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the first prize will be an iPad Mini. Two runners up will win iPod nanos. Designs will need to be submitted to Hamilton Brooks’ Long Lane office by October 18th. The winners will be chosen by a panel of independent judges.
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Picture of pheasant taken by Alexander Amin
Green Gang
0 year old Barbican resident, Alexander Amin, and his friend Rudy Downey, have made a
website with lots of tips on ways to help nature and the environment. To find out more, type
http://greengang.co.uk into your browser’s address bar.
building Milton Court. It includes new performance venues, rehearsal rooms and teaching accommodation, as well as technical facilities of the highest specification which will help provide the School’s students with the very best training for careers in the performing arts. Audiences will be able to enjoy the new Concert Hall, Theatre and Studio Theatre as well as spacious, light-filled foyers and public spaces. The School’s programme of public events includes theatre, music, opera, masterclasses, festivals and many free concerts and events which will take place in both the new Milton Court and existing Silk Street building. Highlights of the autumn season
will include: • The first ever Alumni Recital Series, including Thomas Adès and Anne Sofie von Otter
• The first public event at the Guildhall School’s new building Milton Court with a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony by the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra with alumni soloists and the world premiere of a new work by Head of Composition Julian Philips
• Performances of two Chekhov plays Th
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Sisters opening the Milton Court theatres and the British premiere of June Havoc‘s Marathon ’33
• Guildhall musicians performing ahead of six London Symphony Orchestra concerts at the Barbican • Exclusive performances from senior
Guildhall School professors as part of the School’s Faculty Artist Series
• Four concerts as part of the Southbank Centre’s Th Noise festival
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• A festival commemorating the 50th anniversary of the death of Francis Poulenc
• Three performances of Iain Burnside’s new play Journeying Boys as part of the ‘Illuminating Britten’ weekend at the Barbican curated by documentary filmmaker John Bridcu. A performance as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival to celebrate professor Geoff Gascoyne’s 50th birthday and a special visit from British Jazz Awards winner Alec Dankworth to direct the Guildhall Jazz Band
• Opera double bill of Debussy’s L’enfant prodigue and Donizetti’s Francesca di Foix
The Alumni Recital Series Celebrating the inaugural season of the School’s new building Milton Court, the Guildhall School presents the first ever Alumni Recital Series in the new Concert Hall. On 5 November Thomas Adès (Piano/Composition 1989) is joined by three other alumni: violinist Anthony Marwood (Violin 1986), clarinettist Matthew Hunt (Clarinet 1994) and cellist and Head of Strings at the School Louise Hopkins (Cello 1990) for a programme that includes Britten, Barry and Stravinsky and three works by Adès himself. Adès attended both Junior Guildhall and the Guildhall School, where he studied with Paul Berkowitz and Robert Saxton. On 23 November mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter is joined by pianist Bengt Forsberg and accordionist Bengan Janson for a concert of French chansons including works by Debussy, Fauré, Ravel and Saint-Saëns. Von Otter studied on the School’s Opera Course (1982) with Vera Rózsa. The Alumni Recital Series is in support of the School’s Scholarships Fund.
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Structure colour and light art exhibition
ondon based artist Ann Kopka has been selected for a solo exhibition at the Barbican
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