Prospectus 2016 gsmd.ac.uk 1 2 Introduction Who we are 4 Where we are 7 Who we work with 8 How we support you 12 Acting About Acting 20 BA in Acting and MA in Acting 22 MA in Training Actors (Voice) or (Movement) 26 Acting alumni 28 Music About Music 32 Performance 34 BMus 38 MMus/MPerf in Performance (Guildhall Artist Masters) 40 MMus/MPerf in Performance (Guildhall Artist Masters) 43 Orchestral Artistry MMus/MComp in Composition (Guildhall Artist Masters) 45 MMus/MLead in Leadership (Guildhall Artist Masters) 46 MA in Music Therapy 51 MA in Opera Making and Writing 52 Artist Diploma 53 Principal Study: Strings, Harp & Guitar 54 Principal Study: Wind, Brass & Percussion 57 Principal Study: Keyboard 60 Principal Study: Vocal Studies 62 Principal Study: Opera Studies 65 Principal Study: Historical Performance 68 Principal Study: Chamber Music 70 Principal Study: Composition 72 Principal Study: Electronic Music 76 Principal Study: Jazz 79 Music alumni 82 Technical Theatre About Technical Theatre 86 BA in Technical Theatre Arts 90 BA in Video for Live Performance 96 MA in Collaborative Theatre Production and Design 99 CONTENTS Technical Theatre alumni 100 Creative Learning BA in Performance and Creative Enterprise 104 Research and Teaching Research Degrees 108 PGCert in Performance Teaching 110 Further information After Guildhall 114 Applications, auditions and interviews 116 Fees, funding and scholarships 117 Youth and adult learning 121 Senior staff/Getting in touch 122 How to find us 124 4 5 INTRODUCTION Training in music or drama means We are situated next to the Barbican Who we are embarking on a life that can bring joy Centre on Silk Street in the City of and change to you and to the world. London with some of the best facilities At Guildhall School we provide the in the UK. On the edge of London’s lively involvement, intensity and direction East End and at the heart of the City’s for you to realise your potential and major cultural institutions, we offer an ambition. exciting and inspiring location to study music and drama. In addition, our brand As a Guildhall School student, you new facilities in Milton Court opened will work to professional standards in in 2013, with a world-class concert hall, a professional context, drawing on a theatre, studios and rehearsal rooms. pool of outstanding world-renowned artists who work with us as directors, In 2013 and 2014 we were rated No. 1 conductors, coaches and tutors. specialist institution in the UK by the Guardian University Guide, which is Our training produces accomplished testament to the quality of our teaching musicians, singers, composers, actors, and student experience. The way music stage managers and theatre technicians. and drama is taught and learnt at Some reach the very peak of their Guildhall School tests conventions. chosen professions to become household We break down boundaries between names. Others use their craft behind the traditional art forms and encourage scenes to help bring performances to cross-arts collaborations. We innovate stage and screen. The life is inspiring, and experiment, reflecting and fulfilling and demanding. exploring the big questions that affect us as artists. We train and prepare students to enter the performing arts all around the Collaboration is also vital between world. Equally we welcome students departments and with external from everywhere: 40 per cent of our organisations. Guildhall School has students are from outside Britain, professional partnerships with the representing more than 50 nationalities. Barbican Centre, the London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, The Guildhall School of Music & the Royal Opera House and the Academy Drama, to give us our full title, is one of of Ancient Music. These and other such the world’s leading conservatoires and alliances create wonderful opportunities drama schools. Established in 1880, we for our students. now have 750 students in Music and 180 in Acting and Technical Theatre. Community engagement is another key aspect of our approach. Our Creative Learning programme trains students to work in communities across East London and beyond; we also invite communities into the School to experience the performing arts. We respect creativity and the desire to learn, and provide training for all sorts of groups from the age of four upwards. Above all, Guildhall School believes in the power and duty of the arts to transform lives. We encourage students in everything they do to use their craft and learning for the benefit of others. 6 The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other (March 2014) 7 8 Where we are Guildhall School is located in the London’s most famous landmarks, heart of London, one of the most including St Paul’s Cathedral, the exciting cities in the world. Training Gherkin and the Shard. to be a musician, actor or theatre technician in this culturally-rich and Our facilities dynamic environment is a unique experience. With West End theatres, Our facilities include the Grade II-listed the Southbank Centre, Tate Modern Silk Street building, part of the distinctive and Covent Garden’s Royal Opera House and architecturally-renowned Barbican all close by, studying at Guildhall complex, and Milton Court, our brand means you have an array of world- new site just across the road. Opened in renowned cultural institutions on your autumn 2013, Milton Court houses doorstep. As a student, you will be world-class performance and training entitled to concessions on virtually all spaces. It includes a state-of-the-art entertainment tickets, plus discounts concert hall, a lyric theatre, a studio in shops and restaurants and on Tube, theatre and several major rehearsal train and bus travel. If you are coming rooms. Silk Street offers a more intimate from abroad, we will provide guided music hall, a dedicated lecture recital tours and special excursions to help you room, and a completely flexible theatre, find your way around. And you will theatrical workshops and labs, electronic find other major European cities easily music studios, recording and sound accessible by train or plane. studios, and over 40 teaching and practice rooms. We also have an annexe Our neighbourhood with a further 44 teaching and practice rooms, and our Sundial Court Hall of Our campus is situated in a vibrant Residence (see page 15). quarter of cultural venues. This growing cultural hub, which stretches from When it comes to showcasing students’ Guildhall School and our immediate work, Guildhall School has five public neighbour the Barbican Centre to the performance venues with exceptional Barbican’s new cinemas, LSO St Luke’s acoustic properties and extensive seating and the Museum of London, offers a capacity. And of course we also offer range of impressive performance and space where you can study and relax, exhibition spaces all within walking with a library, two student common distance. We are also right on the edge rooms, two cafés and a peaceful lakeside of East London, with all its creative terrace adjacent to the Barbican Centre. bustle and energy. And nestled between the popular areas of Shoreditch and Clerkenwell, we are close to some of 9 Much of who we are and what we a unique educational and cultural Who we work with do is shaped by collaboration. We are partnership. Built over many years, always looking for ways to collaborate, this partnership will provide you and we are proud to have established with a number of exceptional robust, purposeful partnerships with learning opportunities. These include five key organisations – organisations masterclasses and projects with the that contribute significantly to our Barbican’s International Associate programmes of study and provide Orchestras (Gewandhaus Orchester, Jazz Guildhall students with many at Lincoln Center, LA Philharmonic, exciting opportunities. These unique New York Philharmonic, and the Royal partnerships will enable you to meet Concertgebouw), and joint projects with some of the world’s most renowned the Barbican Cinema and Barbican artists, experience some of London’s Art Gallery. There is also the chance to finest venues, and receive the very best perform in Barbican venues such as the preparation for your chosen career. Theatre, Pit Theatre and Concert Hall. Barbican Centre Additionally, the Barbican and the School collaborate on a major learning The Barbican Centre is Europe’s largest and participation programme called multi-arts and conference centre. It Creative Learning. Through Creative pushes the boundaries of all major art Learning, Guildhall students learn to forms including dance, film, music, use their skills in community settings theatre and visual arts and is situated across East London and beyond (see page immediately next door to Guildhall 9 for further details). School within the iconic Barbican Estate. The Barbican and the School enjoy 10 London Symphony Orchestra developments combine the expertise of a conservatoire with that of an opera Widely regarded as one of the world’s house, helping to support emerging leading orchestras, the London composers and librettists in the creation Symphony Orchestra (LSO) is Resident of new operatic work. Orchestra at the Barbican. It attracts outstanding players from all over the Academy of Ancient Music world, and has a roster of soloists and conductors who are second to none. An Through our partnership with the integral partner of Guildhall School Academy of Ancient Music (AAM), one for many years, the LSO now helps to of the world’s leading period instrument deliver the Orchestral