Guildhall Session Orchestra perform as part of Chaka Khan's Meltdown festival.

Performers, composers, actors, theatre makers, and cross-disciplinary creatives undertaking doctoral research at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama gather to present and discuss their work.

MAP/making (Music, Art and Performance) is an educational platform for interdisciplinary collaboration.

This panel discussion will reflect on the relevance of ‘artists as citizens’ within the context of specialist arts training and consider whether graduates are able, ready, and even willing to work as performers, producers, and creative collaborators in a range of cultural, educational, healthcare, and social justice settings.

This summer, students and staff from across Guildhall will serve their tastiest multi-disciplinary morsels for our audience’s delectation at SMORGASBORD - an undisciplined cabaret, hosted by award-winning comedy drag due 2 Indie Boys From Reading.

Progression into the music industry is central to the new Plan for Music Education: what could that look like for young people in Islington, from reception all the way to KS5 and beyond?

Utkucan Eken will delve into the complexities of achieving harmony and symbiosis between the electronic and acoustic elements in his music.

Composer Sylvia Lim will explore the elusive nature of unstable sounds, contingency, and flexible forms.

Josh Mycroft considers the possible influence of visual feedback on mixing, discussing how it may alter a producers’ process and outcomes.

Leo Doulton will discuss the process and ideas behind his interactive immersive opera Come Bargain With Uncanny Things and subsequent work.