Guildhall School of Music and Drama
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Oct 9, 2026
MalcolmGUEST
Unless you're writing commercial music, all other composers that I know are earning most of their income doing something else.
MalcolmGUEST
So I'm director of music at the Menuhin School, and I teach one day a week at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and I'm freelance conducting as well.
SarahGUEST
I think they thought when we did this conversion that it would be a conventional sort of master bedroom with an en suite bathroom, and of course it isn't anything of the sort.
SarahGUEST
It's more like to have a string quartet up here than somebody sleeping here.
Matt BreenHOST
She was the daughter of Levi and Florence Booth.
Matt BreenHOST
She would become a singer, and she trained at the prestigious Guildhall School of Music for two years, and earned some scholarships to sing in opera, and she became a mezzo-soprano.
Matt BreenHOST
Ah.
Matt BreenHOST
She would head off to Europe in 1930 and get her first role, a small one, in Puccini's Tosca for the Berlin State Opera House.
Alisdair HogarthGUEST
Um, so along, along those lines then I, I started to work in, uh, some of the conservatories.
Alisdair HogarthGUEST
So, yeah, I'm currently at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and, uh, earlier this year I was a guest artist at Juilliard.
Alisdair HogarthGUEST
So that's kind of-
Michelle LynneHOST
Very cool
Jason HeathHOST
This is Contrabass Conversations.
Jason HeathHOST
And at age 18, London-based double bassist Eduard Marcu has become the first bassist to win the Junior Guildhall's prestigious Lutine Prize.
Jason HeathHOST
And we talk about this experience, how he got into bass, what he has learned so far in his career, what he sees coming up, and much more.
Jason HeathHOST
Really fun conversation.
Eduard MarcuGUEST
I never, like, took it that seriously up until, um, I joined, like, um, junior, like, music conservatoire-
Jason HeathHOST
Mm-hmm
Eduard MarcuGUEST
... at, um, Guildhall School of Music.
Eduard MarcuGUEST
And, like, ever since then... 'Cause the teacher that I started to do it was actually at my, like, primary school, which is the same as, like, um, like, middle school I think we call it.
Douglas BoothGUEST
I joined the National Youth Theatre.
Douglas BoothGUEST
I went to Guildhall School of Music and Drama, their Saturday school from 13 to 18.
Douglas BoothGUEST
And then Harry Melling, do you know the wonderful?
Joy HunterHOST
Of course.
Leah RosemanHOST
I just have an aversion to that.
Leah RosemanHOST
So I'm going to kind of start in the middle and I know there's many important points in your life and we'll get to lots of things, but I actually wanted to talk about in your mid forties, you went to England to Guildhall after you'd been on a journey of improvisation and had a career in music.
Leah RosemanHOST
What was that like?
Rupert GuentherGUEST
My journey had started, as you said before, I went to Guildhall and it was really at the invitation of one of the professors there who had a specialisation in the classical music improvisation.
Rupert GuentherGUEST
I think the thing is, as with all areas of the arts, everybody has their own unique take on things and their own unique way of working.
Rupert GuentherGUEST
And it was very interesting for me to arrive at Guildhall and see such a different approach from what I'd developed myself.
Rupert GuentherGUEST
And although I already had a career in classical improvisation, I was curious to find others who understood that way of working.
Rupert GuentherGUEST
also to find a community of people i guess to some extent leah i was looking for acceptance in a world where there wasn't always a lot and that they had this big academy which had a focus part of the focus was on improvisation as a classical art that's what initially drew me and i learned a lot and i made some fantastic contacts there but in the end My approach and where I was going with it, the way that I was interested in classical music was much more, I guess, along the lines of what I was already doing.
Weston WilliamsHOST
Exit stage right, American tenor Michael Forest has died at 63.
Weston WilliamsHOST
Forest attended Shenandoah Conservatory in the 1980s before joining the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.
Weston WilliamsHOST
He was known for his work as a concert soloist and chorister, singing with the Choral Arts Society of Washington, Washington Chorus, National Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, and the Met.
Oliver CamachoHOST
American tenor and educator William, or Bill, Lewis has died at 94.
Ivan Rodriguez DebGUEST
That really is quite a physical workout, it has to be said, but always rewarding.
Toby DaveyHOST
Ivan, you are in your third year at Guildhall School of Music and Drama and have already clocked up a few great performances.
Toby DaveyHOST
What direction do you see your music career going when you do graduate?
Ivan Rodriguez DebGUEST
So I'm really hoping to increase the number of performances I do.
speaker_0HOST
And that is your useless trivia of the day, folks.
speaker_0HOST
and other things in 1880 the guildhall school of music opened it was established by the corporation of the city of london and this institution opened its doors in an unused warehouse with just over 60 part-time students It was the first municipal music college in Great Britain and has since turned into a world-renowned academy.
speaker_0HOST
In 1912, W.C.
speaker_0HOST
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Nicky SpenceGUEST
I'm not sure if you see it in drag, but certainly in classical music, there's real diversity in the lack of people from lower socioeconomic backgrounds.
Nicky SpenceGUEST
So I was really happy when my alma mater, which is Guildhall School of Music and Drama, they set up a scholarship in my name, which is principally for kids that studied at a state school.
Nicky SpenceGUEST
because generally when I turned up at Guildhall Conservatoire, everybody were from choral schools or they were from private schools like Eton and all that kind of stuff.
Nicky SpenceGUEST
And I just didn't, I thought, oh, am I meant to be here? I didn't feel like it was for me, like it was a place for me.
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