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Create Music Academy: Short Courses for Aspiring Young Musicians

11 Jun 2026


Get ready for three weeks full of music, creativity, and fun!

Create Music’s summer term short course series for children and young people returns this summer, with three exciting weeks of collaborative music-making, skills development and performance opportunities for Years 2 and up at venues across Sussex. Read on to find out more about the courses available this year.

Create Music Academy offers the chance to meet, play and perform with other like-minded young musicians, encouraging collaboration and building creativity skills. 

All courses end with an informal onstage performance for family and friends — a great opportunity to build confidence and learn to perform together!

As well as instruments and vocals, Create Music Academy includes a range of tech courses for students of all levels and ages — from GarageBand for Beginners to Composing and Scoring for Film and Games.

Everyone can learn something new! Create Music Academy has courses suitable for all abilities, from very beginners up to experienced players. The Open Access courses require no previous experience – just sign up and come along! 

For this year’s Academy, Create Music is expanding opportunities for young singers and musicians:

Discover the joy of group singing in One Day One Voice. This one-day workshop invites children who took part in the One Voice project in December to regroup and build on their experience, exploring harmony, vocal technique and more. 

Explore your favourite tunes together in the brand-new Vocal Ensemble course. These two days offer secondary-age singers the chance to explore music from popular genres, musicals and folk traditions, while developing vocal technique, ensemble skills and performance confidence.

Experience rich and varied global sounds in the new Percussion Workshop — perfect for drum kit, percussion, piano and keyboard players of all ages (Grade 3+) who are ready to expand their ensemble skills. Discover exciting, new rhythms and sounds including Drum line, Brazilian Batucada, Junk percussion, electronic sounds and Western Classical Percussion.

Know a budding young musician? Find out more about Create Music Academy.