10th Anniversary Party
2025 marks the 10-year Anniversary of Abbey Road Institute – 10 years of training the next generation of music producers and sound engineers. On Wednesday, 19th November, we hosted our anniversary party, reuniting Abbey Road Institute staff and alumni from the past decade.
In honour of the amazing community of alumni who’ve helped shape our journey so far, we threw a 10th anniversary party, championing the faces of success!
All photos credited to Sarah Akomanyi.
From left to right: Lucy Kevil, Laviea Thomas, Darren Suckling, Gili Portal, Hannah Fitzgerald, Carlos Lellis, Liam Narrie, Jasmine Wembankoy
In honour of our 10th anniversary, the first part of the night was all about the reunion! Reuniting alumni with lecturers and their classmates. We were delighted by the extra mile some partygoers went to, coming from Spain, Portugal, Germany, and Croatia, to make it to the party. Plenty of hugs and smiles were shared all night long.
“It was wonderful to catch up with our alumni, who in some cases I had not seen for a number of years. I was also very happy to hear that so many of them are active and very successful industry professionals.” Carlos Lellis | Programme Director
Over the years, we’ve celebrated many major successes of our alumni, from Music Production and Audio Post Production students. On the night, we got to celebrate with some of them! Take a look…
From left to right: Paolo Violi, Gili Portal, Daniela Sicilia
SUCCESS STORY
Two of the three assistant engineers on Tyla’s 2026 Grammy-nominated “Push 2 Start” for Best African Music Performance were alumnae Daniela Sicilia (pictured above) and Justina Bryce.
From left to right: Rebekah Arnold, Ramera Abraham, Jasmine Wembankoy
SUCCESS STORIES
In 2023, Ramera Abraham was awarded the Music Production Guild’s Vocal Producer of the Year!
This summer, Jasmine Wembankoy and Madi Coleman performed on the All Points East Amex Unsigned stage!
Celebrating the amazing community of alumni who’ve helped shape our journey so far, the night was a total success, with the first few hours all about socialising, and the evening turning into a party with DJ sets from alumni Sam Robbins and Kieran Butler.
Since completing their studies with us, both alumni have gone on to carve successful careers in the music industry, with credits playing at events such as Reading Festival, Carnival, and others.
Sam and Kieran brought all the energy needed for this fantastic reunion. Bringing a party to the dancefloor until the early hours. Celebrated with lots of laughs and cheers!
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“It was great to catch up with old friends and collaborators, sharing experiences in the business and memories from our time at the Institute.” – Carlos Bricio, Music Production AlumnusÂ
We want to extend a huge thank you to Lucy Kevil and Laviea Thomas for bringing this event to life. We had a fantastic time celebrating 10 years with you all. We can’t wait for more of these events to come! Here’s to a prosperous future of guiding the next generation of music producers, sound engineers, and audio mixers!
You can access the entire photo library from our 10th Anniversary Party on our Flickr account. If you enjoyed reading this, why not check out our previous Alumni Networking and Open Mic Night event?
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