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 deadline, 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. 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 (repertoire as listed below):
Undergraduates should upload a separate unedited video for each piece.
Postgraduates should upload a single unedited video of their complete programme.
- the list of all the works in your audition programme
- any written requirements (see below) and
- your spoken English introduction.
You may be asked to have an online interview with the Head of Guitar.

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):
  Undergraduates should upload a separate unedited video for each piece.
  Postgraduates should upload a single unedited video of their complete programme.
  - 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.

Guitar Audition

Audition repertoire

Undergraduates should present a contrasted solo programme of three pieces from the following list.
Postgraduates should present a contrasted solo programme of four pieces from the following list.

1. a contrapuntal work written between c1500-1750
2. a work from the 19th or 20th century in 1st movement sonata form
3. a theme with variations (from any period)
4. a work, or movement(s), from the late 20th or early 21st century
5. a dance movement (from any period)

In most cases live guitar auditions last around 30 minutes, and will include sight-reading. As time is limited you may be interrupted before you have performed a complete piece.

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 written academic requirements for the 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.

Duos

Established guitar duos are also invited to audition at postgraduate level, performing a programme of three contrasted duo pieces; each member of the duo will also be required to present one solo piece. Each candidate should make their own UCAS Conservatoires application (for the same course code as the other duo member), and then each should email admissions@ram.ac.uk including their UCAS Conservatoires personal ID numbers to confirm that they wish to audition as a duo.

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 page of our website, please click on the link below.

Your Application web page

Your Audition web page