Friday 5 May 2017 7pm, Barbican Hall

Gold Medal 2017

Finalists Daniel Shelvey Bianca Andrew Samuel Carl Josep-Ramon Olivé

Guildhall Symphony Orchestra Dominic Wheeler conductor Guildhall School of Music & Drama Barbican Founded in 1880 by the Gold Medal 2017 City of Corporation Please try to restrain from coughing until the normal breaks in the performance.

Chairman of the Board of Governors Friday 5 May 2017 If you have a mobile phone or digital watch, Deputy John Bennett 7pm, Barbican Hall please ensure that it is turned off during the Principal performance. The Gold Medal, the Guildhall School’s premier Lynne Williams In accordance with requirements of the award for musicians, was founded and endowed Vice–Principal and Director of Music licensing authority, sitting or standing in in 1915 by Sir H. Dixon Kimber Bt MA Jonathan Vaughan any gangway is not permitted.

No cameras, tape recorders, other types of Please visit our website at gsmd.ac.uk Finalists recording apparatus may be brought into the auditorium. It is illegal to record any Daniel Shelvey performance unless prior arrangements Bianca Andrew mezzo- have been made with the Managing Director Samuel Carl -baritone and the concert promoter concerned. Josep-Ramon Olivé baritone

No eating or drinking is allowed in the auditorium. Smoking is not permitted Jury anywhere on the Barbican premises. Alice Coote Sebastian F. Schwarz Barbican Centre Jonathan Vaughan (Chair) Silk St, London EC2Y 8DS Dominic Wheeler Administration: 020 7638 4141 Box Office Telephone Bookings: 020 7638 8891 (9am-8pm daily: booking fee) Guildhall Symphony Orchestra Dominic Wheeler conductor barbican.org.uk

The Guildhall School is provided by the City of London as part of its contribution to the cultural life of London and the nation. Gold Medal winners since 1915 Gold Medal 2017

Singers 1979 Patricia Rozario 1948 Susanne Rozsa Voice and piano 1915 Lilian Stiles-Allen 1981 Susan Bickley 1950 Leonard Friedman Daniel Shelvey & Dylan Perez 1916 Rene Maxwell 1983 Carol Smith 1952 Alfred Wheatcroft Bianca Andrew & Dylan Perez 1917 Dora Labbette 1985 Peter Rose 1954 Joyce Lewis Samuel Carl & Leo Nicholson 1918 Percy Kemp 1987 Juliet Booth 1956 Joan Cohen 1919 Arnold Stoker 1989 1958 Michael Davis Josep-Ramon Olivé & Lana Bode 1921 Marjorie Claridge 1991 William Dazeley 1960 Jacqueline du Pré 1922 Marion Browne 1993 Nathan Berg 1962 Robert Bell 1923 Esther Coleman 1995 Jane Stevenson 1964 Sharon McKinley INTERVAL – 20 MINUTES 1924 Linda Seymour 1997 Konrad Jarnot 1966 Anthony Pleeth 1925 John Turner 1999 Natasha Jouhl 1968 David Loukes 1927 Marie Fisher 2001 Sarah Redgwick 1970 Jeremy Painter 1927 Agostino Pellegrini 2003 Susanna Andersson 1972 Gillian Spragg Tchaikovsky 1928 Stanley Pope 2005 Anna Stéphany 1974 Charles Renwick Polonaise from 1929 Elsie Learner 2007 Katherine Broderick 1976 James Shenton 1930 Doreen Bristoll 2009 Gary Griffiths 1978 Iain King 1932 Charles Mayhew 2011 Natalya Romaniw 1980 Julian Tear Voice and orchestra 1933 Joyce Newton 2013 Magdalena Molendowska 1982 Simon Emes Daniel Shelvey 1934 Martin Boddey 2015 Marta Fontanals-Simmons 1984 Kyoko Kimura Bianca Andrew 1934 Margaret Tann Williams & Jennifer Witton 1986 Tasmin Little Samuel Carl 1935 Norman Walker 1988 Simon Smith 1936 Louise Hayward Instrumentalists 1990 Eryl Lloyd-Williams Josep-Ramon Olivé 1936 Arthur Reckless 1915 Margaret Harrison 1992 Katharine Gowers 1937 Gwen Catley 1916 Antoinette Trydell 1994 Richard Jenkinson 1937 David Lloyd 1917 Margaret Fairless 1996 Stephen de Pledge Please remain in the auditorium after the final 1938 Gordon Holdom 1918 Frank Laffitte 1998 Alexander Somov 1939 Rose Hill 1919 Marie Dare 2000 Maxim Rysanov performance for adjudication and presentation 1940 John Nesden 1920 Horace Somerville 2002 David Cohen of the Gold Medal. 1941 Sylvia Roth 1922 William Primrose 2004 Boris Brovtsyn 1942 Owen Brannigan 1923 Walter Nunn 2006 Anna-Liisa Bezrodny 1943 Vera Mogg 1924 Sidney Harrison 2008 Sasha Grynyuk 1944 George Hummerston 1926 Sidney Bowman 2010 Martyna Jatkauskaite 1945 Beryl Hatt 1928 Allen Ford 2012 Ashley Fripp 1946 Ethel Giles 1929 Roger Briggs 2014 Michael Petrov 1947 Pamela Woolmore 1930 Daphne Serre 2016 Oliver Wass 1949 Richard Standen 1931 Katherine L J Mapple 1951 William McAlpine 1931 Max Jaffa 1953 Margaret Kilbey 1933 Joshua Glazier 1955 Daniel McCoshan 1934 Ursula Kantrovich 1957 Iona Jones 1935 Vera Kantrovich 1959 Josephine W Allen 1935 Phyllis Simons 1961 Edgar Thomas 1936 Lois Turner 1963 Benjamin Luxon 1937 Kenneth Moore 1965 Verity-Ann Bates 1939 Hill 1967 Wynford Evans 1940 Marie Bass 1969 Charles Corp 1941 Pauline Sedgrove 1971 David Fieldsend 1942 Joan Goossens 1973 Graham Trew 1946 Brenda Farrow 1975 Ian Kennedy 1947 Mary O White 1977 Clive Birch 1948 Jeremy White Daniel Shelvey

Voice and piano Tchaikovsky Don Juan’s disguised as ‘Albanians’ and Daniel Shelvey Serenade, Op. 38 No. 1 woo each other’s betrothed. Baritone The disguised Guglielmo Schubert Der Wanderer, Op. 4 b. In Count Alexei Tolstoy’s enumerates the finer points No. 1 (D493) poem, Don Juan serenades his of his friend Ferrando and Training (1st class Hons) Royal Northern College of Music, The traveller has come down beloved Nisetta, asking her to himself, inviting the girls to currently second year Guildhall School Course from the mountains; he come out on to her balcony to look and touch: fine eyes, studying with Robert Dean. wanders in silence, sad and admire the moon rising over fine feet, fine noses... and alone. He sighs: ‘Where?’ In the Alpujarra mountains. magnificent moustaches – Scholarships Haberdashers’ Opera Scholarship, Headley a ghostly whisper comes the ‘From Seville to you the triumph of manhood, the Trust Scholarship, Richard Van Allan Prize 2015, Countess reply: ‘Where you are not, can hear serenades and the plumage of love. of Munster Recitalist 2016. there happiness lies.’ clashing of swords; I will give my blood and my song Britten Billy Budd – Look! Experience Damyan The Tale of Januarie, Robert Iolanta, Vaughan Williams Youth and for the most enchanting Through the port Junius Guildhall School; Flora’s Servant Love, Songs of Travel, No. 4 of women.’ The young naval recruit Billy La traviata, Morales (cover) Carmen Glyndebourne; Ulisse Il Vaughan Williams set nine ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, Sid , Boris Paradise Voice and orchestra Budd has accidentally killed poems from Robert Louis the hated Master-at-Arms on Moscow RNCM; Aeneas Dido and Aeneas Silk Opera. Stevenson’s ‘Songs of Travel’ Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin – board his ship. Condemned in 1904. The youth passes Future plans Marchese d’Obigny La traviata Uzhel ta samaya Tatyana to hang from the yard-arm, through a world of earthly Billy lies in chains the night Glyndebourne 2017. delights, but his mind is on As a young girl, Tatyana before his execution and his nobler fate as he travels had written a letter to faces his fate with calm onward, forsaking even Eugene Onegin impetuously resignation. his beloved. declaring her love for him, but he had spurned her Mozart – Tchaikovsky At the Ball, passion. Some years later he Finch’han del vino Op. 38 No. 3 sees her again, now married to a retired general. Can In order to seduce a young Amid the din and bustle of this be the same Tatyana, so bride, Zerlina, Don Giovanni the ball, I caught sight of you beautiful, so calm and self- has ordered a splendid feast by chance; your features were assured? No doubt about it – to be laid on at his palace for shrouded in mystery. In the Onegin has fallen hopelessly all her friends and wedding lonely hours of the night, I in love. guests. Now the wine is see again your sad eyes and warming them up, he says, hear your voice. I don’t know Mozart Così fan tutte – he’s looking forward to a great if I love you; perhaps I do... Rivolgete a lui lo sguardo party, with wild dancing and love-making; by the morning Two young men have taken there’ll be ten new names to a bet to prove their fiancées add to his list... unfaithful; pretending to go away, they return Bianca Andrew

Voice and piano wine has been maturing The chiming of the clock Bianca Andrew in its sealed jar; Phyllis, let reassures her that all will Mezzo-soprano us garland your locks with be well. Wolf Nimmersatte Liebe b. New Zealand acanthus and myrtle. I love Love can never be satiated you; Telephus now burns Hugo Alfvén Skogen sover, Training MPerf, Guildhall School, BMus, PgDipMus, with kisses – it’s like trying to for another. Our finest night Op. 28 No. 6 New Zealand School of Music, currently second year fill a sieve with water. When lies before us. Sing, my love! The forest sleeps; a last ray of Guildhall School Opera Course studying with Yvonne Kenny. we wounded each other with Poetry is sweet when your bites while kissing, the girl sunlight flickers in the sky. voice murmurs it. Scholarships The Gwen Catley Scholarship from The pleaded for more... Even Her laughter has fallen silent, and already she is asleep. Amar-Franses and Foster-Jenkins Trust, Solomon the wise was in love Rachmaninov Ya zhdu tebya, Love stands guard over its Foundation, Kiwi Music Scholarship, John and Margaret like this. Op. 14 No. 1 treasure in the June night. Hunn Educational Trust, Samling Artist. I wait for you; the sun has Ross Harris Gossip set and night is falling. Mist Mozart Le nozze di Figaro – Competitions Ferrier Loveday Song Prize, New Zealand Ross covers the sleeping world, Voi che sapete Competition 2016, first prize and audience prize, Chartered Harris has been Composer in and the past bids farewell to Surveyors Vocal Competition 2015, Kiri Te Kanawa Award, The pageboy Cherubino is in Residence for the Auckland earth. Tormented and in love, New Zealand Lexus Song Quest 2014. love with every woman in Philharmonic and the New I count each moment; I wait the Count’s palace, especially Zealand School of Music. impatiently for you! Experience Signora Ravizza/Flycap/Julietta The Tale of the Countess, to whom Gossip – a wry look at the Januarie, Neighbour Mavra, Laura Iolanta, Philomène he sings this song in her changing seasons – is from Anthony Ritchie Song , Beatrice (cover) Le donne curiose Guildhall boudoir. ‘You ladies who his song cycle Wild Daisies. School; Meg Page Philharmonic New Zealand composer know what love is, tell me if Orchestra; Zerlina (cover) Don Giovanni, Kate Pinkerton Anthony Ritchie’s prolific it’s what I am experiencing; Chausson La chanson bien Madam Butterfly, Settler Hohepa New Zealand Opera; output includes choral and I feel pleasure and pain, I douce Lucette Melbourne Opera Studio; Romeo I orchestral works, songs and freeze and then I’m on fire... Capuleti e i Montecchi, Octavian Der Rosenkavalier, Cherubino Listen to the gentle song chamber music. is a yet I rather enjoy it.’ Song Le nozze di Figaro Days Bay Opera, New Zealand. that weeps only to delight simple and moving setting you... You once knew the of a religious poem by James Kurt Weill One Touch of Venus Future plans Title role Radamisto Guildhall School, soloist voice, but it is now veiled like K Baxter. – I’m a Stranger Here Myself ‘Opera Highlights’ West of England Youth Orchestra, soloist a proud widow. It tells you In Weill’s 1943 musical, an America: A Prophecy Cambridge Philharmonic Orchestra, that kindness is our life, and Voice and orchestra Madrigal Singer Manon Lescaut Auckland Philhamonia hate and envy pass away with antique statue of the goddess Venus comes to life. She has Orchestra, soloist Samling’s Wigmore Showcase. death. It brings consolation Massenet Cendrillon – Enfin, fallen in love with the man to the suffering soul; listen to je suis ici the wise song. who resurrected her, but Returning from the ball, is puzzled as to the nature of love in these unfamiliar Phyllis Cinderella fled the palace in panic, losing her slipper 20th-century surroundings. A love song set in ancient on the way. Will her fairy Rome. For nine years my godmother ever forgive her? Samuel Carl

Voice and piano last year of his life. ‘Bamboos 100 in France, 91 in Turkey – Samuel Carl sway in the wind, moonlight but here in ... 1003. Bass-baritone shines on stone, the shadow of Nicolai Medtner Echo, b. England a wild goose crosses the Milky Mussorgsky (orchestrated by Op. 32 No. 1 Way; I dream with pleasure Shostakovich) Trepak (Songs Training MA (1st class Hons) University of , Royal Pushkin’s poem was also of our meeting, but the and Dances of Death, No. 3) Conservatoire of Scotland, currently on the Guildhall set by Britten and Rimsky- cries of jackdaws are already Artist Masters programme studying with Robert Dean and Korsakov, among others. Deep in the forest, Death waking the day.’ Janice Chapman. An animal howling in the dances with a drunken forest, a horn call, thunder, a peasant. He whispers in Brahms Wenn ich mit Scholarships Hazell Scholarship, The Ailene Hunter maiden singing – you answer his ear: ‘Old man, you’re Menschen from Vier Ernste Scholarship for David Jones’s studio New York, Ian Donald all of these; the ocean’s roar, worn out by bad luck and Gesänge, Op. 121 No. 4 Wilson Memorial scholarship for Berlin Opera Academy. the voice of the storm, a grief; lie down and sleep! shepherd’s cry – you answer, One of Brahms’s ‘four serious I’ll warm you with snow... Competitions Third prize in Maureen Lehane Vocal but no one replies to you. It’s songs’ to Biblical texts. Forests and clouds, darkness, Competitions 2016 (). the same for you, poet... Chapter 13 of St Paul’s First wind and driving snow, Epistle to the Corinthians weave a soft white shroud; deals with the nature of I’ll wrap the old man in it Experience Haydn’s Nelson Mass Scottish Chamber Peter Wishart My God, why Christian love: ‘Though I like a baby... Sleep, my dear Orchestra, William Taft Park and Bark American Opera hast Thou forsaken me speak with the tongues of friend, summer is here! The Projects, Sarastro Die Zauberflöte Berlin Opera Academy, Peter Wishart (1921–1984) men and of angels, and have sun shines on the cornfield, Colline La bohème and Monterone Rigoletto, Sheen Center studied with Nadia not love, I am become as there’s a song in the air...’ , Polyphemus Acis and Galatea Music of the Boulanger and taught sounding brass, or a tinkling Spheres, Glasgow, Crow Boys of Paradise Tête à Tête, Brahms at the Guildhall School, cymbal... Now abideth faith, Offenbach Les contes Vier Ernste Gesänge LSO St Luke’s, Pavel Haas Sleepless Night University, hope, love, these three; but d’Hoffmann – Scintille, Wigmore Hall broadcast on BBC Radio 3. King’s College London, and the greatest of these is love.’ diamant Reading University, where he Future Plans Glyndebourne Chorus 2017. One of Hoffmann’s sinister was Professor of Music. His Voice and orchestra compositions include five adversaries, Dappertutto, flashes a diamond ring to and numerous songs, Mozart Don Giovanni – entice the Venetian courtesan including this setting of the Madamina, il catalogo è questo words of St Augustine. Giulietta to seduce Hoffmann Don Giovanni’s servant, and steal his shadow, making him the Devil’s slave. ‘Sparkle, Pavel Haas A Sleepless Night Leporello, tries to disillusion diamond, like the mirror from Four Songs on Chinese one of Giovanni’s former that attracts the lark. Neither Poetry lovers, Donna Elvira, by revealing the contents of lark nor woman can resist A pupil of Janácˇek, Moravian his master’s catalogue of the bait; one loses its life, the composer Pavel Haas (1899– conquests. Women of every other loses her soul.’ 1944) wrote his Four Songs on class, every shape, every age, a Chinese Poetry in the Terezin different one for every season: concentration camp in the 640 in Italy, 231 in Germany, Josep-Ramon Olivé

Voice and piano alone... And so I went off to Voice and orchestra Josep-Ramon Olivé die far away, without ever Baritone finding Rosemonde’s blue Mompou Jo et pressentia Handel Lotario (HWV 26) – b. Spain manor-house. com la mar (Combat del Se il mar promette calma somni, No. 3) Training MPerf, Opera Course, Guildhall School, Escola A sailor may believe a forecast Rachmaninov O dolgo budu ja, Superior de Música de Catalunya, currently on the The Catalan text is by Josep of calm seas, but find his ship Op. 4 No. 3 Guildhall School Artist Diploma programme studying Janés. ‘I sensed you were caught in a dangerous storm; under Rudolf Piernay. like the sea and the wind, In the silence of the secret a human soul may likewise immense and free; now that night, I’ll try to forget your suffer adverse fate, but when Scholarships Harry Rolfe Award. I have you, I see how limited chatter, your smile, a casual that fate is appeased, he must my dream was... You are not glance – only to remember not provoke it now that it Competitions First prize and audience prize 2015 Handel the wind or the sea: you are them once more. I’ll recall brings consolation. boundless, there can never the words I once uttered Singing Competition, Oxford Lieder Young Artist 2010. awkwardly to you; drunk be words to express you, Korngold – with love, I’ll awaken Experience London Handel Orchestra, Les Concert des nor landscapes to form Mein Sehnen, mein Wähnen your world.’ the darkness with your Nations, Hespérion XXI, Symphony Orchestra, beloved name. Pierrot sings of his longings Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Palau de la Música Schubert Du bist die Ruh, and fancies that draw him Catalana, Shanghai Grand Theatre, Konzerthaus Vienna, D776 Strauss Heimliche back in dreams. As he danced Philharmonie de Paris and Barbican Hall. Collaborations Aufforderung (Secret by the Rhine a blue-eyed with Jordi Savall, Kazushi Ono, Laurence Cummings and You are rest and peace; you invitation), Op. 27 No. 3 girl begged him not to leave Sigiswald Kujken, recordings for Alia-Vox, Columna are longing, and yet you her, so he joined a travelling Música, Phaedra, Discmedi and Musièpoca labels. Currently ‘Raise the sparkling goblet still it. In pleasure and pain theatre troupe to be with a member of the Capella Reial de Catalunya conducted by to your lips; give me a secret I consecrate myself to you. her. ‘Rapture and hunger, Jordi Savall. Come in, and softly close sign, then I’ll smile and illusion and joy... that is the drink in silence. But when the gates behind you; drive entertainer’s fate.’ Future plans The Count Le nozze di Figaro Clonter Opera, you’ve eaten and drunk the pain from my breast, let Le Jardin des Voix Academy with William Christie and your fill, follow me into the my heart be filled with your Rossini Il barbiere di Siviglia – Paul Agnew. garden. There I’ll wait for joy. The temple of my eyes Largo al factotum is lit by your radiance; fill it you; once more I’ll sink on completely! your breast and drink your Make way for Figaro, the kisses, and weave roses into city factotum! I’m the barber Duparc Le manoir de your hair. Come, glorious of Seville – and I also set up Rosemonde night we long for! assignations for the ladies and the gentlemen. Everyone Love has bitten me like a wants Figaro: one at a time, dog. Follow my spilt blood, please! What a life! What a track my way on horseback lucky fellow I am! through quagmire or hidden path. I have travelled through Programme notes by this sad world wounded and Jonathan Burton © 2017 Pianists

Lana Bode Leo Nicholson Piano Piano b. United States of America b. England

Training BMus (Distinction) Indiana University Training Purcell School, Junior Royal Northern College of Jacobs School of Music, MMus (Distinction) in piano Music, BMus (1st class Hons) Trinity Laban Conservatoire of accompaniment at the Guildhall School with Andrew West Music & Dance. and Rolf Hind. Competitions John Longmire Beethoven Competition, Competitions Hamburger Prize for song accompaniment Alfred Kitchen Chopin Competition, TCM Silver Medal (2013), Concert Recital Diploma (2014), Guildhall School, (keyboard), Silver Medal awarded by the Worshipful YCAT Semi-finalist (2015), Samling Artist, Leverhulme Company of Musicians. Artist, alumnus of the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme. Experience Piano duo performances with Rosanna Experience Performances at Wigmore Hall, Barbican Ter-Berg at Purcell Room, Wigmore Hall and Bridgewater Hall and , collaborations with Graham Hall, performances throughout the UK with saxophonist Johnson, Roger Vignoles, Iain Burnside and Jane Manning, Anthony Brown. Leo currently works as a soloist and masterclasses with , Sarah Walker, Martin Frost, performs with ‘Piano Circus’ and ‘Thumb’. Stephan Loges, and Roderick Williams, and performances for John McCabe, Jonathan Dove, Brian Elias and Sadie Harrison. Currently working at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance. Guildhall School Scholarships Fund

Dylan Perez “I have grown Piano b. United States of America immensely from the

Training University of Michigan, Guildhall Artist Masters years I have spent at programme (graduated with distinction in 2016), alumnus of Franz-Schubert-Institut in Baden bei Wien, Austria, Guildhall. Without the currently Artist Diploma at the Guildhall School studying under Eugene Asti, Julius Drake, and Andrew West. financial aid from

Scholarships Guildhall Scholar, Norman Gee Foundation. donors like you, this

Competitions Gerald Moore Award, Prize, would be impossible.” semi-finalist ‘Das ’ International Song Competition, Francesca Chiejina finalist Kathleen Ferrier Award, Ferrier Loveday Song Prize Guildhall Artist Masters (with Bianca Andrew). Supported by the Loveday Scholarship

Experience Performances at Wigmore Hall with the Prince Consort, Barbican Hall in LSO Platforms, BBC Proms Extra Every year donations to the Scholarships concert broadcast on BBC Radio 3, with Graham Johnson Fund make it possible for over 450 young for two Song Guild recitals, participated in masterclasses musicians, actors and theatre technicians to with Renée Fleming, Joyce DiDonato and Dame Felicity take up their hard-won places or continue Lott, and with Roger Vignoles and Christian Gerhaher at their studies at the Guildhall School. Wigmore Hall. Contact the Development Office on 020 7382 7179, visit our website gsmd.ac.uk/support or mail [email protected] and find out more about how you can support our talented students.

The Guildhall School Trust is a Registered Charity No. 1082472 Dominic Wheeler Guildhall Symphony Orchestra Conductor Lyrit Milgram, concert master

Educated as an organ scholar at Clare College, Cambridge, Violin 1 Viola Clarinet & Bass clarinet Harp Opera Scholar at the Royal College of Music Lyrit Milgram Luba Tunnicliffe Bethan Irving Oliver Wass and the Royal Academy of Music, and student at the Liszt Valerie Clare Sanders Francesca Gilbert Charlotte Bartley Helena Ricci Patrycja Mynarska Anna Growns Isha Crichlow Academie, Budapest, Dominic now enjoys a varied career Keyboards Callie Brennan Chu-Hui Huang Lauren Brown Chavdar Mazgalov conducting opera, dance and symphonic repertoire all over Franziska Deschner Sarah McCabe Bassoon & Mairi Grewar Chloe Stowers-Veitch Abigail Brewster the world. Double bassoon Jingle Lau Anna Roder William Harpum Michael Elderkin Riley Court-Wood Lorena Cantó Woltèche Antonia Lazenby He has conducted opera for , Opera Katherine Sung Kate Correia De Campos Finan Jones North, Scottish Opera, ROH2 at the Linbury, Opera de Nice, Karolina Sutt James Flannery Orchestra Manager Carl Vallin Horn Jim Dean New Zealand Opera, English Touring Opera, Opera Holland Cello Andrea Timpanaro Alex Willett Thomas Vidal Orchestral Librarian Park, Chelsea Opera Group and Independent Opera at Bacem Anas Romdhani Ryan James Anais Laugenie Kate Price Sadler’s Wells, with whom he recorded a double bill of operas Juri Uchishiba Diana Sheach Cho Ki Jacky Siu Tilman Fleig Jack Sewter Orchestra Stage Manager by Elizabeth Maconchy for Chandos, and whose production Hoi Ying Yuen William Bannerman of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande was shortlisted for an RPS Violin 2 Akito Goto Trumpet Opera Award. Timothy Crawford Kai-Hei Chor Kaitlin Wild James Wicks Penka Petkova Oliver Haines

Nadine Nigl Joanna Twaddle Tom Kearsey In symphonic and choral repertoire, he has conducted the Arisa Nemoto Double bass Aria Kitaguchi Philharmonia, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Concert Daniel Molloy Ian Sankey Sofia Presta Orchestra and Singers, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra A Cruz Dos Santos Peter Thornton Jan Bislin Martin Ludenbach and Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra of Erin C´ oralic´ Bass trombone Stefano Colombelli , City of London Sinfonia, English Chamber Melissa Hutter Stephen Williams Thomas Morgan Matthew Sach-Keen Orchestra, , Northern Sinfonia, Miguel Pedraza Tuba Leegene Kwon George Lee Sinfonia Viva, Bach Choir and Leeds Festival Chorus. Demver Blancio Flute & Piccolo Internationally, Dominic has conducted the European Youth Timpani Antonia Berg Chris Pott Orchestra and the orchestras of the Geidai Arts University Simon Williams and the Opera Studio of the New National Theatre in Tokyo, Martina Mihulkova Percussion Lewis Blee the Liszt Academie and the Banff Centre. Future plans Oboe & English horn Peter Rayner Evan Sanchez include debuts at the Hungarian State Opera and Geidai Vittorio Angelone Philharmonic Orchestra. Corinne Ellul

An advocate of new music, Dominic has collaborated regularly with and led premieres by such as , Jonathan Dove, Stephen McNeff, Stuart MacRae, Nitin Sawhney and Jonathan Harvey, and this year he commissioned and conducted the world premiere of Julian Philips’ opera for the Guildhall School, The Tale of Januarie.

Passionate about working with students, and for many years a visiting professor at all of London’s major conservatoires, Dominic was appointed Head of Opera at the Guildhall School in 2012. The Jury

Alice Coote Sebastian F. Schwarz

Renowned on the recital, concert and opera stages of the Sebastian F. Schwarz became General Director of world, Alice Coote is regarded as one of the great artists Glyndebourne in May 2016. Before this he was Deputy of today. The recital platform is central to her musical life Artistic Director of Theater an der Wien in Vienna, a role he and she performs throughout the UK, Europe and the occupied for nine seasons. USA including at the BBC Proms, Wigmore Hall (where she has been a resident artist), Vienna Konzerthaus, Het Born in 1974 in Germany, Sebastian F. Schwarz studied Amsterdam, St Petersburg ‘White Nights’ vocal performance and musicology in Berlin and vocal festival and Carnegie Hall. performance and theatre management in Venice. He has held a variety of positions in opera companies, including a In demand in opera houses of the world for interpreting period in company management at Wexford Festival female and male travesty roles such as Dejanira Hercules, Opera in Ireland and as assistant to the opera director at Leonore La Favorite, Carmen, Charlotte Werther, Dorabella Staatsoper Hamburg. Così fan tutte, Lucretia The Rape of Lucretia, Marguerite Damnation de Faust, Penelope Ulysses, Octavian Der In addition to his role at Theater an der Wien, Sebastian Rosenkavalier, Composer Ariadne, Orfeo, Idamante , is Artistic Director and co-founder of the Pietro Antonio both Poppea and Nerone L’incoronazione di Poppea, Hänsel Cesti International Voice Competition for Baroque Opera Hänsel und Gretel, Sesto La Clemenza di Tito, Sesto Giulio in Innsbruck, and CEO and Artistic Director of the Vienna Cesare, Maffio Orsini Lucretia Borgia, Le Prince Charmant Chamber Opera which was incorporated into Theater an der Cendrillon, Ruggiero and the title role in Ariodante. Wien in 2012, and for which he founded an international She has performed these roles at English National Opera, ensemble of singers who perform for both companies. He is Glyndebourne and the . In Europe she has a sought-after voice specialist and a regular jury member for appeared at opera houses including Opéra de Paris and the major international voice competitions. Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, in Amsterdam, Geneva, Vienna, Munich, Frankfurt, and Salzburg. USA and Canadian Mr Schwarz has advised various cultural institutions and appearances include the Chicago Lyric Opera, Seattle, Los festivals on programming and casting and is a sought-after Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto and the voice specialist and a regular member of juries of important New York. international voice competitions. He regularly teaches masterclasses for institutions and academies across Europe She has made many recordings and DVDs, most recently and beyond and is also a lecturer at the Vienna University of Schumann’s Dichterliebe and Frauenliebe und - leben on Performing Arts. Wigmore Hall Live and Elgar’s with the Hallé. Mahler song cycles with the Netherlands Philharmonic will Mr Schwarz is a passionate linguist, speaking eight soon be released on the Pentatone label. languages and an active beekeeper in the Eastern Alps, near Vienna. Forthcoming events

Jonathan Vaughan (Chair) Monday 5, Wednesday 7, Friday 9, Monday 12 June, 7.30pm Monday 12 June, 7pm Wigmore Hall

After studying double bass and piano at the Royal College Milton Court Theatre of Music, Jonathan worked with most of Britain’s major Guildhall Wigmore orchestras and opera companies. He was an active chamber Radamisto musician and worked as a teacher, coach and music educator Recital Prize in a variety of settings. Music by Michael Petrov cello Libretto by Nicola Francesco Haym Jonathan spent ten very happy years as a member of the Erdem Misirliog˘lu piano London Symphony Orchestra and was ultimately privileged Chad Matthias Kelly conductor to serve as its Chairman. John Ramster director Stravinsky Suite italienne Louis Carver designer Dutilleux Trois Strophes sur le nom He was Director of the National Youth Orchestra for five Jake Wiltshire lighting designer de Sacher years, before taking up his current post, Director of Music at Debussy Cello Sonata Carter the Guildhall School, in 2007. He is a Fellow of the Higher Following a large-scale Russian Figment for solo cello Poulenc Education Academy and was awarded Fellowship of the production in autumn and a new opera Cello Sonata Guildhall School in 2015. in Middle English in spring, Guildhall The Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize opera singers continue to showcase annually awards an exceptional Guildhall Jonathan is also a governor of Wells Cathedral School, and their versatility with the lesser-known School musician with a Wigmore Hall lives in Wiltshire with his wife, three children and one sadly first version of Handel’s masterpiece, recital. This year’s recipient is cellist neglected double bass. performed in the intimate surroundings Michael Petrov, previous winner of the of the Milton Court Theatre. Gold Medal (2014), described by The Telegraph as playing ‘with the bravura Composed predominantly for Handel’s and calm assurance of a long-established favourite female singers (before he maestro’. He is accompanied by pianist revised it to the version more commonly Erdem Misirliog˘lu. performed today), the piece presents a wonderful vocal and theatrical challenge. Tickets: £15 (£13 concessions), available from the Wigmore Hall Box Office: Tickets: £25 (£15 concessions), available 020 7935 2141 wigmore-hall.org.uk from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk Thank you

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Shanghai Grand The Gold Medal Theatre Arts Group Final 2018 residency Next year’s Gold Medal for instrumentalists will be held on Thursday 10 May in the Discover the mesmerising music of Barbican Hall. ancient China and the UK premiere of a contemporary Chinese opera as the Guildhall School welcomes the Shanghai Tickets will be available from the Barbican Grand Theatre Arts Group for an exciting Box Office from February 2018. residency in May.

The Elegant East 22 May, Milton Court Concert Hall A concert of traditional Chinese music from instrumentalists of the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra.

The Wager by Wen Deqing (UK premiere) 26 & 27 May, Silk Street Theatre An orchestra of Guildhall musicians joins forces with singers from Shanghai Opera House to present the UK premiere of this memorable opera – a Faustian story of luck, temptation and fate.

Buy tickets for The Wager and get half-price tickets for The Elegant East: gsmd.ac.uk/shanghaiarts