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9 unusual facts about Guildhall School of Music and Drama


Anthony Pini

He was principal cellist of five major British orchestras between 1932 and 1976, and a teacher at the Royal College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

In later years Pini taught at the Royal College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where, in the words of The Times, "he passed on the classical virtues of his discreet but distinct style".

Bruce Carey

In 1900-1901 he studied at the Guildhall School of Music in London with William Hayman Cummings and Albert Visetti.

Ed Spanjaard

Spanjaard studied at the Conservatorium van de Vereniging Muzieklyceum at Amsterdam and afterwards at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.

Electrofied

He studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and Berklee College of Music in Boston.

Jacqueline de Jong

After leaving for London spring 1958 studying drama at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, she returned to Amsterdam September 1958-1961 and was employed by the Stedelijk Museum, the home of Modern Art there.

Juliette Alvin

She founded the Society of Music Therapy and Remedial Music in 1958, (later renamed the British Society for Music Therapy), and, in 1967, initiated Britain's first music therapy training program at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.

Simon Little

A graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, Little joined The Divine Comedy in 2002 and is still a regular member of the band.

Taiguara

Due to a series of disagreements with the military dictators in power, his career in Brazil was interrupted in the mid-1970s and he was forced to move abroad, settling in London, where he studied at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, played with the London Symphony Orchestra and recorded the album Let the Children Hear the Music.


Alexander Baillie

Currently he is professor of cello at the Bremen Hochschule in Germany, as well as visiting professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Royal College of Music.

Andrew Schultz

He is Professor of Music at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia having previously been Professor of Composition at the University of Wollongong, Australia, and Head of Composition and Music Studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London.

Brett Fancy

He auditioned for and attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in the Barbican, City of London where he was subsequently awarded the school's Gold Medal for acting.

Centre for Music and Performing Arts

Graduates of the Music Diploma and Degree have gone on to schools such as the Royal Academy of Music, Royal College of Music, Royal Northern College of Music and the Guildhall School in London.

Edward Michael S.

After serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II, he began musical studies at the Guildhall School of Music where he learned composition.

Frederick Jaeger

He was educated at Lord Weymouth's Grammar School, Warminster, and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, from which he graduated in 1948, becoming a British subject two years later.

Ian Puleston-Davies

Puleston-Davies is the patron of Red Dot Drama, an acting workshop group that was formed by Helena Little, a friend of his from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Ivo Kahánek

A graduate of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague under Ivan Klánský, Ivo Kahánek also studied for one semester on the Advanced Instrumental Studies course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London under Ronan O´Hora and participated in master classes with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, Christian Zacharias, Alicia de Larocha, Imogen Cooper, Peter Frankl and many others

Lisa Tyrrell

She studied at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and made her operatic debut in 1990 singing Pamina in The Magic Flute for English Touring Opera.

Pablo González Bernardo

Pablo González was born in Oviedo, Spain, and studied at the Conservatoire in his hometown and in London at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Peter Kurau

He received his formal education at the Eastman School of Music, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Royal College of Music, University of Connecticut, and Florida State University, where his principal teachers were Verne Reynolds, David Cripps, and William Capps.

Tait Memorial Trust

At inception, the TMT's activities were based in the UK, reflecting a historical tradition of strong institutional links between Australian music academies and British institutions such as the Royal College of Music, Royal Academy of Music, the Royal Northern College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Tania Davis

Tania was educated at SCEGGS Darlinghurst in Sydney before acquiring a first-class Bachelor of Music honors degree from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and then moving on to gain a postgraduate diploma in performance with distinction from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.

Tanja Becker-Bender

She received her instrumental education by Helmut Zehetmair at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg, Wolfgang Marschner in Freiburg, Wilhelm Melcher in Stuttgart, by David Takeno at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and Günter Pichler at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.

Vuk Krakovic

In 1997, he moved to London to study violin at the prestigious Guildhall School of Music and Drama with distinguished Professors: David Takeno and Yfrah Neaman, and composition with Professor Malcolm Singer, Music Director of Yehudi Menuhin School.


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Jonathan Cullen

Alongside his acting career, Cullen has also worked as a director and as a teacher at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, the American Conservatory Theater School (San Francisco) and the British American Drama Academy (London).