Canadian pianist Élisabeth Pion, Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize winner for 2020, joins us to talk about her Wigmore Hall recital.

We discuss her programme of much-loved works by Mozart, Beethoven and three French composers from across the ages, her interest in Lili Boulanger, and getting back to performing in front of a live audience. 

Following the postponement of this Winner's recital in Summer 2020, we're delighted that Élisabeth is now able to present this programme with a live audience in the wonderful surroundings of Wigmore Hall.

The recital takes place on Monday 19 July at 7.30pm. Tickets are available from the Wigmore Hall Box Office (https://wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/elisabeth-pion-202107191930).

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Intro and outro music is Little Lily Swing by Tri-Tachyon, licenced under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Tri-Tachyon/Little_Lily_Swing/Tri-Tachyon_-_01_-_Little_Lily_Swing)

In Conversation: Élisabeth Pion - Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize winner 2020

Guildhall Jazz singers & instrumentalists worked with internationally renowned vocal group New York Voices to collaborate from across the Atlantic on a recording project.

Find out more about the project at: https://www.gsmd.ac.uk/music/principal_study/jazz/new_york_voices/

Credits:

Guildhall Jazz Choir and Guildhall Vocal Jazz Ensemble

Music and worlds Peter Eldridge and Lauren Kinhan
Sax solo: Florence Pugh

Piano: Peter Eldridge (NYV)
Bass: Mark Fincham
Drums: Tom Potter

Audio Mixes by Nick Girard
Produced by Clare Wheeler and Kevin Fox

The World Keeps You Waiting

Guildhall Jazz singers & instrumentalists worked with internationally renowned vocal group New York Voices to collaborate from across the Atlantic on a recording project.

Find out more about the project at: https://www.gsmd.ac.uk/music/principal_study/jazz/new_york_voices/

Credits:

Jazz Choir, Vocal Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Singers

Music and words by Joni Mitchell, 
Arranged by Kevin Fox

Scat Solo: Darmon Meader (NYV)

Bass: Mark Fincham
Drums: Tom Potter

Big Yellow Taxi

Guildhall Jazz singers & instrumentalists worked with internationally renowned vocal group New York Voices to collaborate from across the Atlantic on a recording project.

Find out more about the project at: https://www.gsmd.ac.uk/music/principal_study/jazz/new_york_voices/

Credits:

Guildhall Jazz Singers (Director Scott Stroman) feat. New York Voices

Music and Words by Paul Simon, 
Arranged by Darmon Meader

Solo: Kim Nazarian (NYV)
Sax solo: Kaidi Akinnibi

Piano: Ed Rice
Bass: Mark Fincham
Drums: Tom Potter

Me & Julio

Guildhall Jazz singers & instrumentalists worked with internationally renowned vocal group New York Voices to collaborate from across the Atlantic on a recording project.

Find out more about the project at:  https://www.gsmd.ac.uk/music/principal_study/jazz/new_york_voices/

Credits:

Guildhall Vocal Jazz Ensemble (Director Clare Wheeler) feat. New York Voices

Music by Wayne Shorter, 
Words by Chris Caswell, 
Arranged by Clare Wheeler

Solos:
Peter Eldridge (NYV)
Nicole Petrus-Barracks
Francesca Confortini
Sinziana Vrabie
Aitzi Cofre Real

Scat Solos:
Darmon Meader (NYV)
Nicole Petrus-Barracks
Francesca Confortini

Piano: Chris Bland
Bass: Mark Fincham
Drums: Tom Potter

Follow The Footprints

Guildhall Jazz singers & instrumentalists worked with internationally renowned vocal group New York Voices to collaborate from across the Atlantic on a recording project.

Find out more about the project at: https://www.gsmd.ac.uk/music/principal_study/jazz/new_york_voices_project/

Credits:

Guildhall Jazz Choir (Director Kevin Fox) feat. New York Voices

Music and words by Duke Ellington and Sid Kuller
Arranged by Darmon Meader

Solos (in order):
Kim Nazarian (NYV)
Mari-Anne Green
Peter Eldridge (NYV)
Marta Gornicka
Lauren Kinhan (NYV)
Martha Abrahamson-Ball
Darmon Meader (NYV)
Michelle Burton
Chris Bland (piano)
Tom Potter (drums)

Piano: Chris Bland
Bass: Mark Fincham
Drums: Tom Potter

Bli-Blip

The recorded introduction for the audio-described performance of Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's Emilia on 20 October 2021 at Guildhall School.

Recorded by final-year BA Production Arts student Darcey Robinson, the audio description will be delivered live via headsets to blind and partially sighted audience members.

This introduction and programme notes describe the set, the characters and costumes, and important notes about the show.

https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2021/event/emilia-by-morgan-lloyd-malcolm

Emilia - Introductory Notes

Cast members Harriet Burns and Siân Dicker give us the inside track on this term's opera double bill of early operatic works exploring romantic love: Aminta e Fillide by George Frideric Handel and Venus and Adonis by John Blow.

We talk about these two very contrasting but thematically linked operas, exploring comedy and tragedy in a double bill, and performing opera in Milton Court Theatre.

Our opera double bill runs from 3-10 June in the Milton Court Theatre. Tickets are available via the Barbican Box Office (https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2019/event/opera-double-bill-aminta-e-fillide-venus-and-adonis).

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Intro and outro music is Little Lily Swing by Tri-Tachyon, licenced under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Tri-Tachyon/Little_Lily_Swing/Tri-Tachyon_-_01_-_Little_Lily_Swing)

In Conversation: Handel & Blow Opera Double Bill

A very special podcast as Guildhall pianist Jonathan Ferrucci sits down with Carole Presland, Senior Tutor in Keyboard Chamber Music, to discuss our upcoming Chamber Music Festival in which they are both performing.

The pair talk about how the programming for the festival was decided, what it's like to programme and perform, and how the festival captures the essence of chamber music and its teaching at Guildhall.

Our Chamber Music Festival runs from 5-7 July at Guildhall School and across Culture Mile venues. Tickets are available via the Barbican Box Office (https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2019/series/guildhall-chamber-music-festival-2019).

Follow us on Twitter (www.twitter.com/guildhallschool), Facebook (www.facebook.com/guildhallschool/) and Instagram (www.instagram.com/guildhallschool) and head to our website (www.gsmd.ac.uk) to stay up to date with all the events and news from the Guildhall School.

Intro and outro music is Little Lily Swing by Tri-Tachyon, licenced under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Tri-Tachyon/Little_Lily_Swing/Tri-Tachyon_-_01_-_Little_Lily_Swing)

In Conversation: Chamber Music Festival

Final-year Stage Manager Tom Downie joins us to discuss the access performance of our autumn term drama 'The Wheel', written by Zinnie Harris.

Tom talks us through the ins and outs of audio describing a performance, the rehearsal process and technical requirements and describing for the ear and not the eye.

'The Wheel' runs to 26 October in the Milton Court Theatre, and the audio-described performance and touch tour will take place on Thursday 24 October. Tickets and more information are available through Barbican Box Office (https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2019/event/the-wheel).

Follow us on Twitter (www.twitter.com/guildhallschool), Facebook (www.facebook.com/guildhallschool/) and Instagram (www.instagram.com/guildhallschool) and head to our website (www.gsmd.ac.uk) to stay up to date with all the events and news from the Guildhall School.

Intro and outro music is Little Lily Swing by Tri-Tachyon, licenced under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Tri-Tachyon/Little_Lily_Swing/Tri-Tachyon_-_01_-_Little_Lily_Swing)

In Conversation: The Wheel Audio Description

Head of Composition Professor Julian Philips joins us for this podcast to talk about 'Stories of Sweet Visions',  a programme of song and chamber works celebrating his 50th birthday year.

We discuss his inspirations as a composer, his fascination with text and song, the process of putting programme together for this milestone concert and what it's like to revisit past works.

Stories of Sweet Visions takes place on Monday 25 November at Milton Court Concert Hall. Tickets are available via the Barbican Box Office (https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2019/event/stories-of-sweet-visions-chamber-music-by-julian-philips).

Follow us on Twitter (www.twitter.com/guildhallschool), Facebook (www.facebook.com/guildhallschool/) and Instagram (www.instagram.com/guildhallschool) and head to our website (www.gsmd.ac.uk) to stay up to date with all the events and news from the Guildhall School.

Intro and outro music is Little Lily Swing by Tri-Tachyon, licenced under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Tri-Tachyon/Little_Lily_Swing/Tri-Tachyon_-_01_-_Little_Lily_Swing)

In Conversation: Julian Philips' Stories of Sweet Visions

Guildhall School is a vibrant, international community of young musicians, actors and production artists in the heart of the City of London.

Ranked as one of the top ten performing arts institutions in the world (QS World University Rankings 2019), and recently awarded top conservatoire in the Complete University Guide Music League Table 2020, the School is a global leader of creative and professional practice which promotes innovation, experiment and research, with over 1,000 students in higher education, drawn from over 70 countries around the world.

It is also the UK’s leading provider of specialist music training at the under-18 level with nearly 2,500 students in Junior Guildhall and Centre for Young Musicians, as well as a joint Creative Learning outreach division with the Barbican which seeks to create inspiring arts experiences for all. 

Our diversity extends to the art forms that we cover. We are one of the few major European conservatoires to combine schools of music, drama and production arts. Working across disciplines frees us to break down boundaries across traditional art forms, to nurture invention, and to cross-fertilise ideas and methods. 

Above all, at Guildhall School of Music & Drama, we believe in the power of performing arts to transform people’s lives, and to radically enrich the world around us. We invite you to join us in transforming your own life, and to serving the wider world as we embark, together, on the challenge and change of the 21st century.

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