Guildhall School of Music & Drama Prospectus 2O2O Introduction 3 About Guildhall School 4 Where we are 7 Our partners 10 How we support you

Acting 16 About Acting 18 BA in Acting and MA in Acting 22 BA in Performance and Creative Enterprise 26 Acting alumni

Music 30 About Music 33 Performance 38 BMus 40 MMus/MPerf in Performance (Guildhall Artist Masters) 42 MMus/MPerf in Performance (Guildhall Artist Masters): Orchestral Artistry 45 MMus/MComp in Composition (Guildhall Artist Masters) 46 MA in Opera Making and Writing 48 MA in Music Therapy 49 Artist Diploma 50 Principal Study Strings, Harp & Guitar 53 Principal Study Wind, Brass & Percussion 56 Principal Study Keyboard 58 Principal Study Vocal Studies 62 Principal Study Opera Studies 64 Principal Study Historical Performance 66 Principal Study Chamber Music 68 Principal Study Composition 72 Principal Study Electronic Music 75 Principal Study Jazz 78 Music alumni

Production Arts 82 About Production Arts 86 BA in Production Arts 90 BA in Video Design for Live Performance 94 MA in Collaborative Theatre Production and Design 96 Production Arts alumni

Research and Teaching 100 PGCert in Performance Teaching 102 Research Degrees

Further information 106 After Guildhall 109 Applications, auditions, interviews and Open Days 110 Fees, funding and scholarships 112 Youth and Adult Learning 115 Senior staff/Getting in touch 116 How to find us

2 At Guildhall School, we lead students We benefit from, and contribute to, through the transformative journey the incredibly exciting cultural life of of training in music, drama and London as a global city. We are situated production arts. If you join us on that right next to the Barbican Centre in the journey, it will be a demanding, intense City of London, with easy access to the and committed process. But in return, city’s major cultural institutions and to the craft, creativity and learning that London’s lively East End. you receive will empower you to develop your unique potential – and to put We enjoy some of the best facilities your talent to work at the forefront of for training in performance arts and cultural change. production anywhere in the world. The completion of our Milton Court site Our training will equip you to adds a world-class concert hall, two make your mark as an accomplished theatres, studios and large rehearsal performing artist, composer, theatre rooms to our facilities at Silk Street, maker, production professional, creative within the Barbican complex. entrepreneur or teacher. Guildhall graduates consistently succeed at the Collaboration is central to what we do. highest levels of their profession. Some Our partnerships – between departments become household names; others work and with external organisations – create behind the scenes to bring state-of-the- outstanding opportunities to learn from art performance to stage and screen. the leading edge of creative practice. Our professional partners include the As a Guildhall School student, you Barbican Centre, the London Symphony are challenged to work to professional Orchestra, the BBC Symphony standards in a world-class context. You Orchestra, the Royal Opera House and will draw on the insight and skills of the Academy of Ancient Music. internationally-renowned artists and practitioners, working with you as Active engagement with diverse directors, designers, conductors, coaches communities keeps us constantly alive to and tutors. the unique potential of performing arts to provide pathways to self-expression ABOUT Of the 950 students across our and positive social change. Our Creative programmes, 40% come from outside Learning programme trains students Britain, representing more than to work in communities across East 70 nationalities and bringing a truly London and beyond to offer inspiring arts global outlook and relevance to what experiences for everyone. We also run a we do. We welcome diversity, and vibrant programme of youth and adult encourage applications from anyone learning, harnessing creativity and the with talent, regardless of background; desire to learn among children and young our scholarship fund provides over people, business leaders and professionals. £2 million to support students each year. Above all, at Guildhall School of Music Our diversity extends to the art forms & Drama, we believe in the power of that we cover. We are one of the few performing arts to transform people’s major European conservatoires to lives, and to radically enrich the world combine schools of music, drama around us. We invite you to join us in and production arts. Working across transforming your own life, and to disciplines frees us to break down serving the wider world as we embark, boundaries across traditional art forms, together, on the challenge and change to nurture invention, and to cross- of the 21st century. fertilise ideas and methods.

Founded in 1880, our historic roots go deep, but the way that we teach and learn has always tested conventions. We value innovation and experiment, and will encourage you to explore the big questions that affect you as an artist today, and that will impact us all in the 21st century.

2 3 Our city: London opportunities with our Culture Mile partners. We are also right on the edge Guildhall School is located in the heart of East London, with all its creative of London, one of the most exciting cities bustle and energy. And nestled between in the world. Training in performing the popular areas of Shoreditch and arts in this culturally-rich and dynamic Clerkenwell, we are close to some of environment is a unique experience. London’s most famous landmarks, With West End theatres, the Southbank including St Paul’s Cathedral, the Centre, Tate Modern and Covent Garden’s Gherkin and the Shard. Royal Opera House all close by, studying at Guildhall means you have an array of Our facilities: Silk Street, world-renowned cultural institutions Milton Court and Sundial Court on your doorstep. As a student, you will be entitled to concessions on Our facilities include the Grade II-listed virtually all entertainment tickets, plus Silk Street building, part of the discounts in shops and restaurants and distinctive and architecturally-renowned on underground, train and bus travel. If Barbican complex, and Milton Court, our you are coming from abroad, we provide new site just across the road. Housing guided tours and special excursions to world-class performance and training help you find your way around. And you spaces, Milton Court includes a state-of- will find other major European cities the-art concert hall, a lyric theatre, easily accessible by train or plane. a studio theatre and several major rehearsal rooms. Silk Street offers a more Our neighbourhood: Culture Mile intimate music hall, a dedicated lecture recital room, and a completely flexible theatre, theatrical workshops and labs, Our campus is situated in Culture Mile, electronic music studios, recording and a vibrant cultural hotspot in the City sound studios, and over 40 teaching and of London. This major destination for practice rooms. We also have an annexe culture and creativity stretches from with a further 44 teaching and practice Guildhall School and our immediate

WHERE rooms, and our Sundial Court Hall of neighbour the Barbican Centre to the Residence (see page 13). Barbican’s new cinemas, LSO St Luke’s and the Museum of London. It offers a When it comes to showcasing students’ range of impressive performance and work, Guildhall School has five public exhibition spaces all within walking performance venues with exceptional distance, and exciting collaborative acoustic properties and extensive seating capacity. And of course, we also offer space where you can study and relax, with a library, two student common rooms, two cafés and a peaceful lakeside terrace.

4 5 Much of who we are and what we do is for many years, the LSO now helps to shaped by collaboration. We are always deliver the Orchestral Artistry specialism looking for ways to collaborate, and we within the Guildhall Artist Masters are proud to have established robust, programme, an exciting course of study purposeful partnerships with five key for instrumentalists seeking a career organisations. These organisations in orchestral playing (see page 40). It contribute significantly to our also provides a range of performance programmes of study and provide opportunities for other Guildhall music Guildhall students with many exciting students, including the highly-regarded opportunities. Indeed, through these concert series LSO Platforms: Guildhall unique partnerships you will meet Artists, which sees Guildhall musicians some of the world’s most renowned take part in rush-hour concerts on the artists, experience some of London’s Barbican stage before LSO performances. finest venues, and receive the very best In 2017, the LSO’s Music Director preparation for your chosen career. Sir Simon Rattle became Artist in Association with Guildhall School, further cementing this partnership. Barbican Centre

The Barbican Centre is Europe’s largest BBC Symphony Orchestra multi-arts and conference centre. It pushes the boundaries of all major art The BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBCSO) forms including dance, film, music, is one of the UK’s finest orchestras, theatre and visual arts and is situated performing extensively as Associate immediately next door to Guildhall Orchestra of the Barbican and forming School within the iconic Barbican the backbone of the BBC Proms. Guildhall Estate. The Barbican and the School musicians play a significant role in the enjoy a unique educational and cultural Orchestra’s Total Immersion series, which partnership. Built over many years, celebrates the work of contemporary this partnership will provide you with composers. Guildhall performances in exceptional learning opportunities. These Total Immersion are often broadcast on include masterclasses and projects with BBC Radio 3 and receive high critical the Barbican’s International Associate praise. Other recent collaborations with Orchestras (Gewandhaus Orchestra, Jazz the Orchestra include Guildhall singers at Lincoln Center, LA Philharmonic, forming the chorus for a performance of New York Philharmonic, and the Royal Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony, our actors Concertgebouw), and joint projects joining the ensemble for Grieg’s complete with the Barbican Cinema and Barbican Peer Gynt, and our composers writing for Art Gallery. There is also the chance to an ensemble including BBCSO players. perform in Barbican venues such as the Pit Theatre and Concert Hall. Royal Opera House Additionally, the Barbican and Guildhall School collaborate on a major learning and The Royal Opera House is home to the participation programme called Creative Royal Opera, one of the world’s leading opera companies, renowned for its PARTNERS Learning. Through Creative Learning, outstanding performances of traditional Guildhall students learn to use their skills opera but also for commissioning new in community settings across East London works. The collaboration between the and beyond (see page 8 for further details). Royal Opera House and Guildhall has led to two areas of study in contemporary opera making: a new MA in Opera London Symphony Orchestra Making and Writing (see page 46) and a studentship that appoints one doctoral Widely regarded as one of the world’s student as Composer-in-Residence at the leading orchestras, the London Royal Opera House for a period of three Symphony Orchestra (LSO) is Resident years (see page 102). These innovative Orchestra at the Barbican. It attracts developments combine the expertise of outstanding players from all over the a conservatoire with that of an opera world, and has a roster of soloists and house, helping to support emerging conductors who are second to none. An composers and librettists in the creation integral partner of Guildhall School of new operatic work.

6 7 Academy of Ancient Music Other partnerships

Through our partnership with the We also work with a range of other Academy of Ancient Music (AAM), one organisations on projects and of the world’s leading period instrument performances throughout the year, for ensembles, we are creating a centre of example the London Contemporary excellence in historical performance. Dance School, École des Écoles and The AAM, who are an Associate Wigmore Hall. Ensemble at the Barbican and perform part of their season in Milton Court, offer masterclasses, workshops, mock Creative Learning auditions, Q&A sessions and exclusive access to open rehearsals – unique We believe that everyone has a right to learning opportunities for students in access culturally enriching experiences, this particular discipline. which is why we will encourage you to use your craft to benefit others, not just yourself. Through Creative Learning, our joint learning and participation programme with the Barbican, we support a wide range of initiatives taking the arts into communities in East London, and welcome audiences into the School from those communities. Every undergraduate music student at Guildhall School is trained to work in participatory settings, such as hospitals, prisons, schools and other community groups. It’s all about the power and duty of the arts to transform lives. This ethos has been embedded in the School for over 30 years, giving depth and scope to our social engagement programmes.

We are interested in breaking traditional boundaries between the arts, which is why all undergraduates at Guildhall work together on a cross- arts collaborative project in their first year, led by Creative Learning. Designed to meet the needs of the 21st century artist, Creative Learning will also help you explore enterprise and innovation, providing opportunities for ‘lab’ work and residencies aimed at nurturing and showcasing emerging artistic talent.

International exchange partners

If you are interested in studying abroad as part of your programme, we offer student exchange agreements with an array of internationally- renowned European conservatoires and Musikhochschulen through the Erasmus scheme. (Due to the EU Referendum this information is subject to change. Visit gsmd.ac.uk/eufaqs for the most up to date information.)

8 9 As you start out at Guildhall School, there learning support for students with specific are bound to be times when you will need learning difficulties), financial advice, help or advice. Our support services are accommodation advice and international here to provide just that, with guidance student support. on everything from accommodation to health and wellbeing, disability support to international student orientation Library sessions, library materials to audio visual [email protected] support. We are also here if things get tough, and have dedicated staff you can Our Library has one of the most extensive talk to if you face financial hardship or specialised collections of music and drama need to see a counsellor. electronic and print resources in Europe, and will provide you with an inspiring, All Guildhall students have access to one supportive and welcoming study of the country’s leading performing arts environment. Our library staff all have a libraries, excellent studio and IT resources, specialist knowledge of music or drama, and a Students’ Union that represents the and lending facilities include books on interests of the student body. And you will music, theatre, drama criticism, stagecraft, be able to apply for the School’s Hall of costume, and music therapy. You can also Residence, Sundial Court, just around the borrow from a comprehensive collection corner from the Silk Street building and of plays, poetry, scores, sets of chamber Milton Court. music parts; CDs and DVDs; and a wide range of e-resources. In tune with our pioneering ethos, Guildhall was the first Student Affairs conservatoire in the UK to offer access to [email protected] both Naxos and Classical Music Library web-streaming services, and the first to Student Affairs is committed to student purchase Drama Online outright. wellbeing, helping you to fulfil your potential during your time at the School. The team will provide a supportive IT and studio resources environment to assist you in making the most of your student experience. It As you would expect, Guildhall has offers a comprehensive range of support well-equipped IT facilities, including PCs services designed to meet your academic with access to Microsoft Office 2016 and and welfare needs. Services include Sibelius, A3 colour printer-photocopiers, health and welfare advice, physiotherapy, Wi-Fi provision around the Silk Street, counselling, disability support (including Milton Court, Annexe and Sundial Court

10 11 buildings, and remote access to your Accommodation School email and apps via Microsoft [email protected] Office 365. You can download the latest version of Microsoft Office to your own Once you have been offered a place at devices. This means you can work flexibly Guildhall, you will be given details of and securely wherever you are on campus accommodation options. Whether in – in Halls, study areas or on the move. private lodgings, rooms to rent in shared The School’s Audio Visual Department houses or through local letting agencies, provides audio and video production you will find something to suit your needs. facilities, as well as an industry-standard recording studio (see page 34). We will also give you information about Sundial Court, the School’s Hall of Residence, located in Chiswell Street Students’ Union just around the corner from our two [email protected] main buildings. Sundial Court has 39 flats, each with between three and six The Guildhall Students’ Union actively bedrooms, with 176 rooms in total. represents the student body. Led by a For music students, there is the added full-time President (elected annually), advantage of being able to practise in the Union acts as the communication your bedroom during agreed hours. Local channel between the student and staff amenities, including supermarkets, bars, bodies. From its office on the campus, restaurants and sports facilities, are all the Union offers advice on all manner within walking distance. There are two of topics, and can provide useful underground stations close by, and down information on Guildhall School, its below is the Basement, which houses surrounding area and student life. the Students’ Union bar, a self-service Alongside its representative function, the laundry, practice rooms and a communal Union is responsible for extra-curricular television room. Sundial Court has activities throughout the year and is at Wi-Fi access throughout. the centre of Guildhall’s social scene. It organises clubs and societies and a Security is provided 24 hours a day, variety of social events, many of which seven days a week. In addition, a team of take place around the well-established Residential Wardens lives in the Sundial Basement Bar, located in Sundial Court. Court building to provide pastoral support and respond to any emergency situations outside of office hours. A key part of their role is to encourage a sense of community among residents, and throughout the year they organise social activities such as market trips, museum visits, film nights and exercise clubs.

If you are accepted onto a full-time course at Guildhall School (lasting at least one academic year), you are entitled to apply for a place at Sundial Court. Although we can’t offer a room to every student, we do try to provide accommodation for first year undergraduates.

12 13 BA Honours in Acting

BA Honours in Performance and Creative Enterprise

MA in Acting

15 Key staff Guildhall School is a lively, friendly community of actors,

Orla O’Loughlin BA(Hons) MA PGCE production artists and musicians. The Drama Department Vice-Principal & Director of Drama itself is intimate and supportive. Our students form Brodie Ross close-knit groups, developing personal and professional Interim Head of Acting relationships that last for years. Martin Connor FGS Head of Acting Training Our programmes are highly regarded in the performing arts Annemette Verspeak MA profession for the thoroughness of their audition processes Head of Voice and the passion, quality and rigour of the teaching. We are also Daniel McGrath FGS renowned for our combined focus on craft training, care and Head of Movement attention to individual student development, and the strong Eliot Shrimpton BA MA(Cantab) Head of Academic Studies (Drama) ensemble ethic shared by our staff and students. Caroline Smith Programme Leader – BA Performance Our programmes are three years, full-time, and prepare and Creative Enterprise you for a life as a professional in your chosen art form. For postgraduate study, MA Acting students work alongside Core teaching staff students on the BA Acting programme, with additional

Wyn Jones FGS assignments appropriate to a Masters programme. Acting

Patsy Rodenburg OBE FGS The Department also runs a selection of summer schools, Professor of Text & Poetry focusing on acting in Shakespeare, contemporary theatre and Kenneth Rea MA FGS musical theatre, and a Preliminary Acting Course (see page 112). Professor of Theatre Tom Morrison MA Guildhall School has excellent performance facilities. Productions Voice & Speech take place in our three distinctive theatres: Silk Street, a large Leah Muller MA versatile space; Milton Court, a proscenium arch theatre; and Movement the intimate Studio Theatre. An exciting mix of modern and In keeping with our collaborative ethos, Guildhall School is a Jacob Sam-La Rose partner in École des Écoles, a confederation of major European Performance and Creative Enterprise traditional performance spaces for our students to explore. drama schools. Over the years we have co-organised a number Rick Holland of international workshops throughout Europe. Performance and Creative Enterprise Zara McFarlane Performance and Creative Enterprise Our approach involves breaking down traditional boundaries and challenging convention, giving you the chance to For a full list of teaching staff collaborate with students from other art forms. You will work and visiting directors, please visit with students on the Music and Production Arts programmes the Guildhall School website: during the first-year workshop project as well as in your third gsmd.ac.uk/drama year on productions. And each year, our facilities are handed over to students for an entire day of informal showcases as part of the annual Guildhall Festival. On this day, students from all disciplines come together to display their creative talents.

16 17 Guildhall School’s acting programmes are for students BA Honours who want to become professional actors. Innovative in Acting and unique in their structure and approach, they offer intensive vocational training in the expressive art and practical craft of acting. MA in Acting We aim to produce actors who are from abroad to work with us here. flexible and versatile, able to move with Biographies of some of our teachers are Three years full-time confidence between classical and modern available on the School’s website: theatre, film, television and radio. There gsmd.ac.uk/acting/staff We receive an exceptionally high is a generous staff-student ratio and an number of applications for these enormous number of teaching hours Our Acting programmes are constantly programmes. You are advised to with students receiving around 35 hours evolving. They merge the traditions of apply as early as possible. of contact time each week. classical training with the demands of the profession in the 21st century. Good actors gsmd.ac.uk/drama During your training, you will work must have the means, the intelligence with many different teachers and and the need to communicate their directors. Our staff are chosen to understanding of life to an audience. And complement and contrast with each our training reflects this. In all areas we’ll other. Their approaches may vary but encourage you to be an enquiring artist they share a common purpose. Together who can develop your own ideas and they help each actor and each group to communicate them through whatever define, develop and use the processes material you are offered. which are most useful to them. We believe strongly in the ensemble All Guildhall School teaching and approach, with individual actors directing staff have extensive professional working together in a coordinated and experience. They work as a strongly complementary way, each contributing committed team, while maintaining to a powerful shared outcome. We work regular contact with the industry. Some in a collaborative atmosphere and work in the theatre, including the encourage actors to connect emotion, National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare intellect, spirituality and physicality – Company, Shakespeare’s Globe and the and above all to connect with each other West End. Some work in film, television and radio. Many work internationally, – in everything they do. and we sometimes invite guest teachers

Years 1 and 2

The first two years are training years. During this period you will concentrate on acquiring the skills you need as a professional actor. The time is divided between classwork and rehearsal projects. During the first two terms you will spend most of your time in classes, with “It’s an environment where we all have respect for each other – more time on projects as the programme it’s a safe space for you to take risks, try different things and if progresses. Both classwork and rehearsal projects focus on developing and you fail you learn from the failure and then you get back up and integrating four main areas of study: try again. It’s very supportive. At Guildhall, they don’t hold your acting, voice, movement and play texts. hand, but they’re going to push you to become the actor that you want to be... I know that the training we get here means I Acting Studies include stagecraft, improvisation, games and storytelling, will be prepared for anything that’s thrown my way in the industry, mime, circus and physical theatre. Classes whether it’s radio, film, theatre or TV.” in voice acting and acting on camera are added later in the training, using the School’s own equipment and TV and Daniel Adeosun radio studios. BA Acting

18 19 directors. There are also sessions to prepare you for the acting profession, as well as audition showcases regularly attended by agents, and theatre and casting directors.

MA in Acting

The MA in Acting is a three-year full-time programme for students with a university degree who want full professional training in acting. The MA students work in the same classes, rehearsals and performances as the students on the three-year BA in Acting, but with additional tutorials to help them achieve the Masters level outcomes. Entrance is by audition. At the point of audition, no distinction is made between applicants to the BA and the MA. MA students have the same practical training as the BA students. If you study on this programme, you Voice Studies cover voice and speech will take additional modules to develop classes, poetry and prose, singing, your critical and reflective skills. You phonetics, dialects and a great deal of will also be required to achieve more work on language, including Shakespeare. demanding learning outcomes and a higher standard overall. Movement Studies cover pure movement, movement improvisation including animal studies and mask work, Preparing for the profession period dance and 20th century dance, showdance, acrobatics and stage combat. In their final year, all Guildhall Acting students are given clear guidance on starting out in the profession. There are Acting Research investigates plays and members of British Actors’ Equity, regular talks, workshops and visits by Find out more theatre forms representative of the major the actors’ trade union. They will theatre directors, agents, casting directors, periods of Western theatre, as well as automatically be granted full membership tax advisers and Equity representatives. Students from a wide range of ages and examples from world drama. These are when they complete their training. Actors currently working in the profession backgrounds are selected on merit by explored within their cultural contexts. are involved as professional mentors in the audition. It is not necessary to have any final year. The Department also provides previous acting experience. Rehearsal projects enable you to bring After training a specialist Career Consultant to assist your skills and knowledge together as Given the adult nature of some you in the transition from training to Former Guildhall School acting students you rehearse a broad repertoire, usually programme content, applicants need to professional life. can be seen in a wide variety of work, including medieval mystery plays, demonstrate at audition and interview including film, TV and theatre (including works by Chekhov and Shakespeare, the West End, the Royal Shakespeare sufficient intellectual maturity to gain Greek tragedy and musical theatre, in Audition showcases Company and the National Theatre). full advantage from the educational preparation for an internal showing. The Department maintains very strong experience on offer. There is no upper During the final year you will prepare links with its alumni. See pages 26–27 for age limit. showcases of modern and classical profiles of some of our established and Year 3 speeches and scenes. These are attended by recent graduates. Visit gsmd.ac.uk/drama for further a large number of agents, directors and information on teaching staff, audition By the third year, you will be technically casting directors, giving you the chance requirements, Open Days and how to proficient vocally and physically. You to perform in front of key professional Other courses apply. You are advised to apply as early will have developed your own working representatives. as possible. processes. Most of your time will be spent The Drama Department also runs a rehearsing and performing to the public selection of short courses, including the and to potential employers. You will work Equity membership Preliminary Acting Course, an intensive on around five productions, playing a 12-week course which offers a broad basis wide variety of roles in plays of varying Students who have the right to work in upon which to begin actor training. styles, working with several different the UK are eligible to become student See page 112 for details.

20 21 The BA in Performance and Creative Enterprise (PACE) BA Honours in degree is all about making and engaging in cross-artform Performance and projects. The programme seeks to prepare you for life in the arts industry, with a strong focus on developing Creative Enterprise entrepreneurship and employability.

Three years full-time Enabling you to collaborate, participatory and socially-engaged communicate and lead in a range of artistic work gsmd.ac.uk/pace cultural and socially-engaged contexts, • Cultivating employability by developing the programme seeks to develop your creative enterprise skills, including curiosity, stimulate your imagination project management, fundraising and help you to generate original work. and budgeting, pitching proposals, It will also develop your critical skills marketing and online resources in understanding the concepts, contexts • Critically understanding the role of and roles of the artist today. the artist today

The programme is aimed at artists Taught through on-site specialist training from a range of music, drama and and mentoring, the programme also performance backgrounds. It is intended comprises innovative, real-world off-site for those who want to develop their projects and placements. It features guest performance, production, collaboration artists and tutors from across the Barbican and leadership skills for employment or and Guildhall School’s roster. Recently, entrepreneurship in the arts industry. this has included poets Jacob Sam-La Rose and Paula Varjack, director Ned Glasier The programme focuses on: (Islington Community Theatre), MOBO award-winning singer Zara McFarlane, • Developing your own individual craft South African percussionist Eugene through small group sessions, one-to- Skeef, choreographer Michael Asante one lessons and mentoring (Boy Blue Entertainment), and jazz and • Working collaboratively to create hip hop musician Soweto Kinch. new work which is live, recorded and digital • Collaborating with people in a range Year 1: Foundations of community settings (e.g. schools, hospitals and healthcare centres, The first year gives you space to criminal justice institutions), creating experiment and create new work. Working collaboratively, you will gain an introduction to participatory and socially engaged practice. In the first year you will:

• Explore personal storytelling and autobiography, creating work which leads to short performance pieces • Deepen your collaborative skills and devise new work. A wide range of visiting guest artists will share their collaborative working practices with you “One of the best things about PACE is it’s very experiential, • Explore the notions of participatory and which I love. So you are not just thinking about the theory of it but socially-engaged practice. Through a series of lectures and seminars, practical you are actually putting in the work and you get to experience both workshops and off-site observations, sides of it. Studying at Guildhall is really cool because you are in you will gain an understanding of both a setting where the arts are valued by an entire community. That’s theory and practice • Develop your individual craft, ideas one of the things I love about being here – everybody understands and ambitions the importance and the value of the arts.” • Learn to manage projects, pitch proposals, document your learning and experiences and start to develop Natasha Mbwana a multimedia portfolio BA Performance and Creative Enterprise

22 23 Year 2: Applied Contexts mentors and co-participants • Delve more deeply into a particular In the second year, you will use your area of your artistic practice, leading to new knowledge and skills to: a variety of outputs (e.g. presentation, exhibition, written or digital) • In small groups, deliver a creative • Develop a project which leads to a arts workshop in an educational performance at a final showcase festival setting supported by a professional • Bring together everything you have arts facilitator learned to create a ‘calling card’ for • Respond to an example of a the industry. You will identify your professional commission, working own individual voice and artistic collaboratively as a team to create vision, with a strong focus on career work in real-world scenarios preparation, including refining your developing entrepreneurial and online/digital resources and career plan business skills • Develop your artistic technique Find out more and creative mastery, learning how to deal with multiple stakeholders, Visit gsmd.ac.uk/pace for further fundraising, budgets, marketing information on teaching staff, entry and contracts requirements, Open Days and how • Undertake a work placement in an to apply. organisation relevant to your skills, interests and ambitions

Year 3: Performance Practice

By your final year, you will be expected to lead and curate artistic collaborations, both as an individual and as part of a company. You will:

• Undertake an off-site residency providing a platform for experimentation. You will be expected to drive the artistic collaboration with support from professional artists as

24 25 Steffan Donnelly (2012) BBC adaptation of Wolf Hall, Butterworth’s award-winning Some of Recent After leaving Guildhall opposite alumnus Damian play The Ferryman. School, Steffan formed Lewis. She has since gone on to our Acting graduates a theatre company and appear in the BBC dramas War Claudia Jolly (2016) production house with three of and Peace and Peaky Blinders, Since graduating, Claudia has alumni his classmates called Invertigo. and Netflix series The Crown, as appeared in On Chesil Beach, Winner of a Deutsche Bank well as on stage in The Crucible NW and as Mariarose in Award for Creative Enterprises, at West Yorkshire Playhouse. Eleanor Ferrante’s Neapolitan they have produced a number In 2019, she will appear in the Novels on BBC Radio 4. She of plays staged at various feature film Downton Abbey. was recently cast as Katherine venues including the Arcola Draper in the Old Vic’s Theatre, the Pleasance Amber James (2015) production Girl from the North Hayley Atwell (2005) Michaela Coel (2012) Daniel Craig (1991) in Edinburgh, and the Amber’s first major role after Country by Connor McPherson, Finborough Theatre. Steffan graduating was Hero in Much with music and lyrics by Bob has also appeared in several Ado About Nothing at the Dylan, alongside alumna George Blagden (2011) productions at Shakespeare’s Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch. Shirley Henderson. George won parts in the Globe and Sam Wanamaker She then performed as Lucetta Akpore Uzoh (2016) feature films of Les Misérables Playhouse, working with and Panthino in The Two and Wrath of the Titans before directors including Gentlemen of Verona which After graduating, Akpore Dominic Dromgoole and being cast as Athelstan in played at Shakespeare’s Globe wrote and performed in his Michael Longhurst. and Liverpool Everyman own play ADITL; A Day in the History Channel Series, before touring internationally the Life, with the 4orward Vikings. His latest role is Louis Sophie Khan-Levy (2013) and then as Cressida, Movement theatre. The play XIV in BBC Two’s Versailles Soon after graduating, Sophie Cleopatra, Dido and Lavinia won Akpore the Audience and he also starred in the was cast in Love’s Labour’s Lost for RSC productions. Award 2017 at the Alfred Netflix series Black Mirror. and Love’s Labour’s Won for Fagon Awards, which On stage, he has appeared the RSC and in Fracked! Or: Leonie Benesch (2016) recognise the achievements in Tartuffe at Theatre Royal Michelle Dockery (2004) Monica Dolan (1992) Paapa Essiedu (2012) Natasha Gordon (1999) Please Don’t Use The F-Word at Leonie has appeared in a of contemporary black Haymarket and Company at Chichester Festival Theatre. number of German television British playwrights. the Gielgud Theatre. She starred as Ursula in productions including Babylon Swamp Studio’s site-specific Berlin, as well as appearing Samuel Blenkin (2017) Kurt Egyiawan (2011) production Night at the in The Crown on Netflix and During his final year Samuel Kurt won the Spotlight Prize Bombay Roxy, transforming the recent BBC adaptation of was cast as Scorpius Malfoy in after graduating and has the restaurant Dishoom Howards End alongside fellow Harry Potter and the Cursed since appeared in prestigious into a café and jazz club. Guildhall alumni Bessie Child, currently showing at the productions at Shakespeare’s Sophie recently starred in Carter and Hayley Atwell. Palace Theatre, London. Globe, the Donmar Warehouse the one-woman show Hanna and the Young Vic. He has at the Arcola Theatre which Bessie Carter (2016) Anya Chalotra (2017) also starred in a number of received critical acclaim. Bessie won the 2016 Spotlight Anya appeared as Hero in feature films including Skyfall, Prize for Best Screen Actor. Matthew Dunster’s Much Ado directed by Sam Mendes, and Ben Schnetzer (2013) She has appeared in Cranford, About Nothing in 2017 at Beasts of No Nation as well as During his final year at Doc Martin, Howards End and The Globe for which she was taking a major role in Fox’s TV Lily James (2010) Sarah Lancashire OBE (1986) Damian Lewis OBE (1993) Ewan McGregor OBE (1992) Guildhall, Ben was cast as Max will star in the upcoming nominated for Best Actress series The Exorcist. Vandenburg in the Fox Movie historical period drama in a Play at The Stage Debut adaptation of The Book Thief. Beecham House. On stage, she Awards. She starred as the Emily Berrington (2012) He then went on to appear in has performed in King Lear lead role in The Village, the After appearing in Michael feature films The Riot Club with alongside Glenda Jackson and inaugural production at Winterbottom’s film The Guildhall alumni Douglas as Lydia Lubey in All My Sons, Theatre Royal Stratford East, Look of Love and the play Booth and Freddie Fox, and both at the Old Vic. opposite Guildhall alumnus Children’s Children at the Pride, alongside Bill Nighy and Art Malik. In 2019, she will Almeida Theatre, Emily was alumnus Dominic West. He is Tom Glynn-Carney (2016) appear in a lead role in the cast in the final series of the a frequent collaborator with Tom left Guildhall in his final Netflix series The Witcher. BBC comedy Outnumbered. Oliver Stone, appearing in his year to star in Christopher She has since appeared in the films Warcraft and Snowden. In Nolan’s Oscar-winning film Zach Wyatt (2018) feature film The Inbetweeners 2018, he took the lead role in Dunkirk, and is set to play After graduating, Zach made 2 and the television series 24: the TV adaptation of The Truth Christopher Wiseman in the his professional debut in I Live Another Day, as well as About the Harry Quebert Affair. upcoming biopic Tolkien. and You at the Hampstead playing Edward IV’s mistress He won the Emerging Theatre opposite Game of Nikesh Patel (2010) Lesley Sharp (1982) Dominic West (1995) Jodie Whittaker (2005) in the BBC’s historical drama Kate Phillips (2014) Talent Award at the Evening Thrones star Maisie Williams The White Queen and Niska in Kate’s first role after Guildhall Standard Talent Awards 2017 before starring in Wild East at Humans for Channel 4. was Jane Seymour in the for his performance in Jez the Old Vic.

26 27 Music

BMus

MMus/MPerf in Performance (Guildhall Artist Masters)

MMus/MPerf in Performance (Guildhall Artist Masters): Orchestral Artistry

MMus/MComp in Composition (Guildhall Artist Masters)

MA in Opera Making and Writing

MA in Music Therapy

Artist Diploma

29 Key staff Guildhall School is one of the world’s leading conservatoires. Studying music at Guildhall involves Jonathan Vaughan intensive, dedicated teaching, mostly one-to-one, in FGS DipRCM(Perf) DipRCM(Teach) Vice-Principal & Director of Music the instrument or discipline of your choice. Surrounded

Professor Ronan O’Hora FGS FRNCM by actors, stage managers and production artists, you Head of Advanced Performance Studies will be part of a thriving arts community next door to & Head of Keyboard one of Europe’s leading arts centres. You will learn from Louise Hopkins FGS AGSM some of our renowned international teaching staff while Head of Strings collaborating in world-class music making. Richard Benjafield FGS GRNCM PPRNCM Head of Wind, Brass & Percussion At the heart of your training will be an ongoing series of

Armin Zanner MA MPhil(Cantab) MMus intensive, one-to-one and small group sessions with our core staff Deputy Director of Music & Head of over 400 practitioners and teachers. You will also gain access of Vocal Studies and exposure to international artists, whose calibre is unequalled Dominic Wheeler within the sector. By working side by side with the finest visiting BA(Cantab) ARCM(PG) ARCO HonARAM Head of Opera international performers, composers and conductors, you will

Dr Alessandro Timossi DPhil FGS embark on a learning curve which accelerates your development Head of Music Programmes exponentially. This exposure is designed to help you hone your

Dr Christopher Suckling DipRAM skills and develop your responses to performance, giving you the MA(Cantab) MA(Mus. Open.) DMA LRAM opportunity to fulfil your potential and enrich your artistic life. Head of Historical Performance Malcolm Edmonstone BMus MMus Our partnerships with five key organisations – the Barbican Head of Jazz Centre, the London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Professor Julian Philips Orchestra, the Royal Opera House and the Academy of FGS MA(Cantab) PhD Deputy Director of Music & Head Ancient Music – ensure students benefit from links with the of Composition profession before they graduate. If you are a performer, there are Ann Sloboda opportunities to perform in some of London’s most prestigious BMus(Hons) (Oxon) PGDipMT venues. Whatever you study, we will encourage you to work Head of Music Therapy with artists from other art forms, as well as those specialising Mike Roberts MA Head of Electronic Music in your field. & Music Technology At Guildhall School we offer a lively, friendly and collaborative

For a full list of teaching staff community – a community in which we expect you to be and visiting artists, please visit a professional from day one. We ask for dedication and the Guildhall School website: commitment, and in return we give you as many opportunities gsmd.ac.uk/music as we can. We are highly regarded for the quality and rigour “I’ve just played a concert in New York’s Carnegie Hall, in the of our music teaching. We are also renowned for enabling Weill Recital Hall, with two other Guildhall musicians, which was innovation and experimentation and for our unwavering fantastic. I’ve also played in the Barbican for the LSO Platforms commitment to pushing boundaries in all areas. series. And playing in front of pianists such as Murray Perahia, Richard Goode and Angela Hewitt has been really inspiring. Our ultimate goal is to transform you, as a musician and Guildhall is an institution that knows it has to be connected to the performer, into a fully-fledged creative artist. We aim to make outside world – that’s the key thing. It’s not a bubble. It has roots in you the finest musician you can be, and in support of this the city and in the world.” we provide detailed developmental work on inner hearing, performance psychology and artistic interpretation. Jonathan Ferrucci Artist Diploma Piano

30 31 We also offer training in large-scale chamber music, new Whatever programme you choose, you will be able to perform, music, historically-informed performance and interdisciplinary record, compose and collaborate with a range of ensembles. practice. During your time at Guildhall School, you will be You can also take part in competitions, public showcases and challenged to become a highly imaginative interpreter and masterclasses with high profile visiting artists. Our performance curator; a problem-solver and freethinker capable of working facilities are second to none and include the stunning new Milton at the highest levels of a fiercely competitive industry. Court Concert Hall, the largest of the London conservatoire concert halls with state-of-the-art acoustics. Preparing you for your career through a sense of artistic citizenship is important to us. You will have the opportunity to Throughout your studies at Guildhall School, we will encourage think about the social and political impact that the arts have on you to use your craft to benefit others, not just yourself. society and how you might harness these to build your career. Believing strongly in the power of music and art to transform people’s lives, we offer training for all undergraduate music At undergraduate level we offer a four-year BMus programme, students in participatory community settings. In order to be a with a one-to-one Principal Study in a variety of instruments 21st century musician, you will need a broad portfolio of skills. and disciplines. These range from instrumental and singing We will provide the direction and support to prepare you for training to jazz, electronic music and composition. this exciting, enriching profession. If you are considering postgraduate study, you can choose from various programmes and levels of study, with specialisms Performance tailored for specific careers in the industry. These include the Guildhall Artist Masters programme with pathways in Studying music at an internationally-renowned conservatoire Performance or Composition; MA programmes in Music means you can become immersed in a world of performance Therapy or Opera Making and Writing; and an Artist from day one. Whatever your instrument or specialism, Diploma. Opportunities to work with our professional partner Guildhall School provides a host of opportunities for you to organisations are a key feature of many of these programmes, perform, record and collaborate (and if you’re a composer, to not least the Orchestral Artistry specialism in association hear your own works performed). with the London Symphony Orchestra. In addition, the Music Department works closely with the Research Department Public performances to deliver our doctoral programmes. Guildhall presents a full public programme of student concerts, opera and recitals, often in excess of over 100 every term. These are marketed to London audiences and feature Guildhall musicians from undergraduate level all the way through to Artist Diploma students. Some concerts are streamed online, and many are reviewed by critics from the national press. Visit gsmd.ac.uk/events for an overview of these exciting performance opportunities.

Ensembles There is a vast array of Guildhall ensembles, from the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Chorus, New Music Ensemble and Chamber Orchestra to wind ensembles, brass bands and chamber groups. You will also find dedicated ensembles for jazz and historical performance, or you can form your own ensemble. Read more about recent ensemble activities in our Principal Study pages (50–77).

32 33 Competitions Guildhall School offers music students the chance to enter numerous competitions, the most prestigious of which is the Gold Medal, the School’s most significant prize. Previous Gold Medal winners include Jacqueline du Pré, Tasmin Little, and Bryn Terfel. You will also be encouraged to enter external competitions whenever possible and appropriate. See our Principal Study pages (50–77) for news of recent prize winners.

Masterclasses In keeping with our global credentials, we play host to masterclasses from international visiting artists. These are free to attend and often open to public audiences. We are a collaborative institution, and our partnerships with the Barbican and the London Symphony Orchestra also lead to regular masterclasses and artist conversations with leading orchestral players, conductors and solo artists. See our Principal Study pages (50–77) for news of recent masterclasses.

Our facilities and venues Guildhall School venues are designed to accommodate performance of every kind. Our Milton Court Concert Hall is the largest conservatoire concert hall in London, with state- of-the-art acoustics and technical facilities. A regular venue for Guildhall musicians, it is also used by the Barbican’s two Associate Ensembles, the Academy of Ancient Music and Britten Sinfonia, whose concerts are often broadcast on BBC Opera productions are staged in the Silk Street Theatre, a large, Radio 3. Solo recitals, chamber music and medium-sized flexible theatre space with orchestra pit, and also occasionally in orchestral performances all take place here. Milton Court Theatre. Other venues include a smaller Music Hall, a Lecture Recital Room and a performance space in the basement of the nearby Sundial Court, particularly suitable for jazz.

As a Guildhall musician, you will have access to over 80 solo practice studios, several medium-sized ensemble rooms, electronic music studios and recording facilities. The recording studio can accommodate small- to medium-sized chamber, jazz and contemporary ensembles. It is used for workshops, portfolio recordings and CD production to fully professional standards. You will also be able to produce demo DVDs, both in the recording studio and in the performance spaces.

34 35 Cross-arts collaborations Collaboration is a major part of our approach to teaching and learning. We break down traditional boundaries and challenge convention, giving you the chance to collaborate with students from other art forms. If you join us as an undergraduate, you will work with students in the Drama and Production Arts departments during the first year workshop project. And each year, our facilities are handed over to students for an entire day of informal showcases as part of the annual Guildhall Festival. On this day, students from all disciplines come together to display their creative talents.

Performing in London, the UK and beyond Our location in the heart of the City’s Culture Mile, and our partnerships with the Barbican and London Symphony Orchestra, mean we offer exciting performance opportunities in some of the capital’s finest venues. The Guildhall Symphony Orchestra and Chorus perform regularly in the 2,000-seat Barbican Hall, while chamber musicians give recitals there as part of the acclaimed LSO Platforms: Guildhall Artists series. The Barbican’s Church of St Giles Cripplegate and LSO St Luke’s are also regularly used for performances.

We are involved in performances in prestigious venues across London, such as Kings Place, Wigmore Hall and the Southbank Centre. Further afield, recent performances have taken place at Aldeburgh Festival, New York’s Carnegie Hall, and the Banff Centre in Canada.

Additionally, students get involved in Guildhall School’s extensive programme of Outside Engagements. These are paid events, where students perform at company and corporate functions, wedding services, receptions and family occasions, and deliver full recitals and concerto performances for music clubs and societies.

36 37 The BMus programme is centred around world-leading BMus one-to-one tuition for performers, composers and

Strings, Wind, Brass, Percussion, electronic musicians. Its principal aim is to develop your Keyboard, Vocal Studies, ability as a practical musician. Composition, Electronic Music, Jazz, Early Instruments At least two-thirds of the programme is opportunities. A Joint Principal Study focused on students’ Principal Study pathway is available if you want to Four years full-time areas, promoting personal and artistic combine two areas of Principal Study. development by providing at least gsmd.ac.uk/music 30 individual lessons a year with our renowned professorial staff. The Years 1 and 2 programme also offers over 100 hours of additional lessons, including practical In addition to Principal Study and tutorial classes, chamber coaching, workshops groups, students follow a small number of and projects with high profile conductors Academic Studies and Creative Learning and artists, and opportunities to perform elective modules. These will give you the in some of the country’s finest venues. essential building blocks you need as a musician, including analysis, aural and From the start, you will be treated collaborative skills, harmony, history, jazz like a professional musician. Our workshop and keyboard musicianship. students are given all the support and In Year 1, you will also take a module encouragement they need to prepare in Professional Studies, which explores for life in the industry. They also get broader topics such as performance the chance to establish contacts and psychology and health and wellbeing, as gain exposure via our partnerships with well as improvisation and communication organisations such as the Barbican, skills. In Year 2, you will follow a module London Symphony Orchestra, BBC in Conducting. Symphony Orchestra and Academy of Ancient Music. Years 3 and 4 As you learn to work effectively and creatively with others, you will also be In Years 3 and 4, Principal Study continues given plenty of time for individual study to be the main focus. But in Year 3 you can and reflection. choose one of more than 15 electives in Academic Studies and Creative Learning, See our Principal Study pages (50–77) with a further two from 20 electives in for further information on instrument- Year 4 to complete your studies (see box). specific tuition and performance Those who achieve high level results in Principal Study can take Advanced Elective modules Principal Study and Advanced Ensemble to pursue their performance practice to an Advanced Ensemble Opera and Theatre (available only to even greater degree. Advanced Principal Study Year 4 Principal Study singers) Big Band Arranging PianoWorks Short Term Music Programme Body Matters Research Project Brass and Wind Arranging Second Study We also have an undergraduate level Short “For me, the best thing is the variety of the course, and doing lots Composition for Media Techniques in Composition Term Programme, for those on a gap of different and exciting things. One minute you could be playing Conducting Workshop Skills year or looking to study abroad. Running in the Guildhall Studio Orchestra with jazz musicians, the next you from September to February each year, Electro-Acoustic Music the programme provides six months of could be playing in the opera pit, then the next minute you’ll be Historical Performance: Performance intensive music tuition as a Guildhall with actors doing the musical and then playing a symphony in the Historical Performance: Principles School student, focused on Principal orchestra. You’re doing all these amazing, different projects at the and Research Study tuition and musicianship skills. Interpretation through Improvisation same time. And it’s great being around people who are studying Introduction to Music Therapy Find out more loads of different things. You’re not just around musicians, you’ve Jazz Performance got a bit of variety.” Music, Philosophy and the Arts Visit gsmd.ac.uk/music for further information on teaching staff, audition requirements, Open Days and how Millie Ashton to apply. BMus Violin

38 39 Studying for a Guildhall Artist Masters in Performance Part 1 (MMus) MMus/MPerf in prepares you for entry to the profession at the highest level. It gives you technical facility and musical flexibility, allowing In Part 1 most of your time is spent on Performance your one-to-one Principal Study. But you you to explore and refine your individual artistic voice. will also take modules on topics relevant (Guildhall Artist to your professional life such as research, This programme is all about developing as the Orchestral Artistry specialism self-reflection, and professional artistic Masters) an intelligent musician and practitioner; delivered in association with the London development. In addition, you can choose about challenging yourself and taking Symphony Orchestra (see page 42). from a variety of Academic Studies and Strings, Wind, Brass, Percussion, risks within your field of expertise. The Creative Learning electives to broaden and Keyboard, Vocal Studies, Opera School will provide you with a learning deepen your musical expertise (see Elective Studies*, Repetiteur, Piano environment that enables you to recognise Professional specialisms modules box opposite). Accompaniment, Chamber Music, and nurture your strengths. Extended Guildhall Artist programme Jazz, Historical Performance Practice, Within the Performance pathway, Orchestral Artistry An extended programme is available to We respect creativity and a desire to learn, students study one of our professional Part 2 (MPerf) *Opera Studies is full-time only, and and want you to recognise and surpass specialisms according to instrument postgraduate applicants with potential whose Principal Study is not yet at BMus Part 1 takes two academic years your limits. As part of this development and area of interest: In Part 2, even more of your time is focused (Hons) level. This programme includes an process, you will receive feedback from on Principal Study, with the remainder introductory year of Principal Study, and Part 1 (MMus) a variety of sources. To ensure you gain Advanced Instrumental Studies of the programme allowing time for a awards a Graduate Certificate to successful One year full-time/two years part- self-reliance and the confidence to (Strings, Wind, Brass, Percussion, Keyboard) critique of your personal development. time further your career independently, we Intensive study for soloists and candidates who don’t progress on to the prioritise individual study and reflective ensemble players full programme. Part 2 (MPerf) practice. See our Principal Study One year full-time pages (50–77) for further information Chamber Music Progression to Part 2 is conditional on instrument-specific tuition and (Strings, Wind, Brass, Percussion, Keyboard) Short Term Music Programme on results from Part 1 performance opportunities. For pre-existing groups and individuals who wish to hone their skills in We also have a postgraduate-level Short gsmd.ac.uk/music At Guildhall Artist Masters level, chamber music Term Programme which provides six the opportunities for professional months of intensive music tuition exposure are even greater. Our teaching Historical Performance Practice as a Guildhall School student, focused staff includes world-class performers Instrumental study with an emphasis on Principal Study tuition and and innovative practitioners. You on collaboration with singers musicianship skills. will learn from internationally- renowned conductors and artists in Jazz some of the country’s finest venues. Intensive specialism for instrumentalists Find out more Many specialisms within this and singers programme work closely with our Visit gsmd.ac.uk/music for further partner organisations, particularly Opera Studies information on teaching staff, audition Our award-winning specialism offering requirements, open days and how to apply. advanced operatic training Elective modules Orchestral Artistry in association Additional solo recital (Wind, Brass Interpretation through Improvisation with the LSO & Percussion students only) Jazz Composition and Arranging (Strings, Wind, Brass, Percussion) Advanced Techniques in Composition (Jazz students only) Ground-breaking specialism placing Body Matters Jazz Improvisation (Jazz students only) students seeking a career in orchestral Chamber Music Music, Philosophy and the Arts playing alongside LSO players and Collaborative Practice: Opera & Theatre (singers only) international artists – see page 42 Cross-Arts contexts PianoWorks (pianists only) Piano Accompaniment Collaborative Practice: Research Project Intensive study in collaborative pianism Education Contexts Song accompaniment (pianists only) Composition for Media Vocal Repertoire (singers only) Repetiteur Conducting Voiceworks (composers and Specific repetiteur study for pianists Contextual Studies: The Forbidden singers only) within the Opera Department Saxophone Vocal Studies Electro-Acoustic Music Advanced study for singers who can Historical Performance: Performance specialise in areas of particular interest Historical Performance: Principles Further information on our professional and Research specialisms can be found in the Principal Study pages (50–77).

40 41 Orchestral Artistry is an exciting professional specialism MMus/MPerf in for exceptional instrumentalists seeking a career in Performance orchestral playing. Part of the Guildhall Artist Masters programme, it offers a course of study which is both highly (Guildhall Artist distinctive and ground-breaking in scope, in a context Masters): akin to a professional environment.

Orchestral Artistry The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), • Masterclasses and chamber coachings, Resident Orchestra at the Barbican, attracts either as an observer or a performer, In association with the London outstanding players from all over the with a variety of LSO players Symphony Orchestra world. Under Music Director Sir Simon • Q&A sessions, masterclasses and Rattle, it has an enviable roster of soloists, chamber coachings, either as an conductors and regular artists who feature observer or a performer, with in its 50 London concerts every year. international artists working with the LSO. Pierre Boulez famously described the orchestra as ‘an ensemble of possibilities’ In addition, members of the Barbican Strings, Wind, Brass, Percussion – and Orchestral Artistry embodies International Associates (such as this challenge. The programme focuses Concertgebouw Orchestra, Leipzig Part 1 (MMus) One year full-time on orchestral training, education and Gewandhaus Orchestra and Los Angeles outreach and early career support for Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic Part 2 (MPerf) One year full-time the orchestral players of the future. We and Jazz at Lincoln Center) deliver a Progression to Part 2 is conditional value an entrepreneurial attitude to the number of masterclasses throughout the on results from Part 1 arts; not only will you master your craft, year, enhancing the international flavour you will acquire the skills, knowledge of the School and providing insight into gsmd.ac.uk/music and capabilities you need to become a the playing styles and sound-worlds of high-achieving 21st century performing these renowned ensembles. artist. As part of the programme, students receive individual tuition from Guildhall School’s professors or an LSO player who Part 1 (MMus) is also a Guildhall professor. They can also participate in: Orchestral Artistry focuses on excellence in performance, core musicianship skills • Orchestral training, sectionals and and leadership and communication. audition training from Guildhall In the first year of the programme, in professors and a variety of LSO players addition to one-to-one lessons you will receive coaching from LSO players and Guildhall professors in orchestral sectionals, audition experience, and instrumental classes. There will also be masterclasses from LSO players and international soloists. You will have sit-in opportunities, either listening or playing alongside LSO players in orchestral rehearsals, plus access to a wide variety of educational concerts and workshops.

“The benefits of a close relationship with an orchestra such as the Part 2 (MPerf) LSO cannot be underestimated: as a student, your standards and perspectives are always being stretched. Whether it is in sit-in If you progress to Year 2, you will be given more autonomy in arranging rehearsals, side-by-side projects or chamber orchestra sessions, your own assessed projects, as well the LSO players not only offer invaluable guidance but lead as continuing activities from the first year. The second year is strongly by example and provide us with a glimpse of the exceptional focused on further development of standards we aspire towards.” technical and artistic abilities. Breadth of repertoire, individual creative output and professional experience are also Rees Webster key features. Students in both years can MPerf Oboe (Orchestral Artistry)

42 43 Guildhall School offers some of the most stimulating MMus/MComp and creative training for composers in the UK. Studying in Composition composition at Guildhall Artist Masters level prepares you for professional life as a composer. It allows you to (Guildhall Artist explore and refine your individual artistic voice within the Masters) atmosphere of a busy, modern conservatoire, while also giving you space for self-reflection. Part 1 (MMus) One year full-time/two years The programme is primarily practical Guildhall School has to offer. These part-time and project-based, but you will also be might include working on one of the supported by weekly analytical and Drama Department’s many productions, Part 2 (MComp) theoretical seminars. All students are collaborating with the jazz students or One year full-time expected to meet a series of deadlines as developing new work with postgraduate Progression to Part 2 is conditional the year progresses – essential preparation performers and singers. The School’s New on results from Part 1 for a professional career. Music Society, New Music Ensemble and annual projects with the vocal ensemble MMus/MComp can also be studied EXAUDI, new music specialists Plus- as a purely electronic specialism. Part 1 (MMus) Minus, collaborative projects in dance at See page 72 for details. London Contemporary Dance School and During the year, students produce a City Chamber Choir all provide excellent gsmd.ac.uk/music portfolio of compositions supported by a platforms for public performance. The written commentary on the year’s work. Department has enjoyed strong links These core projects include extensive with the London Symphony Orchestra’s workshopping opportunities and Panufnik Young Composers Scheme, LSO performances (see below). Soundhub, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s Young Composer programme, While compositional activity will take up which have all featured Guildhall most of your study time, you can also take composers. See the Composition Principal classes in electronic music and writing Study on page 68 for further information for film and television. You can pursue on departmental opportunities. these areas further within the elective programme, which also offers elective Part 2 (MComp) take part in the LSO’s education and A diverse programme of core modules, modules in areas including performance, community programmes such as LSO On and elective modules in Part 1 (see page jazz and improvisation, aesthetics and Exceptional students from Part 1 will be Track and Early Years Outreach, as well 40) from the Guildhall Artist Masters analytical or historical research (see box given the opportunity to continue their as Creative Learning projects. This will programme will enable you to further on page 40). studies into Part 2. During the year, you enable you to learn how community- develop your skills in practical subjects will independently undertake a portfolio based programmes are delivered, and research. The programme is built around a central of three substantial compositional and to meet professional animateurs, strand of weekly seminars, in which projects alongside your one-to-one performers and administration teams both staff and visiting composers lead tuition, strengthening your artistic and involved in these projects. Find out more discussion and score analysis of recent contemporary music. An eclectic mix of professional development. Performance opportunities on this Visit gsmd.ac.uk/music for further composers, musicologists, performers programme embrace a variety of information on teaching staff, audition and music administrators cover a range Extended Guildhall Artist programme orchestral contexts, including Symphony requirements, Open Days and how of practical and theoretical topics. Recent Orchestra concerts in the Barbican, and to apply. visiting composers include John Adams, the opera orchestra for productions by Steve Reich, Louis Andriessen, Michael Students who are enrolled on the the School’s acclaimed Opera Department Finnissy, Rozalie Hirs, Michel van der Extended Guildhall Artist programme (see page 62). There is a full programme Aa, Claudia Molitor, James MacMillan, will need to pass an introductory year of chamber music, new music, Howard Skempton, Jennifer Walshe, Jurg before progressing to Part 1. See page 41 historically-informed performance and Frey, Cassandra Miller, Martin Arnold, for further details. interdisciplinary practice. and Alwynne Pritchard. Prominent publishers, copyists and administrators also offer practical insights into the Find out more music business. Visit gsmd.ac.uk/music for further In addition to coursework, we encourage information on teaching staff, entry students to take advantage of the many requirements, Open Days and how creative and collaborative opportunities to apply.

44 45 This Masters programme allows composers and writers “There isn’t anything quite like this course out there. The MA in Opera to focus on how new opera is created, developed and departmental philosophy of returning opera back to something Making and performed. Part of an exciting new partnership between that is essentially produced as part of a company is a really great Writing Guildhall School and the Royal Opera House, the thing. People here are very passionate about what they do.” programme is led by Julian Philips, Head of Composition, In association with Royal Opera with support from Stephen Plaice, Writer-in-Residence, Klara Kofen (writer) House, Covent Garden Laura Bowler, composition professor, and other visiting MA Opera Making and Writing composers and writers. “The quality of teaching is amazingly high. With the guidance and help

The programme is coordinated in Additional programme features that I’ve been given, I feel my work has got dramatically better over close collaboration with the School’s include: award-winning Opera Department, its a short space of time. We get a lot of helpful input from experienced

Production Arts Department and the • One-to-one Principal Study tuition for practitioners which has really lifted the quality of our work.” Associate Director of Opera at the Royal One year full-time both writers and composers Opera House. It enables you to acquire • Regular mentoring sessions for the first-hand experience of the day-to-day Lucy Armstrong (composer) gsmd.ac.uk/music composer-writer creative teams from workings of the Royal Opera House. Drama Department professors MA Opera Making and Writing At the same time, you will receive • Weekly production seminars, with individually-tailored one-to-one tuition presentations from visiting writers, from the School’s Writer-in-Residence, composers and directors Stephen Plaice, or from a member of • Two blocks of creative development the School’s world-class Composition time for composers and writers to Department. Through mentoring and workshop their new chamber operas as observation, you will gain valuable they develop insight into how to work successfully • Observation of contemporary opera in in opera with conductors and directors, rehearsal and production both on the singers and instrumentalists, designers main stage and in smaller spaces at the and stage managers. Royal Opera House • Performance opportunities for smaller- scale project work through the School’s The programme Vocal Studies and Drama Departments • A professorial post of Writer-in- Specifically focusing on operatic Residence, Stephen Plaice, appointed to composition and the theatre, the core lead the Writing pathway, supporting programme activity supports writers and and supervising writing students on composers to work collaboratively on the programme the creation of a new chamber operatic • Electives including Electro-Acoustic work (20-25 minutes in duration). This Music, Aesthetics, Research and Writing piece will be rehearsed, produced and for Performance premiered by the Opera programme in Guildhall School’s new Milton Court Studio Theatre. Additional projects allow Find out more writers to focus more specifically on their own creative practice – whether poetry, Visit gsmd.ac.uk/music for further prose or dramatic script – and composers information on teaching staff, entry to develop their craft in writing for requirements, Open Days and how the operatic voice. For both writers to apply. and composers, this programme offers valuable performance opportunities for new work across Guildhall School’s Music, Acting and Production Arts Departments. All students will become equipped with appropriate expertise in the professional context of new opera.

46 47 The Music Therapy Masters programme aims to realise This programme is for advanced students with exceptional MA in Music students’ full musicianship potential and equip them Artist Diploma individual aptitude in their specialism and represents Therapy with the knowledge and skills to work as a registered academic progression post-Masters degree. It provides music therapist. Strings, Wind, Brass, Percussion, specialist, professional training for students looking to Keyboard, Vocal Studies, Opera embark on an international career. Two years full-time On this programme, students gain communication. This tuition will Studies (including repetiteurs), experience working with adults and be complemented by one-to-one Historical Performance gsmd.ac.uk/music At the end of the two-year programme, Further information on departmental children alongside qualified music conservatoire-level training in your you will be assessed on your performance opportunities at this level is available on Two years full-time therapists on placements in a variety of Principal Study, and supporting Second in a fully-staged opera production or the Principal Study pages (50–77). settings including special and mainstream Study lessons with the School’s teachers. full-length ticketed evening recital in schools, and with people who experience: The programme provides access to leading gsmd.ac.uk/music Milton Court. Repetiteurs, meanwhile, Entry is limited to applicants who have specialists in improvisation and an active will undergo a 60-70 minute assessment gained a distinction following completion • Mental health problems research community, with the possibility split between a public recital and a private of a two-year Masters of Music degree • Dementia of participating in research events. mock audition. You will be involved in (e.g. MPerf) or international equivalent. • Learning disabilities performances throughout both years, • Communication disorders You will be prepared for employment in from platforms to formal and informal health, education, social and community recitals and productions. You will also Find out more The programme is influenced by psycho- service and the voluntary sector. Graduates be expected and encouraged to be active dynamic approaches to therapy, which are eligible to register as Arts Therapists means that all music therapy students with the Health and Care Professions outside the School if your visa allows, Visit gsmd.ac.uk/music for further undertake their own personal therapy Council (HCPC) and as professional taking proactive steps to promote your information on teaching staff, audition during training. A high degree of self- members of the British Association for freelance career. requirements, Open Days and how reflection and self-awareness is required, Music Therapy. to apply. and gaining experience of personal psychotherapy prior to training is highly recommended. Year 1

Studying Music Therapy at Guildhall Clinical practice is central to the training. School is a unique experience. You Students gain clinical experience in at will join one of the world’s leading least two different placement settings in conservatoires, receiving an intensive Year 1, supervised by HCPC-registered programme of lectures and seminars music therapists at hospitals, special to provide therapeutic and theoretical schools and units in and around London. knowledge, weekly keyboard This is supplemented by clinical seminars, musicianship, improvisation and theoretical studies, and musicianship skills voice classes to ensure you acquire to support and integrate the clinical work. highly developed skills in musical

Year 2

Placements in Year 2 provide a balance to Year 1, offering extended and in-depth experiences supported by further clinical seminars and professional practice classes. The core module in Applied Theoretical & Research Studies introduces students to the meaning, purpose and value of research applied in a music therapy context and leads to the submission of a research proposal and research project report.

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Visit gsmd.ac.uk/music for further information on teaching staff, entry requirements, Open Days and how to apply.

48 49 The Department of Stringed and students receive at least 45 hours • Solo, chamber and orchestral • Cavatina Chamber Music Trust Principal Study Instruments emphasises individual tuition of individual lessons a year. Intensive masterclasses Intercollegiate Competition underpinned by chamber and orchestral chamber music coaching is also central • Jazz, Early and Contemporary Harp • Gisborne International Music Strings, Harp & coaching. Led by Louise Hopkins, the to the Department’s ethos and is made • Harp Teaching Skills Competition Department is supported by a staff of available to all string players. • Strings at Six and Chamber at Six • Borletti-Buitoni Trust Guitar pre-eminent performers and teachers, performance series • Royal Philharmonic Society Young including Imogen Barford as Head of The Harp Department combines Artist Award Harp and Robert Brightmore as Head individual teaching of the highest • Royal Over-Seas League Chamber Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass, Harp, of Guitar. Recent visitors include Midori, calibre with a stimulating and extensive Music Prize Guitar DaXun Zhang, Anne-Sophie Mutter, course of study for harpists. Work in Recent Department • ChamberStudio Mentorship Thomas Riebl, Janine Jansen, Leonidas weekly classes covers every aspect of • Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal Kavakos, and principal players of the harp playing, including orchestral, highlights Standard Life Competition London Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles chamber music, practising and • Melbourne International Chamber Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus and teaching skills, jazz and improvisation, • String masterclasses with Erich Music Competition Royal Concertgebouw Orchestras, and contemporary musicianship, light music Hobarth, Gary Hoffman, Midori, • Sylva Gelber Foundation Award Alban Gerhardt, Nobuko Imai, DaXun the New York Philharmonic. and contextual studies. • British Harp Chamber Music Zhang, Bret Simner, Tim Cobb, Anne- Competition Sophie Mutter, Thomas Riebl, András The Guitar Department offers • The Gwendolen Mason Cup at the Keller, Janine Jansen, Nikolaj Znaider, comprehensive training at the highest Bromley Festival Leonidas Kavakos, Bruno Giuranna, level in both solo and chamber music • Giovani Musicisti International Music Undergraduate of departmental staff and visiting Gordan Nikolic, Donald Weilerstein, performance. The central part of the Competition artists. The specialism is designed for Gary Hoffman, Zuill Bailey, Christian BMus programme is the solo repertoire of the • Ivor Mairants Guitar Award individuals and existing groups with Tetzlaff, Ediscon Ruiz, Elmira (See page 38 for programme structure) last four centuries. During the second year • American Protégé International Piano considerable chamber music experience, Darvarova, Pavlo Beznosiuk (Baroque students take theorbo lessons which lead and Strings Competition with the aim of developing students’ interpretation) and Extended String Performance is a core component of to continuo work. And in Years 3 and 4 skills to a professional level. Techniques for contemporary music the Strings Principal Study pathway chamber music and concerto playing are with David Alberman In addition, students have been essential parts of the syllabus. Artist Diploma • Harp masterclasses with Marie-Pierre selected for the Orchestra of the Age (See page 49) Langlamet, Nancy Allen, Sivan Magen, of Enlightenment Ann and Peter Law Isabelle Perrin, Anneleen Lenaerts, OAE Experience Scheme, the LSO String MPhil/DMus, MPhil/PhD Chantal Mathieu and Sylvain Basel Experience Scheme, Philharmonia Postgraduate (See page 102) • Masterclasses with leaders of the MMSF String Fellowship Programme, Barbican’s International Associate Pro Corda Leverhulme Fellowships, IMS MMus/MPerf in Performance orchestras, including the Los Angeles Prussia Cove and as Young Classical (See page 40) – choose from the Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Artists Trust artists. specialisms listed below: Activities and Leipzig Gewandhaus orchestras, and the New York Philharmonic Former students are members of leading Orchestral Artistry in association • Performances by senior student string chamber ensembles and orchestras with the London Symphony Orchestra and ensembles quartets in pre-London Symphony internationally, and many are among the See page 42 for details of this exciting • Principal Study lessons Orchestra concerts on the Barbican Hall most sought-after performers and teachers new specialism. • Intensive chamber music coaching stage in the profession. (inter- and cross-departmental) • Joint projects with the Composition Advanced Instrumental Studies • Public solo and chamber music concerts Department, where string and piano This specialism is for players wishing • Solo and chamber music competitions students work with composers, to focus intensively on instrumental • Participation in New Music Ensemble resulting in the performance of newly Find out more and musical progression. It involves (by audition) created works a high number of contact hours in Visit gsmd.ac.uk/music for further • Second Study (by audition) • A dedicated and recently refurbished individual lessons with your Principal information on teaching staff, audition • Repertoire orchestra double bass room and harp room, as Study professor. In addition to the well as storage lockers for basses requirements, Open Days and how • Side-by-side reading sessions with optional Chamber elective there are a to apply. members of professional orchestras range of chamber music performance • Studio orchestra opportunities as this is a primary focus • Chamber and Symphony Orchestra within the School. There is also a broad projects, with orchestra sectional Recent student range of orchestral projects (opera, rehearsals led by London Symphony chamber, symphony, new music, successes Orchestra players baroque) where a wide variety of styles • String Labs and Professor Platform and techniques can be explored. Students in the Department have recently lecture/workshop series, featuring a been prize winners in the following Chamber Music broad range of topics competitions: This specialism focuses on the • Internal performance platforms development of core chamber music skills. designed to enhance performance and • Trondheim International Chamber Regular coaching is provided by a mix boost confidence Music Competition

50 51 “Being on the Masters programme is really amazing. The most The Wind, Brass & Percussion Department The shaping of this pathway will depend important thing is that there’s proper, structured practice Principal Study provides exciting opportunities for on your skills and ambitions. There are learning and performing, with a world- opportunities to pursue further study time and I’m finding that really invaluable. We have so many Wind, Brass & class team of instrumental professors in contemporary, jazz or early music contact hours with our Principal Study teacher which is absolutely who are leaders in solo, chamber and through Second Study, specialist classes Percussion orchestral performance. Led by Richard and performances. Collaboration is a key golden. I’m really enjoying chamber music this year. I set up a Benjafield (Head of Department) and Jo element, and you can work with both piano trio when I arrived, and we have weekly coaching with Hensel (Deputy Head), the Department’s the Drama Department and Creative members of the Endellion Quartet and the faculty, which is an Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn, programmes will enable you to achieve Learning during the programme. Trumpet, Trombone, Tuba, Timpani & the very highest levels of musical opportunity to delve deep in to quite a small body of repertoire. Percussion, Saxophone, Recorder performance. You will also be supported Throughout your time at Guildhall It has been very rewarding.” to develop your musicianship, technique School, you will receive mentoring and professional skills, and to nurture the support and classes in professional creativity and enterprise required of 21st and practical skills to prepare you for Leo Popplewell century musicians. professional life. Many Guildhall alumni MMus Cello enjoy successful careers in music and the arts, both in the UK and internationally: see pages 78–79 for recent examples. Undergraduate Saxophone BMus Focusing on the versatility and (See page 38 for programme structure) musical diversity of the contemporary saxophonist, saxophone students study Each student’s journey through classical and contemporary music, jazz, Guildhall School is an individual improvisation and musical theatre, one. The Wind, Brass & Percussion clarinet and flute. Department (WBP) offers a rich and diverse programme of opportunities Recorder that will enable you to become the very Recorder students study medieval best musician that you can be. As you to contemporary music, perform progress, you will have lessons with a with the School’s consort Woodwork range of Principal Study professors as and collaborate with the Historical well as with your main professor. You Performance Department. will also study doubling instruments to help improve your flexibility and employability as a musician. Postgraduate Chamber music and several orchestral repertoire classes are timetabled every MMus/MPerf in Performance week, and all students take part in these. (See page 40) – choose from the specialisms listed below: Wind, Brass & Percussion runs ensembles and classes for all instruments, with Orchestral Artistry in association with the regular performances both in the School London Symphony Orchestra itself and externally. There are frequent See page 42 for details of this exciting masterclasses by visiting artists on solo, specialism. chamber and orchestral repertoire, including a regular series of masterclasses Advanced Instrumental Studies given by players from the Barbican’s Advanced Instrumental Studies (AIS) International Associate Orchestras – is for talented students who want to another benefit of our partnership with develop their individual artistic voice the Barbican Centre. There are also annual with a particular focus on selected instrumental competitions, a weekly WBP repertoire. Applicants for the AIS choir, and performance projects open to specialism are expected to have a high all students. level of instrumental ability and musical understanding, and a broad knowledge Progressing through the programme, of repertoire for their instrument. AIS you will be able to develop your students take part in weekly departmental own individualised study pathway classes, chamber music, and orchestral in consultation with the Head of and ensemble performance projects Department and your professors. throughout the year. The intended focus

52 53 • Wind Brass & Percussion Spotlight concert series by ensembles and soloists, pre-LSO concerts in the Barbican Centre, Saxophone and Brass concerts at King’s Ely, and performances in the BBC Total Immersion Radio 3 contemporary series • Guildhall sackbut students toured and recorded in Canada with the Choir of Girton College, Cambridge • Guildhall Percussion Ensemble and Ubu Ensemble (Simon Wills, conductor) performed at The Rest Is Noise Festival at the Southbank Centre • The opening of the Geoffrey Gilbert Flute Room, in memory of former professor Geoffrey Gilbert who taught James Galway and William Bennett; the room houses Gilbert’s personal collection of music and scores

of study is discussed at the interview, • Audition classes Recent student whether it be solo playing, chamber • Symphony, Opera and Chamber success music, historical performance, or orchestras contemporary music. • Wind, Brass, Percussion and Students in the Department have Saxophone ensembles been prize winners in the following Chamber Music • Recorder Consort competitions: This specialism is for groups with • New Music ensembles “It’s a place where lots of mad and cool things happen with considerable chamber music experience, • Historical Performance ensembles • Nestlé and Salzburg Festival Young all branches of art. It seemed like this was a place to go and with the aim of developing students’ • Cross-school collaborative projects Conductors Award experience a complete world of art and performance and see what skills to a professional level. Regular • Professional Studies (including teaching • Los Angeles Philharmonic Dudamel coaching is provided by departmental skills and business advice) Fellowship in Conducting happened - a place that really encouraged you to make things staff and visiting artists. There are many • Individual mentoring support • Lions UK and Ireland Musician of opportunities to perform in Chamber that you want to make. You’re encouraged to set stuff up off your the Year own back because that’s what you have to do in the industry. Platforms, as well as in the School • RTÉ lyric fm Award and externally. • Newark Brass Festival Competition I felt a real pull towards Guildhall because of the vast and diverse Recent Department • Three Choirs Festival Competitive Artist Diploma range of activities.” Masterclass for Woodwind (See page 49) highlights In addition, students have been selected Vittorio Angelone MPhil/DMus, MPhil/PhD • Masterclasses with over 80 world- annually for the London Sinfonietta (See page 102) BMus Percussion leading artists, including: Denis Academy, the LSO Timpani & Percussion Bouriakov, Julien Beaudiment, Academy, and the LSO Brass Academy. Adam Walker (flute); Melinda Maxwell, Olivier Stankewicz (oboe); Activities and Pascal Moragues, Reiner Wehle (clarinet); Rachel Gough, Gustavo Find out more ensembles Nunes (bassoon); Tom Challenger, Visit gsmd.ac.uk/music for further • 45 individual Principal Study lessons Nigel Hitchcock (saxophone); Karel information on teaching staff, audition each year van Steenhoven, Sebastian Marq • Weekly instrumental classes for (recorder); Nebojša Živkovic´, Russell requirements, Open Days and how all students Hartenberger (percussion); Andrew to apply. • Masterclasses with visiting UK and Bain, Olivier Darbellay (horn); Philip international musicians Cobb, Omar Tomasoni (trumpet); • Weekly orchestral repertoire sessions Jörgen van Rijen, Mark Templeton, • Scheduled chamber music coaching Stefan Schulz (trombone); David Cribb and rehearsals every week (tuba); Berlin Philharmonic Wind • Platform performances Quintet, Canadian Brass, So¯ Percussion

54 55 Offering a wide array of solo, ensemble debut Wigmore Hall recital. There are also Principal Study and accompaniment training, the opportunities to participate in the School’s Keyboard Department is headed by the international partnerships with other Keyboard internationally acclaimed pianist Ronan conservatoires and performance centres. O’Hora. Visiting artists have included Leif Ove Andsnes, Emanuel Ax, Imogen Piano Accompaniment Piano, Fortepiano, Harpsichord Cooper, Richard Goode, Stephen This specialism is for students who Kovacevich, Paul Lewis, Murray Perahia want to develop a career in collaborative and András Schiff. pianism. It combines individual technical work, class work on specific skills such as continuo playing, orchestral reductions, coaching and languages, and duo and Undergraduate ensemble work in a variety of situations.

BMus Graham Johnson, Senior Professor of (See page 38 for programme structure) Accompaniment, takes regular public and private masterclasses covering the literary The one-to-one lessons with our piano and musical background to various faculty are at the heart of the Keyboard composers. In keeping with Guildhall Department’s work. You will receive School’s commitment to experimentation 45 hours in the first two years of study, and innovation, Iain Burnside has increasing to 60 in the next two years. initiated several ground-breaking In addition to studying with your own performance projects combining music professor, you will have the opportunity and drama, while Gordon Back regularly to work with most of the keyboard staff directs instrumental concerts. Pianists are in a variety of performance classes, encouraged to take part in chamber music coaching and performances. All students as well as with a large number of have weekly piano lessons and a series of distinguished visitors. classes on various accompaniment skills. Recent masterclasses have been taken by All practical assessments take place Martin Katz, Malcolm Martineau, Julius through performances, whether as Drake and Ralf Gothoni. mid-year and end-of-year recitals, or as concerts of ensemble work with There is a wide range of performance instrumentalists and singers. You will opportunities on the programme, play a concerto with piano in your third particularly at the weekly vocal and year, and have the opportunity to work on instrumental platforms. You may also preceding LSO concerts as part of • Scottish International Piano chamber music, vocal accompaniment, be offered professional accompaniment Recent Department Guildhall Artists at the Barbican, at Competition contemporary repertoire and fortepiano work to help you through your first year Carnegie Hall in New York, and as • Dublin International Piano with leading performers in these fields. in the profession. highlights visiting artists at Banff and Stuttgart Competition • British Contemporary Piano Chamber Music • Masterclasses by Lang Lang, Richard Competition This is a specialised route focusing on the Goode, Imogen Cooper, Simon • Royal Over-Seas League Annual Music Postgraduate development of core chamber music skills. Trpcˇeski, Christian Blackshaw, Jeremy Recent student Competition Regular coaching is provided by a mixture Denk, Emanuel Ax, Paul Lewis, • Young Concert Artists Trust (YCAT) MMus/MPerf in Performance successes of departmental staff and visiting artists. Ronald Brautigam, Leon Fleischer, • Kathleen Ferrier Awards (See page 40) – choose from the This route is designed for individual Aleksandar Madžar, Rolf Hind, Students in the Department have won specialisms listed below: students and existing groups with Martin Katz, Julius Drake prizes in the following competitions: considerable chamber music experience, • Projects for accompanists with Graham Advanced Instrumental Studies with the aim of developing their skills to a Johnson, including The Song Guild, Find out more This specialism is for pianists intending professional level. See page 66. • Leeds International Piano Competition a small group of singers and pianists • International Chopin Piano to focus intensely on performance and Visit gsmd.ac.uk/music for further working with Johnson in song Competition who can demonstrate career potential as a Repetiteur Training information on teaching staff, audition repertoire; and innovative performance • BNDES International Piano soloist or chamber player. You will receive (See page 63) requirements, Open Days and how projects with Iain Burnside combining Competition of Rio de Janeiro 60 hours of private one-to-one Principal to apply. Study tuition over the year, as well as Historical Performance Studies music and drama • RNCM James Mottram International the opportunity to play in masterclasses (See page 64) • Faculty Artist Series recitals by Ronan Piano Competition with a range of distinguished visiting O’Hora, Martin Roscoe, Noriko Ogawa, • Città di Cantù International pianists. There are many performance Artist Diploma Charles Owen, Caroline Palmer and Competition opportunities both within and outside (See page 49) Graham Johnson • Enschede International Piano the School, including competitions such • Student pianists performing as soloists Competition as the Gold Medal and the Guildhall MPhil/DMus, MPhil/PhD with Chamber and Symphony • Honens International Piano Wigmore Recital Prize for an annual (See page 102) Orchestras, on the Barbican stage Competition

56 57 Guildhall School is internationally and by Year 4 your development as a Principal Study renowned for its training of singers. At professional is enhanced by the Teaching the heart of our approach in Vocal Studies Skills module as well as encounters with Vocal Studies is the development of each student’s visiting industry figures in Professional individuality as a performer and artist. & Performance Skills. Through an intensive programme of one-to-one lessons, specialist coaching, small-group work, repertoire classes and performance projects, you will Postgraduate develop the knowledge and gain the practical experience necessary to forge Postgraduate singers embark on Vocal your own artistic path. Establishing and Studies at Guildhall with diverse maintaining a healthy, sustainable previous experiences: some come with vocal technique is the central focus of a considerable background in opera and your one-to-one lessons, while coaching, classical vocal performance, others with stage and concert projects and classes expertise in very different disciplines; hone your performing and broader some already have areas of specialism for professional skills. which they are aiming professionally, others wish to develop their artistry at an advanced level with a view to specialising later. The multiple postgraduate study Undergraduate routes cater for this diversity.

Guildhall’s undergraduate programme MMus/MPerf in Performance in Vocal Studies establishes the core (See page 40) – Vocal Studies specialism disciplines necessary for you as a singer in your first years of training. Once Extended Guildhall Artist Masters established, we integrate these in practical You might enter the School on the performance settings. Extended Guildhall Artist Masters if you show strong potential but need a BMus preliminary year to consolidate vocal (See page 38 for programme structure) technique or stage, performance and repertoire skills before progressing to In Years 1 and 2 the foundations are set in the full Masters. In this first year (the regular one-to-one singing lessons, with ‘Graduate Certificate’ year), alongside your a particular emphasis on vocal technique, one-to-one singing lessons and individual together with an array of classes in coaching, a study programme will be repertoire and musicianship, performance devised with your particular training craft and languages. Performance needs in mind. You will be involved in opportunities are plentiful, with in-house appropriate performance projects across showings and Performance Platforms the School and will be able to take part earlier in the programme and public in all postgraduate masterclasses, classes performance projects by Year 2. in repertoire, drama, movement, and Performance Platforms. Years 3 and 4 offer opportunities to take your musical and performing skills to Guildhall Artist Masters the next level: you bring them together (Part 1 & Part 2) in opera, through Introduction to Opera If you are already at an advanced level and the Opera and Theatre elective, and of vocal development with substantial you deepen your experience of vocal previous experience, the Guildhall “I was excited to cover a role in the UK premiere of Andrew performance, with specialist repertoire Artist Masters programme in Vocal Norman’s A Trip to the Moon in the Barbican, have a solo recital classes that expand and refine your Studies is designed for you to develop in LSO St Luke’s, and also to sing on the stage of Wigmore Hall knowledge of the music and of the spoken your professional profile. One-to-one and sung languages. singing lessons at this level aim to where I performed new work by Guildhall composers and writers. develop your vocal-technical abilities, It has been amazing to be able to get so many performance From Year 3 onwards, regular individual supported by individual coaching opportunities in Milton Court Concert Hall, including as part of the coaching is added to the one-to-one to further refine your expertise in singing lessons, supporting your vocal performance. LSO’s This is Rattle festival.” integration of music, language and performance. Performance Platforms In Part 1 (the ‘MMus’ year) the extensive offer the opportunity to test-run material range of performance projects offered Mirjam Mesak you might be presenting in public, in the Vocal Repertoire elective and MPerf Vocal Studies

58 59 singers aiming for a specialism in Opera Performance. Opera Studies students who have completed the Guildhall Artist Masters programme may also audition for the Vocal Studies Artist Diploma.

MPhil/DMus, MPhil/PhD (See page 102) Recent Department highlights

• Masterclasses with Renée Fleming, Joyce DiDonato, Gerald Finley, Dame Felicity Lott, Adrianne Pieczonka, Susan Bullock, Yvonne Kenny, Amanda Roocroft, Roderick Williams, Edith Wiens, Malcolm Martineau, Roger Vignoles, Julius Drake, Martin Katz • Student recitals in Barbican Hall, Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, Opera & Theatre elective allows you Artist Diploma LSO St Luke’s to specialise in key areas of the vocal (See page 49) • Songs at Six and Scenes at Six – arts. Alternatively you can combine two series of rush hour concerts vocal electives with non-vocal electives, The highest level of practical study, in Milton Court and Silk Street such as those offering Historical the Artist Diploma in Vocal Studies, is performance spaces Performance projects, as appropriate for singers who have already attained • Solo and semi-chorus opportunities in to your professional aims. This Masters a Masters level qualification, and London Symphony Orchestra opera and programme is also available for those who have reached the level of early- concert performances with Sir Simon wishing to specialise in Historical career professionals, with a significant Rattle, Sir Mark Elder, Valery Gergiev, Performance (see page 64). external performance profile in opera Daniel Harding and/or concert, and exceptional vocal- • Projects in partnership with: Royal In Part 2 (the ‘MPerf’ year) your own technical and artistic achievement. The Opera L’Orfeo and Il Ritorno d’Ulisse • Royal Opera House, Jette Parker Young • Gramophone Magazine Young Artist of portfolio of performances both inside flexible programme structure allows at The Roundhouse; Voiceworks and Artists Programme the Year 2016 and outside of Guildhall is the core you to focus on those areas of the vocal The Prince Consort at Wigmore Hall; • Bavarian State Opera, Young Artist • Kathleen Ferrier Society Bursary for of your practical development. In arts most relevant to you and benefit Oxford Lieder Festival co-production Programme addition to taking advantage of Young Singers 2016 Finalists from one-to-one singing lessons, Why Does the Queen Die; Juilliard/Royal • Frankfurt Opera, Young Artist Studio performance opportunities available • International Opera Awards Bursary as well as coaching with specialists Irish Academy of Music co-production • Les Arts Florissants – William Christie at Guildhall, we expect you to create • Glyndebourne Gus Christie Award 2016 in whichever repertoire and core Drums and Guns Foundation, Le Jardin des Voix projects of your own and make your • Gerald Moore Award 2016 • European Concert Hall Organisation own professional connections that languages you require. • Llangollen International Musical (ECHO), Rising Stars (European Multi- lead to performing engagements. Eisteddfod Voice of the Future Encounters with visiting artists and Concert Tour) 2017 Finalists Recent student • Glyndebourne Festival, Jerwood The intensive work in the Year 1 industry figures (casting, management, • Somerset Song Prize 2017 Finalists Young Artists electives and your Year 2 performance young artist programmes) are on offer successes Guildhall Vocal Studies graduates also • National Opera Studio projects is supplemented by a full and may open new professional doors. hold key positions worldwide in opera Furthermore, the support structure of the • Scottish Opera, Emerging Artists programme of advanced classes Students and graduates of Guildhall’s company management, casting, artist • Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, School, including Performance Platforms Find out more – some compulsory, others for Vocal Studies achieve exceptional success agencies, concert promotion and arts Rising Stars of Enlightenment which you sign up – in drama, opportunities, Masterclasses, Professional on opera and concert stages around the marketing. Many are leaders in music • Georg Solti Accademia Visit gsmd.ac.uk/music for further movement, opera repertoire and song. & Performance Skills sessions, repertoire world, and can be heard working education, as teachers and managers • Oxford Lieder, Young Artist Platform information on teaching staff, audition Masterclasses, Performance Platforms classes and, by special arrangement, in- with all the major opera companies, at conservatoire, university, secondary • Samling Artist Programme requirements, Open Days and how and Professional & Performance house projects, enables you to deepen your concert promoters, festivals and school and early-years levels. Others to apply. Skills sessions further enhance your artistry for continued external success at ensembles. In addition, many appear have established their own companies, Recent Vocal Studies students’ successes in professional development, with an international level of performance. on recordings, television, film and including recently in the music- competitions and awards include: practice performance opportunities, new media. Current students and technology and non-profit sectors as audition skills workshops and The Guildhall Artist Masters and Artist recent graduates are also making their well as performing groups. • Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards, encounters with visiting artists and Diploma programmes also include mark in a wide range of young artist Wigmore Hall, 2016 and 2017 Finalists figures from casting, management the School’s two-year Opera Studies programmes, competitions and awards, Recent Vocal Studies students’ Young • Kathleen Ferrier Awards 2016 and and young artist programmes. pathway (page 62) for highly advanced some of which are listed below. Artists successes include: 2017 Finalists

60 61 Opera Studies provides intensive acting and stage techniques such as MA in Opera Making and Writing, in Principal Study postgraduate training for up to 24 singers movement, dance, make-up and drama. association with the Royal Opera House and four student repetiteurs at any one As part of the programme you will take (see page 46). Opera Studies time. It offers advanced vocal training and part in workshop productions of scenes operates at a professional level, presenting and fully-staged public productions. Repetiteur Training a range of productions, from opera scenes And you will receive dedicated language This specialism is for highly accomplished and chamber opera to three full-scale coaching and career guidance. pianists and sight-readers who have operas over the two years of study. experience of accompanying singers and You must have a developed vocal knowledge of the operatic repertoire. In 2007 the Opera Department won technique to enrol on this specialism. the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for the Vocal maturity and your potential Run from within the Opera quality of its work and its innovative for development will be taken into Department, this is a one- or two- training programme. consideration. year programme offering a number of study components. These include Your training in stage techniques and accompanying opera production musical coaching will be overseen by rehearsals and coaching singers on Postgraduate experienced visiting professionals. In the Opera programme. You will also addition to vocal and dramatic training, undertake individual coaching and MMus/MPerf in Performance the Department puts on three full training in repetiteur techniques, as well (See page 40) – choose from the public productions each year and three as harpsichord tuition and continuo specialisms listed below: programmes of operatic excerpts in playing, piano lessons and language coaching. Accompanying coaching workshop settings, developed in full sessions and introductory training in Opera Studies partnership with the Production Arts The Opera Studies specialism provides opera conducting are available for those Department. In the summer term, • Henze Ein Landarzt and Phaedra • Royal Over-Seas League Annual you with singing lessons, individual who are interested. these collaborations include new work • Donizetti I Pazzi per Progetto and Music Competition coaching in roles and repertoire, and by composers and librettists on the Artist Diploma Arnold The Dancing Master • Kathleen Ferrier Awards (See page 49) • Dvorˇák The Cunning Peasant • MOCSA Young Welsh Singer of • Arne The Cooper and Stradella San the Year Giovanni Battista • London Handel Festival, Handel Singing Competition Recent Department • Help Musicians UK, Maggie Teyte Prize and Miriam Licette Scholarship productions Recent student • International Singing Competition of Logroño, Spain • Hindemith The Long Christmas Dinner successes • International Josep Mirabent I Magrans • Berkeley A Dinner Engagement competition • Mozart Così fan tutte Students in the Department have won • Jackdaws Music Education Trust, • Britten A Midsummer Night’s Dream prizes in the following competitions: Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards • Handel Aminta e Fillide • Oxford Lieder Young Artist Platform • Blow Venus and Adonis • Staatsoper Berlin, Opera Studio Young • Clonter Opera Theatre, Opera Prize and • Poulenc Dialogues des Carmélites Artist Programme Audience Prize • Menotti The Consul • English National Opera, Young Artist • Patricia Routledge National English • Handel Radamisto Programme Song Competition • Philips The Tale of Januarie (world • Bavarian State Opera, Young Artist • Houston Grand Opera, Eleanor premiere) Programme McCollum Competition for • Stravinsky Mavra and Tchaikovsky • Royal Opera House, Jette Parker Young Young Singers Iolanta Artists Programme • Martinuº Ariane and Alexandre bis • Britten The Rape of Lucretia Graduates have secured roles with: • Wolf-Ferrari Le Donne Curiose Find out more • Opera Holland Park • Staatstheater Nürnberg Opera Studio Visit gsmd.ac.uk/music for further • Clonter Opera Theatre information on teaching staff, audition • Garsington Opera requirements, Open Days and how • Grange Park Opera to apply. • Glyndebourne Festival and Touring Opera • Welsh National Opera

Students in the Department have won prizes in the following competitions:

62 63 Exploring a broad range of historical will receive the breadth of technical Esfahani and Mhairi Lawson Music Competition with the period Principal Study repertoire, the Historical Performance and performance training necessary • Joint research event in conjunction instrument string quartet, Consone. Department is headed by Christopher for a singer, while having the option with ResearchWorks, Performing Historical Suckling. to choose performance projects and Topics in Mozart’s Chamber Music Our students and alumni are also well electives that are led by the Historical • ‘Gamba plus’ project with Masters- represented on the Handel House Talent Performance It provides a wide variety of performance Performance Department. level composition students Scheme with current students, fellows opportunities, ensembles and specific • Combattimento, The Masque of Time, or recent alumni selected for the scheme performance craft sessions, often in and El Armonya de los tres mundos every year since its inception. Encompassing historical instruments, collaboration with other departments. – music and drama entertainments ranging from the renaissance to post- Features of this Principal Study area Activities and devised by Andrew Lawrence-King Doctoral student Emily Baines was classical periods (c.1830). include our thriving partnership with • Victoria and Albert Museum – Musical Director for Shakespeare’s the Academy of Ancient Music which ensembles students joined Viol Professor Liam Globe’s production of Nell Gywnn Historical performance specialism is provides masterclasses, audition Byrne in performances during his (Shakespeare’s Globe, London’s West End also available through the Vocal Studies • Guildhall Consort – Eamonn Dougan experience and side-by-side rehearsals museum residency and English Touring Theatre), while Principal Study. See page 58 for further • Guildhall Baroque Orchestra – and performances. • Cantata Projects performed in concert cellist and gambist Vladimir Waltham information. Pavlo Beznosiuk series at Hatchlands Park, Blackheath was selected by Dutch organisation • Guildhall Cantata Project – Concert Halls, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Jumpstart Jr. for career development James Johnstone London Handel Festival and Tilford and the loan of instruments. Anna • Baroque Opera Scenes Bach Festival, including a semi-staged Gschwend graduated in 2017 and Postgraduate • Guildhall Cornett and Sackbut performance of John Blow’s Venus regularly performs worldwide as soloist Ensemble – Jeremy West/Emily White MMus/MPerf in Performance and Adonis with La Petite Bande under Sigiswald • Guildhall Classical Winds – Jane Booth (See page 40) – Historical Performance • Performances with the Academy of Kuijken (Belgium). • Guildhall Double Reeds – specialism Ancient Music as part of the Deal Gail Hennessy Festival in 2015, 16 and 17, including • Guildhall Recorder Consort – Ian Artist Diploma The Spirit of Venice involving the Wilson Find out more (See page 49) • Guildhall Viol Consort – Liam Byrne School’s cornetts, sackbuts, strings and recorders (with the choir of • Guildhall Lutes & Voices Visit gsmd.ac.uk/music for further MPhil/DMus, MPhil/PhD Canterbury Cathedral), and Bach • Masterclasses with international artists information on teaching staff, audition (See page 102) Cantatas directed by John Butt • Historical stagecraft, performance requirements, Open Days and how • New instruments, including a & movement classes, practice-led to apply. Study at this level is aimed at graduates research skills, repertoire exploration harpsichord by Malcolm Rose, (both university and conservatoire) with Klop chamber organ, new bows an interest in exploring the creative in collaboration with luthier Tim potential of specialised performing Richards and two Baroque cellos by techniques. Students focus on the Recent Department Clive Morris music, instruments and documentary sources of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, highlights Baroque, Classical and Early Romantic periods. The postgraduate programmes • Masterclasses with Richard Tognetti Recent student are also suitable for those modern (Australian Chamber Orchestra and instrumentalists with an interest in guest director of Academy of Ancient success diversifying their skill-set by developing Music), Richard Egarr on Mastering a command of period playing styles. Auditions, Emma Kirkby, Edward Recent Department graduates have joined leading ensembles, including the Higginbottom, Jacob Heringman Academy of Ancient Music, Gabrieli The combination of specialist tuition and Principals from the Academy of Consort, Dunedin Consort, The English and detailed guidance in research Ancient Music Concert, Tenebrae, Armonico Consort, techniques enables you to approach • A critically acclaimed Barbican Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment period music in a historically-informed performance of Vivaldi’s Juditha (orchestra and chorus), La Serenissima, manner. It also allows you to underpin Triumphans (Magdalena Kožená in Shakespeare’s Globe and the Dufay your high-level performance skills with the title role) in November 2016 Collective. Others have progressed to in-depth academic knowledge. You included the Guildhall Consort doctoral study. will be given unique opportunities to (“the choral singing from the explore the contrasting sound worlds of Guildhall Consort was exquisite. Three ensembles of current and former different musical periods and develop Staggering, all of it, from start to Guildhall School musicians were expertise in diverse playing styles and finish.” The Guardian, 5 stars). selected for Early Music Live!, part apply them creatively. • Residency with Aisslinn Nosky (The of the Brighton Early Music Festival. Handel and Haydn Society, Boston) One of our students also recently won Singers with a particular interest including masterclasses and chamber the Audience Prize at the York Early in historical performance join the music performance side-by-side project Music Competition, and another won Vocal Studies Principal Study. You • Faculty Artist Recitals by Mahan the Royal Over-Seas League Annual

64 65 Chamber Music is a postgraduate groups with considerable chamber music Principal Study specialism for students who wish to hone experience, with the aim of developing their listening and interpretative skills students’ skills to a professional level. Chamber Music in small chamber group combinations. Groups can consist of any combination In other postgraduate specialisms, of three players or more, with weekly chamber music is still considered a core – Open to all standard chamber group coaching from Principal Study staff and but non-compulsory – skill and regular combinations first preference for coaching with visiting engagement is strongly encouraged. ensembles and artists. In Keyboard and Advanced Ensemble electives provide Strings Departments, students choosing to substantial training in chamber music work on major duo repertoire may also skills. Cross-departmental chamber be assessed. work is considered as important as more traditional and school-specific Chamber Music also forms a core strand combinations. of other Principal Study instrumental courses of study, offering almost unparalleled coaching and a wide range of performance opportunities. Regular Activities and coaching is provided by international teaching staff and visiting chamber ensembles musicians. Though each school of study may have slightly different requirements, • Regular coaching and lessons from core the core ethos is on fostering individual Chamber Music staff engagement and responsibility within • Regular coaching opportunities from a small chamber group, challenging visiting artists and groups and developing interpersonal skills and • Masterclasses with international musical dialogue. visiting artists and chairs of chamber music • Active chamber music exchange programmes with University Postgraduate Mozarteum, Salzburg and New England Conservatory MMus/MPerf in Performance • Chamber music prizes offering external (See page 40) – Chamber Music specialism performance opportunities • Annual performing opportunities in The main focus of the Chamber Music Portugal and Spain specialism is the development of core Endellion String Quartet and Gould chamber music skills. The pathway is Piano Trio Recent student and Find out more designed for individuals and existing • Masterclasses by András Keller, Ralf Gothoni, Vivien Weilerstien, Thomas alumni successes Visit gsmd.ac.uk/music for further Recent visiting Reibl, Erich Hobarth, Robert Kulek information on teaching staff, audition • Performance projects/side-by-side Ensembles from the Department have requirements, Open Days and how ensembles and artists workshops with Nicholas Daniel, been recognised in the following: to apply. Andrew Marriner and Janine Jansen • Endellion Quartet - Visiting Quartet in • Public recitals involving staff/student • Selection as Young Concert Artists Association collaborations throughout the year and Trust (YCAT) Artists • Takács Quartet - International Visiting within the Guildhall Chamber Music • Melbourne International Chamber Artists Summer Festival Music Competition • András Keller • Pre-London Symphony Orchestra • Trondheim International Chamber • Ralf Gothoni recitals at the Barbican Music Competition • Heath Quartet • BBC Total Immersion projects in • Cavatina Intercollegiate Chamber • Gould Piano Trio Milton Court Concert Hall and at Music Competition • Danish String Quartet the Barbican • Hattori Foundation Awards • Exchange performances at University • Martin Musical Scholarship Mozarteum Salzburg, and the Austrian Fund Award Cultural Forum, London • June Emerson Launchpad Prize for Recent Department • Ground-breaking project with the Wind and Brass ensemble Decoda, training groups in • Park Lane Group Young Artists highlights delivery of workshop skills • The Tunnell Trust Awards • Ensemble concerts at HARMOS • ChamberStudio Mentorship • Masterclasses with Takács and Festival, Portugal and Torroella, Spain Endellion String Quartets • Three annual internal chamber music • Meet the Performer series with competitions

66 67 Guildhall offers some of the most your fellow students in the School or by “The atmosphere at Guildhall is very unlike the atmosphere at Principal Study stimulating and creative training for professional, world-renowned visiting other conservatoires. It is always vibrant and alive. Of course I composers available in the UK. Our ensembles and soloists. Composition guiding principle is that composers knew about the fantastic tutoring and resources as well, but the should develop in collaboration with The Techniques strand is intended to friendly and stimulating environment clinched it for me. Being an technically-proficient, sympathetic equip you with a high level of skill and undergraduate Composition student at Guildhall means perfect instrumentalists under the expert expertise in the craft and technique of guidance of experienced practitioners. musical composition. In the first two balance between freedom and routine. It is very easy to get lost in years, topics range from harmony and the realm of our creative mind when composing, so a regular and We make a commitment to workshop counterpoint to pastiche composition. They also include a 20th century materials challenging timetable like we have at Guildhall is vital in bringing every composition that you write. And course informed by core concepts in 20th by studying at a conservatoire you us back down to earth and into real life.” and 21st century harmonic and rhythmic will benefit from a range of unique practice, as well as equipping you with opportunities. These include access to practical knowledge and experience in Eden Lonsdale performers, a creatively active team of working with percussion. In addition, BMus Composition staff composers, and a host of external there is a creative ensemble element partners. There is also the chance to which challenges student composers to study inside a lively arts complex and form their own performing ensemble, take advantage of Guildhall School’s offering a chance to engage with ideas multi-disciplinary environment. Every and possibilities of experimental, and Guildhall student is encouraged to take often transmedial practice. an innovative and collaborative approach, and you will be part of a constant, cross- Topics in Years 3 and 4 range more widely departmental flow of ideas, skills and and include aesthetics, workshop skills creativity encompassing Music, Acting and orchestration. In all four years of and Production Arts. Techniques work, student composers also take classes in electronic music and analysis. Undergraduate At the heart of the programme is the workshop process. We make a BMus commitment to workshop every piece that (See page 38 for programme structure) you write, from your first exercises for one or two instruments, to full ensemble and Guildhall School’s undergraduate orchestral pieces in your third and fourth Composition pathway is intended to year. This programme thrives on close partnerships with other Guildhall School support the creative development of departments, and all undergraduate composers, whatever your interests or composers are encouraged to develop sources of inspiration. There is no ‘house their skills and experience by working style’. We are not looking for one kind of collaboratively as creative artists. composer. Consequently, our community of student composers is very diverse but with a shared sense of commitment, purpose and mutual respect. Postgraduate

The BMus Composition pathway is MMus/MComp in Composition built on two complementary strands of (See page 45) academic activity: Original Composition and Techniques. Original Composition MA in Opera Making and Writing activity follows a four-year trajectory (See page 46) that builds from small-scale chamber projects in Year 1 (monody, duo, voice MPhil/DMus, MPhil/PhD and instrument, percussion ensemble), (See page 102) through the more ambitious demands of working with wind quintet, string quartet and 14-piece ensemble. The journey culminates in Year 4 with the composition of works for full orchestra, vocal ensemble and live sounds and electronics. All compositions are workshopped either by

68 69 poet-composer collaborative project. House, and went on to win the UK Composer-in-Association from 2013 to This project culminates with concerts Theatre Award for Achievement in Opera, 2016. In 2017, his orchestral work The of new vocal works at both Wigmore the Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Air, Turning received its premiere by the Hall and Guildhall School Large-Scale Composition, and a British BBC National Orchestra of Scotland, • Royal Opera House, Covent Garden – Composer Award. Venables’ latest work, conducted by Ilan Volkov. Finnis received the Guildhall Composition Department The Gender Agenda, premiered at the a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for has a major partnership in place for the re-opening of the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Artists in 2012, and was Composer-in- development of contemporary opera. before performances across Europe. Residence at the 2013 Chelsea Music Every two years, the Royal Opera House Festival in New York City. stages a new opera by Guildhall School- LSO Panufnik Composers Scheme Royal Opera House Composer-in- In recent years, Guildhall School graduate Mark Simpson (Composition 2012) Residence (see page 102), while students composers featured in this scheme have Mark Simpson is Composer in on the MA in Opera Making and included Gonçalo Gato, James Hoyle, Association of the BBC Philharmonic. Writing programme (page 46) enjoy Daniel Kidane, Jack Sheen, Donghoon His oratorio The Immortal was premiered formative creative opportunities at the Shin, Michael Taplin and Alex Tay. by the BBC Philharmonic at the 2015 Royal Opera House Manchester International Festival to • London Contemporary Dance School Oliver Christophe Leith immediate critical acclaim. Other works – each year MMus students collaborate (Composition 2014) with orchestra include Israfel, premiered with choreographers to develop new Oliver Christophe Leith has had works by the BBC Scottish Symphony works which receive two public performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra, sparks commissioned for the Bushra El Turk (Composition 2006) performances at The Place, an important Orchestra, the Orchestra of Opera 2012 Last Night of the Proms and A Selected by the BBC as one of the most North, and London Sinfonietta. He is a centre for contemporary dance mirror-fragment… written for the Royal inspiring 100 Women of Today, Bushra participant in Sound and Music’s Next • Getting it Right - three international Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. has written various works for the concert Wave scheme and a member of the • Work placements for undergraduate conferences focusing on the culture His first opera Pleasure was hall, dance, theatre and multi-media, LSO Soundhub scheme. In 2014 he was composers via the Professional and challenges of contemporary commissioned by Opera North, the performed and broadcast on radio and Activities and awarded a Royal Philharmonic Society Studies module music performance, convened by Royal Opera and Aldeburgh Music television worldwide. Her pieces have Composition Prize, and in 2016 won a • City Chamber Choir Composer-in- Julian Anderson and premiered in 2016. His music is been performed by ensembles including ensembles British Composer Award. Association: each year, one Guildhall • Finnissy at 70 – a weekend of events in published by Boosey & Hawkes. the London Symphony Orchestra, BBC School composer is appointed as celebration of Michael Finnissy’s 70th • Individual lessons: 30 hours a year for Raymond Yiu (Composition 2014) Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Composer-in-Association to the City birthday, presented by Guildhall School Francisco Coll (Composition 2011) BMus and MMus/MComp students; Raymond Yiu’s work includes The London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Opera Chamber Choir, an association which in conjunction with EXAUDI Francisco Coll made his BBC Proms 25 hours a year for MA Opera Making Citizen Exceedingly Injured, written House, London Sinfonietta, Birmingham and Writing students, plus production offers creative development and a • New Opera Days – two one-day debut in 2016 with Four Iberian Contemporary Music Group, Manchester for the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and Miniatures for violin and chamber classes and mentoring London premiere of an a cappella conferences held in the Barbican’s Pit Camerata, and more. Her music is The World Was Once All Miracle, which orchestra by Augustin Hadelich and • Open Sessions: a series of weekly choral work Theatre, focusing on the development published by Composers Edition. was premiered by Roderick Williams, the Britten Sinfonia under Thomas presentations given by both staff and • London Symphony Orchestra/ of contemporary opera the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Adès. The same year saw the premiere of distinguished visiting composers, London Philharmonic Orchestras: the Christina Athinodorou Sir Andrew Davis in 2018. His piece Mural by the Orchestre Philharmonique to discuss current concerns, ideas Department has good connections (Composition 2005) Symphony was premiered by the BBC Luxembourg under Gustavo Gimeno, and aesthetic questions relating to with both institutions and supports its Christina Athinodorou’s work has been Symphony Orchestra at the 2015 BBC and a new Harpsichord Concerto for contemporary music student composers to apply for either Recent successes featured in festivals worldwide, including Proms season. Northwest Wind, written for Mahan Esfahani and Britten Sinfonia. • Workshops: all student compositions the London Symphony Orchestra’s and premiered by Lontano, won a British the Biennale di Venezia, Grafenegg Na’ama Zisser (Guildhall School/ Coll’s opera Café Kafka received its are performed and rehearsed in formal Panufnik Composers Scheme or the Composer Award in 2010. Festival, MITO SettembreMusica, ISCM Royal Opera House Composer-in- London premiere at the Royal Opera workshops, providing composers London Philharmonic Orchestra’s World New Music Days-Wien Modern, Residence 2015-18) House in 2014. His music is published with a broad range of feedback and Young Composer programme Edmund Finnis (Composition 2013) Salle Pleyel, Onassis Cultural Center, In 2015, Na’ama Zisser was appointed as by Faber Music. response, and a richer perception of Edmund Finnis has enjoyed particularly Music Biennale Zagreb, Festival d’Aix-en- Philip Venables’ successor as Guildhall their creative ideas in real time close associations with the London Provence, deFilharmonie Chamber Series. School/Royal Opera House Composer- Matthew Kaner (Composition 2010) • Departmental classes and seminars: the Sinfonietta, who have variously She won the Prix de Jury and the Coup in-Residence (see page 102). Her new Matthew Kaner was BBC Radio 3’s Recent Department performed, toured and recorded six of his de Coeur du Publique in the composition undergraduate programme includes opera, , exploring the Embedded Composer in 3 during Mamzer Bastard works, and the London Contemporary a substantial series of departmental their 70th anniversary season in 2016; competition Île de Créations in 2013 for highlights relationship between Jewish Kantorial Orchestra, with whom he was classes, while postgraduate and singing and traditional operatic singing, his residency involved the writing her orchestral work, Interméde pour une doctoral students take part in seminars • Workshops with EXAUDI, CHROMA, was staged by the Royal Opera House at of over ten new works, which were mer jamais vue, which is published by • Creative Ensemble: made up of BMus and Plus-Minus ensembles Hackney Empire in June 2018. premiered on air throughout the period. Éditions Durand. Years 1 and 2 student composers who • Q&As with visiting composers His orchestral work Encounters was are encouraged and supported to work including Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Philip Venables (Guildhall School/ premiered at the Lucerne Festival in experimentally, using their John Adams, Louis Andriessen, Royal Opera House Composer-in- 2017 with Jeffrey Means and the Festival own cohort of composers as a Michel van der Aa, Steve Reich, Residence 2013-16) Academy Orchestra. Matthew was the Find out more performing ensemble Helmut Lachenmann and Philip Venables’ new operatic version recipient of a Roche Young Commission • Guildhall New Music Ensemble, which Tristan Murail of Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis received from 2015-17, and won the Royal Visit gsmd.ac.uk/music for further presents a concert each term curated • Wigmore Hall Voiceworks - each its world premiere at the Lyric Philharmonic Society Composition Prize information on teaching staff, entry by a Guildhall School composition year the Department works with Hammersmith in May 2016, in a new in 2013. He is a professor of composition requirements, Open Days and how professor or visiting composer poets from Birkbeck College on this production staged by the Royal Opera at Guildhall School. to apply.

70 71 The Electronic Music Department Guildhall School offers unique training • Silent film projects on The Lodger, The - representing one of the UK’s Principal Study provides a range of specialist disciplines in electronic and produced music. Electronic Music Lost World and The Adventures of Prince best student equipment ratios for within which to study a wide array of With a primarily practical and project- Achmed with Barbican Film programmes in Electronic Music. Electronic Music electronic and produced music, from based approach, the postgraduate disciplines • Performances at Glastonbury Festival experimental Sonic Art to mainstream programme provides a fast-paced and • Masterclasses with Harry Gregson- An exciting range of live equipment Film Scoring. Dedicated world-class diverse preparation for professional life Our disciplines reflect specific career Williams, Steve Reich, Tory Miller, including state-of-the-art DJing rigs, Electronic Music, Film Music, Sonic teaching and state-of-the-art facilities - allowing students to explore and refine paths that demand a specialist technical Imogen Heap, Stephen Endelman, ROLI Seaboard Ensembles and portable Arts, Game Audio, Live Electronics, prepare you for a career in this growing their individual artistic specialism in or and artistic focus. Students choose one Kevin Kerrigan, Leafcutter John, DAW facilities ensures that our music Popular Music Production, New Media and fast-paced industry. across several of the department’s seven discipline on entry to the School to set Rupert Collinson (AIR), Trevor reaches far beyond the studio. specialist disciplines. the bias of their studies, but this does not Wishart, Robert Henke, Richard exclude incorporating elements of other Tognetti and Kathinka Pasveer Undergraduate Part 1 (MMus) disciplines, as appropriate to your unique • Numina, Revolution 360 and career aspirations. For example, a student Towards the Mean installations at Recent alumni BMus At MMus level, students spend the year studying Film Music may wish to also the Barbican Centre 95% of BMus students move into (See page 38 for programme structure) producing three portfolios of musical incorporate elements of Game Audio as a • The Gift installation with Melanie activity: original artistic output, complimentary skill. Students preferring employment or further study, within Manchot at Bloomberg SPACE two years of graduating. Electronic and produced music collaborative projects and project a more general curriculum across all • Performances as part of A Scream and represents one of the largest growth leadership. This is be supported by a areas will find the Electronic Music an Outrage curated by Nico Muhly at The alumni profiles and links below areas in the music industry today, and combination of one-to-one lessons, discipline most suitable. the Barbican provide further insight into the breadth suitably skilled electronic musicians classes, and collaborative group sessions • Collaboration with Central Saint and scope of this dynamic programme: can enjoy a wealth of vocational and seminars. Students are encouraged • Electronic Music: a broad curriculum Martins animation students opportunities. At undergraduate level, to take advantage of the many creative throughout, involving activity across Ben Hayes our approach is deliberately vocational, and collaborative opportunities all disciplines benhayes.net reflecting the distinctive character of Guildhall School has to offer, such as • Film Music: covering all media conservatoire training. composition and production (film, producing music with Guildhall Session Ben Laver television, radio, production music etc.) Department Orchestra or working with Production benlavermusic.co.uk and Students receive a weekly one-to- • Sonic Arts: incorporating Arts students to produce events with a facilities CEO of boxoftoysaudio.com one lesson in their specific discipline range of external clients. During this electroacoustic composition, sound art, installations, experimental music etc. with one of the Department’s expert year, students also have the opportunity Guildhall School offers dedicated Christopher Branch professors, allowing for a totally to diversify their studies through the • Game Audio: specialist study of music, studios for Electronic Music students. sound and programming for games brainsandhunch.com individualised approach to developing departmental elective programme Our main studio is specifically • Live Electronics: for those focusing on skill and artistic excellence. This core (see page 40). designed for the front and back end live performance with electronics (from Emma Williams approach is supported by a range of of the production process (recording DJing to experimental performance) conductivemusic.uk/teams/ common techniques classes and whole Part 2 (MComp) and mixing/mastering), featuring an • Popular Music Production: songwriting emmawilliams Department creative workshops. progression to MComp conditional on results acoustically isolated control room and and production across all genres Regular visiting professionals further from MMus recording booth. Jethro Cooke enrich the curriculum with vital • New Media: creative musical expression with new technology (instruments, jethrocooke.co.uk insights into the realities of working Exceptional students on Part 1 are given interfaces, etc.) We run Quested, Genelec and PMC as a fulltime musician. the opportunity to continue their studies monitors and have a collection of high Jordan Rees at the MComp level. During this year, Transfer of discipline, where this makes quality microphones and mic preamps. jordanrees.com Major projects undertaken by the students independently undertake a sense, is possible. The most likely scenario A multi-use studio is also available, Department reflect real-world scenarios portfolio of three self-directed artistic is a transfer from general Electronic providing eight individual editing Jon Daou as closely as possible; recent partnerships projects alongside their one-to-one Music to a more specialist discipline as workstations that are compatible with the jondaou.com have included EMI Production Music, tuition, strengthening their artistic and your artistic direction matures. main studio. We use Macintosh computers Native Instruments, Barbican Film and professional development. with the following common software: Jo Wills the electronic instrument developer, Please note: changing specialist discipline Pro Tools, Logic Pro X, Max/MSP, jowills.com ROLI. There are regular opportunities to is subject to a formal approval process and Sibelius, and IRCAM Forum Software. produce hybrid electro-acoustic music meeting specified criteria. Our main studio also has Cubase, Ableton Raisa Khan with our Guildhall Session Orchestra. Electronic Music and a growing collection of other soundcloud.com/raisakay software to aid compatibility. Cross-departmental collaboration and activities Seth Scott experimentation are actively encouraged. Recent Department A recording studio, run by staff, serves sethscott.co.uk All Electronic Music students work • Weekly one-to-one tuition in specific the entire School, but Electronic Music across year groups through a series of disciplines, with mentoring and highlights students can book the live room outside collaborative projects within weekly supervision normal operational hours. The live creative workshops. • Weekly cross-year and cross-discipline • Soundtrack for the Museum of London room provides space for medium-sized Find out more creative workshops focusing on immersive experience Beasts of London ensembles and houses a Steinway B artistic projects • Projects with Waddesdon Manor grand piano. Visit gsmd.ac.uk/music for further • Weekly common techniques seminars including soundtracks and sonic information on teaching staff, entry Postgraduate • Termly collaborative projects installations for Waddesdon Christmas Student intake to the Department requirements, Open Days and how • Regular partnerships with external Carnival and music for the Waddesdon is carefully proportioned to ensure to apply. (See page 45 for programme structure) organisations, venues and clients Manor Imaginarium that access to facilities is excellent

72 73 “Because our Department is small and Barbican is a key partner The Jazz Department at Guildhall Principal Study School is one of the most renowned Undergraduate of Guildhall, we can often get artists who perform there to do a and established of its kind. Now in its masterclass or project with us, and we often do performances at Jazz fourth decade, the Department comprises BMus Barbican events. I once went to a dance concert at the Barbican an inspirational team of professors (See page 38 for programme structure) who are uniquely placed to oversee the by Boy Blue Entertainment which I really liked, so I said to Voice and all instruments development of creative musicians. One As a student on the BMus Jazz pathway, Mike, the Head of Electronic Music, that it would be really nice of their key areas of focus is preparing you join a long and illustrious list of to get the composer and Co-Artistic Director, Michael ‘Mikey J’ improvising musicians for high profile some of Europe’s finest improvising careers in the music industry; at the core Asante, in for a masterclass, and now it turns out that I’m studying musicians. At Guildhall School we place of the ethos is the teaching of musics your specialism front and centre as we around the jazz tradition, including studio with him this year! It’s been absolutely amazing. It’s really special.” support both your core discipline and and world specialisms. wider musicianship. Ieva Vaitiekunaite Through a dynamic and innovative Principal Study lessons provide core BMus Electronic Music curriculum, Head of Jazz Malcolm Edmonstone ensures that students are instrumental and improvisational placed in a supportive and creative training and are tailored to your environment in order to gain the tools individual needs. In addition to they need to thrive as they emerge as the specific jazz training, you will choose artists of the future. The curriculum is an additional study pathway of either broad in both style and discipline, and classical or commercial music. These the Department celebrates the diversity are designed to support instrumental of skill and experience required to forge a and technical development, as well as fulfilling life and career as an improviser. specific notational and interpretative instrumental requirements. Ensemble provision is key to the Department’s output, and students are placed in weekly, tutored bands called Integrated Combos. These sit alongside Postgraduate classes in harmony, improvisation, jazz rhythm, world rhythm, jazz history and MMus/MPerf in Performance style and lineage. (See also page 40) – Jazz Studies specialism

The Department provides a The MMus/MPerf programme is an comprehensive programme of innovative and highly personalised musicianship tailored for improvisers, training arena for musicians at an including classes in aural, transcription advanced level. The programme is and keyboard skills. designed to elevate a student’s core discipline within a wider context of Students’ notational output is nourished enhanced musicianship, providing in a wide-ranging programme of preparation for a career as a contemporary composition and arranging classes, musician. Applications are welcomed from skills-based writing to small group from both performers and composer/ composition, scoring for jazz orchestra arrangers, and Principal Study lessons and strings and woodwinds. may be split between disciplines.

The School is unique in offering a The programme encourages a holistic permanent cross-departmental ensemble approach to musicianship, offering in the form of the Guildhall Studio training in the processes and styles most Orchestra, combining rhythm section, relevant to the 21st century improvising big band, strings, orchestral woodwind musician. Intake is based entirely on and percussion. Alongside this sits the candidate suitability; the Department award-winning Guildhall Jazz Band, the does not run an instrumental quota. Friday Jazz Orchestra and a project-based In addition to core classes, discipline- Ellington band. specific provision ensures regular, intensive contact with the appropriate The study of jazz vocals has long been a professorial team. beacon of the Department’s offering; in addition to bespoke classes in songwriting, MPhil/DMus, MPhil/PhD two regular ensembles exist for students: (See page 102) the Guildhall Jazz Singers and a contemporary a cappella choir.

74 75 “I love how the course at Guildhall gave me the opportunity to explore the more commercial side of music. I love playing jazz but I also wanted to learn about other genres to set me up as a really versatile musician. I had the opportunity to play percussion with the Guildhall Studio Orchestra which gave me the chance to learn from, and play alongside, amazing senior players, as well as to perform with the incredible Liane Carroll. It’s given me a real taste of what I can achieve as a musician.”

Dave Adsett BMus Jazz Drums

• Guildhall Jazz Singers with Martin Recent Department Speake, Mike Outram, Paul Clarvis, John Ashton Thomas highlights • Performances by Peter Bernstein, Julian Siegel Quartet, Interchange, • A bi-annual Jazz at Lincoln Center Bobo Stenson, Malija Orchestra residence through our • Collaborative relationships with unique partnership with the Barbican key industry and media outlets, Centre; in 2018 this included including BBC, Serious and the London masterclasses with JLCO members Jazz Festival Victor Goines, Kenny Rampton, Marcus Printup and Marion Felder • Masterclasses with Eric Harland, Bobby Shew, Phronesis, New York Voices, Find out more Mike Walker, Kit Downes’ ENEMY, Graviton, Iain Ballamy, Yazz Ahmed Visit gsmd.ac.uk/music for further and Jason Singh, Tariqh Akoni and information on teaching staff, audition requirements, Open Days and how Mark Stephens, Michael Kanan, Finn to apply. Peters, Martin France, Chris Hill • Guildhall Studio Orchestra performances with Dave Arch and Liane Carroll • Guildhall Jazz Band projects with Marvin Stamm, Stan Sulzman, Nikki Iles, Laurence Cottle, Gareth Lockrane, Iain Ballamy

76 77 Mark Simpson performing schedule, Benjamin Appl Some of our Recent (Composition 2012) including a recent US tour (Vocal Studies 2015) Mark Simpson’s new opera and Carnegie Hall debut, While still at Guildhall, Music alumni graduates Pleasure received its world and regular performances at Benjamin was appointed as a premiere in May 2016 at the Wigmore Hall. They received BBC Radio 3 New Generation Lyric Hammersmith, London the Royal Philharmonic Artist 2014-16, and was also in a new production staged by Society Young Artist Award a European Concert Hall the Royal Opera House. 2012 and the 2012 Festspiele Organisation (ECHO) Rising Amongst many recent Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Star for the 2015-16 season. commissions, his orchestral Ensemble Prize. He is now signed to Sony work sparks was premiered by Classical, and released his first the BBC Symphony Orchestra Emma King disc in 2017. Recent recitals Thomas Adès CBE (1989), Alison Balsom OBE (2001), Joby Burgess (2001), at the Last Night of the Proms. (Percussion 2013) include appearances at the Composition Trumpet Percussion Mark was recently appointed Since completing her studies, Schubertiade festival, Wigmore Composer in Association of Emma has been making Hall and deSingel Antwerp the BBC Philharmonic her name known on the UK with Graham Johnson. Alexandra Dariescu Orchestra and also continues music scene as a Cajónero, (Piano 2011) to perform as a clarinettist. with performances at the Anna Pool Selected as one of Forbes His music is published by Glasgow Drum Show in 2015 (Composition 2015) magazine’s ‘30 under 30’, Boosey & Hawkes. and London Drum Show Anna is establishing herself as Alexandra gave her debut at 2016. She joined STOMP one of the UK’s leading the Royal Albert Hall with Emily Dankworth in 2014 and has toured up-and-coming directors, with the Royal Philharmonic (Jazz Singing 2013) worldwide. She also an impressive CV spanning Orchestra in 2013. She won a Emily is a solo jazz artist, worked on the National opera and theatre. After Women of the Future Award performing at venues across Theatre of Scotland's graduating she took the production of Our Ladies of in the Arts and Culture the world including Ronnie Creative Entrepreneurs course Perpetual Succour, opening category in 2013, Romania’s Scotts, Jazz at Lincoln Center, at Guildhall School to develop the 2018 Adelaide Festival Woman of the Year in 2014, and the National Centre for her company, workshOPERA, with the Lost and Found Sa Chen (2001), Piano Sir James Galway OBE Paul Lewis (1994), Piano Tasmin Little OBE (1986), the Performing Arts Beijing. which commissions and and has released several CDs Orchestra and the Steven (1960), Flute Violin Along with former classmates performs new opera works. to critical acclaim, including Sater London Showcase. concerto recordings with the Ben Cox, Lewis Daniel and Anna is also a founding Martynas Vilpisauskas, she is member of the Wind-Up Royal Philharmonic Lauren Fagan (Opera 2014) Orchestra and Royal also part of six-piece a cappella Penguin Theatre Company vocals group Vive, winners Lauren was a member of the which brings cross-arts Liverpool Philharmonic Royal Opera House’s Jette Orchestra. Her own of the Voice Festival UK 2013 performances to disadvantaged competition. Parker Young Artists children in the UK and abroad. production, The Nutcracker Programme 2014-16 after and I premiered at Milton which she appeared in Alex McCartney Andrea Eklund (Historical Court in December 2017. numerous Royal Opera House (Theorbo & Lute 2013) Performance 2017) productions. In 2018 she Alex is continually in demand While still studying as a Ben Gernon (Tuba 2012) performed as Woglinde in as an accompanist and soloist, soprano, the flexibility of In 2013, Ben won the Wagner’s epic Ring Cycle under regularly performing with the Historical Performance internationally acclaimed Music Director Sir Antonio The English Concert, the pathway allowed Andrea Nestlé and Salzburg Festival Pappano. Lauren will be Academy of Ancient Music to pursue further talents as Young Conductors Award, and participating in BBC Cardiff Zara McFarlane (2009), Jennifer Pike (2009), Violin Anne Sofie von Otter Jason Rebello (1989), and Orchestra of the Age of a composer and conductor. Jazz Singing (1982), Opera Piano since then has conducted a Singer of the World 2019. string of international Enlightenment, as well as with This led to her writing, his own ensemble, Poeticall arranging, and singing the engagements including the Greg Topping Musicke. He also consults for title song to the 2017 film London Symphony Orchestra (Bassoon 2014) historical film and television Moomins and the Winter and the City of Birmingham After graduating, Greg productions, including the BBC Wonderland. Andrea’s music, Symphony Orchestra. In 2014 performed with a number adaption of Wolf Hall, where performed by the City he made his BBC Proms debut of UK orchestras including he taught actors Damian Lewis of Prague Philharmonic with the Scottish Chamber the BBC Symphony and Max Fowler to play the Orchestra, was shortlisted for Orchestra, and was recently Orchestra, the Hallé an Oscar nomination. She appointed a Dudamel Fellow lute to a professional standard. Orchestra and the Royal now maintains an eclectic with the LA Philharmonic He released his debut album in Philharmonic Orchestra career, singing baroque opera Orchestra. Ben took up his 2017 to critical acclaim. where he played as guest alongside Nordic folk, and position of Principal Guest principal bassoon. Greg has Conductor of the BBC Heath Quartet entered his second year as composing music for film Philharmonic Orchestra in the (Chamber Music 2013) Principal (No. 2) Bassoon and choirs. Since their fellowship in Kate Royal (2003), Opera Sir Bryn Terfel CBE (1989), Roderick Williams OBE Debbie Wiseman MBE 2017/18 season, becoming one in the Ulster Orchestra, of the youngest conductors to Chamber Music at Guildhall Opera (1995), Opera (1984), Composition with a recent performance have held a titled position with School, the Heath Quartet have at the Concertgebouw a BBC orchestra. quickly built an international in Amsterdam.

78 79

Production Arts

BA Honours in Production Arts

BA Honours in Video Design for Live Performance

MA in Collaborative Theatre Production and Design Key staff The Production Arts Department at Guildhall School has In Production Arts, as in our other departments, we break down long been recognised as providing some of the most traditional boundaries and challenge convention, giving you the Ben Sumner DipSM MBA SFHEA NTF innovative vocational theatre training anywhere in the chance to work with students from other art forms. Vice Principal & Director of Production Arts world. The School boasts technical and performance Gill Allen BA(Hons) SFHEA Programme Leader, facilities which are among the best internationally. The If you join us as an undergraduate, you will work with students BA Production Arts; teaching is practical and production-based; students work in the Drama and Music departments during the first-year Head of Stage Management & Costume on public productions and live events with professional workshop project. And each year, our facilities are handed over to Vanessa Cass FGS BA(Hons) PGCert FHEA directors, designers and conductors, participating in students for an entire day of informal showcases as part of the Head of Design Realisation the creation of acclaimed dramas, musicals, operas and annual Guildhall Festival. On this day, students from all Andy Taylor MA GMus PGCE FHEA large-scale open-air video events. disciplines come together to display their creative talents. Programme Leader, BA Video Design for Live Performance; Head of Theatre Technology Guildhall School has five professional-standard performance Programme facilities and teaching support

Stuart Calder FGS CSMGSM FHEA venues with state-of-the-art equipment. These allow our Whatever Production Arts programme you choose, you Associate Producer programmes to keep in line with current practice and new will receive expert training in our well-equipped, flexible performance spaces: For a full list of teaching and visiting theatre technology. Students use the School’s on-site theatres, staff, please visit the Guildhall School rehearsal rooms, workshops and costume department to website: gsmd.ac.uk/productionarts collaborate on major productions and a range of smaller Milton Court Theatre: a proscenium arch theatre seating 223, projects and events. with a fully-automated flying system which is unique in theatre schools around the world. Our programmes have been designed to involve you completely in the complex art of theatre and live performance. Silk Street Theatre: a flexible theatre seating up to 308 in various They bring together writers, designers, actors, musicians, formats, including proscenium, promenade, thrust and in-the- composers, choreographers, technicians and administrators to round. It has counterweight flying and with its large orchestra achieve fully professional production values. Your training pit is the venue for our major operas and musicals. will provide you with a firm practical knowledge of theatre crafts and managerial skills and prepare you for professional Milton Court Studio Theatre: a flexible studio theatre seating up life in the theatre and live performance industry. to 128. This space has a tension wire grid, allowing easy and safe positioning and focusing of lighting equipment and rigging of scenic elements.

Milton Court Concert Hall: this impressive performance hall has world-class acoustics and can seat up to 608. The concert platform is composed of a series of automated lifts, allowing for a wide variety of formats from solo performances to rehearsals for a full symphony orchestra.

All of our venues are particularly well-equipped for lighting and sound and provide dramatic and adaptable environments. They are stimulating and exciting at the same time as being practical, safe and ideal for learning. As of 2018, Guildhall School offers more performance venues than any other drama school in the UK.

82 83 Other Guildhall facilities you will use include the scenic workshop, paintshop, props workshop, design realisation studio, costume workshop and dye room, and sound and video editing studios. You will also have access to the lighting and theatre technology lab, stage electrics workshop, and production and stage management offices. Additionally, Milton Court includes new rehearsal rooms, a TV studio and teaching rooms, and a well-equipped computer room.

Core teaching staff There are 21 teaching staff and a further 17 technicians in the Production Arts Department. All the teaching staff have had long and varied careers in professional theatre or live events. The Department maintains current industry contacts via incoming directors, designers and lighting designers, as well as freelance costume supervisors, scenic artists, prop makers, production managers and lighting programmers. It also has strong links with professional colleagues and ex-students working with all major UK theatre and opera companies, productions and suppliers.

Designers and lighting designers who have worked at the School include: Peter Mumford, Dick Bird, Isabella Bywater, Susannah Henry, Mark Jonathan, Libby Watson, William Dudley, Yannis Thavoris, Francis Bradshaw, Takis, Jamie Vartan, Dora Schweitzer, Johanna Town, Hugh Vanstone, Chris Davey and Gareth Owen.

“The best thing about studying at Guildhall is the positive and self-challenging environment set out by both the teachers and students. It pushes students to take advantage of the resources and information provided to create work they can stand behind and be proud of. I had the opportunity to work with the BA Video Design for Live Performance course at the School on an installation project located in the chambers below Tower Bridge. It was a completely unique experience that threw lots of unexpected challenges at us that would never be encountered in a traditional theatre setting.”

Liam Strong BA Production Arts (Theatre Technology)

84 85 The Production Arts programme equips you with the skills Costume BA Honours in you need to succeed in the professional arts industry, with many of our graduates going on with work in theatre, Costume students at Guildhall School learn Production Arts an overall understanding of costume. This television and film. We strongly believe that your training pathway uniquely combines technical should be tailored to your individual career aims. practice with the professional area of Three years full-time costume design. For this reason, you will select one of four gsmd.ac.uk/productionarts Year 2 pathways, each with a different emphasis: As a Costume student, you will: From the second year onwards students • Explore a broad range of relevant • Stage Management are immersed in Guildhall School’s skills including design, construction, • Costume extraordinary productions, working alterations, dyeing, ageing and • Theatre Technology (Sound, Lighting, alongside professional directors, designers distressing, millinery, hair and make- Video, Automation and Stage and lighting designers on a full-time basis. Technology) up, styling, dressing, fitting, hiring, • Design Realisation (Scenic Art, Scenic buying, sampling and administration • Work alongside industry professionals Construction and Prop Making) Year 3 and learn costume craft on live drama and opera stage productions See page 87 for further detail on The final year provides you with true • Have the opportunity to enhance areas each pathway. exposure to professional theatre and the opportunity to make essential future of costume practice on placements, Within each pathway you can study contacts. All students undertake leading projects and productions elements of the other three. For example, • Research history and culture of fashion roles in their chosen fields and some go A member of the teaching staff will also if you want to learn about props and on to lead a whole team in a Production • Discover technical areas of film and be your personal tutor and will follow television costume scenery construction, but retain an Management role. You will also complete your progress and act as a mentor for your interest in lighting, you can choose a Graduation Project presented either as • Focus on practice for costume industry personal and professional development. employment accordingly. Similarly, you can gain a creative project, portfolio or a written Regardless of their year, all students experience in sound while focusing paper, plus work experience with a work together on all productions. In fact, primarily on stage management. The professional company or practitioner. peer learning is an essential element of programme is flexible enough to allow Design Realisation the programme; senior students often (Scenic Art/Scenic Construction/ for a wide range of interests or a more Throughout the programme you are fulfil organisational roles while more encouraged to engage with actors, singers Prop Making) specialised approach. junior students observe how skills and and musicians from other programmes knowledge are acquired and used. to generate your own projects. Key Design Realisation is about making and Year 1 development areas which are essential for painting the scenery and props that have employment include: been designed by the set designer. Students Stage Management following this pathway need good creative The first year of the programme brings • Learning to be part of the team of and practical skills, with strong problem- all students to the same threshold of Stage managers are organised and creative technicians, designers, stage managers, solving abilities. Each year you will knowledge. In addition to your chosen individuals who require all manner of costumiers, actors, singers and musicians develop your skills across prop making, pathway classes, you will study a broad skills and competencies, but chief among working alongside professional scenery construction and scenic art, range of core subjects including theatre these are ‘people skills’. Only through directors, designers and conductors, to arriving at a clear idea of how much you history, period style, contemporary good interaction, communication and participate in the creation and public want to specialise in your final year. theatre, health and safety, and stagecraft negotiation with people will stage performance of acclaimed dramas, and production process. Classes are usually managers be able to understand and work musicals and operas project-based and students are encouraged with actors, directors, designers and all the • Using information technology in Theatre Technology to enhance and inform their own work by planning and managing productions, technical departments in the theatre. (Lighting/Sound/Video/Automation) engaging with the profession externally. you will develop transferable skills in the For example, when studying trends in latest Office software, as well as using This pathway is all about developing your In Theatre Technology you will learn contemporary theatre you will see a specialist packages in many departments craft to professional standards in a fully about design and production in lighting, wide range of shows, including leading • Detailed knowledge of current professional context. By the end of the sound, video and stage technology, with international productions at the Barbican developments in the theatre industry programme you will bring all your skills opportunities to specialise in your final Centre. Similarly, when studying period to bear on full-scale productions, taking year. Theatre technicians need to be good styles you will visit galleries and museums A particularly high staff-student ratio is lead roles in managing shows from team players and have a proven interest to look at examples and gather ideas. one of the strengths of the programme. rehearsal room to final performance. in an area of theatre technology. As you As you progress, staff shift from formal develop your skills, you will progress In this first year you will also take a core teaching roles to empowering and from learning about technology and module called Associated Studies, which supporting your production work. This software to programming and show allows you to take three short courses in allows you freedom to demonstrate and operation, to finally managing and areas of interest from one of the other develop your professional standards and designing productions. three pathways. skills.

86 87 Transferable skills

As well as equipping you with the skills and knowledge to enter the theatre and entertainment industries, the Production Arts programme provides you with a range of transferable skills which are valuable to any employer. These include:

• Team working • Verbal and written communication skills • Royal Opera House • Problem-solving • Royal Shakespeare Company • Time management • Scarlett Entertainment • Managing financial resources • Set-up Scenery Ltd • Practical application of IT • Shakespeare’s Globe • Research skills • Smyle Productions • People management • Stage Technologies • Sydney Opera House • The Halo Group Preparing for work • The London Dungeon • Tina, the Musical UK tour On successful completion of the • Warp Films programme you will be equipped with the • White Light standards, skills, knowledge, experience • Wicked UK tour and contacts to enter the professional theatre. You will receive lectures and advice on what being freelance means and how to Find out more go about getting work. Our graduates have an excellent employment rate. Visit gsmd.ac.uk/productionarts for further information on teaching staff, Additionally, students who have a right to entry requirements, Open Days and how work in the UK will automatically gain to apply. full membership to British Actors’ Equity once they finish the programme. This can If you want to find out more about be as a permanent employee of a theatre or possible careers backstage there are a company, or initially on a freelance basis. number of good websites to explore, for example: Professional work placement • theatrecraft.org Students from the programme have • RSC: rsc.org.uk/jobs-and-careers/ recently taken work placements with careers-guidance a number of renowned theatres and • Royal Opera House: companies, including: roh.org.uk/opera-machine • Get Into Theatre: getintotheatre.org • Autograph Sound • BBC “The musical is always a highlight. I think it’s the scale of • D3 Technologies Ltd • Donmar Warehouse productions that really makes Guildhall stand out, because • English National Opera you are thrown in at the deep end with these massive shows • Hampstead Theatre and the musical is always busy with so many costume changes. • Imagination Events • Inca Productions I worked on last year’s show and we had at least three pairs • IOGIG Ltd of shoes for 15 girls. It gets to the point where you think, wow, • ITV The Voice this is massive. In other places, you just wouldn’t have that • National Theatre • Neil Austin - lighting designer opportunity to learn on the job.” • Robert Allsopp Associates • Royal Albert Hall • Royal Ballet Sian Clare • Royal Court Theatre BA Production Arts (Costume)

88 89 This dynamic and innovative programme is for students working relationship with professional practical projects. You will gain more BA Honours in interested in the fast-changing and exciting world of organisations (for example the City responsibility as you progress, moving of London Corporation) allows us to from a supportive ‘crew’ member to a Video Design for digital video design and production. It has been shaped collaborate in providing high quality more distinct role within the team. You by and upholds the practical, hands-on ethos of Guildhall services for companies holding events and will have responsibility for processes conferences. Through these opportunities, Live Performance School’s Production Arts Department. such as system checks and maintenance students will experience working in a and content production (working variety of commercial settings, from with third-year designers or visiting Three years full-time The programme will provide you once lived there. The exhibition runs small- to large-scale projects. professionals). You will also have more with specialist training in the rapidly until 5 January 2020. of a say in the selection of equipment gsmd.ac.uk/productionarts expanding field of projection and video- • Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire. As a student on this programme you will and how projects are planned. based arts forms. It uses state-of-the-art A large-scale 80m wide projection on gain invaluable skills, knowledge and experience from working on a range of equipment and facilities in line with the house facade which ran for 9 weeks these real-world projects. It is a hands-on Year 3 the latest industry developments. The and was visited by over 181,000 people opportunity to test and develop the skills teaching is practical and project-based. • A large-scale projection across three you acquire in the classroom and studios. In Year 3 you will take a final series You will work on a range of projects with separate buildings at Guildhall Yard of classes to refine your video design professional designers, programmers and as part of the City of London's 2017 skillset. You will have opportunities animators, such as gallery installations, Romans season. This ambitious project Year 1 to make content and design materials projection work for Guildhall productions was a collaboration with multi-award- that may then be used on real-world and VJing at festivals and club nights. winning Boy Blue Entertainment The core focus in Year 1 is on projects. You will lead a team of second- The programme shares some of the • A multidisciplinary immersive familiarisation with software and and first-year students who help you professional theatre skills and theory performance event at Tower Bridge, hardware, while nurturing your design to realise your artistic and technical modules of the BA in Production Arts based on the Blitz and commissioned by skills and building confidence in a objectives, while still receiving guidance (see page 86). But these are complemented the City of London Police Museum professional setting. There is a range of and support from your tutors and with a more specialised series of modules opportunities to make the most of our visiting professionals. related to video design and content Other projects the Department has extensive resources as you learn your creation, technical management, system delivered include: trade, becoming directly involved in a Alongside your production work you will design and live operation/programming. supportive role as a member of the crew. also complete a portfolio, which will be Throughout the programme you will be • Video mapping and VJing at invaluable when seeking employment able to attend cross-year seminars and Glastonbury Festival, the world’s largest at the end of your studies. And you will lectures given by visiting guest artists. multi-arts and popular music festival Year 2 undertake a self-directed graduation • Troyfest and Trufest, two summer project that will allow you to focus on a This programme provides students festivals where students presented In Year 2 you will continue to take chosen area of specialism. with a unique range of opportunities to a large-scale architectural video a series of classes to help develop practise and apply the skills they have projection onto Baskerville Hall your creative skills and hardware acquired. Such opportunities include manor house competency. But there is a switch contributing to Guildhall School’s • Lux Festival, an annual international in emphasis regarding your role on programme of acclaimed productions, ‘light art’ festival in Helsinki taking part in festivals and arts • Guildhall Yard for the Shakespeare 400 commissions around the country, Festival and the 800-year anniversary of and a range of commercial projects. the signing of the Magna Carta – over 16,000 people attended three performances Guildhall productions • The British Museum, a large-format projection-mapping installation on the Visit gsmd.ac.uk for details of recent building entrance as part of the ‘Day of Guildhall productions, and see pages the Dead’ celebrations 82–83 for more information on how • Animated projections at Bangor Guildhall theatre technicians are involved University: a specially-commissioned in bringing operas and dramas to the stage. piece inspired by fairy tales, which was projected within the Pontio Arts Centre during the interval and post- Festivals and arts commissions performances of Snow White

The Department has recently presented work at: Commercial market

• Created in partnership with Museum Projection mapping techniques are used of London, Beasts of London is an by commercial brands in advertising, immersive tour through London’s product launches, VIP events, AGMs history, narrated by the animals who and at parties. Guildhall School’s close

90 91 Transferable skills • Video designer • Animator As well as equipping you with the • Video engineer/technician skills and knowledge to enter the video, • VJ theatre and entertainment industries, the • Video operator/programmer programme provides you with a range of • 3D designer transferable skills which are valuable to any employer. These include: Our graduates have an excellent track record of achieving employment at • Team working industry-leading organisations. Former students work in roles at companies such • Verbal and written communication “ I think the course teaches you a wide breadth of skills; you skills as 59 Productions, D3 Technologies and • Problem-solving XL Video, as well as in several successful learn both technical and design skills. On top of this, industry • Time management West End shows. The development of professionals are brought in to give us software training, talks this specialised programme is expected • Managing financial resources and to work with us on projects. This helps us from the start to • Practical application of IT to further enhance our relationship with • Research skills these employers. create contacts that we can then use to get jobs. We run like a • People management company with each student taking on a professional role. I feel Find out more that this really prepares us for the outside world. Especially as Graduate destinations the projects that we work on are real – we are in effect constantly Visit gsmd.ac.uk/productionarts for further information on teaching staff, getting work experience.” As a Guildhall School graduate in Video entry requirements, Open Days and how Design for Live Performance, you may to apply. expect to pursue a career as a: Laurie Lumley BA Video Design for Live Performance

92 93 This one-year Masters programme aims to bring together MA in early-career theatre practitioners, including: designers, Collaborative sound designers, lighting designers, production Theatre Production managers, stage managers and video designers. These practitioners work together in projects, some of which are generated and Design creative teams on an exciting and varied from within the creative teams, while array of theatre projects. The programme others involve collaborating with students is not intended to deliver core technical from one of the other Guildhall School One year full-time skills, but rather to develop your ‘theatre- Masters programmes. Over the year, the making’ abilities, exploring your potential teams on your programme will form and gsmd.ac.uk/productionarts as a creative artist and enabling you to re-form, developing a creative vocabulary work with other students on a series of on a broad variety of projects and forging collaborative projects. connections with other artists.

When possible, the programme The programme also includes a three- to four-week residential project, intended to take The Masters programme is a long academic you into an unfamiliar area of work. year (180 credits) with Principal Study for The idea is to offer an opportunity for designers, production managers and other creative collaboration unconstrained by creative artists and practitioners. At the preconceptions or prejudices. start of the year, you will be immersed in a four-week creative project that inducts new students into the Guildhall School Find out more environment. You will also be allocated a Principal Study mentor from a pool of Visit gsmd.ac.uk/productionarts for professional designers and production further information on teaching staff, managers with whom the Department has entry requirements, Open Days and how strong working relationships. to apply.

At the heart of this programme is Collaborative Practice, which aims to develop your ability to apply and integrate your specialist skills within a project. Throughout the year there are four

“ The facilities available to students to create are almost unimaginable. We got to bend metal in the workshop for one of our projects! The staff are also amazing, no matter the department you can call on someone for advice and they are always willing to help. And it’s in London! You spend all day at school sometimes, then on your way home you can stop in for a West End show. What more could a theatre student ask for?”

Carreen Walton MA Collaborative Theatre Production and Design

94 95 Sarah Brightman’s world tour, he worked as Assistant Stage site-specific production of Some of our Recent Katharine Jenkins in Concert, Manager for the London 2012 Sweeney Todd, The Demon Elton John Sports Aid Live, and Olympic ceremonies, and Barber of Fleet Street before Production graduates festivals such as Creamfields was then appointed as Senior moving to the Roundhouse and T in the Park. Stage Manager for the Winter as Technical and Production Arts alumni Olympic Ceremonies Sochi in Administrator. Jessica Alex Durrell (2013) 2014, and the Islamic Solidarity now works as Production Alex works as a sound and Games in Azerbaijan. Tom has Coordinator for National video technician, including recently taken up a position as Theatre Live. the role of Video Engineer/ a permanent member of the Cameraman on Derren Stage Management team at Hellen Bassett (2016) Brown’s 2014 UK tour the National Theatre. Hellen is now working as Neil Austin (1992) Simon Baker (1992) Mark Baron (2007) Infamous and as Video Dep Props and Puppet Technician Award-winning Award-winning Experiential Director, for the National Theatre Max Narula (2014) for Disney Cruise Line. lighting designer sound designer Collider Creative Agency production War Horse. He Max won the 2014 Gold Laura Depla (2010) has also been the Venue Medal and has since worked Abi Makin (2016) After graduating, Laura Install and Venue Technician extensively as Associate Since graduating, Abi has became a Production Assistant for Shoreditch Town Hall, Lighting Designer and worked at the Regents at George P. Johnson, a global and video technician for a Programmer with Tim Lutkin, Park Open Air Theatre event and experience number of events including as well as with Hugh Vanstone, and Hampstead Theatre. marketing agency. She was the Barbican’s Garden Room Neil Austin and Bruno Poet. Abi is now Assistant Stage and Conservatory Grand Re- promoted to Associate Shows include The Girls, Elf Manager (book cover) on the Opening, and the Lux Festival the Musical and Les Blancs international tour of Wicked. Producer in 2014. Highlights in Helsinki. He is currently at the National Theatre. In so far include working on an working with Cameron addition to lighting design, Olivia Whittaker (2016) award-winning multi-million Mackintosh Ltd on the West Max has been commissioned Having graduated from pound project for one of the End production of Hamilton. to take production and portrait the Stage Management and sponsors of the 2012 Olympic Peter Bevan (2004) Ros Brooke-Taylor (1992) Dani Charleson-Gallacher Neil Constable (1985) photography for directors Costume pathway in 2016, and Paralympic Games, Executive Vice President of Producer, Sonia Friedman (1985), Head of Projects: Chief Executive, Charlie Smith (2013) and designers at the National Olivia is now working as creating an interactive Production, uMedia Productions Hotels, Merlin Shakespeare’s Globe Since winning the Gold Medal Theatre, New York’s Public Floor Runner on Midsomer experience to showcase future at Guildhall, Charlie has gone Theater, and the Bush Theatre. Murders, and as a runner technologies, located directly on to a number of sound roles on several TV shows and adjacent to the Olympic Park. on various musicals, including Giulia Carisi (2015) films including EastEnders, Laura has also had the the West End productions of Giulia is a freelance scenic Location, Location, Location, opportunity to work on events Thriller, Billy Elliot the Musical artist and set designer, and Strictly Come Dancing, in Las Vegas, Boston, Dubai (Victoria Palace), Oh! What a has worked on productions Catastrophe, Holby City, Vic and Singapore, as well as Lovely War and Fings Ain’t Wot with organisations such as and Bob's Big Night Out and across Europe. They Used T’Be (both Theatre the National Theatre and Star Wars Episode XI. Royal Stratford East). Teater Nordkraft. One of her Jack Stookes (2012) projects involved transforming Oscar Selfridge (2017) Jack is Operations Manager for Katie Jenkinson (2014) Southwark Playhouse’s large Oscar was awarded the Avex Classics International, a Katie is a costumer and a studio into a working School’s Gold Medal in 2017. division of Japan’s leading Judy Craymer MBE (1978) Eric Fellner CBE (1980) Tim Lutkin (2008) Colin Pink (1989) member of Local 705, Motion medieval inn. Since graduating, he has entertainment business, the Producer, Mamma Mia! Co-Chairman, Working Award-winning Award-winning Picture Costumers. She also worked on productions at the Avex Group. Previously he was Title Films lighting designer sound designer works at Marvel Studios, Los Maria Egetoft (2015) National Theatre, Southwark Assistant Stage Manager at the Angeles and has been involved Since graduating, Maria has Playhouse and Tristan Bates Royal Opera House, Covent in feature films including been a Production Manager at Theatre as a carpenter and Garden, where he worked on Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. Teater Nordkraft. set designer. Most recently over 18 productions, as well as 2, Captain America: Civil War he was Head Carpenter for a tour to China with Carmen. and Thor Ragnarok. Thomas Keetley (2015) eStage’s Promises Promises. Jack is also the director of Thomas has specialised award-winning music agency, Tom Leggat (2014) in working in opera since Ben Cook (2018) STAG Music, which works On graduation, Tom worked on graduation, working at Opera Soon after graduating, Ben with some of the UK’s best a variety of West End musicals North and the Wexford was appointed as a Deputy upcoming musicians on events such as Miss Saigon, Les Opera Festival. He is now Stage Manager at English with clients including Google, Misérables and Matilda. He has Assistant Stage Manager at National Opera for their 2018 NatWest and the NHS. also worked on plays and events Glyndebourne Festival Opera. productions of Salome and at theatres such as the Young Vic Lucia di Lammermoor. He Alexandra Riverol-Brown James Shirley (2005) Jon Stevens (1988) Gemma Tonge (2002), Head James Adkins (2013) and the Almeida. As a follow- Jessica Richardson (2015) is currently working with (2008), Line Producer, Head of Production, Founding Partner, of Company Management, James is a catalyst and LED up to his placement as part of On graduation, Jessica worked English Touring Opera as an This Morning, ITV Imagination Charcoalblue National Theatre technician, and has worked on his programme at Guildhall, in stage management on the Assistant Stage Manager.

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PGCert in Performance Teaching

MPhil/DMus MPhil/PhD The PGCert Performance Teaching is designed to support PGCert in professional musicians, actors, production artists and Performance dancers who teach as part of their practice as performers either as their main employment or as part of a portfolio Teaching career. It offers a unique opportunity to develop creative and reflective practice in teaching performing arts. One year part-time or two years part-time You will be encouraged to identify a • Partnership and collaborative working personal pathway for your development, • Reflective practice gsmd.ac.uk/perfteaching focusing on the pedagogy of performance • Inclusion and working with groups and creative practice in the performing • Curriculum and assessment issues arts, in specific contexts that are most relevant to your career aspirations. Where can this lead? If you already have appropriate experience of teaching at higher education level you Participants in the programme have may have the option of taking a pathway been promoted in their existing working which will lead to Fellowship of the contexts as well as branching out into Higher Education Academy. new teaching areas. Others have gone on to further study including PhDs and our coaching-mentoring programme. Ethos

We take your existing experience and Highlights expertise as a starting point, enabling you to bring practice and theory • A strong focus on critically reflective together, through engaging with practice, framed by professional cutting-edge pedagogy. You will be part guidelines such as the Higher of a community of artist-educators, Education Academy Professional learning from each other and building Standards Framework practical skills. You will embrace diverse • Interdisciplinary perspectives – perspectives and different learning styles. bringing together teachers from performing arts disciplines, for a rich exchange of ideas Who is it for? • Teaching and mentoring delivered by an experienced team of educators, The programme attracts applicants who performers and researchers are interested in creative, innovative and • An educational philosophy evidence-based performance teaching. that celebrates professionalism, You could be at any stage of your career as international perspectives, creativity, long as you’re willing to take a fresh look and innovative practices in at your practice. Equally, you might teach performance teaching in a range of contexts, including schools, Higher Education, junior conservatoires, community and lifelong learning. Find out more “As I grew up in another culture, I wanted to enrich my knowledge Visit gsmd.ac.uk/perfteaching for of pedagogies in a different educational system, and find ways How you'll learn further information on teaching staff, to better adapt my professional expertise to my teaching practice. entry requirements, Open Days and how Approximately 13 days of face-to-face to apply. The sessions normally involve theoretical lectures, creative musical workshops are combined with online activities, moments of experience sharing, demo of teaching learning and one-to-one support from methods and so forth. I found it is very beneficial for me to take a personal Pedagogy Mentor. Content covers areas such as: a break from a busy teaching career to think and reflect on my teaching value, principle and strategies.” • Theories of learning and motivation • Facilitation and feedback • Creativity and pedagogical Yushan Li improvisation PGCert Performance Teaching

100 101 Guildhall School’s doctoral programme has a distinctive Research Degrees focus on research in, through and for the performing arts. MPhil/DMus As a progressive conservatoire we value research by practitioners in the performing arts, who can offer MPhil/PhD unique perspectives on their own practices as artists or pedagogues. Three years full-time (plus a period of ‘writing-up’ if necessary) Our doctoral students: practitioner in society, and the personal, social, ethical and political impact and Six years part-time (plus ‘writing-up’) • Pursue self-directed projects that bridge implications of performing arts practice. creative practice and scholarly research Validated by City University London • Benefit from supervisory teams that may include eminent practitioners as Doctoral studentships well as established academics • Refine their research skills through a Guildhall School offers three rigorous training programme studentships in collaboration with • Study in an outstanding conservatoire major arts and research organisations, gsmd.ac.uk/research with world-class facilities in the heart including the Royal Opera House of the City of London Doctoral Composer-in-Residence. Every two years, this unique collaboration offers one composer the opportunity to Research environment be Composer-in-Residence at the Royal Opera House. The period of study is Guildhall School has a vibrant and three years full-time, culminating in rapidly expanding research community, the completion of a new chamber opera and our doctoral students sit at the staged by the Royal Opera. Funding is heart of this. We hold regular research jointly provided by Guildhall School and seminars and public-facing events the Royal Opera House. The collaboration (including our ResearchWorks series and offers an enriching model that allows a the triennial international Reflective composer substantial creative research Conservatoire Conference) where you experience in the development of will meet fellow doctoral students and operatic practice. Previous Composers- researchers from within the School in-Residence include Philip Venables, and beyond. Alongside this, you will whose opera 4.48 Psychosis, based on the be able to follow the School’s very full Sarah Kane play of the same name, was a programme of concerts and productions; huge critical success and went on to win you can view our calendar of upcoming the UK Theatre Award for Achievement events at gsmd.ac.uk/events in Opera. Na’ama Zisser, the second Doctoral Composer in Residence, saw her opera Mamzer Bastard staged by the Subject areas Royal Opera in June 2018.

We welcome applications in a range of The Royal Opera House Doctoral “The research community at Guildhall is a really interesting place disciplines from students with a Masters Composer-in-Residence accepts to be, I have been learning a lot about practice-based and artistic degree or equivalent. We particularly applications every two years. encourage proposals in the following areas: Applications will reopen in July 2020. research… working alongside composers, musicians as well as set designers and educators. Given it’s quite a small environment, • Performing arts policy, institutional you can actually get to meet everyone – it feels like you can cultures, pedagogies and audiences Find out more • Music composition develop relationships within a short amount of time. It’s exciting to • Music performance Visit gsmd.ac.uk/research for further be part of a growing community of researchers at Guildhall, with • Music therapy information on teaching staff, funding, a good mix of social science and theoretical training but always • Opera entry requirements and how to apply. • Theatre-making and interdisciplinary a real awareness of what artistic practice is, from the perspective performance of practising artists.”

Students in these disciplines often study together and share a commitment to Stefania Donini exploring the role of the music or theatre PhD

102 103 Further information Careers Many of our teaching staff continue National Theatre and Shakespeare’s celebrates the achievements and work of After Guildhall to work in their industry, and are well Globe (see page 88), while students our alumni. You will also have access to placed to provide insight, advice and our alumni e-newsletter and social media Guildhall School is committed to on BA Video Design for Live contacts within their profession. platforms and be able to access other helping you find the career path which Performance work on professional benefits such as a potential discount on the is right for you. commissions throughout their studies Career preparation differs depending on (see page 90). Guildhall Creative Entrepreneurs Scheme your chosen discipline: Our training combines academic (see page 113). rigour and artistic skill with a strong • Undergraduate musicians take modules • Actors take a Career Preparation professional focus and unparalleled which include advice on teaching, Our alumni work all over the world, module which includes advice on engagement with the industry. 95% business & marketing and professional meaning that you can find a Guildhall auditions and casting sessions, agents, of Guildhall students who graduated portfolios. Electives include workshop community wherever you go. Here are unions, tax and accounting, CVs and in 2016/17 were in work or further skills in hospitals and schools. just some of the organisations our alumni setting up a professional company. We study six months later* (*Destinations of work in: have an in-house Career Consultant, Leavers from Higher Education Survey, • Postgraduate musicians are required while professional actors mentor each 2016/17). to plan external events and given • Barbican Centre final-year student. opportunities for placements and • BBC As you move through your programme, artistic programming. The Integration • Beijing Symphony Orchestra • Production artists take a Professional your links with the relevant industry & Professional Development module • Berlin Philharmonic Development module which includes will grow through talks and workshops provides seminars on freelance work as • Cameron Mackintosh Ltd help with IT skills, CVs and job from leading industry figures, work well as opportunities to consider longer- • Carnegie Hall applications, interview technique, placements and masterclasses. You will term artistic development. Musicians • Kneehigh taxation and unions. Students on receive careers advice within dedicated can attend masterclasses, while relevant • London Symphony Orchestra the BA Production Arts programme modules across many programmes, specialisms offer mock auditions, side- • Los Angeles Philharmonic also undertake a four- to six-week as well as one-to-one guidance from by-side schemes and mentoring from • National Orchestra of Wales professional secondment at venues teaching staff and mentors. professional orchestral players. • National Theatre such as the Royal Opera House, • Punchdrunk • Career preparation is at the core of • Singapore Symphony Orchestra the BA in Performance and Creative • Royal Court Theatre Enterprise, with project management • Royal Opera House skills, fundraising and budgeting, • Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and training in pitching proposals, • Shakespeare’s Globe marketing and online resources • Sonia Friedman Productions embedded throughout the programme. • Teater Nordkraft • White Light Students across the School are actively encouraged to pursue a wide range You can read more about the alumni of interests, and are exposed to the programme and biographies of School’s array of specialisms including our former students online at: entrepreneurship, research, collaboration gsmd.ac.uk/alumni and pedagogy.

Alumni

When you graduate from Guildhall School, you will become part of our active and vibrant Alumni Community with thousands of members who continue to make an impact on society using the training they received during their studies.

The Development and Alumni Relations Office is here to keep you connected with the School. We host regular reunions and networking session around the world to provide professional development opportunities and give alumni access to benefits and communications. After you leave you will receive our biannual alumni magazine PLAY which contains topical features and interviews and

106 107 At Guildhall School we value our diverse fall into this category. If you would like Applications, culture and welcome applications from all to find out whether the School’s support over the world. Applications and enquiries and environment are appropriate for you, auditions, about attending Guildhall are made you can contact our dedicated Disability directly to the School and not via any Coordinator. Please visit gsmd.ac.uk/ interviews and outside intermediary or agency. disabilitysupport for further details of what we can offer and who to contact. Open Days This means you benefit from dealing with our friendly Admissions team directly. You can also use our bespoke online Open Days application process which is aimed at making your application journey with us Each department holds Open Days at as straightforward as possible. various points in the year when you can visit the School, meet staff and students, and experience what life is On the website like at Guildhall.

As well as our online application form, Those interested in undergraduate you will also find all of our detailed study at Guildhall can also attend our application information on our website at Undergraduate Open Day in spring gsmd.ac.uk/apply. This includes: 2020, which offers the opportunity to experience all of our programmes, visit • Application deadlines our halls of residence, meet staff and • Application fees and how to pay them students and get advice on fees, funding • Application fee waivers and eligibility and student support. criteria • Application guidance notes Bookings for Open Days are available on • Audition and interview arrangements the website at gsmd.ac.uk/opendays • Audition repertoire and what to expect at your audition/interview If you are not able to attend an Open Day, • Entry criteria you can still use the interactive video tour on our website to explore the School. You If you have a question about your are also welcome to attend a performance application, you can also email the at Guildhall, many of which are free, to Admissions team at [email protected] see our work in action. View our calendar of upcoming events at gsmd.ac.uk/events

International students

We are proud of our large international student community. Nearly 40% of our students come from outside the UK – representing more than 70 nationalities in total. We hold international auditions in New York, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Taipei and Seoul. Visit gsmd.ac.uk/ international for information on visas, accommodation, English language requirements and support, and details of our buddy programme.

Disability support

Guildhall School is committed to promoting equality of opportunity. We provide an inclusive and enabling learning environment and encourage applications from students with disabilities or specific learning difficulties. Nearly 10% of our student population

108 109 Tuition fees for each programme are listed ensuring that the cost of tuition does not of a comprehensive application form Fees, funding on our website at gsmd.ac.uk/funding deter students from applying. available to applicants who accept a place at the School. and scholarships The amount you will pay depends on There are lots of measures in place to help which programme you are applying for, you meet the cost: and whether you are a student from Additional funding support the UK, elsewhere in the EU or outside • If you are a Home/EU undergraduate the EU. student eligible for a UK government UK undergraduate students who qualify tuition fee loan, there are no upfront as care leavers, or estranged students The UK government has guaranteed tuition fees. You will only have to repay (who have no contact or support from that EU students commencing courses the loan once you have left Guildhall their parents) and independent students in autumn 2019 will continue to pay and are earning over £25,000 per year. on low incomes will be able to apply for the UK and countries classified as part the same tuition fees as UK students for • For all other students, tuition fees for the Guildhall Access Bursary. Bursaries of the EU for fee purposes (subject to the duration of their courses, but has not a given academic year are advertised of between £3,000 and £5,000 a year residency requirements). Visit our website yet made a decision on the fee for EU well in advance to help you plan your will be given (with a maximum of 15 at gsmd.ac.uk/feeassessment to view the students commencing courses in 2020, finances. You can pay your fees in three bursaries awarded). full list of EU-classified countries. therefore the following information is instalments per year plus deposit. subject to change. Please continue to check • Guildhall School offers a wide range of If you experience an unforeseen change If you are a Home undergraduate student our website gsmd.ac.uk/EUFAQs where scholarships to all students through its of circumstances while you are enrolled (from England, Scotland, Wales or at Guildhall School, you may qualify for we will post the latest information as Scholarships Fund. Northern Ireland) other support may be an award from the School’s Hardship we receive it. If you would like to speak available in the form of a maintenance Fund to help you overcome your to someone at Guildhall, please contact loan and/or grant (actual amounts will immediate financial difficulties. [email protected] Home/EU students depend on your household income). Studying at Guildhall School is A UK government tuition fee loan is A UK government postgraduate loan is Fee-status assessment affordable, and the School is committed to available to undergraduate students from available to Home/EU students registered on specific Masters degree programmes All successful applicants will be asked to subject to meeting residency and other complete a Fee Assessment Form before requirements. Visit our website at gsmd. commencing their studies at Guildhall ac.uk/pgloans for more information. School, so we can establish whether your tuition fees should be at the ‘Home/EU’, UK government Postgraduate Doctoral ‘Equivalent or Lower Qualification (ELQ)’ Loan is available for full-time or part-time or ‘Overseas’ rate. MPhil/DMus or MPhil/PhD students to assist with course fees and living costs. If you already have a degree or diploma at or above the level of the programme you wish to study at Guildhall School and Funding guidance and would usually pay Home/EU fees, you scholarship support will be classified as an ELQ student and will be liable to pay the equivalent of the Guildhall School has a dedicated Overseas fee. Student Funding Officer who can help you identify sources of funding to support your studies. These sources Student visa requirements might include government and non- government loans and organisations For students requiring a visa to study that offer grants. in the UK, UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) requires, as part of the visa The School also offers a wide range of application process, that students scholarships to all students each year demonstrate they have the means to through our own Scholarships Fund. pay for their tuition for their first year These awards are supported by a variety of study and the means to support of external donors including City Livery themselves. For further details see Companies, grant-making trusts and gov.uk/tier-4-general-visa foundations, businesses and individuals. For a full list of our tuition fees, and Tuition fee and maintenance awards further guidance on funding, please see are offered to applicants on the basis of our website at gsmd.ac.uk/funding talent, potential and personal financial need. These elements are assessed at Non-UK applicants may find the audition and interview, and on the basis UKCISA website of interest: ukcisa.org.uk

110 111 If you are not yet ready to apply for higher Norwich, Taunton, Saffron Walden and Youth and Adult education, or if you are looking for a Peterborough. CYM teaching staff are shorter or more flexible course, there experienced and respected performers Learning are still plenty of opportunities for you and teachers working in many areas of to study as part of the Guildhall School the music profession. Many CYM students community. Here are some of the other go on to careers in music, but all benefit courses we provide. from the skills gained in the vibrant, inclusive and stimulating environment that CYM provides. Junior Guildhall gsmd.ac.uk/juniors Short courses Junior Guildhall is a specialist Saturday gsmd.ac.uk/shortcourses Mindfulness for Performers School offering advanced training to gsmd.ac.uk/mindfulness young people between the ages of four Guildhall School offers a host of and eighteen. Junior Guildhall students inspiring short courses for a variety of Mindfulness meditation is a well- are able to combine their Guildhall ages, disciplines and skill levels. In Music researched, non-religious and very training with their general education these range from Jazz to Music Theory, effective means of alleviating stress, in local schools. They come together Vocal Training to Brass & Percussion. anxiety and depression and promoting to experience and learn about music In Drama they encompass Acting in wellbeing. This practical evening course and drama under the guidance of staff Shakespeare & Contemporary Theatre, was developed at Guildhall School to from London’s orchestras and freelance Acting in Musical Theatre & Drama for support musicians and actors in their professionals. Junior Guildhall students 16–17 Years. And in Production Arts creative work and in their lives*. Skills often go on to study their chosen there are courses on Prop Making and for practice, performance and general discipline full-time at undergraduate Stage Lighting, to name a few. Visit the good mental health are taught in eight level, eventually making careers in the website to download our Short Courses weekly classes. profession, though others can, and do, Prospectus and apply online. move into totally different fields. *Minimum age 18

Preliminary Acting Course Centre for Young Musicians gsmd.ac.uk/pac cym.org.uk The Preliminary Acting Course is an Centre for Young Musicians (CYM) is a intensive 12-week full-time course, division of Guildhall School and provides offering a broad basis upon which to high quality progressive music training begin further actor training. As well for thousands of talented children across as training in Voice, Movement and the UK, with branches in London, Audition Technique, the course teaches students how to read a play and apply background research to the acting process, Creative Entrepreneurs working with directors to explore the gsmd.ac.uk/creativeentrepreneurs material. Students also examine scenes from Shakespeare and contemporary This 12-month business incubator plays, investigating the texts through helps people in the performing arts group exercises and improvisation. to launch their own enterprises. The scheme supports aspiring entrepreneurs to create, launch and make a success of Coaching and Mentoring their enterprises by developing their gsmd.ac.uk/cpd business skills and knowledge, as well as raising vital seed-funding. Through discussion, challenge and support, Coaching and Mentoring at Guildhall School offers an opportunity In the course of the year, participants for the professional to bridge the gap on this scheme have access to between their current performance and mentoring and coaching plus training their potential. Visit the website to find in customer development, digital out more. development, sales, marketing, fundraising, finance and pitching. Entrepreneurs also have access to dedicated office space and City-wide networks.

112 113 Patron Vice-Principal & Director of Senior staff at The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor of the Advancement City of London Jeremy Newton MA FCA DUniv Guildhall School Chairman of the Board of Governors Director of Learning & Engagement Vivienne Littlechild MBE JP Sean Gregory MPhil BA(Hons) FGS LGSM(PCS)

Principal Secretary & Dean of Students Lynne Williams AM Katharine Lewis BA(Hons) MA

Vice-Principal & Director of Music Chief Operating & Financial Officer Jonathan Vaughan Sandeep Dwesar BA(Hons) FCA FGS DipRCM (Perf) DipRCM (Teach) Director of Buildings & Operations Vice-Principal & Director of Drama Jonathon Poyner CStJ BSc(Hons) FCMI FIoD Orla O’Loughlin BA(Hons) MA PGCE CBIFM

Vice-Principal & Director of Production Arts Ben Sumner DipSM MBA SFHEA NTF

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