Strings
Enjoy the creative scope to establish your niche and launch a varied and rewarding career.
The Strings Department offers a focused and highly ambitious programme of study at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, designed to prepare musicians for a dynamic and evolving profession.
You will work intensively across solo performance, chamber music and orchestral playing, building both technical mastery and a distinctive artistic identity. Teaching is delivered by internationally recognised performers and respected teachers, whose experience provides direct insight into the highest levels of the profession.
Alongside this, you will have access to exceptional resources, including the Academy Museum’s instrument collection, ranging from outstanding modern instruments to rare Stradivari examples from the maker’s most celebrated period. A team of professional luthiers are permanently on site to maintain the instruments.
The overall aim is to support your development, prepare you to step confidently into the professional world and shape it on your own terms.
To study at the Royal Academy of Music is to be immersed in a place where artistry is nurtured, ambition is shaped, and music becomes a lifelong language.
Introduction to the Strings Department with Graham Mitchell
Meet the Academy's Professor of Violin, Sini Simonen
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