Thursday 10 May 7pm, Barbican Hall Gold Medal 2018 Finalists Ljubica Stojanovic Dan-Iulian Drut¸ac Joon Yoon Guildhall Symphony Orchestra James Judd conductor Guildhall School of Music & Drama Barbican Founded in 1880 by the Gold Medal 2018 City of London Corporation Please try to restrain from coughing until the normal breaks in the performance. Chairman of the Board of Governors Thursday 10 May 2018 If you have a mobile phone or digital watch, Deputy John Bennett 7pm, Barbican Hall please ensure that it is turned off during the Principal performance. The Gold Medal, the Guildhall School’s premier Lynne Williams In accordance with requirements of the award for musicians, was founded and endowed Vice–Principal and Director of Music licensing authority, sitting or standing in in 1915 by Sir H. Dixon Kimber Bt MA Jonathan Vaughan any gangway is not permitted. No cameras, tape recorders, other types of Please visit our website at gsmd.ac.uk Finalists recording apparatus may be brought into the auditorium. It is illegal to record any Ljubica Stojanovic piano performance unless prior arrangements Dan-Iulian Drut¸ac violin have been made with the Managing Director Joon Yoon piano and the concert promoter concerned. No eating or drinking is allowed in the The Jury auditorium. Smoking is not permitted Donagh Collins anywhere on the Barbican premises. Kathryn Enticott Paul Hughes Barbican Centre James Judd Silk St, London EC2Y 8DS Jonathan Vaughan (Chair) Administration: 020 7638 4141 Box Office Telephone Bookings: Guildhall Symphony Orchestra 020 7638 8891 (9am-8pm daily: booking fee) James Judd conductor barbican.org.uk The Guildhall School is part of Culture Mile: culturemile.london The Guildhall School is provided by the City of London Corporation as part of its contribution to the cultural life of London and the nation Gold Medal winners since 1915 Gold Medal 2018 Singers 1979 Patricia Rozario 1947 Mary O White Ljubica Stojanovic piano 1915 Lilian Stiles-Allen 1981 Susan Bickley 1948 Jeremy White Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26 1916 Rene Maxwell 1983 Carol Smith 1948 Susanne Rozsa 1917 Dora Labbette 1985 Peter Rose 1950 Leonard Friedman INTERVAL – 15 MINUTES 1918 Percy Kemp 1987 Juliet Booth 1952 Alfred Wheatcroft 1919 Arnold Stoker 1989 Bryn Terfel 1954 Joyce Lewis 1921 Marjorie Claridge 1991 William Dazeley 1956 Joan Cohen Dan-Iulian Drut¸ac violin 1922 Marion Browne 1993 Nathan Berg 1958 Michael Davis Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 1923 Esther Coleman 1995 Jane Stevenson 1960 Jacqueline du Pré 1924 Linda Seymour 1997 Konrad Jarnot 1962 Robert Bell INTERVAL – 15 MINUTES 1925 John Turner 1999 Natasha Jouhl 1964 Sharon McKinley 1927 Marie Fisher 2001 Sarah Redgwick 1966 Anthony Pleeth 1927 Agostino Pellegrini 2003 Susanna Andersson 1968 David Loukes Joon Yoon piano 1928 Stanley Pope 2005 Anna Stéphany 1970 Jeremy Painter Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15 1929 Elsie Learner 2007 Katherine Broderick 1972 Gillian Spragg 1930 Doreen Bristoll 2009 Gary Griffiths 1974 Charles Renwick 1932 Charles Mayhew 2011 Natalya Romaniw 1976 James Shenton 1933 Joyce Newton 2013 Magdalena Molendowska 1978 Iain King 1934 Martin Boddey 2015 Marta Fontanals-Simmons 1980 Julian Tear Please remain in the auditorium after the final 1934 Margaret Tann Williams & Jennifer Witton 1982 Simon Emes performance for adjudication and presentation of 1935 Norman Walker 2017 Josep-Ramon Olivé 1984 Kyoko Kimura 1936 Louise Hayward 1986 Tasmin Little the Gold Medal. 1936 Arthur Reckless 1988 Simon Smith 1937 Gwen Catley Instrumentalists 1990 Eryl Lloyd-Williams 1937 David Lloyd 1915 Margaret Harrison 1992 Katharine Gowers 1938 Gordon Holdom 1916 Antoinette Trydell 1994 Richard Jenkinson 1939 Rose Hill 1917 Margaret Fairless 1996 Stephen de Pledge 1940 John Nesden 1918 Frank Laffitte 1998 Alexander Somov 1941 Sylvia Roth 1919 Marie Dare 2000 Maxim Rysanov 1942 Owen Brannigan 1920 Horace Somerville 2002 David Cohen 1943 Vera Mogg 1922 William Primrose 2004 Boris Brovtsyn 1944 George Hummerston 1923 Walter Nunn 2006 Anna-Liisa Bezrodny 1945 Beryl Hatt 1924 Sidney Harrison 2008 Sasha Grynyuk 1946 Ethel Giles 1926 Sidney Bowman 2010 Martyna Jatkauskaite 1947 Pamela Woolmore 1928 Allen Ford 2012 Ashley Fripp 1949 Richard Standen 1929 Roger Briggs 2014 Michael Petrov 1951 William McAlpine 1930 Daphne Serre 2016 Oliver Wass 1953 Margaret Kilbey 1931 Katherine L J Mapple 1955 Daniel McCoshan 1931 Max Jaffa 1957 Iona Jones 1933 Joshua Glazier 1959 Josephine W Allen 1934 Ursula Kantrovich 1961 Edgar Thomas 1935 Vera Kantrovich 1963 Benjamin Luxon 1935 Phyllis Simons 1965 Verity-Ann Bates 1936 Lois Turner 1967 Wynford Evans 1937 Kenneth Moore 1969 Charles Corp 1939 Carmen Hill 1971 David Fieldsend 1940 Marie Bass 1973 Graham Trew 1941 Pauline Sedgrove 1975 Ian Kennedy 1942 Joan Goossens 1977 Clive Birch 1946 Brenda Farrow Sergei Prokofiev (1891 – 1953) Ljubica Stojanovic Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26 Piano Andante – Allegro – Andante – Allegro Ljubica Stojanovic started playing the piano aged six and is Theme (Andantino) and Variations now an active musician who performs regularly as a soloist Allegro ma non troppo and chamber musician across Europe. When Prokofiev left the newly established Soviet Union in She graduated from the Guildhall School in 2017 with a 1918, initially for the United States, he had already begun Guildhall Artist Masters, having studied with Caroline to note down themes for a successor to his first two piano Palmer, and is currently studying with Ronan O’Hora, concertos which, like them, could serve as a vehicle for his Caroline Palmer and David Takeno. Her studies have been own playing. Some of them came from a discarded attempt generously funded by the Leverhulme Trust. to write a strictly diatonic string quartet, which imparts a distinctive colouring to this Concerto in the white-note key Ljubica has won over 20 national and international of C major. After his first two American tours, Prokofiev competitions, including the Windsor International Piano returned to the work, completing it in the summer of 1921 Competition 2015, the Grand Prix of the International during a stay in Brittany. The solo part proved to be, in his Competition for young pianists in Geneva, the National own words, ‘devilishly difficult’, and required intensive Competition of the Republic of Serbia in Belgrade, practice before the first performance – which took place in Competition of Young Yugoslavian pianists. She also won Chicago in December 1921, two weeks before the premiere second prize at the 5th Isidor Bajic´ Memorial in Novi Sad in in the same city of Prokofiev’s opera The Love for Three Serbia. Oranges. The Concerto was coolly received by American audiences suspicious of its ‘Bolshevist’ composer, but it won Ljubica has performed at venues across Europe such as the greater success in Europe, and is now by some distance the Royal Festival Hall, Barbican Hall, Wigmore Hall, St. James’s most popular of the composer’s five piano concertos. Piccadilly, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Mozarteum University in Salzburg, Philharmonia Hall in Ljubljana, Thonex Hall The three movements of the Concerto all strike a balance in Geneva and Kolarac Hall in Serbia. She has worked with between slow and quick music. The first has a short Andante orchestras including the Witold Lutoslawski Philharmonia, introduction for the orchestra, and later a more extended the Serbian Radio-Television Orchestra and the National Andante interlude in which the piano joins; these alternate Symphony Orchestra in Belgrade. In 2015 Ljubica became with two substantial Allegro sections in which a sparkling an artist for the Concordia Foundation and for KNS Classical sequence of themes is presented and recapitulated – and record label in Spain. which both end by speeding up still further. The second movement is a set of individually characterised variations She has attended many masterclasses, receiving tuition from at tempi ranging from Allegro to Andante meditativo; these distinguished pianists such as Robert Levin, Dominique culminate in the return of the opening Andantino theme Merlet, Arie Vardi and Gotlieb Walisch. in double its original note-values, against an Allegro giusto background – an ingenious way of writing music which is Ljubica would like to thank Caroline Palmer, David Takeno simultaneously slow and fast. The finale begins in a lively and Ronan O’Hora for their guidance, help and support. tempo, but a contrasting slower theme, initially played by clarinets and oboes, is built up into a middle section which reaches an expansive climax, before the quick music returns to end the work. Jean Sibelius (1865 – 1957) Dan-Iulian Drut¸ac Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 Violin Allegro moderato Dan-Iulian studied with Galina Buinovschi at the Ciprian Adagio di molto Porumbescu Music School in Chisinau, Moldova, before Allegro, ma non tanto winning the Grand Prize in the Whitgift International Music Competition in 2013 and gaining a music scholarship The violin was Sibelius’s own instrument: he began playing to Whitgift School for sixth form. He took up a place it in his childhood, took it seriously from the age of 14, and at Junior Guildhall in 2014 and won the prestigious continued his studies on it at the Helsinki Conservatoire. Lutine Prize in 2015. He is now in the third year of the It was only in his twenties that he abandoned thoughts of undergraduate BMus programme at the Guildhall School, a career as a soloist, partly because he realised that he had studying with David Takeno. begun intensive study too late, partly because of his growing confidence as a composer. His love of the instrument His other awards include the Grand Prize in the Philip and his intimate knowledge of its technical possibilities Todirascu National Competition and First Prize and Special are evident in his Violin Concerto, his only large-scale Prize for virtuosity at the Nedyalka Simeonova International composition in concerto form.