The official account for Guildhall School, a vibrant, international community of musicians, actors and production artists in the heart of the City of London.
“We urge the BBC to reconsider these decisions in the interests of sustaining excellence at all levels of the UK’s thriving musical ecosystem.”
Guildhall School & Conservatoires UK release statements on the impact of the proposed funding cuts at the BBC.
We’re very proud to be rated the highest conservatoire for Music in The Guardian University Guide 2019, with a score of 97.9. Congratulations to all staff and students!
We're delighted to announce that Diane Alison-Mitchell will be joining Guildhall as Head of Movement, starting in September, leading on the design, delivery, and enhancement of Movement training for all Acting programmes.
📣 Big news about Acting auditions at Guildhall 📣
We’re introducing changes to UK auditions for Acting programmes for 2021 entry.
We’re reducing our UK Acting application fee to £35, a one-off fee covering all three rounds of auditions.
We're delighted to announce that Orla O'Loughlin
@orlaoloughlin1
, Chief Executive & Artistic Director
@traversetheatre
, will be joining Guildhall as Vice Principal & Director of Drama. (📸 Aly Wight)
We're so delighted to be ranked as the number one higher education institution for Music in the 2023
@guardian
University Guide music league table!🥇
Guildhall School is the only institution to score 100/100 in the Guardian’s rating of excellence for music.✨
Autumn term 🍂 Day 1 📅 here we go
A warm welcome to all our new students & staff starting their Guildhall journeys today, and welcome back to all our returning students & staff.
He’s only gone and won it! Massive congratulations to
@TGlynnCarney
for winning the Emerging Talent award at
#ESTheatreAward
, and to Luke Thallon for your well-deserved nomination 👏👏👏
Great news as we prepare to start the autumn term, with Guildhall the highest ranked conservatoire in this year's Guardian music and drama league tables for UK universities.
Read the full story >
Not every day you get to meet an electronic music icon...🤯
On Tuesday our Electronic & Produced Music students had the chance to hear from
@daftpunk
's Thomas Bangalter ahead of his debut orchestral release, Mythologies.
Read more 👇
Tonight we're displaying a special message on Milton Court screens to say thank you to our amazing NHS and key workers from all at Guildhall School 👏🌈
#ThankYouNHS
💙
#clapforkeyworkers
We are proud to announce our partnership with Islington Council on the new Islington Music Education Hub, offering
#MusicEducation
to every child in the borough:
We're thrilled to announce that Guildhall has been awarded £984,000 by
@ahrcpress
to lead 3-year international research project on the social impact of making music, led by
@johnsloboda
& with co-funding from
@simmplatform
🎶 Three Gold Medal finalists
🎵 Socially distanced orchestra
🎼 Conductor Richard Farnes
📹 Playing live across 4 Guildhall venues in
#GoldMedal2020
rehearsals
Tune in this Saturday night at 7pm to watch our Gold Medal final >
We’re pleased to announce Sarah Tynan as Head of Vocal Arts, starting in September 2024.
Sarah is a versatile singer, who's performed internationally, and a passionate voice teacher.
We look forward to welcoming Sarah in September!
Read more ⬇️
We're very excited to announce that
@gillypiece
will be joining Guildhall from
@LeedsPlayhouse
as our new Head of Interdisciplinary Practice, leading on cross-art form practice across the School.
Guildhall jazz musicians turned their online workshop/masterclass with Kevin Fox into a chance to make some music, singing Kevin's arrangement of 'What is Hip' 🎶
Audio mix by the fantastic Nick Girard.
Meet our incredible final year actors, who you can see in our
#GuildhallDrama
season:
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by
@SubaDasDirects
- Pod, created & directed by Jamie Bradley &
@UchennaDanceCo
, devised with the Company
Explore their profiles >
Saw the magnificent
@CoraBissett
in What Girls Are Made Of at the
@sohotheatre
. A personal show about rock & roll, life, hope, family, dreams and motherhood. Beautiful, heartbreaking, funny. With amazing songs. runs to Sept 28th.
Last night we lit up Milton Court in support of the
#LightItInRed
campaign, highlighting the extraordinary challenges facing the theatre and events industry at this time - find out more about the campaign at
Illumination by the brilliant Nick Peel.
Our summer
#GuildhallOpera
double bill has been transformed from the physical to the digital stage, with the creative team & artists from across Guildhall bringing the productions to life from home using digital technology.
Watch the performances 🎞️
Today, Labour Creatives Conference was held at Milton Court.
The event featured senior Labour figures and creative sector leaders, opening with a performance by Guildhall Brass 22 and a welcome from our Principal, Professor Jonathan Vaughan.
Read more:
⚡️
#GuildhallDrama
season news⚡️
We're delighted to announce our 2019/20 drama season, the inaugural season under the artistic leadership of Vice-Principal & Director of Drama
@orlaoloughlin1
.
⏰General booking for our Autumn plays opens 5 August
Our theatres may have gone silent for now, but the ghost lights are burning in our theatres.
There's still so much going on & more to come as we move online, so to everyone in the Guildhall community - stay safe. We will be back.
Missed our Music
#GoldMedal2021
🏅 final? There's still time to enjoy performances from our four singers, performing with piano accompaniment & with Guildhall Symphony Orchestra conducted by
@NMurrayBeale
.
Watch free online before midnight on 22 May >
"He's the first black actor to ever play Othello on a London, UK, England, national stage."
Cast members Daniel Adeosun & Jasmine Thomas introduce our upcoming
#GuildhallDrama
production of
@Lolitachakra
's Red Velvet, opening Monday.
We’re delighted to announce the award of over £900,000 from
@ahrcpress
to develop a new research facility for Extended Reality Production Arts.
Read more ⬇️
Just one week to go until Sir Simon Rattle conducts Guildhall musicians and
@londonsymphony
in an epic side-by-side with a suitably 'gargantuan programme' (Sir SImon's words, not ours).
🎤 Mic drop! 🎤
Congrats to the whole pod of Guildhall cast, crew and creative team on four brilliant live streamed performances 👏 👏
#GuildhallDrama
#Pod
"Urbanisation and gentrification are one of the biggest issues that modern metropolises have to deal with."
Director
@ameeraconrad
introduces
#TowersPlay
, a new play created by Conrad and the Company. 🏙️
Playing 11 – 16 Feb in Milton Court >>
We’re delighted to announce the winners of the School’s most prestigious prize, the Gold Medal, in both Acting and Production Arts. Congrats to both Lois Pearson & Em Reeve! 🎉
Read the full story >
An absolute pleasure to welcome
@marinalsop
to Guildhall yesterday for an Orchestral Artistry open rehearsal, and to hear Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances filling the Music Hall! She'll be conducting
@londonsymphony
in Bernstein's Candide this weekend - we cannot wait.
We welcome the government's announcement that EU students applying for study starting in September 2019 will continue to pay the same tuition fees as UK students and be eligible for student loans & grants for the duration of their courses.
Final-year actor Deborah Bahi speaks to
@orlaoloughlin1
about why her rehearsal room is the way it is, working on new writing with
@stefsmith
(writer of our
#GuildhallDrama
production of Antigone), and making representation happen in theatre.
We're delighted to have topped the
@Guardian
University Guide league table for Music for the second year running🥇
We also continued to score highly for Acting and Production Arts, with the School being ranked one of the top 10 institutions👏
Read more👇
We’re delighted to have been rated top music conservatoire for research in the Research Excellence Framework 2021, the national assessment of research in UK universities.
#REF2021
Read more here >
This
#InternationalWomensDay
we’ve been catching up with some inspirational women from around the School.
First up,
@norikogawa
tells us how she tries to challenge thinking in her home country of Japan
Congratulations to
@GuildhallAlumni
, Sarah Lancashire on winning Leading Actress for her role in Happy Valley at last night's
@BAFTA
Television Awards 👏🥳
#BAFTATVAwards
We’re excited to share the Concept Design images of the proposed Centre for Music today - a world-class venue for performance and education across all musical genres to inspire a new generation with a love of music. See more here
All of us at Guildhall were deeply saddened to hear of the death of Diana Devlin, who was appointed Head of Drama Studies at Guildhall School in 1993 and taught at the School until 2011.
🎉 We’re delighted to have ranked in the top five institutions in the world for Music & Performing Arts in the QS World University Rankings 2024
@TopUnis
.
Huge congratulations to everyone involved 👏
Read more about the rankings ⬇
Congratulations to our Principal Lynne Williams, who was awarded the Freedom of the City by the Remembrancer Paul Double. The award has been made by
@cityoflondon
to more than 100 women in commemoration of the centenary of the Representation of the People Act 1918.
We may have come down with a case of
#MammaMia2
fever - rather excited to see
@GuildhallAlumni
Lily James and Josh Dylan on screen, with the film also produced by fellow Guildhall alum
@judy_craymer
.
Wishing a very happy birthday to composer Judith Weir, Guildhall Honorary Fellow & Master of the King's Music 🎶🎂
We're looking forward to presenting her 'hauntingly beautiful' chamber opera Blond Eckbert as part of our Opera Double Bill next month.
We're excited to launch a brand-new BA in Performance Design, starting in September 2025.
Lead by stage designer, Dr Susannah Henry, the programme is the newest course to be offered by our Production Arts departments.
Find out more ⬇️
This afternoon we're excited to welcome two incredible artists to lead public masterclasses with Guildhall musicians:
3pm
@houghhough
piano masterclass 🎹
6pm
@tasminlittle
violin masterclass 🎻
Join us for some inspiring masterclasses - admission free >
We're delighted to be the highest-ranked conservatoire in this year's
@peopleandplanet
rankings, rising to 50th out of 154 universities and awarded a 2:1 classification. Well done to our students, staff & community on their hard work.
Read the story >
Meet our final-year actors, who you can see performing this term in:
- 'Mercury Fur', 15 – 20 October
- 'The Last Days of Judas Iscariot', 22 – 27 October
- 'Saturday, Sunday, Monday', 30 November – 5 December
Congratulations to all the Finalists of the 2019 Wigmore Hall/Independent Opera Song Competition
-
First Prize: Mikhail Timoshenko
Second Prize: Harriet Burns
Third Prize: Beth Taylor
Fourth Prize: Kieran Carrel
Pianist's Prize: Michael Pandya
🏅The judges and our finalists are back on stage and the winner of this year’s Gold Medal is... Alexandra Achillea Pouta
Huge congratulations, Alexandra👏🎉
Catch up with us tomorrow to read the full story and see official images from this year’s Gold Medal Final.
Milton Court is 🔴❤️ for
@LightItInRed
, to show solidarity & support to our industry and the Guildhall community after an incredibly difficult year. Find out more at
Thanks to our Theatre Technology team for lighting us up. 📸 Ben Mills & Jonathan Reeks
Milton Court turned red 🔴 last night, joining venues across the world as part of the
#WeMakeEvents
#LightItInRed
campaign, highlighting the huge impact the pandemic has had on the live events sector and all the incredible professionals who work in it.
@WeMakeEventsoff
We're also increasing our nationwide Acting auditions.
We'll be holding Acting auditions across six UK cities over 22 days: Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Leeds & Nottingham.
The first two rounds of these auditions will take place in one day to curb travel costs.
We'd like to acknowledge the work of David Mumeni at
@opendoorpeople
and our ongoing partnerships with a range of external organisations which have proved powerful catalysts for change.
Here we go for the autumn term 🍂!
A big welcome to everyone starting their Guildhall journey today and welcome back to our returning students and staff 👋
Absolute pleasure to welcome Acting alumna Lily James back to Guildhall yesterday for a great Q&A with Christian Burgess & our actors, and to present her with her Guildhall Fellowship.
@GuildhallAlumni
Many congratulations to Guildhall Principal Lynne Williams, Professor of Text & Poetry Patsy Rodenburg and alumna Jodie Whittaker, all receiving the Freedom of the City of London
#100Freedoms100Women
We're excited to share the details of our Autumn events season!
🎟️ More than 70 events online, free of charge, from Sep-Dec
📽️ A mixture of live broadcast & pre-recorded content
🎭🎶 Performances from across all School departments
Find out more