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of Cooperation between the Guildhall School of Music
and Drama and the National Academy of Music of Ukraine
This
year the Festival is proud to incorporate a unique
in its kind Week of Cooperation between the two distinguished
world music academies: the Guildhall School of Music
and Drama (London) and the National Music Academy
of Ukraine (Kyiv) - an exciting artistic and educational
project that includes a joint performance of Britten's
Turn of the Screw, a gala concert, masterclasses and
of course lively interaction between students and
teachers of the two academies.
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The
National Music Academy of Ukraine
The Kyiv Conservatoire was established in 1913 by composers
Tchaikovsky, Taneev, Rakhmaninov and the famous Kyiv patron
of arts V. Tereshchenko. The conservatoire was formed from
the Kyiv music school, directed by V. Pukhalskiy, a talented
organizer and pedagogue. Already in 1919, the Kyiv Conservatoire
became a state educational institution. As a result of the
experimental structural reorganization of arts educational
institutions in Ukraine during the 1920-s, the conservatoire
was united with the Lysenko Musical Drama Institute. In
1934, on request of the arts community, the musical department
of the Lysenko Musical Drama Institute became the conservatoire.
In 1940, the conservatoire was named after Tchaikovsky and
in 1995 it became the National Music Academy of Ukraine
Today,
the academy is a multinational educational institution,
in which over 1300 students study at six faculties and 26
departments. The international reputation of the NMAU makes
the study at this institution attractive and prestigious
for foreign students. Currently, more than 200 international
students study at the academy. They are from Europe, Canada,
Latin America, Asia, Africa and the Near East. The NMAU
has wide international cooperation with many foreign cultural
centres and musical educational institutions. The academy
is also the member of the European Association of Musical
Academies and Conservatoires.
The
Guildhall School of Music and Drama
The Guildhall School
of Music was founded on September 27, 1880 with the support
of the City of London as the first municipal music college
in Great Britain. By 1935 Departments of Speech, Voice and
Acting had been opened and the School’s title was amended
to include ‘and Drama’ in recognition of the change.
The School moved
to its present premises in the heart of the City of London’s
Barbican in 1977 and continues to be owned, funded and administered
by the Corporation of London.
Today, the
Guildhall School has some 700 students
on its roll, approximately 570 of whom are music students,
with the remaining 130 studying on the acting, stage management
and technical theatre courses. In any year approximately
40% of the students are from outside the UK and typically
represent over 40 nationalities.
Guildhall
School Opera Course
Head of Opera
Studies Clive Timms
Resident Producer
Stephen Medcalf
The Opera Course
offers an advanced level of vocal training and aspires to
work at a professional standard. Training in stage techniques
and musical coaching are in the hands of experienced visiting
staff who are active in the profession. In addition to the
vocal and dramatic training, the department mounts, in full
collaboration with the Technical and Stage Management Departments,
three full public productions each year and three programmes
of operatic excerpts in a workshop setting.
Recent productions
include:
La scala di seta
Rossini
Iolanta Tchaikovsky
Così fan tutte
Mozart
Postcard from
Morocco Dominick Argento
L’étoile
Chabrier
Susanna Handel
Masquerade
Nielsen
Comedy on the
Bridge Martinu
Béatrice et Bénédict
Berlioz
Le nozze di
Figaro Mozart
The Rape of Lucretia
Britten
Mignon Thomas
