Audition Requirements

Please see Filling In Your Application For UK Conservatoires via UCAS for further assistance with this process.

These details are for students applying to start their studies at the Academy in September 2024.

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.

2 October deadline, 6pm UK time:
Deadline for all candidates for London or Video auditions to submit the UCAS Conservatoires application.

Then:

27 October deadline (midday UK time):

• 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 (see below).
• 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 put your referee contact details, and upload:
  - your audition recording
  - the list of all the works in your programme
  - any written requirements (see below) and
  - your spoken English introduction.

We are holding auditions in New York during February 2024 for candidates from North and South America who cannot travel to London for their audition. The deadline for UCAS Conservatoires and Acceptd for New York is 8 January 2024 midday UK time. Please see "International Auditions" on the Your Application page.

Brass Audition Requirements

The following requirements are relevant for both undergraduate and postgraduate applicants.

A free-choice programme of 10-15 minutes; one of the works should be an original composition for the instrument.
Video candidates must upload one unedited video of the complete programme.

Tuba candidates should perform on the F tuba or Eb tuba.

Live auditions normally last around 20 minutes. As time is limited, you may be interrupted before you have performed a complete piece.

Undergraduate applicants may be asked to play scales, arpeggios etc, as listed in ABRSM Grade 8 and you may be given sight reading or quick study tests.

Undergraduate applicants (Bachelor degree, Gap Year)

You may be asked to have a subsequent interview with one of the undergraduate academic staff, during which you can discuss your study plans. As part of the interview you 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 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.

You are not tied to the course choice in your application, the length and pathway can be discussed and adjusted as appropriate.

Application Fee

We assess 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.

Your Application website pages

Your Audition website page