Tuesday 7 January 2025
7pm
Silk Street Lecture Recital Room
Robert Levin Lecture-Recital-Conversation:
The Practice of Creative Performance
presented by The Centre for Creative Performance & Classical Improvisation
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Silk Street
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Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Founded in 1880 by the City of London Corporation
Chair of the Board of Governors
The Hon. Emily Benn
Principal
Professor Jonathan Vaughan
Vice-Principal & Director of Music
Armin Zanner
Welcome
Pianist Robert Levin, arguably the world’s leading classical improviser, visits Guildhall School in his annual residency as International Chair of the Centre for Creative Performance and Classical Improvisation.
In this event, Robert Levin and David Dolan offer a freewheeling discussion with keyboard demonstration of spontaneity in service to style and expression. Approaches to improvisation will be demonstrated in terms of present-day creative and expressive strategies as well as historical ones.
Forthcoming Events
Robert Levin in Residence: Masterclass
9 January 2025
Silk Street Music Hall
Join us for this day of open masterclasses, offering the chance to see Robert Levin pass on his expertise to Guildhall School soloists and chamber musicians, working on repertoire by Beethoven, Ravel, Schubert and Mozart.
Robert Levin in Residence: Mozart Double Piano Concerto & Requiem
20 January 2025
Milton Court Concert Hall
We welcome ambitious and versatile London choir Eclectic Voices, directed by Guildhall professor Scott Stroman, for this special performance of the transcendent Mozart Requiem, completed by Robert Levin and featuring four outstanding Guildhall singers as soloists.
Keyboard at Eight
31 January 2025
Milton Court Concert Hall
Outstanding keyboard players perform a programme of varied repertoire as part of our ‘at eight’ series.
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