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