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Music makes us

There has to be a place for new musicians to connect, collaborate and create. We are that place. A risk-taking conservatoire where the traditions of the past meet the talent of the future.

Academy Guide 2025/26

Discover all you need to know about our community and how you can become a part of it.

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Discover all you need to know about our community and how you can become a part of it.

Download the Academy Guide

Auditions

Ready to audition?

We'd love to hear you perform and hear what makes you tick musically.

Ready to audition?

We'd love to hear you perform and hear what makes you tick musically.

Scholarships & bursaries

The Academy is committed to ensuring that the cost of tuition fees does not deter you from applying.

Over £5 million is awarded annually in scholarships and bursaries to 83% of students.

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The Academy is committed to ensuring that the cost of tuition fees does not deter you from applying.

Over £5 million is awarded annually in scholarships and bursaries to 83% of students.

Artistic Excellence

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We welcome the finest students from around the world to learn and perform alongside globally renowned artists, ensuring they benefit from a music-making environment of the highest quality.

Artistic Excellence and Opportunities

We welcome the finest students from around the world to learn and perform alongside globally renowned artists, ensuring they benefit from a music-making environment of the highest quality.

Artistic Excellence and Opportunities

The Future of Music

Together we have the power to help talented students realise their potential.

With your support, we can help new generations discover, develop and master their craft – for the whole world to enjoy.

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Together we have the power to help talented students realise their potential.

With your support, we can help new generations discover, develop and master their craft – for the whole world to enjoy.

Discovery Events

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Are you considering conservatoire training as the next step in your musical journey?

Discovery Events are the perfect way to find out more about the Academy and whether it’s the right place for you.

Are you considering conservatoire training as the next step in your musical journey?

Discovery Events are the perfect way to find out more about the Academy and whether it’s the right place for you.

Departments

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Students in a recital hall, reading manuscript and discussing (black and white)

An ensemble piano tutor guides a piano accompanist in a practice room with a string duet (black and white)

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A Harp player plucks strings, glancing through the strings (black and white)

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A young cello player looks towards a conductor, out of frame

Musical theatre performers huddle amid haze on stage during a live scene (black and white)

Netley Primary School cheer together on stage

Opera performers sing to each other on stage across a desk (black and white)

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A piano teacher guides a student during a piano lesson (black and white)

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A vocal studies student holds sheet music in hand while looking out of frame, singing (black and white)

A student plays a piccolo while being guided by a tutor to sheet music (black and white)

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Autumn Season Concerts

This autumn, see Academy students perform alongside world class artists and in a wide range of musical styles, from orchestral and chamber music concerts, to opera, musical theatre, jazz and contemporary music performances.

Browse our diary for full listings.