page_title: Guildhall School of Music and Drama
section_title: 2005-present
hierarchical_section_title: Guildhall School of Music and Drama / History / 2005-present
caption_attribution_description: English: Milton Court from Outside
context_page_description: The Guildhall School of Music and Drama is a conservatoire and drama school located in the City of London, United Kingdom. Established in 1880, the school offers undergraduate and postgraduate training in all aspects of classical music and jazz along with drama and technical theatre arts. The school is a leading international conservatoire with students from over seventy countries. It has one of the most prestigious performing arts programmes in the world, having been ranked the number one U.K. conservatoire in the 2019 Guardian league tables for music and as the sixth university in the world for performing arts in the 2020 QS World University Rankings.
  Based within the heart of the Barbican Centre in the City of London, the school currently numbers just over 1000 students, approximately 800 of whom are music students and 200 on the drama and technical theatre programmes. The school is a member of Conservatoires UK, the European Association of Conservatoires and the Federation of Drama Schools. It also has formed a creative alliance with its neighbours, the Barbican Centre and the London Symphony Orchestra.
context_section_description: In 2005 the school was awarded the Queen's Anniversary Prize for its development and outreach programme, Guildhall Connect, and in 2007 it won a further Queen's Anniversary Prize in recognition of the work of the opera programme over the last two decades. The school was rated No. 1 specialist institution in the UK in the Guardian University Guide 2013 and 2014.
  The most significant investment in the Guildhall School's future came to fruition via the £90 million redevelopment of the neighbouring Milton Court site. The new building, which opened in 2013, houses three new performance spaces: a concert hall (608 seats), a theatre (223 seats) and a studio theatre (up to 128 seats) in addition to drama teaching and administration spaces.
  The school offers both undergraduate and graduate degree programs as well as the Junior Guildhall, a Saturday school serving students from 4 to 18 years of age.
  The school was awarded a further Queen's Anniversary Prize in 2007 in recognition of the achievements and work of the Opera Programme.
  In August 2014, the Guildhall had a logo change to a more minimalist modern style. It was changed due to the school thinking that it needed something to reflect its types of teachings.
caption: Guildhall's Milton Court building from outside
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