Venue
Angela Burgess Recital Hall
Price
Free; booking required

Students Create 2026

The 2026 Students Create festival sees Academy students taking over performance venues from lunchtime into the evening over the course of three days. This year’s line-up includes a new interpretation of Orpheus and Eurydice, a concert exploring the history of asylum seekers and a celebration of Morton Feldman’s 100th birthday. The festival will feature 17 world premieres by students from multiple departments.

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Programme Details

Sofía Patterson-Gutiérrez flute
Lewis Blee percussion
Hayden Miller piano

Elliot Stravato art

Shin Kim commissioned composer
Saurabh Shivakumar commissioned composer

SHIN KIM Asuraī (아스라이) (world premiere)
SAURABH SHIVAKUMAR One has, different priorities (world premiere)
MORTON FELDMAN Why Patterns?

Morton Feldman staked his reputation on his visualization of sound. He viewed each note as an extended event of decay that he called “the departing landscape.” On Feldman’s centenary, Academy musicians and composers reflect on the intersection of music and visuals vital to Feldman’s practice as a pioneer of the Abstract Expressionist movement. Feldman’s trailblazing Why Patterns? joins a new painting as well as two commissioned compositions in an intimate examination of resonance. Together, they provide a postmodern meditation—a moment for reflection that honours Feldman’s plea for solace amidst the world's chaos.

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