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Guildhall School of Music & Drama -
Press Releases

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General Press Information

• ​Guildhall School of Music & Drama and The Royal Opera announce Oliver Leith as new Doctoral Composer-in-Residence 2019- 2022
• Guildhall School of Music & Drama launches range of Coaching & Mentoring courses to commence in Autumn 2019
• Guildhall School of Music & Drama awarded £984,000 to lead 3-year international research project on the social impact of making music 
• Guildhall School of Music & Drama launches new Masters in Electronic Music to commence in September 2020
• Guildhall School of Music & Drama presents first international Festival of Classical Improvisation
• Barbican Guildhall Creative Learning wins National Creative Learning Award’s SEND Achievement for its work with The Garden School
• Guildhall School announces finalists for its most prestigious prize: the Gold Medal
• Guildhall School of Music & Drama expands its Short Courses programme with nine new short courses
• Guildhall School of Music & Drama Principal Lynne Williams awarded Member (AM) of the Order of Australia
• Guildhall School of Music & Drama granted up to £490,000 of Leverhulme Arts Scholarships over 3 years by the Leverhulme Trust 
• The Guildhall School of Music & Drama announces its Spring 2019 season
• Islington Council to work in partnership with the Guildhall School of Music & Drama to lead new Islington Music Education Hub 
• Guildhall School of Music & Drama announces three new appointments in the Vocal Studies department
• The Guildhall School of Music & Drama announces its
  Autumn 2018 season
• Guildhall School appoints Cassandra Miller as Associate Head of Composition 
• The Guildhall School appoints Orla O’Loughlin as Vice Principal & Director of Drama
• Guildhall School announces winner of the Gold Medal 2018​
• The Guildhall School of Music & Drama announces its Summer 2018 season
• Guildhall School of Music & Drama Launches The Leadership Academy
• Round up of The Guildhall School of Music & Drama's fifth international Reflective Conservatoire Conservatoire Conference 
• The Guildhall School appoints Jeremy Newton as Vice Principal & Director of Advancement
• The Guildhall School of Music & Drama hosts its fifth international Reflective Conservatoire Conference: Artists as Citizens 
• Guildhall School announces its autumn 2017 season
• Guildhall School announces winner of the Gold Medal 2017​
• ​Lynne Williams to become the Guildhall School’s new Principal
• Guildhall School teaching judged world-leading in Higher Education Funding Council review
• Barbican and Guildhall School become latest partners for National Open Youth Orchestra 

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Music

• Guildhall School of Music & Drama  announces Music and Live Events season for Autumn 2019 ​
• Guildhall School of Music & Drama presents the 2019 Guildhall Chamber Music Festival  ​
• Junior Guildhall violinist Leia Zhu makes her debut with the Mariinsky Orchestra tonight at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg
• ​Samantha Clarke wins Guildhall School’s Gold Medal 2019
• Guildhall School of Music & Drama appoints Peter Moore as Professor of Trombone
• Three-time Grammy Award winner Jeremy Lubbock to attend Guildhall Studio Orchestra concert celebrating his music
• Guildhall School welcomes back alumni and showcases faculty artists at Milton Court Concert Hall 
• Guildhall School of Music & Drama appoints Simon Purcell as International Chair in Improvisation
• The Guildhall School presents its inaugural Chamber Music Festival: Friday 6 – Sunday 8 July 2018
• Sofiá Gómez Alberto wins Junior Guildhall Lutine Prize 2018
• András Keller appointed Béla Bartók International Chair at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama
• Barbican Guildhall Creative Learning presents Changing Dialogue 2018
• The Guildhall School presents Swansong, a cross-arts production devised by Iain Burnside
• The Guildhall School welcomes back alumni and showcases faculty artists at Milton Court Concert Hall 
• Guildhall Symphony Orchestra & Chorus opens autumn 2017 term events
• Guildhall School announces six new appointments in autumn 2017
• Guildhall School appoints Matthew Jones as Head of Chamber Music
• Barbican Guildhall Creative Learning presents Curious, 3-6 July
• Guildhall School announces winner of the Lutine Prize 2017
• Guildhall Artists in New York
• Guildhall Spring Events 2018

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​Opera 

• Alice Farnham makes her Guildhall School debut conducting Haydn’s rarely performed opera, La Fedeltá Premiata 
  
• Guildhall School presents an opera double bill: Handel’s Aminta e Fillide and Blow’s Venus and Adonis ​
• The Royal Opera presents the world premiere of She Described it to Death by Doctoral Composer-in-Residence, Matt Rogers, a co-commission with Guildhall School
• Guildhall School of Music & Drama singers Filipe Manu and Andrés Presno to join the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme for 2019/20 Season  
• Guildhall School of Music & Drama presents Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream 
• The Guildhall School presents Mozart’s opera
  Così fan tutte 
• The Guildhall School presents an opera double bill: Hindemith’s The Long Christmas Dinner and Berkeley’s A Dinner Engagement
• The Royal Opera presents the world premiere of Mamzer Bastard by Doctoral Composer-in-Residence, Na’ama Zisser, a co-commission with the Guildhall School in association with Hackney Empire
• The Guildhall School presents Francis Poulenc's opera Dialogues des Carmélites
• The Guildhall School presents Gian Carlo Menotti’s opera The Consul​
• Guildhall School presents Handel’s Radamisto in the Milton Court Theatre
• Philip Venables' 4.48 Psychosis, a commission with The Royal Opera and Guildhall School, wins at the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards 2017
• Guildhall School gives world premiere of Julian Philips' The Tale of Januari​

Drama

• Guildhall School of Music & Drama announces 2019/20 Drama productions
• Guildhall School of Music & Drama presents Merrily We Roll Along as its summer musical 
• Guildhall School of Music & Drama announces the Gold Medal Winners for Acting and Production Arts 2019 ​
• Guildhall School’s Spring drama programme includes Fury by Phoebe Eclair-Powell, Lisa D’Amour’s Detroit, Towers by Ameera Conrad and the Company and Orestes by Euripides 
• Guildhall School’s Autumn drama programme includes Mercury Fur by Philip Ridley, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot by Stephen Adly Guirgis, and Eduardo de Filippo’s Saturday, Sunday, Monday 
• Goldfield Productions’ Hansel and Gretel, with music by Guildhall School Professor Matthew Kaner, receives its London premiere
• Guildhall School presents Fiddler on the Roof as its summer musical 
• Guildhall School presents Clifford Odets' rarely produced play Paradise Lost
• ​Guildhall School presents Colder Than Here by Laura Wade and The Memory of Water by Shelagh Stephenson
• The Guildhall School presents Noel Coward's Post-Mortem ​​
• The Guildhall School presents four short plays by Martin Crimp and Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard in a version by Tom Stoppard
• Guildhall School announces the Gold Medal winners for Acting and Technical Theatre 2017
• Guildhall School presents Crazy For You
• Guildhall School presents Lanford Wilson’s Balm in Gilead
• Guildhall School presents Nick Payne’s The Same Deep Water As Me

Production Arts 

• Brian Blessed, Stephen Mangan, Angellica Bell, Nish Kumar and many more to star in Museum of London’s next major show
• Meet the animals that shaped London in a new immersive world:  A major new experience will bring to life the history of animals in the city, told from the unique perspective of the animals themselves.  
• Guildhall School of Music & Drama are commissioned for the second time by Waddesdon Manor as part of their Christmas Carnival
• The Guildhall School returns to Tower Bridge's Bascule Chamber to present Blackout 
• ​Guildhall video design students create Winter Light at Waddesdon Imaginarium 

Milton Court

• Milton Court Opening 26 September 2013 news release

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