Guildhall ResearchWorks Podcast

Raymond Yiu (DMus Composer) and Lee Warren (librettist) talk to Julian Anderson (Professor in Composition, Guildhall School of Music & Drama) about their collaborative process, and their work-in-progress, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. Part 2 of 2.

Raymond Yiu (DMus Composer) and Lee Warren (librettist) talk to Julian Anderson (Professor in Composition, Guildhall School of Music & Drama) about their collaborative process, and their work-in-progress, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. Part 1 of 2.

Roundtable discussion at the ResearchWorks New Opera Day with Olivia Fuchs, Katie Tearle, Stephen Plaice and John Sloboda (Research Professor, Guildhall School of Music & Drama), chaired by Julian Philips.

As part of the ResearchWorks New Opera Research Day, Katie Tearle, (Head of Education and Community Projects, Glyndebourne) introduces Glyndebourne Education and New Work, and talks about commissioning for young people.

As part of the ResearchWorks New Opera Research Day, librettist Stephen Plaice talks about the status of librettists today, and his role as a librettist.

Julian Philips (Head of Composition, Guildhall School of Music & Drama) introduces the ResearchWorks New Opera Research Day (4th February 2011), and discusses whether opera is alive or dead as an art form.

Helena Gaunt talks to Jonathan Holmes (Artistic Director) and Peter Readman (Associate Composer)of Jericho House, whose production of The Tempest comes to St Giles' Church as part of the Barbican's bite 11 season in September 2011.

Head of Jazz Martin Hathaway and research professor Gail Brand preview the Guildhall Jazz Festival and Improvisation Fringe, which runs alongside it. Gail discusses improvisation across the School, and how the Fringe plans to explore it further.

Helena Gaunt talks to Head of Opera Clive Timms, conductor Robert Howarth and director Stephen Medcalf about this term's opera, the rarely-performed gem Spinalba, which opens at the Silk Street Theatre on 4 November.