Short Courses

2016

Guildhall School is one of the
world’s leading conservatoires
and drama schools, situated next
to the Barbican Centre in the City
of London, with some of the best
facilities in the UK.
Our programme of short courses
offers a range of opportunities
for people of all ages to explore
music and drama, whether
taking their very first steps or
putting building blocks in place
for a professional career.
Contents
Summer Arts Camp
6 Summer Arts Camp (for 11–14 years)
47 Introduction to Automation for the
Entertainment Industry
Drama Summer School Information
10 Acting in Shakespeare & Contemporary 49 How to book/How to find us
Theatre 50 Accommodation and Facilities/
10 Acting in Musical Theatre Under 18s and Chaperoning
11 Drama Summer School (for 16–17 years) 50 Assisted Places
Music Summer School
15 Brass and Percussion Week
16 Advanced Saxophone
17 Advanced Viola and Performance Health
18 Advanced Oboe
19 Oboe and Cor Anglais Artistry
20 Jazz and Rock Week
21 Jazz Singers’ Weekend
22 Advanced Jazz
24 Singing Taster
25 A Cappella Choral
26 Essential Music Theory
28 Music Theory: Beyond Grade 5
29 Essential Aural Skills
30 Aural Skills: Beyond Grade 5
31 Contemporary Classical Music Appreciation
Technical Theatre Summer School
34 Stage Management Skills
35 Opera Stage Management
36 Stage Lighting Skills
37 Practical Theatre Sound Skills
38 Video Projection Mapping
39 Prop Making Skills
40 Introduction to Costume
Continuing Professional Development
44 Training in Classical Voice
45 Mindfulness for Performers
46 Creative Music Training
 SUMMER
ARTS CAMP
Summer Arts Camp
(for 11-14 years)

Course dates:
Join us for a week of creative and inspirational activities in
Monday 1 – Friday 5 August and around world-class arts and learning organisations, the
Guildhall School and Barbican.
Times:
Classes 9am – 5pm During the week you’ll have the chance to get hands-on
Drop off from 8am with Film, Music, Drama, Dance and Digital with expert
Pick up until 6pm guidance from practising artists and leaders. You’ll be based
in the Guildhall School’s state-of-the-art Milton Court
Course fee:
building and you’ll also get exclusive access to exhibitions,
£700 a private screening in a Barbican cinema and backstage/
behind the scenes access to the fantastic facilities of one of
Entry requirements:
the world’s leading arts centres and music and drama schools.
Age 11–14
Each morning we’ll break the ice with games and warm-ups
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before introducing the day’s activities which will include
summerartscamp
film making, music making, performance and tours. No
experience is necessary for any of the sessions, but if you’ve
New for 2016
got specific skills, talents or interests make sure you let your
team leader know!
In association with

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 DRAMA
SUMMER
SCHOOL
Drama Summer School Drama Summer School
(adult courses) (for 16-17 years)

Our two drama summer school courses each offer three

Course dates: Course dates:
weeks of stimulating and inspiring training in acting and
Monday 11 – Friday 29 July include intensive tuition, workshops and rehearsals. Students Monday 25 July – Friday 5
have craft-based classes for half of the day; for the other August
Times:
half they work as an ensemble with a director. The courses
9am – 5pm with some conclude with a presentation of work-in-progress to students Times:
evening activities and staff (not open to the public) which may take the form 9.30am – 5.30pm
of a workshop or open class.
Course fee: Course fee:
£1950 Both courses include class work or workshops with many £1250
of the School’s core staff including Wyn Jones (Director
Course and residential Course and residential
of Acting), Patsy Rodenburg (Head of Voice), and Wendy
package fee: package fee:
Allnutt (Head of Movement).
Bed, breakfast & evening meal Bed, breakfast & evening meal
£3024 £1952
Bed & breakfast
Entry requirements:
£2824 Acting in Shakespeare & Contemporary Theatre This two week course offers a stimulating and inspiring
Fluent English required
introduction to actor training and includes class work with
Entry requirements: Explore short scenes from Shakespeare and a contemporary many of the School’s experienced graduates and some core
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Over 18s only play and investigate the texts through group exercises and staff members. It is designed to appeal to various levels of
improvisation. The aim is to demystify Shakespeare and experience, including beginners and those who wish to
Fluent English required commit to truthful acting in modern drama. pursue full-time drama training.
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dramasummerschool The course comprises two weeks of intensive tuition and
rehearsals of Shakespeare and contemporary plays. Students
Acting in Musical Theatre have group classes for half of the day (including Acting,
Voice, Movement and Audition Technique) and work on
Students work with a director and a musical director on a scenes in groups with a director for the other half. The
project exploring a selection of scenes and songs. This will rehearsed scenes are presented at the end of the course before
involve some musical staging but the focus of the course is on an audience of students and staff.
the craft of acting within the context of song.
This course aims to give a challenging insight into acting in
Shakespeare and modern drama.

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 MUSIC
SUMMER
SCHOOL
Brass and Percussion Week

Course dates:
This exciting new course offers a unique opportunity to learn
Monday 1 – Friday 5 August from Junior Guildhall’s experienced brass and percussion
tutors in a supportive and encouraging environment.
Times:
10.30am – 5.30pm Participants will explore a varied and exciting repertoire
covering all areas of brass music.
Final day concert:
6pm – 7pm The course consists of:
• Brass band, orchestral sectional and chamber group
Course fee: performances
£385 Early Bird • Instrument specific group technique classes
(until midday 26 April) • Masterclasses with individual support and advice for
£425 audition preparation

Course and residential

The course culminates in a concert on Friday evening for
package fee:
family and friends.
Bed, breakfast & evening meal
£709 Early Bird The Brass and Percussion Week is a fantastic opportunity for
(until midday 26 April) young musicians to have fun improving their skills over the
summer, while providing vital preparation for those looking
£749 to audition for music college.

Entry requirements: This week-long course is open to pupils from 11–18 years old
Age 11 – 18 from ABRSM Grade 3 Standard to Diploma. No auditions
ABRSM Grade 3+ are required.

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brasssummerschool

New for 2016

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Advanced Saxophone Advanced Viola
and Performance Health

Course dates: Course dates:

This three day course offers a unique opportunity to study
Monday 20 – Wednesday Friday 22 – Sunday 24 July intensively with Guildhall School Viola Professor and Senior
22 July Tutor of String Chamber Music, Matthew Jones. In addition
Times:
to extensive viola masterclasses, students will be empowered
Times: 9am – 7pm by tailored viola-related workshops, including:
12pm – 8pm • One-to-one tuition
Final day concert: • Alexander Technique
Final day concert: 7pm • Yoga/meditation
7.30pm – 8.30pm • Practice techniques
Course fee: • Performance health
Course fee: £350
£350 On the Saturday evening Matthew will perform an
Entry requirements: exclusive recital for participants, before the course
Course and residential Age 16+ culminates in an informal concert on Sunday to which
package fee: friends and family are invited.
Recommended ABRSM
Bed, breakfast & evening meal
Advanced Saxophone is designed to help you develop an Grade 6+
£565 Advanced Viola and Performance Health is for musicians
effective saxophone sound and build technical ability as well aged 16 or above with relevant performing experience,
Bed & breakfast as consolidate your understanding and interpretation of gsmd.ac.uk/advancedviola
£525 training (ABRSM Grade 6 music or equivalent recommended)
repertoire. This three day course includes: and musicianship skills. The course is also relevant for those
New for 2016
Entry requirements: • One-to-one tuition thinking of applying for undergraduate or postgraduate
Age 16+ • Masterclasses in technique and performance skills viola programmes.
• Time working with a pianist
ABRSM Grade 6+ • Development of improvisation skills Described by Fanfare Magazine as ‘the finest violist since
• Small and large ensemble coaching William Primrose’ and with a discography of 23 recordings
gsmd.ac.uk/ of solo and chamber performances, Matthew Jones’s viola
advancedsaxophone This course is for anyone aged 16 or above with relevant teaching career has taken him to all corners of the world, and
performing experience in classical and jazz repertoire, he has worked individually with more than 1500 musicians.
training (ABRSM Grade 6 music or above) and
musicianship skills.

The course is taught by Christian Forshaw and Mick Foster.

Christian studied at the Guildhall School where he was
made Professor of Saxophone while still in his twenties.
Mick also studied at the Guildhall School and is a freelance
saxophonist and composer.

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Advanced Oboe (for 14-19 years) Oboe and Cor Anglais Artistry
(for 19-25 years)

Course dates: Working with the some of the most experienced players and Course dates:
This artistry course offers the opportunity to be coached by
Saturday 30 – Sunday 31 July teachers in the UK this two day course will help you develop Saturday 30 – Sunday 31 July some of the UK’s leading oboe and cor anglais players, who
your playing and technical ability, as well as consolidate are members of the capital’s great orchestras and soloists
Times: your understanding and interpretation of the repertoire. Times:
performing at the highest level.
10am – 6pm 10am – 6pm
The course includes: The course contains:
Course fee: • Workshops on technique, covering approaches to posture, Course fee: • Orchestral excerpts, both solo and in section playing,
£190 articulation, resonance and tone building £190 focusing on style and orchestral sound
Residential packages may be • Masterclasses on solo repertoire, focusing on performance Residential packages may be • Masterclass on solo repertoire performance
available on request. and communication skills, with one-to-one coaching from available on request. • Audition skills: what a panel is looking for
Please email: the tutors Please email: • Competition preparation, programming solo recitals
shortcourses@gsmd.ac.uk • Etudes and scales shortcourses@gsmd.ac.uk • Instrumental technique focusing on approaches to
• Handling nerves and performance stress posture, breathing and articulation
Entry requirements: • Work on reed making in Guildhall’s dedicated Reed Room Entry requirements:
• Reed making for oboe and cor, in Guildhall’s dedicated
Age 14 – 19 Age 19 – 25 Reed Room
Advanced Oboe is for musicians aged 14–19 with ABRSM
ABRSM Grade 6+ Grade 6 (or equivalent) standard. The course is also relevant This course is especially suitable for oboists considering
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for those thinking of applying for undergraduate oboe oboesummerschool
studying on the Guildhall School’s Orchestral Artistry
gsmd.ac.uk/ programmes. postgraduate specialism in association with the London
oboesummerschool Symphony Orchestra, or the Guildhall Artist Masters
Advanced Instrumental Studies pathway.

The Oboe courses are taught by senior Guildhall professors,

Nicholas Daniel, Gordon Hunt, Alison Teale, Fraser
MacAulay and Steven Hudson.

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Jazz and Rock Week Jazz Singers’ Weekend

Course dates: Course dates:

Sunday 24 – Friday 29 July Saturday 23 – Sunday 24 July

Times: Times:
10am – 6pm 10am – 5.30pm
7pm – 8pm Tutors concert
8pm – 10pm The Club Final day concert:
7.30pm – 9pm
Final day concert:
7pm – 10pm Course fee:
£125
Course fee:
£475 Course and residential
package fee:
Course and residential Bed, breakfast & evening meal
package fee: £287
Bed, breakfast & evening meal Our popular Jazz and Rock Week is the perfect opportunity A unique large group workshop for singers from all
to meet like-minded musicians of all ages and abilities and to Bed & breakfast backgrounds, working on jazz, gospel, African and world
£853
take your performance to the next level. £257 music. Led over two days by Scott Stroman, Jazz Faculty staff
Bed & breakfast and guests, it culminates in a concert with a full jazz band on
£783 This long-running course for instrumentalists and singers Entry requirements: the Sunday night. No music reading necessary – all learned
begins on the Sunday evening and finishes with a huge Age 11+ and performed by ear!
Entry requirements: concert on the Friday evening to which friends and family
Age 11+ are invited. gsmd.ac.uk/ This course is open to anyone over the age of 11, all abilities
jazzsummerschool and vocalists are welcome.
ABRSM Grade 2+
The course includes jazz and rock bands and combos,
gsmd.ac.uk/ big bands, vocal groups, classes in harmony, rhythm and
jazzsummerschool improvisation, instrumental and vocal classes, rock and
Latin workshops and computer music. In the evenings there
are tutor concerts and ‘The Club’ – our informal evening jam
session where you’ll get the chance to meet and perform with
like-minded musicians. It’s a busy and vibrant week.

Jazz and Rock Week is open to all musicians and vocalists over ‘Singing with the group at the
the age of 11 with ABRSM Grade 2 or equivalent skill level.
final concert, accompanied by
the band, is something that will
stay with me for a long time.’
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Advanced Jazz

Course dates:
This three day course, run by Guildhall jazz tutors, includes
Friday 5 – Sunday 7 August small band sessions where participants get to experiment
with and extend their knowledge of different jazz playing
Times:
techniques. In the evening we have ‘The Club’ – our informal
10am – 5pm evening jam session where you’ll get the chance to meet and
7pm – 10pm The Club perform with like-minded musicians. The course ends with a
final concert on Sunday evening for friends and family.
Final day concert:
7pm – 10pm Advanced Jazz is for musicians aged 16 or above with relevant
performing experience, training and jazz musicianship skills.
Course fee:
The course is also relevant for those thinking of applying for
£310 undergraduate or postgraduate jazz programmes.

Entry requirements:
Auditions are not required but you will be asked to submit
Age 16+ information detailing any prior training and performing
experience.
ABRSM Grade 6+
This course is taught by Guildhall Jazz tutors Sarah Gail
gsmd.ac.uk/ Brand, Malcolm Edmonstone, Carlos Lopez-Real and
jazzsummerschool Malcolm Miles.

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Singing Taster A Cappella Choral

Course dates:
Our Singing Taster course will give you an insight into Course dates:
Monday 18 – Thursday 21 July conservatoire training. As well as an introduction to singing Monday 25 – Friday 29 July
in Italian and communicating text into song, the course will
Times:
touch on body awareness and performance skills. Times:
10am – 4pm 9.30am – 5.30pm
The course covers:
Final day concert: • Breathing and body awareness Final day concert:
4pm – 5.30pm • Drama workshops 4.45pm – 5.30pm
• English repertoire
Course fee: • Text into song work Course fee:
£500 • Work on two songs of your own choosing, one in English, £370
the other in Italian
Course and residential Course and residential
package fee: You will also receive one-to-one tuition and perform in a package fee:
Bed, Breakfast & Evening Meal final concert in nearby St Giles Church, Cripplegate. Bed, Breakfast & Evening Meal
£770 £694
This course is taught by Marilyn Rees and other Vocal A Cappella Choral guides you through 450 years of
Bed & Breakfast Bed & Breakfast great choral music drawn from the Renaissance up
£720 Studies department staff. Marilyn has worked extensively £634
in recital and oratorio, given many broadcasts for radio and to and including the 20th century and uses material
television and toured Japan, USA and Europe. Roles have drawn from English and most major European schools.
Entry requirements: Entry requirements: The material will be performed in as many parts as the
Age 16 – 21 included Susanna, Queen of the Night, Zerbinetta, Poppea Age 16+
and much of the Bel Canto repertoire. She sang with the number of participants allows. The week culminates in a
Bayreuther Festspiele for over ten years and also with the Choral experience concert performance in the fabulous acoustic of St Giles,
gsmd.ac.uk/singingtaster Cripplegate, just opposite the Barbican Centre.
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Reasonable sight reading
This course is for participants aged 16–21 who have The course includes:
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demonstrable solo classical singing skills. Auditions are acappellachoral • Warm-up exercises
not required but you will be asked to submit information • Sight reading in parts
detailing any prior training and performing experience. • Diction, voice balancing and blending
• Working towards a performance

This course is for anyone aged 16 or over with choral singing

experience and a reasonable standard of sight reading.

A Cappella Choral is taught by Guildhall tutors David

Vinden and Graham Dinnage who share an extensive
experience of choral teaching, conducting and singing.

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Essential Music Theory

Course dates:
Essential Music Theory is particularly suitable for
Monday 25 – Saturday 30 July students aged 11 and upwards working towards ABRSM
examinations (Grades 2–5), and those interested in
Times:
improving their theory understanding. This course is ideal
11am – 4pm if you wish to improve your theory quickly, if you want to
revise your theory skills for the ABRSM Grade 5 exam or
Refresher Day:
if you are just interested in improving your knowledge of
Saturday 29 October theory in order to enhance your appreciation of music.

Course fee:
Essential Music Theory Course:
£370
Essential Music Theory
Refresher Day: £80
Essential Music Theory Course
and Refresher Day: £430
Entry requirements:
Age 11+
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The course covers:
• A revision of basic music theory
• Time signatures and key signatures
• How to construct major and minor scales
• Scale degrees and intervals
• Triads and cadences
• Introduction to composing melodies
This course is taught by Junior Guildhall and Guildhall
School tutors. Adults as well as children are welcome on this
course and there will be a separate group for over 18s. We are
also offering an Essential Music Theory Refresher Day on
Saturday 29 October 2016 specifically for individuals sitting
their ABRSM Music Theory Grade 5 exam in November.

‘The course gave me real

confidence in my theory
knowledge and I am now
looking forward to taking the
Grade 5 exam in November.’
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Music Theory: Beyond Grade 5 Essential Aural Skills

Course dates: Course dates:

This new intensive training course will help you practise
Monday 18 – Saturday 23 July Monday 18 – Saturday 23 July aural, speed up the learning process and make your playing
more expressive. You will work on listening and memorising
Times: Times:
skills up to the level required for Grade 5 ABRSM and
11am – 4pm 11am – 4pm Trinity exams for the following topics:
• Practical working knowledge of theory up to ABRSM
Course fee: Course fee: Grade 5
£370 £370 • Melody: copying vocally and instrumentally, interval
recognition, sight singing
Course and residential Course and residential • Harmony: cadences, chord-naming, tonality, modulation
package fee: package fee: • Rhythm: recognising time-signatures, clapping back,
Bed, Breakfast & Evening Meal Bed, Breakfast & Evening Meal sight clapping
£748 £748 • Mistake spotting
Bed & Breakfast Bed & Breakfast • Style/historical period recognition
£678 £678 • Understanding of character within music (e.g. dance, lullaby)
• Understanding of form and structure, dynamics, phrasing
This course is suitable for students aged 16 or above working and articulation
Entry requirements: towards Music Theory examinations upwards from ABRSM Entry requirements:
Age 16+ Grade 5. Age 11+
This course is for anyone who sings, plays and/or composes
ABRSM Grade 5 Theory and wants to work on refining their aural skills whether for
Topics covered include: gsmd.ac.uk/auralskills
exams or personal development.
gsmd.ac.uk/beyondgrade5 • How to write a Trio Sonata completion from figured bass
New for 2016
• How to complete short Classical or Romantic keyboard Essential Aural Skills is taught by Shelagh Sutherland,
pieces a freelance pianist who has been teaching piano, violin,
• How to continue solo melodies singing and Alexander Technique since 1972. Shelagh has
been teaching aural at Guildhall School since 1990.
This course is taught by Guildhall School music tutors and is
designed to meet the needs of any level of experience.

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Aural Skills: Beyond Grade 5 Contemporary Classical
Music Appreciation

Course dates:
This class builds on the lessons in Essential Aural Skills Course dates:
Our exciting new evening course will help you explore the
Monday 1 – Saturday 6 August and is designed for experienced singers, musicians and/or 4 February – 10 March rich and diverse world of contemporary classical music, with
composers who want to refine their more advanced aural classes on current trends in composition in a wide variety of
Times:
skills. You will be taught listening and memorising skills Time:
styles from the UK and across the world.
11am – 4pm up to and above the level required for Grade 8 ABRSM and Thursday evenings
Trinity exams for the following topics: 6.30pm – 8pm The course ties in with upcoming concerts and events,
Course fee:
featuring seminars with leading guest musicians and
• Practical working knowledge of advanced theory BBC Total Immersion:
£370 composers working on new pieces for renowned UK
• Melody: copying longer melodic phrases vocally and Andriessen rehearsal ensembles alongside regular classes with Guildhall School
instrumentally, singing/playing upper/lower melodies Friday 5 February
Course and residential
Composition staff.
of a two-part phrase, interval recognition including 6.30pm – 8pm
package fee: compound intervals, advanced sight singing
Bed, Breakfast & Evening Meal • Harmony: revision of cadences, detailed chord-naming, Topics will include:
Course fee:
£731 tonality including chromaticism, whole-tone, serialism, • Louis Andriessen: His Work and Lasting Influence (tying
£180
Bed & Breakfast modulation (including practical work) in with the BBC Total Immersion: Andriessen: M is for
£671 • Rhythm: recognising time-signatures, musical pulse, Entry requirements:
Man, Music & Mystery series, including exclusive access to
clapping back more advanced rhythms, more advanced Age 16+ rehearsals for participants)
Entry requirements:
sight clapping, group work • ‘Seeing Light as Colour, Hearing Sound as Timbre’: Spectral
Age 16+ • Mistake spotting: melody, rhythm, dynamics, gsmd.ac.uk/
Music and its Legacy
articulation, speed contemporaryclassical
• ‘The American Vision’, or ‘The Pleasure of Many Things
ABRSM Grade 5 instrument • Style/historical period recognition at Once’
and theory recommended • Recognising character and form of music (dance, chorale, • ‘Frozen landscapes, stillness, silence and especially snow’:
elegie, fugue etc) New Simplicity in Denmark and Germany
gsmd.ac.uk/auralskillsbg5 • Understanding of structure within form • Contemporary Music in Britain Today: Streams, Currents
and Crosscurrents
New for 2016 The class is taught by Shelagh Sutherland, a freelance pianist • The Younger Generation, including interviews with
who has been teaching piano, violin, singing and Alexander composers Elizabeth Ogonek and Darren Bloom, in
Technique since 1972. Shelagh has been teaching aural at advance of their premieres as part of the London Symphony
Guildhall School since 1990. Orchestra’s Futures Week

This course is open to anyone over the age of 16 who is

interested in finding out more about new classical music,
regardless of experience or educational background.

‘The course was very well-paced

and had a very inspiring
atmosphere.’
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TECHNICAL
THEATRE
SUMMER
SCHOOL
Stage Management Skills Opera Stage Management

Course dates: Course dates:

Monday 18 – Friday 22 July Monday 25 – Tuesday 26 July

Times: Times:
10am – 5pm 10am – 5pm

Course fee: Course fee:

£495 £190

Course and residential Entry requirements:

package fee:
Bed, Breakfast & Evening Meal
£819
Bed & Breakfast
£759
Stage Management teams are at the core of a production,
Entry requirements: communicating, coordinating, organising and bringing
Age 17+ together all production and creative departments.
gsmd.ac.uk/ Our one week course offers an introduction to the world of
stagemanagementss the Stage Management team and the skills required to work
with a creative team.
During the week you will:
• Develop some basic prop making and prop sourcing skills
• Learn the art of ‘cueing’ a production
• Learn some basic score reading techniques
This course is suitable for students considering applying
for Technical Theatre BA courses, keen amateurs, school
staff involved in theatre productions and theatre/film
practitioners looking to expand their skills.
Age 17+
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operastagemanagement
This two day course offers an introduction to the world of
opera from a stage management point of view, the logistics of
working with opera singers and how an opera production is
scheduled. The course also introduces students to the basics of
how to read music, progressing on to following opera scores.
You will learn to:
• Schedule an opera
• Cue to music
• Read an opera score
This course is taught by our Stage Management Lecturer
Kate John. Kate has 13 years’ experience and has worked for
the D’Oyly Carte Opera, Opera Ireland and Welsh National
Opera, touring nationally and internationally.

The course is taught by Gill Allen, the School’s Head of Stage

Management, as well as Karen Kerr and Kate John, both
Stage Management Lecturers at the Guildhall School.

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Stage Lighting Skills Practical Theatre Sound Skills

Course dates:
Stage Lighting Skills introduces you to the work of an Course dates:
Monday 25 – Friday 29 July electrics department and its accessories, lamps, lenses, Monday 18 – Friday 22 July
lanterns and luminaires. You will get hands-on experience
Times:
rigging and focusing lanterns and guidance on how to Times:
10am – 5pm draw a lighting plan. 10am – 5pm

Course fee:
The course covers: Course fee:
£495 • Safe working and electrical theory, including a practical £495
plug wiring exercise
Course and residential • Basic fault finding Course and residential
package fee: • Use of DMX to control dimmers, moving lights and package fee:
Bed, Breakfast & Evening Meal scrollers Bed, Breakfast & Evening Meal
£819 • Advice on how to prepare for a show £819
Bed & Breakfast • Advice on how to control lights using manual and Bed & Breakfast
£759 memory desks £759
As part of the course you will go to a live show to observe This hands-on course introduces you to the practical, creative
Entry requirements: Entry requirements: and technological aspects of sound design and management
Age 17+ lighting techniques. Stage Lighting Skills is particularly Age 17+
suitable for keen amateurs, students considering Technical for the stage.

gsmd.ac.uk/stagelighting
Theatre BA courses, school staff involved in theatre gsmd.ac.uk/theatresound
productions and theatre/film practitioners looking to expand The course covers the purpose and timeline of theatre sound,
their skills. modern roles (Sound Designer, Principal Sound Engineer
and Sound Operator) and an introduction to relevant
This course is taught by Nick Peel, who has been lecturing software and equipment:
in lighting technology and design for over 10 years and • Software: QLab and Pro Tools
teaches on the Guildhall School’s BA(Hons) Technical • Equipment: Mics, cables, desks, speakers, computers
Theatre Arts programme. and interfaces
• FX recording and editing
• Aspects of Sound Design: Atmospheres, spot fx, practicals
‘The hands-on, practical nature and reinforcement

made the technical side of things This course is taught by Andy Taylor, who has worked as a

a lot less daunting. Visiting sound engineer for over 20 years and is Sound Technology
Lecturer at the Guildhall School.
a West End performance really
helped to put what we were
learning into context.’
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Video Projection Mapping Prop Making Skills

Course dates: Course dates:

Monday 18 – Friday 22 July Monday 18 – Friday 22 July

Times: Times:
10am – 5pm 10am – 5pm

Course fee: Course fee:

£495 £495

Course and residential Course and residential

package fee: package fee:
Bed, Breakfast & Evening Meal Bed, Breakfast & Evening Meal
£819 £819
Bed & Breakfast Bed & Breakfast
£759 £759
Our Video Projection Mapping course offers a unique Prop Making Skills introduces you to a range of creative
Entry requirements: opportunity for artists, designers, photographers, primary Entry requirements: techniques that will enable you to take easily obtainable
Age 17+ and secondary school teachers, amateurs and school leavers to Age 17+ materials, tools and objects and create realistic and
learn and develop the necessary skills to prepare content and compelling props.
gsmd.ac.uk/ project video onto a 3D structure. gsmd.ac.uk/propmaking
videoprojectionmappingss The course covers:
The course will introduce you to the basic principles and
• Sculpting in clay
techniques of digital video mapping:
• Mould making in plaster and silicone
• Preparing your digital content (file types, resolutions • Polystyrene carving and scrimming
and codecs) • An introduction to 3D printing
• Setting up your hardware (computers, projectors and real • Textures and surface finishes
world objects)
• Keystoning, image correction and distortions You will also learn tricks, tips and cheats such as how to turn
• How to mask and map video to a 3D object a brown paper bag into a roast chicken!

Video Projection Mapping is taught by Dan Shorten. Dan
teaches on the Guildhall School’s new BA(Hons) Video Design
for Live Performance, and the BA(Hons) Technical Theatre
Arts programme. He has extensive experience building
audio/visual content for touring theatre and largescale events
including at Glastonbury and the British Museum.
The course is particularly suitable for keen amateurs,
students considering Technical Theatre BA courses, school
staff involved in theatre productions and theatre/film
practitioners looking to expand their skills.
This course is taught by Pat Shammon, who has worked
as a prop maker for 20 years and teaches on the Guildhall
School’s BA(Hons) Technical Theatre Arts programme.

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Introduction to Costume

Course dates:
This course offers an introduction to the fascinating world
Monday 18 – Friday 22 July of costume and the skills required to manage a costume
department. Working with a Guildhall costume designer,
Times:
you will develop a basic garment by exploring methods of
10am – 5pm research, design and realisation.

Course fee:
The course includes creative demonstrations and the
£495 opportunity to explore your own practise in fabric dyeing
and embellishment. Students will take an imaginative
Course and residential
starting point, and from that create something concrete and
package fee:
purposeful within systems of costume design and supervision.
Bed, Breakfast & Evening Meal
£819 On the course you will learn to:

Bed & Breakfast • Interpret designs

£759 • Develop some basic sewing and alteration skills
• Alter and embellish costumes
Entry requirements:
• Age and ‘break-down’ costumes
Age 17+
The course will also cover:
gsmd.ac.uk/costumess • Fittings and plots
• Realising a costume design

This course will be taught by industry professionals and

Guildhall staff.

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Training in Classical Voice Mindfulness for Performers
with Janice Chapman and Dr Ron Morris

Course dates:
A multidisciplinary team including authors of Janice
Monday 18 – Friday 22 July Chapman’s internationally recognised book (Singing and
Teaching Singing: A Holistic Approach to Classical Voice),
Times:
specialists from the industry including the Royal Opera
9.30am – 6pm House and the Guildhall School, and leading voice specialists
deliver a comprehensive course under the leadership of
Course fee:
Janice Chapman.
£800
The art of singing has been taught for generations without
Course and residential
the benefit of evidence-based science to underpin it. Due to
package fee:
recent developments in fibre-optic and endoscopy technology,
Bed, Breakfast & Evening Meal it has become possible to view the voice and build a science-
£1124 based understanding of how it works. This knowledge does
not replace the empiric writings of the old masters but rather
Bed & Breakfast enhances our understanding of past teaching methods.
£1064
Janice and her team will deliver a five day intensive
Entry requirements: course which includes Breathing and Support, Accent
Age 18+ Method Breathing, Postural Alignment, Vocal Anatomy
and Physiology, Manual Therapy, Phonation, Resonance,
gsmd.ac.uk/classicalvoice Articulation, Mind-skills for Performers and Artistry and
Performance.
New for 2016
There will be body/voice warm-ups, lectures, small practice
groups, masterclasses and interactive discussion sessions.
Tutors include Janice Chapman (singing teacher), Dr
Ron Morris (Speech and Language Therapist and vocal
pedagogy), Mandy Demetriou (Royal Opera House
movement coach), Jacob Lieberman (Vocal Osteopath), Ed
Blake (Specialist voice physiotherapist), Glynn Macdonald
(Alexander Technique and movement teacher at The
Globe Theatre), Jayke Branson-Thom (Mindskills, Royal
Opera House) and Martin Lloyd-Evans (Resident Producer,
Guildhall School Opera Course).
Course dates:
21 January – 17 March
(no session on 18 February)
Times:
Thursday evenings
6.30pm – 8.10pm
Course fee:
£290
Entry requirements:
Age 18+
Substantial experience of
performing in public
The Guildhall School’s mindfulness course specifically
gsmd.ac.uk/mindfulness adapts the standard Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
[MBSR] and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy [MBCT]
programmes to be particularly suitable for those working in
the performing arts. The themes explored include working
with obstacles such as performance anxiety and self-criticism,
and cultivating stage-presence and flow.
Mindfulness meditation is a well-researched, non-religious
and very effective means of alleviating stress, anxiety and
depression, and promoting well-being and flourishing. This
practical evening course has been developed at the Guildhall
School to support musicians and actors in their creative work
and in their lives. Skills for practice, performance and general
good mental health will be taught in eight weekly classes.

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Creative Music Training Introduction to Automation for the
Entertainment Industry

Course dates:
A unique opportunity for musicians and educators to Course dates:
To be announced develop and study collaborative workshop-leading skills To be announced
Waiting list available, email: and creative approaches to communicating through music Waiting list available, email:
shortcourses@gsmd.ac.uk in diverse participatory contexts. Music leaders of the shortcourses@gsmd.ac.uk
21st century are required to fulfil many roles – as leader,
Course fee:
conductor, collaborator, improviser, composer and educator. Times:
£550 10am – 6pm
Our five day course will equip you with the skills to aide and
Entry requirements:
support effective workshop leading and collaborative music. Course fee:
Age 18+ Course 1: £350
The course will help you:
Course 2: £350
gsmd.ac.uk/ • Diversify your musicianship skills
creativemusictraining • Develop leadership and collaboration skills Course 1 & 2: £550
• Apply the theory in practical sessions with a youth ensemble
Entry requirements:
Creative Music Training is taught by the Guildhall School and Age 17+
Barbican’s joint Creative Learning department which has over The Guildhall School and Stage Technologies have come
Course 2: working knowledge together to deliver two introductory Automation courses.
25 years of experience, excellence and leadership in this field. of eChameleon software.
The course is led by Creative Learning tutors Paul Griffiths, The training is delivered by leading industry experts, and
Detta Danford, Sigrun Saevarsdottir-Griffiths and Natasha comprises a mix of hands-on practice and theory. It takes place
gsmd.ac.uk/automation at Milton Court Theatre, one of the newest, fully automated
Zielazinski.
theatres in the UK.
In association with
This course is for over 18s and participants should have
demonstrable musicianship skills, whether acquired through Our introductory courses will provide you with a thorough
formal training or self-taught. introduction to automation and eChameleon software: from
basic motion control theory, eChameleon functionality
and complex moves to two and three dimensional flying,
including grid work and rigging.

Courses are suitable for those pursuing a career in automation

as well as technical theatre graduates and professionals in
‘I loved learning from Guildhall other backstage industries such as lighting and sound who are
looking to increase their skills and knowledge.
School’s wonderful teachers! It
Course 1: An introduction to automation and Stage
was such a treat to be able to Technologies’ eChameleon

observe and absorb their ideas Course 2: An introduction to 2D and 3D automated flying

and their methods of working.’

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Accommodation and Facilities Assisted Places

Sundial Court, the Guildhall School’s hall A number of fully funded places are
of residence, is located in Chiswell Street, available for the following Summer School
just around the corner from the Silk Street programmes:
building. Sundial Court has 176 bedrooms
‑ Drama Summer School: Shakespeare &
in 39 flats, each with either three, four, five
Contemporary Theatre
or six bedrooms.
‑ Drama Summer School: Musical Theatre
‑ Drama for 16–17 years
Each flat has a communal kitchen with
‑ Jazz and Rock Week
dining area, shower room and separate
‑ Advanced Jazz
toilet. All rooms are equipped with internet
‑ Brass and Percussion Week
access and are furnished to a high standard.
‑ Essential Music Theory
There is a wheelchair accessible flat with
‑ Music Theory: Beyond Grade 5
a specially adapted kitchen and bathroom.
There is also a Deaf Alerter system for the
To be eligible for an assisted place,
hard of hearing.
applicants will need to satisfy a means-test
and currently live in one of the following
Spaces for Summer School participants are
London boroughs:
strictly limited and allocated on a first come
first served basis. Barking & Dagenham, Bexley, Camden,
City of London, Greenwich, Hackney,
Havering, Islington, Lambeth, Lewisham
Under 18s and Chaperoning
Newham, Redbridge, Southwark, Tower
Hamlets, Waltham Forest
Participants under the age of 18 will be
allocated rooms in under 18 only flats without
Assisted places forms are available to
access to kitchen facilities. These rooms are
download from the Guildhall School’s
managed by our Lead Chaperone, Elizabeth
website: gsmd.ac.uk/assistedplaces
Barnes. Elizabeth is supported by our team of
Guildhall students and recent graduates, all of
If you would like more information about
whom are first aid trained and DBS checked.
assisted places please contact the School’s
Widening Participation Officer on
wp@gsmd.ac.uk

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by the City of London as part
of its contribution to the cultural life
of London and the nation.