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Annual Report 2018/19

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Guildhall School delivers world-leading professional training in music, drama and production arts, working in dynamic partnership with leading artists, companies and ensembles. The School enjoys a unique historic role in the cultural life of the City of London, yet our perspective is global and forward- looking. Our state of the art performance and teaching spaces, eminent staff and progressive curriculum attract students from over 60 countries to pursue their ambitions as the next generation of world-class artists. We foster exploration, innovation and entrepreneurship among both staff and students, and seek to embed leading edge research into the impact of the arts and the role of artists in the 21st century. Our fundamental commitment is to the transformative power of the artist within society. Our mission is to empower artists to realise their full potential; to develop distinctive artistic citizens who enrich the lives of others and make a positive impact in the world. gsmd.ac.uk

Cover image: Beasts of London © Museum of London Welcome

Welcome to the Guildhall School of Music & Drama Annual Report for 2018/19. This year has seen significant, strategic advancement of our vision for craft, creativity and learning at the forefront of cultural change. And the value of the School’s collaborative approach in helping to deliver that vision has been very much in evidence. As part of the School’s renewed focus on work with children and young people, a pioneering partnership with Islington Council has laid the groundwork for every child in the London borough to have access to exceptional music education through Music Education Islington. Our creative alliance with the Barbican Centre has produced a record- breaking year for learning and participation through our joint Creative Learning programme. The scope of our ongoing work with the Barbican, City of London Corporation, London Symphony Orchestra and Museum of London to create Culture Mile as a major destination for culture and creativity has been hugely amplified by our visionary joint proposal for the Centre for Music: a world-class venue for music performance and education in the heart of the City. All of this work, and a great deal more, is underpinned by ambitious strategic objectives which provide direction and impetus for Guildhall’s role as a conservatoire for the 21st century. This report sets out the progress we have made towards our objectives this year. My thanks go to the staff, Board members and Trustees, as well as our many partners and supporters, for all their work in helping to deliver these objectives. We hope you enjoy reading about our positive impact, and we welcome your support for our continued success.

Lynne Williams am Principal

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Welcome | 1 A conservatoire for the 21st century

2 | Footer Contents

Our objectives 5

Distinctive training for world-class artists 6 Reputation and rankings 8 Programme development 9 Artistic citizenship 10 World-class artists 12

Strong bonds at the heart of the City 16 Partnerships 17

Helping young artists find their creative voice 20 Children and young people 21 Creative Learning 24

Leading positive cultural change 26 Research 27 Guildhall Live Events 28 Creative Entrepreneurs 30 Open Programmes 31 Coaching and mentoring 31

Fit for the 21st century 32 Staff and faculty 33 Facilities and strategic highlights 34 Development and Alumni Relations 35 A strong financial model 36 Financial profile 37 Higher education student profile 38 Under-18s student profile 40

Celebrating success 42 Alumni awards 43 Student awards 46 Roll call: Guildhall productions and events 48

Who’s who 54 Our supporters 55 Patron, Board of Governors and Senior Leadership 56

Contents | 3 4 | Footer Our objectives

Distinctive training for Helping young artists find Fit for the 21st century world-class artists their creative voice We will ensure an evolving and We will deliver distinctive degree We will refocus our outstanding and sustainable institution through the programmes which enable our artists to wide-reaching Guildhall Young Artists acquisition and retention of world- be world-class; virtuosi in their field; programme which helps young people leading staff, future-focussed learning adaptable, purposeful and responsible find their creative voice. and teaching spaces and resources and artists in society. fit-for-purpose services, underpinned by a strong financial model. Leading positive Strong bonds at the cultural change heart of the City We will lead positive cultural change We will strengthen our unique bonds which impacts on society, our industry with the Barbican Centre and the City and the wider world through professional of London, and establish a creative development, research and knowledge destination in the City’s Culture Mile. exchange and public engagement.

Three priorities cut across all of our objectives:

Digital International Diverse We will contribute to the future We will lead and partner We will build a teaching and of the arts and creative industries on activity which builds an learning environment which offers through new technology and digital internationally engaged and opportunities for everyone to engage learning and engagement. globally relevant community. with the arts, an environment that is enriched by a diverse creative community that reflects the society in which we live and work.

Our objectives | 5 Distinctive training for world- class artists

6 | Footer Guildhall Acting BA in Acting and MA in Acting programmes Music 2018/19 enrolment BMus Strings, Wind, Brass, Percussion, Keyboard, Vocal Studies, Composition, Electronic Music, Jazz, Early Instruments MMus/MPerf in Performance (Guildhall Artist Masters) Strings, Wind, Brass, Percussion, Shared courses Keyboard, Vocal Studies, Opera Studies, Repetiteur, Piano Accompaniment, with China Chamber Music, Jazz, Historical Performance Practice, Orchestral Artistry This year, we welcomed the second cohort of students to the BA Acting Artist Diploma Studies double degree programme Strings, Wind, Brass, Percussion, Keyboard, Vocal with Central Academy of Drama Studies, Opera Studies, Historical Performance in Beijing. In summer 2019, the MMus/MComp in Composition first cohort of students returned to (Guildhall Artist Masters) China to complete their final year. A cross-faculty staff delegation will MA in Opera Making and Writing visit Beijing in November 2019 to MA in Music Therapy mark the renewal and re-validation of this unique programme. Production Arts Meanwhile, our Production Arts Skills Exchange programme BA in Production Arts continued successfully in Shanghai, BA in Video Design for Live Performance with growing interest from other Chinese regions (see page 17). MA in Collaborative Theatre Production & Design Creative Learning BA in Performance & Creative Enterprise Research and Teaching PGCert in Performance Teaching MPhil/DMus MPhil/PhD

Distinctive training for world-class artists | 7 Guildhall School of Music & Drama Complete University Guide Reputation is a global leader of creative and professional practice in music, Music League Table 2020 and rankings drama and production arts. We The School’s national excellence in are delighted that this year, the music was reaffirmed by our placement School has consolidated its national as the UK’s top-ranking conservatoire in and international reputation, the Complete University Guide Music and is now ranked as one of the League Table 2020, based on a range of top ten performing arts institutions measures including graduate prospects, in the world, and as the UK’s research quality and student satisfaction. leading conservatoire. National Student Survey QS World University and Whole School Survey 7th Rankings 2019 We are especially pleased that our in the world for performing arts Guildhall School was placed seventh final year undergraduates gave the (QS World University Rankings 2019) in the world for performing arts in School overwhelming support in the the QS World University Rankings National Student Survey 2019, which 2019, based on academic reputation, measures student satisfaction across employer reputation and research eight domains. BA Acting students gave impact. We are proud to join the world’s the School a 100% overall satisfaction 1st top ten performing arts institutions rate for the second year running. BA among music conservatoires in in the global ranking table, including Performance & Creative Enterprise the UK (Complete University The Juilliard School in New York, the students gave 100% satisfaction ratings Guide Music League Table 2020) University of Music and Performing for teaching and academic support. In Arts Vienna and the Curtis Institute of Music, the largest undergraduate cohort Music in Philadelphia. at Guildhall, the School received an 83% satisfaction rating. Our own Whole 100% School Survey showed that over 92% of students were satisfied with the quality overall student satisfaction for of teaching on their programme. BA Acting and BA Performance & Creative Enterprise (National Student Survey 2019)

students (who have no contact or Application Fee Waiver support from their parents) and and Access Bursary independent students on low incomes Application fee waivers are designed can also apply for a Guildhall Access to support entry to our undergraduate Bursary of between £3,000 and £5,000 programmes for students from low a year to support their studies. income households. One hundred and twenty applicants were awarded a waiver in 2018/19, which has been the scheme’s most successful year to date. Ten students who were 120 given a waiver accepted offers to start their programme in September application fee waivers 2019, including students for BMus to undergraduate degrees for the first time. Applicants were invited to Guildhall events, shows and confidence-building workshops which, as one applicant described, can £28k provide a significant boost: “After applying to Guildhall a couple of to help with living costs for times it really made the difference undergraduate students who this year getting a taste of the School are care leavers or estranged through the outreach programmes.” from their families UK undergraduate students who qualify as care leavers, or estranged

8 | Distinctive training for world-class artists Programme Guildhall Session Orchestra conducted by Mike Roberts development

The School’s five-year strategic Guildhall Session Orchestra plan is now in full force, and has enabled us to make strong Electronic music students work progress in refining our teaching regularly with the professional programmes and organisational musicians of the Guildhall Session structure, with new leadership in Orchestra, an alumni-based ensemble our Drama Department (see page created to perform music produced by 33), and a business unit, Guildhall the Electronic Music Department. The Live Events, for our Production Arts orchestra gave its inaugural concert of Department (see page 28). We also hybrid electro-orchestral music in July strengthened our partnership with 2019, featuring highlights from recent Central Academy of Drama in Beijing projects including the full soundtrack to deliver our BA Acting Studies to the Beasts of London exhibition at the double degree programme (see Museum of London (see page 29). page 7). Exciting ideas for the future include a focus on cross-disciplinary, “The emergence of the collaborative approaches to new professional Guildhall Session programme development. Orchestra out of our increasing activity in film music, game Electronic Music Masters audio and popular music Electronic music is one of the largest production is especially growing disciplines in the music industry, and this year, Guildhall exciting, and further sets us School announced a new postgraduate apart as offering a unique Electronic Music degree from environment in which to launch September 2020. The one- to two- successful careers in music.” year programme will use a practical and project-based approach, giving Mike Roberts, Head of Electronic Music students a fast-paced and diverse & Music Technology preparation for professional life and offering specialisms in industry growth areas such as film music, game audio, songwriting and production.

Distinctive training for world-class artists | 9 At Guildhall School we believe in Homelessness Artistic citizenship the power of performing arts to transform people’s lives and enrich The Messengers the world around us. We instil students with a strong sense of their Bringing together Guildhall musicians agency and responsibility as artists, and people seeking support from and provide a wealth of opportunities St Mungo’s homeless charity, The to engage with social issues, to Messengers band has had a profound present work in non-traditional impact on students since its inception settings, and to amplify the voices in 2013. Under the leadership of Sigrún of marginalised communities. We Sævarsdóttir-Griffiths, Guildhall teacher call this ‘artistic citizenship’. Here, and alumna of the Creative Entrepreneurs we uncover some of the recent work business incubator (see page 30), the band that students, staff and alumni have enables people from widely different undertaken as artistic citizens. backgrounds to find shared purpose in making great music together. Health and mental health “It opened my eyes to a totally Fundraising different side to performing on In February 2019, violinist Samuel the cello. I got a sense of creating Staples (BMus Violin) led a fundraising something deeply personal and concert for Moorfields Eye Charity, tangible which I only rarely raising £3,500 towards clinical equipment to view detailed images get from my ‘trad’ practice. I of children’s eyes. Krysia Osostowicz, totally didn’t expect to get such Professor of Violin, organised concerts an amazing experience when I in Cornwall in August 2019, raising over £4,000 for Cornwall Red Cross and began at Guildhall.” Invictus Trust, which helps teenagers Lucy French (MPerf Cello) on her deal with mental health issues. first experience of playing with The Messengers Mental health – Song in the City Academy of St Martin in the Fields Alumnus Gavin Roberts (Piano Accompaniment 2012), now a Professor Guildhall musicians have assisted with in Guildhall’s Vocal Studies Department, the Academy’s music group for homeless founded Song in the City to use the people for the last five years, becoming power of song to change people’s lives. an integral and trusted part of the group Guildhall students have worked with and sometimes leading workshops. Gavin to devise and perform Creative In April 2019, six Guildhall students Madness in Song, a song series based on joined Academy musicians, the Gavin the poems of mental health service users. Bryars Ensemble, Southbank Sinfonia and Streetwise Opera to perform an Mental health – Sane and Sound all-night concert of Bryars’ iconic work, A chamber opera based on real accounts Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet. Based of psychotic illness and mood disorders on the vocal refrain of an unknown created by composer and librettist homeless man, and performed at Tate Matthew Geer (BMus Composition), Modern, the twelve-hour concert drew Sane and Sound premiered at the an audience of over a thousand people. School in spring 2019. Further performances with Guildhall School Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet singers were given as part of summer events for Culture Mile (see page 18), and at Grimeborne, Arcola Theatre’s alternative opera festival.

10 | Distinctive training for world-class artists Voices in the Dark Prisoners Decoda in primary schools In an exciting collaboration with Sounding Out the Creative Learning team (see page In April 2019, a group of BA 24), Guildhall student musicians Performance & Creative Enterprise worked with chamber music collective students worked with artist leaders to Decoda to design their own half-hour create and perform five new pieces of interactive performances. In March music with service users at Sounding 2019, these were performed to 2,000 Out, a project which helps people get children in primary schools across their lives back on track after release Newham in East London, to introduce from prison. chamber music to children who might not otherwise hear it, and inspire their Migrants and refugees interest in playing an instrument.

Voices in the Dark The Nucleo Project This devised theatre piece, inspired by During 2018/19, Evangelos Saklaras Shakespeare’s explorations of home, (BMus Double Bass) volunteered as a refuge and displacement, played at music teacher at the Nucleo Project the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at in North Kensington, which uses the Shakespeare’s Globe as part of Refugee pursuit of musical excellence to enrich Week in June 2019. Compass Collective, the lives of children, young people whose Co-Artistic Director Mhairi and families. The project is part of the Gayer (BA Acting) won the Guildhall Sistema England charity founded by Gold Medal for Acting in 2018, worked Julian Lloyd Webber, and is open to with young people from the British Red every child, free of charge. Cross Young Refugee Service to devise and perform the show. Communities

Community music with migrants Musethica Ruth Dingle (BMus Horn), chose Alicja Kozak (MPerf Cello) and Fanny to focus on Community music with Fheodoroff (MPerf Violin) took part migrants: an exploration into the impact in the Berlin Musethica International of musical style and the role of staff Festival in 2018, joining professional diversity for her research elective study artists and young musicians from across in 2019. the world to play chamber music in venues such as hospitals, schools and Children and young people prisons. Fanny also joined a Musethica project in Zaragosa, performing solo and Wind-Up Penguin Theatre Company chamber music in community venues. Many Guildhall students and alumni “This was the most intense, have worked with Wind-Up Penguin, which brings professional-standard beautiful and rewarding original musical theatre to disabled and experience for me. To bring disadvantaged children across the world. people such joy with our music Founded by Guildhall alumni Elisabeth - literally making their day Swedlund (Vocal Studies 2016) and Ioana Macovei-Vlasceanu (Vocal Studies - is deeply fulfilling, and has 2016), Wind-Up Penguin has performed strengthened my will to always in a dozen countries including Romania, keep going.” Mexico, Lebanon and India, and is now developing a programme for the UK. Fanny Fheodoroff, describing her experience of playing with Musethica

Distinctive training for world-class artists | 11 Training at Guildhall challenges Olivier Awards 2019 World-class artists students to work to world-class standards and equips them to The list of Olivier Awards and succeed at the highest levels of their nominations demonstrates how integral profession. Here, we highlight just Guildhall graduates are to the London some of the success achieved by theatre world. Guildhall alumni and students in Monica Dolan 2018/19. Further listings of the year’s • (Acting 1992) won prizes, awards and performances can the Best Actress in a Supporting Role be found on page 43. award for her performance in All About Eve at the Noël Coward Theatre, Drama which also starred Guildhall alumna Lily James (Acting 2010).

“I’d never really considered • Natasha Gordon (Acting 1999) saw drama school and I’d never her debut play Nine Night nominated even heard of Guildhall until for Best New Comedy. I went to see a tiny fringe • Marcello Cruz (Acting 2016) starred production of The Tempest. in Wider Earth, and was nominated in the Best Entertainment and Family The guy who played Ariel was category. climbing all over the lighting • Neil Austin (Technical Theatre 1992) rig – it was a really physical was nominated in the Best Lighting performance. I thought, wow, Design category for his work on that’s the kind of performance Company. Below: Paapa Essiedu as Hamlet in the Royal Eileen Atkins’ Shakespeare Company’s 2016 production. I’d like to be able to do. I asked • (Acting 1953) Paapa was the first black actor to play Hamlet him where he’d been to drama performance in The Height of the at the RSC. He went on to win a BAFTA school. He said: ‘Guildhall’.” Storm saw her nominated in the Best Breakthrough Brit award in 2018 for his roles Actress category. in the TV series Press, The Miniaturist, Kiri and Paapa Essiedu Black Earth Rising. • Simon Russell Beale (Acting 1983) and Ben Miles (Acting 1988) were nominated in the Best Actor category alongside The Lehman Trilogy co-star Adam Godley.

• Tom Curran (Composition 2014) was nominated alongside Toby Marlow, Lucy Moss, and Joe Beighton in the Outstanding Achievement in Music category for the original score, orchestration and vocal arrangements for Six.

• Roderick Williams (Opera Studies 1995) and David Butt Philip were nominated in the Outstanding Achievement in Opera category for their performances in War Requiem at English National Opera.

12 | Distinctive training for world-class artists Guildhall drama Production Arts awards productions: critical acclaim 2018/19

October 2018: Mercury Fur Production Arts students and alumni by Philip Ridley have garnered major awards and assignments during the year.

• Ben Cook (Technical Theatre 2018) won the Stage Management Association Student of the Year Award and was appointed Deputy Stage Manager at English National Opera.

The Vanstone • Neil Austin (Technical Theatre 1992) Scholarship was awarded the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Play for Ink on In autumn 2018, we were Broadway. delighted to announce the Vanstone Scholarship, to support a Black and • Charlie Smith (Technical Theatre Minority Ethnic (BME) student on 2013) was the Associate Sound the BA Production Arts programme “These talented students boast Designer for Six, which was from 2020/21. Guildhall alumnus more potential than you could shortlisted for Best New Musical at the Hugh Vanstone, one of the UK’s shake a post-apocalyptic Olivier Awards. foremost lighting designers, is hallucinogenic butterfly at.” **** • Luke Swaffield (Technical Theatre passionate about the aim of the 2008) was a finalist at the OffWestEnd scholarship: by giving to Guildhall, The Upcoming Theatre Awards (the Offies) in the he wants to address the lack of Sound Design category for Forgotten at July 2019: Merrily We Roll Along diversity in the creative and cultural the Arcola Theatre. sectors, particularly in production by Stephen Sondheim arts. The School is immensely grateful • Rory Beaton (Technical Theatre 2016) to Hugh and to all of our supporters. was shortlisted for the Knight of Illumination Award for Opera for Così “The arts are for everybody. fan tutte with Opera Holland Park. We need to break down the invisible barriers which disadvantage those from ethnic minorities.” Hugh Vanstone For more information on Guildhall’s supporters, see page 35. “As ‘Our Time’ says ‘here’s what’s happening/we’re what’s happening/we’re the movers, we’re the shapers/we’re the names in tomorrow’s papers’. Sondheim might just as well have been writing about Guildhall School of Music & Drama’s abundant talents about to be launched on to the waiting world.” **** Musical Theatre Review

Distinctive training for world-class artists | 13 Music and opera

Above: in April 2019, alumna Tasmin Little (Violin 1986; Guildhall Fellow 1998) was named BBC Music Magazine’s Personality Above: Claire Barnett-Jones (Artist Diploma of the Year. She announced her retirement Vocal Studies) sings at the ‘s-Hertogenbosch in early 2019, and the award recognises her International Vocal Competition in September contribution to classical music over the course 2018, for which she won the Wagner Prize of her career. Tasmin won the Guildhall Gold for a young singer of dramatic potential and Medal for Music in 1986, and returned to the the Junior Jury Prize. In April 2019, Claire School in 2014 to present the Gold Medal to was selected to compete in the Operalia cellist Michael Petrov, who will release his debut competition, founded by Plácido Domingo to CD in 2020. help launch the careers of the most promising young opera singers worldwide, and in September 2019 she was chosen as one of Music and opera English National Opera’s new Harewood Artists. awards highlights 2018/19 In November 2019, Claire won second prize at the Grange Festival International Singing • The Mithras Trio won the Cavatina Competition, including an offer of a role at the Intercollegiate Chamber Music festival, as well as the Waynflete Singers Prize for a concert, and the Villa Medici Prize to perform Competition, first prize in the Gianni a recital in Milan. Bergamo Classic Music Award and the Strings and Piano Ensemble Section Prize in the Royal Over-Seas League Annual Music Competition. The trio consists of Ionel Manciu (Artist Diploma Violin), Leo Popplewell (MMus Cello) and Dominic Degavino (MMus Piano).

• Stephen Barlow (Music 1976) was nominated for a UK Theatre Award in the Achievement in Opera category for the Buxton International Festival.

• Dinis Sousa (Piano 2014) has been Above: Australian pianist Kathy Chow appointed as the first ever Assistant (Artist Diploma Piano) won first prize in the Birmingham International Piano Competition in Conductor to Monteverdi Choir and 2018 and the Phillip Crawshaw Memorial Prize Orchestras. for an Outstanding Musician from Overseas at the 2019 Royal Over-Seas League Annual Music • Natalya Romaniw (Opera Studies Competition. She has been invited back to 2011) made her ENO debut as Mimì Birmingham Town Hall to play a solo recital in the fourth revival of Jonathan in April 2020. Miller’s production of La bohème.

“I treasure the connection I • The Barbican Quartet, comprising feel when I listen to, or play Amarins Wierdsma (Violin 2017), Tim Crawford (Violin 2017), music; it has become my way of Christoph Slenczka (Viola 2016) and communicating with people.” Yoanna Prodanova (Cello 2018), Kathy Chow won the International Joseph Joachim Chamber Music Competition. See page 43 for further listings of Guildhall prizes and productions during the year.

14 | Distinctive training for world-class artists Britten, A Midsummer Night’s Dream “No indulgences needed to be made for the students of the Guildhall School ... They slotted seamlessly within the ranks of the LSO to conjure a luminous halo of string sound.” ***** The Arts Desk

In the spotlight: Guildhall repetiteurs This was an excellent year for Guildhall repetiteurs, both current students and alumni. We are extremely proud that every young artist repetiteur position in the UK is occupied by a recent Guildhall graduate.

• The Royal Opera House Jette Parker Young Artist programme will see alumni Edmund Whitehead (Repetiteur 2015) and Patrick Milne Guildhall music and opera (Piano Accompaniment 2017) continue as the Opera Conductors and productions: critical acclaim Repetiteurs on the programme.

November 2018 • The National Opera Studio Young Mozart, Così fan tutte Artists for 2019/20 include Mairi Harris Grewar (Repetiteur 2018). “You can never say too often how worthwhile (and • Michael Papadopoulos (Repetiteur 2017) joins Scottish Opera as an affordable) these polished Emerging Artist repetiteur, while conservatoire productions are, Nathan Harris (Repetiteur 2018) will with singers poised for big join English National Opera as the new trainee repetiteur and Michael careers and talents to spot … Pandya (Artist Diploma Piano Book early. They sell out.” Accompaniment) follows in Nathan’s The Observer footsteps, taking over as repetiteur at the Bavarian State Opera Young Artist programme. March 2019 Britten, A Midsummer Night’s Dream See page 43 for further listings of Guildhall prizes and productions “… far and away the finest of during the year. many productions of this opera this reviewer has seen.” ***** Tim Hochstrasser, Plays to See

June 2019 LSO and Guildhall School Side-by-Side Described by its conductor Sir Simon Rattle as “a massive concert with a massive orchestra”, Guildhall School’s side-by- side with London Symphony Orchestra this year combined Bruckner’s masterful Symphony No 4 with Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis and Percy Grainger’s Lincolnshire Posy.

Distinctive training for world-class artists | 15 Strong bonds at the heart of the City

16 | Distinctive training for world-class artists Partnership and collaboration Partnerships are central to Guildhall School’s Collaboration in China approach to learning and to our organisational development. We In 2018/19 Guildhall conducted enjoy robust core partnerships the third year of the globally with five key organisations, and collaborative Performing Arts Skills collaborative links with many Exchange (PASE) programme in more. Our partnerships have Shanghai. Continuing our work in been significantly strengthened in partnership with the Royal Opera 2018/19, not least through joint House, Central Academy of Drama, working to develop Culture Mile, Beijing and the Shanghai Grand a major destination for culture, Theatre Arts Group, PASE has been creativity and learning in the a successful, influential programme City of London, and through our to share and develop skills in collaborative alliance with partners production arts in China. Leading working in China. the project from an education perspective, Guildhall has worked Centre for Music collaboratively with performing arts organisations including the In January 2019, the Barbican, London National Theatre, Shakespeare’s Symphony Orchestra and Guildhall Globe, Sadler’s Wells, the China School released concept designs for a National Centre for Performing Arts visionary project to create the Centre and the National Theatre of China. for Music, a world-class venue for We are grateful to Arts Council performance and education to inspire England, the British Council, the a new generation with a love of music. Chinese Ministry of Culture and the The designs, developed by architects China National Arts Fund for their Diller Scofidio + Renfro, demonstrate investment in this exciting cross- the potential to deliver this landmark cultural programme. new building on the current site of the Museum of London.

The Centre for Music would include a Centre for Music Concert Hall 2,000 seat concert hall built for the digital age and superb spaces for performance, rehearsal and music education. It would also be home to the planned Institute for Social Impact, run by Guildhall and dedicated to exploring and promoting the powerful ways in which music can contribute to positive social change. A detailed business case for the Centre for Music, supported by funding of £2.49 million from the City of London Corporation, was delivered in December “The proposed Centre for Music 2018. In June 2019, the Arts and would be a landmark building Humanities Research Council awarded a major grant for an international in the City’s emerging Culture consortium, led by Guildhall Research Mile, and could arguably Professor John Sloboda, to investigate become regarded as the envy of the social impact of making music and the international arts, music help lay the research foundations for the Institute (see page 27). Next steps for the and educational community.” Centre for Music include development Catherine McGuinness, Policy Chair, of detailed plans for design, fundraising, City of London Corporation business modelling and capital funding. centreformusic.culturemile.london

Left: concept design for the Centre for Music Entry Plaza, courtesy of architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro. The building would be the new home of the London Symphony Orchestra and the base for the Guildhall School of Music & Drama’s planned Institute for Social Impact.

Strong bonds at the heart of the City | 17 Culture Mile Musicity x Culture Mile: this exciting digital commission enabled artists This year the School’s involvement to create geo-targeted tracks which 17 visitors could download as they explored in Culture Mile has flourished, with new artistic commissions innovative sessions to support local specific locations in the City. Guildhall’s to Guildhall students for creative enterprise, and events EMS Collective, an ensemble of Culture Mile events enabling students to perform in musicians and composers connected to exciting local spaces. the School’s Electronic Music Studios, created music in response to Smithfield culturemile.london Rotunda Garden, once a grim place of public execution but now a pretty, 127 Sane and Sound peaceful circular park. students and alumni Culture Mile EXCHANGE: in July took part in Culture Mile and August 2019, Guildhall’s Creative performances Entrepreneurs business incubator (see page 30) partnered with the City Business Library and Culture Mile to curate a series of free sessions to introduce the support available to local cultural, creative and digital businesses, and to 8,700 broaden the range of potential partners for future projects. people saw Culture Mile Play the Mile: this major summer performances involving Barbican Guildhall students season events programme featured many student-led performances. St Alphage’s Our creative alliance with the church was the venue for glockenspiel Barbican is a unique arts and learning compositions and for Sane and Sound, collaboration between a leading a new opera based on lived experience international arts centre and a world- of mental illness (see page 10). A sound class conservatoire, spanning creative bath soothed visitors at St Bartholomew and artistic output as well as operational the Less. These Wondering Stones, an efficiencies and joint ways of working. operatic adventure in promenade from alumna Anna Poole (Composition 2015) On the artistic side, an exciting year of brought alive the history of Smithfield joint programming in Milton Court through the stories of Londoners who included a side-by-side with Guildhall have lived and worked there. musicians and the Australian Chamber Orchestra, led by their dynamic Artistic Director Richard Tognetti. In the Barbican Cinemas, Guildhall musicians performed live jazz to accompany seminal works of silent film. The School’s Creative Entrepreneurs scheme collaborated with the Barbican’s Young Enterprise Lab for this year’s Big Pitch event (see page 30). Creative Learning, the joint learning and participation department for the Community Days School and the Barbican, had a hugely successful year, reaching over 22,000 Community Days: two festive days to participants (see page 24). celebrate the irrepressible community Behind the scenes, the merger of the spirit within Culture Mile were held Barbican and Guildhall’s IT departments during the year. Based in LSO St Luke’s, led to an injection of investment in Guildhall students created an interactive the School’s technology infrastructure, poetry workshop for young people making a major contribution to the and presented a wide range of musical progress of our digital strategy performance including a jazz band, solo (see page 34). harp, solo guitar and a soprano trio.

18 | Strong bonds at the heart of the City London Symphony Royal Opera House Orchestra Performed by singers and repetiteurs Guildhall School musicians continued from the first year of the Opera Course, to benefit from the School’s rich Opera Makers is an annual production and longstanding relationship with featuring new music written by the London Symphony Orchestra. composers and librettists on the MA in Collaborations involving Guildhall Opera Making & Writing programme, musicians included eleven LSO delivered in association with the Royal Platforms concerts on the Barbican Opera House. This year, three new opera stage, performing complementary works were developed and performed repertoire before LSO concerts; a with an orchestral ensemble (see page 49). selection of LSO Discovery concerts, including a relaxed performance for Further partners people with additional needs, and École des Écoles: the School has joining musicians from the LSO and been engaged in a two-year Erasmus LSO On Track at the annual free Strategic Partnership project with Trafalgar Square concert conducted by several other drama schools in the École Sir Simon Rattle. des Écoles network, exploring Artistic In June, Sir Simon gathered a huge Entrepreneurship in Theatre Higher orchestra of LSO and Guildhall Education. The results will be shared in musicians to perform works by Vaughan 2019/20. Williams, Grainger and Bruckner. The Wigmore Hall: this year’s Guildhall concert was highly acclaimed, including Wigmore Recital Prize, judged by a a five-star review from The Arts Desk selection of Guildhall and Wigmore (see page 15). Hall staff, was won by mezzo soprano Ema Nikolovska (MMus Opera Studies), BBC Symphony Orchestra who delivered her winner’s recital at The School’s involvement in the BBC the iconic venue in May 2019. Other Symphony Orchestra’s Total Immersion Guildhall performances at Wigmore days continued this year, with students Hall included Voiceworks, where singers presenting concerts focused on the and instrumentalists presented the vocal works of Ligeti and Lili and Nadia music of Judith Weir alongside new Boulanger, as well as a chamber music works for voice written by Guildhall concert for In Remembrance World War I. composers, and the Nicholas Daniel Oboe Day, where Guildhall wind players Opera Makers joined Nicholas Daniel and other professors on the stage. Academy of Ancient Music: musicians from the Historical Performance Department performed side-by-side with regular collaborators the Academy of Ancient Music in a programme at the Deal Music and Arts Festival in July. Museum of London: for the first time in the School’s history, staff and students from across the School partnered with the Museum of London to deliver the immersive experience, Beasts of London (see page 29).

Strong bonds at the heart of the City | 19 Helping young artists find their creative voice

20 | Helping young artists find their creative voice Guildhall School is the UK’s Guildhall Young Artists Children and leading provider of specialist arts training at the under-18 level, Islington young people with nearly 1,400 students in As part of Music Education Islington Junior Guildhall and the Centre (see below), Guildhall Young Artists for Young Musicians. In 2018/19 Islington is an ambitious project in we concluded a comprehensive specific primary schools to improve review of our under-18 offer and standards in music-making and remove developed exciting new plans for barriers that prevent disadvantaged closer collaboration with partners to pupils from taking part. Led by a team of deliver arts education, exemplified in Guildhall teachers and artists, the project the successful alliance with Islington offers 30 affordable after school sessions Council to deliver a new model of a year in group instrumental tuition, music education across the borough. choir and ensemble, culminating in a performance for families and the wider community at the end of each term. Within a year of its inception in £140k September 2018, Guildhall Young Artists towards under-18 tuition fees Islington grew from 44 pupils at eight for young people from low income primary schools to over 100 at twelve or under-represented groups schools. The reach of the project also extended to involve teaching assistants, parents and carers in choir singing, as well as Young Music Ambassadors from secondary schools to support younger 10 pupils and act as role models. In January students progressed from 2019, seven recent Guildhall graduates Junior Guildhall to the BMus joined the project’s staff. programme at Guildhall School In June 2019, the end of year concert involved every child in Guildhall Young Artists Islington playing together as an orchestra for the first 418 time. Project staff went on to lead the first ever Islington Music Camp for students accessed regional 7- to 15-year-olds at the end of July. Centres for Young Musicians

Hubs programme funded by the Music Education Islington Department for Education through In September 2018, we were proud to Arts Council England. launch the first ever UK partnership between a local authority and an “This is such an exciting internationally renowned conservatoire opportunity to develop a new to provide music education. Music model for music education Education Islington, delivered in a creative alliance between Islington and aligns with the School’s Council and Guildhall, will give every vision to help young people child in the London borough aged 5 find their creative voice. This to 18 regular opportunities to sing, pioneering cultural alliance learn a musical instrument and play in ensembles. It will also offer training for creates transformative music teachers and freelancers in local opportunities and will help schools, an instrument loan service, and to equip the talent of the next access to music and cross-arts experiences generation.” at Guildhall and the Barbican. Sean Gregory, Director of Learning This pioneering project is part & Engagement for Guildhall School of the national Music Education and the Barbican

Helping young artists find their creative voice | 21 Leverhulme Arts Scholarships In January 2019, we were delighted to announce the grant of up to £490,000 for Leverhulme Arts Scholarships over the next three years. This includes scholarship support for students at Junior Guildhall and Centre for Young Musicians and for undergraduate and postgraduate music and production arts students. This valued funding will make a profound positive impact on ensuring that the most talented students can take up their places, regardless of background. “We are determined that no student should face financial barriers to studying at Guildhall, and Above: in June 2019, 12-year-old Junior Guildhall violinist Leia Zhu made history by Junior Guildhall we can only achieve that becoming the youngest violinist to perform with the generous support a concerto with the world-famous Mariinsky Junior Guildhall is a specialist Saturday Orchestra in St Petersburg. Following this School offering advanced training to of our donors, including the exceptional achievement, Leia will make her UK young people aged 4 to 18. Students Leverhulme Trust whose professional debut with the English Chamber receive professional music and drama Orchestra in February 2020. tuition and often go on to study music commitment to performing at undergraduate level. In 2018/19, ten arts training is so evident. Junior Guildhall students progressed We are truly grateful for to Guildhall’s classical or jazz BMus their support.” courses, and twelve were selected for the 2018/19 National Youth Lynne Williams am, Principal Orchestra of Great Britain. Six students (including Leia Zhu, see above) were For more information on among finalists and prize winners in Guildhall’s supporters, see international competitions. page 35.

Above: in March 2019, the Junior Guildhall Above: Big Gig 2019 was part of the Barbican’s Symphony Orchestra joined members of the Sound Unbound weekend in May 2019, Junior Guildhall Drama Department to perform drawing together 120 players of all instruments extracts from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake in Milton and across all ages and playing levels, Court Concert Hall. The performance received including the Junior Guildhall Wind Orchestra. high praise for the emotion and imagination The project was conceived and led by Junior shown by musicians and cast. Guildhall staff Spencer Down and Rob Farrer together with Lincoln Abbots, Executive Director: Strategic Development for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM).

22 | Helping young artists find their creative voice CYM London London Schools Symphony Orchestra In 2018/19, 136 pupils from greater London played in the London Schools Symphony Orchestra, which is managed by CYM London (see left). Of these, 68 members received some form of bursary support, which is vital to ensuring that entrance to the orchestra is based on merit alone. In September, the orchestra’s 2018/19 season culminated in a performance at the Barbican staged in collaboration with Birmingham Royal Ballet and narrated by Simon Callow. Dancers from Elmhurst Ballet School performed as the orchestra played Dvoˇrák’s Scherzo Capriccioso, Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem and Eleanor Alberga’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, conducted by Peter Ash.

Centre for Young Musicians Centre for Young Musicians (CYM) provides high quality progressive music training for over 800 talented children and young people at centres in London, Norwich, Peterborough, Saffron Walden and Taunton. Students follow individual programmes of study across a range of genres from jazz to gamelan, and many create their own music and songs. This year, CYM London grade exam results were significantly above the Engaging young people national average, and London students in North East England took part in workshops and recitals with a wide range of visiting artists, including As part of our evolving Access and a collaboration with international Participation Plan (see page 34), in musicians through the European Concert April 2019 a ten-piece Guildhall Halls Organisation (ECHO). undergraduate brass ensemble visited Sage Gateshead music centre, In the regions, where some students having worked with School staff travel more than 50 miles to attend to identify access objectives and CYM, we reached students from 233 evaluation measures for their trip. schools in 2018/19, nearly 30% of The visit included performances whom came from areas where young and Q&A and workshop sessions for people are less likely to access higher the Young Musicians programme education. Eight CYM regional students at Sage Gateshead. Eligible were accepted for undergraduate participants in the programme can music courses at a UK university or be considered for all Access and conservatoire. We are especially proud Participation support available from that CYM Taunton won the Creative Guildhall, to build on our emerging Industries Award sponsored by Arts relationship with Sage Gateshead. Taunton at the Taunton Deane Business Awards 2019.

Helping young artists find their creative voice | 23 Creative Learning is a pioneering Schools Creative Learning creative alliance between Guildhall School and the Barbican, designed National Creative Learning Award: to transform 21st century learning in March 2019, we were extremely by giving people of all ages and proud that Creative Learning won the backgrounds access to world-class SEND (Special Educational Needs and arts. 2018/19 has been a year of real Disabilities) Achievement Award at achievement for Creative Learning, the National Creative Learning Awards with record audiences, a National for our work with The Garden School Creative Learning Award and in Hackney, a school for learners with successful bids to Esmée Fairbairn autism aged 4 to16. Foundation, National Heritage Lottery Fund and the Edge Foundation to 22,784 develop our work with schools, communities and young people. direct participants in Creative Learning programmes Families Squish Space: October 2018 saw the launch of Squish Space, a sensory interactive play space in the Barbican designed to spark creative play for children under five and their families. Devised by artists and playworkers, The Garden School Squish Space received 10,000 visitors in its first 100 days, and exemplifies our “Disabled young people approach to active learning, enabling and children are often only children and families to follow their creativity and curiosity. engaged in music for therapy and passive learning, but this programme to tailor-make learning to the individual’s potential and learning style is much needed for future change and levelling equality of opportunity for all.” Canon Ruth Gould MBE, judge for the National Creative Learning Awards Squish Space Barbican Box: almost a thousand students Communities across London and Greater Manchester participated in Creative Learning’s Converging Dialogue: in February 2019, flagship schools programme, Barbican around 150 people attended Converging Box, this year. Artist partners included Dialogue at Chats Palace in Hackney to award-winning theatre company, Slung explore what it means to be human in Low; grime artist Swifta Beater; artist a technological age. Students and staff collective One Of My Kind (OOMK), and from Guildhall’s recent MMus Leadership poet and author Michael Rosen. programme conceived and delivered the event, which included a showcase for devised poetry and music, in collaboration with local community groups.

Converging Dialogue

24 | Helping young artists find their creative voice Showcase weekends for the Young NOYO Visual Arts Group and the Young Curators reached over a thousand people in the spring and summer of 2019. Design Yourself, a collective of young digital artists, worked with new media artist Antonio Roberts throughout the year to create work responding to the Barbican’s annual cross-arts season, Life Rewired. The Chronic Youth festival, curated entirely by the Young Programmers, included UK premieres, Q&As and an open submission film shorts programme. Emerging and practising artists BA in Performance & Creative Enterprise (PACE): we were delighted to celebrate the graduation of four students from the first cohort of BA PACE in November 2018. One of the graduates, Joshua Judson, achieved Young creatives first class honours and was awarded the inaugural Barbican Prize, which National Open Youth Orchestra has been established in recognition of London: in November 2018, we were our growing collaboration with the delighted to launch the first ensemble Barbican Centre. session for six musicians at the National Open Youth Orchestra (NOYO) London Enterprising Adventures: artist Iris Training Centre. The Training Centre Musel and ex-Guildhall musician is one of just three in the UK to support turned neuroscientist Felix Jozsa worked disabled young musicians to develop with BA PACE students and tutors their potential. noyo.org.uk on Enterprising Adventures, a project exploring collaborative approaches in Future Band: the Future Band creative arts and neuroscience which formed part and collaborative music ensemble of the Barbican’s Life Rewired season for 8- to 14-year-olds ran twice over and culminating in a showcase at Barts the academic year, culminating in a Pathology Museum in March 2019. showcase of new music devised by participants and led by Guildhall School Weekend Labs: Creative Learning ran tutors with guest artist, sound and six intensive Weekend Labs in 2018/19 instrument designer Lia Mice. with a range of artists including Katie Mitchell, the Royal Shakespeare (Im)Possibilities: youth ensemble Company, Ursula Martinez and Cheek by (Im)Possibilities, a collaborative project Jowl, reaching over 100 practising artists. run by the Barbican, Guildhall and Serious, rehearsed regularly throughout Other Creative Learning events and autumn 2018, concluding with a projects during the year included London Jazz Festival performance at work with Decoda in primary schools the Southbank Centre. (see page 11). Talent development programmes: in 2018/19, Creative Learning reached over a hundred participants in our talent development programmes. Our Young Poets ensemble celebrated its tenth birthday by hosting a cross-arts exhibition, Constructing Voices, in the Barbican Library, and were hugely proud when former member Theresa Lola was named Young People’s Laureate for London in April 2019.

Helping young artists find their creative voice | 25 Leading positive cultural change

26 | Helping young artists find their creative voice Research at Guildhall covers the provide insights to improve training, Research spectrum of disciplines and practices commissioning and best practice. This within music and drama, and the research will be a flagship project of connections between them. Our Guildhall’s new Institute for Social doctorate and PhD students and our Impact, expected to launch in 2020. Research staff share a commitment to exploring the role of the arts Finding a Voice practitioner in society, with an The final event in Finding a Voice, a increasing focus on the personal 33-month project funded by the Arts and social impact of the arts. and Humanities Research Council, Social impact of took place in June 2019. Finding a Voice explored the journeys that adult music-making non-singers take in learning to sing, In June 2019, Guildhall announced and the ways in which they can be funding of £984,000 from the Arts and supported. The project’s Principal Humanities Research Council - our Investigators were Guildhall Research largest research grant to date - to lead an Fellow Dr Karen Wise and Dr Andrea international consortium in a three-year Halpern, Professor of Psychology at investigation into the social impact of Bucknell University, Pennsylvania. In 60 making music. Music for social impact: June, around 60 international delegates met for the concluding conference for PhD students practitioners’ contexts, work and beliefs, led by Guildhall Research Professor Finding a Voice, which ended with a John Sloboda, will examine the growing performance by seven participants who number of Socially Impactful Music learnt to sing during the project. Two Making (SIMM) activities around the years after their involvement in the world, and how making music with project ended, most of the original 20 7 people affected by poverty, conflict or non-singing participants in the study disruption, or who are homeless or in take part in choral societies including new research partnerships the LSO Community Choir, or sing for (six of them international) prison, can help to support social goals such as inclusion, empowerment and their own pleasure. community-building. “Four of us standing here, Through in-depth interviews and case five of us, all go to the studies across the UK, Belgium, Finland and Colombia, the project seeks to London Symphony Orchestra £35k identity the characteristics of SIMM Community Choir and a from Guildhall Innovation Fund for practitioners, explore the impact of their number of us are also in other research projects initiated by staff work and factors which affect it, and choirs in addition to that, so it’s

Finding a Voice fundamentally changed the way we all live our lives now and we’re all very, very grateful.” Finding a Voice study participant

Leading positive cultural change | 27 Guildhall Live Events is a growing Waddesdon Christmas Guildhall Live business unit within the School which creates immersive and interactive Carnival Events digital experiences – from the intimate From November 2018 to January to the spectacular – for events ranging 2019, Guildhall artists and video from outdoor festivals to product designers were involved in the launches, exhibitions and touring second of their collaborations with theatre. Using state of the art expertise Waddesdon Christmas Carnival at and technologies for video projections Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire. and virtual reality, Guildhall Live Installations included projections on Events adds new dimensions to the façade of the Manor’s 19th century audience experience, and the team is stables, a custom-built sculptural light currently exploring how technology can tunnel and an ambitious audio trail be used to document artistic output in featuring 13 character silhouettes innovative ways. inspired by the Manor’s collection. LightPool Festival: A Day of Kites and Lights: Light Odyssey Windrush Day 2019 In October 2018, BA Video Design A Day of Kites and Lights in June 2019 for Live Performance students were marked the close of Windrush Day, to involved in Light Odyssey, “an epic commemorate the first generation of journey of light, space and sound”. people from the Caribbean who helped The students created 3D animations rebuild Britain after World War II. In to transform the opulent interior partnership with Haringey Archive of Blackpool’s Empress Ballroom, Service, a team from Guildhall Live and assisted QED Productions with Events projected images onto the historic technical delivery of the show. building of Bruce Castle in Tottenham as part of community celebrations. “Stunning in design and colour the panoply of images swept The Beasts of across the immense space, Bartholomew Fair sometimes matching the tempi Part of Culture Mile’s Smithfield Street and dynamic of the music Party in August 2019, The Beasts of and often just the mood.” Bartholomew Fair was a virtual reality installation created by Guildhall Live Seen and Heard International Events which invited audiences to an animal tea party, set to a Guildhall School score, to tell a fictional Waddesdon Christmas Carnival tale celebrating the animal past of Smithfield market.

28 | Leading positive cultural change Teams platform: quickfire collaboration As part of Guildhall’s digital strategy (see page 34) we have introduced the Microsoft Teams platform, which enables rapid online dialogue, collaboration and file-sharing. In 2018/19, Teams was used in over half of Guildhall productions, and has made a huge contribution to efficiency, enabling student and staff teams in fast- moving projects to share instant dialogue and information as the event or production moves ahead.

Beasts of London

Beasts of London “A snarling lion; a sinuous fox; a squawking pigeon; a Inspired by artefacts in the Museum of London’s collection and created by skittering rat. These are just Guildhall Live Events in collaboration some of the beasts who come with over 100 Guildhall students and vividly to life in this crazily graduates, Beasts of London tells the enjoyable new exhibition.” **** story of how animals have helped to shape the capital through the centuries. The Telegraph This ambitious multimedia installation crosses numerous disciplines including “A whole succession of creatures intricate set and lighting design, video projection mapping, voice-over provide an engaging way in to narration, composition of an orchestral London’s history.” **** underscore recorded by Guildhall Session Evening Standard Orchestra (see page 9), stage management and production management. “… there are plenty of Running at the Museum of London interactive elements for younger from April 2019 to February 2020, Beasts of London transports audiences kids to enjoy. Older ones will to nine different moments in London’s get the kind of history lesson history, as witnessed by animals ranging they love: at times emotional, from lions at the Roman amphitheatre at times gruesome, and always to pigeons in Trafalgar Square today. Animal characters were voiced by riveting.” **** Guildhall acting students alongside Culture Whisper celebrities including Brian Blessed as the bacterium responsible for the Great The Beasts of Bartholomew Fair Plague of London, Stephen Mangan as and Beasts of London were both Henry VIII’s horse, and Kate Moss as produced as part of Culture Mile Foxy, one of the remaining wild beasts activity. For further Culture Mile in modern London. Over 56,000 tickets events, see page 18. to the exhibition were sold between April and mid-November 2019. museumoflondon.org.uk

Leading positive cultural change | 29 Guildhall Creative Entrepreneurs Celestina Rowaiye, Creative is a ten-month incubator which Young Enterprise Lab helps emerging entrepreneurs in entrepreneur, at Entrepreneurs the performing arts to launch and Big Pitch 2019 advance their own businesses. The scheme provides bespoke mentoring and coaching in business planning, marketing, sales and fundraising, and access to public pitching opportunities. Delivered in partnership with award-wining social enterprise Cause4, Guildhall Creative Entrepreneurs is the only incubator in the UK dedicated specifically to the Big Pitch 2019 39 performing arts. The Big Pitch is the culmination of the performing arts businesses Creative Entrepreneurs scheme, giving supported by Creative Creative Entrepreneurs: the cohort a platform to pitch to a panel Entrepreneurs since it 2018/19 cohort of judges for two awards providing a total of £6,000 in vital seed-funding for launched in 2013 In 2018, Guildhall welcomed the latest their businesses. The second annual Big cohort of Creative Entrepreneurs: Pitch in June 2019 was again compered MetamorPhonics create unique, by celebrated entrepreneur Dr Maggie inclusive environments for music- Semple OBE, who was joined by a judging making with students in higher panel of industry experts: founding education and people with lived corporate partner Eversheds Sutherland; experience of homelessness. the City Business Library; Creative Entrepreneurs alumnus Mark Llewelyn Walthamstow Garden Party is a Evans, and the Guild of Entrepreneurs, free two-day festival in Lloyd Park, who will provide a full bursary place for Walthamstow, which attracted 35,000 the Creative Entrepreneurs programme visitors in July 2019. from 2019/20. The judges awarded mushRoom is an online marketplace first prize to MetamorPhonics, with which enables people to rent out their mushRoom taking second prize. Pitchers spare music spaces to musicians and take from the Barbican Guildhall Young part in music and arts events. Enterprise Lab (see below) also pitched for their own £2,000 award. SON makes theatre that focusses on cross-discipline collaboration, using Creative Careers/Young research and improvisation to pursue new performance territories. Enterprise Lab Creative Entrepreneurs alumni “It was a wonderful learning contributed to Barbican Guildhall curve that has helped me further Creative Learning’s Creative Careers understand myself, the work I programme, delivering a series of make and how to get it made.” sessions in spring 2019 to help young people explore and develop their Creative Entrepreneurs participant enterprise skills. The Creative Learning team worked with consultant and mentor Joseph Gray to pilot a new Young Enterprise Lab pathway alongside these events, guiding a group of young creatives to hone and develop ideas for business enterprises and to explore pathways to formal training. Three enterprises from the Young Enterprise Lab have joined the 2019/20 cohort of Creative Entrepreneurs, including the 2018 Young Entrepreneurs’ Prize winner Naomi Grant, whose award-winning production company LAMBB seeks to redefine images of black and brown people in the media.

30 | Leading positive cultural change Open Programmes open up the world Open Programmes of the conservatoire to people outside of formal learning. Through short courses, training for professional development and summer schools, we enable wide participation in world- class arts education – and also raise significant income for the School. New courses: in 2018/19 we introduced three new evening courses, and offered Essential Music Theory as a short course at Easter for the first time. We also added two new summer courses, Assisted Places Scheme including Music Production for Girls, a 750 In spring and summer 2019, 44 sell-out course which generated interest participants from 50 countries in in studying electronic music on the bursaries were awarded through Open Programmes courses, aged School’s BMus programme. our Assisted Places Scheme, from 3- to 65-years-old enabling young people from low Adult courses: Introduction to income households to join our short Music Therapy sold out this year, and courses and summer schools. We are generated strong interest in the School’s pleased that this year, the majority MA in Music Therapy. The success of of recipients have maintained £323k Musicianship for Children and their contact with Guildhall and will raised from fees for Open Parents demonstrated growing demand continue to receive Access and Programme courses for family-focused learning; other Participation support, including growth audiences include adult leisure free tickets for concerts and free learners, professionals and adult singers. applications to undergraduate Short courses and summer schools: programmes. A further £140,000 summer schools generated £207,000 in in tuition fee support was awarded 44 income during the year, and along with to promising young musicians bursaries for short course short courses, provided employment for participating in Junior Guildhall participants under the Assisted 20 Guildhall students, 75 staff and 62 and Centre for Young Musicians Places Scheme visiting lecturers and artists. locations across the UK.

The programme grew dramatically Coaching and in 2018/19, with a 350% increase in income, and delivery of training to mentoring School staff valued at £35,000. One hundred per cent of course delegates said they would recommend our courses, and we were invited to present at a range of international conferences. The programme also achieved a major milestone by gaining accreditation for its professional level training in coaching skills from the European Mentoring & The Guildhall Coaching and Coaching Council, with feedback that Mentoring programme is the only our application was “outstanding”. 350% faculty for executive coaching and increase in income from mentoring offered by an international “I was blown away. It was really coaching and mentoring conservatoire. The programme incredible how the work you provides coaching, training and did was so relevant to executive leadership development to clients ranging from performers to teachers, coaching and how terrific it was entrepreneurs and policymakers, and to bring something so creative 100% this year we added private and charity into the room.” of delegates on coaching and sector clients through a partnership Tracey Smith, Team Management mentoring courses would with the City of London Corporation. Specialist, TMS Development International recommend them to others

Leading positive cultural change | 31 Fit for the 21st century

32 | Leading positive cultural change The professional experience of Charlie Morgan, Associate Head Staff and faculty teaching staff at Guildhall combines of Vocal Studies (Movement): a expert insight into craft training, an graduate of the specialist programme acute awareness of how to develop for movement teachers at Guildhall, young artists, and a collaborative and a movement director specialising in ensemble ethic. Deep understanding period dance, Charlie has taught at the of performing arts practice is matched School for a number of years. In autumn by dedication to excellence in higher 2018, she joined the Vocal Studies education: over 80 members of staff Department to lead on movement are Fellows of the Higher Education training and to develop students’ health, Academy (HEA), demonstrating fitness and wellbeing. personal and institutional commitment John Ramster, Associate Head of to professionalism in higher education. Vocal Studies (Drama): with a wealth Staff appointments of experience at Glyndebourne Festival and the Royal Academy of Music, John has directed and taught drama for Peter Moore opera singers at Guildhall over many years. From autumn 2018, he joined the School as Associate Head of Vocal Studies (Drama), where he will lead on drama across the Vocal Studies Department.

Brodie Ross

Peter Moore, Professor of Trombone: a leading international trombone soloist, Peter was appointed Professor of Trombone at Guildhall from autumn 2019. The youngest ever winner of the BBC Young Musician competition at the age of twelve and co-principal Brodie Ross, Head of Acting: a trombone of the London Symphony distinguished actor whose career Orchestra at the age of 18, Peter has includes performing in the West End given recitals at major international and at Shakespeare’s Globe, the RSC, venues and appeared as a soloist with the Almeida Theatre, Manchester Royal leading orchestras around the world. Global influence Exchange and Sheffield Theatres, “I’m excited to get started in my Brodie was appointed Head of Acting In keeping with the School’s global in June 2019. He will work under the reputation in arts higher education, new role at Guildhall School. leadership of Vice Principal & Director Guildhall staff continued to There is a huge wealth of talent of Drama, Orla O’Loughlin. His share their talents abroad during and a great spirit within the industry knowledge will develop new the year. From opera training Brass Department.” connections between Guildhall’s Acting in Israel to keyboard teaching programme and the creative industries. in Tokyo, acting in Sao Paolo Peter Moore, Professor of Trombone to production management in Shanghai, Guildhall’s academic Simon Purcell, International Chair staff have delivered training and in Improvisation: one of Britain’s masterclasses, attended conferences most accomplished contemporary and built and maintained jazz pianists, Simon returned to relationships with leading global Guildhall as International Chair in institutions. The School has also Improvisation from autumn 2018, continued its commitment to having served as Professor of Jazz reaching out to international Improvisation and Piano from 1988 students by offering in-country to 2005. Simon came to prominence auditions in New York, Tokyo, during the jazz boom of the 1980s, Hong Kong and Seoul. and has made a significant contribution to jazz education in the UK.

Fit for the 21st century | 33 Guildhall School enjoys some of Facilities the best facilities for training in performance arts and production and strategic anywhere in the world, supported by a business strategy which helps us to highlights stay at the forefront of our field. This year, we have made real progress in enhancing our IT provision and our approach to sustainability. Our ongoing plans include identifying new spaces and facilities to ensure we can Giacomo Occhipinti diversify, innovate and remain at the leading edge of our field. Technology for creativity During 2018/19, our digital Access and strategy was hugely enhanced by Participation Plan the merger of the Barbican and Guildhall School’s IT departments, Access and Participation Plans aim enabling us to make plans for the to improve equality of opportunity long-term and deliver immediate for underrepresented groups in efficiencies and investment, higher education. In 2019, the including a new intranet to act as Office for Students changed its the portal to all School systems. requirements so that registered A restructure of the IT team was providers must submit five- also completed. year (instead of one-year) plans. Guildhall conducted extensive Our new Head of Business preparation for its five-year Systems and Data, Marius plan, consulting students, staff Jugariu, laid the groundwork for and the Board of Governors and an asset management system; undertaking a critical self-analysis two Information Security and of activity and performance to Infrastructure Managers and two date. The School’s new five-year Network Analysts were appointed; plan was approved by the Office a new Learning Technologist, for Students, and our work towards Giacomo Occhipinti, will optimise it has raised the profile of access students’ use of technology and £650k and participation across the School progress the School’s plans for virtual learning. In terms of invested in IT in 2018/19 and helped to refine and target this vital part of our ethos and strategy. hardware, new acoustic, recording, presentation and teaching displays, and laptops for agile working, have been installed. A technology Sustainability accessibility audit was completed, 30,000 Having developed action plans and and scoping to redesign our website is underway. Successful deployment views of the new Guildhall Stream policies on issues including carbon of new software included Microsoft performance archive reduction, sustainable food and green transport, in July 2019 we were Teams for rapid collaboration (see delighted that the School has jumped 60 page 29); Auralia, for students to places to become the highest-ranking practice and hone aural perception; conservatoire in the People & Planet the Moodle learning platform for 489.7k University League, which ranks UK online course management, and visitors to our website: gsmd.ac.uk universities by environmental and Guildhall Stream, which is home to ethical performance. The work of the a burgeoning online collection of student-led Environment Society, which student performance (see page 50). promotes environmental action among staff and students, also contributed to our ranking as ‘Good’ in the NUS 38% Green Impact Awards, the accreditation of total website traffic from outside scheme for green good practice among the UK Students’ Unions.

34 | Fit for the 21st century The School’s Advancement department scholarships for undergraduate and Development and became fully operational during the postgraduate study (50% of the student year, bringing a united focus to our population) and providing scholarships Alumni Relations Development & Alumni Relations and for Junior Guildhall and Centre for Marketing & Communications teams, Young Musicians. In 2018, the Alumni and new impetus to the vital work of Relations and Research & Enterprise building relationships and sustaining departments worked closely together our income. The increasing demands to enhance careers provision, giving on our Scholarships Fund, and our Guildhall graduates the skills and Thanks to our donors: ambitious development plans, mean resources they need to excel. that the need for support has never been greater – and that its impact Enhancing world-class on the next generation of artists will training be profound. 564 In 2018/19, donations from supporters Our supporters are listed on page 55. students were awarded enabled the School to deliver distinctive scholarships training by funding an expansion of Guildhall School supporters our Vocal Masterclass provision as well The School is immensely grateful for as 384 additional hours of chamber the generosity of individuals, liveries, music coaching, and also enabled companies and trusts whose multi- Guildhall composers and musicians to 250 year pledges and donations totalled write and record for Illuminated River, a major public art commission that will people in the community over £2.47 million during 2018/19. eventually see the illumination of up to received music therapy Our community of alumni and Fellows continue to enhance the life 15 bridges along the Thames. of the School, committing their time, attending events, providing mentoring, Advancing artistic leading masterclasses and lending expert citizenship 21 support to students and staff. Our supporters have funded a range expert vocal masterclasses Scholarships and of projects for social engagement led were delivered by students and staff during the year, careers support including Music, Memory and Me to The School has seen a 29% increase share songs and music with older in demand on its Scholarships Fund patients at the Royal Free and University over the last three years. Student College London Hospitals, and Music 384 hrs Therapy placements in boroughs support is more vital than ever, with of additional chamber music fundraising contributing to 564 including Tower Hamlets and Islington. coaching was provided

“It brings sunlight to the afternoon. I feel happy and alive.” Response from an older patient to Music, Memory and Me

Left: Guildhall musicians bring music and song to older hospital patients and those with dementia as part of Music, Memory and Me, a partnership project between University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Guildhall’s Creative Learning team (see page 24). Music, Memory and Me was named Best Collaborative Arts Project (Performance) at the 2017 Building Better Healthcare Awards.

Fit for the 21st century | 35 generating activities now make up the A strong majority of its funding. In addition, the Guildhall School Trust provides grants to financial model the Scholarship Fund and other projects supported by philanthropy. The School recorded a deficit of £851,000 for the year ended 31 July 2019, due to planned increases in staff costs and investment in teaching and support staff. The deficit was anticipated as part of the School’s five-year strategic plan, which includes ambitions for the School to be more entrepreneurial, impactful and self-sustaining. A planned surplus of £1.3m in the previous year enabled the School to build up its reserves in order to finance future growth and development plans. The plan for the next academic year is to continue to invest in staffing and infrastructure that will allow the School to reach out to new audiences and broaden the scope of its academic Guildhall School’s unique historic offer. This will inevitably see calls on relationship with the City of the School’s reserves in 2019/20 and London Corporation has provided 2020/21 before the School moves back strong foundations for the School’s into a surplus position in 2021/22. development since the late 19th century – and our relationship continues to evolve today. Vivienne Littlechild mbe jp The School operates within the Chairman of the Board of Governors governance arrangements of the City of London Corporation, of which it is a Department. The School’s Board of Governors includes experts from the arts and education sectors, elected members of Guildhall staff and the Students’ Union president. The Board is advised by committees for governance and effectiveness; finance and resources; audit and risk management, and remuneration and nominations, as well as a reference sub-committee and an academic assurance working group. The City of London recognises the need for the Board of Governors to enjoy operational autonomy. The City of London Corporation was the School’s sole funder until 2006, when Guildhall School was designated as a publicly-funded Higher Education Institution and began to receive funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (as it then was). Guildhall is now a registered Higher Education Provider with the Office for Students. The School still receives substantial support from the City, but has diversified its income streams so that tuition fees, grants and income-

36 | Fit for the 21st century Financial profile Income £000 HE tuition fees 9,250 Guildhall School Trust Scholarships 1,770 Grants 8,658 City of London contribution 6,289 Income generation and other activities 4,355 Guildhall Young Artists tuition fees 2,922 Total 2018/19 33,244 Total 2017/18 32,987

Expenditure £000 HE teaching and teaching departments 12,967 Academic services 2,967 Student support services 2,361 Central administration services 4,001 Income-generating activities 2,556 Guildhall Young Artists activity and outreach 3,413 Premises and residential 5,830 Total 2018/19 34,095 Total 2017/18 31,657

Surplus/(deficit) 2018/19 (851) Surplus/(deficit) 2017/18 1,330

Income (£000) Expenditure (£000) Total: £33,244 Total: £34,095 1,770 2,922 9,250 8,658 6,289 4,355 12,967 2,967 2,361 4,001 2,556 3,413 5,830 Grants services activities tuition fees contribution Scholarships other activities HE tuition fees City of London City of London HE teaching and Academic services Income-generating activity and outreach teaching departments Guildhall School Trust Guildhall School Trust Central administration Guildhall Young Artists Guildhall Young Guildhall Young Artists Guildhall Young Income generation and Student support services Premises and residential Premises

Fit for the 21st century | 37 Higher education Qualifications student profile Qualifications awarded for 2018/19 cycle (as at 3 October 2019) Bachelors degrees (including Ordinary degrees) 168 Masters degrees 169 Artist Diplomas 11 Total 2018/19 348 Total 2017/18 336

Undergraduate student cohort

Programme Total (FTE) BA in Acting 66 BA in Acting Studies 12 BA in Technical Theatre Arts 108 64 BA in Video Design for Live Performance 11 countries represented in the student body BMus 424 BA in Performance & Creative Enterprise 28 Total 2018/19 649 33.5% Total 2017/18 645 of student population from outside the UK 2018 new enrolment 15.3% Sex Disability Ethnicity of our incoming student cohort from outside the EU 3,865 applications for full-time

programmes from 82 countries 47% Female 0.5% Other 52.5v% Male 83.5% Undeclared 16.5% Declared 82.5% White 17% BME 0.5% Information Student intake refused The top non-UK countries of origin for incoming students (with greatest first) are: Spain, Germany, Poland, USA, Portugal, Italy, China, France, Ireland, Hong Kong, and Canada.

38 | Fit for the 21st century Postgraduate student cohort

Programme Total (FTE) MA in Acting 12 MA in Training Actors 2 MA in Collaborative Theatre Production & Design 8 Artist Diploma 26 Guildhall Artist Masters 228 MA in Music Therapy 18.5 MA in Opera Making & Writing 5 DMus/PhD 35.5 PGCert in Performance Teaching 22 Total 2018/19 357 Total 2017/18 356.5

2018 new enrolment

Sex Disability Ethnicity

57% Female 0.5% Other 42.5% Male 91% Undeclared 9% Declared 79% White 17.5% BME 3.5% Information refused

Other

Programme Total (FTE) Advanced Certificate 15 Fellows † 47 Total 2018/19 62 Total 2017/18 58.5

† Fellows are students only in respect of their extra-mural tuition. Fellows are shown as headcount.

Fit for the 21st century | 39 Under-18s Junior Guildhall student profile Student Cohort 2018/19 Music course 313 String Training programme 184 Brass Training programme 14 Drama course 42 Total 2018/19 553

Sex Schooling Disability Ethnicity 3% Information refused 42.5% Male 57.5% Female 3.5% Home educated 39.5% Independent 7.5% Other 16.5% Not known 33% State 9% Declared 4% Information refused 87% None 35.5% BME 61.5% White

Centre for Young Musicians

Student Cohort 2018/19 London Centre 417 Norfolk Centre 122 Peterborough Centre 100 Taunton Centre 72 Saffron Walden Centre 124 Total 2018/19 835

40 | Fit for the 21st century Sex London Norfolk Taunton Saffron Walden Peterborough 49% Male 46% Male 49% Male 51% Male 51% Female 54% Female 51% Female 49% Female 58% Female 42% Male

Schooling London Norfolk Taunton Saffron Walden Peterborough 3.5% Home educated 3.5% 7% Unknown 15.5% Independent 74% State 10% Home educated 4% Independent 86% State 8% Home educated 17% Independent 75% State 4% Home educated 6% Independent 90% State 1% Home educated 1% 7% Unknown 17% Independent 75% State

Ethnicity London Norfolk Taunton Saffron Walden Peterborough 39% BME 9.5% Unknown 51.5% White 7% BME 34% Unknown 59% White 10% BME 7% Unknown 83% White 21% BME 79% White 27% BME 73% White

Fit for the 21st century | 41 Celebrating success

42 | Celebrating success The prizes, awards and roles Harriet Burns Alumni awards garnered by Guildhall School alumni demonstrate that our approach to training can lay the foundations for astonishing careers. Here, we highlight major prizes and roles awarded to alumni in 2018/19. Music Ricardo Panela (Vocal Studies 2012) won Best Artist at the Armel Opera Festival in Budapest. Harriet Burns (Vocal Studies 2018) Pablo González (Music 1999) was won second prize at the Wigmore Hall/ appointed the new Director of the RTVE Independent Opera International Song Symphony Orchestra in Madrid and Competition. artistic adviser of the Orchestra and Choir. Daryl Jamieson (Composition 2003) Jennifer Witton (Vocal Studies 2018) became the recipient of the third annual won the inaugural By Voice Alone Toshi Ichiyanagi Contemporary Prize. competition at Kings Place. Emma Martin (Violin 1996) and Deian The Barbican String Quartet, Rowlands (Harp 2002) are part of comprising alumni Amarins Wierdsma chamber group The Dionysus Ensemble (Violin 2017), Tim Crawford (Violin who have been appointed as the first 2017), Christoph Slenczka (Viola 2016) ever Ensemble in Residence for The and Yoanna Prodanova (Cello 2018), Commonwealth Resounds, one of won the International Joseph Joachim only two accredited Commonwealth Chamber Music Competition. music organisations. At this summer’s Garsington Opera Dinis Sousa (Piano 2014) has been Young Artist Awards, Bianca Andrew appointed as the first ever Assistant (Opera Studies 2017) was the joint Conductor to Monteverdi Choir and winner of the Leonard Ingrams Award. Orchestras. Lauren Fagan (Opera Studies 2014) Oliver Pashley (Clarinet 2014) was and Luis Gomes (Opera Studies 2012) appointed Sub-Principal Clarinet of were finalists in the BBC Cardiff Singer Britten Sinfonia. of the World Competition. Lauren represented her country Australia, Natalya Romaniw (Opera Studies while Luis represented Portugal. 2011) made her ENO debut as Mimì in the fourth revival of Jonathan Miller’s Ting-Ru Lai (Viola 2017) was appointed production of La bohème. as London Philharmonic Orchestra’s new No. 4 Violist. Luke Russell (Flute 2012) has been appointed Principal Piccolo in the BBC Stephen Barlow (Music 1976) was Scottish Symphony Orchestra. nominated for a UK Theatre Award in the Achievement in Opera category Scott MacIsaac (Piano 2018) won the for the Buxton International Festival’s Sonata Prize in the Shigeru Kawai world premiere of Georgiana. International Piano Competition (Tokyo). Kris Garfitt (Trombone 2015) won this year’s Royal Over-Seas League Annual Music Competition Gold Medal. John Findon (Opera Studies 2017) was named as one of English National Opera’s new Harewood Artists, joining alumni David Ireland (Opera Studies 2017) and Elgan Llˆyr Thomas (Opera Studies 2016) on the scheme. Elitsa Bogdanova (Viola 2012) was selected to join the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme.

Celebrating success | 43 British Composer Awards Drama Emily Peasgood (Vocal Studies 2003), Natasha Gordon (Acting 1999) won won in the Sonic Art category for her the Charles Wintour Award for Most interactive sound installation Halfway Promising Playwright at the Evening to Heaven. Standard Theatre Awards for her debut Awards to repetiteurs can be found play Nine Night. Rona Morison (Acting on page 15. 2011) was nominated for the Emerging Talent Award for her performance as Guildhall at the BBC Proms Sandy in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at the Donmar Warehouse. Many Guildhall artists appeared at this year’s Proms, one of the world’s leading Simon Russell Beale (Acting 1983) music festivals: received a Knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for his services to • Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian drama. Jacqui Dankworth (Acting (Junior Guildhall 2004), 1984) was also recognised, receiving an composer-performer. MBE for her services to music. • Benjamin Hulett Ashley Zhangazha (Acting 2010) won (Opera Studies 2003), tenor. a UK Theatre Award for his portrayal of • Ben Gernon (Tuba 2012), conductor. Skye in the Royal Exchange production of Guys and Dolls. • David Shipley (Opera Studies 2015), bass. Jodie Whittaker (Acting 2005) received the Freedom of the City of • Mica Levi London, alongside alumna Kate Royal (Composition 2008), composer. (Opera 2003). • Natalya Romaniw Fraser James (Acting 1991) was (Opera Studies 2011), soprano. nominated for Best Breakthrough • David Ireland Performance at the National Film Awards (Opera Studies 2016), bass-baritone. UK for his performance in the feature film Yardie, Idris Elba’s directorial debut. • Roderick Williams (Opera Studies 1995), baritone. Isabel Ellison (Acting 2010) has produced a New York production of A • Sir Simon Rattle Streetcar Named Desire which features a (Artist-in-Association), conductor. genderqueer actor in the iconic role of • Jules Buckley Blanche DuBois for the first time. (Composition 2004), conductor. Joshua Miles (Acting 2011) has written • Thomas Atkins his first play, Be Reet, which he directed (Opera Studies 2016), tenor. at Higher Walton Community Centre in April. • Marta Fontanals-Simmons (Vocal Studies 2016), mezzo-soprano. Simon Money (Acting 2012) joined the permanent staff at the National • Alison Rose (Opera Studies 2016), Theatre as a voice coach and has worked soprano. on productions including Top Girls and • Ryan Wigglesworth Rutherford and Son. (Opera Studies 2002), conductor. Production Arts • Ashley Riches (Vocal Studies 2012), bass-baritone. Awards to Production Arts students and alumni can be found on page 13. • Richard Balcombe (Piano Accompaniment 1978), conductor. Many more alumni, staff and students also appeared across the Proms this year in orchestras and as members of technical crew, supporting soloists and featured performers.

44 | Celebrating success Right: Honorands at Graduation Day 2018. (Top row, left to right) Tansy Davies, Richard Bissill, Hayley Atwell. (Bottom row, left to right) Chairman Vivienne Littlechild, Principal Lynne Williams, Nelly Ben-Or.

Guildhall Fellows and Honorary Fellows 2018/19

Fellowship is Guildhall School’s New Honorary Fellows highest accolade. Each year, the Board • Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante, of Governors elects a small number Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director, of Fellows to recognise outstanding Boy Blue Entertainment. achievement or service by past and present members of staff, members • Vikki Heywood CBE, Chairman, RSA of the Board and former students. (Royal Society for the encouragement Honorary Fellowships recognise of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce). outstanding professional achievement • Louise Jeffreys, Artistic Director, or service to Guildhall by practitioners Barbican. who do not have a formal connection with the School. • Liz Lerman, choreographer, writer, teacher and speaker. New Fellows • Helen Marriage MBE, Co-Founder • Hayley Atwell (Acting 2005). and Director, Artichoke.

• Nelly Ben-Or, Professor of Piano • Kenrick ‘H2O’ Sandy MBE, Co- and Alexander Technique. founder and Co-Artistic Director, • Richard Bissill, Professor of Horn. Boy Blue Entertainment.

• Stephen Dagg, Interim Head of Guildhall Young Artists Regional Centres.

• Tansy Davies (Composition 1998).

• Nick Peel, Lecturer in Lighting Design and Technology.

• Robert Pell, Junior Guildhall Professor of Piano from 1984 to 2017. New Honorary Fellows – Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante and Kenrick ‘H2O’ Sandy MBE

Celebrating success | 45 Guildhall School students consistently Vocal and Opera Student awards achieve recognition of their exceptional talent in a wide range of national and Seán Boylan (Advanced Certificate international awards and prizes, and Opera Studies) won the Helen Clarke in the roles they win on graduation. Award at the Garsington Opera Awards. Gethin Lewis (MPerf Vocal Studies) will join Glyndebourne Touring Opera. Madison Nonoa (MPerf Opera Studies) won the McCormick Opera Competition (New Zealand). Claire Barnett-Jones (Artist Diploma Vocal Studies) won the Dutch Wagner Prize and Junior Jury Prize in the ‘s-Hertogenbosch International Vocal Competition. Claire was also named as one of English National Opera’s new Above: the Guildhall Music Gold Medal Jury Harewood Artists. 2019, with Gold Medal winner Samantha Rachel Roper Clarke (centre) and Sir Bryn Terfel CBE (centre (BMus Vocal Studies) left). Sir Bryn (Opera 1989) returned to judge won the Joyce Budd Second Prize in the the competition, 30 years after winning the Kathleen Ferrier Society Bursary for Gold Medal himself. Young Singers. Camille Lemonnier (Advanced Certificate Piano Accompaniment) won the Dennis Horner Accompanist’s Prize in the Kathleen Ferrier Society Bursary for Young Singers. The National Opera Studio Young Artists for 2019/20 include singers Alexandra Lowe (Artist Diploma Opera Studies), Frederick Jones (Artist Diploma Opera Studies), Benson Wilson (Advanced Certificate Opera Studies) and pianist Mairi Harris Above: Mirren Mack receiving the Acting Gold Medal from the Lord Mayor’s Representative at Grewar (Repetiteur 2018). Graduation Day. Andres Presno (Grad Cert Vocal Studies) was selected for the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Guildhall Prizes Opera House. Music Gold Medal: soprano Samantha Alexandra Lowe (Artist Diploma Clarke Opera Studies) won the Opera Prize and Acting Gold Medal: Mirren Mack Audience Vote at the Clonter Opera Prize. Production Arts Gold Medal: Tom Jonah Halton (BMus Vocal Studies) Mackey and Camille Lemonnier (Advanced Certificate Piano Accompaniment) won Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize: first prize at the Franz-Schubert-Institut mezzo soprano Ema Nikolovska Lieder Prize. Junior Guildhall Lutine Prize: cellist Benson Wilson (Advanced Certificate Alex Ciulin Opera Studies) won first prize at the Kathleen Ferrier Awards. Christian Valle (Advanced Certificate Opera Studies) joined the Bavarian State Opera Young Artist programme. Samuel Carl (MMus Opera Studies) joined the Dutch National Opera Studio.

46 | Celebrating success Brian McAlea (MPerf Vocal Studies) was The Jubilee String Quartet, which awarded a Young Musicians’ Platform includes Lorena Cantó Woltèche Award by the Arts Council of Northern (BMus Viola) and Toby White (Artist Ireland and BBC Northern Ireland. Diploma Cello), won first prize in the Gianni Bergamo Classic Music Ema Nikolovska (MMus Opera Studies) Award (Lugano) and was appointed won the Singers second prize in the Associate String Quartet at the Royal International Helmut Deutsch Lied Birmingham Conservatoire. Competition (Vienna) and the Ferrier Loveday Song Prize at the Kathleen Piotr Hetman (MMus Double Bass) Ema Nikolovska at the Ferrier Awards. was invited to participate in the Gustav Kathleen Ferrier Awards Mahler Academy masterclasses with Joël Terrin (Advanced Certificate Vocal members of the Mahler Chamber Studies) and Matthew Gemmill (Artist Orchestra. Diploma Piano Accompaniment) won second prize in the Somerset Song Prize. The Mithras Trio won the Cavatina intercollegiate Chamber Music Aida Gimeno Garcia (MPerf Vocal Competition, first prize in the Gianni Studies) was accepted at the Centre de Bergamo Classic Music Award and the Perfeccionament Plácido Domingo Strings and Piano Ensemble Section 98.2% and for further study at Opera Studio Prize in the Royal Over-Seas League in Valencia. of students in work, due to Annual Music Competition. start work or in further study Jacobo Ochoa (BMus Vocal Studies) Marmen Quartet Fellows won the Grand six months after graduation* and Alexandra Lowe (Artist Diploma Prize Bordeaux Quartet Competition. Opera Studies) were awarded Drake Calleja Trust scholarships. Strings Mark Christian Bautista (BMus Vocal Joanna Twaddle (BMus Cello) was 100% Studies) won the Male/Female Singers awarded a £5,000 scholarship in the employment rate for our first prize in the Dean and Chadlington Muriel Taylor Scholarship Competition Production Arts graduates* Summer Music Festival Singing for Cellists. Competition 2019. Composition Keyboard Annie Chown (Junior Guildhall Kathy Chow (Artist Diploma Piano) Composition) was Highly Commended 87% won first prize in the Birmingham in this summer’s BBC Proms Inspire of around 10,000 active alumni International Piano Competition, and Competition Lower Junior Category, for work in the performing arts* Karnsiri Prim Laothamatas (Artist her piece Conflict and Resolution. Diploma Piano) won second prize. Acting Manon Fischer-Dieskau (MPerf Repetiteur) won the Pianists second Yuanqing Zou (BA Acting Studies) was 24 prize in the International Helmut named Best Newcomer at the China Deutsch Lied Competition. Film Performing Art Institute Awards players in the London for her role in the film I’m Your Mother. Symphony Orchestra trained Kerry Waller (MMus Piano) won second at Guildhall (7 principals) prize in the Shean Piano Competition Final year actors who went on to (Canada). prestigious roles include: Michael Pandya (Artist Diploma Piano Emma Canning in Night of the Iguana Accompaniment) won the Gerald at Noël Coward Theatre. Moore Award and Pianist’s Prize in 21 Poppy Gilbert in Call the Midwife the Wigmore Hall/Independent Opera (BBC). players in the Philharmonia International Song Competition. (8 principals) Mirren Mack in The Nest (Studio Joon Yoon (Artist Diploma Piano) Lambert for the BBC) and Sex Education won first prize (Gold Trophy) in (Netflix). the International Piano Campus Competition in France. Kristina Tonteri-Young in Warrior Nun 17 (Netflix). Chamber music players in the BBC Symphony Production Arts Orchestra (3 principals) Apollo’s Cabinet ensemble won the Brian Nisbet Early Music Prize. Awards to Production Arts students * Destination of Leavers from Higher and alumni can be found on page 13. Education (DLHE) Survey 2016/17

Celebrating success | 47 Roll call: Guildhall Towers productions and events

Guildhall School is always buzzing February 2019: Detroit by Lisa with the excitement of first nights, D’Amour last nights – and every performance in between. Here, we list student A portrait of the shattering of a performances and events mounted suburban dream. during the year. February 2019: Towers devised by the Drama Company with Ameera Conrad Conflicting views on the development October 2018: The Last Days of Judas of a South London estate come to a head. Iscariot by Stephen Adly Guirgis A court in downtown Purgatory “Martha (Erica Nicole Rothman) deliberates over the ultimate fate of and Liam (Jordan Angell) [are] Judas Iscariot. residents of the housing block soon

October 2018: Mercury Fur by Philip to be demolished and replaced … Ridley Both give extremely balanced, An apocalyptic collision of personal and calm portrayals of characters in political history (see page 13). crisis; Rothman, in particular, should be singled out as a November 2018: Saturday, Sunday, Raising the curtain spectacular performer.” **** in China Monday by Eduardo de Filippo An Italian family gathering is shattered LondonTheatre1.com In July 2019, BA Acting Studies by explosive revelations. students from China performed March 2019: Orestes by Euripides their newly devised work, The February 2019: Fury by Phoebe Journey, at Guildhall. In September, Eclair-Powell The ancient tragedy of the Greek hero they took the production to the who murdered his mother. Central Academy of Drama in Medea reimagined as the struggle of a Beijing for an audience including young single mother. July 2019: Merrily We Roll Along industry professionals. All BA by Stephen Sondheim “The students of Guildhall Acting Studies students also The lives of a New York composer and auditioned for a Royal Shakespeare School of Music & Drama his estranged friends revisited in reverse Company and Beijing Repertory deftly directed by Nicole Charles chronology (see page 13). Company co-production of impress with their well-crafted Macbeth, to be performed across China in 2020. interpretations.” Parikiaki newspaper

48 | Celebrating success Opera Opera Scenes and Opera Makers Two performances of classical and November 2018: Mozart, Così fan tutte 132 contemporary Opera Scenes took place ticketed events across Guildhall A comic tale of the battle of the sexes - during the year, as well as the end of School venues but love conquers all (see page 15). year Opera Makers event. Performed by singers and repetiteurs from the first year of the Guildhall Opera Course, Opera Makers features new music written by composers and librettists 13,301 on Guildhall’s MA in Opera Making tickets sold for Guildhall events & Writing, an innovative programme delivered in association with the Royal Opera House. In 2018/19, three new opera works – written especially for and developed with the singers – were £143k performed with a small orchestral gross income from ticket sales Così fan tutte ensemble, linked by well-known opera scenes accompanied by piano.

March 2019: Britten, A Midsummer Blind Night’s Dream Bahaa Ansary composer 300 Britten’s magical interpretation of Monika Dalach librettist free tickets for young people Shakespeare’s tale of lovers, fairies and to attend a Guildhall School comic mix-ups (see page 15). Genizah performance Richard Melkonian composer Yashka Moore librettist

Grace Maeve McCarthy composer Sophie Rashbrook librettist

Spotlight on South Africa A Midsummer Night’s Dream During 2019, senior staff from Guildhall’s Opera and Vocal Studies Departments visited South Africa to June 2019: Handel, Aminta e Fillide consolidate emerging partnerships and Blow, Venus and Adonis with the Royal Opera House, Voices Two early operatic works exploring of South Africa Trust and North- the pursuit and passion, happiness and West University Potchefstroom. The heartbreak of romantic love. partnerships will provide advocacy, masterclasses, training and visits “… the sheer verve and zing of to the UK for exceptional but this theatrical extravaganza financially disadvantaged singers from South Africa. was completely unforced, joyous, unpretentious – and bespoke a true and happy full-on engagement with both pieces.” Critics’ Circle

Celebrating success | 49 Classical music November 2018: Guildhall Symphony Guildhall Stream: Orchestra – Mahler, Symphony No 4 saving and sharing and Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring September 2018: Guildhall Symphony performance videos Orchestra & Chorus – Verdi, Requiem Guildhall Symphony Orchestra tackled two 20th century masterworks under the In September 2018 we launched Guildhall Symphony Orchestra and baton of Japanese conductor Takuo Yuasa. the Guildhall Stream online Chorus joined forces with acclaimed content delivery platform, an ever- alumni singers to perform Verdi’s choral March 2019: Guildhall Symphony evolving archive which captures masterpiece, conducted by James Blair. Orchestra, Dvoˇrák Symphony No 8 in our concerts, performances and G and Shostakovich Symphony No 10 events on video. Students and staff October 2018: Ethel Smyth, can easily add new video, students Grasp the Nettle Guildhall Symphony Orchestra with can examine the evolution of their Russian conductor Vassily Sinaisky, work in close detail, and staff can The life and work of Dame Ethyl Smyth, playing Shostakovich’s symphonic rapidly add performance insights suffragette, writer and composer, portrait of Stalin and Dvoˇrák’s spirited to their teaching. Guildhall Stream celebrated in a performance by Lucy Eighth Symphony. has become an essential part of Stevens weaving together Smyth’s words the School’s digital offering. As and music. March and April 2019: BBC Symphony Jonathan Vaughan, Vice Principal Orchestra Total Immersion – Ligeti; & Director of Music, put it: October 2018: Hansel and Gretel Lili and Nadia Boulanger “Guildhall Stream … has been A reimagining of the famous tale using utterly transformational. Being Chamber music performed by Guildhall poetry, puppetry and chamber music. able to access high quality, well- musicians as part of BBC SO Total edited performances together Immersion days featuring the work of with data about performers, often October 2018: Australian Chamber post-war avant-garde composer György spontaneously and routinely within Orchestra Side-by-Side Ligeti and early 20th century sister composers Lili and Nadia Boulanger. hours, is extraordinary.” Guildhall musicians played a varied programme including Bach, Beethoven and Verdi, alongside the Australian May 2019: Festival of Classical Chamber Orchestra, International Improvisation Associate at Milton Court, under the The first ever international festival direction of violinist Richard Tognetti. celebrating the revival of classical improvisation, in a partnership November 2018: BBC Symphony between Guildhall’s Centre for Orchestra Total Immersion – Creative Performance and Classical In Remembrance World War I Improvisation and Imperial College London. The three-day free Guildhall musicians joined festival of performances, lectures, commemorations for the centenary of workshops, masterclasses and audience the end of the First World War, playing conversations featured faculty as part of a BBC Symphony Orchestra professors, musicians, researchers and Total Immersion weekend and international guest artists. presenting songs by composers who lost their lives during the war. June 2019: LSO and Guildhall Symphony Orchestra Side-by-Side November 2018: Alumni Recital Series – Sa Chen, piano Guildhall Symphony Orchestra’s annual side-by-side concert with the LSO at the Sa Chen, who came to prominence Barbican, playing Bruckner’s Symphony when she was selected for the final No 4, Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on of the Leeds International Piano a Theme by Thomas Tallis and Percy Competition aged only 16, gave a recital Grainger’s Lincolnshire Posy, conducted of Debussy’s Images Books 1 & 2 and by Sir Simon Rattle (see page 15). Études Nos 1 to 12. Guildhall musicians also performed at eleven platform performances before November 2018: Alumni Recital LSO concerts during the year. Series – Guitar Spectacular An evening of music for guitar by Walton, Marais, Stravinsky, Bowers and others, performed by Guildhall alumni.

50 | Celebrating success Marin Alsop

July 2019: Chamber Music Festival Visiting artists The second of Guildhall’s annual faculty Students were able to learn from a and student collaborations, with a wide range of classical music artists host of chamber music performances at Guildhall performances and and events featuring the School’s masterclasses during the year, including: most accomplished chamber groups and collaborations with renowned Marin Alsop conductor and violin performers and teachers. Richard Goode piano Andrew Marriner clarinet Edith Wiens singer James Blair conductor Richard Tognetti conductor and violin Andrew Watkinson conductor and violin Richard Farnes conductor Vassily Sinaisky conductor Takuo Yuasa conductor Ensemble Bash Emerson String Quartet

Sa Chen piano Peter Frankl piano Francesca di Rosa oboe Finghin Collins piano Tobias Truniger opera programme director Ann Murray singer Judith Weir composer

Celebrating success | 51 Rufus Reid Jazz May 2019: Guildhall Jazz Orchestra with Elliot Mason

October 2018: Guildhall Jazz A showcase featuring the virtuosity and Showcase innovation of trombonist/composer Elliot Mason in performance with The annual Guildhall Jazz Showcase Guildhall Jazz musicians. pulsed through three heady days of diverse jazz performance from students, July 2019: Guildhall Jazz Singers alumni, staff and visiting artists and Guildhall Jazz Orchestra – including the Jason Rebello Trio. Celebrating Coltrane

November 2018: Celebration Two events to celebrate the work of of Jazz Voice John Coltrane: a joint programme of songs with vocalist/composer Cleveland A celebration of the range and Watkiss, and music written or inspired emotional power of the jazz vocal from by Coltrane played by Guildhall Jazz Guildhall Jazz Singers. Orchestra with guest saxophonist Jean Toussaint. January 2019: Mark Lockheart and Guildhall Studio Orchestra Visiting artists A nonet of musicians from Students were able to learn from a Guildhall’s Jazz programme joined wide range of jazz artists at Guildhall saxophonist/composer Mark Lockheart performances and masterclasses during for a retrospective of his medium- the year, including: ensemble output. Jeremy Lubbock composer January 2019: Rufus Reid with the Mark Lockheart saxophone Guildhall Jazz Orchestra – Quiet Pride Rufus Reid double bass Guildhall Jazz Orchestra joined Rufus Reid, one of the world’s greatest jazz bass Elliot Mason trombone players, to perform Quiet Pride, inspired by the sculptures of African-American Derek Paravicini piano artist Elizabeth Catlett. Steve Williamson saxophone

March 2019 Guildhall Jazz Orchestra Liane Carroll vocal – Modern Jazz Classics Joe Stilgoe vocal A Guildhall Jazz Orchestra concert Tommy Blaize vocal of modern classics including Kenny Wheeler’s Sweet Time Suite. Cleveland Watkiss vocal

March 2019: Guildhall Studio Orchestra – Jeremy Lubbock: A Life in Music Electronic music A celebration in music and song of Guildhall Session Orchestra is the work of Jeremy Lubbock, one of featured on page 9. the greatest arrangers in jazz and popular music.

May 2019: Guildhall Jazz Festival Guildhall’s summer Jazz Festival showcased Guildhall Jazz Department musicians in a celebration of Duke Ellington and informal combos, and featured performances from artists including Cleveland Watkiss UK All Stars, Nikki Iles & The Print Makers and Mercury-nominated band Dinosaur.

52 | Celebrating success Orestes by Euripides (March 2019)

Celebrating success | 53 Who’s who

54 | Celebrating success Guildhall School of Music & Drama is Major Benefactors (£10,000+) Our supporters exceptionally grateful to its family of supporters, who make an invaluable The Behrens Foundation contribution to the life of the School. The Boltini Trust Exceptional Giving (£100,000+) Mr Robert Byford The Leverhulme Trust Ms Elmira Darvarova The late Ms Ariadne Van De Ven The David Family Foundation

Founding Corporate Partner Mr Mark Dixon & Dr Giulia Nobili Eversheds Sutherland The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust The Drapers’ Company Leadership Giving (£25,000+) Albert and Eugenie Frost Music Trust The Amar-Franses and Foster-Jenkins Trust The Girdlers’ Company Charitable Trust The Fishmongers’ Company The Haberdashers’ Company The Norman Gee Foundation London Symphony Orchestra The Goldsmiths’ Company Charity The Sidney Perry Foundation The Leathersellers’ Company Mitzi Scott Rabinowitz The late Miss Thelma Tillaney M&C Saatchi and The Josephine Hart Poetry Foundation The Wolfson Foundation The Skinners’ Company – Lawrence Henry Wood Accommodation Trust Atwell’s Charity The South Square Trust The Worshipful Company of Cordwainers The Worshipful Company of Grocers The Worshipful Company of Innholders The Worshipful Company of Tobacco Pipe Makers Peter and Corinne Young

Our gratitude extends to all our donors and legacy pledgers not listed here, as well as those who wish to remain anonymous.

Who’s who | 55 Patron Senior leadership Patron, Board of The Rt. Hon. the Lord Mayor of the City Principal Governors and of London Lynne Williams am Chairman of the Board of Governors Vice Principal & Director of Music Senior Leadership Jonathan Vaughan Vivienne Littlechild mbe jp Vice Principal & Director of Drama Deputy Chairman of the Board of Orla O’Loughlin (from January 2019) Governors Deputy John Bennett mbe Vice Principal & Director (until May 2019) of Production Arts Ben Sumner Graham Packham (from May 2019) Vice Principal & Director Board members of Advancement George Abrahams (from April 2019) Jeremy Newton Randall Anderson Secretary & Dean of Students Katharine Lewis Deputy David Bradshaw (from April 2019) Director of Learning & Engagement Sir Andrew Burns kcmg Sean Gregory (until April 2019) Director of Guildhall Young Artists Deputy Michael Cassidy & Safeguarding Deputy John Chapman Alison Mears Felicity Chilton, as President Director of Creative Learning of the Students’ Union Jenny Mollica

Christina Coker obe Chief Operating & Financial Officer (until November 2018) Sandeep Dwesar

Professor Geoffrey Crossick Director of Buildings & Operations Professor Maria Delgado Jonathon Poyner (from February 2019) Stuart John Fraser cbe (until April 2019) Marianne Fredericks Shreela Ghosh Gareth Higgins, elected by the Administrative Staff (until February 2019) Michael Hoffman Ann Holmes Jeremy Mayhew Alderman William Russell Andy Taylor, elected by the Photo credits: Academic Staff Paul Cochrane, Clive Totman, Clive Barda, Lynne Williams am, as Principal of Matthew Ferguson (FG Studios), Alan Kerr, Guildhall School of Music & Drama Matilda James, Manuel Harlan, Robin Savage, Hans Hijmering, Man Yee Lee, Musical Olympus Foundation, Centre for Music courtesy of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Ali Wright, Alma Rosaz, Monika Jast (FG Studios), CYM London, Sharon Wallace, Stephen Burnett, Museum of London, Hugo Glendinning, Kampo Kikkas, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Emma Brown.

56 | Who’s who About

Guildhall School delivers world-leading professional training in music, drama and production arts, working in dynamic partnership with leading artists, companies and ensembles. The School enjoys a unique historic role in the cultural life of the City of London, yet our perspective is global and forward- looking. Our state of the art performance and teaching spaces, eminent staff and progressive curriculum attract students from over 60 countries to pursue their ambitions as the next generation of world-class artists. We foster exploration, innovation and entrepreneurship among both staff and students, and seek to embed leading edge research into the impact of the arts and the role of artists in the 21st century. Our fundamental commitment is to the transformative power of the artist within society. Our mission is to empower artists to realise their full potential; to develop distinctive artistic citizens who enrich the lives of others and make a positive impact in the world. gsmd.ac.uk

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Annual Report 2018/19

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