Audition Requirements | Royal Academy of Music

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 2023.

Applications for 2023 entry are now closed. Some departments may accept late applications in exceptional circumstances. Please contact admissions@ram.ac.uk if you would like to discuss a late application.

The dates and requirements for starting in September 2024 will be published here during July 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 (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 upload your audition recording, the list of all the works in your programme, any written requirements (see below) and your spoken English introduction.

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 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 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.