Please see Filling In Your Application For UK Conservatoires via UCAS for further assistance with this process.
These requirements are for students auditioning to start their studies at the Academy in September 2023.
Until specified otherwise, these requirements also apply for auditions in future years. Some audition requirements may change: please check back here regularly. You are welcome to contact the Admissions team (admissions@ram.ac.uk) or the department administrator if you have any queries.
3 October deadline, 6pm UK time:
deadline for all candidates for London or Video auditions to submit the UCAS Conservatoires application. (See the Your Application page for deadlines for New York and for São Paolo)
Then:
28 October deadline:
- London in-person candidates: deadline to create your profile in the Acceptd portal, with your referee contact details, and any written requirements required for your course choice.
- Video candidates: deadline to upload audition recordings (including the spoken English introduction) into the Acceptd portal, details are on our video auditions page. You will need to create a profile in the Acceptd portal into which you upload your audition recording, the list of all the works in your programme, any written requirements (postgraduates only, see below) and your spoken English introduction.
Accordion audition requirements
A programme of contrasting pieces of your own choice; this can be entirely original works for accordion or can contain one or two transcriptions. You must upload one unedited video of the complete programme.
Programme duration: 20 minutes for Undergraduate candidates, 30 minutes for Postgraduate candidates.
Undergraduate applicants
You may be asked to have a subsequent interview with one of the undergraduate academic staff, during which you can discuss your study plans and may be asked some questions about a short extract of music, and be asked to take some aural skills assessments consisting of a sight-singing test and some of the following:
- singing the middle notes in a chord
- identification of intervals
- sight reading of rhythms
- sight reading of two simultaneous different rhythms, to be sung and clapped.
Sorry, we cannot issue specimen tests.
Postgraduate applicants
You may be asked to have a subsequent interview with one of the postgraduate programme tutors where you can discuss your study plans.
Written requirements
Applicants for the Master of Music (MMus), Professional Diploma (ProfDip) and Advanced Diploma (Performance) courses need to submit written requirements, please view these on the entry requirements page of the website. There are no academic written requirements for MA or PGCert. All Master of Music candidates are automatically considered for Master of Arts, so if you are also interested in MA study you should only apply for MMus because there will only be one audition.
Application Fee
We audition everyone who applies on time and pays their application and assessment fee.
Information on the assessment fee and waivers can be found in the Your Application pages of our website, please click on the link below.