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29 October 2020
Guildhall School brings music back with Dante
‘The entire campus is now one big studio’
UK - Key to the Guildhall School of Music & Drama’s musical curricula is its annual award for
The Gold Medal - a performance competition that began in 1915 and had taken place
uninterrupted through 2019. Because of the global pandemic in 2020, the annual May
performance had to be put on hold as teaching moved online during the summer term.
“Because of COVID we needed to be swift in our response to ensure things like The Gold Medal
could occur and, very importantly, that in-person classes could still take place with full scale
participation,” says Julian Hepple, head of recording and audio visual at Guildhall School. “To
make that happen we quickly turned to Dante and Dante Domain Manager. And, in September,
as we returned to in-person teaching, we were able to hold The Gold Medal and broadcast the
performance online."
