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Issue 5 School logo Sept 2006

Inside this issue: Recent Visits 2 Now We Are 126! Highlights of our 3 125th Anniversary

Alumni profiles 4

School News 6

Recent News of 8 Former Students

Messages from 9 Alumni

Noticeboard 10

Fundraising 11

A lot can happen in 12 just one year

In Memoriam 14

Forthcoming 16 Performances

Kim Begley, Deborah Hawksley, Robert Hayward, Gweneth-Ann Jeffers, Ian Kennedy, Celeste Lazarenko, Louise Mott, Anne-Marie Owens, Rudolf Piernay, Sarah Redgwick, Tim Robinson, Victoria Simmons, , David Stout, Adrian Thompson and Julie Unwin (in alphabetical order) performing Serenade to Music by at the Guildhall on Founders’ Day, 27 September 2005

Since its founding in 1880, the Guildhall School has stood as a vibrant showcase for the City of 's commitment to education and the arts. To celebrate the School's 125th anniversary, an ambitious programme spanning 18 months of activity began in January 2005. British premières, international tours, special exhibits, key conferences, unique events and new publications have all played a part in the celebrations.

The anniversary year has also seen a range of new and exciting partnerships, lectures and masterclasses, and several gala events have been hosted, featuring some of the Guildhall School's illustrious alumni. For details of the other highlights of the year, turn to page 3

Priority booking for members of the Guildhall Circle Members of the Guildhall Circle are able to book tickets, by post, prior to their going on sale to the public. Below are the priority booking dates for the Autumn productions (see back cover for further show information). A Chorus of Disapproval Hindemith’s The Long Christmas Dinner Priority booking from 28 August and Berkeley’s A Dinner Engagement Telephone booking opens on 5 September Priority booking from 25 September Telephone booking opens on 2 October Macbeth and The Tempest Tales from Ovid Priority booking from 10 September Priority booking from 20 October Telephone booking opens on 17 September Telephone booking opens on 27 October For more information about the Guildhall Circle, contact [email protected]

With great sadness we have to report the deaths of IAN HORSBRUGH, Principal of the School from 1988—2002, and KATHERINE MCGILLIVRAY, who taught Early Music, Baroque and Classical . In Memoriam, page 14 SILK STREET, BARBICAN, LONDON EC2Y 8DT tel: +44 (0)20 7628 2571 fax: +44 (0)20 7256 9438 www.gsmd.ac.uk GUILDHALL SCHOOL GUILDHALL OF MUSIC &SCHOOL DRAMA Guildhall School Newsletter Page 2 GUILDHALL SCHOOL NEWSLETTER

New Combined Newsletter Starting with this edition we have combined both the Alumni and the Guildhall Circle Newsletters. The resulting Guildhall Newsletter will be published twice a year. This will provide all our readers with a broader awareness of the school’s activities and the wide-ranging success of our former students. We are also pleased to welcome alumni from Junior Guildhall into the Alumni Association. We are keen to hear from you and your contemporaries, so please do keep in touch and pass our details on to anyone who may wish to be added to our database for future mailings and activities. Further news and information for our alumni will shortly be available in the Alumni area of the School’s website: www.gsmd.ac.uk/alumni Alumni Office, Room 203, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Silk Street, Barbican, London, EC2Y 8DT Email: [email protected] Tel: 020 7382 2325

1998 Data Protection Act All data is securely held in the External Relations Office and will be treated confidentially and with sensitivity for the benefit of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and its members. The data is available to our international offices, faculties, academic and administrative departments, recognised alumni societies, clubs associated with the School, and to agents contracted by the School for particular alumni-related projects. Data is used for a full range of alumni activities, including the sending of School publications, the promotion of benefits and services available to alumni, notification of alumni events and of pro- grammes involving academic and administrative departments. Data may also be used in fund raising programmes which might include an element of direct marketing. Under the 1998 Data Protection Act you have the right to object to the use of your data for any of the above purposes. Recent Visits We are very grateful to those alumni who have given up their time to share their skills and experiences with the current students.

Sir James Galway OBE Studied with 1959—60, FGSM 2003 Sir James Galway came into the Junior Guildhall on Saturday 20th May to do a class with the students, even allowing one the chance to play his famous golden as well as telling stories and anecdotes about his life as a performer.

It was aimed at all the woodwind students but any students, staff or parents who were free came as well so the music hall was full! He also then combined with the Junior Guildhall String Ensemble giving an impromptu performance with them which he directed from the flute.

Paul Lewis AGSM 1994, FGSM 2004 In collaboration with the LSO, leading students and fellows from the school performed the complete Beethoven Sonatas in a series of fourteen concerts to complement the LSO's Beethoven Symphony cycle with . The series was complemented by two masterclasses on the Beethoven Piano Sonatas given by visiting professor and former student, Paul Lewis. Drama Alumni Event The first event arranged by the Alumni Office was an informal drama reunion, on the opening night of the summer musical Oh! What A Lovely War.

Drama graduates from 2005 and 2004 were invited to the show and a drinks reception with the cast immediately after the performance. This was a great opportunity for them to share their recent experience of starting out in the business with the students who are about to graduate, and to catch up with old friends and tutors. Some graduates were unable to attend due to work commitments, but the turn-out was good and everyone appeared to enjoy themselves. ISSUE 5 Page 3 Highlights of our 125th Anniversary

2005/6 marked the 125th anniversary of the Guildhall School. In celebration of this the School held a programme of special events over the course of the 18 months from January 2005 to July 2006, including a commemorative concert at the Guildhall on Founders’ Day, 27th September.

All of the performers that evening were current students or alumni, who put together a spectacular programme, vividly demonstrating the enormous breadth of talent that is nurtured within the School.

Left: Principal Barry Ife with Natasha Little, Claire Bloom Tasmin Little performing The Lark Ascending and Clive Rowe (all of whom performed in the concert) at by Ralph Vaughan Williams the post-concert party Other highlights included: November 12 February 14-16 The School paraded a float with musicians and actors in 'The Reflective Conservatoire': an international

the Lord Mayor's Show. conference exploring instrumental, vocal and November 12 & 17 composition teaching in conservatoires, schools and Guildhall jazz ensembles took part in the London Jazz music centres was hosted by the Guildhall School. February 19-22 Festival. November-April Actors from the School appeared at Twenty-seven top-ranked the for the keyboard students presented first time, performing in Live Like the complete Beethoven Pigs as part of the Theatre's 50th piano sonatas at the anniversary. May 23 Barbican, complementing the London Symphony Junior Guildhall staged a 125th anniversary showcase in Orchestra's Beethoven symphony cycle. the Barbican Hall, featuring talented junior soloists and ensembles.

November-December The School produced its first ever pantomime, Cinderella, to sell-out audiences in the School Theatre.

© Nobby Clark

January 11-15 Danielle Tarento with Principal Barry Ife

The annual collaboration with the BBC's Composer

Weekend saw Guildhall students perform works by

Elliott Carter, broadcast on BBC Radio 3. Principal Barry Ife with alumni Jaqueline Bremar, Julie Unwin and February 15 Alistair McGowan

Principal Barry Ife and Sean Gregory, Head of Professional July 11 Development, visited To mark the end of the anniversary celebrations, to collect invited guests attended a special performance of the the 2005 Queen's Anniversary end-of-year musical Oh! What a Lovely War in the Prize for Further and Higher School Theatre.

Education. We would like to thank everyone who gave so generously of their time and talents to make this an unforgettable year and we look forward to seeing you all in the School again soon. Page 4 GUILDHALL SCHOOL NEWSLETTER

Alumni Profiles Neil Austin

Freelance Lighting Designer Neil Austin graduated from the and Viv, dir: Lindsay (Donmar), Romance, Stage Management course in Posner), the Novello Macbeth, 1992. He specialised in lighting Theatre for the RSC Heartbreak House design at an early stage of his London Season (Almeida), career, becoming Mark (Much Ado About Tamburlaine, Henderson’s Assistant before Nothing, dir: Cuckoos (BITE, moving on to work as a lighting Marianne Elliot), the Barbican), and Flesh designer in his own right working in theatre, dance and as Wound, Trust (Royal well as on architectural projects. for the Royal Ballet Court). He has also (Rhapsody, dir/chor: worked in repertory In 2005 alone Neil designed the Frederick Ashton), theatres throughout lighting for 23 theatrical the RSC Courtyard the UK. productions, in venues ranging Theatre (King Lear Opera credits have from the Barbican to the Orchard and The Seagull, included: Chorus! Hall in Tokyo, from the intimate both dir: Trevor (Welsh National space of Theatre 503 to the Nunn) and © Johan Perrson Opera), L.Orfeo cavernous Olivier Theatre at the Royal (Opera City, Tokyo), . Ballet (Pineapple Poll, dir/chor: Pulse Shadows (Queen Elizabeth During the next twelve months he John Cranko). Hall) and Love Counts, the Cricket will work in all three of the His numerous theatre credits have Recovers, Man & Boy, Dada, The National Theatre’s venues (The included: Henry IV Pts 1 & 2, A Embalmer (Almeida Opera). Seafarer in the Cottesloe, dir: Prayer for Owen Meany, Further Dance productions that he has Conor McPherson; Thérèse Raquin than the Furthest Thing, The Night designed for have included: A in the Lyttelton, dir: Marianne Season (National Theatre), Romeo Soldier’s Tale (Linbury Studio, Elliot; Man of Mode in the Olivier, and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Much Royal Opera House), The dir: Nick Hytner), the Donmar Ado About Nothing, King John, Canterville Ghost (English National Warehouse (Frost/Nixon and Don Two Gentlemen of Verona (RSC), Baller) and Darkness and Light Juan in Soho, both dir: Michael The Wild Duck, Caligula, After (Orchard Hall, Tokyo). Grandage; The Cryptogram, dir: Miss Julie, Henry IV, World Music, Josie Rourke), the Almeida (Tom The Cosmonaut’s Last Message… Simon Baker

Freelance Sound Designer Simon graduated including Les Bang Bang (West End and from the Guildhall Misérables, Cats, ) and Mary Poppins (all School of Music & Lion King, Mamma with Andrew Bruce). Drama in 1992. He Mia!, We Will Rock worked with leading His Sound Design credits include You, Miss Saigon, My theatre companies The Caretaker, Feelgood, Closer Fair Lady and Chitty including the Royal To Heaven, 125th Street, The Play Chitty Bang Bang. Shakespeare What I Wrote (West End, UK Tours and the His sound design and Broadway), Cats (UK Tour), Royal Court before credits for the Royal On Your Toes (with Terry Jardine) joining the Royal National Theatre Jailhouse Rock, Rebecca, Heroes, National Theatre include Closer (RNT the short-lived but much-loved where he held the and Broadway), The Ducktastic! and Lord Of The Rings post of Sound Cripple Of Inishman, (Toronto). Supervisor. King Lear, Othello and In 2002 he was the recipient of the Blue Remembered Hills, The Day I In January 1999 he joined International Sound Designer of Stood Still and more recently The The Year award from Autograph Sound Recording Ltd. Duchess Of Malfi. Today Autograph are a leading Entertainment Design Magazine. British sound design and For Autograph, Simon was He is currently working on equipment hire company, Associate Sound Designer on the Spamalot as UK associate and the responsible for numerous theatre London productions of The London production of Lord Of The productions at home and abroad, Witches Of Eastwick, Chitty Chitty Rings due to open in May 2007. ISSUE 5 Page 5

Alumni Profiles Neil Constable

Executive Director of the Neil Constable graduated from the responsibility for managing the Guildhall School of Music & RSC’s London home at the Drama’s Stage Management and and overseeing Technical Theatre course in 1985. their presence in other London From there he worked in Stage theatres and venues. Management in regional repertory theatre and was also involved in In 2000 Neil joined the RSC’s setting up the first stage Executive Management team as management course at the Hong General Administrator, whilst Kong Academy of Performing the RSC recruited for a new Arts. Managing Director, taking on a number of key line He joined the Royal Shakespeare management responsibilities, Almeida as their new Executive Company in 1987, working in managing the theatre operations Director in April 2003, prior to the stage-management, until he was for Stratford and London and re-opening of the new theatre. At made the RSC’s UK and leading company-wide Union the Almeida he has produced over International Tour Manager in negotiations. 1995. After the RSC in 1997 15 productions and 6 , 3 of In May 2001, he was charged with reduced their London presence to which have transferred to the organising and negotiating the 6-months per year, he joined the West End and one to Broadway. RSC’s withdrawal from the Royal National Theatre briefly to Neil is a member of the Society of Barbican Centre and in June 2002, set up and run their Mobile London Theatre (SOLT) and the with setting up the RSC’s new Theatre tour. committee which organises the London offices in , annual Olivier Awards. He returned to the RSC in May programming agreements and 1998 as London Manager, with theatre rentals. He joined the Judy Craymer

Global Producer of Mamma Mia! and founder of Littlestar Services Ltd Judy Craymer graduated in Stage Executive Producer of the official Management in 1977. She then ABBA documentary The Winner worked as a stage manager for Takes It All, which has been the Haymarket Theatre in broadcast worldwide and Leicester, ’ Company, Executive Producer of the Wayne Sleep’s one-man show, the documentary Super Troupers: A Old Vic Theatre, London, and Celebratory Film from Waterloo to finally in 1981 on the original Mamma Mia! production of Cats for and the Really Useful Judy is the Global Producer of Theatre Company. Mamma Mia! of which there are 11 productions including London, In 1982, she joined Tim Rice and Broadway, Las Vegas, the North his production company American Tour and the Heartaches which co-produced International Tour. Blondel with Cameron Mackintosh Radford, and on Madame Souzatzka with director John In 2002, she was presented with a at and the Woman of the Year Award (in Theatre. Schlesinger. She also produced and developed television drama recognition of her international In 1984, Judy became the and comedy for both Tiger Aspect success with Mamma Mia!), and managing director of Three Productions and Primetime Mamma Mia! was nominated for a Knights Ltd, formed by Benny Television, for whom she produced Tony Award for Best Musical. Andersson, Tim Rice and Björn the television film Neville’s Island In April 2006 it was announced Ulvaeus and was the Executive by Tim Firth starring Timothy Spall. that Littlestar will be joining forces Producer for the West End Judy formed Littlestar Services with Tom Hanks’s production production of at the Prince company, Playtone, to produce a Edward Theatre. Limited in 1996 with Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus and feature film based on the stage In 1987, Judy decided to pursue a Richard East, to produce Mamma musical Mamma Mia! career in film and television. She Mia! This reunited her with We are pleased to report that Judy worked on the feature film White Benny, Björn and the Prince will receive a fellowship from the Mischief with the director Michael Edward Theatre. She was also school later this year Page 6 GUILDHALL SCHOOL NEWSLETTER

School News

Guildhall musicians play The Guildhall School on TV BBC Proms 5 programmes filmed here since April! Composer Portrait Over the course of the summer term, crews working on 5 The UK premieres of two chamber works different programmes for 3 by the Japanese composer Toshio different TV channels were Hosokawa were performed by Guildhall filming in the school. musicians on Thursday 3 August at 5pm in the . The Performance Channel have been working closely with the Tania Mandzy (mezzo-) and School to produce three Jørgen Skogmo (guitar) performed Renka programmes: one on producing I (1986), and Christopher Richards an opera (much of this was (), Jue Huang (piano) and The Da Capo Quartet being filmed for The Nature of Britain filmed around the Spring Christopher Wright (piano) performed production of Falstaff, including the trio Vertical Time Study (1992). Barry Ife, recorded the narration on-stage and back-stage for this programme, which was Hosokawa, whose new work Circulating footage and interviews), shown on ITV in late August. Ocean followed in the programme of the another of the Summer term’s evening Prom, also discussed his work Beethoven Sonata series, and The Nature of Britain, a series on and influences with Andrew McGregor the last on the 2006 Gold Medal Britain’s wildlife looking at during the Composer Portrait event. competition. contemporary habitats, presented by Alan Titchmarsh, The Guildhall School's association with Love Letter To London, a series filmed a section on the wildlife began in 2000, when it about unique sites in London, in and around the Barbican became the first conservatoire to perform focuses on the Guildhall School Lake, to the accompaniment of at a BBC Prom. in one episode. The Principal, the Da Capo Quartet. Successful Institutional Audit During a four-day visit in June 2006, the audit team from the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) met with around 100 members of staff and students and scrutinised a vast array of documentation.

Whilst the full report of the audit is not yet available, the School has received a summary of key findings of the audit. These findings confirm that: "broad confidence can be placed in the soundness of the School's present and likely future management of the quality of its programmes and the academic standards of its awards." Principal Barry Ife commented "I am delighted that the QAA particularly praised the School's responsiveness to students and their needs, the quality and effectiveness of Student Support Services, the imbedded and proactive careers guidance, and the sustained contact with professional excellence throughout the School." The audit team also conducted discipline audit trails during the visit which involved more detailed scrutiny of programmes leading to the awards of BA Acting and BMus. Again the outcome was very positive for the School: "in both these discipline trails the audit team found that the standard of student achievement was appropriate to the title of the award….and that the quality of learning opportunities available to students was suitable for a programme of study leading to that award."

WINNER OF 1ST PRIZE AT THE 9TH INTERNATIONAL MOZART COMPETITION IN SALZBURG Elena Xanthoudakis (PDVT 2005)

First prize in the International Mozart Competition 2006 has been awarded to Elena Xanthoudakis, an alumna of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Elena received 10,000 Euros, plus a concert and recital in the Mozarteum in Salzburg during the 2006/07 season and a concert tour of Japan in 2007 as part of her prize. Elena won a scholarship from the Garton Weston Foundation in Australia to study voice with David Pollard at the Guildhall School, passing her Masters with distinction in 2005. In the same year she won third prize and the prize for best interpretation of a contemporary composition at the Montreal International Competition for Voice. Engagements for the 2006/07 season include the roles of Frasquita in for House and Xenia in Boris Godunov in Strasbourg for Opera National du Rhin. The International Mozart Competition consists of two rounds accompanied by a piano and a final round with the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra. Candidates from all over the world compete. This year, the University Mozarteum held the Competition as part of the Salzburg Festival for the first time, and a concert for the prize- winners was held on 16 August in the Great Hall of the Mozarteum, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies. ISSUE 5 Page 7

School News

Violinist Anna-Liisa Bezrodny wins Gold Medal for Music

Anna-Liisa Bezrodny was awarded School. the Guildhall School's Gold Medal, the premier prize for exceptional Anna-Liisa is currently holding the soloists, in a public final at the Leverhulme Chamber Fellowship at Barbican on 15 May. the Guildhall School and is a member of the Taldon Piano Trio, Now in its 91st year, the Guildhall studying with Prof. Oleg Kogan and School Gold Medal competition is Krzysztof Smietana. for instrumentalists and singers The runners-up Glass Trophy, who compete in alternate years for generously donated by The this illustrious prize. Worshipful Company of Glass Each of the four finalists performed Sellers, was awarded to Bulgarian a concerto with the Guildhall double bassist Vitan Ivanov who Symphony Orchestra conducted by performed Bottessini's Double Bass the Guildhall School's Associate Concerto in B minor. The other two Conductor Sian Edwards. Anna- finalists were pianists Toms Liisa performed Shostakovich's Ostrovskis, who performed Violin Concerto No 1 and Rakhmaninov's Rhapsody on a commented that 'it was such a Theme of Paganini and Tom Poster privilege to perform this amazing © Clive Totman who played Rakhmaninov's Piano piece for which I have so much Concerto No. 2 in C minor Op. 18. respect and love, and I relished the has held positions with major Principal Barry Ife commented: 'All opportunity to perform to a orchestras, most recently Music of this year's finalists demonstrated capacity audience in the Barbican Director of the Malaysian Symphony exceptionally high standards, and Hall. To win the Guildhall Gold Orchestra, Damian Cranmer, the adjudicators' decision must have Medal that so many great Director of Music, Guildhall School, been even more difficult than usual. performers have won over the years Sian Edwards, Associate Conductor, The jury particularly appreciated is just incredible'. Guildhall School, Nicholas Mathias, Anna-Liisa's technical mastery of The final took place before a panel Senior Vice President, IMG Artists Shostakovich's work, her command of distinguished judges which and Catherine McGuinness, Chair of of the idiom and the excellent included conductor Kees Bakels who the Board of Governors, Guildhall rapport she had with the orchestra.'

Deutsche Bank Pyramid Award Winner 2006 Ergonomic Performance International

The Pyramid Award scheme was launched in 1993 to offer practical and financial support to freelance artists hoping to start a business in the crucial year after leaving college. Nine awards are distributed among seven performing and creative arts institutions—the Guildhall School is the only conservatoire in the scheme.

Students are invited to write a business plan outlining a project they would like to undertake, detailing business objectives and demonstrating how they plan to achieve them. They must also show a level of financial acumen. Applications which reveal a high standard of entrepreneurship and innovation are submitted to a panel of judges, comprised of both School and Deutsche Bank staff, and an overall winner is selected. The winner receives a £7000 prize, a four-day business planning course at the London Small Business Centre and the supervision of a business mentor throughout the year. This year the award went to Ergonomic Performance International, founded by Helen Billing (BMus Violin 2006). The business aims to become a respected accessory manufacturer for the music industry and is currently in the process of developing an original and practical violin accessory—a shoulder-rest that is ergonomically designed to mould to the shape of the individual’s shoulder. Here she is pictured using the new design. Page 8 GUILDHALL SCHOOL NEWSLETTER Recent News of Former Students

GUILDHALL SCHOOL Matthew Eckland Trombone 2006 Toby Dantzic Acting 2001 Richard Watkin ALUMNI OCCUPY PRINCIPAL Trombone 2006 Toby’s first professional job was The TROMBONE SLOT IN TOP The Spitfire Trombone Quartet, Misanthrope at Chichester Festival (including Matthew, Richard and theatre, closely followed by Where Do FIVE LONDON ORCHESTRAS current student Jon Watkins), won first We Live at the Royal Court, for which place at the International Trombone he received an Olivier nomination (for With the recent appointment of Festival in Birmingham this year. Most Promising Newcomer ). Already

Mark Templeton as Principal Matthew will be President of the in 2006 he has appeared in The School Trombone of the London Students Union at Guildhall for 2006/7. for Scandal (Salisbury Playhouse) and

Philharmonic Orchestra, Guildhall Libor Novacek Gizmo Love (ATC/Assembly Rooms). School alumni now hold the post of Piano 2005 Other theatre credits have included: Libor has won 4th Prize in the AXA Principal Trombone at all five and Richard III Dublin International Piano major London orchestras : (RSC); Los Sitos (Royal Court); Cloud Competition. Nine (Sheffield Crucible); In The Blue Timothy Burke Mark Templeton (1998) Repetiteur 2005 (/Theatre 503); The Knight of London Philharmonic Orchestra Timothy assisted Simon Toyne on the Burning Pestle (Young Vic/ Graham Lee Carmen with Riverside Opera in 2005 Barbican). (1992) and returned to assist on Nabucco in Royal Philharmonic Orchestra He has also appeared in the feature 2006, when he also returned to the films Kidulthood (Cipher Films, dir: Byron Fulcher (1992) Guildhall School to conduct a student Menhaj Huda) and EMR (Cottonopolis Philharmonia performance of Suor Angelica. He is Films, dir: James Erskine). Helen Vollam (1997) the organist at Kingston Parish Church, Andrew McCormack Piano (Jazz) 2000 BBC Symphony Orchestra where he trains the boys and mixed Winner of BBC Jazz Rising Star Award Dudley Bright (1974) choirs with Simon Toyne. He composed the score for the award-winning short 2006. London Symphony Orchestra film Le Cauchemar de l'homme blanc et Graham Parker SMTT 1999

noir and has been commissioned by the Graham has recently been appointed ALL BENT OUT OF same production company to score The Lighting Supervisor at the Young Vic GUILDHALL Tragedy of Albert. Theatre. The Young Vic reopens in

He will join the Jette Parker Young Autumn 2006 after a £12million re- Ricky Champ, Charles Mayer and build. The new improved venue will Matthew Spencer Artists Programme at the Royal Opera (all 2005 Acting House in September 2006. In the 2006/7 house three theatres, two of which will Laurence graduates) along with season, he will be Assistant Conductor be producing full time. Spellman (2004) will appear in on Bird of Night and join the Royal Composition 1998 Daniel Kramer’s revival of Bent at Opera music staff for Carmen and Tansy Davies has recently signed a the Trafalgar Studios this Autumn. Orlando. publishing agreement with Faber Music

François Salignat Accompanist 2005 Ltd.

GUILDHALL SCHOOL Winner of the 2006 Gerald Moore ‘In recent years Davies has established GRADUATE WINS Award for accompanists. herself at the vanguard of the new Katie Van Kooten wave of young British composers. Her CLASSICAL BRIT AWARD Opera 2004 Katie is currently a member of the Jette music is informed by the worlds of both the classical avant-garde and Trumpeter Alison Balsom, who Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. experimental rock (as one critic wrote graduated from the Guildhall “between Prince and Xenakis”), and She made her ROH debut as Magda (La School in 2000, beat the violinist her scores are littered with unusual yet Rondine), followed by Pamina (Die Nicola Benedetti to take the Young insightful directions, such as “urban, Zauberflöte), Kate Pinkerton (Madama British Classical Performer prize at muscular”’ (Faber Music Ltd). Butterfly), Eurydice (Orphée), Arbate this year’s Classical . Paul Lewis (Mitridate), Helena (A Midsummer Piano 1994 Four other Guildhall alumni Night’s Dream), and Aminta (Il re Winner of the 2006 Premio nominees were : Bryn Terfel Pastore). She has also covered Musetta Internazionale, an annual honour from (1989) for 'Singer of the (La bohème), Contessa (Figaro), and Sina’s Academia Chigiana. Founded in Year' and ' of the Year' will cover Liu (). Other roles 1982 by Rolf Becker, the prize is given

Kate Royal (2003) for 'Young include Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Hero to an outstanding musician.

British Classical Performer' (Béatrice et Bénédict), Female Chorus Moritz Eggert Composition 1993 (), and Donna Harry Gregson-Williams (1981) for Moritz Eggert’s ‘soccer oratorio’, Die Elvira (). ‘Soundtrack/Music Theatre Tiefe des Raumes (The Depths of Composer of the Year' She will return to The Royal Opera in Space), was performed at the opening the 2006/7 Season to sing Marguerite ceremony of the 2006 World Cup in Robert Meadmore (1976) for (Faust) and Mimì (La bohème). Germany.

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ISSUE 5 Page 9 Messages & News from Alumni

Nicholas Jenkins PDVT 2005 Radio Orchestra and the Norwegian Schicchi, Sparafucile and Colline During 2005/6 Opera Orchestra (they run a "double throughout France with Diva Opera, Nicholas became principal" system so he is half-time in Gremin with Scottish Opera Go Assistant each). He has also founded a summer Round, Loudspeaker The Emperor Conductor to festival in Denmark and appears of Marc Minkowski frequently as a soloist and in chamber Atlantis with OTC, Wurm Luisa for Offenbach’s music concerts in Norway. Miller at Opera , Alexander Campkin Juniors 2001 Zuniga (David McVicar’s production (Opéra National Since leaving Junior Guildhall, Alexander of Carmen in Tenerife) and Dean de Lyon) and completed a Music degree at Oxford, Babette’s Feast in the Linbury Rameau's Platée (Opéra National de where he was Choral Scholar at St. Theatre, Covent Garden. Paris); he was Assistant Conductor Catherine’s College, Assistant Organ This season’s plans include The Birds and Chorus Master for Purcell's Dido Scholar at Trinity College, and conductor (The Opera Group and I Fagiolini), and Aeneas at the Théâtre du of the Oxford Chamber Choir. Die Fiesque Maria di Rohan and Mr. Châtelet (starring Jessye Norman); After University he took a gap year in Gobineau The Medium at Wexford, during 2006 Nicholas also conducted Ceprano Rigoletto (ENO) and Clerk Mozart’s Così fan tutte for Opéra which he founded the Minimalist Ensemble for performance of May Night at Garsington. Théâtre de Besançon and was the Robert Thompson first ever full-time Chorus Master to contemporary music, which concerted in Juniors 1997 . the Sheldonian Theatre and produced a I am now a CD. He was also appointed conductor of senior Nicholas will conduct Laurent Pelly’s the Arcadian Singers of Oxford production of Offenbach’s L’Ile de broadcast University, with whom he is planning to journalist at Tulipatan for Opéra National de record a CD in December. He will shortly Lyon in February 2007. the BBC. I begin a Masters in Composition at the started off Other future projects include Royal Academy of Music. as working as Assistant Conductor to Sophie Karthauser Opera 2000 newsreader/ for an During producer at BBC Radio Suffolk, Offenbach recording; Assistant moved to telly in Norwich and Conductor and Chorus Master for 2005/2006 Sophie sang Cambridge and then became a Bizet’s Carmen (Bremen Festival and producer on Newsround. Lots of Théâtre du Châtelet); Assistant Pamina at La Monnaie, travelling to disaster areas etc field Conductor Mozart Die Entführung producing for the programme. I am aus dem Serail (Aix-en-Provence Zerlina at the NHK of Tokyo now on secondment from Festival), and Verdi's Newsround as a senior broadcast Nabucco (featuring Peter Sidhom) at and Hanako in Hanjo with the São Carlos Opera, Lisboa. journalist at BBC Midlands Today Blackheath Halls, London in March based in Brum. 2007. Her future projects include Pamina at the Eleftheria Kotzia Guitar 1985 Felicitas Fuchs BMus 2004 Opéra de Lille and Zerlina at the Opéra de Toulon. She will sing three important Eleftheria’s 5th solo In March 2006 Felicitas Fuchs Mozart roles for the first time : Serpetta album, Fuoco was (Soprano, student of Ian Kennedy) in La Finta Giardiniera (Berlin, under released in spring 2006 won second prize at International Zagrosek), Tamiri in Il Re Pastore (in Paris, (by Harmonia Mudi- Vocal Festival "La Voce" in Bad Avignon and Versailles with Les Folies Mandala). Kissingen, Germany. She also has Françoises) and Susanna in Le Nozze di been awarded the first prize of Whilst pursuing her solo career, Figaro at the Lyon National Opera under Eleftia also teaches at the Royal Lutoslawski Festival at Warsaw, William Christie. She will also sing her Poland. Welsh College of Music and Drama first Nanetta (Falstaff) at the Théâtre des and gives masterclasses and training This summer she appeared as Champs-Élysées – Paris. courses around the world. Pamina in at the Paul Reeves Opera 1997 International Opera Festival at Gut She is also a frequent judge in Immling, Germany, as well as Recent roles have international guitar competitions. Tebaldo in Don Carlos, conducted by included Matthew The "Eleftheria Kotzia holds the stage Ivan Anguelov, and sang modern Last Supper at Royal with the sort of presence I have not songs written by Aribert Reimann at Festival Hall, seen for a while. She has a robust Bad Reichenhall Germany Festival character mixed with a quiet accompanied by Axel Bauni together Opera and Staatsoper sensitivity .You could say it is with Christiane Oelzen. Berlin, Badger and something like the voraciousness of Parson Cunning Little Johannes Martens 2002 Julian Bream combined with a Vixen with Opera feminine delicacy of control, an Johannes Martens is now principal Theatre Company and English Touring cellist of both the Norwegian State Opera, Zuniga Carmen, Betto Gianni Continued on page 10 Page 10 GUILDHALL SCHOOL NEWSLETTER

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alluring combination - all infused with the pizzazz of Greek spirit" and social environment of a CLASSICAL GUITAR - March 2006 playwright's work, and as we see the connection between art and its Oyvind Aase Piano 1984 context, the more our personal (Concert Recital Diploma 1983) experience and that of a wider My CD album In public will be enhanced.” (David Evening Air – Piano Corkhill) Moods 1900 – 2000 Winner of the 2005 Deutsche Bank The fusing of various art-forms is at has recently been Pyramid Award, Connecting Arts is a the very heart of their work—they released on the unique initiative that brings have recently performed A Norwegian label together music, dance, literature Midsummer Night’s Dream as an Thema, which is and film in artistic events. orchestral concert with dramatic located in the city of Bergen, where I readings and Strauss’s Le Bourgeois live. The album presents 34 short “With the great availability of Gentilhomme, using Guildhall Actors piano works by 33 composers from organised culture in our cities and and integrating artwork into the the 20th century, and the idea is to through the internet it is a simple event. display the musical versatility of matter to enjoy our favourite art Their next event will set twentieth century keyboard writing. forms - the experience of a Shostakovich firmly in context. The The works performed on this CD are Shakespeare play, a Strauss tone concert will include a performance by the following composers, named poem or a Soviet autobiography can of his 10th Symphony along with in alphabetical order: Barber, all enrich our lives and give them a dramatic readings from both Stalin’s Bartók, Berg, Berio, Bernstein, new perspective. But it is our belief and Shostakovich’s journals (St Carter, Copland, Debussy, Ginastera, that each of these art works can be Giles’s Church, , 29th Gjerstrøm, Grieg, Gubaidulina, illuminated to a greater intensity in September, 7.15pm). Hindemith, Ives, Janáček, Křenek, their association with one another: Lutoslawski, MacMillan, Messiaen, the better we understand the For more information on Connecting Nielsen, Nørgård, Pettersson, Pärt, circumstances of a piece of music's Arts and their forthcoming concerts, Rachmaninov, Ravel, Schoenberg, genesis for example, or the artistic see www.connectingarts.co.uk Scriabin, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Takemitsu, Tøsse, Valen and Webern. I have done a lot of recording in Oxford Lieder recent years, and I also work as a writer. My essay on different aesthetic aspects in connection with Oxford Lieder is a registered charity that runs the studio recording will be published in Oxford Lieder Festival and the Oxford Song Studia Musicologica Norvegica 2006, Evenings. The Artistic Director is Sholto Kynoch, the foremost journal for current who is a fellow of the Guildhall School. research in music in Norway. I may The Oxford Song Evenings were initiated in 2002. A monthly series be visited at themas website: running from January to August, these concerts are showcases for excellent www.thema.no where a complete young singers, many of whom studied at the Guildhall School. As at the discography is listed. Festival, each concert is preceded by a talk on the music to be performed Katie Costello Piano 1982 that evening. Would like to get in touch with Also founded in 2002, with a series of seven concerts of the songs of contemporaries Russ Armstrong and Schubert, the Oxford Lieder Festival has rapidly developed into the most Philippa Merrick. significant festival of song in the UK. Taking place in the last two weeks of Please reply c/o Alumni office. October, this year sees 26 concerts over fifteen days, bringing both world- renowned names and the very best of a new generation of singers and pianists to the city. If you have a message or news that you would like to appear in the next Musically, this year the focus is broadly on four composers in anniversary issue of the Guildhall Newsletter years (Mozart, Schumann, Shostakovich and Britten), but the 500-odd (Spring 2007), please send it to: songs to be performed cover a vast range of composers from Germany, France, America, Italy, Scandinavia and Russia. [email protected] or An ever-expanding educational programme is at the heart of their work. Alumni Office (Room 203) Workshops and masterclasses at every level are a regular feature of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama Silk Street Festival. The 2006 Festival begins with a presentation by 120 local Barbican schoolchildren as the culmination of a week of workshops. London EC2Y 8DT For more information on Oxford Lieder, see www.oxfordlieder.co.uk ISSUE 5 Page 11

FINDING THE FUNDS Duncan Barker, Head of Fundraising

As most alumni and friends of the time and expertise for the benefit of scholarships and bursaries, the Guildhall School will be only too current students. fundraising office will also be well aware, an actor’s or a looking for funding towards the musician’s life is not an easy one. This is only one side of the equation, School’s proposed new building on Even before our students face the however. The majority of the Milton Court site on Silk Street, profession at large and try to scholarships, bursaries and awards and also to support the professional establish their careers and make a given by the School are made development, education and living, they have to find the money available through the immense to support themselves as they study generosity of a large number of outreach activities of our award- and perfect their art. This is where livery companies, charitable trusts winning Guildhall Connect the scholarships and bursaries and foundations, companies, and programme. programme at the Guildhall School individuals who make regular If you would like to support the aims to help out. donations to the School in support students and activities of the of its students. The School is Guildhall School, why not make a The School has a long tradition of extremely grateful to all its current donation and become a member of providing scholarships and bursaries donors. Every year the fundraising the Guildhall Circle? Your donation for its students to help with their office, in collaboration with the will go directly to supporting our fees and maintenance costs. Awards Guildhall School Trust – the School’s students and in return you can get are made annually by the Principal, dedicated charity – looks for new more involved in the life of the the Directors of Music, Drama, and sources and methods of raising School. All members enjoy priority Technical Theatre, and the Head of money to support our students. We booking for performances and Junior Guildhall based on talent, run fundraising events, manage the productions and regular potential and financial need. These Guildhall Circle and keep in contact opportunities to see ‘behind the awards enable many students to with its members, and think of new scenes’. take up their hard-earned places at ways in which people are able to For further information on how to the School, particularly when they get involved with the School. would probably have not been able support the Guildhall School or any Examples of this include the annual of the activities described above, to do so due to difficult financial Silk Street Bursary appeal (see circumstances. Some former please contact Duncan Barker, Head below) and a forthcoming legacy of Fundraising, on scholarship holders have gone on to giving campaign. [email protected] achieve much in their chosen fields or 020 7382 2313. and they often return to give their In addition to the ongoing need for

Silk Street Bursary Appeal LISA WILSON

The Silk Street Bursary scheme began in 2000. It aims to allow an additional student to study at the School who would not otherwise have been able to do so. This year’s recipient for the bursary will be Lisa Wilson.

Lisa has spent the last three years undertaking postgraduate training at the school, completing both the Postgraduate Diploma in Vocal Training and the Masters Degree. She is a highly talented soprano and we are very pleased that she has accepted a place on the Opera Course. “I have wanted to sing opera since I was seventeen and had my first taste of Mozart arias. I already had a very strong background in stage work—with a great deal of success in music and dance competitions, and a developing passion for . As I was academically gifted, I decided it would be wise to take up my offered place at Cambridge University to read English, with a Choral Scholarship and Music Prize, before applying for a postgraduate place at the Guildhall to continue studying with my teacher, Professor Susan McCulloch. I had my first taste of professional-level opera as a step-out soloist in the chorus of Idomeneo at Belfast Opera under Stephen Barlow in 1997 and have been steadily working towards a career in opera ever since. I also hope to get involved in educational programmes, as my teaching has shown me just how much ignorance there is about opera, and how much joy there is once it is given a chance.” If you would like to make a donation in support of the Silk Street Bursary for Lisa Wilson, please send a cheque payable to the ‘Guildhall School Trust’ to Rachel Davis at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Silk Street, Barbican, London EC2Y 8DT. Further details of how to make a donation are also available at www.gsmd.ac.uk under ‘Support the School’. Page 12 GUILDHALL SCHOOL NEWSLETTER A LOT CAN HAPPEN IN JUST ONE YEAR... Sophie Angebault Voice Ricky Champ Acting Festival); The Last Detective (ITV) Semi-finalist for the Katherine Bent (Trafalgar Studios); Driving Lessons Abby Jones SMTT Ferrier Award 2006; winner of the (Working Title Films, dir: Jeremy Brock); ASM for Der Stein der Weisen, Thelma King Award for Singers. lead in Hotel Very Welcome ; DSM for Cry Of Sarah Astington SMTT (Komplitzen Films, dir: Sonja Heiss); Innocence (Greenwich); DSM for Family Affairs (Five). Tosca, Opus 12 Music Ltd; Assistant Electrician, ; Oscar Colomina Bosch Electrician, Royal Albert Hall. Composition ASM (dep) for the Phantom of the Hayley Atwell Appointed teacher of General Music at Opera (Her Majesty’s). Acting Carwyn Jones the Yehudi Menuhin School. Acting Lead in as yet untitled new film (dir: Woody Allen); Bianca in Women Spanish premiere of ‘Open the Curtains’ Silence (RSC Fringe); Esther and Foot Beware Women (RSC); Rosa in Ruby for string orchestra in August 2006, by Falls/Come and Go (National Theatre in the Smoke, Catherine in Line of the Joven Orquestra Internacional of Wales); Judge John Deed (BBC). Katie Keggy Beauty and Jane in Fear of Fanny Ciudad de Oviedo, under Pablo SMTT González Bernardo. New work (BBC); Sabrina Guinness in Whatever Stage Manager for Hair and The commissioned by Kontakte Percussió to Love Means (Granada); Io in Emperor Jones (Gate); DSM for premiere in Autumn 2006 and to be Prometheus Bound (Sound). Games & After Liverpool) and Bye included in a CD published by the Harriet Balsom SMTT Bye Blues & Double Double as well as Institut Valencià de la Música. Trainee Buyer (Costume), RNT. Polly Conway ASM for The Linden Tree (Orange Acting Tree, Richmond). Angela Barnes Horn The Gabriels (Finborough); Blithe Spirit Gareth Kennerley Acting Appointed 2nd Horn of the LSO (the (English Speaking Theatre, Frankfurt). first woman ever appointed in their The Concert Party (Orange Tree, Luciano Dodero Acting horn/brass sections). Richmond); In The Red (Almeida); Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Edgar in King Lear (Creation). Natalie Birdsall-Collins SMTT Dream and Tybalt in Romeo & Juliet So-Ock Kim Violin Technician, Drill Hall. (British Shakespeare Company); Orsino Gabriel Bisset Smith So-Ock Kim has given a recital at the Acting in Twelfth Night and Edgar Linton in Wigmore Hall, various performances Wuthering Heights (Love & Madness- (Talkback Thames for ITV); of the Tchaikovsky Concerto in Korea tour); BAC Scratch (Jet Theatre at Julius Caesar (RSC/Lyric and in London with the Royal ); One 250th of a Hammersmith); The Survivors (ITV). Philharmonic Orchestra at Cadogan Li Boberg Second (short film). Double Bass Hall and appeared as soloist in the Jason Eddy Acting Currently on trial for the Sub- Penderecki Festival, Krakow, principal nr. 3 position with the BBC Black & White Sextet and Othello Montpelier Festival, France and in Scottish Symphony Orchestra. (Rosemary Branch) Sweden with the Belgrade Martha Everett Philharmonic Orchestra. Her first Orchestra of the Royal Opera in SMTT recordings are due for release this Copenhagen; Helsingborg Symphony ASM, . Daniel Grice year. Orchestra, Sweden; Oxford Voice Kristopher Kling Philomusica. Acting Richard Bower An Evening With Chekhov (Kings Head). SMTT Amy Holland Blue Man Group (New York). SMTT Adele Lamb Freelance Sound Engineer; Freelance SMTT Stage Manager, Floodtide Theatre RYA Senior Watersports Instructor. ASM for Daddy Cool (Shaftesbury); Company (Trafalgar Studios/Greece); Andrew Budden DSM for The Kiss (Hampstead); ASM Horn Assistant ASM for He Had It Coming for Dido & Aeneas (Woodhouse Appointed 5th horn of the BBC (Don Giovanni) and DSM for The Open Air Theatre); Stage Manager Philharmonic Orchestra in Gabriels, Birmingham Opera Company; for ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore Manchester. ASM for The Next Big Thing (New (); DSM for The Sam Bullard Saxophone (Jazz) Players). Emilie Hornlund Next Big Thing (New Players); ASM Plays regularly in the Syd Lawrence Viola for Saturday Night Fever (Victoria Orchestra, the Grahamophones, the Philharmonic Orchestra, Guildford Apollo). Zephirus Saxophone Quartet and his Philharmonic Orchestra, London Tim Lewis Acting own jazz quartet, the Sam Bullard Chamber Players, London Musical Arts, Romeo & Juliet (Touring Quartet. Sinfonia Verdi, The , Charlie Cattrall Consortium/Birmingham Rep). Acting Watford Philharmonic. Nick Lundy SMTT Marat/Sade (Punchdrunk); BAC Emilie has just finished her Masters Construction Assistant, Terry Murphy Scratch (Jet Theatre at Battersea Arts studies at the Guildhall School. Scenery Ltd. Centre); devised piece at Riverside Matti Houghton Acting Lina Markeby Voice Studios (The Playgroup); The House Burn/Citizenship/Chatroom (RNT); Beppi of 5 Days—devising (Machine); in Stallerhof (Southwark Playhouse); L’Europe Galante, Ambronay Gaudette (Flooded Theatre). Mikey The Pikey (Edinburgh Fringe Baroque Academy tour; Dido and ISSUE 5 Page 13

Here are just some of the extraordinary achievements of those who completed their Batchelor’s degrees in 2005

Aeneas, Vienna Festival. season includes working with the Isle of Matthew Spencer Acting Charles Mayer Acting Wight Symphony Orchestra, the Bent (Trafalgar Studios); Valere in Westminster Philharmonic Orchestra, Bent (Trafalgar Studios); lead in (Watermill Theatre, the Worcestershire Symphony While She Slept (short film); Newbury and tour). Orchestra, a recital as part of the East (October House). Philip Spendley Voice Peter Mayne Sheen International Concert Series and Electronic Music a debut recital at Renaissance Hall, St. La Boheme, British Youth Orchestra Research Assistant in Department of Tropez, France. (Italy & France); appeared as soloist with the New London Orchestra and Electronic Music Studies at Guildhall Invited to tour the South of France in London Chorus (St Paul’s, School. 2005 in a series of solo and chamber Jonathan McGlynn Knightsbridge). SMTT music recitals playing Beethoven, Philip has just completed a year on Freelance lighting work, TV light Schubert, Ravel and Chopin, he will return in 2006 for an extended tour to the Opera Course. entertainment shows. Marcus Stevens include Nice and Aix-en-Provence Acting Emma McMorrow Acting performing Haydn, Beethoven and A Plastic Zion (Hampstead); That Così fan tutte, Down to the Woods Chopin. Never Lands (TV short); The King of and The Consultation Fee (short Richard Shanks Acting Con (ITV). films); Amy in Breathing Corpses Vanessa Thomas (Lightop London). Eastenders, Holby City and The Message SMTT (BBC); The Bill (Talkback Thames for Dimitri Murrath Viola Sound engineer for Billy Elliot: The ITV). Musical (Victoria Palace); work on Winner of The Philip and Dorothy James Shirley SMTT Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and The Green Award for Young Concert Junior Production Manager, Woman In White. Artists 2006. Richard Thompkins Imagination Ltd. Acting Brian Perkins SMTT Jørgen Skogmo Guitar Wrote and performed one man show ASM for Donkey’s Years (Comedy); American Muscle (New York Front-of-House, West End. Finalist and ‘Permio del Publico’ Prize Henry Pettigrew Winner in the Certamen Internacional International Fringe Festival). Acting Henri de Vasselot de Guitarra ‘Francisco Tarrego’ Voice Troilus in Troilus and Cressida (RSC (Benicassim, Spain); 3rd prize and prize An Evening With Chekhov (Kings Stratford/Edinburgh Festival); The for the best performance of an English Head). Sun At Midnight (BBC Radio); work in the Haverhill Sinfonia Soloists Adrian Ward Voice Midsomer Murders (Bentley Competition. Productions for ITV); Next of Kin Winner of the most promising young Jørgen has just completed his Advanced (New York Film Academy). Singer Award at the Royal Overseas Sophie Roberts Instrument Studies at the School. Acting Sophie Sladen League competition. Solo SMTT performances have included Oxford Mariane in Tartuffe (Watermill ASM for The Wizard Of Oz and Romeo Leider Festival, Kings Lynn Festival, Theatre, Newbury and tour); winner and Juliet (Birmingham Rep/Tour). Wigmore Hall, St Paul’s of Carleton Hobbs Award (BBC Suzy Somerville Knightsbridge. Radio); Hero in Much Ado About SMTT Nothing (BBC World Service); Mary Technical Swing for The Rocky Horror He has just completed a year on the in The Fountain Overflows - 6 part Show (UK Tour); Assistant Stage Opera Course. Jodie Whittaker classic serial (Radio 4); Fran in Hold Manager, Michael Clark Dance Acting My Breath - first ever devised piece Company; Stage Manager for Yerma Lead in Venus (Venus for radio (Radio 3). (); Wardrobe Mistress/ASM Productions/Film Four/Miramax, dir: Arieh Rosen SMTT for Dick Whittington (). Roger Michell); Nadya in Enemies James Southby Production Assistant for ‘Tis Pity SMTT (Almeida); The Storm (Shakespeare’s She’s A Whore (Southwark Freelance lighting & sound engineer. Globe); The Last Will & Testament of Billy Two-Sheds and Doctors (BBC). Playhouse); charity work in India. Nicky Spence Voice Robert Scamardella Leon Williams Acting Piano Signed five-record contract with Prizes have included the Lescek Universal Records, the first of which was Charley in Charley’s Aunt (Oxford Dessent Chopin Prize, the Romantic recorded with the Royal Philharmonic Playhouse); Hamlet (October House); Piano Award, and the Professional Orchestra and released in May; Skylight (Stephen Joseph Theatre). Robert Wilson Recital Prize of the Oxford performed at the Classical Brit Awards Acting International Music Festival. (Royal Albert Hall); toured with both Stig in Stig of the Dump (Courtyard, Robert was the selected artist for the and Dame Shirley Hereford); The Emperor Jones (Gate); Countess of Munster Musical Trusts's Bassey. Dr Faustus and The Devil Is An Ass Recital Scheme enabling He has just completed his Masters and is (White Bear); UKTV commercial. engagements with prestigious going on to the Opera Course in orchestral societies and music clubs September 2006. over two years. The 2005-2006 Page 14 GUILDHALL SCHOOL NEWSLETTER In Memoriam

Katherine McGillivray 1970—2006 Katherine was as thoughtful and Many of her viola students became soloist on viola and viola d'amore engaging as a teacher as she was a professional colleagues in time and and was a major contributor to musician and will be sorely missed today play with ensembles including their project to record the complete by her colleagues here and in the The Orchestra of the Age of Bach cantata cycle. wider professional community. Enlightenment, The English Concert She was much in demand as an Initially visiting the Guildhall School and The King's Consort. ensemble musician; her from 2000 to teach baroque viola in She played with all of discography runs to one-to-one lessons, her obvious these leading UK period hundreds of recordings accomplishments as a coach saw her orchestras herself and and includes repertoire leading group sessions for string others besides; she held from Praetorius to Frank ensembles (on baroque and modern the post of principal Zappa via Mozart. violist for Ton Koopman's instruments) and the School's then- Our thoughts are with her fledgling baroque orchestra; she Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra for many years, family (her sister, Alison, played a substantial role in helping also teaches at the to establish this as regular with whom she performed as a concerto School) and her many, ensemble. many friends.

Ian Horsbrugh 1941—2006

Ian Horsbrugh was Principal of with David Parkhouse and 1979, working as Deputy Warden of Guildhall School of Music & Drama cello with Eileen Croxford. He its Music Centre for five years. In from 1988 to 2002. He led the continued his music studies with 1985 he was made vice-director of School through a number of three years at the Guildhall School the and four changes, including the and a fourth at the years later he was made Principal of introduction of Royal College of Music, the Guildhall School, where he degrees in where he added presided until his retirement in performance. conducting to his 2002. From 1996 to 2004 he existing studies. Ian was an authority on the music of was President of the Having gained Leoš Janácek and his artistic and Association of significant musical and academic distinction was recognised European administrative by appointments to fellowships of Conservatoires and had experience working for the Royal College of Music, the been Honorary organisations like the Royal Scottish Academy of Music President since 2004. In Royal Ballet and the and Dramatic Art, the Royal this role he contributed Royal Philharmonic Northern College of Music and the greatly to the high Orchestra, Ian decided Royal Academy of Music. In 1995 he reputation which the to pursue a career in was awarded an Honorary DMus by Guildhall School enjoys education. City University. in continental Europe. He was Head of Music The School extends its heartfelt Born in 1941 and educated at St at two London secondary schools sympathy to Caroline and to their Paul’s School, he began his music before joining the Inner London four children. Ian will be sorely studies at the age of 17, studying Education Authority;s music team in missed.

Anthony John Camden 1938—2006 Anthony Camden died at his home asthma became a appointed Principal Oboe in Brisbane, Australia on 7th March significant problem it of the Northern Sinfonia after a long battle with motor was suggested that a Orchestra. His next move neurone disease. wind instrument was to become Principal He was born in London on 26th might help, and so he Oboe with the City of April 1938 into a musical family: his became an oboist. Birmingham Symphony father, Archie Camden was the He studied at the Orchestra where he spent celebrated international bassoonist Royal College of five years before moving, and his mother, Joyce (Jan Kerrison) Music, taught by in 1968, to the London was a 'cellist, pianist and composer. Terence MacDonagh. Symphony Orchestra. Anthony began his musical life with The day after Anthony was a member of the piano and the violin. When his graduating he was the LSO for twenty years, ISSUE 5 Page 15

Anthony John Camden cont... including twelve as Chairman of the Music & Drama. performed regularly to new Board. His tenure as Chairman saw In 1988, Anthony changed tack audiences in China, Thailand, him lead the LSO through difficult completely, leaving the LSO and Malaysia and the Philippines. and turbulent times to a position of moving to Australia, to Brisbane Some ten oboe concerti have been artistic and financial security in their where he became the new Provost written for and premiered by new home at the Barbican Centre. and Director of the Queensland Anthony and, in the 1990s, he Soon after joining the LSO he Conservatorium of Music. embarked on a major recording established the London Virtuosi After five years, he accepted the project: thirty six concerti with ensemble. Among its members were post of Dean of Music at the accompaniment, shared between his James Galway and John Georgiadis, Academy for the Performing Arts in London Virtuosi and the City of and they made many recordings and Hong Kong where he worked London Sinfonia. As a result, he is toured the world, performing at tirelessly to create a place for the one of the most widely-recorded major music festivals. For many Academy among the world's best oboists in the world and leaves a years, Anthony was also Visiting music institutions and, at the same legacy of which any musician could Professor at the Guildhall School of time, he inspired new projects and be justly proud.

Denis Brass 1913—2006 The following article originally appeared in Classical Music Magazine, 27 May 2006.

Denis Brass, the former British Alan Rawsthorne, including the Schwamberger, of Rawsthorne’s council music officer for Portugal, Bagatelles in Madrid and, in June cello sonata in Salzburg, and while Spain and Austria, has died aged 93. 1947, the first concert perfomrnace in Vienna he also arranged concerts Educated at King’s College London of the composer’s Piano Concerto by . After Vienna and the Guildhall School of Music & No 1 with the Symphony he returned to Britain and became Drama, he spent a year in Germany Orchestra—a risky undertaking since an academic, specialising in in 1937, witnessing the impact of the last movement ends with a Portuguese and Spanish, teaching at fascism, before joining the British quotation from the Italian ‘Bandiera Bristol University until the mid- Council, where he oversaw Rossa’, a song strongly associated at 1970s. He also translated works by exhibitions, concerts and other the time with the defeated Spanish the Portuguese writer Miguel Torga, cultural events in Lisbon, Madrid republican cause. In the late forties, who was banned until the 1974 and Barcelona. A gifted pianist, he Brass was posted to the British revolution. gave several first performances in sector of Vienna, and gave the Spain of works by the composer Austrian premiere, with Carl Maria

Harry Newstone 1921—2006 Harry Newstone was born in 1921 in their playing with that of the contribution to our standard of Canada, the son of Russian Vienna Philharmonic under Bruno living". immigrants; when he was three, the Walter. By 1951 they were asked to In 1965, having served as a guest family moved to London. contribute a Haydn festival (based conductor for the Sacramento At the age of 15 he took up the on the composer's visits to the Symphony Orchestra, he was harmonica, winning a talent capital) to the Festival of Britain. appointed its music director, competition at the Cinema in His first foreign appearance was in presiding in 1965-66 over its first . The cinema organist, Berlin in 1955, and Copenhagen ever sell-out season. He remained Bobby Pagan, recognised an called him in a year later. In 1959 he there until 1978, while at home, he exceptional ability and offered to became the first Western conductor was busy broadcasting "original" teach him the piano. Soon after this to work in Hungary since the Second readings of several Beethoven the accordionist Alf Vorzanger, World War, and in 1960 the symphonies for BBC in the mid- taught him that instrument, too. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 1960s courting controversy with Newstone originally decided to invited him to Vancouver to conduct decisions that are now become an architect, however the a series of broadcasts and concerts commonplace. pull of music proved stronger. He in the festival here. He also In 1979, back in Britain after studied at the Guildhall School of appeared in Czechoslovakia, Israel, Sacramento, Newstone was named Music & Drama, taking the Associate Mexico and Portugal. An invitation Director of Music at the University exam in conducting in 1949, from the Nashville Symphony of Kent at Canterbury. followed by studies at the Royal Orchestra to guest-conduct in the 1962-63 season was crowned with Newstone's recorded legacy - from Academy of Music and the Haydn and Mozart symphonies via Accademia Santa Cecilia in Rome. the first honorary citizenship awarded by the newly designated Busoni to his contemporaries He founded the Haydn Orchestra in Metropolitan Nashville "in Copland, Lutoslawski and Arnold - is 1949, winning instant acclaim: the recognition of his very substantial intermittent but consistently Manchester Guardian comparing impressive. FORTHCOMING PUBLIC PERFORMANCES

Modern Drama Music highlights A Chorus of Disapproval TALES FROM OVID Ted Hughes’ JOHN HARLE AT 50 by Alan Ayckbourn Adapted by Tim Supple and Simon Reade John Harle & the Guildhall A local amateur dramatic society is This adaptation of the selected tales from Saxophone Ensemble mounting a production of John Gay’s The Hughes’ version of the greatest poem of 25 September, 1.05pm Beggar’s Opera. As rehearsals progress classical inspiration is erotic, elegant, MUSIC HALL provincial life imitates art. violent and magical.

STEVE REICH DAY 5, 6, 9 & 10 October at 7.30pm 27, 28, 29 & 30 November at 7.30pm 9 & 10 October at 2pm 28 & 30 November at 2pm The magic of Steve Reich’s music is in the musicking itself. GUILDHALL SCHOOL THEATRE GUILDHALL SCHOOL THEATRE Repeating Ourselves showcases some of themost cultivated, colourful and Shakespeare Double Bill sensuous music of Reich and Macbeth The Tempest his influences, Terry Riley Workshop productions of and and African drumming. 3 October, from 1pm Two edited explorations of supernatural and human power show the astonishing range of Shakespeare’s art. MUSIC HALL

In the first, three weird sisters whet Macbeth’s ambition with their equivocating GUILDHALL FELLOWS prophecies, tempting him, spurred on by his wife, to commit regicide, which in turn RECITAL SERIES leads him on into deeds of ever-increasing evil. A series of six early evening In the second, Prospero, the wronged Duke of Milan, exerts his magical powers over (6pm) concerts presented by his daughter, his servants and his enemies, but learns in the end to pity his enemies, Guildhall Fellows, including free his servant and relinquish his charms and the island he has ruled. the Da Capo Quartet and Boris Brovtsyn. 18, 18, 19, 20 & 21 October at 7.30pm 4 & 11 October 1, 8, 22 & 29 November 19 & 21 October at 2pm MUSIC HALL

GUILDHALL SCHOOL & Opera Double Bill RAM COMBINED The Long Christmas Dinner A Dinner Engagement ORCHESTRAS Hindemith’s and Berkeley’s Conducted by Sir 15 October, 7.30pm Paul Hindemith’s last opera, written in 1960, sets a by Thornton Wilder, based on his own play, which tells the story of 90 Christmas dinners covering four BARBICAN HALL generations of the Bayard household. IAN CARR TRIBUTE It is wittily paired with Lennox Berkeley’s best known and most successful opera, a CONCERT setting of a highly amusing libretto by Paul Dehn, which was first performed in the Guildhall Jazz Band. Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh in 1954. Part of the London Jazz Both operas are sung in English. Festival. 14 November, 8pm 2, 4, 6 & 8 November at 7pm GUILDHALL SCHOOL THEATRE MUSIC HALL

A CELEBRATION OF Junior Guildhall HEINE AND SCHUMANN Junior Guildhall Recital Series Rare Breeds Day—21 October Presented by Graham Johnson. 2 October, 6 November & 4 December 16, 17, 23 & 24 November, A full day of workshops and activities centred 7pm on less-familiar but in-demand instruments. MILLENNIUM CENTRE, CARDIFF MUSIC HALL

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