Lord Jesus crown of all’. ‘gypsies of the sky’ follow is the first-born of the a mysterious force which dead. Seven stars of love, Joseph Marx Hat dich die drives them onward. put on your garment of Liebe berührt light! I have risen again, I O wie gerne If love has touched you, you sing Alleluia for Thee, my blieb ich bei dir (Daphne) Father, my God. An angel walk in a golden cloud amid sits on the stone... We have the noisy throng, led safely In Greek mythology, touched Him and seen Him, by God. Gazing around you, Daphne escaped the amorous a stream of life in His side. you do not begrudge others intentions of the god Apollo He breaks the bread and their happiness; you have by turning into a laurel. their eyes are opened. Wash only one desire. Withdrawn Here she addresses a beloved yourselves in Truth. into yourself, you vainly try tree: she would gladly stay to hide the crown of life that close to it when the sun of radiantly adorns your brow. Apollo has set, seeking its Joseph Marx Selige Nacht shelter in the darkness and – Blissful night Sergei Rachmaninov Eti caressing its branches. The late-Romantic Austrian letniye nochi –These summer composer Joseph Marx wrote nights (Op 14 No 5) Carlisle Floyd Ain’t it a over 200 songs. ‘In the arms pretty night (Susannah) of love we fell blissfully How lovely are these asleep. Listening at the open moonlit summer nights! Carlisle Floyd’s 1955 opera window, the summer wind They awaken restless re-tells the Biblical tale of carried our peaceful breaths feelings of love. The pain of ‘Susanna and the Elders’ out into the moonlit night. life is forgotten, bounteous as the story of a young girl From the garden, the scent of happiness unfolds; inspired from Tennessee. In this aria, roses came to our bed of love, by love, we open our hearts Susannah is with her friend, giving us wonderful ecstatic to each other. Little Bat, looking at the dreams filled with yearning.’ stars and wondering what Voice and orchestra it would be like to leave Elizabeth Maconchy her home town and travel Ruggero Leoncavallo beyond the mountains. Sun, Moon and Stars Qual fiamma... Stridono lassù This comes from a song (Pagliacci) cycle written in 1978 for Jane Manning and Richard Nedda is frightened by her Rodney Bennett, to words husband’s angry suspicion

Olivia Boen soprano b. Chicago, USA Training BMus, Oberlin Conservatory of Music; Masters (Distinction) in Vocal Studies, Guildhall School; currently second year Guildhall School Opera Course studying with Samantha Malk. Scholarships Memorial Prize; Innholders’ Scholarship; Tracy Chadwell Memorial Prize; The Frank Huntington Beebe Fund for Musicians grant recipient. Competitions Winning Duo, London Song Festival British Art Song Competition 2019; Third Place, Hurn Court Opera Singing Competition 2019; Semi-finalist, International Hilde Zadek Singing Competition 2019; Winner, Musicians Club of Women 2018; Second Place, North Shore Choral Society 2018. Experience Performances at London Song Festival, LSO St Luke's, Wigmore Hall and Preston Bradley Hall; masterclasses with Renée Fleming, , Dame Felicity Lott, , Roderick Williams and Kate Royal; performances of Shostakovich Symphony No 14, Rossini Petite messe solennelle, Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem, Handel ; training at (2019) and Ravinia Steans Music Institute (2018). Operatic experience: Queen Mother The Little Green Swallow, Countess Susanna Il segreto di Susanna; Attendant/Second Woman , Peaseblossom A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Guildhall School; Erste Dame Die Zauberflöte, Die Stimme des Falken , Verbier Festival; Alcina Alcina, Thérèse Les Mamelles de Tirésias, Oberlin Opera Theater; Lauretta Gianni Schicchi, Norina , Romilda , Oberlin in Italy. Future plans Beginnings: New and Early Opera, Guildhall School; Donna Anna (cover) Don Giovanni, Nevill Holt Opera Young Artist; French Song Exchange, Wigmore Hall; Samling Institute; recital with Hurn Court Opera, June 2021.

Tom Mole

Voice and piano the streets, singing. Many Perfidi! a maiden is moved by his All’anglo contro me Sergei Rachmaninov serenade, but he passes by and v’unite... Pietà, rispetto, his singing is lost on the wind. V molchanyi nochi taynoy amore () – In the silence of the secret Believing that no man night (Op 4 No 3) The Phantom (Earth and Air and Rain, ‘of woman born’ can harm In the silence of the secret Op 15) him, Macbeth is confident night I’ll try to banish of victory in the coming thoughts of your chatter, your The poem is by Thomas battle. But he realises that smile, your hair... I’ll whisper Hardy. A man gazes intently in his murderous quest the words I once spoke to you, at something by the sea shore; for power he has alienated and, drunk with love, I’ll it is a phantom from his past his former friends and awaken the night with your – a ‘ghost-girl-rider’ who, supporters; there will be beloved name. unlike him, never grows old. no compassion, respect or love to comfort him in his Katie Moss Abschied – The Floral Dance declining years, and no one Farewell (Mörike-Lieder, Written in 1911 and first will mourn his death. No 53) recorded by Peter Dawson in 1912, this song evokes Votre toast, A critic arrives, je peux vous le rendre unannounced: ‘Just look at the sights and sounds of the traditional ‘Furry Dance’, (Toreador’s Song) your nose: it's a monstrosity!’ (Carmen) ‘Well I never, so it is!’ As we performed in May every stood on the stairs, I gave year in the Cornish town of To an admiring audience him just a little kick from Helston. of soldiers and gypsy girls, behind. I’ve never seen Escamillo the Toreador Voice and orchestra someone go downstairs in vividly describes a bullfight such a hurry! – the excitement of the I was never crowd, a sudden silence Hugo Wolf Schon streckt’ saner... Come, master as the bull charges out ich aus im Bett die müden (The Rake’s Progress) of the pen; a picador is Glieder – I had already Tom Rakewell has inherited brought down, there’s stretched out my weary a fortune. His mysterious blood everywhere. Now it’s limbs in bed (Italienisches servant, Nick Shadow, the turn of the Toreador Liederbuch, No 27) employs some spurious to deliver the death blow. As he fights, a dark eye is The singer was already in philosophical reasoning to persuade Tom that he will watching from the crowd: bed when he had a vision of love awaits... his beloved. He leaps out of be happy if he exercises bed, puts on his shoes, grabs his ‘free will’ by marrying his lute and goes out into Baba the Turk, the notorious Bearded Lady.

Tom Mole baritone b. UK Training BMus (1st class Hons) in Vocal Studies, Guildhall School; currently second year Guildhall School Opera Course studying with John Evans. Scholarships Carpenters’ Company Henry Osborne Award Scholarship. Experience King Tartaglia/Calmon The Little Green Swallow, Count Gil Il segreto di Susanna, Pimp Zanetto, Aeneas Dido and Aeneas, Snug A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Guildhall School; Count Horn Un ballo in Maschera, Opera Holland Park Young Artists 2019; Alidoro La Cenerentola, British Youth Opera. Future plans Kuligin Káta Kabanová, chorus Luisa Miller, Glyndebourne Festival (2021 Jerwood Young Artist); Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel, Philharmonia Orchestra (opening night of , conducted by Samuel Hudson).

Programme notes by Jonathan Burton © 2021 Pianists

Inês Costa b. Portugal Training BMus (Hons) ; Masters in Performance (Guildhall Artist) and Artist Diploma, Guildhall School, studying with Charles Owen, Martin Roscoe and Ronan O’Hora. Scholarships Guildhall Scholarship; Countess of Munster Musical Trust; Help Musicians UK; Leverhulme Trust; Royal College of Music Scholar. Competitions Verão Clássico Prize; Musical Odyssey Summer Masterclasses Winner; Merit prize of the Ministry of Education; Dra. Manuela Carvalho prize; Centro de Cultura Musical Prize. Experience Steinway Hall; Elgar Room, ; St Martin-in-the-Fields; St James’s Piccadilly; Cambridge University; Metropolitan Orchestra, Lisbon (tour of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 21); Centro Cultural de Belém and Terreiro do Paço (broadcast as part of the Eurovision Festival 2018); Coliseum, Oporto; Quinta das Lágrimas, Coimbra; Auditório da Casa da Música, Óbidos; Pavilhão Paz e Amizade, Loures; Centro Cultural e de Congressos, Caldas da Rainha; Portuguese Music Museum, Estoril; Vouleftikon, Nafplio; St Spyridon Square, Corfu; Thessaloniki Concert Hall; Berlin Konzerthaus, Wiesbaden and Grafenegg, Austria (European Union Youth Orchestra). Future plans Solo recital at St Anne's Church, Kew, as part of their Summer Series 2021.

Toby Hession b. UK Training Chetham’s School of Music (piano and composition); BA (Music) and MPhil (Composition), Clare College, Cambridge; currently Répétiteur Fellow, Guildhall School. Scholarships Goldsmiths’ Scholarship; Help Musicians UK. Competitions First Prize (2017) and Accompanist Prize (2019), Clare Song Competition. Courses Georg Solti Accademia 2020; Saluzzo Opera Academy 2021. Experience as assistant conductor and/or répétiteur Il segreto di Susanna, Zanetto, Rita, Dido and Aeneas, Opera Makers 2020 (world premiere), The Angel Esmeralda (world premiere), Autumn Opera Scenes 2019, Spring Opera Scenes 2021, Guildhall School. Future plans Beginnings: New and Early Opera, Guildhall School; , Scottish Opera (Emerging Artist Répétiteur June 2021 to July 2022); Le nozze di Figaro, Saluzzo Opera Academy.

Josh Ridley b. UK Training BA (Music), University of Durham, currently Répétiteur Fellow, Guildhall School. Scholarships The Jack Irons Répétiteur Scholarship; Guildhall Scholarship. Courses Performance Arts Lab 2019. Experience as assistant conductor and/or répétiteur Il segreto di Susanna, Zanetto, Rita, La bella dormente nel bosco, The Angel Esmeralda (world premiere), , A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Carmen, Mansfield Park, Todd’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Guildhall School. Future plans Beginnings: New and Early Opera, Guildhall School. Guildhall School Scholarships Fund

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Conductor Natalie Murray Beale is a graduate of Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Sydney Conservatorium and National Opera Studio. She was an Associate Artist at and studied with conductor Jorma Panula before beginning her conducting career as Assistant to Esa-Pekka Salonen and Ingo Metzmacher at Opéra National de , the Royal Swedish Opera and Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. As Guest Conductor, Murray Beale has appeared internationally with the Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, the Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Malta Philharmonic, Britten Sinfonia, BBC Concert Orchestra, Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa, Symphony Nova Scotia, the Presidential Orchestra of Turkey, Royal Northern Sinfonia, and the Chamber Orchestra of London. She has also worked with the orchestras of Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Luxembourg Philharmonic and Bergen Philharmonic. A passionate opera conductor, in 2020 Murray Beale made a striking Royal Opera House mainstage debut – “expertly conducted” (Financial Times), “the excellent conductor” (The Daily Telegraph) – collaborating with Stage Director Katie Mitchell. Further engagements include operas for Theater Bonn, the Croatian National Theatre, House (Mumbai), Opera Holland Park, the Royal College of Music and contemporary opera group Tête à Tête. Murray Beale is known for her inspirational work with singers, as Creative Director of Independent Opera at Sadler’s Wells and Professor at the Royal College of Music (Opera). She was a Jury Member for the Wigmore Hall International Singing Competition (2019) and former Guest Chorus Director of London Symphony Chorus, where she collaborated with Valery Gergiev, Sir , Marin Alsop and Daniele Gatti. Murray Beale’s accolades include a Royal Philharmonic Society Award (2012) for the opera We Are Shadows, a BBC Performing Arts Fellowship (2015) and a BAFTA nomination (music category) for the video game score Alien: Isolation (2015). Her performance of ’ A Flowering Tree was recognised as one of Limelight Magazine’s ‘Top Shows of 2019’. Guildhall Symphony Orchestra

Violin 1 Cello Horn Ensembles, Programming & Instrument Manager Hana Mizuta-Spencer* Lavinnia Rae* Zac Hayward* Cathryn Cowell Benedict Swindells Alex Grinyer Phil Sizer Giulia Lussoso Patrick Moriarty Leonardo Pinho Ella Ronson Anna Ryland-Jones Fran Gordon Orchestra Librarian Sonja Tuomela Christopher Hedges Anthony Wilson Amelia Harding Anna White Leona Gogolicynova Natalie Alfille-Cook Orchestra Stage Laia Francés Pont Adam Meyer* Patrick Wilson Manager Ivelina Ivanova Double bass Pedro Marques Rodrigues Bill Bannerman Suliac Maheu* Gosia Podlinska David Domínguez Vargas Mario Gutiérrez Gorría Guest Tutors Sophie Walker Jake Jones* Josh Barber Violin 2 Gabriel Abad Varela David Alberman Max Salisbury Bass trombone (Violins and Tutti) Sabine Sergejeva* Chiu Yung Chan Clare Duckworth Laura Pastor Rocamora Sam Clough (Tutti Strings) Victoria Farrell-Reed Flute Daniel Jemison Joana Praça Tuba Rebecca Rouch* (piccolo)  (Woodwind and Wind, Tiago Costa Brass, Percussion, Harps Reonel Rafols Isobel Doughty (piccolo) Charlie Jones Nicola Stevenson (piccolo) & Harpsichord) Olivia Danielewicz Dudley Bright Pak Ho Hong Timpani (Brass & Percussion) Nina Lim Hristiyan Hristov David Corkhill Eliza Burkitt Sam Willsmore* (Timpani & Percussion) Abbie James Katherine Farnden Percussion Bryn Lewis (Harp) () Viola Charlie Hodge* Francisco Negreiros Kate Correia de Campos* *denotes section principal. Samuel Watkin Fresca David* Harp Freya Hicks José Hita García Isobel Doncaster Andy Mellor (bass clarinet) Caroline Breman* Carlos David Contreras Heather Brooks* Gálvez Aleksandra Lipke Harpsichord Benedict Baily Michael Madigan* Ami-Louise Johnsson Daria Phillips Matthew Brown Ruby Collins The Jury

Professor Jonathan Vaughan (Chair) After studying at the Royal College of Music Jonathan spent ten years as a member of the London Symphony Orchestra. He became Chairman of the LSO in 1999 before becoming Director of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, a post he held for five years. He took up his current role as Vice-Principal & Director of Music at Guildhall School in 2007. Jonathan is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a Fellow of Guildhall School and was conferred the title of Professor of Music at Guildhall School in 2021. He is currently studying for a PhD and is researching the training of Artistic Citizenship in international music conservatoires.

Huw Humphreys Huw Humphreys is currently the Head of Music at London’s Barbican Centre, the largest multi-arts centre in , where he has been in post since September 2014. This appointment brought him back to the UK after nine years as Director of Artistic Planning of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, a position he held following six years with renowned artist management agency Askonas Holt (Harold Holt until 1998) and four years as General Manager of the European Union Youth Orchestra. Huw holds a Masters in Music from Oxford University, and spends most of his non-music related life religiously following the Welsh rugby and cricket teams, and improving his golf swing.

Jordan de Souza Hailed by The New York Times as part of “the new generation leading Berlin’s scene”, Canadian conductor Jordan de Souza earned this distinction whilst serving as First Kapellmeister of the Komische Oper Berlin from 2017 to 2020. Whilst there, he collaborated with renowned director Barrie Kosky on four critically acclaimed new productions: Pelléas et Mélisande, La Bohème, Weinberger’s Frühlingsstürme, and Candide. Debuts in the 2020/21 season include Die Zauberflöte at the Bayerische Staatsoper () and Garsington Opera with the Philharmonia Orchestra in a new staging of Strauss Der Rosenkavalier. Symphonic concerts included a debut with the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec in a programme of Tchaikovsky and Zemlinsky. Recent highlights have included debuts with the Adelaide Symphony, Auckland Philharmonia, Houston , the Hannover Staatsorchester, and a reinvitation to conduct the Orchestre Métropolitain. In 2017–18, Jordan conducted 28 performances of Carmen with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in a highly successful production at the Bregenzer Festspiele. His repertoire at the Komische Oper included Don Giovanni, La Traviata, Petrushka, L’Enfant et les sortilèges, , Il barbiere di Siviglia, Mussorgsky’s Sorochintsy Fair, and a broad range of concerts including lesser known works by Franz Schreker, Kurt Weill, Fazil Say and William Grant Still. Born in Toronto, Jordan attended McGill University in Montreal. He made his conducting debut at age 20 with Bach’s , and following graduation, he joined the McGill music faculty from 2011 to 2015. During these years, he conducted several including the St Matthew Passion, Christmas , Mass in B Minor, and the Requiems of Verdi, Mozart and Fauré. Jordan made his debut with the Canadian Opera Company in 2015, conducting their Claus Guth production of Le nozze di Figaro, and he also served as Conductor in Residence of Tapestry Opera in Toronto. Future seasons include debuts with Opernhaus Zürich, Chicago Lyric Opera and, following his debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra in the Glyndebourne Cup Competition in 2020, an invitation to conduct a new production at the 2022 Glyndebourne Festival.

Gweneth Ann Rand Gweneth Ann Rand trained at the University of Exeter, Goldsmith’s College and Guildhall School of Music & Drama. During her training, she received the Maggie Teyte, Ian Fleming and Sybil Tutton Awards. She was a Vilar Young Artist at the Royal Opera House, , and in 2001 represented England at BBC Cardiff Singer of the World. Highlights in recent seasons include acclaimed performances of 4.48 Psychosis for The Royal Opera/Lyric Hammersmith, Prototype Festival in New York and Opéra national du Rhin Serena in ’s lavish new production of Porgy and Bess; Mother Hansel and Gretel for ENO at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre; Mrs Grose in a new filmed version of The Turn of the Screw for OperaGlass Works; and acclaimed recitals at Wigmore Hall and the Oxford Lieder Festival. Her operatic engagements include for English National Opera, Theater Bremen, Oper Kiel, Finnish National Opera, Macedonian Opera, Opera Poznan and Oldenburgisches Staatstheater; Senta in Der fliegende Holländer for London Lyric Opera/Barbican; Leonora in La forza del destino for Oper Köln; Leonora in Il trovatore for Welsh National Opera; Amelia in Un ballo in maschera and Margherita/Helena in Mefistofele for Theater Erfurt; for Teatro Nacional de São Carlos; Gutrune in Götterdämmerung at the BBC Proms; and Aida, Santuzza, La Gioconda, La Wally and Leonora La forza del destino for Opera Holland Park. Gweneth Ann is widely known for her acclaimed interpretations of Messiaen’s song cycles Harawi (including Wigmore Hall, Oxford Lieder Festival and for Opera North) and Poèmes pour Mi (Gürzenich Orchester Köln, Tonhalle Orchester Zürich and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra all under Jun Märkl). She also performed Harawi as part of the Southbank Centre’s composer centenary celebrations From the Canyons to the Stars and at the BBC Proms.

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Next year’s Gold Medal, celebrating outstanding Guildhall School instrumentalists, will be held on 10 May 2022.

28 May – 7 June Free to watch at gsmd.ac.uk

Beginnings: New and Early Opera

Crankshaw/Best The Apothecary Carissimi Judicium Salomonis O’Grady/Sullivan Eintänzer Ábel M.G.E./Lavender I’m Cleaning, I’m Cleaning Charpentier Orphée descendant aux enfers Conducted by Chad Kelly Directed by John Ramster