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MUSIC TEACHER

23 April 2021

Guildhall School announces summer season of free

digital events

Hattie Fisk

From April to June, Guildhall School of Music & Drama will be hosting a mixture of live

and pre-recorded events for free on their website, including the final of their
prestigious music prize: The Gold
Medal.

As part of this year's summer festivities,
The Gold Medal final will be streamed on
8 May, featuring live performances from

four finalists to a panel of judges. The
Gold Medal award this year will be
celebrating singers, as it alternates
between singers and instrumentalists

annually.

Guildhall School’s Summer Jazz Festival

will go ahead virtually this summer,
presented by DJ and journalist Tina
Edwards. The festival will provide the
public with three days of performances
led by leading artists in the UK jazz

scene, such as Fini Bearman’s quintet, Trish Clowes, Ruth Goller and Brigitte Beraha.

The programme of events includes a live stream of Beginnings: New and Early

Opera. This contains five contrasting short operatic works written by composers and
librettists on Guildhall School’s MA in Opera Making & Writing programme, delivered in
association with the Royal Opera House.

The school will also be hosting a conversation series, curated and hosted by Paula
Varjack on Wednesdays throughout the season on Instagram Live, touching on race,
sexuality, class, age, gender, disability and social change.

Between 21-30 May, Guildhall Live Events, an innovative department within the school
that specialises in immersive and interactive digital experiences, will be running Future

and Form: Norfolk and Norwich Festival. The festival will collaborate with the University