Exchange programmes
The Academy offers its students the chance to study abroad as part of their undergraduate studies. Two types of exchanges are on offer: those run by the European Union under the Socrates-Erasmus exchange scheme; and those which are individual arrangements with institutions in North America, Australia and Japan or with institutions in Europe which are not members of the Socrates-Erasmus scheme.
Exchanges are increasingly popular and provide students with an excellent opportunity to broaden their musical horizons and gain musical contacts outside the UK. UK/EU BMus students in receipt of Student Support are exempted from paying tuition fees if they go on a full year Erasmus exchange, and if they go on a full-year non-Erasmus exchange they are only charged half the normal tuition fee.
The Academy has exchange agreements with many conservatoires across the world. These are normally for students on a Bachelor Degree programme who have reached the Academy’s Year 3 entry level, but can also be for students studying on a Masters programme. Exchanges can be for one term, one semester or a full academic year.
We regret it is not possible to offer exchange placements to study Conducting, Choral Conducting, Musical Theatre or Opera.
The Academy has been awarded an Erasmus University Charter and was a founder member of the Erasmus movement. We are a member of AEC (Association of European Conservatoires: see www.doremifasocrates.org) and are participating in the European Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP): see our Erasmus Policy Statement from the 2008-2013 Charter.
The Academy’s exchanges are normally a reciprocal arrangement. If there is no exchange agreement with your institution, or if a reciprocal student cannot be found, you may be offered a Year-In Year Abroad studentship.
Please ask your own institution’s Exchange Coordinator for further information about exchange study at the Academy.
Vienna University of Music and Dramatic Arts
Finland
Sibelius Academy, Helsinki
France
Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse, Paris
Germany
Hochschule fur Musik und Theater “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy”, Leipzig
Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Stuttgart
Hochschule für Musik Köln
Musikhochschule Lübeck
Hochschule der Kunste, Berlin
Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler, Berlin
Norway
Norwegian State Academy of Music, Oslo
Sweden
Malmö Academy of Music, University of Lund, Malmö
We also have had contact with the following instutitions through the teacher exchange programme:
Belgium
Koninklijk Conservatorium, Brussels
Czech Republic
Academy of Performing Arts, Prague
Estonia
Eesti Muusikaakadeemia, Tallinn
Germany
Staatliche Hochschule für Musik, Karlsruhe
Hochschule für Musik “Carl Maria von Weber”, Dresden
Iceland
Iceland Academy of Arts
Italy
Conservatorio di Musica di Perugia
Latvia
J Vitola Latvijas Muzikas Akademija, Riga
Lithuania
Lithuanian Academy of Music, Vilnius
Netherlands
Conservatorium van Amsterdam
Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag
Portugal
Universidade di Evora
The Academy has student exchange agreements (normally whole-year exchanges only) with:
Australia
Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University, Brisbane
Sydney Conservatorium, University of Sydney
Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University, Perth
USA
Cleveland Institute of Music, Ohio
Eastman School of Music, Rochester
Indiana School of Music, Bloomington, Indiana
Juilliard School, New York
New England Conservatory, Boston, Massachusetts
Peabody Institute, Baltimore
