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 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 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.
(See the Your Application page for information about our New York auditions; please

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 including guidance about how to make your recording.
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 Organ.

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. We recommend that you contact admissions@ram.ac.uk to check if we can audition Organ at the New York venue.

In most cases organ in-person auditions will last for 30 minutes (BMus, Gap Year, Organ Foundation) or 45 minutes (postgraduate). As time is limited for some auditions, you may be interrupted before you have performed a complete piece.

J.S.Bach: Der Tag, der ist so freudenreich BWV 605
Contrasting piece/s of your own choice, not exceeding 10 minutes in total
Sight-reading / quick study test
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.

Video audition

Please point the camera at your side so the assessment panel can see you play at the console, and (if possible) place the microphone some distance away from the instrument. You must upload one unedited video of the complete programme.

27 October: deadline to upload audition recordings (including the spoken introduction) into the Acceptd portal, details are on our video auditions page. Also see the deadline information on Your Application

After the panel has assessed your recordings, you may be invited to attend an online Programme Assessment interview where you can discuss your suitability for your course with Academy academic staff.

JS Bach: Prelude and Fugue in C major BWV 545, plus
Your own free choice of piece/s not exceeding 15 minutes in total.
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.

Video audition

JS Bach: Either Prelude & Fugue in G, BWV 541 or Prelude & Fugue in G, BWV 550, plus

Your own free choice of piece/s not exceeding 20 minutes in total.

After the audition with the panel, you may be asked to have a subsequent interview with one of the postgraduate programme tutors where you can discuss your study plans.

Video audition

After the panel has assessed your recordings, you may be asked to have an online interview with one of the postgraduate programme tutors where you can discuss your study plans.

Academic 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.

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.