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# One of the World’s Leading Classical Conservatories Enrolls First Rapper
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/one-of-the-worlds-leading-classical-conservatories-enrolls-first-rapper/
- Published: 2014-10-28T14:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2014-10-28T14:00:00.000Z
- Description: Guildhall School of Music and Drama is home to over 800 full-time incredibly talented musicians and drama students. Forging a creative alliance for students with the London Symphony Orchestra it. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2014/10/one-of-the-worlds-leading-classical-conservato
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- Tags: Music Business, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:38

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Guildhall School of Music and Drama is home to over 800 full-time incredibly talented musicians and drama students. Forging a creative alliance for students with the London Symphony Orchestra it is no surprise that they're widely recognized as one of the world's leading music conservatories. What may come as a surprise from this "prestigious" and "prosperous" institution is **their recent enrollment of a rapper**. That's not a type, Guildhall School of Music welcomed a rapper to their school… if you're as dumbfounded as most, allow me to elaborate.

**Essentially, the cultural perspective of classical music is shifting, reflective of the evolution happening within the world of classical music itself.** The fact that Guildhall enrolled a rapper to its Leadership Programme is not something to be overlooked. Until now, the closest connection Guildhall had to hip-hop was when former-student Dido collaborated with Eminem, so when the story broke that the institution responsible for training Bryn Terfel, [Geoffrey Burgeon](http://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/sep/22/geoffrey-burgon-obituary?ref=hypebot.com) and (weirdly) Myleene Klass, would now be home to an MC from Haringey, everyone was naturally curious about how the hell that happened.

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Like a lot of classic ideals, classical music is experiencing its own sort of twenty first century renaissance. Creative collaboration geared towards enticing and engaging younger generations is opening the doors for a broadening of classical music as we know it. It's taking a step away from its stereotypical straight-laced traditionalist into the world of fluid expansion and experimentation - as a music education graduate, I find that exhilarating & exciting.

Personally, I applaud the Guildhall School of Music for their brave breakaway from the same old same old and can't wait to see what 25 year old **Jack Derbyshire** brings to the stage.

Source: [Noisey.Vice.com](http://noisey.vice.com/blog/guildhall-has-enrolled-its-first-ever-rapper?curator=MusicREDEF&ref=hypebot.com)