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Application Procedure

An overview from the Registry staff

(Picture: Photo of the Registry Staff)

Email registry@ram.ac.uk

Contacts

Registrar and Projects Manager:
PhilipWhite LRAM, FRAM

Assistant Registrar:
ClaireWatts BA, Hon ARAM

Admissions Officer and International Co-ordinator:
Edward Kemp-Luck MA, ARCM, FRCO, Hon ARAM

Examinations and Data Officer:
Sharon Moloney BA

Telephone +44 (0)20 7873 7393
Fax +44 (0)20 7873 7394
Email registry@ram.ac.uk

How to Apply

The main audition period for entry to all Undergraduate and Postgraduate Programmes in September 2008 will take place at the Royal Academy of Music between 3rd and 14th December 2007.

Application Procedure

You must fill in and return an official application form with an application fee. Forms and more information are available at www.ram.ac.uk and from the Registry.

If you are applying for the MMus programme, you must include two pieces of music-related written work (1000-2000 words each). Further information is available from www.ram.ac.uk or the Registry. If we decide that the MMus is not a suitable programme for you, we may offer a place on the Postgraduate Diploma instead.

The Academy may hold late auditions for candidates unable to attend in December, for example, due to illness certified by a doctor before the end of December 2007.
However, because of the strict numbers of places available, late auditions will not be held if faculty quotas are already reached.

Deferred Entry

The Academy does not consider applications for deferred entry.

Open Days

Open Days are designed for the public to observe Academy work-in-progress. They are directed particularly towards candidates who may wish to consult specific staff on any aspect of the Academy ‘experience’. Open Days are organised from late September by each department. For details please see www.ram.ac.uk/opendays, or contact the relevant department. You are welcome to come to any of our many free public concerts during term-time to sample the Academy’s dynamic atmosphere more informally.

Allocation of teachers and Consultation Lessons

The Academy takes great care over the allocation of students to teachers. Every effort is made to accommodate students’ preferences but the final allocation is at the absolute discretion of the Principal.
Consultation lessons may be organized with a professor prior to entry, for which there may be a charge, payable to the professor. Please contact the relevant department to organise this.

Key Application Dates

For auditions in East Asia, please contact the relevant centre by 1st October 2007 (see page 56). Dates for East Asian auditions are subject to confirmation.

1st October 2007
Application forms deadline including composition portfolios, recordings and MMus essays (except Research Programmes, Conducting, Choral Conducting, Musical Theatre and auditions in North America).

1st November 2007
Deadline for Musical Theatre applications.

Early November 2007
Notification of dates for auditions in London in December

November 2007
Auditions in Beijing, Taipei, Tokyo and Hong Kong.

3rd–14th December 2007
Auditions in London.

Late December 2007
Auditions in Seoul.

7th January 2008
Application deadline for Research Programmes, Conducting and Choral Conducting, and for auditions in North America.

Late January 2008
Notification of North American audition dates.

February/March 2008
Conducting auditions in London.

March 2008
Choral Conducting auditions in London. Auditions in North America.


‘Just read through the Royal Academy of Music’s prospectus to see top names jumping out of each page’ Classical Music magazine, September 2005.