Junior Guildhall

Junior Guildhall is a specialist Saturday School offering advanced music and drama training to young people of 4-18 years based at Guildhall School, London

The Guildhall School of Music & Drama is one of
Europe’s leading conservatoires, offering musicians,
actors, stage managers and theatre technicians an
inspiring environment in which to develop as artists
and professionals. While the School’s main role is to
provide the highest quality of professional training in
higher education, the early training of talented children
is regarded as fundamental with great importance and
resources given to Junior Guildhall.

Junior Guildhall is a specialist Saturday School offering advanced training to young people between the ages of 4 and 18. The students are able to combine their Guildhall training with their general education in local schools. They come together to experience and learn about music and drama under the guidance of staff drawn from London’s orchestras and freelance professionals. Most of the students go on to study their chosen discipline full-time at undergraduate level, eventually making careers in the profession, though others can, and do, move into totally different fields.

Links between the full-time courses of the School and Junior Guildhall are strong and many professors teach on both programmes. Junior Guildhall students are often invited
to participate in the School’s events and, on Saturdays, the entire facilities of the School are given over to Junior Guildhall.

Visitors are always welcome - if you wish to arrange a visit please contact the Junior Guildhall office.

Regardless of their ultimate direction, students find that the professional artistic environment of the Guildhall School provides them with valuable life skills and the means to develop their individual talents to the full. The fulfilment of self-expression and self-discovery together with skills of communication and responsibility will have an enduring influence upon their lives.