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Outstanding performers from the first year of Guildhall School’s Opera Course present classical and contemporary operatic excerpts with piano accompaniment.

Enjoy an evening of brass and percussion music from three Junior Guildhall ensembles.

Students from the School's Electronic and Produced Music Department present a programme of varied performances as part of our ‘at Eight’ series.

Outstanding Guildhall pianists perform works by Beethoven in this competition final. Sponsored by The Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers

By the mid-1920s, the epicentre of jazz and popular music was beginning to shift to New York, but Chicago wasn't down for the count just yet. Louis Armstrong had moved East in 1924, but by 1926 he was back in the Windy City, making records under his own name for the OKeh label. This concert by Guildhall Big Band under the direction of Matt Skelton and featuring narration from Kevin Le Gendre tells the story of musicians such as King Oliver, Armstrong, Bix Biderbecke and Kid Ory migrating north from New Orleans and the southern states to Chicago, Illinois, of Earl 'Fatha' Hines, and the nucleus of the post-war evolution in jazz. The nightlife at 35th and Grand Boulevard has rarely been eclipsed.

Pianist, keyboardist and composer Bill Laurance leads the inaugural performance of the Guildhall Studio Ensemble. Laurance’s music evokes a striking sense of time and place. As an original member of 5-time Grammy award-winning group Snarky Puppy, Laurance has toured the world countless times, playing hundreds of concerts to tens of thousands of fans worldwide.

Two Junior Guildhall ensembles - the Symphony Orchestra and String Ensemble - take to the stage to perform pieces by Nino Rota, Finzi, Strauss and Borodin.

The Sonas Quartet play string quartet works by Paganini and Robert Schumann.

Silk Street Theatre, Music Hall and Lecture Recital Room are located in the main Guildhall School building on Silk Street and for Barbican produced events the venue can also be accessed from the Barbican if you exit via the doors next to Barbican Kitchen on Level G.

A pianist, a ballerina, state-of-the-art animations and digital effects. The Nutcracker for the 21st century. A seasonal classic told like it’s never been told before, with animations and effects creating a fantastical world is so real that you might even start to believe in sugar plum fairies!