Guildhall School of Music & Drama Prospectus 2021
Guildhall School is a vibrant, international community of musicians, actors and production artists in the heart of the City of London. We deliver world-leading professional training in performing and production arts, in partnership with leading artists, companies and ensembles. 6th in the world for performing arts (QS World University Rankings 2020) 1st among music conservatoires in the UK (Complete University Guide Music League Table 2020) 100% overall student satisfaction for BA Acting (National Student Survey 2019) gsmd.ac.uk Find outmore
/ /guildhallschool /guildhallschool @ @ guildhallschool guildhallschool guildhallschool WELCOME At Guildhall School, we lead students through the transformative journey of training in music, drama and production arts. If you join us on that journey, it will be a demanding, intense and committed process. In return, you will be empowered to develop your unique creative potential – and to put your talent to work at the forefront of cultural change.
Guildhall enjoys some of the best facilities for training in performance and production arts anywhere in the world, and our graduates consistently succeed at the highest levels of their profession. Training with us will equip you to make your mark as an accomplished performing artist, composer, theatre maker, production professional or teacher.
As a Guildhall student, you will be challenged to work to the highest professional standards in a world-class context. You will draw on the expertise of internationally-renowned artists and practitioners, working with you as directors, designers, conductors, coaches and tutors.
Of the 1000 students across our programmes, 35% come from outside Britain, bringing a truly global outlook to what we do. We welcome diversity, and encourage applications from anyone with talent, regardless of background.
Our diversity extends to the art forms that we cover. We are one of the few major European conservatoires to offer training in music, drama and production arts. Working across disciplines frees us to break down boundaries across art forms and experiment with new ideas. We value innovation, and will encourage you to explore the big questions that affect you as an artist, now and for the future.
Active engagement with diverse communities keeps us constantly alive to the unique power of performing arts to foster self-expression and social change. We train students to work in communities across East London and beyond to offer inspiring arts experiences for all. We also run a vibrant programme of Youth and Adult Learning, enabling children and young people, business leaders and professionals to develop their creative potential.
Above all, at Guildhall School we believe in the power of performing arts to change people’s lives. We invite you to join us in transforming your own life and in serving the wider world as we embark, together, on the challenge and change of the 21st century.
gsmd.ac.uk | 3 Introduction
Location 6 Partners 8 Student Life 10 Careers and Alumni 12
Drama
Introduction 15 BA in Acting and MA in Acting 16 Acting alumni 20
Music
Introduction 25
CONTENTS BMus 28 MMus/MPerf in Performance (Guildhall Artist Masters) 30 MMus/MPerf in Performance (Guildhall Artist Masters): Orchestral Artistry 32 MMus/MComp in Composition (Guildhall Artist Masters) 34 MA in Opera Making and Writing 36 Artist Diploma 37 MA in Music Therapy 38 Principal Study 40 Music alumni 64
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Introduction 69 BA in Production Arts 72 BA in Production Arts pathways 74 BA in Video Design for Live Performance 80 MA in Collaborative Theatre Production and Design 84 Production Arts alumni 86
Research and Teaching
Research Degrees 91 PGCert in Performance Teaching 94
Further info
Applications, auditions, interviews and Open Days 96 Fees, funding and scholarships 98 Youth and Adult Learning 100 Senior staff and Contact us 102 How to find us 103 Credits 104
gsmd.ac.uk | 5 Our city: London
Guildhall School is located in the heart of London, one of the most exciting cities in the world. Training in music, drama and production arts in this culturally- rich and dynamic environment is a unique experience.
With West End theatres, the Our facilities: Silk Street, Southbank Centre and Covent Milton Court and Sundial Court Garden’s Royal Opera House all close by, Guildhall has an array of Our facilities include the Grade world-renowned cultural II-listed Silk Street building, institutions on its doorstep. As a part of the distinctive and student, you will be entitled to architecturally-renowned concessions on virtually all Barbican complex, and Milton entertainment tickets, plus Court, our newer site across the discounts for shops, restaurants road. Milton Court’s world-class and public transport. For students performance and training spaces from abroad, we provide guided include a state of the art concert tours and excursions to help you hall, a lyric theatre, a studio find your way around. Other theatre and several major major European cities are easily rehearsal rooms. Silk Street accessible by train or plane. offers a more intimate music hall, a dedicated lecture recital room, a completely flexible Our neighbourhood: theatre, theatrical workshops Culture Mile and labs, electronic music LOCATION studios, recording and sound Our campus is situated in studios, and over 40 teaching Culture Mile, a vibrant cultural and practice rooms. We also have hotspot in the City of London. an Annexe with a further 44 This major destination for teaching and practice rooms, and culture and creativity stretches our Sundial Court Hall of from Guildhall School and the Residence (see page 10). adjacent Barbican Centre to LSO St Luke’s and the Museum of Guildhall’s five public London. Culture Mile offers a performance venues have range of impressive performance exceptional acoustic properties and exhibition spaces all within and extensive seating capacity. walking distance, and exciting Our spaces for study and collaborative opportunities. relaxation include a library, Nestled on the edge of the two student common rooms, ad50 popular areas of Shoreditch two cafés and a peaceful The City of London and Clerkenwell, we are close lakeside terrace. is the oldest, most to some of London’s most historic part of famous landmarks including For more information on London, established St Paul’s Cathedral, the Gherkin student life at Guildhall in around AD50 and the Shard. School, see page 10.
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All of our work at Guildhall is shaped by collaboration. We collaborate internally across disciplines and departments, and with many external organisations. We are especially proud to have established core partnerships with five organisations which contribute significantly to our programmes of study. Through these unique partnerships you will meet some of the world’s most renowned artists, experience some of London’s finest venues, and receive the very best preparation for your chosen career.
Barbican Centre chance to perform at the Barbican. In 2009, Barbican The Barbican is an Guildhall Creative Learning international arts and learning was formed to pioneer new centre that pushes the models for creative and boundaries of all major art cultural learning. Every year forms including dance, film, we work to provide more than music, theatre and visual arts. 22,000 people of all ages with Situated next to Guildhall creative skills for life through a School, it houses a concert hall, range of innovative two theatres, two galleries, programmes. The Barbican’s three cinemas, a glasshouse popular Young Barbican conservatory and a library. The scheme offers all Guildhall unique creative alliance students discounted access between the Barbican and to unmissable art and Guildhall School will provide entertainment as well you with exceptional learning as exclusive events and opportunities, including creative opportunities. PARTNERS masterclasses, projects with the Barbican’s international Associate Orchestras, and the London Symphony Orchestra
Widely regarded as one of the world’s leading orchestras, the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) is Resident Orchestra at the Barbican, with a roster of soloists and conductors who are second to none. An integral partner of Guildhall School for many years, the LSO helps to deliver the Orchestral Artistry specialism within the Guildhall Artist Masters programme (see page 32), and provides many performance opportunities for Guildhall students. In 2017, the LSO’s Music Director Sir Simon Rattle became Artist in Association at Guildhall School.
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The BBC Symphony Orchestra is one of the UK’s finest orchestras, performing extensively as an Associate Orchestra of the Barbican and forming the backbone of the BBC Proms. Guildhall musicians play a significant role in the Orchestra’s Total Immersion series, which celebrates the work of contemporary composers; performances are often broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and receive high critical praise.
Royal Opera House access to rehearsals, and a wealth The Royal Opera House is home of online resources – invaluable to the Royal Opera, one of the learning opportunities for world’s leading opera companies, students who require fluency in renowned for its outstanding multiple performing styles. performances of traditional opera and its exciting commissions of new works. The International exchange Royal Opera House and Guildhall partners collaborate on two areas of study in contemporary opera making: If you are interested in studying the MA in Opera Making and abroad as part of your Writing (see page 36) and a programme, we offer student studentship that appoints one exchange agreements with doctoral student as Composer in an array of internationally- Residence for a period of three renowned European years (see page 57). conservatoires and Musikhochschulen. Guildhall School remains a part of the Academy of Ancient Music Erasmus+ network until the end of 2020, after which alternative Through our partnership with the arrangements for exchanges Academy of Ancient Music with institutions in and (AAM), one of the world’s leading beyond Europe will be made. period instrument ensembles, we are responding to the needs of the next generation of performers. AAM, who are an Associate Ensemble at the Barbican and perform part of their season at Milton Court, offer side-by-side performances, masterclasses,
gsmd.ac.uk | 9 Guildhall School delivers the highest standards of training in music, drama and production arts within a diverse, friendly and supportive community. As you start out at the School, there are bound to be times when you need help or advice. Our support services provide friendly, expert guidance on everything from health and well-being to learning support, as well as advice on finances, accommodation and international student life. We are also here if things get tough: our dedicated staff provide practical and emotional support if you experience health issues, financial hardship, or any other obstacle to your learning.
The support we offer extends to practice support, financial advice, our buildings and learning accommodation advice and facilities. Guildhall students have international student support. access to one of the UK’s leading performing arts libraries and excellent studio and IT resources. Accommodation Full-time students can apply for [email protected] the School’s Hall of Residence, Sundial Court, just around the Once you have been offered a corner from our Silk Street place at Guildhall, you will be building and Milton Court. given details of accommodation options. Whether in private lodgings, rooms to rent in Student Affairs shared houses or through local [email protected] letting agencies, we will help you find a place to live which Student Affairs is committed suits your needs. to your wellbeing as a Guildhall student. Our friendly, supportive We will also give you team will assist you in making information about Sundial the most of your student Court, the School’s Hall of experience and fulfilling your Residence, located in Chiswell potential throughout your time at Street just around the corner the School. We offer a from our two main buildings. comprehensive range of support Sundial Court has 39 flats, each services to meet your academic with between three and six and welfare needs, including bedrooms, with 176 rooms in health and welfare advice, total. For Music students, there is
STUDENT LIFE physiotherapy, counselling, the added advantage of being disability support, study skills and able to practise in your bedroom during agreed hours. Sundial Court has Wi-Fi access throughout. Security is provided 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and night guards are trained to support students in emergency situations. A team of Sundial Reps live in the building to provide residents with peer support and encourage a sense of
10 | gsmd.ac.uk For information on community; throughout the Bar located in Sundial Court, our on fees, funding and year, they organise social events Hall of Residence. scholarships, see page 98 including market trips, museum visits, film nights and exercise For more information clubs. If you are accepted onto a Library on life at Guildhall full-time course at Guildhall [email protected] School, visit School (lasting at least one gsmd.ac.uk/life academic year), you are entitled Our Library has one of the most to apply for a place at Sundial extensive specialised collections Court. Although we can’t offer a of music and drama electronic room to every student, we do try and print resources in Europe, to provide accommodation for providing an inspiring, first-year undergraduates. supportive and welcoming study environment. Library staff all There are two Underground have specialist knowledge and stations close by and lending facilities include books supermarkets, bars, restaurants on music, theatre, drama and sports facilities are all criticism, stagecraft, costume, within walking distance. Our and music therapy. You can Basement area houses the borrow from a comprehensive Students’ Union bar, a self- collection of plays, poetry, scores, service laundry, practice rooms sets of chamber music parts, CDs and a communal TV room. and DVDs, and can access a wide range of online resources and web-streaming services. Students’ Union [email protected] IT and studio resources The Guildhall Students’ Union actively represents the student As you would expect, Guildhall body. Led by a full-time has well-equipped IT facilities, President (elected annually), the including PCs with access to Union acts as a communication Microsoft Office 2016 and channel between students and Sibelius, A3 colour printer- staff. From its office on the photocopiers, and Wi-Fi campus, the Union offers advice provision around the Silk Street, on a wide range of topics, Milton Court, Annexe and and can provide useful Sundial Court buildings. You can information on Guildhall remotely access your School School, its surrounding area email and apps via Microsoft and student life. Office 365, and download the latest version of Office to your Alongside its representative own devices to work flexibly and function, the Union is responsible securely wherever you are on for extra-curricular activities campus. The School’s Audio throughout the year and is at the Visual Department provides centre of Guildhall’s social scene. audio and video production It organises clubs and societies facilities, as well as an industry- and a variety of social events, standard recording studio. many of which take place around the well-established Basement
gsmd.ac.uk | 11 Guildhall School is committed to helping you find the career path which is right for you. Our training combines academic rigour and artistic skill with a strong professional focus and unparalleled engagement with the performing arts and creative industries.
As you move through your Arts programme also undertake programme, your links with the a four- to six-week professional relevant industry will grow secondment at venues such as through talks and workshops the Royal Opera House, from leading industry figures, National Theatre and work placements and Shakespeare’s Globe, while masterclasses. You will receive students on BA Video Design careers advice within dedicated for Live Performance work on modules across many professional commissions programmes, as well as one-to- throughout their studies. one guidance from teaching staff and mentors, many of Undergraduate musicians whom work in the performing take modules including advice arts and creative industries and on teaching, business and are well placed to provide marketing, and professional insight, advice and contacts. portfolios. Electives include workshop skills in hospitals and schools.
CAREERS Career preparation depends on your chosen discipline: Postgraduate musicians are required to plan external events Actors take a Career Preparation and have opportunities for module which includes advice placements and artistic on auditions and casting sessions, programming. The Integration agents, unions, tax and and Professional Development accounting, CVs and setting up a module provides seminars on professional company. We have freelance work and an in-house Careers Consultant, opportunities to consider longer and professional actors mentor term artistic development. each final-year student. Students Musicians can attend who have the right to work in masterclasses and take part in the UK are eligible to become mock auditions, side-by-side student members of British schemes and mentoring from Actors’ Equity, the actors’ trade professional orchestral players union, and are eligible for full within their specialism. membership on completion 93% of training. Students across the School are actively encouraged to pursue a of Guildhall students who Production artists take a wide range of interests, and are graduated in 2017/18 Professional Development exposed to the School’s array of were in work or further module which includes help specialisms including study 15 months later with IT skills, CVs and job entrepreneurship, research, (Higher Education Statistics applications, interview collaboration and pedagogy. Agency, Graduate Outcomes technique, taxation and unions. survey 2017/18) Students on the BA Production
12 | gsmd.ac.uk All Guildhall graduates become part of our active and vibrant alumni community, joining thousands of members who make an impact on society using the training they received during their studies. Our alumni work all over the world, so you can
ALUMNI find a welcoming Guildhall community wherever you go.
The Development and Alumni Relations Office is here to keep graduates connected with the School. We host regular reunions and networking sessions around the world, as well as providing professional development opportunities and access to job vacancies and alumni benefits. Alumni receive our annual alumni magazine, PLAY, as well as a termly e-newsletter and access to alumni social media channels.
For selected alumni profiles, see:
• page 20 for Acting alumni • page 64 for Music alumni • page 86 for Production Arts Further alumni alumni biographies and more detail on our alumni programme can be found at gsmd.ac.uk/alumni
gsmd.ac.uk | 13 DRAMA Guildhall School is a lively, friendly community of actors, Key staff performance makers, production artists and musicians. The Professor Orla O’Loughlin Drama Department itself is intimate and supportive. Our BA MA PGCE students form close-knit groups, developing personal and Vice-Principal & Director of Drama professional relationships that last for years.
Brodie Ross Head of Acting Our Acting programmes are highly regarded in the performing arts profession for the thoroughness of our audition process and Martin Connor FGS the passion, quality and rigour of our teaching. We are renowned Head of Acting Training for our focus on craft training, care and attention to individual
Annemette Verspeak MA student development, and the strong ensemble ethic shared by our Head of Voice staff and students.
Diane Alison-Mitchell Our MA and BAprogrammes are three years, full-time, and Head of Movement provide a thorough preparation for professional life. For
Eliot Shrimpton BA MA(Cantab) postgraduate study, MA students work alongside students on the Head of Academic Studies (Drama) BA Acting programme, with additional assignments appropriate to a Masters programme. Gilly Roche Head of Interdisciplinary Practice The Department also runs a selection of summer schools, Daniel McGrath FGS focusing on acting in Shakespeare, contemporary theatre and Programme Leader, BA Acting Studies interdisciplinary collaboration, as well as a 12-week intensive Preliminary Acting Course, which offers a broad basis upon which to begin actor training (see page 100). Other core teaching staff
Professor Patsy Rodenburg OBE FGS Guildhall School has excellent performance facilities. Performances Professor of Text & Poetry take place in our three distinctive theatres, offering an exciting mix of industry standard performance spaces to explore: Silk Street, a Professor Kenneth Rea MA FGS Improvisation large versatile space; Milton Court, a proscenium arch theatre; and the intimate Studio Theatre. Jarek Sacharski Voice & Speech In keeping with our collaborative ethos, Guildhall School is a partner in École des Écoles, a confederation of major European Leah Muller Movement drama schools. Over the years we have co-organised a number of international workshops throughout Europe. Wyn Jones FGS Acting Interdisciplinary collaboration is central to our approach at
Dinah Stabb Guildhall School. We believe that collaboration is fundamental to Artist in Residence 21st century artist training, and students in the Drama Department have regular opportunities to create work with their peers in Music Anne McNulty and Production Arts. In their first year, Guildhall School students Careers Consultant from every department come together to share expertise, find out about each other’s practice and create a new scratch project. Through For a full list of teaching a range of regular initiatives, students are encouraged and supported staff and visiting directors, to create new collaborative performance projects with seed funding visit gsmd.ac.uk/drama and free access to rehearsal and performance space.
Level Programme Duration Undergraduate BA Honours in Acting 3 years Postgraduate MA in Acting 3 years
gsmd.ac.uk/drama | 15 BA Honours in Acting MA in Acting
Guildhall School’s Acting programmes are for students Duration who have the talent, focus and commitment to become professional actors. Innovative and unique in structure and Three years full-time approach, both our BA and MA programmes offer three years of intensive vocational training in the expressive art and practical craft of acting.
We aim to produce actors who Shakespeare’s Globe and the are flexible and versatile, able to West End. Some work in film, move with confidence between television and radio. Many work classical and contemporary internationally, and some are theatre, film, television and guest teachers from abroad. Staff radio. There is a generous are chosen to complement and staff-student ratio and a high contrast each other, but we work number of teaching hours, with as a committed team with a students receiving 35-40 hours common purpose. Together, of contact time each week. we work alongside you as an individual and in groups and During training, you will work productions, to help define with a wide range of teachers and develop the processes and directors, with extensive which are most useful to you, professional experience and close as emerging actors. contact with the industry. Some work in the theatre, including Our Acting programmes are the National Theatre, the Royal constantly evolving to meet the Shakespeare Company, demands of the profession in the 21st century, while reflecting the traditions of classical training. Today’s actors must have the means, the intelligence and the need to communicate their understanding of life to an audience. Our training reflects this. In all areas, we’ll encourage you to be an enquiring artist who can develop your own ideas and communicate them through whatever material you are offered.
We believe strongly in the ensemble approach, with individual actors working together in a coordinated and complementary way, each
16 | gsmd.ac.uk/drama “I felt a huge connection to Guildhall when I first visited,there is a real sense of community – I felt at home straight away. On the Acting programme we work a lot on ensemble, helping us prepare for working as part of acting companies when we go into the profession. The best thing about being a student is the freedom you have to be creative with fellow students across the School; Guildhall gives you the opportunity to play.”
Aoife Gaston BA Acting contributing to a powerful and prose, singing, phonetics, shared outcome. We work in a dialects and a great deal of collaborative atmosphere and work on language, including encourage actors to connect Shakespeare. emotion, intellect, spirituality • Movement Studies includes and physicality – and above all to pure movement, movement connect with each other – in improvisation (including everything they do. animal studies and mask work), tumbling, stage combat Applications and various forms of dance. Students from a wide range of ages and backgrounds are selected Rehearsal projects enable you on merit by audition and to bring your skills and interview. There is no upper age knowledge together as you limit, and previous acting rehearse a broad repertoire, experience is not required. usually including contemporary Applicants must demonstrate the plays, self-led work, works intellectual maturity needed to by Chekhov and Shakespeare, gain full advantage from the Greek tragedy, musical theatre programme. We receive an and contemporary drama, exceptionally high number of in preparation for an internal applications for our Acting showing. programmes, and you are advised to apply as early as possible. There are also sessions to prepare you for the acting profession, as Years 1 and 2 well as audition showcases The first two years are training which are regularly attended by years, when you will agents, theatre directors and concentrate on acquiring the casting directors. fundamental skills that every professional actor needs. Your Year 3 time will be divided between By the third year, you will be classwork and rehearsal technically proficient vocally projects. In the first two terms and physically. You will have most of your time will be spent developed your own working in classes, with more time on processes. Most of your time projects as the programme will be spent rehearsing and progresses. Both classwork and performing to the public and to rehearsal projects focus on potential employers in developing and integrating productions and audition three main areas of study – showcases, which are regularly acting, voice and movement: attended by industry professionals, including agents • Acting Studies includes a and casting directors. You will range of acting techniques, work on around four stagecraft, and improvisation, productions, each of a different with screen studies classes period or style, playing a wide to explore techniques for variety of roles and working television and film. with several directors. You will • Voice Studies includes voice also have the opportunity to and speech classes, poetry write and perform your own
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During Year 3, you will prepare showcases of contemporary speeches and scenes. These are attended by a large number of agents, directors and casting directors, giving you the chance to perform in front of key professional representatives.
Preparing for the profession
In your final year, you will receive support and guidance on starting out in the profession, with regular talks and workshops by theatre directors, solo performance, and practical agents, casting directors, tax workshops will help to prepare advisers and Equity you for professional life (see representatives. You will be detail below). mentored by actors currently working in the profession, and MA in Acting the Department provides a The MA in Acting is a three- specialist Careers Consultant to year, full-time programme for assist you in the transition from students with a university degree training to professional life. who want full professional training in acting. At the point Students who have the right of audition, no distinction is to work in the UK are eligible made between applicants to the for student membership of BA and MA programmes. British Actors’ Equity, the actors’ trade union, and for MA students receive the same full Equity membership on practical training as BA completing training. students, working in the same classes, rehearsals and performances. But as an MA After training student, you will take enhanced modules to develop your critical Guildhall Acting graduates can and reflective skills, and will be be seen in a wide variety of roles required to achieve more across film, TV and theatre. See demanding learning outcomes pages 20-23 for profiles of some and a higher standard overall, of our established alumni and to achieve specific Masters recent graduates. For further level outcomes. student and alumni profiles, and recent productions, visit gsmd.ac.uk/drama
gsmd.ac.uk/drama | 19 Acting alumni
Paapa Essiedu (2012) Actor, particularly known for his work in theatre. Paapa won the 2016 Ian Charleson Award for his title role in Hamlet and Edmund in King Lear, both at the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Michelle Dockery (2004) Actor, known for her leading performance as Lady Mary Crawley in Downton Abbey, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and three consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards.
Jonny Lavelle (2018) Actor, known for 1917, Tin Star and Vera.
Lily James (2010) Actor, known for her leading roles in Cinderella, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, Yesterday, The Darkest Hour and War & Peace.
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Shubham Saraf (2017) Actor, known for A Suitable Boy, Criminal: UK and Bodyguard.
Dominic West (1995) Actor, director, and musician, known for playing Jimmy McNulty in The Wire and Noah Solloway in The Affair, a role which earned him a Golden Globe nomination.
Toheeb Jimoh (2018) Actor, known for The Feed, The French Dispatch and London Kills.
Anya Chalotra (2017) Actor, known for her role as Yennefer of Vengerberg in the Netflix original series The Witcher.
gsmd.ac.uk/drama | 21 Acting alumni
Samuel Blenkin (2017) Actor, known for Dracula, Peaky Blinders, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and Pennyworth.
Natasha Gordon MBE (1999) Award-winning playwright and actor. In 2018, Natasha became the first Black British female playwright to have a play (Nine Night) staged in the West End.
Daniel Craig (1991) Actor, known for playing James Bond since 2006, as well as roles in The Golden Compass, Defiance, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Knives Out, the last of which earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination.
Hayley Atwell (2005) Actor, known for her portrayal of Peggy Carter in various films and television series set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, including the lead role in the action-adventure series Agent Carter.
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Lennie James (1988) Actor, screenwriter and playwright, known for playing Tony Gates in Line of Duty and Morgan Jones in The Walking Dead.
Mirren Mack (2019) Actor, known for Sex Education, and her leading role as Kaya in The Nest.
Michaela Coel (2012) Actor, screenwriter and playwright. Michaela won the BAFTA for Best Female Performance in a Comedy Programme and Jodie Whittaker (2005) Breakthrough Talent in Actor, known for playing 2016 for the television Doctor Who since 2017, as series Chewing Gum, which well as leading roles in she created, wrote and Broadchurch and Venus. appeared in the lead role.
gsmd.ac.uk/drama | 23 MUSIC At Guildhall School we believe in the transformational power of music, and our mission is to develop performing artists of the highest calibre. Always performing at the highest level, our students are freethinking problem-solvers with a highly evolved sense of relevance in today’s society.
There are two central principles which will be fundamental to your training:
• Achieving your potential as an outstanding music-maker: developing as a fully-fledged creative artist, whose craft and skill is expressed through a mature, authoritative artistic voice.
• Working as an artist in society: becoming an artist whose work is curious, vibrant and relevant to 21st century life. With an ever- growing awareness of your social and political impact, you will harness your knowledge to define and build your own career and bring transformational change to others.
As an artist who can bring these two elements together, you will have the greatest freedom to determine your own future, to forge your own career path, curate your own concerts, events and festivals and act as an agent for change in the wider world.
At the heart of your training will be intensive, one-to-one and small ensemble sessions with Guildhall’s core staff of over 400 practitioner teachers. You will also work with some of the world’s finest international visiting artists and ensembles. Our partnerships with five key organisations – the Barbican Centre, the London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Opera House and the Academy of Ancient Music (see page 9) – ensure that you will benefit from links with the profession before you graduate.
Level Programme Duration Undergraduate BMus Four years Postgraduate MMus/MPerf in Part 1 (MMus): one year Performance (two years part-time) (Guildhall Artist Masters) Part 2 (MPerf): one year MMus/MPerf in Part 1 (MMus): one year Performance Part 2 (MPerf): one year (Guildhall Artist Masters): Orchestral Artistry MMus/MComp in Part 1 (MMus): one year Composition (two years part-time) (Guildhall Artist Masters) Part 2 (MComp): one year MA in Opera Making One year and Writing Artist Diploma Two years MA in Music Therapy Two years
gsmd.ac.uk/music | 25 Guildhall public performances Key staff
Jonathan Vaughan Each year, Guildhall presents over 100 public performances of FGS DipRCM (Perf) DipRCM (Teach) student concerts, opera and recitals. These feature Guildhall Vice-Principal & Director of Music musicians from all courses and year groups. Some concerts are streamed online, and many are reviewed by critics from the national Armin Zanner MA MPhil(Cantab) MMus press. For an overview of these exciting performance opportunities, Deputy Director of Music & Head visit gsmd.ac.uk/events of Vocal Studies
Professor Ronan O’Hora FGS FRNCM Head of Advanced Performance Ensembles Studies & Head of Keyboard There is a vast array of Guildhall ensembles, from the Guildhall Louise Hopkins FGS AGSM Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Chorus, New Music Ensemble and Head of Strings Chamber Orchestra to wind ensembles, brass bands and chamber Richard Benjafield groups. You will also find dedicated ensembles for jazz and historical FGS GRNCM PPRNCM performance, and you can form your own groups. Read more about Head of Wind, Brass & Percussion recent ensemble activities in our Principal Study pages (40-63).
Dominic Wheeler BA(Cantab) ARCM(PG) ARCO HonARAM Head of Opera Competitions
Dr Alessandro Timossi DPhil FGS You will have the chance to enter numerous internal and external Head of Music Programmes competitions, the most prestigious of which is the Gold Medal, the
Dr Christopher Suckling DipRAM School’s most significant music prize (previous winners include MA(Cantab) MA(Mus. Open.) DMA LRAM Jacqueline du Pré, Tasmin Little and Bryn Terfel). For news of recent Head of Historical Performance prizewinners, see our Principal Study pages (40-63).
Malcolm Edmonstone BMus MMus Head of Jazz Masterclasses Professor Julian Philips FGS MA(Cantab) PhD In keeping with our global credentials, Guildhall plays host to Head of Composition masterclasses from international visiting artists. These are free to Ann Sloboda attend and often open to public audiences. Our partnerships with BMus(Hons)(Oxon) PGDipMT the Barbican and the LSO also lead to regular masterclasses and Head of Music Therapy artist conversations. For news of recent masterclasses, see our Principal Study pages (40-63). Mike Roberts MA Head of Electronic & Produced Music, & Music Technology Facilities and venues For a full list of teaching staff and visiting artists, Our Milton Court Concert Hall is the largest conservatoire concert visit gsmd.ac.uk/music hall in London, with state of the art acoustics and technical facilities. Solo recitals, chamber music and medium-sized orchestral performances all take place here.
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 Sundial Court, especially suitable for jazz.
26 | gsmd.ac.uk/music 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 and performance spaces are used for workshops, portfolio recordings and CD/DVD production to fully professional standards.
Cross-arts collaborations
Collaboration is a major part of our approach. If you join us as an undergraduate, you will work with students in the Drama and Production Arts departments during the first year workshop project. And each year, our facilities are handed over to students for an entire day of collaborative showcases as part of the annual Guildhall Festival. Every undergraduate Music student at Guildhall School is also trained to work collaboratively in community settings.
Wider performance opportunities
Our location in the heart of the City’s Culture Mile, and our partnerships with the Barbican and the LSO, 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 perform across London in venues such as Kings Place, Wigmore Hall and the Southbank Centre. Further afield, we regularly perform at New York’s Carnegie Hall.
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.
For listings of Guildhall performances and events, visit gsmd.ac.uk/events
gsmd.ac.uk/music | 27 BMus
The BMus programme is centred around world-leading Duration one-to-one tuition for performers, composers and electronic musicians. Its principal aim is to develop your ability as a Four years full-time practical musician.
At least two-thirds of the Orchestra and the BBC Strings programme is focused on your Symphony Orchestra (see page 8). Wind Principal Study (see pages 40-63). A Joint Principal Study pathway A minimum of 30 individual is also available. Brass lessons a year with our renowned Percussion professorial staff are combined Years 1 and 2 with over 100 hours a year of In addition to Principal Study, Keyboard departmental classes, workshops, the curriculum includes classes Vocal Studies coaching, and projects with high and tutorials for integrated and profile artists, as well as progressive learning in Composition opportunities to perform in some musicianship and critical/ Electronic and of the country’s finest venues. analytical skills. From Year 2, Produced Music depending on completing the From the start, you will be treated Musicianship courses in Year 1, Jazz like a professional, and given the you can select up to two electives support and encouragement you (see box below). need to prepare for the industry. You will establish contacts and Year 1 also includes the gain exposure through our Professional Studies 1 module partnership organisations such as which explores performance the Barbican, London Symphony psychology, wellbeing, and improvisation and Elective modules communication skills. • Advanced Ensemble • Historical Performance: Performance In Year 2 you will also take a course in conducting. • Advanced Principal Study • Historical Performance: Principles • Analysis and Research Years 3 and 4 Big Band Arranging • Interpretation through Improvisation • In Years 3 and 4, Principal Study (for Jazz students) • Introduction to Music Therapy continues to be the main focus, • Body Matters • Jazz Performance alongside the culmination of the • Brass and Wind Arranging • Jazz Workshop two core learning areas of • Collaborative Skills • Keyboard Musicianship critical and analytical skills, and • Composition • Music History Professional Studies 2. You also • Composition for Media • Music, Philosophy and the Arts choose from a variety of • Compositional Techniques (choice of • Opera and Theatre (Year 4 singers) electives, including specialised Counterpoint, Fugue, Orchestration, • PianoWorks (for pianists) work in Principal Study if you Analysis, Stylistic Composition) • Research Project (Year 4) achieve the required level, and • Conducting • Second Study specialised academic or • Electro-Acoustic Music • Workshop Skills practical/professional courses. • Electronic and Produced Music
28 | gsmd.ac.uk/music “Guildhall is a dream come true for every musician. I really enjoy the variety of repertoire and ensembles that I’m able to take part in. My training gives me the confidence and experience I need to help me realise my goal in becoming a professional musician.”
Marian Bozhidarov BMus Clarinet
gsmd.ac.uk/music | 29 MMus/MPerf in Performance (Guildhall Artist Masters)
Studying for a Guildhall Artist Masters in Performance Duration prepares you for entry to the profession at the highest level. This programme is about developing as an individual, Part 1 (MMus) insightful musician and practitioner; about challenging One year full-time/ yourself and taking risks within your field of expertise. two years part-time It gives you the technical facility and musical flexbility to Part 2 (MPerf) explore and refine your individual artistic voice. One year full-time Progression to Part 2 is The School will provide you For individuals and pre-existing conditional on results with a learning environment groups who wish to hone their from Part 1 that enables you to recognise skills in chamber music. and nurture your strengths. As part of the Guildhall Artist Historical Performance Strings Masters, there are great Inhabit the music of the opportunities for professional past; perform for the audiences Wind exposure. Our teaching staff of today. Brass includes world-class performers and innovative Jazz Percussion practitioners. Your final recitals Intensive specialism for Keyboard will be assessed by leading instrumentalists and singers. experts. You will learn from Vocal Studies internationally renowned Opera Studies Opera Studies* conductors and artists and you Award-winning specialism will perform in some of the offering advanced operatic Repetiteur Training country’s finest venues. training. Piano Accompaniment Orchestral Artistry, Chamber Music Professional specialisms in association with the LSO Jazz Strings, Wind, Brass, Percussion Within the Performance pathway, Groundbreaking specialism Historical Performance students study one of our placing students seeking a career Orchestral Artistry professional specialisms in orchestral playing alongside
* Opera Studies is full-time only, and according to instrument and area LSO players and international Part 1 takes two academic years of interest. Many of these artists. specialisms work closely with our partner organisations (see page 8): Piano Accompaniment Intensive study in Advanced Instrumental Studies collaborative pianism. Strings, Wind, Brass, Percussion, Keyboard Repetiteur Training Intensive study for soloists Specific repetiteur study and ensemble players. for pianists within the Opera Department. Chamber Music Strings, Wind, Brass, Vocal Studies Percussion, Keyboard Advanced study for singers, who
30 | gsmd.ac.uk/music Elective modules • Body Matters • Chamber Music • Collaborative Practice: Cross-Arts Context • Collaborative Practice: Education Contexts • Composition for Media • Conducting • Contextual Studies: The Forbidden Saxophone • Electro-Acoustic Music • Historical Performance: Performance • Historical Performance: Principles and Research • Interpretation through Improvisation • Jazz Composition and Arranging (for Jazz students) can specialise in areas of of Part 2. In addition to Principal • Jazz Improvisation particular interest. Study work, you will write a (for Jazz students) critique of your personal • Music, Philosophy and the Arts Part 1 (MMus) development as the culmination • Opera and Theatre (for singers) Part 1 concentrates on your of reflective work in Part 1. • PianoWorks (for pianists) intense learning in Principal • Research Project Study (see pages 40-63). The • Song Accompaniment (for pianists) curriculum includes a core Extended Guildhall Artist programme • Techniques in Composition module (Reflective Practice) (choice of Analysis, Counterpoint, where you discuss and closely Fugue, Orchestration, Stylistic monitor your own aims, Applicants may be offered a Composition) development, and professional place on the Extended Guildhall • Vocal Repertoire (for singers) resources. Part 1 also includes a Artist Programme if their • Voiceworks (for singers) number of elective choices, some Principal Study is not yet at • Wind, Brass and Percussion led by Principal Study Masters entry level. This Solo Recital departments, while others are extended programme comprises more academic or practical/ an initial year almost entirely professional (see box, left). focused on the development of Principal Study. At the end of Part 2 (MPerf) the year, students can progress to If you progress to Part 2, as well Part 1 if they achieve the as continuing Principal Study- minimum necessary based activities from the first requirements. Students who year which focus on further don’t progress to the full development of technical and programme are awarded a artistic abilities, you will be Graduate Certificate. given more autonomy in arranging part of your own assessed projects. Breadth of repertoire, individual creative output and professional experience are also key features
gsmd.ac.uk/music | 31 MMus/MPerf in Performance (Guildhall Artist Masters): Orchestral Artistry
Orchestral Artistry is an exciting professional specialism Duration within the Guildhall Artist Masters programme for exceptional instrumentalists seeking a career in orchestral playing. Part 1 (MMus) Delivered in close association with the London Symphony One year full-time Orchestra (LSO), one of the world’s leading orchestras, the Part 2 (MPerf) programme is highly distinctive and groundbreaking in One year full-time scope, in a context akin to a professional environment. Progression to Part 2 is conditional on results The programme focuses on Performance opportunities from Part 1 orchestral training and embrace a variety of orchestral repertoire, education and contexts, including symphony outreach, and early career orchestra concerts at the In association with the support. Individual lessons are Barbican, and the opera orchestra London Symphony Orchestra led by Guildhall School’s for productions by the School’s professors, some of whom are acclaimed Opera Department. LSO players. Students receive regular coaching in orchestral Part 1 (MMus) sectionals, audition experience, Orchestral Artistry focuses on and instrumental classes. excellence in performance, core Strings musicianship skills, and There are also masterclasses leadership and communication. Wind from LSO players, international A diverse programme of core Brass soloists and members of and elective modules from the Barbican International Guildhall Artist Masters Percussion Associates such as the Los programme (see pages 30-31) Angeles Philharmonic, Jazz at will enable you to develop your Lincoln Center and the skills in practical subjects and Australian Chamber Orchestra. research. You will also devise and deliver an LSO Discovery Students have sit-in workshop for primary opportunities, either listening school children. or playing alongside LSO players in orchestral rehearsals Part 2 (MPerf) conducted by its roster of If you progress to Part 2, you will international conductors be given more autonomy in including Music Director arranging your projects. The Sir Simon Rattle, and access second year is strongly focused to the full range of the LSO’s on further development of education and community technical and artistic abilities. programmes. This will enable Breadth of repertoire, individual you to learn how community- creative output and professional based programmes are experience are key features. delivered, and to meet professional workshop For a list of elective modules, leaders, performers and see box on page 31. administration teams.
32 | gsmd.ac.uk/music “It’s really great to study in such a rich and supportive environment where there are so many different things going on that you can learn from, it’s so refreshing and encouraging. Whether in my individual lessons or various chamber coaching, I have always felt completely supported, understood and challenged.”
Hatty Haynes MPerf Violin MMus/MComp in Composition (Guildhall Artist Masters)
Guildhall School offers some of the most stimulating Duration and creative training for composers in the UK. Studying Composition at Guildhall Artist Masters level prepares you for Part 1 (MMus) professional life as a composer. It allows you to explore and One year full-time/ refine your individual artistic voice within the collaborative two years part-time atmosphere of a busy, modern conservatoire, while also Part 2 (MPerf) giving you the space for self-reflection. One year full-time Progression to Part 2 is The programme centres around with choreographers conditional on results weekly one-to-one Principal and dancers from LCDS from Part 1 Study lessons (see pages 40-63). performed at The Place. A range You will be allocated to one of the of elective choices complement Department’s distinguished compositional study and MMus/MComp can also Faculty of composers, who will development (see box on be studied as a purely guide your creative participation page 31). Electronic specialism on core projects across the year. The outcomes of core projects are Students who are enrolled on the all workshopped, rehearsed, Extended Guildhall Artist publicly performed and recorded. programme (see page 31) will Weekly composition seminars need to pass an introductory year and open sessions support before progressing to Part 1. technical, aesthetic and professional development, and a Part 2 (MComp) choice of elective modules After successful completion of support specific aspects of your Part 1 and on achieving the development (see box on page 31). required grades, students may opt to progress to Part 2 Part 1 (MMus) (MComp). During this year, you Part 1 of the programme is will be supported to develop centred around weekly one-to- three projects across the year one Principal Study lessons and including the Creative Platform, participation in five creative an opportunity to curate and projects. There is a focus on the produce your own event. There collaborative nature of is also the option to write for compositional practice, and the chamber orchestra, with players Department benefits from a drawn from the LSO working number of long-standing alongside instrumentalists from external partnerships including Guildhall’s Orchestral Artistry with London Contemporary programme (see page 32). Dance School (LCDS) and the During Part 2, creative projects London Symphony Orchestra are developed and designed by (LSO). Recent projects have students themselves, with a included generating new work greater degree of curatorial for Plus-Minus Ensemble, freedom; in Part 1, projects are EXAUDI and Voiceworks at set, designed and provided by Wigmore Hall, as well as work the Department.
34 | gsmd.ac.uk/music “Guildhall really stood out for the varied and interesting work being made by both the faculty and students, as well as its outward-facing and contemporary approach to composition and to education. I have felt incredibly well supported by the Composition faculty – from a creative, intellectual, and pastoral perspective.”
Joanna Ward MMus Composition
gsmd.ac.uk/music | 35 MA in Opera Making and Writing
This Masters programme allows composers and writers to Duration focus on how new opera is created, developed and performed. Part of an exciting partnership between Guildhall School and One year full-time the Royal Opera House (see page 9), the programme centres around the creation of a 25-minute chamber opera which is In association with fully staged in Milton Court Studio Theatre. the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden The course admits three award-winning Opera composers and three writers Department, led by Dominic each year. During an initial Wheeler, with Guildhall opera induction module, students pair singers forming the cast for the up into composer-writer teams. chamber operas created by Each team develops a short opera composer-writer teams. scene, before going on to create full chamber operas. Two Practical experience of opera smaller projects allow you to during the year is hugely follow your own creative augmented by the programme’s pathway: in poetry, prose, association with the Royal dramatic or film script (writers), Opera House, which provides and in vocal or instrumental/ opportunities to see electronic works (composers). productions in rehearsal and performance, and to meet and The programme focuses on the network with key resident collaborative nature of opera and visiting practitioners. making, and each composer- writer team is supported by collaborative mentoring. Student success Students also take part in one-to-one tutorials, production In the six years since its seminars and creative inception, graduates of the development workshops. course have received commissions from the Royal Led by Professor Julian Philips Opera House, the National (Head of Composition) and Opera Studio, Glyndebourne, Writer in Residence Stephen Mahogany Opera Group, Danish Plaice (Professor of Dramatic National Opera, Pittsburgh Writing), teaching is enriched Festival Opera and Boston Opera through regular seminars with Festival, Carnegie Hall, the Eden visiting professionals from Project and many more. the opera world including conductors and directors, singers and instrumentalists, designers and stage managers.
The programme collaborates closely with Guildhall’s
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This programme is for advanced students with exceptional Duration aptitude in their specialism, and strong professional and artistic ambitions. It provides specialist, professional training if you are Two years full-time looking to embark on a national and international career.
The Artist Diploma represents achieving your professional and Strings post-Masters progression, and is artistic goals. Wind designed to meet the specialised needs and aspirations of At the end of the two-year Brass outstanding performance programme, performance is Percussion students, and to support them assessed in a fully-staged opera with the competence and production or full-length Keyboard sensitivity required. recital in Milton Court. Vocal Studies Repetiteurs will undergo a Applicants should have obtained 60-70 minute assessment split Opera Studies a Masters of Music Degree or between a public recital and a (including repetiteurs) international equivalent, and the private mock audition. Historical Performance programme is open to specialisms in Instrumental, You will be involved in Vocal, Opera Studies (both voice performances throughout both and repetiteur) and Historical years, from platforms to formal Performance. As an Artist and informal recitals and Diploma student, your contact productions. You will also be time will be as bespoke as expected and encouraged to possible in order to meet your be active outside the School if specialist, highly individual your visa allows, taking needs, and to support you in proactive steps to promote a freelance career.
Further information on departmental opportunities at this level is available on the Principal Study pages (40-63).
gsmd.ac.uk/music | 37 MA in Music Therapy
The Masters in Music Therapy aims to develop students’ Duration musicianship and personal potential, and equip them with the knowledge and skills to work as a registered Two years full-time music therapist. You will join one of the world’s leading conservatoires, and will build your therapeutic and theoretical knowledge through an intensive programme of lectures and seminars. Weekly keyboard musicianship, improvisation and voice classes will help you acquire highly developed skills in therapeutic musical communication.
Working alongside qualified Year 1 music therapists, you will gain You will gain clinical experience experience working with adults in at least two different and children on placements in a placement settings, supervised by variety of settings including Health and Care Professions healthcare units, special and Council (HCPC) registered music mainstream schools, and with therapists. Seminars, theoretical people who experience mental studies, instrumental lessons and health issues, dementia, classes in musicianship, vocal and learning disabilities and improvisational skills will support communication disorders. and integrate the clinical work.
The programme is influenced Year 2 by psychodynamic approaches An extended placement offers to therapy, and all Music further in-depth clinical Therapy students undertake experience, supported by seminars their own personal therapy and classes on professional during training. A high degree practice and current approaches. of self-reflection and self- An Applied Theoretical and awareness is required, and Research Studies module will gaining experience of personal introduce research methods and psychotherapy prior to training support you in carrying out your is highly recommended. chosen research project.
Tuition is complemented by one-to-one conservatoire-level Future careers training in your Principal Study (see pages 40-63) and Graduates have an excellent Second Study lessons with record of employment in health, the School’s teachers. The education, social and programme provides access community service and the to leading specialists in voluntary sector, and are eligible improvisation and an active to register as arts therapists with research community, with the HCPC and as professional the possibility of taking part members of the British in research events. Association for Music Therapy.
38 | gsmd.ac.uk/music “The breadth of the Music Therapy training at Guildhall is really unique. It’s given me the opportunity to build up clinical experience, develop my theoretical understanding and continue instrumental lessons with some of the best teachers available.”
Joseph Smith-Sands MA Music Therapy
gsmd.ac.uk/music | 39 Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass, Harp, Guitar
Programmes
BMus MMus/MPerf Artist Diploma MPhil/DMus, MPhil/PhD
The Department of Stringed Instruments emphasises individual tuition underpinned by intensive chamber coaching and orchestral training, and will prepare you for an Undergraduate exciting and rewarding future in all areas of the profession. Led by Louise BMus Hopkins, the Department is See page 28 for programme structure. supported by a staff of pre-eminent world-class performers and Performance is a core component of professors who share a passion to the Strings Principal Study pathway, guide and support the talented, with regular opportunities to play in curious musicians that enter public solo and chamber music Guildhall School. Guildhall Strings concerts. Students receive at least 45 alumni are members of leading hours of individual lessons a year. chamber ensembles and orchestras Intensive chamber music coaching is internationally, and many are among central to the Department’s ethos and the most sought-after string is available to all string players. performers and teachers.
The Harp Department, led by Postgraduate Imogen Barford, combines individual teaching of the highest MMus/MPerf in Performance calibre with stimulating, wide- See page 30. Choose from the ranging study covering all aspects of specialisms listed below. harp playing. Our aim is to produce self-starting, versatile and creative Orchestral Artistry in association with musicians, at home in every part of the London Symphony Orchestra the profession. See page 32 for details of this exciting specialism. The Guitar Department is led by the eminent international soloists Advanced Instrumental Studies Robert Brightmore, David Miller This specialism is for players wishing
strings, harp and guitar and Jorgen Skogmo. We offer to focus intensively on instrumental comprehensive training at the and musical progression, and offers a highest level in both solo and high number of contact hours in chamber music performance, across individual lessons with your Principal the repertoire of the last four Study professor. It includes an optional centuries. Chamber music and Chamber Music elective and a range of concerto playing are essential parts chamber music performance of the syllabus. opportunities, as this is a primary focus
40 | gsmd.ac.uk/principal_study within the School. A broad variety of with Christian Tetzlaff, Gary orchestral projects (opera, chamber, Hoffman, András Keller, Janine symphony, new music, historical Jansen, Edicson Ruiz, Joel performance) provide exploration of a Quarrington, Leonidas Kavakos, wide variety of techniques and styles. Bruno Giuranna and Antoine Tamestit Chamber Music • Harp masterclasses with Marie- See page 54. Pierre Langlamet, Nancy Allen, Sivan Magen, Isabelle Perrin, Artist Diploma Anneleen Lenaerts, Chantal See page 37. Mathieu and Sylvain Blassel • Guitar masterclasses with Maximo MPhil/DMus, MPhil/PhD Pujol, David Russell, Ignacio Rodes See page 91. and Berta Rojas • Guitar workshops with Arne Richards, David Jaggs and Douglas Study highlights Rogers • LSO Platforms Guildhall Artists: • Intensive chamber music coaching performances by senior student (inter- and cross-departmental) chamber ensembles in pre-London • Public solo and chamber music Symphony Orchestra concerts on concerts the Barbican Concert Hall stage • Solo and chamber music • Joint projects with the Composition competitions Department (see page 34), where • Participation in New Music string and piano students work Ensemble (by audition) with composers and perform newly • Second Study (by audition) created works • Repertoire orchestra • Side-by-side reading sessions with members of professional orchestras Recent student success • Studio orchestra • Chamber and symphony Recent competition prizes and young orchestra projects, with orchestra artists awards include: sectional rehearsals led by London Symphony Orchestra players • Bordeaux and Banff International String Quartet competitions • Trondheim International Chamber Recent Department highlights Music Competition • Cavatina Intercollegiate Chamber • Side-by-side sessions and Music Competition performances with London • Borletti-Buitoni Trust Artists award Symphony Orchestra members • Young Concert Artist Trust and • Side-by-side performance projects Concert Artists Guild (New York) with the Australian Chamber • Royal Philharmonic Society Young Orchestra (Barbican International Artists award Associate ensemble) • Masterclasses with Los Angeles Music alumni highlights can be Philharmonic principal players found on pages 64-67. For (Barbican International Associate selected Strings, Harp and Guitar ensemble) alumni, visit gsmd.ac.uk/strings • String masterclasses and workshops
gsmd.ac.uk/principal_study | 41 Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn, Trumpet, Trombone, Tuba, Timpani and Percussion, Saxophone, Recorder
Programmes repertoire and chamber music and classes for all students. BMus MMus/MPerf The Department runs ensembles and Artist Diploma classes for all instruments, with MPhil/DMus, MPhil/PhD frequent performances within Guildhall, at the Barbican, and The Wind, Brass and Percussion externally. Visiting UK and Department provides exciting international artists give regular opportunities for learning and masterclasses on solo, chamber and performing, with a world-class orchestral repertoire. There are team of instrumental professors several annual instrumental who are leaders in solo, chamber competitions, a weekly choir, and orchestral performance, led by and performance projects open Richard Benjafield (Head of to all students. Department) and Jo Hensel (Deputy Head). Our programmes will enable Progressing through the you to achieve the very highest programme, you will develop your levels of musical performance, own individualised study pathway, supporting you to develop your according to your skills and musicianship, technique and ambitions. There are opportunities professional skills, and nurturing to study contemporary, jazz or early the creativity and enterprise that music, in ensembles, Second Study musicians need today. lessons, specialist classes, and performances. Collaboration is a key element, with opportunities to work Undergraduate with creative partners from within and beyond the Barbican and BMus Guildhall School. See page 28 for programme structure.
Your journey as a student in the Postgraduate Wind, Brass and Percussion Department will be an individual MMus/MPerf in Performance one, offering a rich and diverse See page 30. Choose from the programme of opportunities to specialisms listed below. enable you to become the very best musician that you can be. As you Orchestral Artistry in association with progress, you can have lessons with a the London Symphony Orchestra range of Principal Study professors See page 32 for details of this exciting in addition to those with your main specialism. professor. All students receive lessons on doubling instruments – Advanced Instrumental Studies
wind, brass and percussion increasing versatility and This specialism is for talented employability. There are weekly students to develop their individual
42 | gsmd.ac.uk/principal_study Ensemble, Wind, Brass and Percussion Big Band, Recorder Consort • Contemporary Music, Jazz and Historical Performance ensembles
Recent Department highlights
• Masterclasses with over 80 world-leading artists • Wind Brass and Percussion Spotlight concert series by ensembles and soloists, in Milton Court and Silk Street • Pre-LSO concerts in the Barbican Centre • Performances in the BBC Symphony Orchestra Total artistic voice with a particular Immersion contemporary series focus on selected repertoire, • Guildhall Wind, Brass and whether solo or chamber music, Percussion soloists and ensemble early or contemporary music – performances in Sound Unbound at with or without the inclusion of the Barbican orchestral repertoire. • Billy May’s Big Fat Brass directed by Mike Lovatt, and Wind, Brass Chamber Music and Percussion Big Band directed See page 54. by Mick Foster and Matt Skelton, in Milton Court Artist Diploma • Guildhall Ubu Ensemble, directed See page 37. by Simon Wills, performed The Yellow Shark by Frank Zappa MPhil/DMus, MPhil/PhD See page 91. Music alumni highlights can be found on pages 64-67. For selected Wind, Brass and Study highlights Percussion alumni, visit gsmd.ac.uk/wbp • Up to 45 individual Principal Study lessons each year • Weekly orchestral repertoire sessions • Scheduled weekly chamber music coaching and rehearsals • Platform performances • Audition classes • Symphony, Opera and Chamber orchestras • Symphonic Wind Orchestra, Brass Ensembles, Wind Ensembles • Saxophone Ensemble, Percussion
gsmd.ac.uk/principal_study | 43 Piano, Fortepiano, Harpsichord
Programmes Postgraduate
BMus MMus/MPerf in Performance MMus/MPerf See page 30. Choose from the Artist Diploma specialisms listed below. MPhil/DMus, MPhil/PhD Advanced Instrumental Studies Offering a wide array of solo, This specialism is for pianists ensemble and accompaniment intending to focus intensely on training, the Keyboard Department is performance who demonstrate headed by the internationally career potential as soloists or acclaimed pianist Ronan O’Hora. chamber players. You will receive 60 Visiting artists have included Leif hours of private one-to-one Ove Andsnes, Emanuel Ax, Imogen Principal Study tuition over the keyboard Cooper, Richard Goode, Paul Lewis, year, and opportunities to play in Murray Perahia and András Schiff. masterclasses with a range of distinguished visiting pianists. There are performance Undergraduate opportunities both within and outside the School, including BMus competitions such as the Gold Medal See page 28 for programme structure. and the annual Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize for a debut Wigmore One-to-one lessons with our piano Hall recital, and participation in faculty are at the heart of the international partnerships with Keyboard Department’s work. You other conservatoires and will receive 45 hours in the first two performance centres. years of study, increasing to 60 in the next two years. In addition to Piano Accompaniment studying with your own professor, This specialism is for students who you will have the opportunity to want to develop a career in work with most of the keyboard staff collaborative pianism. It combines in a variety of performance classes, as individual technical work, class work well as with a large number of on specific skills such as orchestral distinguished visitors. reductions, languages and repetiteur skills, and duo and ensemble work in All practical assessments take place a variety of situations. through performances, as mid-year and end-of-year recitals or as concerts of ensemble work with instrumentalists and singers. You will play a concerto with piano in your third year, and have the opportunity to work on chamber music, vocal accompaniment, contemporary repertoire and fortepiano with leading performers in these fields.
44 | gsmd.ac.uk/principal_study Graham Johnson (Senior Professor in Song Guild, a small group of Vocal Accompaniment) leads annual singers and pianists working in Song Guild recitals, and in keeping song repertoire, and innovative with the School’s commitment to performance projects with Iain experiment and innovation, Iain Burnside combining music and Burnside (Collaborative Piano drama Teacher) has initiated several ground- • Faculty Artist Series recitals by breaking performance projects Ronan O’Hora, Martin Roscoe, combining music and drama. Gordon Noriko Ogawa, Charles Owen, Back (Collaborative Piano Teacher) Caroline Palmer and Graham regularly directs instrumental Johnson concerts. Pianists are encouraged to • Student pianists performing take part in chamber music coaching as soloists with chamber and and performances alongside their symphony orchestras, on the weekly piano lessons and classes. Barbican stage
There is a wide range of performance opportunities on the programme, Recent student success particularly at the weekly performance platforms. You may also be offered Recent competition prizes and young professional accompaniment work artists awards include: to help you through your first year in the profession. • Leeds International Piano Competition Chamber Music • Chopin International Piano See page 54. Competition • Città di Cantù International Repetiteur Training Competition See page 50. • Honens International Piano Competition Historical Performance • Scottish International Piano See page 52. Competition • Dublin International Piano Artist Diploma Competition See page 37. • British Contemporary Piano Competition MPhil/DMus, MPhil/PhD • Royal Over-Seas League Annual See page 91. Music Competition • Das Lied International Song Competition Recent Department highlights • Kathleen Ferrier Awards • Young Concert Artists Trust • Masterclasses with Lang Lang, (YCAT) Richard Goode, Imogen Cooper, Jeremy Denk, Emanuel Ax, Paul Music alumni highlights can be Lewis, Leon Fleischer, Aleksandar found on pages 64-67. For Madžar, Malcolm Martineau, selected Keyboard alumni, visit Julius Drake, Ralf Gothoni and gsmd.ac.uk/keyboard Martin Katz • Projects for accompanists with Graham Johnson, including The
gsmd.ac.uk/principal_study | 45 Programmes include in-house platforms and showings earlier in the programme, BMus and public performance MMus/MPerf opportunities by Year 2. Artist Diploma MPhil/DMus, MPhil/PhD Years 3 and 4 take your skills to the next level in various staged opera Guildhall School is internationally projects and specialist repertoire renowned for its training of singers. classes. Regular individual coaching At the heart of Vocal Studies is the complements the one-to-one singing development of each student’s lessons, supporting your integration individuality as a performer. of technique, music, language and Through an intensive programme performance. By Year 4, your of one-to-one lessons, performance professional development includes projects and classes, you will gain Teaching Skills as well as regular the knowledge and practical encounters with visiting industry experience necessary to forge your figures in Professional and own artistic path. Performance Skills.
Vocal and Opera Studies alumni (see pages 64-67) achieve success on Postgraduate opera and concert stages around the world, and work with major opera Postgraduate singers embark on vocal studies companies, concert promoters and Vocal Studies at Guildhall with festivals. Alumni also hold positions diverse previous experiences. The in opera management, artist multiple postgraduate study options management, and arts marketing. cater for this diversity. For all Many are leaders in music postgraduates, intensive work in education, or in music for health. performance projects is supported by Others have established music advanced classes in Acting, technology, non-profit and Movement, Opera, Song and performance companies. Performance. Regular encounters with visiting artists and industry figures further enhance your Undergraduate professional development.
BMus MMus/MPerf in Performance See page 28 for programme structure. See page 30: Vocal Studies specialism.
Guildhall’s undergraduate Vocal Extended Guildhall Artist Masters Studies programme establishes the For singers with limited previous disciplines necessary for you as a experience, the Extended Masters singer and integrates these in includes a preliminary year to practical performance settings. consolidate vocal technique and performance skills. In this year, In Years 1 and 2, the vocal-technical alongside your one-to-one singing foundations are set in one-to-one lessons and individual coaching, a singing lessons alongside an array of study and performance programme classes in Acting, Movement, will be devised to suit your Repertoire, Musicianship and particular training needs. Languages. Performance activities
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Guildhall Artist Masters Hall and Wigmore Hall (Part 1 and Part 2) • BBC Symphony Orchestra Total For singers already at an advanced Immersion broadcasts level of development, the Guildhall • London Symphony Orchestra and Artist Masters programme in Vocal BBC Symphony Orchestra concert Studies is designed to build your opportunities, with Sir Simon professional expertise. One-to-one Rattle (Artist in Association), Marin singing lessons deepen your technical Alsop and Michael Tilson Thomas mastery, supported by individual coaching to refine your expertise in vocal performance. Recent student success
In Part 1, an extensive selection of Recent Opera and Vocal Studies elective projects offers specialist competition prizes and young artists guidance and public performance in awards include: opera, song, historical, 20th century and contemporary repertoire. In • Kathleen Ferrier Awards, 2018 Part 2, in addition to taking (first prize), 2019 (first prize and advantage of performance Ferrier Loveday Song Prize) opportunities within Guildhall, you • Kathleen Ferrier Society Bursary create projects and establish for Young Singers, 2018 (second professional connections that lead to prize), 2019 (first and second public performing engagements. prizes) • ’s-Hertogenbosch International Artist Diploma Vocal Competition, 2019 (first and See page 37. second prizes) • Nadia and Lili Boulanger The Artist Diploma in Vocal Studies is International Voice-Piano for singers beyond Masters level with Competition, 2019 (first prize) the profile of an early-career • Young artists programmes at professional in opera or concert the Royal Opera House, English performance. The flexible structure National Opera, Dutch National allows you to focus on areas of vocal Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Berlin arts most relevant to your emerging State Opera, Lyon National Opera, career. One-to-one singing lessons, Glyndebourne Festival, Scottish specialist coaching and opportunities Opera in opera or concert performance sit • European Concert Hall alongside encounters with visiting Organisation (ECHO) Rising Stars, artists and industry figures which 2018-19 open professional doors for success at • BBC Radio 3 New Generation an international level of performance. Artists, 2018-20 • Young Classical Artists Trust MPhil/DMus, MPhil/PhD (YCAT), 2019-20 See page 91. Music alumni are highlighted on pages 64-67. Further Vocal Studies Recent Department highlights competition and award winners can be found at gsmd.ac.uk/vocal • Masterclasses with Joyce DiDonato, Gerald Finley and Renée Fleming • Recitals at the Barbican, Carnegie
48 | gsmd.ac.uk/principal_study “Students really have a choice of how they want to structure their learning and the experience here helps you understand where your forte lies as an up and coming artist. The lecturers are so friendly and give us lots of informative advice about the industry. Guildhall also ensures students are exposed to industry professionals through masterclasses.”
Innocent Masuku Graduate Certificate Vocal Studies
gsmd.ac.uk/principal_study | 49 Programmes and repertoire, acting and stage techniques (such as Movement, MMus/MPerf Dance, Make-up and Drama), Artist Diploma dedicated language coaching and career guidance. Opera Studies provides intensive postgraduate training for up to 24 Performance is central to the singers and four student repetiteurs programme. The Department stages at any one time. It offers advanced three full public productions each vocal training and operates at a year and three programmes of professional level, presenting a range operatic excerpts in workshop of productions from opera scenes settings, developed in partnership and chamber opera to three full-scale with the Production Arts operas over the two years of study. Department. In the summer term, these collaborations include new Postgraduate work by composers and librettists on the MA in Opera Making and MMus/MPerf in Performance Writing programme (see page 36). See page 30. Choose from the specialisms listed below. Repetiteur Training This specialism is for highly Opera Studies accomplished pianists and sight- The Opera Studies specialism is for readers with knowledge of the singers with a developed vocal operatic repertoire and experience
opera studies technique, vocal maturity and of accompanying singers. Run from potential for development. within the Opera Department, this one- or two-year programme The training is overseen by includes providing accompaniment experienced visiting professionals for opera production rehearsals and and will provide you with vocal and coaching for singers on the Opera dramatic training including singing programme, as well as coaching and lessons, individual coaching in roles training in repetiteur techniques, piano lessons and language coaching, harpsichord tuition and continuo playing. Accompaniment for coaching sessions and introductory training in opera conducting are also available.
Artist Diploma See page 37.
Recent Department productions
• Paterson, The Angel Esmeralda (world premiere) • Mozart, Così fan tutte • Britten, A Midsummer Night’s Dream • Handel, Aminta e Fillide • Blow, Venus and Adonis
50 | gsmd.ac.uk/principal_study • Poulenc, Dialogues des Carmélites Graduates have secured performing • Menotti, The Consul roles with: • Handel, Radamisto • Philips, The Tale of Januarie • Opera Holland Park (world premiere) • State Theatre Nuremberg • Stravinsky, Mavra International Opera Studio • Tchaikovsky, Iolanta • Garsington Opera • Britten, The Rape of Lucretia • Grange Park Opera • Glyndebourne Festival Opera • Welsh National Opera Recent student success Music alumni are highlighted Recent Opera and Vocal Studies on pages 64-67. Opera Studies competition prizes and young artist alumni can be found at programme success include: gsmd.ac.uk/opera
• Royal Over-Seas League Annual Music Competition • Kathleen Ferrier Awards • London Handel Festival, Handel Singing Competition • Josep Mirabent I Magrans Singing and Chamber Music Contest • Oxford Lieder Young Artist Platform • Berlin State Opera International Opera Studio • English National Opera Harewood Artists programme • Bavarian State Opera Opernstudio • Royal Opera House Jette Parker Young Artists programme
gsmd.ac.uk/principal_study | 51 Keyboard and plucked continuo instruments.
Historical Performance specialism is also available through the Vocal Studies Principal Study (see page 46). Study of historical string, wind, and brass instruments is available through elective modules.
Programmes
MMus/MPerf Artist Diploma MPhil/DMus, MPhil/PhD
Historical Performance at Guildhall encourages students to inhabit music from the past and explore supportive; instrumentalists, for ways of communicating with a example, might first encounter the modern audience. 17th century by playing in consort with singers. Under the supervision of Head of Historical Performance, Christopher Suckling, the Department provides Working with Historical opportunities for students to Performance critically engage with and challenge current performance practices before There are several different ways to entering an evolving profession. engage with historical performance at Guildhall. Through a combination of ensemble and project-based learning, Postgraduate performers of supported by individual tuition and keyboards and plucked continuo studies centred around rhetorical instruments who have an interest in delivery and historical stagecraft, we vocal direction, accompaniment, and provide an introduction to different coaching find their home within the approaches to performing music, Historical Performance department. giving you the experience necessary Generous scholarships are available to continue your development as you in return for their weekly work with embark on a varied career. Vocal Studies and their support of historical performance cross-School ensemble projects. Teaching is primarily through ensemble performance projects Postgraduate singers join the Vocal supported by individual and group Studies Principal Study, taking tuition from some of the country’s advantage of the breadth of technical leading performers and scholars. and performance training necessary Recurring projects include Baroque for a singer, whilst being able to Opera Scenes, the Baroque Orchestra, choose performance projects and the Cantata Project, and the Guildhall electives that are led by the Historical Consort. These projects are mutually Performance department.
52 | gsmd.ac.uk/principal_study Players of orchestral instruments opt Recent student success to develop their skills on historical instruments through the Historical Recent competition prizes include: Performance elective modules of the undergraduate and postgraduate • International Johann Sebastian programmes; their Principal Study Bach Competition Leipzig remains within the Strings or Wind, • York International Young Artists Brass and Percussion departments. Early Music Competition • Royal Over-Seas League Annual MMus/MPerf in Performance Music Competition See page 30: Historical Performance specialism. Students and recent graduates have joined ensembles including: Artist Diploma See page 37. • The Academy of Ancient Music • Arcangelo MPhil/DMus, MPhil/PhD • Dunedin Consort See page 91. • The English Concert • Gabrieli Consort • Shakespeare’s Globe Associations • Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Our relationship with the Academy • Orchestre Révolutionnaire et of Ancient Music (AAM) (see page Romantique 8) offers students masterclasses with • Tenebrae principal players and side-by-side ensemble workshops and Student ensembles are regularly performances. The partnership also selected for BREMF Live!, part of the allows access to major artists Brighton Early Music Festival, while working with the AAM, to AAM students, Fellows, and recent alumni open rehearsals and to networking have featured in every year of the opportunities. Handel House Talent scheme since its inception. The Guildhall Consort is directed by Eamonn Dougan, Assistant Music alumni highlights can be Conductor of The Sixteen, and offers found on pages 64-67. Selected excellent opportunities for refining Historical Performance alumni vocal ensemble techniques, are listed at gsmd.ac.uk/ performing music from Victoria, historical_performance Palestrina and Schütz through to Bach, Schumann, Stravinsky and Arvo Pärt. It has also formed the chorus for performances in the Barbican Hall with visiting ensembles such as the Venice Baroque Orchestra and the English Concert.
gsmd.ac.uk/principal_study | 53 Open to all standard chamber groups with considerable chamber group combinations music experience, with the aim of developing students’ skills to a professional level. Programmes In other postgraduate specialisms, MMus/MPerf chamber music is still considered a core – though non-compulsory Chamber Music is a postgraduate – skill, and regular engagement specialism for students who wish to is strongly encouraged. Advanced hone their ensemble and Ensemble electives provide substantial interpretative skills in small chamber training in chamber music skills. group combinations. Groups can Cross-departmental chamber work is consist of any combination of three considered as important as more players or more, with weekly traditional combinations. coaching from Principal Study staff and first preference for coaching with Guildhall selects an exceptionally visiting ensembles and artists. In the gifted young ensemble to be Keyboard and Strings Departments, Chamber Music Fellows, providing students choosing to work on major them with performance duo repertoire may also be assessed. opportunities and intensive coaching with international professorial staff Chamber music also forms a core while they develop their careers. strand of other Principal Study instrumental courses of study, offering almost unparalleled Study highlights coaching and a wide range of chamber music performance opportunities. • Regular coaching and lessons from core chamber music staff including Regular coaching is provided by Levon Chilingirian, Simon international teaching staff and Rowland-Jones, Caroline Palmer, visiting chamber musicians. Though Philippa Davies, Ursula Smith, each school of study may have slightly Carole Presland, Matthew Jones, different requirements, the core Graham Sheen, Krysia Osostowicz emphasis is on fostering individual and Richard Lester engagement and responsibility within • Regular coaching opportunities chamber groups, challenging and from visiting artists and groups developing interpersonal skills, and • Masterclasses with international musical dialogue. visiting artists and chairs of chamber music
Postgraduate
MMus/MPerf in Performance See page 30: Chamber Music specialism.
The main focus of the Chamber Music specialism is the enhancement of core chamber music skills. The pathway is designed for existing
54 | gsmd.ac.uk/principal_study • Exchange performances at Mozarteum University Salzburg, McGill University Musical Chairs Chamber Music Festival, Concert Hall at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, and the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, Budapest • Groundbreaking project with the ensemble Decoda, training groups in delivery of workshop skills • Three annual Guildhall chamber music competitions • Three-day Chamber Music Festival with student/professor collaborations featuring renowned performers from the Chamber Music faculty
• Active chamber music exchange Recent student success programmes • Chamber music prizes offering Recent competition prizes and young external performance opportunities artists awards include: • Numerous international performing opportunities for • Bordeaux International String successful groups Quartet Competition • Royal Over-Seas League Annual Music Competition Recent Department highlights • St Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Music Competition • Masterclasses with Takács Quartet • Melbourne International Chamber (International Visiting Artists), Music Competition Endellion String Quartet (Visiting • Trondheim International Chamber Quartet in Association) and Music Competition Valentin Erben • Cavatina Intercollegiate Chamber • Meet the Ensemble series with Music Competition Gould Piano Trio, Heath String • Hattori Foundation Senior Awards Quartet and Danish String Quartet • Martin Musical Scholarship Award • Performance projects/side-by-side • June Emerson Wind Music workshops with Nicholas Daniel, Launchpad Prize Andrew Marriner and Janine • Park Lane Group (PLG) Music Trust Jansen Young Artists • Public recitals involving staff/ • Tunnell Trust Awards student collaborations throughout • ChamberStudio Mentorship the year and within the Guildhall • Young Classical Artists Trust Chamber Music Summer Festival (YCAT) • Pre-London Symphony Orchestra recitals in the Barbican Hall Music alumni highlights can be • BBC Radio 3 Total Immersion found on pages 64-67. projects in Milton Court Concert Hall and in the Barbican Hall
gsmd.ac.uk/principal_study | 55 Programmes our focus on innovation and collaboration will help you take full BMus advantage of Guildhall’s multi- MMus/MComp disciplinary environment, working MA in Opera Making and Writing within a constant cross-departmental MPhil/DMus, MPhil/PhD flow of ideas, skills and creativity.
Guildhall offers some of the most stimulating and creative training for Undergraduate composers available in the UK. Our guiding principle is that composers BMus should develop in collaboration with See page 28 for programme structure. technically-proficient, sympathetic instrumentalists under the expert Guildhall School’s undergraduate guidance of experienced Composition pathway is intended to practitioners. Our commitment to support your creative development as developing your unique voice as a a composer, whatever your interests composer means that we will or sources of inspiration. There is no workshop every composition that ‘house style’; we are not looking for you write. one kind of composer. Consequently, our community of student composers
composition By studying at a conservatoire you is very diverse, but with a shared will benefit from a range of unique sense of commitment, purpose and opportunities. These include access to mutual respect. performers, an outstanding faculty of professional composers The BMus Composition programme distinguished in a wide-ranging is built on two complementary field of compositional activity, strands of academic activity: Original specialism and artistic approach, and Composition and Techniques. a host of external partners. You will Original Composition activity be based in a lively arts complex, and follows a four-year trajectory that builds from small-scale chamber projects in Year 1 (monody, duo, voice and instrument, percussion ensemble), through the more ambitious demands of working with wind quintet, string quartet and 14-piece ensemble. The programme culminates in Year 4 with works for full orchestra, vocal ensemble and live sounds and electronics. All compositions are workshopped either by your fellow students in the School or by professional, world-renowned visiting ensembles and soloists.
The Techniques strand is intended to equip you with a high level of skill and expertise in the craft and technique of musical composition. In the first two years, topics range from
56 | gsmd.ac.uk/principal_study Harmony and Counterpoint on Voiceworks, a collaborative to Pastiche Composition; 20th writer/composer/singer project Century Materials explores core culminating in vocal works concepts in 20th and 21st century performed at Wigmore Hall harmonic and rhythmic practice and • The Composition Department provides practical experience of has a major partnership in place working with percussion. In with the Royal Opera House for addition, a Creative Ensemble the development of contemporary element will challenge you to opera. Every two years, the Royal collaborate in a performing Opera House stages a new opera by ensemble, offering a chance to a Guildhall School/Royal Opera engage with ideas and possibilities of House Composer in Residence, experimental, and often transmedial, while students on the MA in Opera practice. Topics in Years 3 and 4 Making and Writing programme range more widely and include (see page 36) enjoy formative Aesthetics, Workshop Skills and creative opportunities at the Royal Orchestration. In all four years of Opera House Techniques work, you will also take • Each year, MMus students classes in Electronic Music collaborate with choreographers and Analysis. at London Contemporary Dance School to develop new works which receive two public performances at Postgraduate The Place, the UK’s premiere centre for contemporary dance MMus/MComp in Composition See page 34. Recent alumni MA in Opera Making and Writing See page 36. Recent alumni include:
MPhil/DMus, MPhil/PhD • Mica Levi See page 91. • Oliver Leith • Philip Venables • Jack Sheen Recent Department highlights • Bushra El-Turk • Daniel Kidane • The department has a long- • Raymond Yiu standing partnership with EXAUDI • Edmund Finnis and PlusMinus, and composers • Mark Simpson work with both ensembles as first- • Sylvia Lim year Masters students • Na’ama Zisser • Q&As with visiting composers, • Francisco Coll including recent Q&As with • Lara Agar Sir Harrison Birtwistle, John • Matthew Kaner Adams, Louis Andriessen, Michel • Christina Athinodorou van der Aa, Steve Reich, Helmut Lachenmann, Tristan Murail and Music alumni highlights can be Judith Weir found on pages 64-67. For • Each year, Composition students selected Composition alumni, work with writers from the Opera visit gsmd.ac.uk/composition Making and Writing course
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Electronic Music, Film Music, Cross-departmental collaboration is Sonic Arts, Game Audio, actively encouraged, and all students Live Electronics, Popular Music have the opportunity to work on Production, New Media major projects in fulfilment of their curriculum. Visiting professionals deliver regular masterclasses to Programmes enrich the curriculum and provide industry insights, and partnerships BMus with London film and game schools MMus/MComp enhance opportunities further.
Electronic and produced music Our vocational approach means that represents the largest growth area we prioritise major projects that in the music industry today, and respond to real-world opportunities, suitably skilled musicians and often working hand in hand with producers enjoy a wealth of viable the School’s commercial arm, career opportunities. Guildhall’s Guildhall Live Events, and the dedicated world-class teaching and Production Arts Department (see real-world vocational approach page 69). In producing music ‘to prepare you for a rewarding career brief’, there are termly opportunities in this fast-paced, rapidly to record with the groundbreaking evolving industry. Guildhall Session Orchestra – a fully professional ensemble. The disciplines reflect specific career paths that demand a specialist technical and artistic focus. You will Undergraduate electronic and electronic and choose one Principal Study discipline on entry to set the bias of your studies, BMus but may incorporate elements of produced music See page 28 for programme structure. others in line with your career goals: As an undergraduate student, weekly • Electronic Music: a broad one-to-one lessons in your specific curriculum involving activity discipline with one of the across all disciplines Department’s expert professors will • Film Music: all media composition allow for a totally individualised and production (including approach to developing your artistic film, television, radio, theatre, excellence and skills. This core production music) learning is supported by a range of • Sonic Arts: electroacoustic classes in common techniques and composition, sound art, whole-Department creative installations, experimental music • Game Audio: music, sound and programming for games • Live Electronics: live performance with electronics (from DJing to experimental performance) • Popular Music Production: songwriting and production across all genres • New Media: creative musical expression with new technology
58 | gsmd.ac.uk/principal_study “From museum installations, to experimental performance opportunities, to film music collaborations – having the ability to partake in real-world work opportunities seen by the public and build up a professional-grade portfolio before graduating into a full-time working environment is priceless. The Department has connections with the best in the industry.”
Samuel Dinley BMus Electronic and Produced Music
gsmd.ac.uk/principal_study | 59 workshops. Each year, you will We run Quested, Genelec and PMC submit two folios of individual work, monitors, a collection of high a series of technical exercises, and a quality microphones and preamps, portfolio of contributions to cross- and Macintosh computers with Pro departmental projects. Tools, Logic Pro X, Max/MSP, Sibelius, IRCAM ForumSoftware, Cubase, Ableton, and a growing Postgraduate collection of additional software to aid compatibility. MMus/MComp See page 34 for programme structure. Our exciting range of live equipment includes state of the art The postgraduate programme DJing rigs, ROLI Seaboard provides a fast-paced and diverse ensembles and portable DAW preparation for professional life, facilities, to ensure that our music allowing you to explore and refine reaches far beyond the studio. your individual artistic specialism in or across several of the Department’s Principal Study disciplines. Recent Department highlights
Part 1 (MMus) • Masterclasses delivered by Harry At MMus level, you will spend the Gregson-Williams, Steve Reich, year producing three portfolios of Tory Miller, Imogen Heap, Stephen musical activity: original artistic Endelman, Kevin Kerrigan, output, collaborative projects and Leafcutter John, Rupert Collinson project leadership. This is supported (AIR), Trevor Wishart, Robert through one-to-one lessons, classes, Henke, Debbie Wiseman, Richard and collaborative sessions. You will Tognetti and Kathinka Pasveer also have the opportunity to diversify • Soundtrack for the Museum of your studies through elective London immersive experience, modules (see page 31). Beasts of London • Projects with Waddesdon Manor, Part 2 (MComp) including soundtracks and sonic Exceptional students on Part 1 are installations for Waddesdon given the opportunity to continue Christmas Carnival and music for their studies at the MComp level. the Waddesdon Manor Imaginarium During this year, students • Music to celebrate the 125th independently undertake a portfolio anniversary of Tower Bridge of three self-directed artistic projects. • Silent film projects with Barbican Film • Performances at Glastonbury Festival Department facilities • Performances at the Barbican Centre
The Department’s core studios are Music alumni highlights can be designed for the front and back found on pages 64-67. For end of the production process selected Electronic and Produced (recording and mixing/mastering), Music alumni, visit gsmd.ac.uk/ featuring acoustically isolated electronic_music control rooms, recording booths and tie lines to multiple spaces for recording of larger ensembles.
60 | gsmd.ac.uk/principal_study “I feel so fortunate to have the opportunity to study with such respected musicians and forward- thinking teachers, and to have access to such beautiful performance spaces. The exposure we receive to the arts industry is better than I could have ever imagined and the inter- disciplinary opportunities that Guildhall provides are unparalleled. At Guildhall we are training to be artists, not just musicians.”
Nicole Petrus Barracks BMus Jazz
gsmd.ac.uk/principal_study | 61 Voice and all instruments
Programmes skills to develop your core musicianship. BMus MMus/MPerf Notational output is nourished in a jazz MPhil/DMus, MPhil/PhD wide-ranging programme of composition and arranging classes, The Jazz Department at Guildhall from skills-based writing to small School is one of the most renowned group composition, scoring for jazz and established of its kind. Now in its orchestra and for strings and fourth decade, the Department woodwinds. comprises an inspirational team of professors, led by Malcolm The Guildhall Studio Orchestra is a Edmonstone, who are uniquely placed permanent ensemble, combining to oversee the development of creative rhythm section, big band, strings, jazz musicians. Our core focus is the orchestral woodwind and percussion, teaching of musics around the jazz which facilitates collaboration tradition, including Studio and World between departments and guest specialisms, and preparing soloists and conductors. Our annual improvising musicians for high Jazz Festival and the award-winning profile careers in the music industry. Guildhall Jazz Orchestra, Guildhall Jazz Band and a project-based As a Jazz student you will work Ellington Band give diverse within a dynamic and innovative opportunities for jazz performance. curriculum in a supportive and creative environment, gaining the The study of Jazz Vocals has long tools you need to thrive as an artist of been a beacon of the Department’s the future. The Department provides work. In addition to bespoke classes a comprehensive programme of in songwriting, four vocal ensembles musicianship tailored for exist for Jazz students: Guildhall Jazz improvisers, including classes in Singers, Guildhall Voice Ensemble, aural, transcription and keyboard Guildhall Jazz Choir and an a skills. The curriculum is broad in cappella group, the Guildhall both style and discipline, and the Conchords. Department celebrates the diversity of skill and experience needed to build a fulfilling musical life and Undergraduate career as an improviser. BMus Classes in Harmony, Improvisation, See page 28 for programme structure. Jazz Rhythm, World Rhythm, and Style and Lineage support weekly As a student on the BMus Jazz tutored ensemble work in combos, to pathway, you join a long and give you a creative outlet and build illustrious list of some of Europe’s your collaborative skills. The finest improvising musicians. At comprehensive programme of Guildhall School we place your musicianship is tailored for specialism front and centre as we improvisers, including classes in support both your core discipline and aural, transcription and keyboard wider musicianship.
62 | gsmd.ac.uk/principal_study The programme encourages a holistic approach to musicianship, offering training in the processes and styles most relevant to the 21st century improvising musician. Intake is based entirely on candidate suitability; the Department does not run an instrumental quota.
In addition to core classes, discipline- specific provision ensures regular, intensive contact with the appropriate professorial team.
MPhil/DMus, MPhil/PhD See page 91.
Recent Department highlights Principal Study lessons provide core instrumental and improvisational • Guest artists including Rufus Reid, training and are tailored to your Liane Carroll, Dave Arch, Tim individual needs. In addition to Garland, Joe Stilgoe, Iain Ballamy, specific jazz training, you will choose Julian Joseph, Yazz Ahmed, Jovino an additional study pathway of either Santos Neto, Larry Grenadier, Classical or Commercial music. These Women in Jazz, Alvin Chea and are designed to support instrumental Drew Gress and technical development, as well as • Masterclasses with members of Jazz specific notational and interpretative at Lincoln Center Orchestra during instrumental requirements. their bi-annual residence through our unique partnership with the Barbican Centre (see page 8) Postgraduate • Masterclasses with Louis Cole, Jerry Bergonzi, Elliot Mason, MMus/MPerf in Performance Katherine Windfeld, Jeff Tain See also page 30: Jazz Studies Watts, Kenny Werner, Genevieve specialism. Artadi, Eric Harland, Gerard Presencer, Peter Bernstein, Eric The MMus/MPerf programme is an Alexander, Phronesis, Mike Lindup, innovative and highly personalised Steve Arguelles, Dick Oatts, Mark training arena for musicians at an Mondesir, Katie Thiroux, Pablo advanced level. The programme is Held and the Tim Berne/Matt designed to elevate a student’s core Mitchell Duo discipline within a wider context of enhanced musicianship, providing Music alumni highlights can preparation for a career as a be found on pages 64-67. contemporary musician. Selected Jazz alumni are listed Applications are welcome from both at gsmd.ac.uk/jazz performers and composer/arrangers, and Principal Study lessons may be split between disciplines.
gsmd.ac.uk/principal_study | 63 Music alumni
Natalya Romaniw (2009, Vocal and Opera) Welsh soprano and one of Europe’s most promising young stars. Recent winner Alison Balsom OBE of the 2016 Critic’s Choice (2001, Trumpet) Award for Music. Alison has a four-album exclusive contract with EMI Classics, and has won a Gramophone award for a disc of works by J.S. Bach, a Classic BRIT award for Best Young British Performer 2006, and the Classic BRIT for Best Female Artist 2009.
Joby Burgess (2001, Percussion) Shabaka Hutchings One of Britain’s most diverse (2007, Clarinet) percussionists, Joby is known Shabaka has established for his virtuosic performances, himself as a central figure daring collaborations and extensive within the London jazz education work. His duo New scene. Shabaka plays in a Noise, founded in 1999 with variety of groups – most oboist Janey Miller, has created notably, Sons of Kemet, an entirely new repertoire and The Comet Is Coming, and founded its own record label, NNL. Shabaka and the Ancestors.
64 | gsmd.ac.uk/music Anthony Marwood MBE (1986, Violin) As a solo violinist, Anthony collaborates with orchestras worldwide. He was a member of the Florestan Trio until 2012, and is co-Artistic Director of the Peasmarsh Chamber Music Festival. He was named Instrumentalist of Dave Arch (1984, Piano) the Year by the Royal Dave is a pianist, conductor, Philharmonic Society in arranger and composer. He is 2006, and awarded an known for his role as MBE in 2018. Musical Director and arranger for BBC Television’s BAFTA-winning Strictly Come Dancing.
Hannah Stone (2009, Harp) Hannah has performed internationally and won a number of prizes, including the Franz Joseph Reinl -Stiftung Competition in Vienna, the Camac Harp Competition in London and the International Harp Competition in Caernarfon. From 2011 to 2015, Hannah was Official Harpist to HRH The Prince of Wales. Marta Fontanals-Simmons (2016, Vocal and Opera) Mezzo-soprano Marta Fontanals-Simmons recently made critically acclaimed house and role debuts at the Royal Opera House and the Linbury Theatre. In 2019, Marta played the lead in The Mask of Orpheus for the English National Opera.
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Zara McFarlane (2009, Jazz Vocal) Zara is a jazz and soul singer and songwriter. In October 2014, Zara won Best Jazz Act at the MOBO Awards, and has had three albums released by Brownswood Recordings.
Andrea Eklund (2017, Historical Performance) Andrea wrote, arranged and sang the title song to the 2017 film Moomins and the Winter Wonderland. Andrea’s music, performed by the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, was shortlisted for an Oscar nomination. She now maintains an eclectic career, singing early music alongside Nordic folk, and composing music for film and choirs; in 2020 she was awarded Sir Bryn Terfel CBE the Kurt-Erik Långbacka (1989, Vocal and Opera) Foundation’s conducting award. Welsh bass-baritone Sir Bryn Terfel has regularly performed at the world’s most prestigious concert stages and opera houses. Sir Bryn made his professional operatic debut as Guglielmo in Così fan tutte with Welsh National Opera in 1990. He is a Grammy, Classic BRIT and Gramophone Award winner and received a Knighthood for his service to music in 2017.
Sa Chen (2001, Piano) Sa is an award-winning pianist who came to prominence in 1996 when she was selected for the final of the Leeds International Piano Competition aged only 16. Since graduating, Sa has performed with prestigious orchestras around the world.
66 | gsmd.ac.uk/music Lucy Osborne (2019, Music Therapy) Lucy volunteers with ABCD (Action around Bethlehem Children with Disability), a charity in Palestine supporting children with disabilities, many of whom have experienced trauma in their young lives. When working from the UK, Lucy sends resources, session Pablo Hernán Benedí plans and recordings of songs (2019, Violin) for the mental health teams As well as being a member of in Palestine. the Chiaroscuro Quartet, Pablo plays chamber music with artists including Louise Hopkins and Jérôme Pernoo. Future engagements of his Trio Isimsiz will take him to London venues such as the Barbican Centre and the Royal Festival Hall.
Elisabeth Swedlund (2016, Vocal) Elisabeth set up the Wind-Up Penguin Theatre Company during her studies at Guildhall School. Wind-Up Penguin’s mission is to bring original exciting, James Newby (2018, Vocal) professional-level music A BBC New Generation theatre productions to Artist 2018-2020, British disadvantaged and baritone James enjoys a busy remote communities in schedule as a recitalist with the developing world. appearances at Wigmore Hall, Leeds Lieder, Oxford Lieder and Perth International Arts Festival.
gsmd.ac.uk/music | 67 PRODUCTION ARTS The Production Arts Department at Guildhall has long been recognised as providing some of the most innovative vocational theatre and live event training anywhere in the world. The School boasts technical and performance facilities which are among the best internationally. The teaching is practical and production-based; students work on public productions and live events with professional directors, designers and conductors, participating in the creation of acclaimed dramas, operas and large-scale open-air video events.
The School has five professional-standard performance venues with state of the art equipment. These allow our programmes to keep in line with current practice and new 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 and technicians 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.
In Production Arts, 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.
Level Programme Duration Undergraduate BA Honours in Three years Production Arts BA Honours in Three years Video Design for Live Performance Postgraduate MA in Collaborative One year Theatre Production and Design
gsmd.ac.uk/production_arts | 69 Programme facilities and teaching support
Whichever 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.
Other Guildhall facilities you will use include the scenic workshop, paintshop, props workshop, design realisation studio, costume
70 | gsmd.ac.uk/production_arts workshop and dye room, and sound and video editing studios. You Key staff will also have access to the lighting and theatre technology lab, stage Professor Andy Lavender electrics workshop, and production and stage management offices. BA (Hons) PhD Additionally, Milton Court includes new rehearsal rooms, a TV Vice Principal & Director of studio and teaching rooms, and a well-equipped computer room Production Arts with CAD and media production software. Gill Allen BA (Hons) SFHEA Programme Leader, BA Production Core teaching staff Arts; Head of Stage Management & Costume There are 24 teaching staff and a further 15 technicians in the Vanessa Cass Production Arts Department. All the teaching staff have had long FGS BA (Hons) PGCert FHEA and varied careers in professional theatre or live events. The Head of Design Realisation Department maintains current industry contacts via incoming directors, designers and lighting designers, as well as freelance Andy Taylor MA GMus PGCE FHEA costume supervisors, scenic artists, prop makers, production Programme Leader, BA Video Design managers and lighting programmers. It also has strong links with for Live Performance; professional colleagues and ex-students working with all major UK Head of Theatre Technology theatre and opera companies, productions and suppliers. Rhian Jones Programme Leader, MA Collaborative Designers and lighting designers who have worked at the School Theatre Production & Design include: Ana Inés Jabares-Pita, Adrian Linford, Jess Curtis, Anna Reid, Louie Whitemore, Sarah Beaton, Kai Fischer, David Howe, Stuart Calder Matt Daw, Robbie Butler, Jake Wiltshire and Charlie Morgan Jones. FGS CSMGSM FHEA Associate Producer
For a full list of teaching and visiting staff, visit gsmd.ac.uk/ production_arts
gsmd.ac.uk/production_arts | 71 BA Honours in Production Arts
The Production Arts undergraduate programme equips you Duration with the skills you need to succeed in the professional arts industry, with graduates going on to work in theatre, events, Three years full-time television and film. We strongly believe that your training should be tailored to your individual career aims. Pathways For this reason, you will select trends in contemporary theatre Stage Management one of four pathways, each with a you will see a wide range of (see page 74) different emphasis: Stage shows, including leading Costume Management, Costume, international productions at the (see page 76) Theatre Technology (Sound, Barbican Centre. When studying Lighting, Video and period styles you will visit Theatre Technology Automation), or Design galleries and museums to look at (see page 77) Realisation (Scenic Art, Scenic examples and gather ideas. Design Realisation Construction and Prop Making). (see page 78) In this first year, you will also Within each pathway you can take a core module called study elements of the other Associated Studies, which allows three. For example, if you want you to take three short courses in to learn about props and scenery areas of interest from one of the construction but retain an other three pathways. interest in lighting, or gain experience in sound while Year 2 focusing mainly on stage From the second year onwards, management, you can choose you will be immersed in accordingly. The programme is Guildhall School’s extraordinary flexible enough to allow for a productions and events, working wide range of interests, or a alongside professional directors, more specialised approach. designers and lighting designers on a full-time basis. Work on Year 1 productions is complemented The first year of the programme by talks delivered by industry brings all students to the same professionals. threshold of knowledge. In addition to classes in your chosen Year 3 pathway, you will study a broad The final year provides you with range of core subjects including true exposure to professional Theatre History, Period Style, theatre and live events and the Contemporary Theatre, Health opportunity to make essential and Safety, and Stagecraft and future contacts. All students are Production Process. Classes are encouraged to undertake project-based and you will be leading roles in their chosen encouraged to enhance and fields, and some go on to lead a inform your work by engaging whole team in a Production with the profession externally. Management role. You will also For example, when studying complete a personal graduation
72 | gsmd.ac.uk/production_arts project as well as work in the creation and public experience with a professional performance of acclaimed company or practitioner. dramas and operas • Using information technology in planning and managing Preparing for work productions, developing transferable skills in the latest Career preparation includes Office software and using lectures, masterclasses and advice specialist packages on how to apply for work, CV • Gaining detailed knowledge of preparation, working as a current industry developments freelancer, invoicing and and trends self-employment, and interview • Developing core transferable preparation. Throughout the skills programme you will have the opportunity to collaborate with A particularly high staff-student actors, singers and musicians ratio is one of the strengths of from other programmes to the programme. As you progress, generate your own projects. staff will shift from formal teaching roles to empowering Key development areas and supporting your production which are essential for work. This allows you freedom employment include: to demonstrate and develop your professional standards and skills. • Learning to be part of the team of technicians, designers, Regardless of their year, all stage managers, costumiers, students work together on all actors, singers and musicians, productions. Peer learning is working alongside professional an essential element of the directors, designers and programme. conductors to participate
gsmd.ac.uk/production_arts | 73 BA Production Arts: Stage Management pathway
Stage managers are at the centre all your skills to bear on full-scale of any production or event. productions, taking lead roles in Stage managers are organised managing shows from rehearsal and creative individuals who room to final performance. require all manner of skills and competencies, but chief among these are ‘people skills’. Only Recent work placements through good interaction, communication and negotiation Recent work placements with people will stage managers undertaken by Stage be able to understand and work Management students include: with performers, directors, designers and all the production • Artichoke, Smyle and departments. Imagination events management As a Stage Management student, • Bridge Theatre, Young Vic, you will learn about managing Royal Court and National rehearsal rooms and Theatre performances, props acquisitions • Warp Films and Big Talk and show calling, as well as team Productions management and budgeting • The Prince of Egypt and Dear Evan Hansen West End This pathway is all about productions developing your craft to professional standards in a fully professional context. By the end Future careers of the programme you will bring Potential careers include stage manager and production-related roles in:
• Theatre and events • TV and film production • Arts management
For more information, visit gsmd.ac.uk/stage_ management
74 | gsmd.ac.uk/principal_studygsmd.ac.uk/production_arts “Choosing Guildhall wasn’t a difficult decision; it was the perfect fit for me. The facilities are excellent and accurately represent those currently in the industry. I really enjoy working with people studying different specialisms, learning from them, and creating fantastic productions together.”
Luke Mason BA Production Arts (Stage Management) BA Production Arts: Costume pathway
Costume students at Guildhall • National Theatre costume School gain an overall buying department understanding of all aspects of the • English National Opera costume industry. This unique dyeing and breaking down pathway will enable you to follow department the costume process from design • Costume departments at to realisation on stage. Chichester Festival Theatre, Donmar Warehouse and the As a Costume student, you will: Young Vic • Costume department for The • Explore a broad range of Crown and Sloane Square Films relevant skills including: - Costume design, construction, alterations, dyeing, ageing Future careers and distressing - Costume sourcing, hiring Potential careers for Costume and buying students include: - Fabric sampling, millinery, hair and make-up, and styling • Designer - Costume fittings, dressing • Supervisor and running wardrobe • Dresser - Costing, budgeting and • Fitter administration • Stand-by • Work alongside professional • Running wardrobe costume designers and • Co-ordinator supervisors, and learn costume • Textile artist craft on fully staged drama and • Buyer opera productions • Maker • Have the opportunity to • Cutter enhance areas of costume practice on placements, For more information, visit making projects and realised gsmd.ac.uk/costume productions • Research the history and culture of fashion • Discover technical areas of film and television costume • Focus on practice for costume industry employment
Recent work placements
Recent work placements undertaken by Costume students include:
76 | gsmd.ac.uk/principal_studygsmd.ac.uk/production_arts BA Production Arts: Theatre Technology pathway
Sound, Lighting, In Theatre Technology you will • Automation for Harry Potter learn about design and and the Cursed Child in the Video, Automation production in lighting, sound, West End video and stage technology • Production management at the (automation and technical National Theatre, Cirque du management), with Soleil and Autograph Sound opportunities to specialise in • AV/video at Glyndebourne your final year. Theatre Festival Theatre technicians need to be good • Lighting department at the team players and have a proven Kiln Theatre and for The Prince interest in an area of theatre of Egypt in the West End technology. As you develop your • Rigging department for The skills, you will progress from House of Dancing Water, Macau learning about technology and software to programming and show operation, to finally Future careers managing and designing productions. Potential careers for Theatre Technology students include:
Recent work placements • Production manager • Technical manager Recent work placements • Automation programmer undertaken by Theatre • Sound designer and operator Technology students include: • Live mixer • Lighting designer and programmer
For more information, visit gsmd.ac.uk/theatre_ technology
gsmd.ac.uk/production_artsgsmd.ac.uk/principal_study | 77 BA Production Arts: Design Realisation pathway
Scenic Art, Scenic Construction, Prop Making
Design realisation is about • Shakespeare’s Globe making and painting the • MDM Props scenery and props that have been • Souvenir Scenic Studios designed by the set designer. • Sydney Opera House scenic Students following this pathway workshops need good creative and practical skills, with strong problem- solving abilities. Each year you Future careers will develop your skills across prop making, scenery Potential careers for Design construction and scenic art, Realisation students include: arriving at a clear idea of how far you would like to specialise in • Set designer your final year. • Scenic artist • Prop maker • Scenic construction roles in Recent work placements theatre, events, film and TV
Recent work placements For more information, visit undertaken by Design gsmd.ac.uk/design_realisation Realisation students include:
• National Theatre scenic workshops • Rocket Scenery • Footprint Scenery • Romanoff Productions
78 | gsmd.ac.uk/principal_studygsmd.ac.uk/production_arts “Guildhall is dedicated to developing students as individuals, and helping us establish the core practical skills of making. Tutors promote an explorative and community-based learning environment, encouraging each of us to evolve. I get to work with so many different people, collaborating with students across the years as well as interacting and learning from designers with a wealth of experience.”
Millie Heighes BA Production Arts (Design Realisation) BA Honours in Video Design for Live Performance
This dynamic and innovative programme is for students Duration interested in the fast-changing and exciting world of digital video design and production. It has been shaped by the Three years full-time practical, hands-on ethos of Guildhall School’s Production Arts Department – and it extends that ethos into new technologies that will shape the future of performance.
The programme will provide Events, a business unit within you with specialist training in the School which creates the rapidly expanding field of immersive and interactive projection and video-based art digital experiences. forms, such as animation and motion-graphics, lighting and The programme shares some of design. It uses state of the art the professional theatre skills equipment and facilities in line and theory modules within BA with the latest industry in Production Arts (see page developments. The teaching is 72), but these are complemented practical and project-based. You with a more specialised series of will work with professional modules related to video design designers, programmers and and content creation, technical animators on a range of projects management, system design and such as gallery installations, live operation/programming. projection work for Guildhall Throughout the programme productions, and VJing at you will be able to attend festivals and club nights, as well cross-year seminars and lectures as on a range of commercial given by visiting guest artists. projects with Guildhall Live
Festivals and arts commissions
Recent work created and presented by the Department includes:
• Beasts of London, an immersive multimedia exhibition telling the story of how animals have helped to shape the history of the capital, presented in partnership with the Museum of London and visited by around 60,000 people • Installations at Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire, including large-scale
80 | gsmd.ac.uk/production_arts projections on the façade of the Year 2 Manor’s stables, a sculptural In Year 2 you will continue to light tunnel and an ambitious take a series of classes to help audio trail. The installation ran develop your creative skills and for nine weeks and was visited hardware competency, but there by over 181,000 people is a switch in emphasis to give • Light Odyssey, “an epic journey you an increasing role in of light, space and sound”, practical projects. You will gain for which students created 3D more responsibility as you animations to transform the progress, moving from a opulent interior of Blackpool’s supportive crew member to a Empress Ballroom, and more distinct role within the assisted QED Productions with team. You will have technical delivery of the show responsibility for processes such • Immersive performance events as system checks and at Tower Bridge maintenance and content production (working with Year 1 third-year designers or visiting The core focus in Year 1 is on professionals). You will also familiarisation with software have more of a say in the and hardware, while nurturing selection of equipment and how your design skills and building projects are planned. confidence in a professional setting. There is a range of opportunities to make the most of our extensive resources as you learn your trade, becoming directly involved in a supportive role as a member of the crew.
gsmd.ac.uk/production_arts | 81 Year 3 Future careers In Year 3 you will take a final series of classes to refine your As a Guildhall School graduate video design skillset. You will in Video Design for Live have opportunities to make Performance, you may expect content and design materials to pursue a career as a video that may then be used on designer, animator, video real-world projects. You will lead engineer/technician, VJ, a team of second- and first-year video operator/programmer students who help you to realise or 3D designer. your artistic and technical objectives, while still receiving Our graduates have an excellent guidance and support from your track record of achieving tutors and visiting professionals. employment at industry-leading organisations. Former students Alongside your production work in roles at companies such work, you will complete a as 59 Productions, D3 portfolio, which will be Technologies and XL Video (now invaluable when seeking part of PRG), as well as in employment at the end of your successful West End shows. The studies, as well as completing a ongoing development of this self-directed graduation project specialised programme is that will allow you to focus on a expected to further enhance our chosen area of specialism. relationship with these employers.
82 | gsmd.ac.uk/production_arts “Being in the heart of London, Guildhall is based amongst so many potential future employers. I really enjoy the diversity of the projects that the Video Design for Live Performance programme undertakes. I loved working on Tower Bridge’s 125th anniversary: seeing my content go from screen to the surface was an amazing feeling!”
Charlie Vince-Crowhurst BA Video Design for Live Performance MA in Collaborative Theatre Production and Design
This one-year Masters programme aims to bring together Duration early-career theatre practitioners (including designers, sound designers, lighting designers, production managers, stage One year full-time managers and video designers) to develop new theatre and performance work.
Students work together in artists and practitioners. At the creative teams on an exciting and start of the year, you will be varied array of theatre projects. immersed in a four-week The programme is not intended creative project that inducts to deliver core technical skills, new students into the Guildhall but rather to develop your School environment. You will theatre making abilities, also be allocated a Principal exploring your potential as a Study mentor from a pool of creative artist and enabling you professional practitioners with to work with other students on a whom the Department has series of collaborative projects. strong working relationships.
At the heart of this programme The programme is Collaborative Practice, which aims to develop your ability to The Masters programme is a apply and integrate your long academic year (180 specialist skills within a credits) with Principal Study project. Throughout the year for designers, production there are four projects, some of managers and other creative which are generated from within the creative teams, while others involve collaborating with companies or practitioners outside of Guildhall. Over the year, the teams on your programme will form and re-form, developing a creative vocabulary on a broad variety of projects and forging connections with other artists.
When possible, the programme also includes a three- to four- week residential project, intended to take you into an unfamiliar area of work. The idea is to offer an opportunity for creative collaboration, unconstrained by preconceptions or prejudices.
84 | gsmd.ac.uk/production_arts “I love that I get to work with my fellow classmates so closely and create original works. Our projects will have a general theme, but they’re open for interpretation which allows us to be extremely creative. It’s incredibly collaborative, hands-on, and rewarding.”
Maisie Chan MA Collaborative Theatre Production and Design
gsmd.ac.uk/production_arts | 85 Production Arts alumni
Prema Mehta (2004) Prema is a lighting designer for Gemma Tonge (2002) theatre, and has designed the Gemma is Head of lighting for over 150 productions. Company Management Recent work includes productions at the National Theatre. at the Royal Court, Sheffield Theatres, Shakespeare’s Globe and the Young Vic. She is also the founder of Stage Sight, a collaborative network which aims to create an off-stage workforce more reflective of our society today, inclusive of ethnicity, class and disability.
Katie Jenkinson (2014, Costume) Katie works at Marvel Studios, Los Angeles and has worked on feature films including Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol.2 and Captain America. Danny Newton (2018, Stage Management) Danny is working as an Assistant Stage Manager on Dear Evan Hanson in the West End.
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Lydia Comer-Narroway (2019, Costume) Lydia is working as a Costume Assistant at the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Jessica Case (2019, Design Realisation) Jessica is currently working as a Scenic Artist at the Royal Opera House and the National Theatre.
Rury Nelson (2018, Video Design for Live Performance) Rury is working as a Video Designer at Bild Studios.
Jordan Lindsey (2019, Theatre Technology) Jordan is working as an Automation Operator on Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in the West End.
gsmd.ac.uk/production_arts | 87 Production Arts alumni
Amelia Kosminsky (2019, Video Design Sian Clare for Live Performance) (2018, Costume) Mia is currently working Sian has recently as a visual artist. worked as a Costume Buyer on Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in the West End. Neil Austin (1992) Neil is a Lighting Designer who has worked internationally on plays, musicals, opera and dance productions, including regularly working at the National Theatre, the Royal Court, the Donmar Warehouse and in the West End. He is the recipient of three Tony Awards and two Olivier Awards.
Simon Baker (1992) Simon has worked in almost every corner of the theatre sound industry, spending his early career at both the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. Simon has received several Olivier and Tony nominations, and the 2012 Olivier Award for Best Sound Design for Matilda The Musical in the West End.
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Tom Bosworth (2017, Theatre Technology) Tom is working as a Sound Operator on Everybody’s Talking About Jamie in the West End.
Neil Constable (1985) Neil is Chief Executive of Shakespeare’s Globe.
Kate John (2001) Kate is Head of Workshop at the National Theatre.
Olivia Whittaker (2016, Stage Management) Olivia has recently worked as a Runner for BBC television, working on Eastenders, Midsomer Murders and Holby City.
gsmd.ac.uk/production_arts | 89 RESEARCH AND TEACHING Research Degrees MPhil/DMus – MPhil/PhD
Guildhall School’s research programme has a distinctive focus Duration on research in, through and for the performing arts. Students pursue self-directed projects that bridge creative practice with Three years full-time scholarly enquiry, in an outstanding conservatoire with world- (+ up to one year ‘writing up’) class facilities. Six years part-time (+ up to one year ‘writing up’) Our research students blossoming research culture, investigate a wide range of which encompasses over 60 topics in music, theatre and students and around 40 research- Validated by City, University related artistic and pedagogic active staff and associates. of London practices, including Opportunities to engage in this composition, instrumental community include our regular performance, historical Research Works series (with a performance, opera studies and student panel each term) and our theatre making, as well as planned Institute for Social performing arts pedagogies, Impact Research, which will institutions and cultures. We explore how musical practice share a strong focus on can contribute to positive social exploring the role and impact change. Research is also of the performing arts supported by: practitioner in society. • Specialist libraries at Guildhall School, the Barbican and City, Research environment University of London • Comprehensive student Research students are the support services foundation of Guildhall School’s • Outstanding facilities
gsmd.ac.uk/research | 91 • Strong relationships with opportunities to share your external bodies such as the research with your peers, attend Theatre and Performance guest sessions with leading Research Association and The researchers, and develop Capital Culture Exchange professional skills such as conference presentation and academic publishing. Supervision and training
Students on the doctoral Funding support programme are allocated a supervisory team, made up of at Students can apply for partial fee least two supervisors who have waivers, awarded on the basis of the appropriate combination of need or merit, or to support academic and artistic expertise. research in priority areas. We You will meet regularly with also offer prestigious your supervisors to report your studentships (full fee waiver progress, get feedback on your and stipend) in partnership with ideas and draft material, high profile arts and research discuss key debates in your institutions, including the field of research and prepare Guildhall-Barbican Studentship for examination. and the Royal Opera House Doctoral Composer in Research training is provided Residence Studentship. through a programme of weekly seminars. Offering up to 120 hours a year, this provides some of the most comprehensive training in the sector. As well as introducing key study skills and methodologies, the training programme provides
Participants at the Reflective Conservatoire Conference 2018 92 | gsmd.ac.uk/research “I applied for this course to take my practice to a new level of rigour. A PhD is a life-changing commitment, especially as an established practitioner. Doing my PhD at Guildhall School has been deeply enriching, and inter-departmental conversations have been thought-provoking and inspiring.”
Anna-Helena Mclean PhD PGCert in Performance Teaching
The PGCert in Performance Teaching is designed to support Duration professional musicians, actors, production artists and dancers who teach as part of their practice, either as their main One year part-time/two years employment or as part of a portfolio career. It offers a unique part-time opportunity to develop creative and reflective practice in teaching in performing arts contexts.
We take your existing experience • Facilitation and feedback and expertise as a starting point, • Creativity and pedagogical enabling you to bring practice improvisation and theory together through • Partnership and collaborative engaging with cutting-edge working pedagogy. You will be part of a • Reflective practice community of artist-educators, • Inclusion and working learning from each other and with groups building practical skills. You will • Curriculum and assessment embrace diverse perspectives and issues different learning styles.
Highlights Who is it for? • A strong focus on critically The programme attracts reflective practice applicants who are interested in • Interdisciplinary perspectives creative, innovative and evidence- with a rich exchange of ideas based teaching. You could be at • Robust feedback on practical any stage of your career as long as work you are willing to take a fresh • An experienced team look at your practice. Equally, you of educators, performers might teach in a range of and researchers contexts, including schools, • An educational philosophy Higher Education, junior that celebrates professionalism, conservatoires, community and international perspectives, lifelong learning. creativity and innovation.
How you’ll learn Where can this lead?
Approximately 13 days of Participants have been promoted face-to-face workshops are in their existing working contexts combined with online learning or have branched out into new and support from a one-to-one teaching areas. Others have gone tutor. Content covers areas such as: on to further study including PhDs (see page 91) and Guildhall’s • Theories of learning Coaching and Mentoring and motivation programme (see page 100).
94 | gsmd.ac.uk/research “This course combines face-to- face and online learning methods, and offers unrivalled access to resources, not just through the School’s library but also through membership to digital research collections that students can access remotely. The programme is taught by experienced educators and experts, and every session leaves me feeling inspired and equipped to successfully engage my own students.”
Lana Bode PGCert Performance Teaching 96 |gsmd.ac.uk further info the Admissions team at your application, pleaseemail If you have aquestionabout • • • This includes: gsmd.ac.uk/apply application information at application form anddetailed You canfindouronline Online applications as straightforward aspossible. make your application journey application processwillhelp directly. Ourbespoke online friendly Admissions team benefit fromdealing withour or agency. Thismeans you not viaanyoutside intermediary made directlyto the School and about attending Guildhallare Applications andenquiries part oftheworld. welcome talentedapplicantsfromanybackgroundand At GuildhallSchoolwevalueourdiversecultureand interviews andOpenDays Applications, auditions, requirements are normally: The minimum academic Entry requirements [email protected] • • • •
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for the Compositionpathway) pathway, andincomposition an arts subject for the Writing (2:1) are normally required(in Upper Second-ClassHonours Opera MakingandWriting, equivalent). For the MAin with Honours inmusic(or BA/BMus: Teaching: PGCert inPerformance activity) (or equivalent) relevant professional theatre Drama, alongside evidence of subject (orinanysubject for a Master’s degree inarelevant MPhil/DMus andMPhil/PhD: Artist Diploma: MA: MMus/MPerf: (or equivalent) with Honours inmusic undergraduate degree degree (orequivalent) full-time Masters ofMusic for Live Performance Arts andBAVideo Design criteria for BAProduction are additional academic A2) (orequivalent). There in 2A-Levels (GCEAdvanced (or equivalent) dance orproductionarts degree inmusic,acting, an undergraduate degree an undergraduate pass grade (A-E) an a two-year assessment designed to assess Disability support attainment and potential. Guildhall School is committed to facilitating equality of For full information on entry opportunity and providing criteria, visit gsmd.ac.uk/entry inclusive and enabling learning environments. We encourage International applications applications from students with We are proud of our large disabilities, physical and mental international student health conditions, sensory community. Around 35% of our impairments and neurodiversity students come from outside the (such as Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, UK, representing more than 50 ADHD and Autism). If you countries. We hold international would like to discover more auditions in New York, Hong about how the School supports Kong, Tokyo, Taipei and Seoul. students to access and enjoy For information on visas, studying or to discuss whether accommodation, English our courses and environments language requirements and are appropriate for you, please support, and details of our contact our dedicated Learning ‘buddy’ programme, visit Support and Disability gsmd.ac.uk/international Coordinator. For further details of what we can offer and who Supported Application Scheme to contact, visit We are committed to ensuring gsmd.ac.uk/disabilitysupport there are no barriers to deter talented students from coming Open Days to Guildhall, and we welcome We hold one Undergraduate applications from students who Open Day in spring each year, are underrepresented in higher and many more which are education. The Supported programme-specific. Our Open Application Scheme is a Days are a fantastic way to find programme of support offering out more about particular eligible undergraduate courses and meet current applicants a free application, students and staff, and there invitations to workshops and is often an opportunity to join events, advice and guidance a workshop or see our students throughout the audition process, in action. Bookings for Open and help with scholarship Days are available at applications and transition to the gsmd.ac.uk/opendays School if an offer of study is made. Applicants must be You can also use use the online referred by a teacher or worker video tour at gsmd.ac.uk/ in their school, theatre group or online-tour to explore the school. youth organisation. Eligibility Performances at Guildhall, many criteria, the referral process and of which are free, are a great way relevant deadlines can be found to see the results of our training. at gsmd.ac.uk/access View our calendar of events at gsmd.ac.uk/events
gsmd.ac.uk | 97 Fees, funding and scholarships
Studying at Guildhall is affordable, and the School is committed to ensuring that the cost of tuition should not deter anyone from applying.
The amount you will pay depends England, Scotland, Wales or on which programme you apply Northern Ireland) other for, and whether you are a student support may be available in from the UK or overseas. the form of a maintenance loan and/or grant (actual There are lots of measures in amounts will depend on your place to help you meet the cost household income). of training: A UK government postgraduate • If you are a Home loan is available to Home undergraduate student eligible students registered on specific for a UK government tuition Masters degree programmes, fee loan, there are no upfront further info subject to meeting residency tuition fees. You will only have and other requirements. For to repay the loan once you have more information, visit left Guildhall and are earning gsmd.ac.uk/funding over £25,725 per year • For all other students, tuition A UK government fees for a given academic year postgraduate doctoral loan are advertised well in advance is available for full-time or to help you plan your finances. part-time MPhil/DMus You can pay your fees in three or MPhil/PhD students, to instalments a year, plus deposit assist with course fees and • The School offers a wide range living costs. of scholarships to all students through its Scholarships Fund Funding guidance and scholarship support Details of tuition fees and Guildhall School has a measures to help you meet dedicated Student Funding costs can be found at Officer who can help you gsmd.ac.uk/funding identify sources of funding to support your studies, such as Home students government and non- A UK government tuition government loans and grants. fee loan is available to undergraduate students from The School also offers a wide the UK (subject to residency range of scholarships to students requirements). For more each year through our own information, visit Scholarships Fund. These gsmd.ac.uk/feeassessment awards are supported by a variety of external donors If you are a Home including City Livery undergraduate student (from Companies, grant-making
98 | gsmd.ac.uk/funding Fee status assessment All successful applicants will be asked to complete a Fee Assessment Form before commencing their studies, to establish whether tuition fees should be at the Home or Overseas rate.
If you already have a degree or diploma at or above the level of the programme you wish to study and would usually pay Home fees, you will be classified as an equivalent or lower qualifications (ELQ) student, but will be charged the Home fee rate.
International students trusts and foundations, The UK government has not yet businesses and individuals. made a decision on the fee for EU students commencing courses in Tuition fee and maintenance 2021. Please continue to check awards are offered to applicants on our website at gsmd.ac.uk/ the basis of talent, potential and EUFAQs where we will post the personal financial need. These latest information as we receive it. elements are assessed at audition If you would like to speak to and interview, and on the basis of someone at Guildhall, please a comprehensive application form email [email protected] available to applicants who accept a place at the School. For students requiring a visa to study in the UK, UK Visas and Additional funding support Immigration (UKVI) requires, as UK undergraduate students who part of the visa application qualify as care leavers, or process, that students estranged students (who have no demonstrate they have the means contact or support from their to pay for their tuition for their parents), and independent first year of study and the means students on low incomes, can to support themselves. For apply for a Guildhall Access further details visit gov.uk/ Bursary of between £3,000 and tier-4-general-visa £5,000 a year (with a maximum £2m of 15 bursaries awarded). Non-UK applicants may find the of support for students UK Council for International from our Scholarship Fund If you experience an unforeseen Student Affairs (UKCISA) website each year change of circumstances while of interest; visit ukcisa.org.uk enrolled at Guildhall, you may qualify for an award from the For a full list of tuition fees All students who accept a School’s Hardship Fund to help and further guidance place at Guildhall School can you overcome immediate on funding, visit apply for scholarship support financial difficulties. gsmd.ac.uk/funding
gsmd.ac.uk/funding | 99 100 |gsmd.ac.uk/youth_adult_learning further info wealth ofinspiring short Guildhall School offers a gsmd.ac.uk/shortcourses Short courses contemporary plays. scenes fromShakespeare and a play, aswell asinvestigation of acting processandhow to read background research to the directors onhow to apply Technique, andwork with Movement andAudition combines traininginVoice, for further actor training.It skills, andprovides abroad basis grounding inessentialacting full-time courseoffers a This intensive, 12-week gsmd.ac.uk/pac Preliminary ActingCourse passion aspartofavibrantlearningcommunity. accessible youthandadultcourseswillhelpyoupursueyour your firststepsoraimingtobuildaprofessionalcareer, our all agestoexplore musicand drama.Whetheryouaretaking Guildhall Schooloffersahostofopportunitiesforpeople Youth andAdultLearning from low-income households. funding to applicants eligible offering fullandpartial available for short courses, Participation Bursaries are Making, andStage Lighting. Arts, coursesinclude Prop Theatre History. InProduction Introduction to Actingto Drama, coursesrangefrom and BrassPercussion. In Music Theory, Vocal Training, range fromJazz andRock to skill levels. InMusic,these a variety ofages, disciplines and courses andsummer schools for only faculty for executive Mentoring programme isthe The Guildhall Coaching and gsmd.ac.uk/cpd Coaching andMentoring performing arts, getintouch. linked to anyaspectof a business orsocialenterprise arts sector. Ifyou want to develop and services inthe performing launch ofexcellentnew products over 40businesses, enabling the date, Guildhallhassupported into successfulenterprises. To turntheirentrepreneurs ideas programme helps fledgling Our uniquebusiness incubation artists andcreative practitioners. opportunities andsupportfor Guildhall provides arangeof gsmd.ac.uk/creative_entrepreneurs practitioners andstart-ups Supporting creative coaching offered by an Junior Guildhall international conservatoire. gsmd.ac.uk/juniors Through discussion, challenge Junior Guildhall is a specialist and support, experienced Saturday School offering trainers enable professionals to advanced training in music and meet their development goals drama to young people aged and achieve their full potential. four to eighteen, under the Clients range from performers, guidance of staff from London teachers and entrepreneurs to orchestras and freelance policymakers, businesses and professionals. Students travel charity sector organisations. from all over the country to attend, and combine their National Open Youth Guildhall training with general Orchestra education in their local schools. gsmd.ac.uk/noyo The National Open Youth Centre for Young Musicians Orchestra (NOYO) offers an cym.org.uk environment where talented Centre for Young Musicians young disabled and non-disabled (CYM) is a division of Guildhall musicians rehearse and perform School that provides high together, promoting a more quality progressive music diverse orchestra for the 21st training for thousands of century. If you are aged 11-25, talented children across the UK, have a passion for music, can with branches in London, demonstrate significant Norwich, Taunton, Saffron musical potential and have the Walden and Peterborough. CYM determination to persevere, teaching staff are experienced NOYO could be the orchestra and respected performers and for you. teachers working in many areas of the music profession.
gsmd.ac.uk/youth_adult_learning | 101 Patron Vice-Principal & Director The Rt Hon the Lord Mayor of Advancement of the City of London Jeremy Newton MA FCA DUniv
Chairman of the Board Vice-Principal & Director of of Governors Innovation and Engagement Vivienne Littlechild MBE JP Sean Gregory BA (Hons) FGS LGSM(PCS) MPhil Principal Lynne Williams AM Director of Guildhall Young Artists & Safeguarding Vice-Principal & Director Alison Mears of Music BMus (Hons) PGCE FGS FISM Jonathan Vaughan FGS DipRCM (Perf) DipRCM (Teach) Secretary & Dean of Students Katharine Lewis BA (Hons) MA Vice-Principal & Director of Drama Chief Operating & Professor Orla O’Loughlin Financial Officer BA (Hons) MA PGCE Sandeep Dwesar BA (Hons) FCA senior staff Vice-Principal & Director Director of Buildings of Production Arts & Operations Professor Andy Lavender Jonathon Poyner BA (Hons) PhD CStJ BSc (Hons) FCMI FIoD CBIFM
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