Hire Guildhall musicians

The Guildhall School's performance service

The Guildhall School of Music & Drama receives requests from a wide variety of organisations and individuals to provide music and entertainment. These range from background music at company and corporate functions, music for weddings and civil partnerships, receptions and family occasions to full recitals for music clubs and societies. The School also provides vocal soloists for oratorio and choral society performances, and concerto soloists for orchestral concerts.

The music on offer is as varied as the number of groups available. We can supply individuals from solo harpists and pianists through duos and trios up to quintets performing anything from Bach to Gershwin and beyond.

Being owned and funded  by the City of London, the School is in the extremely fortunate position of being in the heart of the City. The students are regular performers at City and Livery functions. In all Guildhall School students perform at over 600 outside engagement events each academic year.

To be eligible for these engagements, students, either as
individuals or groups, must complete an outside engagement audition allowing the School to appraise not only performance playing ability but also professional attitude. The School can then hope to match the correct group with each booking. Each outside  engagement is different from the next and all bookings are individually tailored to the clients requirements.

Jazz

The School has a specialist Jazz and Studio Music Course. We can provide groups from solo jazz pianist to quintet.

Please note our jazz groups are not suitable for dance music.

Community Development

Through the Department of Professional Development, the Guildhall School is involved in setting up and managing a broad range of performance and workshop activities for all ages and abilities in schools and the wider community.

The programme provides opportunities for participants to gain  practical performance and composition experience alongside staff and students from the Guildhall School. Activities include skills development for specialist and non-specialist music teachers, primary and secondary school-based workshops, collaborative projects with outside organisations, open-access workshops, large-scale festivals in the community, and creative workshops for people in the business world.

For further information please contact Sean Gregory, Head of Professional Development.

What's on offer

Solo

harp 
guitar
piano (classical and jazz background and solo recital)
flute
cello
solo voice for weddings, partnerships and funerals*

Duo

flute and harp duo
flute and guitar duo
wind duo
string duo
solo instrument and piano
voice and piano*
trumpet duo for fanfares
jazz duo

Trio

wind trio
vocal duo and piano*
jazz trio
string trio
piano trio

Quartet

saxophone quartet
string quartet
brass quartet
vocal trio and piano*
vocal quartet for service music*
vocal quartet for Christmas carols (unaccompanied)
jazz quartet

Quintet

brass quintet (2 trumpets, horn, trombone and tuba)
wind quintet (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn)
vocal quartet and piano*
jazz quintet 

*not suitable for background music

The cost

Please contact Jo-Anne Naish for a quotation:
Tel: 020 7382 7197
Email: jo-anne.naish@gsmd.ac.uk

Please note that, for background music bookings, musicians are only able to travel for maximum 1 hour's journey from London.

Bookings can only be made for events held during the School's termtime (see our term dates)

Further information

For further information
or to request a booking form please contact:

Jo-Anne Naish
Music Events Co-ordinator
020 7382 7197
jo-anne.naish@gsmd.ac.uk