Lasting just shy of seven minutes, it was written for performance at a festival featuring young musicians and dancers from around the country at Sadlers Wells Theatre in London later this month.

However, with the Sheffield Children's Festival on at present, the opportunity of giving the work its first airing in it was too good to miss, even if the authors and performers are more teenage than child.

John Grundy, administrator of the academy, says it is entirely the work of six students, three writing the music, three the words, a collaborative effort entirely at their own instigation.

He says most of the piece, which he extremely excited about, is in seven-four-time reflecting the seven hills of Sheffield with things like snooker and the Arctic Monkeys in the mix.

There are taped sounds and, above all, some unusual instruments of the cutlery variety, Sheffield's most famous export, the obvious knives, forks and spoons with such things a sugar bowl also heard.

One of the authors, a violinist, plays this, the six not having confined themselves to cutlery, but embracing the whole of Sheffield's metalworking tradition.

Shostakovich's Piano Quintet involving the academy's senior string quartet follows it and the concert ends with Vivaldi's Gloria, all the academy students been the choir with Royal Northern College of Music students providing the instrumental support.

The advertised Beethoven string quartet has been dropped.