This autumn and winter, London will resonate with the enchanting melodies of French music, highlighted by the remarkable works of Lili Boulanger. From the evocative Requiem by Gabriel Fauré at the Royal Albert Hall to the nostalgic songs at Wigmore Hall, immerse yourself in a series of concerts honoring the rich legacy of French composers.

A Celebration of Lili Boulanger and French Music Across London

Dive into the heart of London this fall with a series of mesmerizing events dedicated to the genius of Gustav Mahler. From the haunting depths of Symphony No. 6 at Royal Albert Hall to the youthful exuberance of the London Schools Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican, Mahler's music will resound throughout the city. Don't miss the grandeur of Mahler's Resurrection Symphony with the London Symphony Orchestra or Marin Alsop's poignant rendition of Symphony No. 5 at Royal Festival Hall. This season, London's premier venues are set to bring Mahler’s timeless compositions to life.

London Celebrates Gustav Mahler: A Symphony of Events

London's vibrant classical music scene is set to shine with a series of enthralling concerts featuring the works of Francis Poulenc. From the majestic Barbican Centre to the intimate Wigmore Hall, audiences can indulge in performances ranging from choral masterpieces to exquisite chamber music. Highlights include the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra & Chorus under Ludovic Morlot's direction, Malin Byström's soprano brilliance, and Quatuor Van Kuijk's string quartet renditions, all paying homage to Poulenc's timeless compositions.

Celebrating Poulenc: London Hosts a Series of Mesmerizing Concerts

London is the place to be for Edward Elgar enthusiasts this season! From the serene choral works of The Sixteen at Royal Albert Hall to the grandeur of the Last Night of the Proms, there's something for every classical music lover. Don't miss the London Symphony Orchestra under Sir Antonio Pappano, the youthful energy of the London Schools Symphony Orchestra, or the intimate chamber music of the Nash Ensemble. Cap off the year with the New Year's Day Proms and explore the enigma of Elgar's Variations at Cadogan Hall and Southbank Centre.

Celebrate Edward Elgar: Must-See Musical Events in London

London is set to resonate with the enchanting compositions of Gerald Finzi this fall and winter. From the mesmerizing baritone of Huw Montague Rendall at Wigmore Hall to the Nash Ensemble's chamber music celebration, Finzi's works are at the heart of these events. Don't miss the Junior Guildhall Symphony Orchestra's performance at Milton Court and a festive Choral Christmas at Smith Square Hall. Join us for a musical journey through Finzi's timeless pieces!

Celebrate Gerald Finzi: Upcoming Concerts in London Highlighting His Masterpieces

AE Housman's collection of poems A Shropshire Lad inspired a torrent of musical settings, the archetypal English songs of several generations. The poet was a difficult man: a tightly buttoned, unapproachable Classics professor who refused to suffer fools and disliked music. We unravel some of Housman's many complexities, interweaving his letters through some of the magical songs his poems, contrary to his wishes, inspired

The lad that loved you was one that kept his word: The life of AE Housman through letters and songs

Milton Court Concert Hall

One of the world's leading string quartets, the Takács Quartet, leads a masterclass at Guildhall School.

Chamber Masterclass with Takács Quartet

Guildhall School of Music and Drama - Milton Court

Over the course of a glittering career, Childs has worked with, amongst many others, Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Wynton Marsalis, LA Philharmonic, Detroit Symphony, Renee Fleming, Yo-Yo Ma, Wayne Shorter, Alison Kraus, Dianne Reeves, Chris Botti, Esperanza Spalding, Lisa Fischer, Susan Tedeschi, Rickie Lee Jones, Shawn Colvin, Ledesi, Becca Stevens, Chris Potter, Brian Blade, Steve Wilson and Jerry Douglas.

Guildhall Jazz Orchestra with Billy Childs

A showcase of pioneering new bands and songwriters from Guildhall School's Electronic & Produced Music department.

Charge: Band

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The second performance in a new collaboration between Guildhall School of Music & Drama and the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. A big band made up of musicians from both institutions will perform student big band compositions and arrangements at Milton Court Concert Hall, having performed on Mon 4 Nov at Eastside Jazz Club in Birmingham.

Guildhall School & Birmingham Conservatoire Big Band

Romance, glittering ballgowns, dizzying waltzes, and abundant quantities of champagne feature in this semi-staged performance of operetta highlights from France and its Pyrenean neighbour, Spain. 

Led by Charlie Morgan and Ricardo Gosalbo, Guildhall School singers and pianists surrender to the irresistible melodies of Jacques Offenbach, Charles Lecocq, André Messager, Manuel Fernándex Caballero, and Pablo Sorozábal.

Songs at Six: French and Spanish Operetta Project

Paul Lewis is internationally regarded as one of the leading musicians of his generation. His cycles of core piano works by Beethoven and Schubert have received unanimous critical and public acclaim worldwide. His numerous awards have included the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Instrumentalist of the Year, two Edison awards, three Gramophone awards, the Diapason D’or de l’Annee, the Preis Der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik, the Premio Internazionale Accademia Musicale Chigiana, and the South Bank Show Classical Music award. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2016 Queen’s Birthday Honours.

Piano Masterclass with Paul Lewis

Finalists of the Max and Peggy Morgan Award as they perform works for viola, accompanied by piano.

Adjudication will be by Jonathan Barritt

Max and Peggy Morgan Award

150 years after its first performance in Vienna, Johann Strauss II’s Die Fledermaus arrives at Silk Street Theatre this Autumn.

Set to some of Strauss’ most memorable melodies, including waltzes and polkas, this exuberant comedy will whisk you to a party brimming with mischief, misunderstandings and mistaken identity.

Die Fledermaus

A showcase of pioneering new dance music DJs and artists from Guildhall School's Electronic & Produced Music department.

Charge: Dance

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2024 sees the first collaboration between Guildhall School of Music & Drama and the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. A big band made up of musicians from both institutions will perform student big band compositions and arrangements in two concerts: Mon 4 Nov at Eastside Jazz Club (Birmingham) and Mon 11 Nov at Milton Court Concert Hall (London)

Guildhall School & Birmingham Conservatoire Big Band at Eastside Jazz Club

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

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Russian-born British/German cellist Leonid Gorokhov gives a masterclass to Guildhall School students.

Cello Masterclass with Leonid Gorokhov

Guildhall Improvisers' Workshop, directed by saxophonist and composer Trish Clowes, presents a performance exploring the process and practice of the improvising musician featuring piano polymath and giant of the UK improvising scene Robert Mitchell. The Improvisers’ Workshop is a Guildhall School group focusing on creative jazz improvisation, approaching the jazz ensemble as a malleable vehicle for contemporary composition.

Guildhall Improvisers' Workshop

Guildhall pianists perform a programme of varied repertoire as part of our ‘at Eight’ series.

Keyboard at Eight

Guildhall Chamber musicians perform a programme of varied repertoire as part of our ‘at Six’ series.

Chamber at Six

Electronic and Produced Music (EPM) Professor Oskari Halsti performs a set with support from an EPM student.

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The Guildhall Jazz Singers are a stunning close-harmony group of eight young solo voices in the tradition of the Singers Unlimited, New York Voices and Swingle Singers.
 
Directed by Scott Stroman, their eclectic performances feature original takes on songs by Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, Fleetwood Mac, Sting and Yebba, classic and new versions of jazz standards, music by JS Bach, and spontaneous improvisation

Guildhall Jazz Singers at LSO St Luke's

LSO St Luke's

Guildhall Wind Soloists present a virtuosic chamber programme including Mozart's Serenade in E-flat major.

Guildhall Wind Soloists

Moira Buffini’s Loveplay captures 2,000 years of love and lust, and the power of human relationships. Satire and romance thread through darkness and tragedy in a series of interconnecting scenes exploring ever-evolving social conventions from the Romans to the present day.

Loveplay

Human nature is in a crisis. A despot has come to power, spreading chaos and fear. But in amid the oppression, there are some who dare to resist.

Joel Tan’s apocalyptic play No Particular Order examines the rise and fall of society in a collection of thought-provoking short scenes.

No Particular Order

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

Electronics at Eight

We are delighted to welcome back Alasdair Tait, Chief Executive & Artistic Director of the Young Concert Artists Trust (YCAT), to work with outstanding Guildhall chamber groups.

Chamber Music Masterclass with Alasdair Tait

Guildhall chamber musicians perform a programme of varied repertoire as part of our ‘at Eight’ series.

Chamber at Eight

Matteo Cimatti (violin), Gabriel Francis-Dehqani (cello) & Zany Denyer (piano) play works by Paganini, Elgar, Busoni & Britten.

Music of Britain & Italy at St Dunstan-in-the-West

St Dunstan-in-the-West

Guildhall string players perform a programme of varied repertoire as part of our ‘at Six’ series.

Strings at Six

Enjoy collaborations between Electronic & Produced Music Department students and students from several animation and film making universities with music performed live by Guildhall Session Orchestra.
 
This showcase is in partnership with Met Film School, Central Saint Martins, London Film Academy, Queen Mary University, Maryland Institute College of Art, London International Animation Festival.

Film Music Showcase

Enjoy Guildhall musicians play works by Hanson, Vaughan Williams, Gorb and Giroux.

Symphonic Wind Orchestra

Students from the string department present a selection of repertoire in these informal concerts.

Undergraduate String Concert

With a career spanning 45 years and a credit list including Aba Shanti, Lee Scratch Perry, Massive Attack, Desmond Decker and Jamiroquai, legendary dub producer and founder of the Ariwa Label, Mad Professor comes to give a rare masterclass at Guildhall School.

Mad Professor Masterclass

Ludovic Morlot, Music Director of the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, conducts the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in their first concert of the academic year.

The sublime programme features Mozart's final symphony, Jupiter, Debussy's Rhapsody for Saxophone and Orchestra and Poulenc's Gloria for soprano, choir and orchestra.

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Guildhall Symphony Orchestra & Chorus

Barbican Centre

Postgraduate pianists and composers create new works for piano duo, performing them alongside repertoire from the late-20th and 21st centuries.

Composition and Keyboard Induction Concert

Guildhall pianists perform a programme of varied repertoire as part of our ‘at Six’ series.

Keyboard at Six

Welcome to the Guildhall Jazz course! This performance culminates the induction for new jazz students and is the first opportunity for students to rehearse and perform together on stage. This first concert of the new academic year will feature smaller jazz ensembles performing together for the first time after a week working on arrangements with Guildhall Jazz teachers including Fini Bearman, Winston Clifford, Robbie Robson, Head of Jazz Jo Lawry and Deputy Heads of Jazz Stuart Hall and Jules Jackson.

Guildhall Jazz Ensembles

Back from their recent tour of Belgium, London’s young musical ambassadors bring another eclectic programme to the Hall, culminating in Elgar's iconic Enigma Variations.

Soloist Peter Moore, the youngest ever winner of BBC Young Musician performs in Jonathan Dove's Stargazer. Although rarely performed, Mahler’s Totenfeier is instantly recognisable as the original version of Mahler’s monumental second symphony. 

London Schools Symphony Orchestra

OrchestRAVE celebrates UKF’s 15th anniversary with a special orchestral rendition of bass music, performed by over 40 artists and alumni from Guildhall School of Music & Drama. 

Following the success of 2023’s award-winning OrchestRAM, drum & bass music returns to the Hall in the brand new show OrchestRAVE - an epic orchestral journey into the world of bass music and rave culture, elevated by mesmerising stage production.

OrchestRAVE presents 15 years of UKF: An Orchestral Celebration of Bass Music

Join us for this play day for instrumentalists aged 9-18, playing any brass or percussion instrument, and of ABRSM Grade 3 standard and above. Led by our lively team of inspiring Guildhall tutors and special guests, you will be able to develop your skills in a fun and friendly environment.

National Brass & Percussion Day

Students from Guildhall Young Artists King’s Cross give their end of year public performance, the theme is the Earth and our Environment.

Music, Drama and Production Arts students will come together to create their own show, which will take you on a journey to Earth from Outer Space.

Guildhall Young Artists King's Cross End of Year Show

Create and Perform will make up the daytime programme of Music Education Islington's second annual New Sounds Festival. Bring your classes, ensembles or choirs to share their hard work and creativity with other Islington schools. There are two ways to join in: 

Music Education Islington: Create and Perform 2024

Led by a group of young event producers, this evening concert will round off Music Education Islington's second annual New Sounds Festival.

The concert will feature bands, ensembles and produced music from young musicians across Islington. Our team of event producers will curate a lineup of exciting performances and new music to bring the evening to life. Musicians from across Music Education Islington’s provision will also take the stage.

Music Education Islington: New Sounds Festival Concert

Junior Guildhall Prize Giving Ceremony is an annual event that marks excellence within the various departments at the school. This event will feature awards, prizes and performances from our top students and is a chance to celebrate student achievements from across the year. 

Junior Guildhall Prize Giving Ceremony

Guildhall Jazz Department presents a celebration of over 40 years of jazz studies at Guildhall School. 

The Jazz Department at Guildhall is among the most renowned and established of its kind with alumni including Cleveland Watkiss, Zara McFarlane, Tim Garland, Steve Williamson, Helena Kay, Binker Golding, Winston Clifford, Huw Warren and Jason Rebello. Featuring past and present students and staff, this performance will premiere a new suite for jazz orchestra and vocal group written and directed by Scott Stroman.

Four Decades of Jazz at Guildhall

Junior Guildhall's Brass Band and Brass Ensemble perform a lunchtime concert at Regents Hall.


Junior Guildhall Brass Band and Brass Ensemble

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"Exponential ir/relevance" is a dynamic performance that explores the passing of time and the dualities of growth and decay, relevance and irrelevance through a collaborative experiment.

This piece brings together the ten members of the MACTPD cohort for a final project, staged at Guildhall School's Milton Court Theatre. The one act production is divided into ten segments, each crafted by a different member of the cohort, and seamfully woven together.

MA Collaborative Theatre Production and Design Exhibition: Exponential ir/relevance

Second year undergraduate pianists celebrate the end of the academic year with a short recital of music written for two pianos.

Piano Duo Project

Please note that the showcase is 6pm on the 26, 27 & 28 June.

A showcase of new work by Postgraduate students from the Electronic and Produced Music department. 

Electronic and Produced Music Postgraduate Showcase

A selection of scenes performed by Postgraduate Vocal students, with direction from Victoria Newlyn and music direction from Linnhe Robertson and Liz Marcus.

Vocal Scenes

Support Guildhall School’s students as a Patron Plus and join us for an exclusive Q&A with Guildhall alumnus and award-winning actor Adrian Dunbar.

This summer, Adrian Dunbar will be starring as Fred Graham in Kiss Me, Kate at the Barbican Centre from 4 June to 14 September. He studied Acting at Guildhall School of Music & Drama from 1980-1983. Perhaps best known for his BAFTA-nominated role as Ted Hastings in Line of Duty, Adrian has performed widely across TV, film and theatre. His credits include My Left Foot, Mickybo and Me, The Crying Game, Hear My Song, and Emily. In TV, Adrian can most recently be seen starring as Alex Ridley in the eponymous ITV drama Ridley. 

Patrons Q&A with Adrian Dunbar

Please note that the workshop day is at 11.30am-1.30pm and 2.30pm-4.30pm.

The inimitable Park Stickney is an internationally acclaimed soloist, recording artist and jazz harp specialist who has performed and taught at every major harp festival in the world.

In this Workshop Day he will work with Guildhall harpists on their Jazz harp skills, hopefully passing on a little of the Park Stickney magic.

Park Stickney: Jazz Harp Workshop

The concert will be a mix of Park's own jazz compositions and jazz standards. The programme will be announced from the stage.  

Strictly Stickney - the inimitable jazz harpist Park Stickney in Recital

The Creative Practitioner: Artists as Makers in Society: What role can higher education play in educating and supporting socially engaged arts practitioners?

Current students, alumni, teachers, and anyone interested in socially engaged arts courses are welcome to join this discussion. 

Guildhall School alumni Detta Danford, Maedb Joy, Pia Scattergood, George Thorby and Natasha Zielazinski will be sharing their experiences of their socially engaged education and careers.

The Creative Practitioner: Artists as Makers in Society

In September 2023 Guildhall hosted a networking and discussion event considering the diversification of staff in drama school and conservatoire production arts departments. As all agreed at this event, there is plenty of work to do, and we should keep initiatives moving and information flowing.

Diversity in action: Diversifying production arts staffing in drama schools and conservatoires (2.0)

An unmissable annual showcase of the piccolo, presented by the Wind, Brass & Percussion department.

Piccolo Concert

In contemporary music practice, technology and its artefacts exert a significant influence on acoustic music. Even when an acoustic instrument is amplified, the auditory experience, perception of sound, and quality of acoustic details shift. When electronic signal processing and electroacoustic compositions considered, it becomes evident that technological artefacts can dominate and often overshadow the acoustic qualities and musical nuances of a performance.

ResearchWorks: Towards a New Electro-Acoustic Music Practice: Forming a Balanced Interplay

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In this fascinating concert, first-year composers showcase their creativity with new works for Harp and Voice, which have been workshopped through the year.

Access the free digital programme for this performance here.

Five World Premieres for Voice and Harp

Played on authentic early harps we will visit the court of Alfonso the X in medieval Spain, France for the music of the Troubadours and the subversive music of the Trobairitz (female troubadours), Italy for one of the only solo baroque pieces written specifically for triple harp, the UK for some Playford dances and Germany for a touch of Handel. 

A Journey Through the Ages with the Early Harp Department

Guildhall alumnus Alexander Rider shares delicious rarities from his treasure trove, with stories and music from Fauré, Tournier, Renié, Saint-Saëns and others.

Tea-Time Concert: "A Leaf From The Album" - A lecture-recital by Alexander Rider

Performers, composers, actors, theatre makers, and cross-disciplinary creatives undertaking doctoral research at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama gather to present and discuss their work. They will set up residency in the Silk Street Theatre and offer performances, lectures, sharing of work, and round-table discussions, as well a social gathering at the end of the symposium providing a more informal chance to exchange ideas.

Postgraduate Research Summer Symposium

Instrumentalists from Junior Guildhall compete for the School’s prestigious Lutine Prize, Junior Guildhall’s equivalent of the Senior School’s Gold Medal competition.
 
Six students are selected from a preliminary round to perform in the final and the winner is given the opportunity to perform a concerto with one of the Junior Guildhall ensembles, in addition to a cash prize.

The Lutine Prize 2024

Opera Makers features scenes from three Puccini operas, in addition to new works written by composers and librettists on Guildhall’s MA in Opera Making & Writing, performed by singers and repetiteurs from the first year of the Guildhall Opera Course.

Opera Makers

What does it mean to "make it" as an artist in the 21st century? As traditions evolve and power shifts, performance and production artists with the skills to create their own work become the trailblazers of our culture. Making It is a three week long celebration of new work created by Guildhall's eclectic and multi-skilled student community.

Making It 2024

In honour of the 150th celebration of Arnold Schoenberg’s birthday, discover the highly charged and colourful world of expressionist composers, poets and artists of Vienna and beyond in the early 20th century.

Main works of focus will be Schoenberg’s Das Buch der hängenden Gärten with poetry settings of the German literary figure, Stefan George, Berg’s Sieben frühe Lieder and Webern’s Op. 3 and Op. 4, also set to poetry Stefan George.

Arnold, Alban and Anton: Expressionist song of the 2nd Viennese School

The creativity and originality of the Guildhall Jazz community is celebrated in the School’s annual Jazz Festival, presented in partnership with EFG London Jazz Festival.

Award-winning tenor saxophonist Helena Kay headlines Wednesday 20 November. Keep scrolling to discover Wednesdays full line-up...

Guildhall Jazz Festival in association with EFG London Jazz Festival: Helena Kay

Principal Guest Conductor of the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker and Music Director of Birmingham Opera Company Alpesh Chauhan leads Guildhall Symphony Orchestra in an out-of-this-world programme.

Join an orchestral voyage in Thomas Adès’ Polaris or explore the galaxy in Gustav Holst’s iconic suite The Planets, this is a concert you won’t want to miss.

Guildhall Symphony Orchestra: The Planets

The creativity and originality of the Guildhall Jazz community is celebrated in the School’s annual Jazz Festival, presented in partnership with EFG London Jazz Festival.

Headlining Thursday 21 November, celebrated clarinettist Giacomo Smith and Dutch Sinti guitarist Mozes Rosenberg join together to bridge culture, tradition and time to create unique concerts drawing on the history of Django Reinhardt’s music.

Guildhall Jazz Festival in association with EFG London Jazz Festival: Giacomo Smith & Mozes Rosenberg

A dazzling array of contemporary sounds showcasing the legendary Guildhall saxophone sound.

Guildhall Saxophone Ensemble

Junior Guildhall Big Band, Jazz Choir and vocal soloists perform Ollie Weston's new arrangements of Radio Music Society by Esperanza Spalding.

Guildhall Jazz Festival in association with EFG London Jazz Festival: Junior Guildhall Big Band and Jazz Choir

Following its debut at Gilles Peterson’s ‘We Out Here’ Festival this summer we are proud to present NYJO & Cleveland Watkiss Present: Sun Ra Reimagined with Musical Direction by Cleveland Watkiss MBE, featuring guest artist and creative collaborator, Sunshine the Afrooist, NYJO are bringing their groundbreaking tribute to Sun Ra and Afrofuturism to Milton Court, for the EFG London Jazz Festival.

Guildhall Jazz Festival in association with EFG London Jazz Festival: NYJO & Cleveland Watkiss Present: Sun Ra Reimagined

The creativity and originality of the Guildhall Jazz community is celebrated in the School’s annual Jazz Festival, presented in partnership with EFG London Jazz Festival.

The Sultan Stevenson Trio headline the final Jazz Festival performances in Milton Court Concert Hall. Keep scrolling to discover Sunday's full line-up.

Guildhall Jazz Festival in association with EFG London Jazz Festival: Sultan Stevenson Trio

This programme features several of Liszt's iconic song transcriptions for solo piano, alongside the beautiful melodies that inspired them. Performed by BMus 3 solo pianists and singers from the School's Vocal Arts department.

Songs with(out) Words

Vocal students present a selection of opera scenes. Music direction by Linnhe Robertson and stage direction by Victoria Newlyn.

Guildhall Brass 22 (GB22) will perform a mixed and entertaining selection of brass classics, including Jan Koetsier's Brass Symphony, Op 80 and Zequinha de Abreu's Tico Tico.

Guildhall Brass 22

Postgraduate String Concert

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

Autumn Opera Scenes

Guildhall Jazz Orchestra and Choir proudly present a performance featuring the inimitable British-Nigerian singer/songwriter Ola Onabulé.

Ola Onabulé has performed on the main stages of many of the international jazz festivals including main stages of Montreal, Vancouver, San Sebastian, Istanbul, Washington, and Umbria, as well as at concert halls and Jazz clubs worldwide, building and consolidating a reputation with audiences globally.

Guildhall Jazz Orchestra and Choir feat. Ola Onabulé

A chamber music recital focused on two main events of 1924: it both celebrates the 100th anniversary of the death of Fauré in November 1924, and the winning of the Prix de Rome by composer Jeanne Leleu who was only the third female to do so after Lili Boulanger and Marguerite Canal.

Jeanne Leleu Piano Quartet Project

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

Junior Guildhall Brass Band, 10 Piece and Percussion Ensemble

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.
 
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Beethoven Piano Prize

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.

Guildhall Big Band present Chicago: A South Wind Blows

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.

Guildhall Studio Ensemble feat. Bill Laurance

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

Junior Guildhall Symphony Orchestra and String Ensemble

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

Music of Britain & Italy at St Margaret Pattens

St Margaret Pattens Church of England

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!

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Nov 18, 2024

Arnold, Alban and Anton: Expressionist song of the 2nd Viennese School

Nov 20, 2024

Guildhall Jazz Festival in association with EFG London Jazz Festival: Helena Kay

Nov 20, 2024

Guildhall Symphony Orchestra: The Planets

Nov 21, 2024

Guildhall Jazz Festival in association with EFG London Jazz Festival: Giacomo Smith & Mozes Rosenberg

Nov 22, 2024

Undergraduate String Concert

Nov 15, 2024

The lad that loved you was one that kept his word: The life of AE Housman through letters and songs

Nov 13, 2024

Chamber Masterclass with Takács Quartet

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