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 2025.

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

Then:

25 October, midday UK time:

• London in-person candidates: deadline for you to submit your application profile in the Acceptd portal, with your referee contact details, and any written requirements required for your course choice (postgraduates only, see below). London in-person auditions for your Principal Study are not pre-screened.
• Video candidates: deadline for you to submit your application profile in 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 for your course choice (postgraduates only, see below) and
  - your spoken English introduction.
  You may be asked to have an online interview with the Head of Accordion.

1 November, midday UK time:

• New York candidates: deadline for you to submit your UCAS Conservatoires application and also your application profile in 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 pre-screening audition recording (repertoire as listed below)
  - the list of all the works in your programme
  - any written requirements for your course choice (postgraduates only, see below) and
  - your spoken English introduction.
  
  Please see "International Auditions" on the Your Application page.

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.
Video and New York candidates 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. 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 academic written requirements for MA or PGCert.
Master of Music candidates: you 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 page

Your Audition website page