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Composition students together with art students from the Royal Academy present new works that defy the imagination. The audience will be treated to genre-bending performances that bring together the different disciplines and ideas of students from both schools. Immaterial elements such as sound, image and music are connected to material objects. New musical instruments will be created especially for this collaboration in the metal, textile, wood, ceramics and 3D printing workspaces of the KABK. Whenever possible, humor can be added to the mix at any time.

Vocalists and composers join forces with instrumentalists to embark on new creative adventures together. 'Rimirando Lei', a new composition written by former composition teacher Diderik Wagenaar for KC's Ensemble Royaal, will be premiered alongside eight new pieces in various vocal and instrumental settings. The students challenge and influence each other, exploring a myriad of melodic, harmonic, linguistic, visual and theatrical elements.

Anything Can Happen. Really? Yes! Really!
Composition students are given the opportunity to shape an evening entirely according to their own wishes. Performances of 30 seconds or 30 minutes – this evening provides students with an opportunity to present their most radical ideas for any instrumentation, medium or format.

The New European Ensemble is one of the leading ensembles of the Netherlands and a longtime close collaborator with the composition department. In this program they present several new works following an earlier 'speeddate' with composition students. The program will also feature a work by composer Alvin Curran, who will be a guest at the conservatoire.

Parliament of Angels is one of the musical research labs that the Belgian Bl!ndman collective has initiated with an ongoing working process full of skill, flexibility and rebellion. The dialogue between various disciplines and musical worlds is central. Together with four composition students, Bl!ndman [strings] gears up for a total experience that questions the ears, caresses the eyes and stimulates the audience to be open to challenging and never-before-visited sound worlds in which dance, light, film, theater and text projection are an integral part.