Piano | Royal Academy of Music

Find your artistic identity, develop your technique and become a well-rounded 21st-century musician

The Academy’s innovative Piano Department is led by the internationally renowned concert pianist and curator Joanna MacGregor.

'My aim is to encourage young pianists to think imaginatively, be daring, and create opportunities for themselves'

Professor Joanna MacGregor CBE, Dame Myra Hess Chair of Piano

We’re a very international department, with around 80 young solo pianists coming from over 30 countries. We focus on developing artistic and professional potential through four years of undergraduate study, Master’s programmes, Professional and Advanced Diplomas, all the way to doctoral programmes.

We offer a world-class piano training programme to develop the skills necessary for a contemporary career. We’ll help you develop performance skills as a soloist and chamber musician; we’ll nurture your ability to curate festivals and concert series, and to create recording opportunities; we’ll build your confidence to compose, improvise and conduct, and to explore early keyboards and to work with living composers; and we’ll help you determine your artistic personality by developing your digital profile and collaborating with artists of all kinds. Innovation is at the heart of our annual Autumn and Summer Piano Festivals, our public masterclasses, and our Academy Wigmore Hall Piano Series.

There’s individuality and excitement involved in being a pianist here at the Academy – by being a deeply creative, ambitious and proactive musician.

Read more about our teaching staff here or browse events taking place at the Academy here.

If you have any enquiries about studying the piano at the Academy, you can also get in touch here.