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The Guildhall School library (located within the Silk Street building) houses one of the most extensive specialised collections of music and drama print in Europe. [26] The Guildhall Symphony Orchestra and Chorus perform regularly in the neighbouring 1,943-seat Barbican Hall, whilst chamber musicians give recitals there as part of the acclaimed ...
He later became a professor and later the principal of the Guildhall School of Music. One of his notable pupils at the school was conductor Bruce Carey. He received an honorary doctorate in music from the University of Dublin in 1900 and was made a gentleman of the Chapel Royal. In 1902, he published a book on the origins of "God Save the King ...
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He is currently Professor of Saxophone at the Guildhall School. [5] In 2012, the Royal Television Society awarded Harle its "Music: Original Score" award for his composition for BBC 2's programme Lucian Freud: Painted Life, describing it as "An excellent, challenging and original score that perfectly complements Freud's powerful imagery". [6]
The Gold Medal of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama is awarded in May of each year to the winner of the school's most prestigious music competition. The prize was founded and endowed by Sir H. Dixon Kimber in 1915, and since 1949 it has been awarded in alternate years to a singer and an instrumentalist .
Grigson began playing jazz at the age of 12 [15] at school at Dartington. [16] During the early 1960s, he was co-leader of the award-winning Cambridge University Jazz Band [17] that included Art Themen (who has acknowledged Grigson's "off-the-wall" influence, [18] [19] saying of him: "He kind of sprang from the womb knowing the rudiments of bebop"), [11] Dave Gelly, John Hart and Jonathan Lynn.
John Rhys Evans (5 September 1930 – 2 January 2010) was a Welsh baritone noted for operatic roles including the leading man in the Merry Widow, the King in The Vagabond King, Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro; Don Carlos in Ernani, and leading roles in L'elisir d'amore, Madame Butterfly, I Pagliacci, La Boheme, The Gypsy Baron, Carmen, Die Fledermaus and Don Giovanni.
Pages in category "Alumni of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 535 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .