Guildhall School of Music & Drama Prospectus
2O19 a b Introduction 5 About Guildhall School 6 Where we are 9 Our partners 12 How we support you
Acting 18 About Acting 20 BA in Acting and MA in Acting 24 Acting alumni
Music 28 About Music 31 Performance 36 BMus 38 MMus/MPerf in Performance (Guildhall Artist Masters) 40 MMus/MPerf in Performance (Guildhall Artist Masters): Orchestral Artistry 43 MMus/MComp in Composition (Guildhall Artist Masters) 44 MA in Opera Making and Writing 46 MA in Music Therapy 47 Artist Diploma 48 Principal Study Strings, Harp & Guitar 51 Principal Study Wind, Brass & Percussion 54 Principal Study Keyboard 56 Principal Study Vocal Studies 60 Principal Study Opera Studies 62 Principal Study Historical Performance 64 Principal Study Chamber Music 66 Principal Study Composition 70 Principal Study Electronic Music 73 Principal Study Jazz 76 Music alumni
Production Arts 80 About Production Arts 84 BA in Production Arts 88 BA in Video Design for Live Performance 92 MA in Collaborative Theatre Production and Design 94 Production Arts alumni
Creative Learning 98 BA in Performance and Creative Enterprise
Research and Teaching 104 PGCert in Performance Teaching 106 Research Degrees
Further information 110 After Guildhall 113 Applications, auditions and interviews 114 Fees, funding and scholarships 116 Youth and Adult Learning 119 Senior staff/Getting in touch 120 How to find us 2 3 4 At Guildhall School, we lead students We benefit from, and contribute to, through the transformative journey the incredibly exciting cultural life of of training in music, acting and London as a global city. We are situated production arts. If you join us on that right next to the Barbican Centre in the journey, it will be a demanding, intense City of London, with easy access to the and committed process. But in return, city’s major cultural institutions and to the craft, creativity and learning that London’s lively East End. you receive will empower you to develop your unique potential – and to put We enjoy some of the best facilities your talent to work at the forefront of for training in performance arts and cultural change. production anywhere in the world. The completion of our Milton Court site Our training will equip you to adds a world-class concert hall, two make your mark as an accomplished theatres, studios and large rehearsal performing artist, composer, theatre rooms to our facilities at Silk Street, maker, production professional, creative within the Barbican complex. entrepreneur or teacher. Guildhall graduates consistently succeed at the Collaboration is central to what we do. highest levels of their profession. Some Our partnerships – between departments become household names; others work and with external organisations – create behind the scenes to bring state-of-the- outstanding opportunities to learn from art performance to stage and screen. the leading edge of creative practice. Our professional partners include the As a Guildhall School student, you Barbican Centre, the London Symphony are challenged to work to professional Orchestra, the BBC Symphony standards in a world-class context. You Orchestra, the Royal Opera House and will draw on the insight and skills of the Academy of Ancient Music. internationally-renowned artists and practitioners, working with you as Active engagement with diverse directors, designers, conductors, coaches communities keeps us constantly alive to and tutors. the unique potential of performing arts to provide pathways to self-expression ABOUT Of the 950 students across our and positive social change. Our Creative programmes, 40% come from outside Learning programme trains students Britain, representing more than to work in communities across East 70 nationalities and bringing a truly London and beyond to offer inspiring arts global outlook and relevance to what experiences for everyone. We also run a we do. We welcome diversity, and vibrant programme of youth and adult encourage applications from anyone learning, harnessing creativity and the with talent, regardless of background; desire to learn among children and young our scholarship fund provides over people, business leaders and professionals. £2 million to support students each year. Above all, at Guildhall School of Music Our diversity extends to the art forms & Drama, we believe in the power of that we cover. We are one of the few performing arts to transform people’s major European conservatoires to lives, and to radically enrich the world combine schools of music, drama around us. We invite you to join us in and production arts. Working across transforming your own life, and to disciplines frees us to break down serving the wider world as we embark, boundaries across traditional art forms, together, on the challenge and change to nurture invention, and to cross- of the 21st century. fertilise ideas and methods.
Founded in 1880, our historic roots go deep, but the way that we teach and learn has always tested conventions. We value innovation and experiment, and will encourage you to explore the big questions that affect you as an artist today, and that will impact us all in the 21st century.
5 Our city: London opportunities with our Culture Mile partners. We are also right on the edge Guildhall School is located in the heart of East London, with all its creative of London, one of the most exciting cities bustle and energy. And nestled between in the world. Training in performing the popular areas of Shoreditch and arts in this culturally-rich and dynamic Clerkenwell, we are close to some of environment is a unique experience. London’s most famous landmarks, With West End theatres, the Southbank including St Paul’s Cathedral, the Centre, Tate Modern and Covent Garden’s Gherkin and the Shard. Royal Opera House all close by, studying at Guildhall means you have an array of Our facilities: Silk Street, world-renowned cultural institutions Milton Court and Sundial Court on your doorstep. As a student, you will be entitled to concessions on Our facilities include the Grade II-listed virtually all entertainment tickets, plus Silk Street building, part of the discounts in shops and restaurants and distinctive and architecturally-renowned on underground, train and bus travel. If Barbican complex, and Milton Court, our you are coming from abroad, we provide new site just across the road. Housing guided tours and special excursions to world-class performance and training help you find your way around. And you spaces, Milton Court includes a state-of- will find other major European cities the-art concert hall, a lyric theatre, easily accessible by train or plane. a studio theatre and several major rehearsal rooms. Silk Street offers a more Our neighbourhood: Culture Mile intimate music hall, a dedicated lecture recital room, and a completely flexible theatre, theatrical workshops and labs, Our campus is situated in Culture Mile, electronic music studios, recording and a vibrant cultural hotspot in the City sound studios, and over 40 teaching and of London. This major destination for practice rooms. We also have an annexe culture and creativity stretches from with a further 44 teaching and practice Guildhall School and our immediate
WHERE rooms, and our Sundial Court Hall of neighbour the Barbican Centre to the Residence (see page 15). Barbican’s new cinemas, LSO St Luke’s and the Museum of London. It offers a When it comes to showcasing students’ range of impressive performance and work, Guildhall School has five public exhibition spaces all within walking performance venues with exceptional distance, and exciting collaborative acoustic properties and extensive seating capacity. And of course, we also offer space where you can study and relax, with a library, two student common rooms, two cafés and a peaceful lakeside terrace.
6 7 8 Much of who we are and what we do is for many years, the LSO now helps to shaped by collaboration. We are always deliver the Orchestral Artistry specialism looking for ways to collaborate, and we within the Guildhall Artist Masters are proud to have established robust, programme, an exciting course of study purposeful partnerships with five key for instrumentalists seeking a career organisations. These organisations in orchestral playing (see page 40). It contribute significantly to our also provides a range of performance programmes of study and provide opportunities for other Guildhall music Guildhall students with many exciting students, including the highly-regarded opportunities. Indeed, through these concert series LSO Platforms: Guildhall unique partnerships you will meet some Artists, which sees Guildhall musicians of the world’s most renowned artists, take part in rush-hour concerts on the experience some of London’s finest Barbican stage before LSO performances. venues, and receive the very best In 2017, the LSO’s new Music Director preparation for your chosen career. Sir Simon Rattle became Artist in Association with Guildhall School, further cementing this partnership. Barbican Centre
The Barbican Centre is Europe’s largest BBC Symphony Orchestra multi-arts and conference centre. It pushes the boundaries of all major art forms The BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBCSO) including dance, film, music, theatre and is one of the UK’s finest orchestras, visual arts and is situated immediately performing extensively as Associate next door to Guildhall School within the Orchestra of the Barbican and forming iconic Barbican Estate. The Barbican and the backbone of the BBC Proms. Guildhall the School enjoy a unique educational musicians play a significant role in the and cultural partnership. Built over many Orchestra’s Total Immersion series, which years, this partnership will provide you celebrates the work of contemporary with exceptional learning opportunities. composers. Guildhall performances in These include masterclasses and projects Total Immersion are often broadcast on with the Barbican’s International Associate BBC Radio 3 and receive high critical Orchestras (Gewandhaus Orchestra, Jazz praise. Other recent collaborations with at Lincoln Center, LA Philharmonic, the Orchestra include Guildhall singers New York Philharmonic, and the Royal forming the chorus for a performance of Concertgebouw), and joint projects with Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony, our actors the Barbican Cinema and Barbican Art joining the ensemble for Grieg’s complete Gallery. There is also the chance to perform Peer Gynt, and our composers writing for in Barbican venues such as the Pit Theatre an ensemble including BBCSO players. and Concert Hall.
Additionally, the Barbican and Guildhall Royal Opera House School collaborate on a major learning and participation programme called Creative The Royal Opera House is home to the Learning. Through Creative Learning, Royal Opera, one of the world’s leading opera companies, renowned for its PARTNERS Guildhall students learn to use their skills outstanding performances of traditional in community settings across East London opera but also for commissioning new and beyond (see page 10 for further details). works. The collaboration between the Royal Opera House and Guildhall has led to two areas of study in contemporary opera making: a new MA in Opera London Symphony Orchestra Making and Writing (see page 44) and a studentship that appoints one doctoral Widely regarded as one of the world’s student as Composer in Residence at leading orchestras, the London the Opera House for a period of three Symphony Orchestra (LSO) is Resident years (see page 106). These innovative Orchestra at the Barbican. It attracts developments combine the expertise of outstanding players from all over the a conservatoire with that of an opera world, and has a roster of soloists and house, helping to support emerging conductors who are second to none. An composers and librettists in the creation integral partner of Guildhall School of new operatic work.
9 Academy of Ancient Music Other partnerships
Through our partnership with the We also work with a range of other Academy of Ancient Music (AAM), one organisations on projects and of the world’s leading period instrument performances throughout the year, for ensembles, we are creating a centre of example the London Contemporary excellence in historical performance. Dance School, École des Écoles and The AAM, who are an Associate Wigmore Hall. Ensemble at the Barbican and perform part of their season in Milton Court, offer masterclasses, workshops, mock Creative Learning auditions, Q&A sessions and exclusive access to open rehearsals – unique We believe that everyone has a right to learning opportunities for students in access culturally enriching experiences, this particular discipline. which is why we will encourage you to use your craft to benefit others, not just yourself. Through Creative Learning, our joint learning and participation programme with the Barbican, we support a wide range of initiatives taking the arts into communities in East London, and welcome audiences into the School from those communities. Every undergraduate music student at Guildhall School is trained to work in participatory settings, such as hospitals, prisons, schools and other community groups. It’s all about the power and duty of the arts to transform lives. This ethos has been embedded in the School for over 30 years, giving depth and scope to our social engagement programmes.
We are interested in breaking traditional boundaries between the arts, which is why all undergraduates at Guildhall work together on a cross- arts collaborative project in their first year, led by Creative Learning. Designed to meet the needs of the 21st century artist, Creative Learning will also help you explore enterprise and innovation, providing opportunities for ‘lab’ work and residencies aimed at nurturing and showcasing emerging artistic talent. Creative Learning helps to deliver the BA in Performance & Creative Enterprise degree (see page 98).
International exchange partners
If you are interested in studying abroad as part of your programme, we offer student exchange agreements with an array of internationally-renowned European conservatoires and Musikhochschulen through the Erasmus scheme.
10 11 As you start out at Guildhall School, there learning support for students with specific are bound to be times when you will need learning difficulties), financial advice, help or advice. Our support services are accommodation advice and international here to provide just that, with guidance student support. on everything from accommodation to health and wellbeing, disability support to international student orientation Library sessions, library materials to audio visual [email protected] support. We are also here if things get tough, and have dedicated staff you can Our Library has one of the most extensive talk to if you face financial hardship or specialised collections of music and drama need to see a counsellor. electronic and print resources in Europe, and will provide you with an inspiring, All Guildhall students have access to one supportive and welcoming study of the country’s leading performing arts environment. Our library staff all have a libraries, excellent studio and IT resources, specialist knowledge of music or drama, and a Students’ Union that represents the and lending facilities include books on interests of the student body. And you will music, theatre, drama criticism, stagecraft, be able to apply for the School’s Hall of costume, and music therapy. You can also Residence, Sundial Court, just around the borrow from a comprehensive collection corner from the Silk Street building and of plays, poetry, scores, sets of chamber Milton Court. music parts; CDs and DVDs; and a wide range of e-resources. In tune with our pioneering ethos, Guildhall was the first Student Affairs conservatoire in the UK to offer access to [email protected] both Naxos and Classical Music Library web-streaming services, and the first to Student Affairs is committed to student purchase Drama Online outright. wellbeing, helping you to fulfil your potential during your time at the School. The team will provide a supportive IT and studio resources environment to assist you in making the most of your student experience. It As you would expect, Guildhall has offers a comprehensive range of support well-equipped IT facilities, including PCs services designed to meet your academic with access to Microsoft Office 2016 and and welfare needs. Services include Sibelius, A3 colour printer-photocopiers, health and welfare advice, physiotherapy, Wi-Fi provision around the Silk Street, counselling, disability support (including Milton Court, Annexe and Sundial Court
12 13 14 buildings, and remote access to your Accommodation School email and apps via Microsoft [email protected] Office 365. You can download the latest version of Microsoft Office to your own Once you have been offered a place at devices. This means you can work flexibly Guildhall, you will be given details of and securely wherever you are on campus accommodation options. Whether in – in Halls, study areas or on the move. private lodgings, rooms to rent in shared The School’s Audio Visual Department houses or through local letting agencies, provides audio and video production you will find something to suit your needs. facilities, as well as an industry-standard recording studio (see page 33). We will also give you information about Sundial Court, the School’s Hall of Residence, located in Chiswell Street Students’ Union just around the corner from our two [email protected] main buildings. Sundial Court has 39 flats, each with between three and six The Guildhall Students’ Union actively bedrooms, with 176 rooms in total. represents the student body. Led by a For music students, there is the added full-time President (elected annually), advantage of being able to practise in the Union acts as the communication your bedroom during agreed hours. Local channel between the student and staff amenities, including supermarkets, bars, bodies. From its office on the campus, restaurants and sports facilities, are all the Union offers advice on all manner within walking distance. There are two of topics, and can provide useful underground stations close by, and down information on Guildhall School, its below is the Basement, which houses surrounding area and student life. the Students’ Union bar, a self-service Alongside its representative function, the laundry, practice rooms and a communal Union is responsible for extra-curricular television room. Sundial Court has activities throughout the year and is at Wi-Fi access throughout. the centre of Guildhall’s social scene. It organises clubs and societies and a Security is provided 24 hours a day, variety of social events, many of which seven days a week. In addition, a team of take place around the well-established Residential Wardens lives in the Sundial Basement Bar, located in Sundial Court. Court building to provide pastoral support and respond to any emergency situations outside of office hours. A key part of their role is to encourage a sense of community among residents, and throughout the year they organise social activities such as market trips, museum visits, film nights and exercise clubs.
If you are accepted onto a full-time course at Guildhall School (lasting at least one academic year), you are entitled to apply for a place at Sundial Court. Although we can’t offer a room to every student, we do try to provide accommodation for first year undergraduates.
15 16 BA Honours in Acting
MA in Acting
17 Key staff Guildhall School is a lively, friendly community of actors, To be appointed production artists and musicians. The Acting Department Vice-Principal & Director of Drama itself is intimate and supportive. Our students form
Martin Connor FGS close-knit groups, developing personal and professional Head of Acting Studies relationships that last for years. Annemette Verspeak MA Head of Voice Our programmes are highly regarded in the acting profession Daniel McGrath FGS for the thoroughness of their audition processes and the passion, Head of Movement quality and rigour of the teaching. We are also renowned for Eliot Shrimpton BA MA(Cantab) our combined focus on craft training, care and attention to Head of Academic Studies (Drama) individual student development, and the strong ensemble ethic
Core teaching staff shared by our staff and students.
Wyn Jones FGS Acting The main programmes are the BA Honours in Acting and
Patsy Rodenburg OBE FGS the MA in Acting. Each has a distinguished list of graduates, Professor of Text & Poetry especially from recent years. Both programmes are three years,
Kenneth Rea MA FGS full-time. The MA is specifically designed for students who Professor of Theatre already hold an undergraduate degree and want full, professional Tom Morrison MA training in acting. MA students work alongside students on the Voice & Speech BA Acting programme, with additional assignments appropriate Leah Muller MA to a Masters programme. Movement Brodie Ross The Department also runs a selection of summer schools, Acting & Widening Participation focusing on acting in Shakespeare, contemporary theatre and For a full list of teaching staff and musical theatre, and a Preliminary Acting Course (see page 116). visiting directors, please visit the Guildhall School website: gsmd.ac.uk/acting Guildhall School has excellent performance facilities. Productions take place in our three distinctive theatres:
18 Silk Street, a large versatile space; Milton Court, a proscenium arch theatre; and the intimate Studio Theatre. An exciting mix of modern and traditional performance spaces for our students to explore.
In keeping with our collaborative ethos, Guildhall School is a partner in École des Écoles, a confederation of major European drama schools. Over the years we have co-organised a number of international workshops throughout Europe.
Our approach involves breaking down traditional boundaries and challenging convention, giving you the chance to collaborate with students from other art forms. You will work with students on the Music and Production Arts programmes during the first-year workshop project as well as in your third year on productions. And each year, our facilities are handed over to students for an entire day of informal showcases as part of the annual Guildhall Festival. On this day, students from all disciplines come together to display their creative talents.
19 Guildhall School’s acting programmes are for students BA Honours in who want to become professional actors. Innovative Acting and unique in their structure and approach, they offer intensive vocational training in the expressive art and practical craft of acting. MA in Acting We aim to produce actors who are from abroad to work with us here. flexible and versatile, able to move with Biographies of some of our teachers are Three years full-time confidence between classical and modern available on the School’s website: theatre, film, television and radio. There gsmd.ac.uk/acting/staff 2,817 applications/26 enrolments is a generous staff-student ratio and an enormous number of teaching hours Our Acting programmes are constantly gsmd.ac.uk/acting with students receiving around 35 hours evolving. They merge the traditions of of contact time each week. classical training with the demands of the profession in the 21st century. Good actors During your training, you will work must have the means, the intelligence with many different teachers and and the need to communicate their directors. Our staff are chosen to understanding of life to an audience. And complement and contrast with each our training reflects this. In all areas we’ll other. Their approaches may vary but encourage you to be an enquiring artist they share a common purpose. Together who can develop your own ideas and they help each actor and each group to communicate them through whatever define, develop and use the processes material you are offered. which are most useful to them. We believe strongly in the ensemble All Guildhall School teaching and approach, with individual actors directing staff have extensive professional working together in a coordinated and experience. They work as a strongly complementary way, each contributing committed team, while maintaining to a powerful shared outcome. We work regular contact with the industry. Some in a collaborative atmosphere and work in the theatre, including the encourage actors to connect emotion, National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare intellect, spirituality and physicality – Company, Shakespeare’s Globe and the and above all to connect with each other West End. Some work in film, television and radio. Many work internationally, – in everything they do. and we sometimes invite guest teachers
Years 1 and 2
The first two years are training years. During this period you will concentrate on acquiring the skills you need as a professional actor. The time is divided between classwork and rehearsal projects. During the first two terms you will spend most of your time in classes, with more time on projects as the programme progresses. Both classwork and rehearsal projects focus on developing and integrating four main areas of study: acting, voice, movement and play texts.
Acting Studies include stagecraft, improvisation, games and storytelling, mime, circus and physical theatre. Classes in voice acting and acting on camera are added later in the training, using the School’s own equipment and TV and radio studios.
20 “It’s an environment where we all have respect for each other – it’s a safe space for you to take risks, try different things and if you fail you learn from the failure and then you get back up and try again. It’s very supportive. At Guildhall, they don’t hold your hand, but they’re going to push you to become the actor that you want to be... I know that the training we get here means I will be prepared for anything that’s thrown my way in the industry, whether it’s radio, film, theatre or TV.”
Daniel Adeosun BA Acting
21 directors. There are also sessions to prepare you for the acting profession, as well as audition showcases regularly attended by agents, and theatre and casting directors.
MA in Acting
The MA in Acting is a three-year full-time programme for students with a university degree who want full professional training in acting. The MA students work in the same classes, rehearsals and performances as the students on the three-year BA in Acting, but with additional tutorials to help them achieve the Masters level outcomes. Entrance is by audition. At the point of audition, no distinction is made between applicants to the BA and the MA. MA students have the same practical training as the BA students. If you study on this programme, you Voice Studies cover voice and speech will take additional modules to develop classes, poetry and prose, singing, your critical and reflective skills. You phonetics, dialects and a great deal of will also be required to achieve more work on language, including Shakespeare. demanding learning outcomes and a higher standard overall. Movement Studies cover pure movement, movement improvisation including animal studies and mask work, Preparing for the profession period dance and 20th century dance, showdance, acrobatics and stage combat. In their final year, all Guildhall Acting students are given clear guidance on starting out in the profession. There are Acting Research investigates plays and regular talks, workshops and visits by theatre forms representative of the major theatre directors, agents, casting directors, periods of Western theatre, as well as tax advisers and Equity representatives. examples from world drama. These are Actors currently working in the profession explored within their cultural contexts. are involved as professional mentors in the final year. The Department also provides Rehearsal projects enable you to bring a specialist Career Consultant to assist your skills and knowledge together as you in the transition from training to you rehearse a broad repertoire, usually professional life. including medieval mystery plays, works by Chekhov and Shakespeare, Greek tragedy and musical theatre, in Audition showcases preparation for an internal showing. During the final year you will prepare showcases of modern and classical Year 3 speeches and scenes. These are attended by a large number of agents, directors and By the third year, you will be technically casting directors, giving you the chance proficient vocally and physically. You to perform in front of key professional will have developed your own working representatives. processes. Most of your time will be spent rehearsing and performing to the public and to potential employers. You will work Equity membership on around five productions, playing a wide variety of roles in plays of varying Students who have the right to work in styles, working with several different the UK are eligible to become student
22 members of British Actors’ Equity, Find out more the actors’ trade union. They will automatically be granted full membership Students from a wide range of ages and when they complete their training. backgrounds are selected on merit by audition. It is not necessary to have any previous acting experience. After training Given the adult nature of some Former Guildhall School acting students programme content, applicants need to can be seen in a wide variety of work, demonstrate at audition and interview including film, TV and theatre (including the West End, the Royal Shakespeare sufficient intellectual maturity to gain Company and the National Theatre). full advantage from the educational The Department maintains very strong experience on offer. There is no upper links with its alumni. See pages 24-25 for age limit. profiles of some of our established and recent graduates. Visit gsmd.ac.uk/acting for further information on teaching staff, audition requirements, Open Days and how to Other courses apply. You are advised to apply as early as possible. The Acting Department also runs a selection of short courses, including the Preliminary Acting Course, an intensive 12-week course which offers a broad basis upon which to begin actor training. See page 116 for details.
23 Some of our Acting alumni
Hayley Atwell (2005) Orlando Bloom (1999) Daniel Craig (1991)
Michelle Dockery (2004) Lennie James (1988) Lily James (2010) Sarah Lancashire OBE (1986)
Damian Lewis OBE (1993) Ewan McGregor OBE (1992) Alfred Molina (1975) Nikesh Patel (2010)
Simon Russell Beale CBE Lesley Sharp (1982) Dominic West (1995) Jodie Whittaker (2005) (1983)
24 called Invertigo. Winner of a Thief. He then went on to alongside Glenda Jackson and Recent Deutsche Bank Award for appear in feature films The Riot has also performed at the Creative Enterprises, they have Club with fellow Guildhall Liverpool Playhouse and the graduates produced a number of plays alumni Douglas Booth and Park Theatre. staged at various venues Freddie Fox, and Pride, including the Arcola Theatre, alongside Bill Nighy and Tom Glynn-Carney (2016) the Pleasance in Edinburgh, Dominic West. He is a frequent Tom left Guildhall in his final and the Finborough Theatre. collaborator with Oliver Stone, year to star in Christopher Steffan has also appeared in appearing in his films Warcraft Nolan’s Oscar-winning film several productions at and Snowden. Forthcoming Dunkirk, and is set to play Shakespeare’s Globe and work includes the lead role in Christopher Wiseman in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, the upcoming TV adaptation upcoming biopic Tolkien. working with directors of The Truth About the Harry He won the Emerging Talent including Dominic Dromgoole Quebert Affair. Award at the Evening and Michael Longhurst. Standard Talent Awards 2017 Kate Phillips (2014) for his performance in Jez George Blagden (2011) Paapa Essiedu (2012) Kate’s first role after Guildhall Butterworth’s award-winning George won parts in the Paapa took the title role in was Jane Seymour in the play The Ferryman. feature films of Les Misérables the 2018 RSC production of BBC adaptation of Wolf Hall, and Wrath of the Titans before Hamlet, a major casting opposite fellow Guildhall Claudia Jolly (2016) being cast as Athelstan in following a series of stage roles alumnus Damian Lewis. She Since graduating, Claudia the History Channel Series, at theatres including the Royal has since gone on to appear in has appeared in On Chesil The Vikings. His latest role Court, Trafalgar Studios, the the BBC dramas War and Peace Beach, NW and as Mariarose is Louis XIV in BBC Two Arcola, the Finborough and and Peaky Blinders, and Netflix in Eleanor Ferrante’s drama Versailles. He has also the Orange Tree. His role as series The Crown, as well as Neapolitan Novels on BBC appeared in the Netflix series Fenton in the RSC production on stage in The Crucible at Radio 4. She was recently cast as Katherine Draper in the Black Mirror. of The Merry Wives of Windsor West Yorkshire Playhouse. Old Vic’s production Girl from earned him a nomination for the North Country by Connor Kurt Egyiawan (2011) the Ian Charleson Award. Amber James (2015) Kurt won the Spotlight Prize McPherson, with music and He also won critical acclaim Amber’s first major role lyrics by Bob Dylan, alongside after graduating and has since when he stepped up as after graduating was Hero in appeared in prestigious fellow alumna Shirley understudy to take over the Much Ado About Nothing at the Henderson and Ciarán Hinds. productions at Shakespeare’s role of Edmund in the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch. Globe, the Donmar Warehouse National Theatre’s production She then performed as Lucetta Akpore Uzoh (2016) and the Young Vic. He has also of King Lear halfway through and Panthino in The Two played roles in a number of After graduating, Akpore a performance. He is a Gentlemen of Verona which wrote and performed in his feature films including Skyfall, co-founder of Invertigo played at Shakespeare’s Globe own play ADITL; A Day in directed by Sam Mendes, and Theatre Company. and Liverpool Everyman the Life, with the 4orward Beasts of No Nation. before touring internationally. Movement theatre. The play Sophie Khan-Levy (2013) Currently she is performing won Akpore the Audience Emily Berrington (2012) Soon after graduating, Sophie as Cleopatra, Lavinia and Award 2017 at the Alfred After appearing in Michael was cast in Love’s Labour’s Lost Dido for the RSC. Fagon Awards, which Winterbottom’s film The Look and Love’s Labour’s Won for recognise the achievements of Love and the play Children’s the RSC and in Fracked! Or: Leonie Benesch (2016) of contemporary black Children at the Almeida Please Don’t Use The F-Word at Leonie has appeared in a British playwrights. Theatre, Emily was cast in the Chichester Festival Theatre. number of German television final series of the BBC comedy She starred as Ursula in productions including Babylon Samuel Blenkin (2017) Outnumbered. She has since Swamp Studio’s site-specific Berlin, as well as appearing During his final year appeared in the feature film production Night at the in The Crown on Netflix and Samuel was cast as Scorpius The Inbetweeners 2 and the Bombay Roxy, transforming the recent BBC adaptation of Malfoy in Harry Potter and the television series 24: Live the restaurant Dishoom into Howards End alongside fellow Cursed Child, currently Another Day, as well as playing a café and jazz club. Sophie Guildhall alumni Bessie Carter showing at the Palace Theatre, Edward IV’s mistress in the recently starred in the and Hayley Atwell. London. BBC’s historical drama one-woman show Hanna at The White Queen and Niska in the Arcola Theatre which Bessie Carter (2016) Anya Chalotra (2017) Humans for Channel 4. received critical acclaim. Bessie won the 2016 Spotlight Anya appeared as Hero in Prize for Best Screen Actor. Matthew Dunster’s Much Ado Steffan Donnelly (2012) Ben Schnetzer (2013) She has appeared in Cranford About Nothing in 2017 at The After leaving Guildhall School, During his final year at and Doc Martin and most Globe and was nominated for Steffan formed a theatre Guildhall, Ben was cast as recently as Evie Wilcox in Best Actress in a Play at company and production house Max Vandenburg in the Fox Howards End. She was cast in The Stage Debut Awards for with three of his classmates Movie adaptation of The Book King Lear at the Old Vic her performance.
25 26 Music
BMus
MMus/MPerf in Performance (Guildhall Artist Masters)
MMus/MPerf in Performance (Guildhall Artist Masters): Orchestral Artistry
MMus/MComp in Composition (Guildhall Artist Masters)
MA in Opera Making and Writing
MA in Music Therapy
Artist Diploma
27 Key staff Guildhall School is one of the world’s leading conservatoires. Studying music at Guildhall involves Jonathan Vaughan FGS DipRCM(Perf) DipRCM(Teach) intensive, dedicated teaching, mostly one-to-one, in Vice-Principal & Director of Music the instrument or discipline of your choice. Surrounded
Professor Ronan O’Hora FGS FRNCM by actors, stage managers and production artists, you Head of Advanced Performance Studies & will be part of a thriving arts community next door to Head of Keyboard one of Europe’s leading arts centres. You will learn from Louise Hopkins FGS AGSM some of our renowned international teaching staff while Head of Strings collaborating in world-class music making. Richard Benjafield FGS GRNCM PPRNCM Head of Wind, Brass & Percussion At the heart of your training will be an ongoing series of
Armin Zanner MA MPhil(Cantab) MMus intensive, one-to-one and small group sessions with our core staff Head of Vocal Studies of over 400 practitioners and teachers. You will also gain access Dominic Wheeler and exposure to international artists, whose calibre is unequalled BA(Cantab) ARCM(PG) ARCO HonARAM within the sector. By working side by side with the finest visiting Head of Opera international performers, composers and conductors, you will Dr Alessandro Timossi DPhil FGS Head of Music Programmes embark on a learning curve which accelerates your development exponentially. This exposure is designed to help you hone your Jane Booth BMus LRAM Head of Historical Performance skills and develop your responses to performance, giving you the
Malcolm Edmonstone BMus MMus opportunity to fulfil your potential and enrich your artistic life. Head of Jazz Professor Julian Philips Our partnerships with five key organisations – the Barbican FGS MA(Cantab) PhD Centre, the London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Head of Composition Orchestra, the Royal Opera House and the Academy of Ann Sloboda Ancient Music – ensure students benefit from links with the BMus(Hons) (Oxon) PGDipMT Head of Music Therapy profession before they graduate. If you are a performer, there are
Mike Roberts MA opportunities to perform in some of London’s most prestigious Head of Electronic Music & venues. Whatever you study, we will encourage you to work Music Technology with artists from other art forms, as well as those specialising
For a full list of teaching staff and in your field. visiting artists, please visit the Guildhall School website: At Guildhall School we offer a lively, friendly and collaborative gsmd.ac.uk/music community – a community in which we expect you to be a professional from day one. We ask for dedication and commitment, and in return we give you as many opportunities as we can. We are highly regarded for the quality and rigour of our music teaching. We are also renowned for enabling innovation and experimentation and for our unwavering commitment to pushing boundaries in all areas.
Our ultimate goal is to transform you, as a musician and performer, into a fully-fledged creative artist. We aim to make you the finest musician you can be, and in support of this we provide detailed developmental work on inner hearing, performance psychology and artistic interpretation.
28 “I’ve just played a concert in New York’s Carnegie Hall, in the Weill Recital Hall, with two other Guildhall musicians, which was fantastic. I’ve also played in the Barbican for the LSO Platforms series. And playing in front of pianists such as Murray Perahia, Richard Goode and Angela Hewitt has been really inspiring. Guildhall is an institution that knows it has to be connected to the outside world – that’s the key thing. It’s not a bubble. It has roots in the city and in the world.”
Jonathan Ferrucci Artist Diploma Piano
29 We also offer training in large-scale chamber music, new music, historically-informed performance and interdisciplinary practice. During your time at Guildhall School, you will be challenged to become a highly imaginative interpreter and curator; a problem-solver and freethinker capable of working at the highest levels of a fiercely competitive industry.
Preparing you for your career through a sense of artistic citizenship is important to us. You will have the opportunity to think about the social and political impact that the arts have on society and how you might harness these to build your career.
At undergraduate level we offer a four-year BMus programme, with a one-to-one Principal Study in a variety of instruments and disciplines. These range from instrumental and singing training to jazz, electronic music and composition.
If you are considering postgraduate study, you can choose from various programmes and levels of study, with specialisms tailored for specific careers in the industry. These include the Guildhall Artist Masters programme with pathways in Performance or Composition; MA programmes in Music Therapy or Opera Making and Writing; and an Artist Diploma. Opportunities to work with our professional partner organisations are a key feature of many of these programmes, not least the Orchestral Artistry specialism in association with the London Symphony Orchestra. In addition, the Music Department works closely with the Research Department to deliver our doctoral programmes.
30 Whatever programme you choose, you will be able to perform, record, compose and collaborate with a range of ensembles. You can also take part in competitions, public showcases and masterclasses with high profile visiting artists. Our performance facilities are second to none and include the stunning new Milton Court Concert Hall, the largest of the London conservatoire concert halls with state-of-the-art acoustics.
Throughout your studies at Guildhall School, we will encourage you to use your craft to benefit others, not just yourself. Believing strongly in the power of music and art to transform people’s lives, we offer training for all undergraduate music students in participatory community settings. In order to be a 21st century musician, you will need a broad portfolio of skills. We will provide the direction and support to prepare you for this exciting, enriching profession.
Performance
Studying music at an internationally-renowned conservatoire means you can become immersed in a world of performance from day one. Whatever your instrument or specialism, Guildhall School provides a host of opportunities for you to perform, record and collaborate (and if you’re a composer, to hear your own works performed).
Public performances Guildhall presents a full public programme of student concerts, opera and recitals, often in excess of over 100 every term. These are marketed to London audiences and feature Guildhall musicians from undergraduate level all the way through to Artist Diploma students. Some concerts are streamed online, and many are reviewed by critics from the national press. Visit gsmd.ac.uk/events for an overview of these exciting performance opportunities.
Ensembles There is a vast array of Guildhall ensembles, from the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Chorus, New Music Ensemble and Chamber Orchestra to wind ensembles, brass bands and chamber groups. You will also find dedicated ensembles for jazz and historical performance, or you can form your own ensemble. Read more about recent ensemble activities in our Principal Study pages (48-75).
31 Competitions Guildhall School offers music students the chance to enter numerous competitions, the most prestigious of which is the Gold Medal, the School’s most significant prize. Previous Gold Medal winners include Jacqueline du Pré, Tasmin Little, and Bryn Terfel. You will also be encouraged to enter external competitions whenever possible and appropriate. See our Principal Study pages (48-75) for news of recent prize winners.
Masterclasses In keeping with our global credentials, we play host to masterclasses from international visiting artists. These are free to attend and often open to public audiences. We are a collaborative institution, and our partnerships with the Barbican and the London Symphony Orchestra also lead to regular masterclasses and artist conversations with leading orchestral players, conductors and solo artists. See our Principal Study pages (48-75) for news of recent masterclasses.
Our facilities and venues Guildhall School venues are designed to accommodate performance of every kind. Our Milton Court Concert Hall is the largest conservatoire concert hall in London, with state- of-the-art acoustics and technical facilities. A regular venue for Guildhall musicians, it is also used by the Barbican’s two Associate Ensembles, the Academy of Ancient Music and Britten Sinfonia, whose concerts are often broadcast on BBC Radio 3. Solo recitals, chamber music and medium-sized orchestral performances all take place here.
32 Opera productions are staged in the Silk Street Theatre, a large, flexible theatre space with orchestra pit, and also occasionally in Milton Court Theatre. Other venues include a smaller Music Hall, a Lecture Recital Room and a performance space in the basement of the nearby Sundial Court, particularly suitable for jazz.
As a Guildhall musician, you will have access to over 80 solo practice studios, several medium-sized ensemble rooms, electronic music studios and recording facilities. The recording studio can accommodate small- to medium-sized chamber, jazz and contemporary ensembles. It is used for workshops, portfolio recordings and CD production to fully professional standards. You will also be able to produce demo DVDs, both in the recording studio and in the performance spaces.
33 Cross-arts collaborations Collaboration is a major part of our approach to teaching and learning. We break down traditional boundaries and challenge convention, giving you the chance to collaborate with students from other art forms. If you join us as an undergraduate, you will work with students on the Acting and Production Arts programmes during the first year workshop project. And each year, our facilities are handed over to students for an entire day of informal showcases as part of the annual Guildhall Festival. On this day, students from all disciplines come together to display their creative talents.
Performing in London, the UK and beyond Our location in the heart of the City’s Culture Mile, and our partnerships with the Barbican and London Symphony Orchestra, mean we offer exciting performance opportunities in some of the capital’s finest venues. The Guildhall Symphony Orchestra and Chorus perform regularly in the 2,000-seat Barbican Hall, while chamber musicians give recitals there as part of the acclaimed LSO Platforms: Guildhall Artists series. The Barbican’s Church of St Giles Cripplegate and LSO St Luke’s are also regularly used for performances.
We are involved in performances in prestigious venues across London, such as Kings Place, Wigmore Hall and the Southbank Centre. Further afield, recent performances have taken place at Aldeburgh Festival, New York’s Carnegie Hall, and the Banff Centre in Canada.
Additionally, students get involved in Guildhall School’s extensive programme of Outside Engagements. These are paid events, where students perform at company and corporate functions, wedding services, receptions and family occasions, and deliver full recitals and concerto performances for music clubs and societies.
34 35 The BMus programme is centred around world-leading BMus one-to-one tuition for performers, composers and
Strings, Wind, Brass, Percussion, electronic musicians. Its principal aim is to develop your Keyboard, Vocal Studies, ability as a practical musician. Composition, Electronic Music, Jazz, Early Instruments At least two-thirds of the programme is opportunities. A Joint Principal Study focused on students’ Principal Study pathway is available if you want to Four years full-time areas, promoting personal and artistic combine two areas of Principal Study. development by providing at least 653 applications/133 enrolments 30 individual lessons a year with our renowned professorial staff. The Years 1 and 2 gsmd.ac.uk/music programme also offers over 100 hours of additional lessons, including practical In addition to Principal Study and tutorial classes, chamber coaching, workshops and groups, students follow a small number of projects with high profile conductors and Academic Studies and Creative Learning artists, and opportunities to perform in elective modules. These will give you the some of the country’s finest venues. essential building blocks you need as a musician, including analysis, aural and From the start, you will be treated like a collaborative skills, harmony, history, jazz professional musician. Our students are workshop and keyboard musicianship. given all the support and encouragement In Year 1, you will also take a module they need to prepare for life in the in Professional Studies, which explores industry. They also get the chance to broader topics such as performance establish contacts and gain exposure psychology and health and wellbeing, as via our partnerships with organisations well as improvisation and communication such as the Barbican, London Symphony skills. In Year 2, you will follow a module Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra and in Conducting. Academy of Ancient Music.
As you learn to work effectively and Years 3 and 4 creatively with others, you will also be given plenty of time for individual study In Years 3 and 4, Principal Study continues and reflection. to be the main focus. But in Year 3 you can choose one of more than 15 electives in See our Principal Study pages (48-75) Academic Studies and Creative Learning, for further information on instrument- with a further two from 20 electives in specific tuition and performance Year 4 to complete your studies (see box). Those who achieve high level results in Principal Study can take Advanced Elective modules Principal Study and Advanced Ensemble (Elective modules offered may vary. to pursue their performance practice to an Some are available in Year 4 only.) even greater degree. Advanced Ensemble Opera & Theatre Advanced Principal Study PianoWorks Short Term Music Programme Advanced Techniques in Composition Research Project Big Band Arranging Second Study We also have an undergraduate level Short Term Programme, for those on a gap Body Matters Workshop Skills year or looking to study abroad. Running Brass & Wind Arranging from September to February each year, Composition for Media the programme provides six months of Conducting intensive music tuition as a Guildhall Electro-Acoustic Music School student, focused on Principal Historical Performance: Performance Study tuition and musicianship skills. Historical Performance: Principles & Research Find out more Interpretation through Improvisation Introduction to Music Therapy Visit gsmd.ac.uk/music for further Jazz Performance information on teaching staff, audition Music, Philosophy & the Arts requirements, Open Days and how to apply.
36 “For me, the best thing is the variety of the course, and doing lots of different and exciting things. One minute you could be playing in the Guildhall Studio Orchestra with jazz musicians, the next you could be playing in the opera pit, then the next minute you’ll be with actors doing the musical and then playing a symphony in the orchestra. You’re doing all these amazing, different projects at the same time. And it’s great being around people who are studying loads of different things. You’re not just around musicians, you’ve got a bit of variety.”
Millie Ashton BMus Violin
37 Studying for a Guildhall Artist Masters in Performance MMus/MPerf in prepares you for entry to the profession at the highest level. Performance It gives you technical facility and musical flexibility, allowing (Guildhall Artist you to explore and refine your individual artistic voice. Masters) This programme is all about developing as closely with our partner organisations, Strings, Wind, Brass, Percussion, an intelligent musician and practitioner; particularly the Orchestral Artistry Keyboard, Vocal Studies, Opera about challenging yourself and taking specialism delivered in association Studies*, Repetiteur, Piano risks within your field of expertise. The with the London Symphony Orchestra Accompaniment, Chamber Music, School will provide you with a learning (see page 40). Jazz, Historical Performance Practice, environment that enables you to recognise Orchestral Artistry and nurture your strengths. Professional specialisms *Opera Studies is full-time only, and Part 1 We respect creativity and a desire to learn, takes two academic years and want you to recognise and surpass Within the Performance pathway, your limits. As part of this development students study one of our professional Part 1 (MMus) process, you will receive feedback from specialisms according to instrument and One year full-time/two years part-time a variety of sources. To ensure you gain area of interest: self-reliance and the confidence to further Part 2 (MPerf) your career independently, we prioritise Advanced Instrumental Studies One year full-time individual study and reflective practice. (Strings, Wind, Brass, Percussion, Keyboard) Progression to Part 2 is conditional on See our Principal Study pages (48-75) Intensive study for soloists and ensemble results from Part 1 for further information on instrument- players specific tuition and performance 662 applications/136 enrolments opportunities. Chamber Music (Strings, Wind, Brass, Percussion, Keyboard) gsmd.ac.uk/music At Guildhall Artist Masters level, the For pre-existing groups and individuals opportunities for professional exposure who wish to hone their skills in are even greater. You will study with at chamber music least one of our world-class professors. Your final recitals will be assessed by Historical Performance Practice leading experts. You will work with Embracing music from the Middle Ages internationally-renowned conductors to the Early Romantic period and artists. And you will perform in some of the country’s finest venues. Many Jazz specialisms within this programme work Intensive specialism for instrumentalists and singers Elective modules Opera Studies Our award-winning specialism offering Interpretation through Improvisation Additional Principal Study advanced operatic training Aesthetics & the Philosophy of Art Introduction to Fugue Analysis Jazz Composition & Arranging Orchestral Artistry in association Baroque Studies Jazz Improvisation with the LSO Body Matters Medieval & Renaissance Studies (Strings, Wind, Brass, Percussion) Ground-breaking specialism placing Chamber Music Music for Media students seeking a career in orchestral Classical Studies Opera & Theatre playing alongside LSO players and Collaborative Practice: PianoWorks international artists – see page 40 Cross-arts Contexts Research in Performance, Composition Collaborative Practice: or Leadership Piano Accompaniment Education Contexts Song Accompaniment Intensive study in collaborative pianism Conducting Song Interpretation (for singers) Repetiteur Stylistic Composition Counterpoint Specific repetiteur study for pianists Dramatised Song & Poetry Voiceworks within the Opera Department Electronic-acoustic Music Historical Performance: Principles Vocal Studies & Research Advanced study for singers who can specialise in areas of particular interest
38 Further information on our professional specialisms can be found in the Principal Study pages (48-75).
Part 1 (MMus)
In Part 1 most of your time is spent on your one-to-one Principal Study. But you will also take modules on topics relevant to your professional life such as research, self-reflection, and professional artistic development. In addition, you can choose Part 2 (MPerf) from a variety of Academic Studies and Creative Learning electives to broaden and In Part 2, even more of your time is focused deepen your musical expertise (see Elective on Principal Study, with the remainder modules box opposite). of the programme allowing time for a critique of your personal development.
Extended Guildhall Artist programme
An extended programme is available to postgraduate applicants with potential whose Principal Study is not yet at BMus (Hons) level. This programme includes an introductory year of Principal Study, and awards a Graduate Certificate to successful candidates who don’t progress on to the full programme.
Short Term Music Programme
We also have a postgraduate-level Short Term Programme which provides six months of intensive music tuition as a Guildhall School student, focused on Principal Study tuition and musicianship skills.
Find out more
Visit gsmd.ac.uk/music for further information on teaching staff, audition requirements, open days and how to apply.
39 Orchestral Artistry is an exciting professional specialism MMus/MPerf in for exceptional instrumentalists seeking a career in Performance orchestral playing. Part of the Guildhall Artist Masters programme, it offers a course of study which is both highly (Guildhall Artist distinctive and ground-breaking in scope, in a context Masters): akin to a professional environment.
Orchestral Artistry The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), • Masterclasses and chamber coachings, Resident Orchestra at the Barbican, attracts either as an observer or a performer, In association with the London outstanding players from all over the with a variety of LSO players Symphony Orchestra world. Under Music Director Sir Simon • Q&A sessions, masterclasses and Rattle, it has an enviable roster of soloists, chamber coachings, either as an conductors and regular artists who feature observer or a performer, with in its 50 London concerts every year. international artists working with the LSO. Pierre Boulez famously described the orchestra as ‘an ensemble of possibilities’ In addition, members of the Barbican Strings, Wind, Brass, Percussion – and Orchestral Artistry embodies International Associates (such as this challenge. The programme focuses Concertgebouw Orchestra, Leipzig Part 1 (MMus) One year full-time on orchestral training, education and Gewandhaus Orchestra and Los Angeles outreach and early career support for Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic Part 2 (MPerf) One year full-time the orchestral players of the future. We and Jazz at Lincoln Center) deliver a Progression to Part 2 is conditional on value an entrepreneurial attitude to the number of masterclasses throughout the results from Part 1 arts; not only will you master your craft, year, enhancing the international flavour you will acquire the skills, knowledge of the School and providing insight into 91 applications/22 enrolments and capabilities you need to become a the playing styles and sound-worlds of high-achieving 21st century performing these renowned ensembles. gsmd.ac.uk/music artist. As part of the programme, students receive individual tuition from Guildhall School’s professors or an LSO player who Part 1 (MMus) is also a Guildhall professor. They can also participate in: Orchestral Artistry focuses on excellence in performance, core musicianship skills • Orchestral training, sectionals and and leadership and communication. audition training from Guildhall In the first year of the programme, in professors and a variety of LSO players addition to one-to-one lessons you will receive coaching from LSO players and Guildhall professors in orchestral sectionals, audition experience, and instrumental classes. There will also be masterclasses from LSO players and international soloists. You will have sit-in opportunities, either listening or playing alongside LSO players in orchestral rehearsals, plus access to a wide variety of educational concerts and workshops.
Part 2 (MPerf)
If you progress to Year 2, you will be given more autonomy in arranging your own assessed projects, as well as continuing activities from the first year. The second year is strongly focused on further development of technical and artistic abilities. Breadth of repertoire, individual creative output and professional experience are also key features. Students in both years can
40 “The benefits of a close relationship with an orchestra such as the LSO cannot be underestimated: as a student, your standards and perspectives are always being stretched. Whether it is in sit-in rehearsals, side-by-side projects or chamber orchestra sessions, the LSO players not only offer invaluable guidance but lead by example and provide us with a glimpse of the exceptional standards we aspire towards.”
Rees Webster MPerf Oboe (Orchestral Artistry)
41 take part in the LSO’s education and A diverse programme of core modules, community programmes such as LSO On and elective modules in Part 1 (see page Track and Early Years Outreach, as well 38) from the Guildhall Artist Masters as Creative Learning projects. This will programme will enable you to further enable you to learn how community- develop your skills in practical subjects based programmes are delivered, and research. and to meet professional animateurs, performers and administration teams involved in these projects. Find out more
Performance opportunities on this Visit gsmd.ac.uk/music for further programme embrace a variety of information on teaching staff, audition orchestral contexts, including Symphony requirements, Open Days and how Orchestra concerts in the Barbican, and to apply. the opera orchestra for productions by the School’s acclaimed Opera Department (see page 60). There is a full programme of chamber music, new music, historically-informed performance and interdisciplinary practice.
42 Guildhall School offers some of the most stimulating MMus/MComp and creative training for composers in the UK. Studying in Composition composition at Guildhall Artist Masters level prepares you for professional life as a composer. It allows you to (Guildhall Artist explore and refine your individual artistic voice within the Masters) atmosphere of a busy, modern conservatoire, while also giving you space for self-reflection. Part 1 (MMus) One year full-time/two years part-time The programme is primarily practical Guildhall School has to offer. These and project-based, but you will also be might include working on one of the Part 2 (MComp) supported by weekly analytical and Drama Department’s many productions, One year full-time theoretical seminars. All students are collaborating with the jazz students or Progression to Part 2 is conditional on expected to meet a series of deadlines as developing new work with postgraduate results from Part 1 the year progresses – essential preparation performers and singers. The School’s New for a professional career. Music Society, New Music Ensemble and 25 applications/4 enrolments annual projects with the vocal ensemble EXAUDI, new music specialists Plus- gsmd.ac.uk/music Part 1 (MMus) Minus, collaborative projects in dance at London Contemporary Dance School and During the year, students produce a City Chamber Choir all provide excellent portfolio of compositions supported by a platforms for public performance. The written commentary on the year’s work. Department has enjoyed strong links These core projects include extensive with the London Symphony Orchestra’s workshopping opportunities and Panufnik Young Composers Scheme, LSO performances (see below). Soundhub, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s Young Composer programme, While compositional activity will take up which have all featured Guildhall most of your study time, you can also take composers. See the Composition Principal classes in electronic music and writing Study on page 66 for further information for film and television. You can pursue on departmental opportunities. these areas further within the elective programme, which also offers elective modules in areas including performance, Part 2 (MComp) jazz and improvisation, aesthetics and analytical or historical research (see box Exceptional students from Part 1 will be on page 38). given the opportunity to continue their studies into Part 2. During the year, you The programme is built around a central will independently undertake a portfolio strand of weekly seminars, in which of three substantial compositional both staff and visiting composers lead projects alongside your one-to-one discussion and score analysis of recent tuition, strengthening your artistic and contemporary music. An eclectic mix of professional development. composers, musicologists, performers and music administrators cover a range of practical and theoretical topics. Recent Extended Guildhall Artist programme visiting composers include John Adams, Steve Reich, Louis Andriessen, Michael Students who are enrolled on the Finnissy, Rozalie Hirs, Michel van der Extended Guildhall Artist programme Aa, Claudia Molitor, James MacMillan, will need to pass an introductory year Howard Skempton, Jennifer Walshe, Jurg before progressing to Part 1. See page 39 Frey, Cassandra Miller, Martin Arnold, for further details. and Alwynne Pritchard. Prominent publishers, copyists and administrators also offer practical insights into the Find out more music business. Visit gsmd.ac.uk/music for further In addition to coursework, we encourage information on teaching staff, entry students to take advantage of the many requirements, Open Days and how creative and collaborative opportunities to apply.
43 This Masters programme allows composers and writers MA in Opera to focus on how new opera is created, developed and Making and performed. Part of an exciting new partnership between Guildhall School and the Royal Opera House, the Writing programme is led by Julian Philips, Head of Composition, In association with Royal Opera with support from Stephen Plaice, Writer-in-Residence, House, Covent Garden Laura Bowler, composition professor, and other visiting composers and writers.
The programme is coordinated in Additional programme features close collaboration with the School’s include: award-winning Opera Department, its Production Arts Department and the • One-to-one Principal Study tuition for Associate Director of Opera at the Royal One year full-time both writers and composers Opera House. It enables you to acquire • Regular mentoring sessions for the first-hand experience of the day-to-day 12 applications/6 enrolments composer-writer creative teams from workings of the Royal Opera House. Drama Department professors At the same time, you will receive gsmd.ac.uk/music • Weekly production seminars, with individually-tailored one-to-one tuition presentations from visiting writers, from the School’s Writer-in-Residence, composers and directors Stephen Plaice, or from a member of • Two blocks of creative development the School’s world-class Composition time for composers and writers to Department. Through mentoring and workshop their new chamber operas as observation, you will gain valuable they develop insight into how to work successfully • Observation of contemporary opera in in opera with conductors and directors, rehearsal and production both on the singers and instrumentalists, designers main stage and in smaller spaces at the and stage managers. Royal Opera House • Performance opportunities for smaller- scale project work through the School’s The programme Vocal Studies and Drama Departments • A professorial post of Writer-in- Specifically focusing on operatic Residence, Stephen Plaice, appointed to composition and the theatre, the core lead the Writing pathway, supporting programme activity supports writers and and supervising writing students on composers to work collaboratively on the programme the creation of a new chamber operatic • Electives including Electro-Acoustic work (20-25 minutes in duration). This Music, Aesthetics, Research and Writing piece will be rehearsed, produced and for Performance premiered by the Opera programme in Guildhall School’s new Milton Court Studio Theatre. Additional projects allow Find out more writers to focus more specifically on their own creative practice – whether poetry, Visit gsmd.ac.uk/music for further prose or dramatic script – and composers information on teaching staff, entry to develop their craft in writing for requirements, Open Days and how the operatic voice. For both writers to apply. and composers, this programme offers valuable performance opportunities for new work across Guildhall School’s Music, Acting and Production Arts Departments. All students will become equipped with appropriate expertise in the professional context of new opera.
44 “There isn’t anything quite like this course out there. The departmental philosophy of returning opera back to something that is essentially produced as part of a company is a really great thing. People here are very passionate about what they do.”
Klara Kofen (writer) MA Opera Making and Writing
“The quality of teaching is amazingly high. With the guidance and help that I’ve been given, I feel my work has got dramatically better over a short space of time. We get a lot of helpful input from experienced practitioners which has really lifted the quality of our work.”
Lucy Armstrong (composer) MA Opera Making and Writing
45 The Music Therapy Masters programme aims to realise MA in Music students’ full musicianship potential and equip them Therapy with the knowledge and skills to work as a registered music therapist.
Two years full-time On this programme, students gain communication. This tuition will experience working with adults and be complemented by one-to-one 31 applications/10 enrolments children alongside qualified music conservatoire-level training in your therapists on placements in a variety of Principal Study, and supporting Second gsmd.ac.uk/music settings including special and mainstream Study lessons with the School’s teachers. schools, and with people who experience: The programme provides access to leading specialists in improvisation and an active • Mental health problems research community, with the possibility • Dementia of participating in research events. • Learning disabilities • Communication disorders You will be prepared for employment in health, education, social and community The programme is influenced by psycho- service and the voluntary sector. Graduates dynamic approaches to therapy, which are eligible to register as Arts Therapists means that all music therapy students with the Health and Care Professions undertake their own personal therapy Council (HCPC) and as professional during training. A high degree of self- members of the British Association for reflection and self-awareness is required, Music Therapy. and gaining experience of personal psychotherapy prior to training is highly recommended. Year 1
Studying Music Therapy at Guildhall Clinical practice is central to the training. School is a unique experience. You Students gain clinical experience in at will join one of the world’s leading least two different placement settings in conservatoires, receiving an intensive Year 1, supervised by HCPC-registered programme of lectures and seminars music therapists at hospitals, special to provide therapeutic and theoretical schools and units in and around London. knowledge, weekly keyboard This is supplemented by clinical seminars, musicianship, improvisation and theoretical studies, and musicianship skills voice classes to ensure you acquire to support and integrate the clinical work. highly developed skills in musical
Year 2
Placements in Year 2 provide a balance to Year 1, offering extended and in-depth experiences supported by further clinical seminars and professional practice classes. The core module in Applied Theoretical & Research Studies introduces students to the meaning, purpose and value of research applied in a music therapy context and leads to the submission of a research proposal and research project report.
Find out more
Visit gsmd.ac.uk/music for further information on teaching staff, entry requirements, Open Days and how to apply.
46 This programme is for advanced students with exceptional Artist Diploma individual aptitude in their specialism and represents academic progression post-Masters degree. It provides Strings, Wind, Brass, Percussion, specialist, professional training for students looking to Keyboard, Vocal Studies, Opera embark on an international career. Studies (including repetiteurs), Historical Performance At the end of the two-year programme, Further information on departmental you will be assessed on your performance opportunities at this level is available on Two years full-time in a fully-staged opera production or the Principal Study pages (48-75). 130 applications/18 enrolments full-length ticketed evening recital in Milton Court. Repetiteurs, meanwhile, Entry is limited to applicants who have gsmd.ac.uk/music will undergo a 60-70 minute assessment gained a distinction following completion split between a public recital and a private of a two-year Masters of Music degree mock audition. You will be involved in (e.g. MPerf) or international equivalent. performances throughout both years, from platforms to formal and informal recitals and productions. You will also Find out more be expected and encouraged to be active outside the School if your visa allows, Visit gsmd.ac.uk/music for further taking proactive steps to promote your information on teaching staff, audition freelance career. requirements, Open Days and how to apply.
47 The Department of Stringed and students receive at least 45 hours Principal Study Instruments emphasises individual of individual lessons a year. Intensive tuition underpinned by chamber and chamber music coaching is also central Strings, Harp & orchestral coaching. Led by Louise to the Department’s ethos and is made Hopkins, the Department is supported available to all string players. Guitar by a staff of pre-eminent performers and teachers, including Imogen Barford The Harp Department combines as Head of Harp and Robert Brightmore individual teaching of the highest Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass, Harp, as Head of Guitar. Recent visitors calibre with a stimulating and extensive Guitar include Midori, DaXun Zhang, Anne- course of study for harpists. Work in Sophie Mutter, Thomas Riebl, Janine weekly classes covers every aspect of Jansen, Leonidas Kavakos, and principal harp playing, including orchestral, players of the London Symphony chamber music, practising and Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, teaching skills, jazz and improvisation, Leipzig Gewandhaus and Royal contemporary musicianship, light music Concertgebouw Orchestras, and the and contextual studies. New York Philharmonic. The Guitar Department offers comprehensive training at the highest Undergraduate level in both solo and chamber music performance. The central part of the BMus programme is the solo repertoire of the (See page 36 for programme structure) last four centuries. During the second year students take theorbo lessons which lead Performance is a core component of to continuo work. And in Years 3 and 4 the Strings Principal Study pathway chamber music and concerto playing are essential parts of the syllabus.
Postgraduate
MMus/MPerf in Performance (See page 38) – choose from the specialisms listed below:
Orchestral Artistry in association with the London Symphony Orchestra See page 40 for details of this exciting new specialism.
Advanced Instrumental Studies This specialism is for players wishing to focus intensively on instrumental and musical progression. It involves a high number of contact hours in individual lessons with your Principal Study professor. In addition to the optional Chamber elective there are a range of chamber music performance opportunities as this is a primary focus within the School. There is also a broad range of orchestral projects (opera, chamber, symphony, new music, baroque) where a wide variety of styles and techniques can be explored.
Chamber Music This specialism focuses on the development of core chamber music skills.
48 • Solo, chamber and orchestral • Cavatina Chamber Music Trust masterclasses Intercollegiate Competition • Jazz, Early and Contemporary Harp • Gisborne International Music • Harp Teaching Skills Competition • Strings at Six and Chamber at Six • Borletti-Buitoni Trust performance series • Royal Philharmonic Society Young Artist Award • Royal Over-Seas League Chamber Music Prize Recent Department • ChamberStudio Mentorship • Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal highlights Standard Life Competition • Melbourne International Chamber • String masterclasses with Erich Music Competition Hobarth, Gary Hoffman, Midori, • Sylva Gelber Foundation Award Alban Gerhardt, Nobuko Imai, DaXun • British Harp Chamber Music Zhang, Bret Simner, Tim Cobb, Anne- Competition Sophie Mutter, Thomas Riebl, András • The Gwendolen Mason Cup at the Keller, Janine Jansen, Nikolaj Znaider, Bromley Festival Leonidas Kavakos, Bruno Giuranna, • Giovani Musicisti International Music Regular coaching is provided by a mix Gordan Nikolic, Donald Weilerstein, Competition of departmental staff and visiting Gary Hoffman, Zuill Bailey, Christian • Ivor Mairants Guitar Award artists. The specialism is designed for Tetzlaff, Ediscon Ruiz, Elmira • American Protégé International Piano individuals and existing groups with Darvarova, Pavlo Beznosiuk (Baroque and Strings Competition considerable chamber music experience, interpretation) and Extended String with the aim of developing students’ Techniques for contemporary music In addition, students have been skills to a professional level. with David Alberman selected for the Orchestra of the Age • Harp masterclasses with Marie-Pierre of Enlightenment Ann and Peter Law Artist Diploma Langlamet, Nancy Allen, Sivan Magen, OAE Experience Scheme, the LSO String (See page 47) Isabelle Perrin, Anneleen Lenaerts, Experience Scheme, Philharmonia MMSF Chantal Mathieu and Sylvain Basel String Fellowship Programme, Pro Corda MPhil/DMus, MPhil/PhD • Masterclasses with leaders of the Leverhulme Fellowships, IMS Prussia (See page 106) Barbican’s International Associate Cove and as Young Classical Artists orchestras, including the Los Angeles Trust artists. Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw and Leipzig Gewandhaus orchestras, Activities and and the New York Philharmonic Former students are members of leading • Performances by senior student string chamber ensembles and orchestras ensembles quartets in pre-London Symphony internationally, and many are among the Orchestra concerts on the Barbican most sought-after performers and teachers • Principal Study lessons Hall stage in the profession. • Intensive chamber music coaching • Joint projects with the Composition (inter- and cross-departmental) Department, where string and piano • Public solo and chamber music concerts students work with composers, • Solo and chamber music competitions resulting in the performance of newly Find out more • Participation in New Music Ensemble created works Visit gsmd.ac.uk/music for further (by audition) • A dedicated and recently refurbished information on teaching staff, audition • Second Study (by audition) double bass room and harp room, as • Repertoire orchestra well as storage lockers for basses requirements, Open Days and how • Side-by-side reading sessions with to apply. members of professional orchestras • Studio orchestra • Chamber and Symphony Orchestra Recent student projects, with orchestra sectional rehearsals led by London Symphony successes Orchestra players • String Labs and Professor Platform Students in the Department have recently lecture/workshop series, featuring a been prize winners in the following broad range of topics competitions: • Internal performance platforms designed to enhance performance and • Trondheim International Chamber boost confidence Music Competition
49 “Being on the Masters programme is really amazing. The most important thing is that there’s proper, structured practice time and I’m finding that really invaluable. We have so many contact hours with our Principal Study teacher which is absolutely golden. I’m really enjoying chamber music this year. I set up a piano trio when I arrived, and we have weekly coaching with members of the Endellion Quartet and the faculty, which is an opportunity to delve deep in to quite a small body of repertoire. It has been very rewarding.”
Leo Popplewell MMus Cello
50 The Wind, Brass & Percussion Department The shaping of this pathway will depend Principal Study provides exciting opportunities for on your skills and ambitions. There are learning and performing, with a world- opportunities to pursue further study Wind, Brass & class team of instrumental professors in contemporary, jazz or early music who are leaders in solo, chamber and through Second Study, specialist classes Percussion orchestral performance. Led by Richard and performances. Collaboration is a key Benjafield (Head of Department) and Jo element, and you can work with both Hensel (Deputy Head), the Department’s the Drama Department and Creative Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn, programmes will enable you to achieve Learning during the programme. Trumpet, Trombone, Tuba, Timpani & the very highest levels of musical Percussion, Saxophone, Recorder performance. You will also be supported Throughout your time at Guildhall to develop your musicianship, technique School, you will receive mentoring and professional skills, and to nurture the support and classes in professional creativity and enterprise required of 21st and practical skills to prepare you for century musicians. professional life. Many Guildhall alumni enjoy successful careers in music and the arts, both in the UK and internationally: see pages 76-77 for recent examples. Undergraduate Saxophone BMus Focusing on the versatility and (See page 36 for programme structure) musical diversity of the contemporary saxophonist, saxophone students study Each student’s journey through classical and contemporary music, jazz, Guildhall School is an individual improvisation and musical theatre, one. The Wind, Brass & Percussion clarinet and flute. Department (WBP) offers a rich and diverse programme of opportunities Recorder that will enable you to become the very Recorder students study medieval best musician that you can be. As you to contemporary music, perform progress, you will have lessons with a with the School’s consort Woodwork range of Principal Study professors as and collaborate with the Historical well as with your main professor. You Performance Department. will also study doubling instruments to help improve your flexibility and employability as a musician. Postgraduate Chamber music and several orchestral repertoire classes are timetabled every MMus/MPerf in Performance week, and all students take part in these. (See page 38) – choose from the specialisms listed below: Wind, Brass & Percussion runs ensembles and classes for all instruments, with Orchestral Artistry in association with the regular performances both in the School London Symphony Orchestra itself and externally. There are frequent See page 40 for details of this exciting masterclasses by visiting artists on solo, specialism. chamber and orchestral repertoire, including a regular series of masterclasses Advanced Instrumental Studies given by players from the Barbican’s Advanced Instrumental Studies (AIS) International Associate Orchestras – is for talented students who want to another benefit of our partnership with develop their individual artistic voice the Barbican Centre. There are also annual with a particular focus on selected instrumental competitions, a weekly WBP repertoire. Applicants for the AIS choir, and performance projects open to specialism are expected to have a high all students. level of instrumental ability and musical understanding, and a broad knowledge Progressing through the programme, of repertoire for their instrument. AIS you will be able to develop your students take part in weekly departmental own individualised study pathway classes, chamber music, and orchestral in consultation with the Head of and ensemble performance projects Department and your professors. throughout the year. The intended focus
51 • Wind Brass & Percussion Spotlight concert series by ensembles and soloists, pre-LSO concerts in the Barbican Centre, Saxophone and Brass concerts at King’s Ely, and performances in the BBC Total Immersion Radio 3 contemporary series • Guildhall sackbut students toured and recorded in Canada with the Choir of Girton College, Cambridge • Guildhall Percussion Ensemble and Ubu Ensemble (Simon Wills, conductor) performed at The Rest Is Noise Festival at the Southbank Centre • The opening of the Geoffrey Gilbert Flute Room, in memory of former professor Geoffrey Gilbert who taught James Galway and William Bennett; the room houses Gilbert’s personal collection of music and scores
of study is discussed at the interview, • Audition classes Recent student whether it be solo playing, chamber • Symphony, Opera and Chamber success music, historical performance, or orchestras contemporary music. • Wind, Brass, Percussion and Students in the Department have Saxophone ensembles been prize winners in the following Chamber Music • Recorder Consort competitions: This specialism is for groups with • New Music ensembles considerable chamber music experience, • Historical Performance ensembles • Nestlé and Salzburg Festival Young with the aim of developing students’ • Cross-school collaborative projects Conductors Award skills to a professional level. Regular • Professional Studies (including teaching • Los Angeles Philharmonic Dudamel coaching is provided by departmental skills and business advice) Fellowship in Conducting staff and visiting artists. There are many • Individual mentoring support • Lions UK and Ireland Musician of opportunities to perform in Chamber the Year Platforms, as well as in the School • RTÉ lyric fm Award and externally. • Newark Brass Festival Competition Recent Department • Three Choirs Festival Competitive Artist Diploma Masterclass for Woodwind (See page 47) highlights In addition, students have been selected MPhil/DMus, MPhil/PhD • Masterclasses with over 80 world- annually for the London Sinfonietta (See page 106) leading artists, including: Denis Academy, the LSO Timpani & Percussion Bouriakov, Julien Beaudiment, Academy, and the LSO Brass Academy. Adam Walker (flute); Melinda Maxwell, Olivier Stankewicz (oboe); Activities and Pascal Moragues, Reiner Wehle (clarinet); Rachel Gough, Gustavo Find out more ensembles Nunes (bassoon); Tom Challenger, Visit gsmd.ac.uk/music for further • 45 individual Principal Study lessons Nigel Hitchcock (saxophone); Karel information on teaching staff, audition each year van Steenhoven, Sebastian Marq • Weekly instrumental classes for (recorder); Nebojša Živkovic´, Russell requirements, Open Days and how all students Hartenberger (percussion); Andrew to apply. • Masterclasses with visiting UK and Bain, Olivier Darbellay (horn); Philip international musicians Cobb, Omar Tomasoni (trumpet); • Weekly orchestral repertoire sessions Jörgen van Rijen, Mark Templeton, • Scheduled chamber music coaching Stefan Schulz (trombone); David Cribb and rehearsals every week (tuba); Berlin Philharmonic Wind • Platform performances Quintet, Canadian Brass, So¯ Percussion
52 “It’s a place where lots of mad and cool things happen with all branches of art. It seemed like this was a place to go and experience a complete world of art and performance and see what happened - a place that really encouraged you to make things that you want to make. You’re encouraged to set stuff up off your own back because that’s what you have to do in the industry. I felt a real pull towards Guildhall because of the vast and diverse range of activities.”
Vittorio Angelone BMus Percussion
53 Offering a wide array of solo, ensemble debut Wigmore Hall recital. There are also Principal Study and accompaniment training, the opportunities to participate in the School’s Keyboard Department is headed by the international partnerships with other Keyboard internationally acclaimed pianist Ronan conservatoires and performance centres. O’Hora. Visiting artists have included Leif Ove Andsnes, Emanuel Ax, Imogen Piano Accompaniment Piano, Fortepiano, Harpsichord Cooper, Richard Goode, Stephen This specialism is for students who Kovacevich, Paul Lewis, Murray Perahia want to develop a career in collaborative and András Schiff. pianism. It combines individual technical work, class work on specific skills such as continuo playing, orchestral reductions, coaching and languages, and duo and Undergraduate ensemble work in a variety of situations.
BMus Graham Johnson, Senior Professor of (See page 36 for programme structure) Accompaniment, takes regular public and private masterclasses covering the literary The one-to-one lessons with our piano and musical background to various faculty are at the heart of the Keyboard composers. In keeping with Guildhall Department’s work. You will receive School’s commitment to experimentation 45 hours in the first two years of study, and innovation, Iain Burnside has increasing to 60 in the next two years. initiated several ground-breaking In addition to studying with your own performance projects combining music professor, you will have the opportunity and drama, while Gordon Back regularly to work with most of the keyboard staff directs instrumental concerts. Pianists are in a variety of performance classes, encouraged to take part in chamber music coaching and performances. All students as well as with a large number of have weekly piano lessons and a series of distinguished visitors. classes on various accompaniment skills. Recent masterclasses have been taken by All practical assessments take place Martin Katz, Malcolm Martineau, Julius through performances, whether as Drake and Ralf Gothoni. mid-year and end-of-year recitals, or as concerts of ensemble work with There is a wide range of performance instrumentalists and singers. You will opportunities on the programme, play a concerto with piano in your third particularly at the weekly vocal and year, and have the opportunity to work on instrumental platforms. You may also chamber music, vocal accompaniment, be offered professional accompaniment contemporary repertoire and fortepiano work to help you through your first year with leading performers in these fields. in the profession.
Chamber Music This is a specialised route focusing on the Postgraduate development of core chamber music skills. Regular coaching is provided by a mixture MMus/MPerf in Performance of departmental staff and visiting artists. (See page 38) – choose from the This route is designed for individual specialisms listed below: students and existing groups with considerable chamber music experience, Advanced Instrumental Studies with the aim of developing their skills to a This specialism is for pianists intending professional level. See page 64. to focus intensely on performance and who can demonstrate career potential as a Repetiteur Training soloist or chamber player. You will receive (See page 61) 60 hours of private one-to-one Principal Study tuition over the year, as well as Historical Performance Studies the opportunity to play in masterclasses (See page 62) with a range of distinguished visiting pianists. There are many performance Artist Diploma opportunities both within and outside (See page 44) the School, including competitions such as the Gold Medal and the Guildhall MPhil/DMus, MPhil/PhD Wigmore Recital Prize for an annual (See page 106)
54 preceding LSO concerts as part of • Scottish International Piano Recent Department Guildhall Artists at the Barbican, at Competition Carnegie Hall in New York, and as • Dublin International Piano highlights visiting artists at Banff and Stuttgart Competition • British Contemporary Piano • Masterclasses by Lang Lang, Richard Competition Goode, Imogen Cooper, Simon • Royal Over-Seas League Annual Music Trpcˇeski, Christian Blackshaw, Jeremy Recent student Competition Denk, Emanuel Ax, Paul Lewis, successes • Young Concert Artists Trust (YCAT) Ronald Brautigam, Leon Fleischer, • Kathleen Ferrier Awards Aleksandar Madžar, Rolf Hind, Students in the Department have won Martin Katz, Julius Drake prizes in the following competitions: • Projects for accompanists with Graham Johnson, including The Song Guild, • Leeds International Piano Competition Find out more a small group of singers and pianists • International Chopin Piano Visit gsmd.ac.uk/music for further working with Johnson in song Competition information on teaching staff, audition repertoire; and innovative performance • BNDES International Piano requirements, Open Days and how projects with Iain Burnside combining Competition of Rio de Janeiro to apply. music and drama • RNCM James Mottram International • Faculty Artist Series recitals by Ronan Piano Competition O’Hora, Martin Roscoe, Noriko Ogawa, • Città di Cantù International Charles Owen, Caroline Palmer and Competition Graham Johnson • Enschede International Piano • Student pianists performing as soloists Competition with Chamber and Symphony • Honens International Piano Orchestras, on the Barbican stage Competition
55 Guildhall School is internationally and by Year 4 your development as a Principal Study renowned for its training of singers. At professional is enhanced by the Teaching the heart of our approach in Vocal Studies Skills module as well as encounters with Vocal Studies is the development of each student’s visiting industry figures in Professional individuality as a performer and artist. & Performance Skills. Through an intensive programme of one-to-one lessons, specialist coaching, small-group work, repertoire classes and performance projects, you will Postgraduate develop the knowledge and gain the practical experience necessary to forge Postgraduate singers embark on Vocal your own artistic path. Establishing and Studies at Guildhall with diverse maintaining a healthy, sustainable previous experiences: some come with vocal technique is the central focus of a considerable background in opera and your one-to-one lessons, while coaching, classical vocal performance, others with stage and concert projects and classes expertise in very different disciplines; hone your performing and broader some already have areas of specialism for professional skills. which they are aiming professionally, others wish to develop their artistry at an advanced level with a view to specialising later. The multiple postgraduate study Undergraduate routes cater for this diversity.
Guildhall’s undergraduate programme MMus/MPerf in Performance in Vocal Studies establishes the core (See page 38) – Vocal Studies specialism disciplines necessary for you as a singer in your first years of training. Once Extended Guildhall Artist Masters established, we integrate these in practical You might enter the School on the performance settings. Extended Guildhall Artist Masters if you show strong potential but need a BMus preliminary year to consolidate vocal (See page 36 for programme structure) technique or stage, performance and repertoire skills before progressing to In Years 1 and 2 the foundations are set in the full Masters. In this first year (the regular one-to-one singing lessons, with ‘Graduate Certificate’ year), alongside your a particular emphasis on vocal technique, one-to-one singing lessons and individual together with an array of classes in coaching, a study programme will be repertoire and musicianship, performance devised with your particular training craft and languages. Performance needs in mind. You will be involved in opportunities are plentiful, with in-house appropriate performance projects across showings and Performance Platforms the School and will be able to take part earlier in the programme and public in all postgraduate masterclasses, classes performance projects by Year 2. in repertoire, drama, movement, and Performance Platforms. Years 3 and 4 offer opportunities to take your musical and performing skills to Guildhall Artist Masters the next level: you bring them together (Part 1 & Part 2) in opera, through Introduction to Opera If you are already at an advanced level and the Opera and Theatre elective, and of vocal development with substantial you deepen your experience of vocal previous experience, the Guildhall Artist performance, with specialist repertoire Masters programme in Vocal Studies classes that expand and refine your is designed for you to develop your knowledge of the music and of the spoken professional profile. One-to-one singing and sung languages. lessons at this level aim to develop your vocal-technical abilities, supported by From Year 3 onwards, regular individual individual coaching to further refine your coaching is added to the one-to-one expertise in vocal performance. singing lessons, supporting your integration of music, language and In Part 1 (the ‘MMus’ year) the extensive performance. Performance Platforms range of performance projects offered offer the opportunity to test-run material in the Vocal Repertoire elective and Opera you might be presenting in public, & Theatre elective allows you to specialise
56 “I was excited to cover a role in the UK premiere of Andrew Norman’s A Trip to the Moon in the Barbican, have a solo recital in LSO St Luke’s, and also to sing on the stage of Wigmore Hall where I performed new work by Guildhall composers and writers. It has been amazing to be able to get so many performance opportunities in Milton Court Concert Hall, including as part of the LSO’s This is Rattle festival.”
Mirjam Mesak MPerf Vocal Studies
57 Recent Department highlights
• Masterclasses with Renée Fleming, Joyce DiDonato, Gerald Finley, Dame Felicity Lott, Adrianne Pieczonka, Susan Bullock, Yvonne Kenny, Amanda Roocroft, Roderick Williams, Edith Wiens, Malcolm Martineau, Roger Vignoles, Julius Drake, Martin Katz • Student recitals in Barbican Hall, Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, LSO St Luke’s • Songs at Six and Scenes at Six – two series of rush hour concerts in Milton Court and Silk Street performance spaces • Solo and semi-chorus opportunities in London Symphony Orchestra opera and concert performances with Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Mark Elder, Valery Gergiev, Daniel Harding in key areas of the vocal arts. Alternatively have reached the level of early-career • Projects in partnership with: Royal you can combine non-vocal electives with professionals, with a significant external Opera L’Orfeo and Il Ritorno d’Ulisse vocal electives, as appropriate to your performance profile in opera and/or at The Roundhouse; Voiceworks and professional aims. concert, and exceptional vocal-technical The Prince Consort at Wigmore Hall; and artistic achievement. The flexible Oxford Lieder Festival co-production In Part 2 (the ‘MPerf’ year) your own programme structure allows you to focus Why Does the Queen Die; Juilliard/Royal portfolio of performances both inside on those areas of the vocal arts most Irish Academy of Music co-production and outside of Guildhall is the core of relevant to you and benefit from one-to- Drums and Guns your practical development. In addition one singing lessons, as well as coaching to taking advantage of performance with specialists in whichever repertoire opportunities available at Guildhall, and core languages you require. we expect you to create projects of your Recent student own and make your own professional Encounters with visiting artists and connections that lead to performing industry figures (casting, management, successes engagements. young artist programmes) are on offer Students and graduates of Guildhall’s and may open new professional doors. The intensive work in the Year 1 electives Vocal Studies achieve exceptional success Furthermore, the support structure of the and your Year 2 performance projects on opera and concert stages around the School, including Performance Platforms is supplemented by a full programme world, and can be heard working opportunities, Masterclasses, Professional of advanced classes – some compulsory, with all the major opera companies, & Performance Skills sessions, repertoire others for which you sign up – in drama, concert promoters, festivals and classes and, by special arrangement, in- movement, opera repertoire and song. ensembles. In addition, many appear house projects, enables you to deepen your Masterclasses, Performance Platforms on recordings, television, film and new artistry for continued external success at and Professional & Performance Skills media. Current students and recent an international level of performance. sessions further enhance your professional graduates are also making their mark in a development, with practice performance wide range of young artist programmes, The Guildhall Artist Masters and Artist opportunities, audition skills workshops competitions and awards, some of which and encounters with visiting artists and Diploma programmes also include are listed below. figures from casting, management and the School’s two-year Opera Studies young artist programmes. pathway (page 60) for highly advanced Guildhall Vocal Studies graduates also singers aiming for a specialism in Opera hold key positions worldwide in opera Artist Diploma Performance. Opera Studies students company management, casting, artist (See page 47) who have completed the Guildhall Artist agencies, concert promotion and arts Masters programme may also audition for marketing. Many are leaders in music The highest level of practical study, the Vocal Studies Artist Diploma. education, as teachers and managers the Artist Diploma in Vocal Studies, is at conservatoire, university, secondary for singers who have already attained MPhil/DMus, MPhil/PhD school and early-years levels. Others a Masters level qualification, and who (See page 106) have established their own companies,
58 • European Concert Hall Organisation • Gerald Moore Award 2016 (ECHO), Rising Stars (European Multi- • Llangollen International Musical Concert Tour) Eisteddfod Voice of the Future • Glyndebourne Festival, Jerwood 2017 Finalists Young Artists • Somerset Song Prize 2017 Finalists • National Opera Studio • Scottish Opera, Emerging Artists • Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Rising Stars of Enlightenment Find out more • Georg Solti Accademia • Oxford Lieder, Young Artist Platform Visit gsmd.ac.uk/music for further • Samling Artist Programme information on teaching staff, audition including recently in the music- requirements, Open Days and how technology and non-profit sectors as Recent Vocal Studies students’ successes in to apply. well as performing groups. competitions and awards include: Recent Vocal Studies students’ Young • Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards, Artists successes include: Wigmore Hall, 2016 and 2017 Finalists • Kathleen Ferrier Awards 2016 and 2017 • Royal Opera House, Jette Parker Young Finalists Artists Programme • Gramophone Magazine Young Artist of • Bavarian State Opera, Young Artist the Year 2016 Programme • Kathleen Ferrier Society Bursary for • Frankfurt Opera, Young Artist Studio Young Singers 2016 Finalists • Les Arts Florissants – William Christie • International Opera Awards Bursary Foundation, Le Jardin des Voix • Glyndebourne Gus Christie Award 2016
59 Opera Studies provides intensive acting and stage techniques such as Principal Study postgraduate training for up to 24 singers movement, dance, make-up and drama. and four student repetiteurs at any one As part of the programme you will take Opera Studies time. It offers advanced vocal training and part in workshop productions of scenes operates at a professional level, presenting and fully-staged public productions. a range of productions, from opera scenes And you will receive dedicated language and chamber opera to three full-scale coaching and career guidance. operas over the two years of study. You must have a developed vocal In 2007 the Opera Department won technique to enrol on this specialism. the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for the Vocal maturity and your potential quality of its work and its innovative for development will be taken into training programme. consideration.
Your training in stage techniques and musical coaching will be overseen by Postgraduate experienced visiting professionals. In addition to vocal and dramatic training, MMus/MPerf in Performance the Department puts on three full (See page 38) – choose from the public productions each year and three specialisms listed below: programmes of operatic excerpts in workshop settings, developed in full Opera Studies partnership with the Production Arts The Opera Studies specialism provides Department. In the summer term, you with singing lessons, individual these collaborations include new work coaching in roles and repertoire, and by composers and librettists on the
60 MA in Opera Making and Writing, in association with the Royal Opera House (see page 44).
Repetiteur Training This specialism is for highly accomplished pianists and sight-readers who have experience of accompanying singers and knowledge of the operatic repertoire.
Run from within the Opera Department, this is a one- or two- year programme offering a number of study components. These include accompanying opera production rehearsals and coaching singers on the Opera programme. You will also undertake individual coaching and training in repetiteur techniques, as well as harpsichord tuition and continuo playing, piano lessons and language coaching. Accompanying coaching sessions and introductory training in opera conducting are available for those who are interested. • Help Musicians UK, Maggie Teyte Prize Recent student and Miriam Licette Scholarship Artist Diploma • International Singing Competition of (See page 47) successes Logroño, Spain • International Josep Mirabent I Magrans Students in the Department have won competition prizes in the following competitions: • Jackdaws Music Education Trust, Recent Department Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards • Staatsoper Berlin, Opera Studio Young • Oxford Lieder Young Artist Platform productions Artist Programme • Clonter Opera Theatre, Opera Prize and • English National Opera, Young Artist Audience Prize • Poulenc Dialogues des Carmélites Programme • Patricia Routledge National English • Menotti The Consul • Bavarian State Opera, Young Artist Song Competition • Handel Radamisto Programme • Houston Grand Opera, Eleanor • Philips The Tale of Januarie (world • Royal Opera House, Jette Parker Young McCollum Competition for premiere) Artists Programme Young Singers • Stravinsky Mavra and Tchaikovsky Iolanta Graduates have secured roles with: • Martinuº Ariane and Alexandre bis • Britten The Rape of Lucretia • Opera Holland Park Find out more • Wolf-Ferrari Le Donne Curiose • Henze Ein Landarzt and Phaedra • Staatstheater Nürnberg Opera Studio • Clonter Opera Theatre Visit gsmd.ac.uk/music for further • Donizetti I Pazzi per Progetto and information on teaching staff, audition Arnold • Garsington Opera The Dancing Master requirements, Open Days and how • Dvorˇák The Cunning Peasant • Grange Park Opera to apply. • Arne The Cooper and Stradella San • Glyndebourne Festival and Giovanni Battista Touring Opera • Welsh National Opera
Students in the Department have won prizes in the following competitions:
• Royal Over-Seas League Annual Music Competition • Kathleen Ferrier Awards • MOCSA Young Welsh Singer of the Year • London Handel Festival, Handel Singing Competition
61 Exploring a broad range of historical Principal Study repertoire, the Historical Performance Postgraduate Department is headed by Jane Booth. Historical MMus/MPerf in Performance It provides a wide variety of performance (See page 38) – Historical Performance Performance opportunities, ensembles and specific specialism performance craft sessions, often in collaboration with other departments. Artist Diploma Encompassing all historical wind, string Features of this Principal Study area (See page 47) and keyboard instruments, and vocal include our thriving partnership with study, ranging from the medieval to post- the Academy of Ancient Music MPhil/DMus, MPhil/PhD classical periods (c.1830). (providing masterclasses, audition (See page 106) experience and side-by-side rehearsals and performances), and our continuing Study at this level is aimed at graduates partnership with The Sixteen through (both university and conservatoire) with the Guildhall Vocal Consort. an interest in exploring the creative potential of specialised performing techniques. Students focus on the music, instruments and documentary Undergraduate sources of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical and Early Romantic BMus periods. The postgraduate programmes (See page 36 for programme structure) are also suitable for those modern instrumentalists with an interest in At BMus level the Early Instruments diversifying their skill-set by developing Principal Study pathway is for students a command of period playing styles. wishing to approach their studies from a historically-informed perspective. If The combination of specialist tuition and you choose this Principal Study, you detailed guidance in research techniques will explore a broad range of repertoire enables you to approach period music from medieval times to the present day in a historically-informed manner. It through detailed investigation of the also allows you to underpin your high- ever-changing aesthetics and contexts level performance skills with in-depth of the performance of Western classical academic knowledge. You will be given music. This includes sacred, secular and unique opportunities to explore the some popular genres. It also explores contrasting sound worlds of different the distinct approaches to improvisation musical periods and develop expertise in that inhabit all periods and styles. The diverse playing styles and apply performer-as-creator dimension is them creatively. applied thoughtfully, drawing on texts and source material from each successive period of musical history. Activities and As you progress through the four years, the focus of the programme changes to ensembles embrace and build on the knowledge • Guildhall Consort – Eamonn Dougan and skills acquired through your study. • Guildhall Baroque Orchestra – You can choose to specialise exclusively in Pavlo Beznosiuk period instruments or to mix period and • Guildhall Cantata Project – modern. Collaboration is also encouraged, James Johnstone and you can work with other departments • Baroque Opera Scenes to push boundaries and explore new • Guildhall Cornett and Sackbut possibilities. You will receive specialist Ensemble – Jeremy West/Emily White individual and group tuition on historical • Guildhall Classical Winds – Jane Booth playing and/or singing styles and develop • Guildhall Double Reeds – bespoke research skills (for example, Gail Hennessy accessing and using specialist archival • Guildhall Recorder Consort – sources and organological approaches). Ian Wilson Provision for Second Study and ensemble • Guildhall Viol Consort – Liam Byrne experience is also available. • Guildhall Lutes & Voices
62 • Guildhall Renaissance Band • Performances with the Academy of Competition, and another won the • Guildhall Medieval Ensemble Ancient Music as part of the Deal Royal Over-Seas League Annual Music • Masterclasses with international artists Festival in 2015, 16 and 17, including Competition with the period instrument • Specialist source classes in Medieval, The Spirit of Venice involving the string quartet, Consone. Renaissance, Baroque and Classical School’s cornetts, sackbuts, strings period performance practice and and recorders (with the choir of Our students and alumni are also well historical techniques Canterbury Cathedral), and Bach represented on the Handel House Talent • Research skills, repertoire exploration, Cantatas directed by John Butt Scheme with current students, fellows notational principles, tunings and • New instruments, including a or recent alumni selected for the scheme temperaments, performance skills, harpsichord by Malcolm Rose, every year since its inception. Baroque gesture and movement Klop chamber organ, new bows in collaboration with luthier Tim Doctoral student Emily Baines was Richards and two Baroque cellos by Musical Director for Shakespeare’s Clive Morris Globe’s production of Nell Gywnn Recent Department (Shakespeare’s Globe, London’s West End and English Touring Theatre), while highlights cellist and gambist Vladimir Waltham Recent student was selected by Dutch organisation • Masterclasses with Richard Tognetti Jumpstart Jr. for career development and (Australian Chamber Orchestra and success the loan of instruments. Anna Gschwend guest director of Academy of Ancient graduated in 2017 and regularly Recent Department graduates have Music), Richard Egarr on Mastering performs worldwide as soloist with joined leading ensembles, including the Auditions, Emma Kirkby, Edward La Petite Bande under Sigiswald Kuijken Academy of Ancient Music, Gabrieli Higginbottom, Jacob Heringman (Belgium). and Principals from the Academy of Consort, Dunedin Consort, The English Ancient Music Concert, Tenebrae, Armonico Consort, • A critically acclaimed Barbican Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment performance of Vivaldi’s Juditha (orchestra and chorus), La Serenissima, Find out more Triumphans (Magdalena Kožená in Shakespeare’s Globe and the Dufay the title role) in November 2016 Collective. Others have progressed to Visit gsmd.ac.uk/music for further included the Guildhall Consort doctoral study. information on teaching staff, audition (“the choral singing from the requirements, Open Days and how Guildhall Consort was exquisite. Three ensembles of current and former to apply. Staggering, all of it, from start to Guildhall School musicians were finish.” The Guardian, 5 stars). selected for Early Music Live!, part of • Residency with Aisslinn Nosky (The the Brighton Early Music Festival. One Handel and Haydn Society, Boston) of our students also recently won the including masterclasses and chamber Audience Prize at the York Early Music music performance side-by-side project • Faculty Artist Recitals by Mahan Esfahani and Mhairi Lawson • Joint research event in conjunction with ResearchWorks, Performing Topics in Mozart’s Chamber Music • ‘Gamba plus’ project with Masters- level composition students • Combattimento, The Masque of Time, and El Armonya de los tres mundos – music and drama entertainments devised by Andrew Lawrence-King • Victoria and Albert Museum – students joined Viol Professor Liam Byrne in performances during his museum residency • Cantata Projects performed in concert series at Hatchlands Park, Blackheath Concert Halls, St Martin-in-the-Fields, London Handel Festival and Tilford Bach Festival, including a semi-staged performance of John Blow’s Venus and Adonis
63 Chamber Music is a postgraduate groups with considerable chamber music Principal Study specialism for students who wish to hone experience, with the aim of developing their listening and interpretative skills students’ skills to a professional level. Chamber Music in small chamber group combinations. Groups can consist of any combination In other postgraduate specialisms, of three players or more, with weekly chamber music is still considered a core – Open to all standard chamber group coaching from Principal Study staff and but non-compulsory – skill and regular combinations first preference for coaching with visiting engagement is strongly encouraged. ensembles and artists. In Keyboard and Advanced Ensemble electives provide Strings Departments, students choosing to substantial training in chamber music work on major duo repertoire may also skills. Cross-departmental chamber be assessed. work is considered as important as more traditional and school-specific Chamber Music also forms a core strand combinations. of other Principal Study instrumental courses of study, offering almost unparalleled coaching and a wide range of performance opportunities. Regular Activities and coaching is provided by international teaching staff and visiting chamber ensembles musicians. Though each school of study may have slightly different requirements, • Regular coaching and lessons from core the core ethos is on fostering individual Chamber Music staff engagement and responsibility within • Regular coaching opportunities from a small chamber group, challenging visiting artists and groups and developing interpersonal skills and • Masterclasses with international musical dialogue. visiting artists and chairs of chamber music • Active chamber music exchange programmes with University Postgraduate Mozarteum, Salzburg and New England Conservatory MMus/MPerf in Performance • Chamber music prizes offering external (See page 38) – Chamber Music specialism performance opportunities • Annual performing opportunities in The main focus of the Chamber Music Portugal and Spain specialism is the development of core chamber music skills. The pathway is designed for individuals and existing Recent visiting ensembles and artists
• Endellion Quartet - Visiting Quartet in Association • Takács Quartet - International Visiting Artists • András Keller • Ralf Gothoni • Heath Quartet • Gould Piano Trio • Danish String Quartet
Recent Department highlights
• Masterclasses with Takács and Endellion String Quartets • Meet the Performer series with
64 Endellion String Quartet and Gould Piano Trio Recent student and Find out more • Masterclasses by András Keller, Ralf Gothoni, Vivien Weilerstien, Thomas alumni successes Visit gsmd.ac.uk/music for further Reibl, Erich Hobarth, Robert Kulek information on teaching staff, audition • Performance projects/side-by-side Ensembles from the Department have requirements, Open Days and how workshops with Nicholas Daniel, been recognised in the following: to apply. Andrew Marriner and Janine Jansen • Public recitals involving staff/student • Selection as Young Concert Artists collaborations throughout the year and Trust (YCAT) Artists within the Guildhall Chamber Music • Melbourne International Chamber Summer Festival Music Competition • Pre-London Symphony Orchestra • Trondheim International Chamber recitals at the Barbican Music Competition • BBC Total Immersion projects in • Cavatina Intercollegiate Chamber Milton Court Concert Hall and at Music Competition the Barbican • Hattori Foundation Awards • Exchange performances at University • Martin Musical Scholarship Mozarteum Salzburg, and the Austrian Fund Award Cultural Forum, London • June Emerson Launchpad Prize for • Ground-breaking project with the Wind and Brass ensemble Decoda, training groups in • Park Lane Group Young Artists delivery of workshop skills • The Tunnell Trust Awards • Ensemble concerts at HARMOS • ChamberStudio Mentorship Festival, Portugal and Torroella, Spain • Three annual internal chamber music competitions
65 Guildhall offers some of the most your fellow students in the School or by Principal Study stimulating and creative training for professional, world-renowned visiting composers available in the UK. Our ensembles and soloists. Composition guiding principle is that composers should develop in collaboration with The Techniques strand is intended to technically-proficient, sympathetic equip you with a high level of skill and instrumentalists under the expert expertise in the craft and technique of guidance of experienced practitioners. musical composition. In the first two years, topics range from harmony and We make a commitment to workshop counterpoint to pastiche composition. They also include a 20th century materials every composition that you write. And course informed by core concepts in 20th by studying at a conservatoire you and 21st century harmonic and rhythmic will benefit from a range of unique practice, as well as equipping you with opportunities. These include access to practical knowledge and experience in performers, a creatively active team of working with percussion. In addition, staff composers, and a host of external there is a creative ensemble element partners. There is also the chance to which challenges student composers to study inside a lively arts complex and form their own performing ensemble, take advantage of Guildhall School’s offering a chance to engage with ideas multi-disciplinary environment. Every and possibilities of experimental, and Guildhall student is encouraged to take often transmedial practice. an innovative and collaborative approach, and you will be part of a constant, cross- Topics in Years 3 and 4 range more widely departmental flow of ideas, skills and and include aesthetics, workshop skills creativity encompassing Music, Acting and orchestration. In all four years of and Production Arts. Techniques work, student composers also take classes in electronic music and analysis. Undergraduate At the heart of the programme is the workshop process. We make a BMus commitment to workshop every piece that (See page 36 for programme structure) you write, from your first exercises for one or two instruments, to full ensemble and Guildhall School’s undergraduate orchestral pieces in your third and fourth Composition pathway is intended to year. This programme thrives on close support the creative development of partnerships with other Guildhall School departments, and all undergraduate composers, whatever your interests or composers are encouraged to develop sources of inspiration. There is no ‘house their skills and experience by working style’. We are not looking for one kind of collaboratively as creative artists. composer. Consequently, our community
of student composers is very diverse but with a shared sense of commitment, purpose and mutual respect. Postgraduate
The BMus Composition pathway is MMus/MComp in Composition built on two complementary strands of (See page 43) academic activity: Original Composition and Techniques. Original Composition MA in Opera Making and Writing activity follows a four-year trajectory (See page 44) that builds from small-scale chamber projects in Year 1 (monody, duo, voice MPhil/DMus, MPhil/PhD and instrument, percussion ensemble), (See page 106) through the more ambitious demands of working with wind quintet, string quartet and 14-piece ensemble. The journey culminates in Year 4 with the composition of works for full orchestra, vocal ensemble and live sounds and electronics. All compositions are workshopped either by
66 “The atmosphere at Guildhall is very unlike the atmosphere at other conservatoires. It is always vibrant and alive. Of course I knew about the fantastic tutoring and resources as well, but the friendly and stimulating environment clinched it for me. Being an undergraduate Composition student at Guildhall means perfect balance between freedom and routine. It is very easy to get lost in the realm of our creative mind when composing, so a regular and challenging timetable like we have at Guildhall is vital in bringing us back down to earth and into real life.”
Eden Lonsdale BMus Composition
67 poet-composer collaborative project. This project culminates with concerts of new vocal works at both Wigmore Hall and Guildhall School • Royal Opera House, Covent Garden – the Guildhall Composition Department has a major partnership in place for the development of contemporary opera. Every two years, the Royal Opera House stages a new opera by Guildhall School- Royal Opera House Composer-in- Residence (see page 106), while students on the MA in Opera Making and Writing programme (page 44) enjoy formative creative opportunities at the Royal Opera House • London Contemporary Dance School – each year MMus students collaborate with choreographers to develop new works which receive two public performances at The Place, an important centre for contemporary dance • Getting it Right - three international • Work placements for undergraduate conferences focusing on the culture Activities and composers via the Professional and challenges of contemporary Studies module music performance, convened by ensembles • City Chamber Choir Composer-in- Julian Anderson Association: each year, one Guildhall • Finnissy at 70 – a weekend of events in • Individual lessons: 30 hours a year for School composer is appointed as celebration of Michael Finnissy’s 70th BMus and MMus/MComp students; Composer-in-Association to the City birthday, presented by Guildhall School 25 hours a year for MA Opera Making Chamber Choir, an association which in conjunction with EXAUDI and Writing students, plus production offers creative development and a • New Opera Days – two one-day classes and mentoring London premiere of an a cappella conferences held in the Barbican’s Pit • Open Sessions: a series of weekly choral work Theatre, focusing on the development presentations given by both staff and • London Symphony Orchestra/ of contemporary opera distinguished visiting composers, London Philharmonic Orchestras: the to discuss current concerns, ideas Department has good connections and aesthetic questions relating to with both institutions and supports its contemporary music student composers to apply for either Recent successes • Workshops: all student compositions the London Symphony Orchestra’s Na’ama Zisser (Guildhall School/ are performed and rehearsed in formal Panufnik Composers Scheme or the Royal Opera House Composer-in- workshops, providing composers London Philharmonic Orchestra’s Residence 2015-18) with a broad range of feedback and Young Composer programme In 2015, Na’ama Zisser was appointed as response, and a richer perception of Philip Venables’ successor as Guildhall their creative ideas in real time School/Royal Opera House Composer- • Departmental classes and seminars: the Recent Department in-Residence (see page 106). Her new undergraduate programme includes opera, Mamzer Bastard, exploring the a substantial series of departmental highlights relationship between Jewish Kantorial classes, while postgraduate and singing and traditional operatic singing, doctoral students take part in seminars • Workshops with EXAUDI, CHROMA, was staged by the Royal Opera House at • Creative Ensemble: made up of BMus and Plus-Minus ensembles Hackney Empire in June 2018. Years 1 and 2 student composers who • Q&As with visiting composers are encouraged and supported to work including Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Philip Venables (Guildhall School/ experimentally, using their John Adams, Louis Andriessen, Royal Opera House Composer-in- own cohort of composers as a Michel van der Aa, Steve Reich, Residence 2013-16) performing ensemble Helmut Lachenmann and Philip Venables’ new operatic version • Guildhall New Music Ensemble, which Tristan Murail of Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis received presents a concert each term curated • Wigmore Hall Voiceworks - each its world premiere at the Lyric by a Guildhall School composition year the Department works with Hammersmith in May 2016, in a new professor or visiting composer poets from Birkbeck College on this production staged by the Royal Opera
68 House, and went on to win the UK Composer-in-Association from 2013 to Theatre Award for Achievement in Opera, 2016. In 2017, his orchestral work The the Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Air, Turning received its premiere by the Large-Scale Composition, and a British BBC National Orchestra of Scotland, Composer Award. Venables’ latest work, conducted by Ilan Volkov. Finnis received The Gender Agenda, premiered at the a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for re-opening of the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Artists in 2012, and was Composer-in- before performances across Europe. Residence at the 2013 Chelsea Music Festival in New York City. LSO Panufnik Composers Scheme In recent years, Guildhall School graduate Mark Simpson (Composition 2012) composers featured in this scheme have Mark Simpson is Composer in included Gonçalo Gato, James Hoyle, Association of the BBC Philharmonic. Daniel Kidane, Jack Sheen, Donghoon His oratorio The Immortal was premiered Shin, Michael Taplin and Alex Tay. by the BBC Philharmonic at the 2015 Manchester International Festival to Oliver Christophe Leith immediate critical acclaim. Other works (Composition 2014) with orchestra include Israfel, premiered Oliver Christophe Leith has had works by the BBC Scottish Symphony performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra, sparks commissioned for the Bushra El Turk (Composition 2006) Orchestra, the Orchestra of Opera 2012 Last Night of the Proms and A Selected by the BBC as one of the most North, and London Sinfonietta. He is a mirror-fragment… written for the Royal inspiring 100 Women of Today, Bushra participant in Sound and Music’s Next Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. has written various works for the concert Wave scheme and a member of the His first opera Pleasure was hall, dance, theatre and multi-media, LSO Soundhub scheme. In 2014 he was commissioned by Opera North, the performed and broadcast on radio and awarded a Royal Philharmonic Society Royal Opera and Aldeburgh Music television worldwide. Her pieces have Composition Prize, and in 2016 won a and premiered in 2016. His music is been performed by ensembles including British Composer Award. published by Boosey & Hawkes. the London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Raymond Yiu (Composition 2014) Francisco Coll (Composition 2011) Symphony Orchestra, Royal Opera Raymond Yiu’s work includes The London Francisco Coll made his BBC Proms House, London Sinfonietta, Birmingham Citizen Exceedingly Injured, written debut in 2016 with Four Iberian Contemporary Music Group, Manchester for the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and Miniatures for violin and chamber Camerata, and more. Her music is The World Was Once All Miracle, which orchestra by Augustin Hadelich and published by Composers Edition. was premiered by Roderick Williams, the Britten Sinfonia under Thomas the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Adès. The same year saw the premiere of Christina Athinodorou Sir Andrew Davis in 2018. His piece Mural by the Orchestre Philharmonique (Composition 2005) Symphony was premiered by the BBC Luxembourg under Gustavo Gimeno, Christina Athinodorou’s work has been Symphony Orchestra at the 2015 BBC and a new Harpsichord Concerto for featured in festivals worldwide, including Proms season. Northwest Wind, written for Mahan Esfahani and Britten Sinfonia. the Biennale di Venezia, Grafenegg and premiered by Lontano, won a British Coll’s opera Café Kafka received its Composer Award in 2010. London premiere at the Royal Opera Festival, MITO SettembreMusica, ISCM House in 2014. His music is published World New Music Days-Wien Modern, Edmund Finnis (Composition 2013) by Faber Music. Salle Pleyel, Onassis Cultural Center, Edmund Finnis has enjoyed particularly Music Biennale Zagreb, Festival d’Aix-en- close associations with the London Matthew Kaner (Composition 2010) Provence, deFilharmonie Chamber Series. Sinfonietta, who have variously Matthew Kaner was BBC Radio 3’s She won the Prix de Jury and the Coup performed, toured and recorded six of his Embedded Composer in 3 during de Coeur du Publique in the composition works, and the London Contemporary their 70th anniversary season in 2016; competition Île de Créations in 2013 for Orchestra, with whom he was his residency involved the writing her orchestral work, Interméde pour une of over ten new works, which were mer jamais vue, which is published by premiered on air throughout the period. Éditions Durand. His orchestral work Encounters was premiered at the Lucerne Festival in 2017 with Jeffrey Means and the Festival Academy Orchestra. Matthew was the Find out more recipient of a Roche Young Commission from 2015-17, and won the Royal Visit gsmd.ac.uk/music for further Philharmonic Society Composition Prize information on teaching staff, entry in 2013. He is a professor of composition requirements, Open Days and how at Guildhall School. to apply.
69 The Electronic Music Department lesson with one of the Department’s Principal Study provides a range of specialist disciplines expert professors, allowing for a totally within which to study a wide array individualised approach to developing Electronic Music of produced music and sound, from skill and artistic excellence. This core experimental Sonic Art to mainstream approach is supported by a range of Film Scoring. All disciplines commence common techniques classes and whole- Electronic Music, Film Music, Sonic with a broad curriculum - exploring a full department creative workshops. Arts, Game Audio, Live Electronics, spectrum of styles and genres inherent in Popular Music Production, New Media the field - before becoming increasingly Electronic Music disciplines are studied specialist as the programme progresses. on a par with more conventional While students within particular instrumental disciplines at Guildhall. disciplines work to a common core This means that musical output forms curriculum, the actual content of study the backbone of assessment, and not the is uniquely tailored to the individual technological process – although you student through folio content, specific will progress through a series of projects project roles and chosen studies in which demand ever-increasing technical common techniques. competence and understanding.
Major projects undertaken by the Department reflect real-world scenarios Undergraduate as closely as possible. In fact, many of the projects are real commissions, BMus which form an important part of early (See page 36 for programme structure) career development. The Department has had regular involvement with Electronic Music represents one of the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s Total the largest growth areas in the music Immersion events, Barbican public event industry today, and suitably skilled electronic musicians can enjoy a programmes and partnerships with high wealth of vocational opportunities. profile external organisations such as the Our approach is deliberately vocational, Glastonbury Festival, Wigmore Hall and reflecting the distinctive character of the National Trust. Recent partnerships conservatoire training. include EMI Production Music, Native Instruments, and the electronic Uniquely, Guildhall School offers instrument developer, ROLI. Electronic Music as a one-to-one Principal Study in one of seven specialist disciplines. Cross-departmental collaboration and Students receive a weekly one-to-one experimentation are actively encouraged. All Electronic Music students work regularly across year groups through a series of collaborative projects within weekly creative workshops. Regular visiting professionals further enrich the curriculum with vital insights into the realities of working as a full- time musician.
Activities and ensembles
• Weekly one-to-one tuition in specific disciplines • Weekly cross-year and cross-discipline creative workshops focusing on artistic projects • Weekly common techniques seminars • Termly collaborative projects • Regular partnerships with external organisations, venues and clients
70 Collinson (AIR), Trevor Wishart, DAW facilities ensures that our music Electronic Music Robert Henke, Richard Tognetti and reaches far beyond the studio. Kathinka Pasveer. disciplines • Numina, Revolution 360 and Towards the Mean installations at the Barbican Centre Our disciplines reflect specific career • The Gift installation with Melanie Recent alumni paths that demand a specialist technical Manchot at the Bloomberg Space and artistic focus. Students choose one • Music for the Waddesdon Manor We have a graduate employment rate discipline on entry to the School to set Imaginarium of over 95% , based on recent graduates’ the bias of their studies, but this does not • Performances as part of A Scream and an careers two years after leaving. The exclude incorporating elements of other Outrage curated by Nico Muhly at alumni profiles and links below provide disciplines, as appropriate, to your unique the Barbican further insight into the breadth and scope career aspirations. For example, a student • Collaboration with Central Saint of this dynamic programme: studying Film Music may wish to also Martins animation students incorporate elements of Game Audio as a Ben Hayes complimentary skill. Students preferring benhayes.net a more general curriculum across all areas will find the Electronic Music discipline Department Ben Laver most suitable. benlavermusic.co.uk and • Electronic Music: a broad curriculum facilities CEO of boxoftoysaudio.com throughout, involving activity across all disciplines Guildhall School offers dedicated studios Christopher Branch • Film Music: covering all media for Electronic Music students. Our main brainsandhunch.com composition and production (film, studio is specifically designed for the front television, radio, production music etc.) and back end of the production process Emma Williams • Sonic Arts: incorporating electro- (recording and mixing/mastering), conductivemusic.uk/teams/emma- acoustic composition, sound art, featuring an acoustically isolated control williams installations, experimental music etc. room and recording booth. • Game Audio: specialist study of music, Jethro Cooke sound and programming for games We run Quested, Genelec and PMC jethrocooke.co.uk • Live Electronics: for those focusing monitors and have a collection of high on live performance with electronics quality microphones and mic preamps. Jordan Rees (from DJing to experimental A multi-use studio is also available, jordanrees.com performance) providing eight individual editing • Popular Music Production: songwriting workstations that are compatible with the Jon Daou and production across all genres main studio. We use Macintosh computers jondaou.com • New Media: creative musical expression with the following common software: with new technology (instruments, Pro Tools, Logic Pro X, Max/MSP, Jo Wills interfaces, etc.) Sibelius, and IRCAM Forum Software. jowills.com Our main studio also has Cubase, Ableton Transfer of discipline, where this makes and a growing collection of other Raisa Khan sense, is possible. The most likely scenario software to aid compatibility. soundcloud.com/raisakay is a transfer from general Electronic Music to a more specialist discipline as A recording studio, run by staff, serves Seth Scott your artistic direction matures. the entire School, but Electronic Music sethscott.co.uk students can book the live room outside normal operational hours. The live room provides space for medium-sized Recent Department ensembles and houses a Steinway B Find out more grand piano. highlights Visit gsmd.ac.uk/music for further Student intake to the Department information on teaching staff, entry • Projects on The Lodger, The Lost World is carefully proportioned to ensure requirements, Open Days and how and The Adventures of Prince Achmed that access to facilities is excellent - to apply. with Barbican Film representing one of the UK’s best student- • Performances at Glastonbury Festival equipment ratios for programmes in • Performances at the Barbican Centre Electronic Music. • Masterclasses with Harry Gregson- Williams, Steve Reich, Tory Miller, An exciting range of live equipment Imogen Heap, Stephen Endelman, including state-of-the-art DJing rigs, Kevin Kerrigan, Leafcutter John, Rupert ROLI Seaboard Ensembles and portable
71 “Because our Department is small and Barbican is a key partner of Guildhall, we can often get artists who perform there to do a masterclass or project with us, and we often do performances at Barbican events. I once went to a dance concert at the Barbican by Boy Blue Entertainment which I really liked, so I said to Mike, the Head of Electronic Music, that it would be really nice to get the composer and Co-Artistic Director, Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante, in for a masterclass, and now it turns out that I’m studying with him this year! It’s been absolutely amazing. It’s really special.”
Ieva Vaitiekunaite BMus Electronic Music
72 The Jazz Department at Guildhall Principal Study School is one of the most renowned Undergraduate and established of its kind. Now in its Jazz fourth decade, the Department comprises BMus an inspirational team of professors (See page 36 for programme structure) who are uniquely placed to oversee the Voice and all instruments development of creative musicians. One As a student on the BMus Jazz pathway, of their key areas of focus is preparing you join a long and illustrious list of improvising musicians for high profile some of Europe’s finest improvising careers in the music industry; at the core musicians. At Guildhall School we place of the ethos is the teaching of musics your specialism front and centre as we around the jazz tradition, including studio support both your core discipline and and world specialisms. wider musicianship. Through a dynamic and innovative Principal Study lessons provide core curriculum, Head of Jazz Malcolm Edmonstone ensures that students are instrumental and improvisational placed in a supportive and creative training and are tailored to your environment in order to gain the tools individual needs. In addition to they need to thrive as they emerge as the specific jazz training, you will choose artists of the future. The curriculum is an additional study pathway of either broad in both style and discipline, and classical or commercial music. These the Department celebrates the diversity are designed to support instrumental of skill and experience required to forge a and technical development, as well as fulfilling life and career as an improviser. specific notational and interpretative instrumental requirements. Ensemble provision is key to the Department’s output, and students are placed in weekly, tutored bands called Integrated Combos. These sit alongside Postgraduate classes in harmony, improvisation, jazz rhythm, world rhythm, jazz history and MMus/MPerf in Performance style and lineage. (See also page 38) – Jazz Studies specialism
The Department provides a The MMus/MPerf programme is an comprehensive programme of innovative and highly personalised musicianship tailored for improvisers, training arena for musicians at an including classes in aural, transcription advanced level. The programme is and keyboard skills. designed to elevate a student’s core discipline within a wider context of Students’ notational output is nourished enhanced musicianship, providing in a wide-ranging programme of preparation for a career as a contemporary composition and arranging classes, musician. Applications are welcomed from skills-based writing to small group from both performers and composer/ composition, scoring for jazz orchestra arrangers, and Principal Study lessons and strings and woodwinds. may be split between disciplines.
The School is unique in offering a The programme encourages a holistic permanent cross-departmental ensemble approach to musicianship, offering in the form of the Guildhall Studio training in the processes and styles most Orchestra, combining rhythm section, relevant to the 21st century improvising big band, strings, orchestral woodwind musician. Intake is based entirely on and percussion. Alongside this sits the candidate suitability; the Department award-winning Guildhall Jazz Band, the does not run an instrumental quota. Friday Jazz Orchestra and a project-based In addition to core classes, discipline- Ellington band. specific provision ensures regular, intensive contact with the appropriate The study of jazz vocals has long been a professorial team. beacon of the Department’s offering; in addition to bespoke classes in songwriting, MPhil/DMus, MPhil/PhD two regular ensembles exist for students: (See page 106) the Guildhall Jazz Singers and a contemporary a cappella choir.
73 • Guildhall Jazz Singers with Martin Recent Department Speake, Mike Outram, Paul Clarvis, John Ashton Thomas highlights • Performances by Peter Bernstein, Julian Siegel Quartet, Interchange, • A bi-annual Jazz at Lincoln Center Bobo Stenson, Malija Orchestra residence through our • Collaborative relationships with unique partnership with the Barbican key industry and media outlets, Centre; in 2018 this included including BBC, Serious and the London masterclasses with JLCO members Jazz Festival Victor Goines, Kenny Rampton, Marcus Printup and Marion Felder • Masterclasses with Eric Harland, Bobby Shew, Phronesis, New York Voices, Find out more Mike Walker, Kit Downes’ ENEMY, Graviton, Iain Ballamy, Yazz Ahmed Visit gsmd.ac.uk/music for further and Jason Singh, Tariqh Akoni and information on teaching staff, audition requirements, Open Days and how Mark Stephens, Michael Kanan, Finn to apply. Peters, Martin France, Chris Hill • Guildhall Studio Orchestra performances with Dave Arch and Liane Carroll • Guildhall Jazz Band projects with Marvin Stamm, Stan Sulzman, Nikki Iles, Laurence Cottle, Gareth Lockrane, Iain Ballamy
74 “I love how the course at Guildhall gave me the opportunity to explore the more commercial side of music. I love playing jazz but I also wanted to learn about other genres to set me up as a really versatile musician. I had the opportunity to play percussion with the Guildhall Studio Orchestra which gave me the chance to learn from, and play alongside, amazing senior players, as well as to perform with the incredible Liane Carroll. It’s given me a real taste of what I can achieve as a musician.”
Dave Adsett BMus Jazz Drums
75 Some of our Music alumni
Thomas Adès (1989), Alison Balsom OBE (2001), Joby Burgess (2001), Composition Trumpet Percussion
Sa Chen (2001), Piano Sir James Galway OBE Paul Lewis (1994), Piano Tasmin Little OBE (1986), (1960), Flute Violin
Zara McFarlane (2009), Anne Sofie von Otter (1982), Jason Rebello (1989), Kate Royal (2003), Opera Jazz Singing Opera Piano
Jennifer Pike (2009), Violin Sir Bryn Terfel CBE (1989), Roderick Williams OBE Debbie Wiseman MBE Opera (1995), Opera (1984), Composition
76 Mark Simpson performing schedule, Benjamin Appl Recent (Composition 2012) including a recent US tour (Vocal Studies 2015) Mark Simpson’s new opera and Carnegie Hall debut, While still at Guildhall, graduates Pleasure received its world and regular performances at Benjamin was appointed as a premiere in May 2016 at the Wigmore Hall. They received BBC Radio 3 New Generation Lyric Hammersmith, London the Royal Philharmonic Artist 2014-16, and was also in a new production staged by Society Young Artist Award a European Concert Hall the Royal Opera House. 2012 and the 2012 Festspiele Organisation (ECHO) Rising Amongst many recent Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Star for the 2015-16 season. commissions, his orchestral Ensemble Prize. He is now signed to Sony work sparks was premiered by Classical, and released his first the BBC Symphony Orchestra Emma King disc in 2017. Recent recitals at the Last Night of the Proms. (Percussion 2013) include appearances at the Mark was recently appointed Since completing her studies, Schubertiade festival, Wigmore Composer in Association of Emma has been making Hall and deSingel Antwerp the BBC Philharmonic her name known on the UK with Graham Johnson. Alexandra Dariescu Orchestra and also continues music scene as a Cajónero, (Piano 2011) to perform as a clarinettist. with performances at the Anna Pool Selected as one of Forbes His music is published by Glasgow Drum Show in 2015 (Composition 2015) magazine’s ‘30 under 30’, Boosey & Hawkes. and London Drum Show Anna is establishing herself as Alexandra gave her debut at 2016. She joined STOMP one of the UK’s leading the Royal Albert Hall with Emily Dankworth in 2014 and has toured up-and-coming directors, with the Royal Philharmonic (Jazz Singing 2013) worldwide. She also an impressive CV spanning Orchestra in 2013. She won a Emily is a solo jazz artist, worked on the National opera and theatre. After Women of the Future Award performing at venues across Theatre of Scotland's graduating she took the in the Arts and Culture the world including Ronnie production of Our Ladies of Creative Entrepreneurs course category in 2013, Romania’s Scotts, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Perpetual Succour, opening at Guildhall School to develop the 2018 Adelaide Festival Woman of the Year in 2014, and the National Centre for her company, workshOPERA, with the Lost and Found and has released several CDs the Performing Arts Beijing. which commissions and Orchestra and the Steven to critical acclaim, including Along with former classmates performs new opera works. Sater London Showcase. concerto recordings with the Ben Cox, Lewis Daniel and Anna is also a founding Royal Philharmonic Martynas Vilpisauskas, she is member of the Wind-Up Lauren Fagan Orchestra and Royal also part of six-piece a cappella Penguin Theatre Company (Opera 2014) Liverpool Philharmonic vocals group Vive, winners which brings cross-arts Lauren was a member of the Orchestra. Her own of the Voice Festival UK 2013 performances to disadvantaged Royal Opera House’s Jette production, The Nutcracker competition. children in the UK and abroad. and I premiered at Milton Parker Young Artists Programme 2014-16 after Court in December 2017. Alex McCartney Andrea Eklund (Historical which she appeared in (Theorbo & Lute 2013) Performance 2017) numerous Royal Opera House Ben Gernon (Tuba 2012) Alex is continually in demand While still studying as a productions. In 2018 she In 2013, Ben won the as an accompanist and soloist, soprano, the flexibility of performs as Woglinde in internationally acclaimed regularly performing with the Historical Performance Wagner’s epic Ring Cycle Nestlé and Salzburg Festival The English Concert, the pathway allowed Andrea under Music Director Sir Young Conductors Award, and Academy of Ancient Music to pursue further talents as Antonio Pappano. since then has conducted a and Orchestra of the Age of a composer and conductor. string of international Enlightenment, as well as with This led to her writing, Greg Topping engagements including the his own ensemble, Poeticall arranging, and singing the (Bassoon 2014) London Symphony Orchestra Musicke. He also consults for title song to the 2017 film After graduating, Greg and the City of Birmingham historical film and television Moomins and the Winter performed with a number of Symphony Orchestra. In 2014 productions, including the BBC Wonderland. Andrea’s music, UK orchestras including the he made his BBC Proms debut adaption of Wolf Hall, where performed by the City BBC Symphony Orchestra, with the Scottish Chamber he taught actors Damian Lewis of Prague Philharmonic the Hallé Orchestra and Orchestra, and was recently Orchestra, was shortlisted for and Max Fowler to play the the Royal Philharmonic an Oscar nomination. She appointed a Dudamel Fellow lute to a professional standard. Orchestra where he played as now maintains an eclectic with the LA Philharmonic He released his debut album in guest principal bassoon. career, singing baroque opera Orchestra. Ben took up his 2017 to critical acclaim. Greg has entered his position of Principal Guest second year as Principal alongside Nordic folk, and Conductor of the BBC Heath Quartet (No. 2) Bassoon in the composing music for film Philharmonic Orchestra in the (Chamber Music 2013) Ulster Orchestra, with and choirs. 2017/18 season, becoming one Since their fellowship in a recent performance at of the youngest conductors to Chamber Music at Guildhall the Concertgebouw in have held a titled position with School, the Heath Quartet have Amsterdam. a BBC orchestra. quickly built an international
77 78 Production Arts
BA Honours in Production Arts
BA Honours in Video Design for Live Performance
MA in Collaborative Theatre Production and Design
79 Key staff The Production Arts Department at Guildhall School has long been recognised as providing some of the most Ben Sumner DipSM MBA SFHEA NTF innovative vocational theatre training anywhere in the Vice Principal & Director of Production Arts world. The School boasts technical and performance Gill Allen BA(Hons) SFHEA Programme Leader, facilities which are among the best internationally. The BA Production Arts; teaching is practical and production-based; students work Head of Stage Management & Costume on public productions and live events with professional Vanessa Cass FGS BA(Hons) PGCert FHEA directors, designers and conductors, participating in Head of Design Realisation the creation of acclaimed dramas, musicals, operas and Andy Taylor MA GMus PGCE FHEA large-scale open-air video events. Head of Theatre Technology
Stuart Calder FGS CSMGSM FHEA Associate Producer Guildhall School has five professional-standard performance venues with state-of-the-art equipment. These allow our For a full list of teaching and visiting programmes to keep in line with current practice and new staff, please visit the Guildhall School website: gsmd.ac.uk/productionarts theatre technology. Students use the School’s on-site theatres, rehearsal rooms, workshops and costume department to collaborate on major productions and a range of smaller projects and events.
Our programmes have been designed to involve you completely in the complex art of theatre and live performance. They bring together writers, designers, actors, musicians, composers, choreographers, technicians and administrators to achieve fully professional production values. Your training will provide you with a firm practical knowledge of theatre crafts and managerial skills and prepare you for professional life in the theatre and live performance industry.
80 In Production Arts, as in our other departments, we break down traditional boundaries and challenge convention, giving you the chance to work with students from other art forms.
If you join us as an undergraduate, you will work with students on the Acting and Music programmes during the first-year workshop project. And each year, our facilities are handed over to students for an entire day of informal showcases as part of the annual Guildhall Festival. On this day, students from all disciplines come together to display their creative talents.
Programme facilities and teaching support Whatever Production Arts programme you choose, you will receive expert training in our well-equipped, flexible performance spaces:
Milton Court Theatre: a proscenium arch theatre seating 223, with a fully-automated flying system which is unique in theatre schools around the world.
Silk Street Theatre: a flexible theatre seating up to 308 in various formats, including proscenium, promenade, thrust and in-the- round. It has counterweight flying and with its large orchestra pit is the venue for our major operas and musicals.
Milton Court Studio Theatre: a flexible studio theatre seating up to 128. This space has a tension wire grid, allowing easy and safe positioning and focusing of lighting equipment and rigging of scenic elements.
Milton Court Concert Hall: this impressive performance hall has world-class acoustics and can seat up to 608. The concert platform is composed of a series of automated lifts, allowing for a wide variety of formats from solo performances to rehearsals for a full symphony orchestra.
All of our venues are particularly well-equipped for lighting and sound and provide dramatic and adaptable environments. They are stimulating and exciting at the same time as being practical, safe and ideal for learning. As of 2018, Guildhall School offers more performance venues than any other drama school in the UK.
81 Other Guildhall facilities you will use include the scenic workshop, paintshop, props workshop, design realisation studio, costume workshop and dye room, and sound and video editing studios. You will also have access to the lighting and theatre technology lab, stage electrics workshop, and production and stage management offices. Additionally, Milton Court includes new rehearsal rooms, a TV studio and teaching rooms, and a well-equipped computer room.
Core teaching staff There are 21 teaching staff and a further 17 technicians in the Production Arts Department. All the teaching staff have had long and varied careers in professional theatre or live events. The Department maintains current industry contacts via incoming directors, designers and lighting designers, as well as freelance costume supervisors, scenic artists, prop makers, production managers and lighting programmers. It also has strong links with professional colleagues and ex-students working with all major UK theatre and opera companies, productions and suppliers.
Designers and lighting designers who have worked at the School include: Peter Mumford, Dick Bird, Isabella Bywater, Susannah Henry, Mark Jonathan, Libby Watson, William Dudley, Yannis Thavoris, Francis Bradshaw, Takis, Jamie Vartan, Dora Schweitzer, Johanna Town, Hugh Vanstone, Chris Davey and Gareth Owen.
82 “The best thing about studying at Guildhall is the positive and self-challenging environment set out by both the teachers and students. It pushes students to take advantage of the resources and information provided to create work they can stand behind and be proud of. I had the opportunity to work with the BA Video Design for Live Performance course at the School on an installation project located in the chambers below Tower Bridge. It was a completely unique experience that threw lots of unexpected challenges at us that would never be encountered in a traditional theatre setting.”
Liam Strong BA Production Arts (Theatre Technology)
83 The Production Arts programme equips you with the BA Honours in skills you need to enter the theatre industry. We strongly Production Arts believe that your training should be tailored to your individual career aims.
Three years full-time For this reason, you will select one of four Year 2 pathways, each with a different emphasis: 134 applications/36 enrolments From the second year onwards students • Stage Management gsmd.ac.uk/productionarts are immersed in Guildhall School’s • Costume extraordinary productions, working • Theatre Technology (Sound, Lighting, alongside professional directors, Video, Automation and Stage designers and lighting designers on a Technology) full-time basis. • Design Realisation (Scenic Art, Scenic Construction and Prop Making) Year 3 See page 85 for further detail on each pathway. The final year provides you with true exposure to professional theatre and the Within each pathway you can study opportunity to make essential future elements of the other three. For example, contacts. All students undertake leading if you want to learn about props and roles in their chosen fields and some go scenery construction, but retain an on to lead a whole team in a Production interest in lighting, you can choose Management role. You will also complete accordingly. Similarly, you can gain a Graduation Project presented either as experience in sound while focusing a creative project, portfolio or a written paper, plus work experience with a primarily on stage management. The professional company or practitioner. programme is flexible enough to allow for a wide range of interests or a more Throughout the programme you are specialised approach. encouraged to engage with actors, singers and musicians from other programmes to generate your own projects. Key Year 1 development areas which are essential for employment include: The first year of the programme brings all students to the same threshold of • Learning to be part of the team of knowledge. In addition to your chosen technicians, designers, stage managers, pathway classes, you will study a broad costumiers, actors, singers and musicians range of core subjects including theatre working alongside professional history, period style, contemporary directors, designers and conductors, to theatre, health and safety, and stagecraft participate in the creation and public and production process. Classes are usually performance of acclaimed dramas, project-based and students are encouraged musicals and operas to enhance and inform their own work by • Using information technology in engaging with the profession externally. planning and managing productions, For example, when studying trends in you will develop transferable skills in the contemporary theatre you will see a latest Office software, as well as using specialist packages in many departments wide range of shows, including leading • Detailed knowledge of current international productions at the Barbican developments in the theatre industry Centre. Similarly, when studying period styles you will visit galleries and museums A particularly high staff-student ratio to look at examples and gather ideas. is one of the strengths of the programme. As you progress, staff In this first year you will also take a core shift from formal teaching roles to module called Associated Studies, which empowering and supporting your allows you to take three short courses in production work. This allows you areas of interest from one of the other freedom to demonstrate and develop three pathways. your professional standards and skills.
84 Costume
Costume students at Guildhall School learn an overall understanding of costume. This pathway uniquely combines technical practice with the professional area of costume design.
As a Costume student, you will:
• Explore a broad range of relevant skills including design, construction, alterations, dyeing, ageing and distressing, millinery, hair and make- up, styling, dressing, fitting, hiring, buying, sampling and administration • Work alongside industry professionals and learn costume craft on live drama and opera stage productions • Have the opportunity to enhance areas of costume practice on placements, projects and productions • Research history and culture of fashion A member of the teaching staff will also • Discover technical areas of film and be your personal tutor and will follow television costume your progress and act as a mentor for your • Focus on practice for costume industry personal and professional development. employment Regardless of their year, all students work together on all productions. In fact, peer learning is an essential element of Design Realisation the programme; senior students often (Scenic Art/Scenic Construction/ fulfil organisational roles while more Prop Making) junior students observe how skills and knowledge are acquired and used. Design Realisation is about making and painting the scenery and props that have been designed by the set designer. Students Stage Management following this pathway need good creative and practical skills, with strong problem- Stage managers are organised and creative solving abilities. Each year you will individuals who require all manner of develop your skills across prop making, skills and competencies, but chief among scenery construction and scenic art, these are ‘people skills’. Only through arriving at a clear idea of how much you good interaction, communication and want to specialise in your final year. negotiation with people will stage managers be able to understand and work with actors, directors, designers and all the Theatre Technology technical departments in the theatre. (Lighting/Sound/Video/Automation)
This pathway is all about developing your In Theatre Technology you will learn craft to professional standards in a fully about design and production in lighting, professional context. By the end of the sound, video and stage technology, with programme you will bring all your skills opportunities to specialise in your final to bear on full-scale productions, taking year. Theatre technicians need to be good lead roles in managing shows from team players and have a proven interest rehearsal room to final performance. in an area of theatre technology. As you develop your skills, you will progress from learning about technology and software to programming and show operation, to finally managing and designing productions.
85 Transferable skills
As well as equipping you with the skills and knowledge to enter the theatre and entertainment industries, the Production Arts programme provides you with a range of transferable skills which are valuable to any employer. These include:
• Team working • Verbal and written communication skills • Royal Court Theatre • Problem-solving • Royal Opera House • Time management • Royal Shakespeare Company • Managing financial resources • Sydney Opera House • Practical application of IT • Sadler’s Wells • Research skills • Scottish Royal Ballet • People management • Set-up Scenery Ltd • Shakespeare’s Globe • Stage Technologies Preparing for work • The Halo Group • The London Dungeon On successful completion of the • Theatre Royal Stratford East programme you will be equipped with the • Tonto Film Studios standards, skills, knowledge, experience • Warp Films and contacts to enter the professional • Welsh National Opera theatre. You will receive lectures and advice • White Light on what being freelance means and how to • Wicked UK tour go about getting work. Our graduates have an excellent employment rate. Find out more Additionally, students who have a right to work in the UK will automatically gain Visit gsmd.ac.uk/productionarts for full membership to British Actors’ Equity further information on teaching staff, once they finish the programme. This can entry requirements, Open Days and how be as a permanent employee of a theatre or to apply. company, or initially on a freelance basis. If you want to find out more about Professional work placement possible careers backstage there are a number of good websites to explore, Students from the programme have for example: recently taken work placements with a number of renowned theatres and • theatrecraft.org companies, including: • RSC: rsc.org.uk/jobs-and-careers/ careers-guidance • Autograph Sound • Royal Opera House: • Baby Cow Productions roh.org.uk/opera-machine • Barbican Centre • BBC • D3 Technologies Ltd • Donmar Warehouse • English National Opera • Imagination Events • Inca Productions • IOGIG Ltd • ITV This Morning • Lyric Theatre, Belfast • National Theatre • Neil Austin - lighting designer • Robert Allsopp Associates • Royal Albert Hall
86 “The musical is always a highlight. I think it’s the scale of productions that really makes Guildhall stand out, because you are thrown in at the deep end with these massive shows and the musical is always busy with so many costume changes. I worked on last year’s show and we had at least three pairs of shoes for 15 girls. It gets to the point where you think, wow, this is massive. In other places, you just wouldn’t have that opportunity to learn on the job.”
Sian Clare BA Production Arts (Costume)
87 This dynamic and innovative programme is for students BA Honours in interested in the fast-changing and exciting world of Video Design for digital video design and production. It has been shaped by and upholds the practical, hands-on ethos of Guildhall Live Performance School’s Production Arts Department.
Three years full-time The programme will provide you • A large-scale projection across three with specialist training in the rapidly separate buildings at Guildhall Yard 6 applications/3 enrolments expanding field of projection and video- as part of the City of London's 2017 based arts forms. It uses state-of-the-art Romans season. This ambitious project gsmd.ac.uk/productionarts equipment and facilities in line with was a collaboration with multi-award- the latest industry developments. The winning Boy Blue Entertainment teaching is practical and project-based. • A multidisciplinary immersive You will work on a range of projects with performance event at Tower Bridge, professional designers, programmers and based on the Blitz and commissioned by animators, such as gallery installations, the City of London Police Museum projection work for Guildhall productions and VJing at festivals and club nights. Other projects the Department has The programme shares some of the delivered include: professional theatre skills and theory modules of the BA in Production Arts • Video mapping and VJing at (see page 84). But these are complemented Glastonbury Festival, the world’s largest with a more specialised series of modules multi-arts and popular music festival related to video design and content • Troyfest and Trufest, two summer creation, technical management, system festivals where students presented design and live operation/programming. a large-scale architectural video Throughout the programme you will be projection onto Baskerville Hall able to attend cross-year seminars and manor house lectures given by visiting guest artists. • Lux Festival, an annual international ‘light art’ festival in Helsinki This programme provides students • Guildhall Yard for the Shakespeare 400 with a unique range of opportunities to Festival and the 800-year anniversary of practise and apply the skills they have the signing of the Magna Carta – acquired. Such opportunities include over 16,000 people attended three contributing to Guildhall School’s performances programme of acclaimed productions, • The British Museum, a large-format taking part in festivals and arts projection-mapping installation on the commissions around the country, building entrance as part of the ‘Day of and a range of commercial projects. the Dead’ celebrations • Cambridge Science Festival, a real-time visualisation of EEG data captured by Guildhall productions Cambridge University Neuroscience Department Visit gsmd.ac.uk for details of recent • Animated projections at Bangor Guildhall productions, and see pages University: a specially-commissioned 80-81 for more information on how piece inspired by fairy tales, which Guildhall theatre technicians are involved was projected within the Pontio Arts in bringing operas and dramas to the stage. Centre during the interval and post- performances of Snow White
Festivals and arts commissions Commercial market The Department has recently presented work at: Projection mapping techniques are used by commercial brands in advertising, • Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire. product launches, VIP events, AGMs A large-scale 80m wide projection on and at parties. Guildhall School’s close the house facade which ran for 9 weeks working relationship with professional and was visited by over 181,000 people organisations (for example the City
88 of London Corporation) allows us to to a more distinct role within the team. collaborate in providing high quality You will have responsibility for processes services for companies holding events and such as system checks and maintenance conferences. Through these opportunities, and content production (working students will experience working in a with third-year designers or visiting variety of commercial settings, from professionals). You will also have more of small- to large-scale projects. a say in the selection of equipment and how projects are planned. As a student on this programme you will gain invaluable skills, knowledge and experience from working on a range of Year 3 these real-world projects. It is a hands-on opportunity to test and develop the skills In Year 3 you will take a final series of you acquire in the classroom and studios. classes to refine your video design skillset. You will have opportunities to make content and design materials that may Year 1 then be used on real-world projects. You will lead a team of second- and first-year The core focus in Year 1 is on students who help you to realise your familiarisation with software and artistic and technical objectives, while hardware, while nurturing your design still receiving guidance and support from skills and building confidence in a your tutors and visiting professionals. professional setting. There is a range of opportunities to make the most of our Alongside your production work you will extensive resources as you learn your also complete a portfolio, which will be trade, becoming directly involved in a invaluable when seeking employment supportive role as a member of the crew. at the end of your studies. And you will undertake a self-directed graduation project that will allow you to focus on a Year 2 chosen area of specialism.
In Year 2 you will continue to take a series of classes to help develop your creative skills and hardware competency. But there is a switch in emphasis regarding your role on practical projects. You will gain more responsibility as you progress, moving from a supportive ‘crew’ member
89 Transferable skills • Video designer • Animator As well as equipping you with the • Video engineer/technician skills and knowledge to enter the video, • VJ theatre and entertainment industries, the • Video operator/programmer programme provides you with a range of • 3D designer transferable skills which are valuable to any employer. These include: Our graduates have an excellent track record of achieving employment at • Team working industry-leading organisations. Former • Verbal and written communication students work in roles at companies such skills as 59 Productions, D3 Technologies and • Problem-solving XL Video, as well as in several successful • Time management West End shows. The development of • Managing financial resources this specialised programme is expected • Practical application of IT to further enhance our relationship with • Research skills these employers. • People management Find out more Graduate destinations Visit gsmd.ac.uk/productionarts for further information on teaching staff, As a Guildhall School graduate in Video entry requirements, Open Days and how Design for Live Performance, you may to apply. expect to pursue a career as a:
90 “I think the course teaches you a wide breadth of skills; you learn both technical and design skills. On top of this, industry professionals are brought in to give us software training, talks and to work with us on projects. This helps us from the start to create contacts that we can then use to get jobs. We run like a company with each student taking on a professional role. I feel that this really prepares us for the outside world. Especially as the projects that we work on are real – we are in effect constantly getting work experience.”
Laurie Lumley BA Video Design for Live Performance
91 This one-year Masters programme aims to bring together MA in early-career theatre practitioners, including: designers, Collaborative sound designers, lighting designers, production Theatre Production managers, stage managers and video designers. These practitioners work together in projects, some of which are generated and Design creative teams on an exciting and varied from within the creative teams, while array of theatre projects. The programme others involve collaborating with students is not intended to deliver core technical from one of the other Guildhall School One year full-time skills, but rather to develop your ‘theatre- Masters programmes. Over the year, the making’ abilities, exploring your potential teams on your programme will form and 17 applications/5 enrolments as a creative artist and enabling you to re-form, developing a creative vocabulary work with other students on a series of on a broad variety of projects and forging gsmd.ac.uk/productionarts collaborative projects. connections with other artists.
When possible, the programme The programme also includes a three- to four-week residential project, intended to take The Masters programme is a long academic you into an unfamiliar area of work. year (180 credits) with Principal Study for The idea is to offer an opportunity for designers, production managers and other creative collaboration unconstrained by creative artists and practitioners. At the preconceptions or prejudices. start of the year, you will be immersed in a four-week creative project that inducts new students into the Guildhall School Find out more environment. You will also be allocated a Principal Study mentor from a pool of Visit gsmd.ac.uk/productionarts for professional designers and production further information on teaching staff, managers with whom the Department has entry requirements, Open Days and how strong working relationships. to apply.
At the heart of this programme is Collaborative Practice, which aims to develop your ability to apply and integrate your specialist skills within a project. Throughout the year there are four
92 “The facilities available to students to create are almost unimaginable. We got to bend metal in the workshop for one of our projects! The staff are also amazing, no matter the department you can call on someone for advice and they are always willing to help. And it’s in London! You spend all day at school sometimes, then on your way home you can stop in for a West End show. What more could a theatre student ask for?”
Carreen Walton MA Collaborative Theatre Production and Design
9393 Some of our Production Arts alumni
Neil Austin (1992) Simon Baker (1992) Mark Baron (2007) Award-winning lighting Award-winning sound Experiential Director, designer designer Collider Creative Agency
Peter Bevan (2004) Ros Brooke-Taylor (1992) Dani Charleson-Gallacher Neil Constable (1985) Executive Vice President of Producer, Sonia Friedman (1985), Head of Projects: Chief Executive, Production, uMedia Productions Hotels, Merlin Shakespeare’s Globe
Judy Craymer MBE (1978) Eric Fellner CBE (1980) Tim Lutkin (2008) Anthony Pilavachi (1986) Producer, Mamma Mia! Co-Chairman, Working Title Award-winning lighting Award-winning stage Films designer director
Alexandra Riverol-Brown, James Shirley (2005) Jon Stevens (1988) Gemma Tonge (2002), Head Line Producer, This Morning, Head of Production, Founding Partner, of Company Management, ITV Imagination Charcoalblue National Theatre
9494 Sarah Brightman’s world tour, he worked as Assistant Stage site-specific production of Recent Katharine Jenkins in Concert, Manager for the London 2012 Sweeney Todd, The Demon Elton John Sports Aid Live, and Olympic ceremonies, and Barber of Fleet Street before graduates festivals such as Creamfields was then appointed as Senior moving to the Roundhouse and T in the Park. Stage Manager for the Winter as Technical and Production Olympic Ceremonies Sochi in Administrator. Jessica Alex Durrell (2013) 2014, and the Islamic Solidarity now works as Production Alex works as a sound and Games in Azerbaijan. Tom has Coordinator for National video technician, including recently taken up a position as Theatre Live. the role of Video Engineer/ a permanent member of the Cameraman on Derren Stage Management team at Hellen Bassett (2016) Brown’s 2014 UK tour the National Theatre. Hellen is now working as Infamous and as Video Dep Props and Puppet Technician for the National Theatre Max Narula (2014) for Disney Cruise Line. production War Horse. He Max won the 2014 Gold Laura Depla (2010) has also been the Venue Medal and has since worked Abi Makin (2016) After graduating, Laura Install and Venue Technician extensively as Associate Since graduating, Abi has became a Production Assistant for Shoreditch Town Hall, Lighting Designer and worked at the Regents and video technician for a Programmer with Tim Lutkin, at George P. Johnson, a global Park Open Air Theatre number of events including as well as with Hugh Vanstone, and Hampstead Theatre. event and experience the Barbican’s Garden Room Neil Austin and Bruno Poet. Abi is now Assistant Stage marketing agency. She was and Conservatory Grand Re- Shows include The Girls, Elf Manager (book cover) on the promoted to Associate Opening, and the Lux Festival the Musical and Les Blancs international tour of Wicked. Producer in 2014. Highlights in Helsinki. He is currently at the National Theatre. In so far include working on an working with Cameron addition to lighting design, Oscar Selfridge (2017) award-winning multi-million Mackintosh Ltd on the West Max has been commissioned Oscar was awarded the School’s pound project for one of the End production of Hamilton. to take production and portrait Gold Medal in 2017. Since sponsors of the 2012 Olympic photography for directors graduating, he has worked on and Paralympic Games, Charlie Smith (2013) and designers at the National productions at the National creating an interactive Since winning the Gold Medal Theatre, New York’s Public Theatre, Southwark Playhouse experience to showcase future at Guildhall, Charlie has gone Theater, and the Bush Theatre. and Tristan Bates Theatre as technologies, located directly on to a number of sound roles a carpenter and set designer. adjacent to the Olympic Park. on various musicals, including Giulia Carisi (2015) Most recently he was Head Laura has also had the the West End productions of Giulia is a freelance scenic Carpenter for eStage’s opportunity to work on events Thriller, Billy Elliot the Musical artist and set designer, and Promises Promises. in Las Vegas, Boston, Dubai (Victoria Palace), Oh! What a has worked on productions and Singapore, as well as Lovely War and Fings Ain’t Wot with organisations such as across Europe. They Used T’Be (both Theatre the National Theatre and Royal Stratford East). Teater Nordkraft. One of her Jack Stookes (2012) projects involved transforming Jack is Operations Manager for Katie Jenkinson (2014) Southwark Playhouse’s large Avex Classics International, a Katie is a costumer and a studio into a working division of Japan’s leading member of Local 705, Motion medieval inn. entertainment business, the Picture Costumers. She also Avex Group. Previously he was works at Marvel Studios, Los Maria Egetoft (2015) Assistant Stage Manager at the Angeles and has been involved Since graduating, Maria has Royal Opera House, Covent in feature films including been a Production Manager at Garden, where he worked on Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. Teater Nordkraft. over 18 productions, as well as 2, Captain America: Civil War a tour to China with Carmen. and Thor Ragnarok. Thomas Keetley (2015) Jack is also the director of Thomas has specialised award-winning music agency, Tom Leggat (2014) in working in opera since STAG Music, which works On graduation, Tom worked on graduation, working at Opera with some of the UK’s best a variety of West End musicals North and the Wexford upcoming musicians on events such as Miss Saigon, Les Opera Festival. He is now with clients including Google, Misérables and Matilda. He has Assistant Stage Manager at NatWest and the NHS. also worked on plays and events Glyndebourne Festival Opera. at theatres such as the Young Vic James Adkins (2013) and the Almeida. As a follow- Jessica Richardson (2015) James is a catalyst and LED up to his placement as part of On graduation, Jessica worked technician, and has worked on his programme at Guildhall, in stage management on the
9595 96 Creative Learning
BA Honours in Performance and Creative Enterprise
97 The Performance and Creative Enterprise (PACE) degree BA Honours in is all about participation and engagement in cross- Performance and artform projects. The programme prepares you for life in the professional arts industry, with a strong focus on Creative Enterprise developing entrepreneurship and employability. In association with the Barbican Centre Enabling you to collaborate, communicate criminal justice institutions), creating and lead in a range of cultural and participatory and socially-engaged socially-engaged contexts, the programme artistic work Three years full-time will develop your curiosity, stimulate your • Cultivating employability by developing imagination and help you to generate creative enterprise skills, including 34 applications/13 enrolments original work. It will also develop your project management, fundraising critical skills in understanding the and budgeting, pitching proposals, gsmd.ac.uk/pace concepts, contexts and roles of the marketing and online resources artist today. • Critically understanding the role of the artist today The programme is aimed at artists from a range of music, live arts and Taught through on-site specialist training theatre backgrounds. Open to musicians, and mentoring, the programme also composers, theatre makers, devisors, comprises innovative, real-world off-site spoken word artists, beatboxers and poets, projects and placements. It is delivered it is intended for those who want to through Creative Learning, which is develop their performance, production, jointly run with the Barbican Centre collaboration and leadership skills for (see page 10) and features guest artists employment in the arts industry. and tutors from across the Barbican and Guildhall School’s roster. Recently, The programme focuses on: this has included poets Jacob Sam-La Rose and Paula Varjack, director Ned • Developing your own individual craft Glasier (Islington Community Theatre), through small group sessions, one-to- MOBO award-winning singer Zara one lessons and mentoring McFarlane, South African percussionist • Working collaboratively to create new Eugene Skeef, choreographer Kenrick work which is live, recorded and digital ‘H2O’ Sandy (Boy Blue Entertainment), • Collaborating with people in a range and internationally-renowned music of community settings (e.g. schools, educationalist Paul Griffiths. hospitals and healthcare centres,
Year 1: Experiments and explorations
The first year gives you space to experiment and create new work, working collaboratively, and helping to deliver socially-engaged work. You will:
• Explore personal storytelling and autobiography, creating work which leads to short performance pieces • Deepen your collaborative skills and devise new work. A wide range of visiting guest artists will share their collaborative working practices with you • Explore the notions of participatory and socially-engaged practice. Through a series of lectures and seminars, practical workshops and off-site observations, you will gain an understanding of both theory and practice • Participate in a range of projects in community contexts such as hospitals,
98 “One of the best things about PACE is it’s very experiential, which I love. So you are not just thinking about the theory of it but you are actually putting in the work and you get to experience both sides of it. Studying at Guildhall is really cool because you are in a setting where the arts are valued by an entire community. That’s one of the things I love about being here – everybody understands the importance and the value of the arts.”
Natasha Mbwana BA Performance and Creative Enterprise
99 Year 3: Projects and the profession
By your final year, you will be expected to lead and curate artistic collaborations, both as an individual and as part of a company. You will:
• Undertake an off-site residency providing a platform for experimentation. You will be expected to drive the artistic collaboration with support from professional artists as mentors and co-participants • Delve more deeply into a particular area of your artistic practice, leading to a variety of outputs (e.g. presentation, exhibition, written or digital) • Undertake work in an organisation relevant to your skills, interests and ambitions • Develop a project which leads to a performance at a final student- schools, criminal justice institutions, curated showcase festival and elderly care homes/centres • Bring together everything you have • Develop your individual craft, ideas learned to create a ‘calling card’ for and ambitions the industry. You will identify your • Learn to manage projects, pitch own individual voice and artistic proposals, document your learning vision, with a strong focus on career and experiences and develop a multi- preparation, including refining media portfolio your online/digital resources and career plan
Year 2: Developments and discoveries Find out more
In the second year, you will use your new Visit gsmd.ac.uk/pace for further knowledge and skills to: information on teaching staff, entry requirements, Open Days and how • Deliver off-site projects which include to apply. work in healthcare, elderly care and the criminal justice system, in schools, This programme will be undergoing housing estates, community groups periodic review in 2018/19 in and with young people. Collaborating consultation with current students. in smaller groups, you will lead on During this review, changes to the the planning, devising and delivery programme may be made to further of projects with mentoring from develop this innovative programme experienced professionals and enhance the student experience. • Create work which is technically and artistically appropriate for unusual spaces, blending collaborative and socially-engaged practice skills • Respond to an example of a professional commission, working collaboratively as a team to create work in real-world scenarios • Develop your artistic technique and creative mastery, learning how to deal with multiple stakeholders, fundraising, budgets, marketing and contracts
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PGCert in Performance Teaching
MPhil/DMus MPhil/PhD
103 Performance Teaching is designed to support professional PGCert in musicians, actors, production artists and dancers who also Performance teach. It presents a unique opportunity to develop creative Teaching and reflective practice in performance teaching. On this programme, you will be Who should apply? encouraged to identify and shape your One year part-time or two years own development pathway. In particular, part-time Attracting applicants who are interested you will focus on the pedagogy of in creative, innovative and evidence- performance and creative practice in 29 applications/18 enrolments based performance teaching, the the performing arts, looking at specific programme offers: contexts that are most relevant to your gsmd.ac.uk/perfteaching career aspirations. • A strong focus on critically reflective practice, framed by professional The PGCert in Performance Teaching guidelines such as the Higher will prepare you for employment as a Education Academy Professional professional artist-teacher in a range of Standards Framework contexts. These include higher education • Interdisciplinary perspectives institutions, specialist performing arts • Feedback on practical work in higher schools and junior conservatoires, state education or inclusive learning settings and independent schools, community • Teaching and mentoring delivered by and lifelong learning environments, and our experienced team who individually inclusive learning programmes such as have strong professional reputations as Sistema-inspired initiatives. Participants educators, performers and researchers with enough current higher education • An educational philosophy that teaching experience have the option of celebrates professionalism, international completing an elective, Reflective Practice perspectives, creativity, and innovative in Higher Education, which can lead to practices in performance teaching professional recognition from the UK Higher Education Academy. The programme
The programme is one or two years part- How you will learn time, delivered in intensive bursts, usually at specified weekends and in school The programme takes a blended holidays, thus making it ideal for those learning approach, combining intensive with busy portfolio careers. Students take workshops with online learning activity. the following modules: Supported by a team of world-renowned practitioners, researchers and guest • Core module 1: Fundamental Principles speakers, you will develop skills and in Performance Pedagogy knowledge in the fundamental principles and of pedagogy, professional frameworks, • Elective A: Reflective Practice in teaching and facilitation approaches. Higher Education (only an option for Where appropriate, the programme those who currently teach in higher team will support you in accessing education) opportunities for practical experience of or facilitating learning in a range of contexts, • Elective B: Reflective Practice in drawing on Guildhall School’s extensive Inclusive Learning network of partners. A student taking the programme over two With a strong emphasis on reflective years will undertake Core module 1 in practice, you will develop an informed Year 1, and a choice of elective in Year 2. awareness of the national and international landscape of performance teaching. You will be supported by a Find out more personal Pedagogy Mentor, and will participate in guided peer support groups. Visit gsmd.ac.uk/perfteaching for further information on teaching staff, entry requirements, Open Days and how to apply.
104 “As I grew up in another culture, I wanted to enrich my knowledge of pedagogies in a different educational system, and find ways to better adapt my professional expertise to my teaching practice. The sessions normally involve theoretical lectures, creative musical activities, moments of experience sharing, demo of teaching methods and so forth. I found it is very beneficial for me to take a break from a busy teaching career to think and reflect on my teaching value, principle and strategies.”
Yushan Li PGCert Performance Teaching
105 Guildhall School’s doctoral programme has a distinctive Research Degrees focus on research in, through and for the performing arts. MPhil/DMus As a progressive conservatoire we value research by practitioners in the performing arts, who can offer MPhil/PhD unique perspectives on their own practices as artists or pedagogues. Three years full-time (plus a period of ‘writing-up’ if necessary) Our doctoral students: practitioner in society, and the personal, social, ethical and political impact and Six years part-time (plus ‘writing-up’) • Pursue self-directed projects that bridge implications of performing arts practice. creative practice and scholarly research Validated by City University London • Benefit from supervisory teams that may include eminent practitioners as Doctoral studentships well as established academics • Refine their research skills through a Guildhall School offers three rigorous training programme studentships in collaboration with • Study in an outstanding conservatoire major arts and research organisations, gsmd.ac.uk/research with world-class facilities in the heart including the Royal Opera House of the City of London Doctoral Composer-in-Residence. Every two years, this unique collaboration offers one composer the opportunity to Research environment be Composer-in-Residence at the Royal Opera House. The period of study is Guildhall School has a vibrant and three years full-time, culminating in rapidly expanding research community, the completion of a new chamber opera and our doctoral students sit at the staged by the Royal Opera. Funding is heart of this. We hold regular research jointly provided by Guildhall School and seminars and public-facing events the Royal Opera House. The collaboration (including our ResearchWorks series and offers an enriching model that allows a the triennial international Reflective composer substantial creative research Conservatoire Conference) where you experience in the development of will meet fellow doctoral students and operatic practice. Previous Composers- researchers from within the School in-Residence include Philip Venables, and beyond. Alongside this, you will whose opera 4.48 Psychosis, based on the be able to follow the School’s very full Sarah Kane play of the same name, was a programme of concerts and productions; huge critical success and went on to win you can view our calendar of upcoming the UK Theatre Award for Achievement events at gsmd.ac.uk/events in Opera. Na’ama Zisser, the second Doctoral Composer in Residence, saw her opera Mamzer Bastard staged by the Subject areas Royal Opera in June 2018.
We welcome applications in a range of disciplines from students with a Masters Find out more degree or equivalent. We particularly encourage proposals in the following areas: Visit gsmd.ac.uk/research for further information on teaching staff, funding, • Performing arts policy, institutional entry requirements and how to apply. cultures, pedagogies and audiences • Music composition • Music performance • Music therapy • Opera • Theatre-making and interdisciplinary performance
Students in these disciplines often study together and share a commitment to exploring the role of the music or theatre
106 “The research community at Guildhall is a really interesting place to be, I have been learning a lot about practice-based and artistic research… working alongside composers, musicians as well as set designers and educators. Given it’s quite a small environment, you can actually get to meet everyone – it feels like you can develop relationships within a short amount of time. It’s exciting to be part of a growing community of researchers at Guildhall, with a good mix of social science and theoretical training but always a real awareness of what artistic practice is, from the perspective of practising artists.”
Stefania Donini PhD
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109 Careers Many of our teaching staff continue After Guildhall to work in their industry, and are well placed to provide insight, advice and Guildhall School is committed to contacts within their profession. helping you find the career path which is right for you. Career preparation differs depending on your chosen discipline: Our training combines academic rigour and artistic skill with a strong • Actors take a Career Preparation professional focus and unparalleled module which includes advice on engagement with the industry. 96% of auditions and casting sessions, agents, Guildhall students who graduated in unions, tax and accounting, CVs and 2015 were in work or further study six setting up a professional company. We months later* (*Destinations of Leavers have an in-house Career Consultant, from Higher Education Survey, 2016). while professional actors mentor each final-year student. As you move through your programme, your links with the relevant industry • Production artists take a Professional will grow through talks and workshops Development module which includes from leading industry figures, work help with IT skills, CVs and job placements and masterclasses. You will applications, interview technique, receive careers advice within dedicated taxation and unions. Students on modules across many programmes, the BA Production Arts programme as well as one-to-one guidance from also undertake a four- to six-week teaching staff and mentors. professional secondment at venues such as the Royal Opera House,
110 National Theatre and Shakespeare’s celebrates the achievements and work of Globe (see page 86), while students our alumni. You will also have access to on BA Video Design for Live our alumni e-newsletter and social media Performance work on professional platforms and be able to access other commissions throughout their studies benefits such as a potential discount on the (see page 88). Guildhall Creative Entrepreneurs Scheme (see page 117). • Undergraduate musicians take modules which include advice on teaching, Our alumni work all over the world, business & marketing and professional meaning that you can find a Guildhall portfolios. Electives include workshop community wherever you go. Here are skills in hospitals and schools. just some of the organisations our alumni work in: • Postgraduate musicians are required to plan external events and given • Barbican Centre opportunities for placements and • BBC artistic programming. The Integration • Beijing Symphony Orchestra & Professional Development module • Berlin Philharmonic provides seminars on freelance work as • Cameron Mackintosh Ltd well as opportunities to consider longer- • Carnegie Hall term artistic development. Musicians • Kneehigh can attend masterclasses, while relevant • London Symphony Orchestra specialisms offer mock auditions, side- • Los Angeles Philharmonic by-side schemes and mentoring from • National Orchestra of Wales professional orchestral players. • National Theatre • Punchdrunk • Career preparation is at the core of • Singapore Symphony Orchestra the BA in Performance and Creative • Royal Court Theatre Enterprise, with project management • Royal Opera House skills, fundraising and budgeting, • Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and training in pitching proposals, • Shakespeare’s Globe marketing and online resources • Sonia Friedman Productions embedded throughout the programme. • Teater Nordkraft • White Light Students across the School are actively encouraged to pursue a wide range You can read more about the alumni of interests, and are exposed to the programme and biographies of School’s array of specialisms including our former students online at: entrepreneurship, research, collaboration gsmd.ac.uk/alumni and pedagogy.
Alumni
When you graduate from Guildhall School, you will become part of our active and vibrant Alumni Community with thousands of members who continue to make an impact on society using the training they received during their studies.
The Development and Alumni Relations Office is here to keep you connected with the School. We host regular reunions and networking session around the world to provide professional development opportunities and give alumni access to benefits and communications. After you leave you will receive our biannual alumni magazine PLAY which contains topical features and interviews and
111 112 At Guildhall School we value our diverse fall into this category. If you would like Applications, culture and welcome applications from all to find out whether the School’s support over the world. Applications and enquiries and environment are appropriate for you, auditions, about attending Guildhall are made you can contact our dedicated Disability directly to the School and not via any Coordinator. Please visit gsmd.ac.uk/ interviews and outside intermediary or agency. disabilitysupport for further details of what we can offer and who to contact. Open Days This means you benefit from dealing with our friendly Admissions team directly. You can also use our bespoke online Open Days application process which is aimed at making your application journey with us Each department holds Open Days at as straightforward as possible. various points in the year when you can visit the School, meet staff and students, and experience what life is like On the website at Guildhall.
As well as our online application form, Those interested in undergraduate you will also find all of our detailed study at Guildhall can also attend our application information on our website at Undergraduate Open Day in spring gsmd.ac.uk/apply. This includes: 2019, which offers the opportunity to experience all of our programmes, visit • Application deadlines our halls of residence, meet staff and • Application fees and how to pay them students and get advice on fees, funding • Application fee waivers and eligibility and student support. criteria • Application guidance notes Bookings for Open Days are available on • Audition and interview arrangements the website at gsmd.ac.uk/opendays • Audition repertoire and what to expect at your audition/interview If you are not able to attend an Open Day, • International auditions (New York, you can still use the interactive video tour Hong Kong, Tokyo, Seoul) on our website to explore the School. You • Entry criteria are also welcome to attend a performance at Guildhall, many of which are free, to If you have a question about your see our work in action. View our calendar application, you can also email the of upcoming events at gsmd.ac.uk/events Admissions team at [email protected]
International students
We are proud of our large international student community. Nearly 40% of our students come from outside the UK – representing more than 70 nationalities in total. International students should visit gsmd.ac.uk/international for information on visas, accommodation, English language requirements and support, and details of our buddy programme.
Disability support
Guildhall School is committed to promoting equality of opportunity. We provide an inclusive and enabling learning environment and encourage applications from students with disabilities or specific learning difficulties. Nearly 10% of our student population
113 Tuition fees for each programme are listed There are lots of measures in place to help Fees, funding on our website at gsmd.ac.uk/funding you meet the cost: and scholarships The amount you will pay depends on • If you are a Home/EU undergraduate which programme you are applying for, student eligible for a UK government and whether you are a student from tuition fee loan, there are no upfront the UK, elsewhere in the EU or outside tuition fees. You will only have to repay the EU. the loan once you have left Guildhall and are earning over £25,000 per year. The UK government has guaranteed • For all other students, tuition fees for that EU students commencing courses a given academic year are advertised in autumn 2018 will continue to pay well in advance to help you plan your the same tuition fees as UK students for finances. You can pay your fees in three the duration of their courses, but has not instalments per year plus deposit. yet made a decision on the fee for EU • Guildhall School offers a wide range of students commencing courses in 2019. scholarships to all students through its Please continue to check our website Scholarships Fund. where we will post the latest information as we receive it. If you would like to speak to someone at Guildhall, please contact Home/EU students [email protected] A UK government tuition fee loan is Studying at Guildhall School is available to undergraduate students from affordable, and the School is committed to the UK and countries classified as part ensuring that the cost of tuition does not of the EU for fee purposes (subject to deter students from applying. residency requirements).
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UK undergraduate students who qualify as care leavers, or estranged students (who have no contact or support from their parents) and independent students on low incomes will be able to apply for the Guildhall Access Bursary. Bursaries of between £3,000 and £5,000 a year will be given (with a maximum of 15 bursaries awarded). Visit our website at gsmd.ac.uk/ feeassessment to view the full list of EU- If you experience an unforeseen change classified countries. of circumstances while you are enrolled at Guildhall School, you may qualify for an If you are a Home undergraduate student award from the School’s Hardship Fund (from England, Scotland, Wales or to help you overcome your immediate Northern Ireland) other support may be financial difficulties. available in the form of a maintenance loan and/or grant (actual amounts will depend on your household income). Fee-status assessment
A UK government postgraduate loan is All successful applicants will be asked to available to Home/EU students registered complete a Fee Assessment Form before on specific Masters degree programmes commencing their studies at Guildhall subject to meeting residency and other School, so we can establish whether your requirements. Visit our website at gsmd. tuition fees should be at the ‘Home/EU’, ac.uk/pgloans for more information. ‘Equivalent or Lower Qualification (ELQ)’ or ‘Overseas’ rate. UK government Postgraduate Doctoral Loan is available for full-time or part-time If you already have a degree or diploma MPhil/DMus or MPhil/PhD students to at or above the level of the programme assist with course fees and living costs. you wish to study at Guildhall School and would usually pay Home/EU fees, you will be classified as an ELQ student and Funding guidance and scholarship will be liable to pay the equivalent of the support Overseas fee.
Guildhall School has a dedicated Student Funding Officer who can help you Student visa requirements identify sources of funding to support your studies. These sources might include For students requiring a visa to study government and non-government loans in the UK, UK Visas and Immigration and organisations that offer grants. The (UKVI) requires, as part of the visa School also offers a wide range of application process, that students scholarships to all students each year demonstrate they have the means to pay through our own Scholarships Fund. for their tuition for their first year of study These awards are supported by a variety of and the means to support themselves. external donors including City Livery For further details see Companies, grant-making trusts and gov.uk/tier-4-general-visa foundations, businesses and individuals. Tuition fee and maintenance awards For a full list of our tuition fees, and are offered to applicants on the basis of further guidance on funding, please see talent, potential and personal financial our website at gsmd.ac.uk/funding need. These elements are assessed at audition and interview, and on the basis Non-UK applicants may find the of a comprehensive application form UKCISA website of interest: ukcisa.org.uk available to applicants who accept a place at the School.
115 If you are not yet ready to apply for higher Norwich, Taunton, Saffron Walden and Youth and Adult education, or if you are looking for a Peterborough. CYM teaching staff are shorter or more flexible course, there experienced and respected performers Learning are still plenty of opportunities for you and teachers working in many areas of to study as part of the Guildhall School the music profession. Many CYM students community. Here are some of the other go on to careers in music, but all benefit courses we provide. from the skills gained in the vibrant, inclusive and stimulating environment that CYM provides. Junior Guildhall gsmd.ac.uk/juniors Short courses Junior Guildhall is a specialist Saturday gsmd.ac.uk/shortcourses School offering advanced training to young people between the ages of four Guildhall School offers a host of and eighteen. Junior Guildhall students inspiring short courses for a variety of are able to combine their Guildhall ages, disciplines and skill levels. In Music training with their general education these range from Jazz to Music Theory, in local schools. They come together Vocal Training to Brass & Percussion. to experience and learn about music In Drama they encompass Acting in and drama under the guidance of staff Shakespeare & Contemporary Theatre, from London’s orchestras and freelance Acting in Musical Theatre & Drama for professionals. Most Junior Guildhall 16-17 Years. And in Production Arts students go on to study their chosen there are courses on Prop Making and discipline full-time at undergraduate Stage Lighting, to name a few. Visit the level, eventually making careers in the website to download our Short Courses profession, though others can, and do, Prospectus and apply online. move into totally different fields.
Preliminary Acting Course Centre for Young Musicians gsmd.ac.uk/pac cym.org.uk The Preliminary Acting Course is an Centre for Young Musicians (CYM) is a intensive 12-week full-time course, division of Guildhall School and provides offering a broad basis upon which to high quality progressive music training begin further actor training. As well for thousands of talented children across as training in Voice, Movement and the UK, with branches in London, Audition Technique, the course teaches students how to read a play and apply background research to the acting process, working with directors to explore the material. Students also examine scenes from Shakespeare and contemporary plays, investigating the texts through group exercises and improvisation.
Continuing Professional Development gsmd.ac.uk/cpd
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) at Guildhall School enables students, teachers and practitioners to meet their professional needs within a personal timeframe. CPD courses have recently included Coaching, Entrepreneurship, Drama, Creative Learning, Teaching & Learning in Higher Education, and Automation for the Entertainment Industry. Visit the website to find out more.
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Mindfulness gsmd.ac.uk/mindfulness
Mindfulness meditation is a well- researched, non-religious and very effective means of alleviating stress, anxiety and depression and promoting wellbeing. This practical evening course was developed at Guildhall School to support musicians and actors in their creative work and in their lives. Skills for practice, performance and general good mental health are taught in eight weekly classes.
Creative Entrepreneurs gsmd.ac.uk/creativeentrepreneurs
This 12-month business incubator helps people in the performing arts to launch their own enterprises. The scheme supports aspiring entrepreneurs to create, launch and make a success of their enterprises by developing their business skills and knowledge, as well as raising vital seed-funding.
In the course of the year, participants on this scheme have access to mentoring and coaching plus training in customer development, digital development, sales, marketing, fundraising, finance and pitching. Entrepreneurs also have access
117 118 Patron Vice-Principal & Director of Senior staff at The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor of the Advancement City of London Jeremy Newton MA FCA DUniv Guildhall School Chairman of the Board of Governors Director of Learning & Engagement Vivienne Littlechild JP Sean Gregory MPhil BA(Hons) FGS LGSM(PCS)
Principal Secretary & Dean of Students Lynne Williams Katharine Lewis BA(Hons) MA
Vice-Principal & Director of Music Chief Operating & Financial Officer Jonathan Vaughan Sandeep Dwesar BA(Hons) FCA FGS DipRCM (Perf) DipRCM (Teach) Director of Buildings & Operations Vice-Principal & Director of Drama Jonathon Poyner CStJ BSc(Hons) FCMI FIoD To be appointed CBIFM
Vice-Principal & Director of Production Arts Ben Sumner DipSM MBA SFHEA NTF
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