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School has become one of the most prestigious conservatoires, ranked as one of the
top ten performing arts institutions in the world according to QS World University
Rankings 2020.

Key to the School’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. Of course, 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,” said 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.”

Audinate’s Dante is the de facto standard for digital audio networking, and distributes
hundreds of uncompressed, multi-channel digital audio channels via standard
Ethernet networks, with near-zero latency and perfect synchronization. Dante allows
audio, control, and all other data to coexist effectively on the same network.

For Guildhall School, Dante enabled them to solve COVID-related challenges both
with their live performances and their virtual learning environment.

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