ResearchWorks (in person): The Poet’s Favourite Places – a virtual walking tour

  • 5pm
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About this event:

Category:
Platform / Discussion | Research | ResearchWorks
Event type:
Booking required | Free | In-person
Admission:
Free, registration required In person and online
Location:
Teaching Room 2, Milton Court, Guildhall School of Music & Drama

Event information

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Composer Julian Philips shares his ongoing creative journeys around the poet John Clare, focussing on his new work for voices and field recordings, The Poet’s Favourite Places completed in April of this year. This new work was developed during Julian’s 2023/4 sabbatical, and was conceived both around field recordings which Julian collected in Clare’s East Anglia in February 2024, but also a 1/4-comma meantone temperament, inspired by an early sixteenth century virginal. Julian will contextualise this creative research project within the larger span of his encounters with John Clare, but also share elements of the new work’s poetics and compositional design.

The Poet’s Favourite Places received its world premiere on 19 May 2025, in Milton Court Concert Hall, in EXAUDI’s acclaimed Exposure series, alongside works by Hollie Harding and Guildhall MMus composers. The concert was recorded by BBC Radio Three and subsequently broadcast as part of their New Music Show.

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What is ResearchWorks?

Guildhall School’s ResearchWorks is a programme of events centred around the School’s research activity, bringing together staff, students and guests of international standing. We run regular events throughout the term intended to share the innovative research findings of the School and its guests with students, staff and the public.

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Venue information

Milton Court, based across the road from our Silk Street building, provides the School with world-class performance and training spaces, including a state of the art concert hall, a lyric theatre, a studio theatre and several major rehearsal rooms.

Address:
Milton Court, 1 Milton Street, London, EC2Y 9BH
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