Gold Medal 2018

Finalists

Ljubica StojanovicDan-Iulian Drutac Joon Yoon

Guildhall Symphony OrchestraJames Judd conductor

Thursday 10 May 7pm, Barbican Hall

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Gold Medal 2018

Thursday 10 May 20187pm, Barbican Hall

The Gold Medal, the Guildhall School’s premier award for musicians, was founded and endowed in 1915 by Sir H. Dixon Kimber Bt MA

Finalists

Ljubica Stojanovic piano Dan-Iulian Drutac violinJoon Yoon piano

The Jury

Donagh CollinsKathryn EnticottPaul HughesJames JuddJonathan Vaughan (Chair)

Guildhall Symphony OrchestraJames Judd conductor

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Ljubica Stojanovic pianoProkofiev Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26

INTERVAL – 15 MINUTES

Dan-Iulian Drutac violinSibelius Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47

INTERVAL – 15 MINUTES

Joon Yoon pianoBrahms Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15

Please remain in the auditorium after the final performance for adjudication and presentation of the Gold Medal.

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Sergei Prokofiev (1891 – 1953) Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26

Ljubica Stojanovic Piano

Ljubica Stojanovic started playing the piano aged six and is now an active musician who performs regularly as a soloist and chamber musician across Europe.

She graduated from the Guildhall School in 2017 with a Guildhall Artist Masters, having studied with Caroline Palmer, and is currently studying with Ronan O’Hora, Caroline Palmer and David Takeno. Her studies have been generously funded by the Leverhulme Trust. Ljubica has won over 20 national and international competitions, including the Windsor International Piano Competition 2015, the Grand Prix of the International Competition for young pianists in Geneva, the National Competition of the Republic of Serbia in Belgrade, Competition of Young Yugoslavian pianists. She also won second prize at the 5th Isidor Bajic Memorial in Novi Sad in Serbia. Ljubica has performed at venues across Europe such as the Royal Festival Hall, Barbican Hall, Wigmore Hall, St. James’s Piccadilly, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Mozarteum University in Salzburg, Philharmonia Hall in Ljubljana, Thonex Hall in Geneva and Kolarac Hall in Serbia. She has worked with orchestras including the Witold Lutoslawski Philharmonia, the Serbian Radio-Television Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra in Belgrade. In 2015 Ljubica became an artist for the Concordia Foundation and for KNS Classical record label in Spain.

She has attended many masterclasses, receiving tuition from distinguished pianists such as Robert Levin, Dominique Merlet, Arie Vardi and Gotlieb Walisch.

Ljubica would like to thank Caroline Palmer, David Takeno and Ronan O’Hora for their guidance, help and support.

Andante – Allegro – Andante – Allegro Theme (Andantino) and VariationsAllegro ma non troppo

When Prokofiev left the newly established Soviet Union in 1918, initially for the United States, he had already begun to note down themes for a successor to his first two piano concertos which, like them, could serve as a vehicle for his own playing. Some of them came from a discarded attempt to write a strictly diatonic string quartet, which imparts a distinctive colouring to this Concerto in the white-note key of C major. After his first two American tours, Prokofiev returned to the work, completing it in the summer of 1921 during a stay in Brittany. The solo part proved to be, in his own words, ‘devilishly difficult’, and required intensive practice before the first performance – which took place in Chicago in December 1921, two weeks before the premiere in the same city of Prokofiev’s opera The Love for Three Oranges. The Concerto was coolly received by American audiences suspicious of its ‘Bolshevist’ composer, but it won greater success in Europe, and is now by some distance the most popular of the composer’s five piano concertos.

The three movements of the Concerto all strike a balance between slow and quick music. The first has a short Andante introduction for the orchestra, and later a more extended Andante interlude in which the piano joins; these alternate with two substantial Allegro sections in which a sparkling sequence of themes is presented and recapitulated – and which both end by speeding up still further. The second movement is a set of individually characterised variations at tempi ranging from Allegro to Andante meditativo; these culminate in the return of the opening Andantino theme in double its original note-values, against an Allegro giusto background – an ingenious way of writing music which is simultaneously slow and fast. The finale begins in a lively tempo, but a contrasting slower theme, initially played by clarinets and oboes, is built up into a middle section which reaches an expansive climax, before the quick music returns to end the work.

Dan-Iulian Drutac Violin

Jean Sibelius (1865 – 1957) Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47

Allegro moderatoAdagio di moltoAllegro, ma non tanto

The violin was Sibelius’s own instrument: he began playing it in his childhood, took it seriously from the age of 14, and continued his studies on it at the Helsinki Conservatoire. It was only in his twenties that he abandoned thoughts of a career as a soloist, partly because he realised that he had begun intensive study too late, partly because of his growing confidence as a composer. His love of the instrument and his intimate knowledge of its technical possibilities are evident in his Violin Concerto, his only large-scale composition in concerto form. It is a relatively early work, written in 1903, the year after the first performance of the Second Symphony, and thoroughly revised, with (as a recording of the original version has revealed) many cuts and considerable reduction of its technical difficulties – though these remain challenging – two years later.

The first, and most substantial, of the three movements is one of Sibelius’s characteristic combinations of apparently rhapsodic form and organic evolution of material. The main themes are all introduced at some length: the soloist’s ‘sweet and expressive’ opening melody; a broad idea in 6/4 time; and a strongly accented orchestral dance. Instead of the usual central development section, there is an extended cadenza, initially accompanied by the orchestra. This is followed by a combined recapitulation and development, beginning with the opening melody on bassoon, and leading to a dramatic coda. The slow movement is introduced by wistful woodwind phrases, which after the soloist’s dreaming melody return in the strings to launch an extended episode of vehement forward motion. The melody returns in the orchestra, beneath an ornate violin descant, but at the end is reclaimed by the soloist, with the utmost simplicity. The finale has as its main theme a stamping triple-time folk dance, with a rhythmic timpani accompaniment; this alternates with other ideas in infectious cross-rhythms, in a movement of sustained energy.

Dan-Iulian studied with Galina Buinovschi at the Ciprian Porumbescu Music School in Chisinau, Moldova, before winning the Grand Prize in the Whitgift International Music Competition in 2013 and gaining a music scholarship to Whitgift School for sixth form. He took up a place at Junior Guildhall in 2014 and won the prestigious Lutine Prize in 2015. He is now in the third year of the undergraduate BMus programme at the Guildhall School, studying with David Takeno.

His other awards include the Grand Prize in the Philip Todirascu National Competition and First Prize and Special Prize for virtuosity at the Nedyalka Simeonova International Competition in Bulgaria.

Dan-Iulian frequently performs as a soloist with professional orchestras in the UK, Moldova and across Europe, as well as giving solo performances at embassies and cultural events. He was generously loaned a 1696 Stradivarius violin by Andrew Bernardi, on which he performed Glazunov’s Violin Concerto with the Whitgift Chamber Orchestra and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall.

Since beginning his undergraduate studies, he has continued to build on his extensive experience as a concert soloist, performing the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto at Milton Court with the Junior Guildhall Symphony Orchestra and at the Thaxted Festival in July 2016. Also in that summer, he performed the Bruch Violin Concerto at the magnificent Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest and in Toblach, Italy.

Dan-Iulian is kindly supported by the Louise Thompson Licht Award for his studies at the Guildhall School.

MaestosoAdagioRondo: Allegro non troppo

The First Piano Concerto, Brahms’s first major work including orchestra, had a prolonged and painful gestation, amidst the turmoil of the troubled last years of his mentor Robert Schumann. Its first movement began life in 1854 as the first movement of a sonata for two pianos, and was re-cast the following year as the first movement of a symphony. But in 1856 Brahms decided to rework it for piano and orchestra, and to add two entirely new movements to make up a large-scale concerto. The work was completed by March 1858, with the help of advice from Brahms’s most trusted colleague, the violinist Joseph Joachim. But Brahms continued to make many revisions both before and after the first performance, which took place – with the composer as soloist – in Hanover in January 1859.

The first movement, marked Maestoso (‘majestic’), begins with a harmonically restless idea which at once proclaims the work’s breadth and power, and hints at its expansive scale. This launches a traditional opening orchestral tutti containing several contrasting themes; but only some time after the soloist’s entry is the principal second subject introduced as a sonorous piano solo. The development section starts where the piano suddenly interrupts tranquil orchestral musings with hammered double-octaves. The recapitulation begins with a more dissonant re-casting of the opening, keeping the movement’s thread of tension taut. The central movement is a major-key Adagio, with reduced orchestra, in an A–B–A form with some Chopin-like decorative piano writing in its middle section. It may be an expression of Brahms’s growing feelings for Schumann’s widow Clara: while working on it, he wrote to Clara that he was ‘painting a lovely portrait’ of her. The finale is a Rondo of animated seriousness, with a Beethovenian formal plan in which the statements of the springing main theme are separated by three contrasting episodes, the first and third related, and a cadenza leads the way to an expansive major-key coda.

Joon Yoon made his solo recital debut in Korea at the age of 12 and his concerto debut in the U.S. a year later. He is an avid solo and chamber musician and performs a wide range of repertoire from Bach to Brahms to Carter. Joon gained his Bachelor and Masters of Music at the Juilliard School and the Yale School of Music with full tuition scholarships. His teachers there included Yong Hi Moon, Robert McDonald, Melvin Chen and Hung-Kuan Chen, and are his greatest musical influences. He is currently studying with Ronan O’Hora on the Artist Diploma course at the Guildhall School, where he is supported by the Eduard and Marianna Loeser Award.

He has won prizes at the Piano Texas Concerto Competition, the Liszt-Garrison Piano Competition and the Fite Family Young Artist Piano Competition and awards at the Peabody Preparatory in Baltimore and the Campillos International Piano Competition in Spain. He was the 2017 winner of the Glass Sellers’ Beethoven Piano Prize at the Guildhall School.

Joon has performed in prestigious venues across Japan, Korea, Spain and the U.S., including Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, Petit Palau of Palau de la Música, Seoul Arts Center, and Sejong Center for the Performing Arts. He has made concerto appearances with the Peabody Sinfonietta, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, and Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra. He has been a fellow of the Music Academy of the West and the Bowdoin International Music Festival’s Kaplan Fellowship program. As a chamber musician, he has worked with Peter Wiley of the Guarneri Quartet, Joel Smirnoff of the Juilliard Quartet and with Richard Goode, Yoheved Kaplinsky, Jerome Lowenthal, John O’Conor, Matti Raekallio and Arie Vardi in masterclasses and festivals.

Aside from music, Joon is an avid cook and a film lover, especially those of Wes Anderson, Stanley Kubrick and Quentin Tarantino.

Programme notes by Anthony Burton © 2018

Joon Yoon Piano

Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897) Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15

James Judd Conductor

Music Director of the Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra of Korea and the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, British conductor James Judd is sought after for both his passionate musicianship and his charismatic presence on and off the podium. Known for his extraordinarily communicative style and bold, imaginative programming, repeat engagements from Prague to Tokyo, from Istanbul to Adelaide, attest to his rapport with audiences and musicians alike.

During his eight years as Music Director of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, James brought the ensemble to a new level of visibility and international renown with recordings for the Naxos label, tours of Europe and Australia and the orchestra’s debut at the BBC Proms. His music directorships have included Principal Guest Conductor of the Orchestre National de Lille in France and 14 years as Music Director of the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra. Deeply committed to music education, James has led the orchestras of the Juilliard School, Curtis Institute of Music, Manhattan School of Music, Guildhall School, Trinity Laban, Aspen Music Festival and the National Youth Orchestras of Australia and New Zealand. He is Principal Guest Conductor of the Asian Youth Orchestra, founder of the Miami Music Project in Florida, and music director of New York’s Little Orchestra Society.

Recent highlights have included performances of Carmina Burana at the spectacular desert ruins of Masada and a month-long tour with the New Zealand Symphony and Renée Fleming, as well as concerts with the Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra, the Santa Barbara Symphony, the Noord Nederlands Orchestra, the Argovia Philharmonic, three concerts in Berlin as part of the celebrations in the Konzerthaus of Yehudi Menuhin’s centenary, a tour to Dubai with the Vienna Concert Verein in the inaugural month of the magnificent new Dubai Opera. The current season features a tour with the Asian Youth Orchestra, the opening of the Bratislava Festival, concerts with the Daejeon Philharmonic, recordings with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, a tour of China with the Slovenian National Orchestra, and concerts with the Kyoto Symphony and New Japan Philharmonic.

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Violin 1Amarins WierdsmaLyrit MilgramIonel ManciuBrenna CareyJoshua DaltonAndrea TimpanaroTimothy ChuaLong Wu ChanBacem RomdhaniSabine SergejevaSofia PrestaMillie AshtonLydia BallamTilman FleigVictoria Farrell-ReedYuriko Matsuda

Violin 2Patrycja MynarskaRiley Court-WoodEnyuan KhongKarolina SuttLeegene KwonJoana PraçaMelissa Hutter Leona GogolicynovaDemver BlancioPaula Gorban,ovaJulia HernándezAdrián Morena TierrasecaMatthew Sach-KeenNina Lim

ViolaOscar HolchAnna GrownsJeremy Tonelli-SippelWilliam HarpumLorena Cantó WoltècheAbigail BrewsterFreya HicksKate Correia De CamposMatthew KendellJames FlanneryCarlos David Contreras

CelloThomas VidalJoshua LynchLeo Popplewell Joanna TwaddleLouis BailyPietari Willey Laurens Price-NowakMaria MarshallShu OdawaraFelix Stephens

Double bassMario TorresPiotr HetmanMiguel PedrazaThomas Morgan Dan MolloyJoão Freitas Dos SantosMiguel Pliego GarcíaJessica Martin

FluteVictoria CreightonEmma Hochschild

OboeRees WebsterBernice Lee

ClarinetCharlotte BartleyHeather Ryall

BassoonRebecca AllenAnna Clarke

Horn (Prokofiev & Sibelius) Alex WillettBilly MarshallLuke MaherOliver JohnsonSamuel McNally

Horn (Brahms)Samuel McNallyBilly MarshallLuke MaherOliver JohnsonAlex Willett

TrumpetJacob RosenbergJack Jones

TromboneElinor ChambersJames GoodwinDavid Cox

Bass tromboneAlistair Goodwin

TimpaniYu-Xiu Tsai

PercussionTristan Butler

Orchestra ManagerJim Dean

Orchestra LibrarianKate Price

Orchestra Stage ManagerWilliam Bannerman

Seating correct at time of going to print.

Donagh Collins Born in Dublin in 1974, Donagh moved to London in 1999 to work at Askonas Holt, starting as an Administrator in the Tours & Projects Department and subsequently managing that department. Donagh joined Askonas Holt’s Board of Directors in 2007, and took over as Chief Executive in 2014.

Donagh studied piano and cello at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, and subsequently studied Mechanical Engineering at University College Dublin. A passionate advocate of youth orchestras, Donagh was in turn a member, manager and director of the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland, and is currently a Trustee of the NYOGB. He is married, with two lovely daughters.

Kathryn Enticott Rhinegold/Association of British Orchestras Artist Manager of the Year 2017, Kathryn Enticott founded her own boutique agency, Enticott Music Management, in 2014, after many years running the Conductors and Instrumentalists Department at IMG Artists. She manages an elite roster of conductors and instrumentalists, and consults to various artistic institutions and organisations including the Rosendal Chamber Music Festival in Norway and the Nielsen International Violin Competition. Kathryn studied Music and English at the University of Birmingham and, after graduating, joined Intermusica Artist Management. She then spent four years in the Music Department at Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Group before joining IMG Artists as an Artist Manager with subsequent promotions which saw her assume the role of Managing Director, Artist Management in 2012.

Her current roster of artists at EMM is an illustrious one which includes Leif Ove Andsnes, Semyon Bychkov, Franz Welser-Möst, Alan Gilbert, Nikolaj Znaider, Miloš Karadaglic, and her most recent signing, Sheku Kanneh-Mason.

The Jury

Paul Hughes Paul Hughes’s first professional position was as librarian of the European Community Youth Orchestra in 1983. He became General Manager of The Academy of Ancient Music in 1985, before joining IMG Artists as artist manager and artistic producer of arena concerts. In 1993, he became CEO of the the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and he was then appointed General Manager of the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra, before taking up his present position of General Manager of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in 1999.

With overall responsibility for the artistic planning, Paul has broadened the orchestra’s artistic range and diversity, appointing conductors Sakari Oramo and Semyon Bychkov, and composer Brett Dean to head the orchestra’s creative team, and oversaw the creation of the orchestra’s Learning department. Under his guidance, the BBCSO has made an award-winning series of recordings, most notably for Chandos. In 2012, Paul also became General Manager of the BBC Singers. He appointed Master of the Queen’s Music Judith Weir to be the BBC Singers’ Associate Composer, and has raised the profile of the Singers in the UK and overseas through an innovative series of residencies that combine performance, learning work in the community, and masterclasses with young composers, conductors and singers.

He is a frequent member of international competition juries, was for nine years a Governor of the Guildhall School, and a member of the HEFCE Research Excellence Framework panel. He is an Honorary Member of the Royal College of Music, an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College of Music and an Honorary Fellow of the Guildhall School.

Jonathan Vaughan (Chair) After studying double bass and piano at the Royal College of Music, Jonathan worked with most of Britain’s major orchestras and opera companies. He was an active chamber musician and worked as a teacher, coach and music educator in a variety of settings. Jonathan spent ten very happy years as a member of the London Symphony Orchestra and was ultimately privileged to serve as its Chairman. He was Director of the National Youth Orchestra for five years, before taking up his current post, Director of Music at the Guildhall School in 2007. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and was awarded Fellowship of the Guildhall School in 2015. Jonathan lives in Wiltshire with his wife, three children and one sadly neglected double bass.

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Tickets: £15 (£5 concessions) available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk

Saturday 7 July, 8pm Milton Court Concert Hall

Hidden Gems of Chamber Music A concert featuring masterpieces that are less frequently performed than they deserve: Prokofiev’s extraordinary quintet, Fauré’s second Piano Quartet and Taneyev’s masterful Piano Trio, all performed by current students and faculty members.

Tickets: £15 (£5 concessions) available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk

Sunday 8 July, 7.30pmMilton Court Concert Hall

Classic Chamber Works An extraordinary line-up of Guildhall faculty members – Levon Chilingirian, Louise Hopkins, Nicholas Daniel, Carole Presland, Graham Sheen, Ursula Smith, Joy Farrall and Matthew Jones – are joined by students to perform three classic chamber works, bringing the festival to a memorable close.

Tickets: £15 (£5 concessions) available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk

Wednesday 27 June, 7.30pmWigmore Hall

Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize Ming Xie piano

Granados El Amor y la muerte and El fandango de candil from GoyescasRavel Gaspard de la nuitChopin 24 Preludes, Op. 28

The Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize annually awards an exceptional Guildhall School musician with a Wigmore Hall recital. Described by Martha Argerich as ‘phenomenal’, young Chinese pianist Ming Xie is fast establishing himself as a rising star in classical music. He presents a thrilling programme of piano music taking in Granados’ masterful piano suite, charming Chopin preludes and Ravel’s virtuosic Gaspard de la nuit, considered one of the most technically-challenging solo piano pieces of all time.

Tickets: £15 (£13 concessions), available from Wigmore Hall Box Office: 020 7935 2141 wigmore-hall.org.uk

Tuesday 3 July, 7pm Milton Court Concert Hall

Capturing the Illusive Image: Debussy’s Préludes Paul Roberts (Professor of Piano)

An inspiring insight into Debussy’s music with pianist and Debussy expert Paul Roberts. As part of the centenary tributes to Debussy (1862-1918), Roberts will demonstrate the nature of Impressionism in music. He will discuss and perform the first book of Préludes and show how Debussy’s visually evocative titles provoke an intensity of listening.

Tickets: £15 (£10 concessions) available from the Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891 barbican.org.uk

Gold Medal 2019

Next year’s Gold Medal for vocalists will be held on Friday 10 May 2019 in the Barbican Hall. Tickets will be available from the Barbican Box Office from February 2019.