Music Colleges - Conservatoires

Conservatoires UK Admissions Service (CUKAS)

The service is designed to provide the facilities to research on and apply for practice-based music courses

Our web-based tools will help you to apply for music courses at UK conservatoires. You can research courses using Course Search, make your application using Apply and follow the progress of your application using Track.

Course Search enables you to search through the courses offered by various search criteria, for example type of study (e.g. undergraduate, postgraduate) or by instruments and study areas.

www.cukas.ac.uk

Birmingham Conservatoire

Encompassing a senior music college and Junior Department, Birmingham Conservatoire is an international conservatoire, a full faculty of Birmingham City University and a major concert venue for many of Birmingham’s principal concert promoters and organisations,hosting over 300 events annually. Based in the heart of the city centre only a few minutes’ walk from Symphony Hall, we have some of the finest performing and teaching facilities in the country, including the renowned 520-seatAdrian Boult Hall, state-of-the-art Recital Hall recently customised for performance with live electronics, six recording studios and a specialised music library with around 95,000 individual scores and parts and 10,000 sound recordings.

Our expert and dedicated teaching staff educates and trains musicians to professional standards in solo performance, composition, chamber music, orchestral playing and jazz. We also work in collaboration with the Technology Innovation Centre (tic) to provide a degree course in music technology. Research at the Conservatoire is focused on the study of music in performance and we have a dedicated centre for research into Composition and Performance Using Technology.

www.conservatoire.bcu.ac.uk

Leeds College of Music

Leeds College of Music is the UK's largest music college, with over 1000 full-time and 1500 part-time students. As the only specialist music college to offer both Higher and Further Education courses, Leeds College of Music provides a unique opportunity for students to progress from BTEC courses through to Undergraduate and Postgraduate degrees.

www.lcm.ac.uk

Royal College of Music

Founded in 1882, the Royal College of Music enjoys a reputation as one of the world's leading conservatoires, providing specialised musical education and professional training at the highest international level for performers, conductors and composers. Enabling students to develop musical skills, knowledge, understanding and resourcefulness which will enable them to contribute significantly to musical life in this country and internationally.

www.rcm.ac.uk

Royal Northern College of Music

The RNCM, formed in 1973 from the merger of the Royal Manchester College of Music with the Northern School of Music, has, for many years, been the first choice institution for a large number of aspiring professional musicians from the UK and overseas.

Students’ education and training is supported by an international teaching faculty of the highest calibre and facilities unparalleled among conservatoires in the UK. Four public venues host a performance programme that is unique in its range and quality, featuring a rolling programme of student performances alongside visiting artists and ensembles.

Music is everywhere, and the energy between students, artists and audiences powers the RNCM’s reputation as a major international centre for education, training and performance.

www.rncm.ac.uk

Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama

We at The believe that ultimately, it’s performance that lies at the heart of creative and artistic success. Whatever your specialism across Drama and Music, Technical and Production Arts, or Digital Film and Television, your own personal performance - the ability to raise your game when it really counts - will be crucial in your future artistic journey through life. We also teach the teachers at our Academy. Those critical people whose performance determines the effectiveness of future generations.

Scotland has a deservedly great reputation for world-class education. We boast the world's youngest and most innovative National Theatre, resurgent opera and ballet companies, three outstanding orchestras and one of the liveliest performing arts scenes in Europe. It’s a country that has put culture at its centre.

www.rsamd.ac.uk

Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama

The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama is the National Conservatoire of Wales, providing specialist practical and performance-based training that enables students to enter and influence the music, theatre and related professions.

www.rwcmd.ac.uk

Trinity College of Music

Located within the beautiful Wren designed King Charles Court at the Old Royal Naval College Greenwich, Trinity College of Music richly deserves its international reputation as one of the premier institutions in the United Kingdom for the study of music.

The College is celebrated for its fine facilities, which include state of the art practice rooms equipped with superb pianos, the outstanding Jerwood Library of the Performing Arts and the magnificent concert halls in nearby Blackheath.

Our exciting new relationship with Laban, our beautiful site set alongside the River Thames and Greenwich Park, our highly distinguished and talented professorial staff and our innovative and comprehensive course provision make Trinity the natural choice for all who seek the best in professional music performance training.

Trinity has long been acknowledged for fostering and promoting a caring and supportive environment in which its students can flourish and we are particularly proud of the high profile of our professorial staff, who work as acclaimed soloists or belong to top London orchestras and opera companies.

www.tcm.ac.uk

Trinity Laban

n 2005, Trinity College of Music and Laban, leading centres of music and contemporary dance, came together to form Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. Our mission is to provide specialist education of the highest international quality, reflecting the increasingly collaborative world of artistic practice and supporting the lifelong career development of students and professional performing artists. This is reflected in our innovative course provision, exciting performances and groundbreaking education, community and social-inclusion work which together make Trinity Laban a leader in the advancement of creative artistic practice. Our unique conjunction has created exciting opportunities for collaboration between instrumentalists, singers, composers, dancers and choreographers.

www.trinitylaban.ac.uk 

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