Announces Summer 2024 Season
This summer, Guildhall School of Music & Drama presents a varied programme of events for the public to enjoy, including concerts, drama productions, opera and jazz.
Highlights include:
• A new three-week long festival Making It (Tuesday 11 – Friday 28 June) will celebrate accomplishments from final year actors, musicians and production artists.
• Guildhall School’s most prestigious prize, the Gold Medal (Wednesday 1 May) will see performances from harpist Heather Brooks, clarinettist Kosuke Shirai and double bassist Strahinja Mitrovic.
• Winner of The Gold Medal 2018, Yeonjoon Yoon, presents Um [Sprouting], (Friday 17 May) a concert that includes a series of original compositions and improvisations inspired by composers including Glass and Sakamoto, and the sounds and sceneries of South Korea.
• Sally Cookson’s outstanding adaptation of Jane Eyre (Friday 24 – Thursday 30 May) is revived by Guildhall School actors.
• Director John Ramster and conductor James Henshaw (Monday 3 – 10 June) unite for a production of Handel’s Alcina.
• Guildhall’s Jazz Vocal Ensembles (Friday 14 June) collaborate with vocal supergroup MOSS for a performance culminating their week-long teaching residency at Guildhall School’s Jazz Department.
• Guildhall Session Singers (Saturday 25 May) give their debut performance as the newest ensemble at Guildhall School.
• Newly appointed London Schools Symphony Orchestra Conductor in Residence, Enyi Okpara (Monday 15 April) conducts performance of Anna Meredith’s Nautilus.
• National Open Youth Orchestra (Sunday 21 April) presents a programme mixing acoustic, electronic and accessible instruments.
Guildhall School offers audiences an array of regular concerts, masterclasses, recitals and competitions which are free of charge to attend. Further highlights this season include Four Decades of Jazz at Guildhall, masterclasses with Stephen Hough (piano) and Claude Delangle (saxophone), screenings of new audio-visual works inspired by The Bauhaus and the opportunity to hear premieres of new compositions with Voiceworks: Contemporary Collaboration and the EXAUDI MMus Showcase.
Further Information on Guildhall School’s Spring Season visit: gsmd.ac.uk/summer2024