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Your Audition

Audition Requirements

Please see the relevant department pages for specific details. Further details appear at www.ram.ac.uk.

Instrumentalists may be asked to play scales, arpeggios, etc to ABRSM Grade 8 standards.

You may be given sight reading or quick study tests. As time is limited for some auditions, you may be interrupted before you have performed a complete piece.

Musicianship and keyboard skills tests may be required of all prospective undergraduates, who are asked to bring a short piano piece to demonstrate their level of keyboard skills.

The precise format for auditions will vary according to Principal-study. In most cases auditions will last from 20 to 30 minutes.

Whilst the Academy provides a pool of accompanists for the London auditions in December, you are strongly advised to bring your own. Some audition requirements may change: please check www.ram.ac.uk or contact the Registry if you have any queries.

Written paper: all undergraduate candidates are required to take a 50-minute written paper which comprises harmonisation of a simple melody and a choice of short essay questions of a general musical nature. The Academy regrets that it cannot issue specimen papers.

International Candidates

If you live in Europe, you must attend the main London auditions in December 2007. Other international candidates are strongly advised to do likewise (but also see below):

Candidates from North America
If you live in Canada or the USA, you must audition in either London (December 2007) or North America (March 2008, Toronto, NewYork and Boston). Auditions in North America are not open to applicants for Percussion, Jazz, Composition, Conducting, Choral Direction, or Musical Theatre, and the deadline for receipt of applications is 7th January 2008. The application fee is £120.

Candidates from East Asia
Auditions take place in Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong and Taipei. If you live in East Asia, you must attend one of these auditions or the main auditions held in London in December 2007. Auditions in East Asia are not open to applicants for Percussion, Jazz, Composition, Conducting, Choral Direction, or Musical Theatre.

Deadlines for auditions in East Asia are specified by the relevant centre. Application enquiries should be directed as follows:

PR China Centre
Professor Su Zhen,
Central Conservatory of Music,
43 Bao Jia Street,
Beijing,
PR China 100031
Telephone/Fax +86 10 83511052
Email china.auditions@ram.ac.uk

Japanese Centre
Mrs Yoko Takamoto
65-1-203 Kamimaruko-tenjincho,
Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawaken,
211-0007 Japan
Telephone/Fax +81 44 744 1687
Email japan.auditions@ram.ac.uk

Korean Centre
Email korean.auditions@ram.ac.uk

Hong Kong Centre
The Dean, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
1 Gloucester Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong
Telephone +852 2584 8500
Fax +852 2802 4372
www.hkapa.edu

Taiwan Centre
Miss Aki Lin, 8F-1, #181, Chang-an E. Road,
Sec. 2, Taipei, Taiwan ROC
Telephone +886 (0)2 2772 9432
Fax +886 (0)2 2773 8834
Email taiwan.auditions@ram.ac.uk

Video Recordings
If you do not live in Europe, East Asia, or North America, the Academy will accept videos (UK VHS format only) with an accompanying CD/cassette/minidisc of the same performance.

All recordings must be received by 1st October 2007 and must be authenticated by a person of authority. You must complete both the standard application form and the video form, which is available from the Registry. Please note that if you audition by recording, you will not normally be eligible for an entrance scholarship or financial aid.

Your Audition Date

Please see p.53 or www.ram.ac.uk for key application dates.

Notification of Results


The Registry will notify all candidates of the result of their audition by post and as soon as possible. We will contact all candidates on the reserve list as soon as we have any further news. All offers made are conditional upon the candidate achieving the stated educational and language requirements.