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

Alice Mizelli harpist
Gabrielle Guiho soprano
Billy Ainsworth composer
Maddy Chassar-Hesketh stage manager

ANDRÉ CAPLET Deux Sonnets
MARCEL GRANDJANY O bien aimée
CASIMIR RENARD Dans le jardin fleuri de Roses, Sonnet
MARCEL TOURNIER La lettre du Jardinier
PHILIP CANON 3 songs from Cinq Chansons de Femme: L’amoureuse, La veuve, La bien aimée
BILLY AINSWORTH Fleur Jetée

Lettres D’Amour is a concert focused on French contemporary harp and voice duets, multiple of which remain unrecorded. We aim to take the audience on a journey using music accompanied by dynamic lighting, projections and props. The programme has a running floral theme, which will be incorporated into the visuals using roses to metaphorically represent changing emotional states. The finale is a debut of a piece written by Billy Ainsworth, setting ‘Fleur Jetée’ (discarded flower) by French poet Armand Silvestre. This will create a contrast to the rest of the concert, expressing unbridled anger as a result of heartbreak.

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