Vocal Scenes Guildhall Historical Performance singers present music by Purcell, Scarlatti, Caccini, Monteverdi, Lully and Handel.
Songs at Six: Dickinson/Mörike This concert centres on a pair of essential works from the song repertoire: Copland's 'Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson' and Wolf's 'Mörike-Lieder'.
ResearchWorks: The flexible text This presentation examines some of the patterns that knit together Ebert’s version of Schumann's Cello Concerto with other substantially altered versions from the private collections of later cellists, as well as the more modestly altered versions that were published as performing editions when the initial copyright expired in the 1880s
ResearchWorks: Composing Narratives: Reimagining Musical Storytelling in New Vocal and Instrumental Works This presentation will explore Matthew's ongoing research into musical narrativity in a variety of projects, including his 2018 collaboration with Simon Armitage and Hansel and Gretel: A Nightmare in Eight Scenes for narrator and ensemble.
ResearchWorks: Evaluating Music Therapy: Designing a meaningful and flexible protocol for evidencing impact Guildhall School's Music Therapy Department has been providing community outreach music therapy to local schools and services since 2013. This presentation will discuss the first part of a project to design and implement an evaluation protocol.
ResearchWorks: Carnival Bodies and the Politics of Contagion: Shame, Absence and the Performance of Place in Crisis Patrick Duggan is an interdisciplinary performance studies scholar; he is Head of Theatre and Performance, and Associate Professor of Performance and Culture at Northumbria University. His research explores cultural production as a means of investigating the world, as well as object of analysis in it.
ResearchWorks: Musicianship in Auditions for Music Therapy Training - How is it constructed, performed and assessed? In this session Donald Wetherick will present findings from his PhD study of the audition process for the MA Music Therapy training at Guildhall School.
ResearchWorks: The Drama of Dissection The Drama of Dissection is a performance-based investigation of human anatomical dissection. The project involves creating a performance about medical students' first encounters with human cadavers in the iconic Dissecting Rooms at King's College London.