UK London Royal Academy of Music

“This course ensures a strong foundation in compositional techniques which, over four years
of study, can be focused to support your individual interests and career ambitions. As a
composer in the Academy, you are given unrivalled opportunities to have your music played
and recorded in numerous contexts – and to develop your individual compositional style and
musical personality within our highly collaborative environment.”

● Contemporary Repertoire: ​focusing on 20th and 21st century repertoire, these

lectures and seminars give you an enhanced awareness of a broad range of musical
materials and style by listening, analysing and discussing both familiar and unfamiliar
musical areas.
● Orchestration: ​an examination of the development of orchestral technique from early
Mozart through to today using a wide-range of scores and genres.
● Technology: ​by using the Academy's Creative Technology Suite, you will be guided
through the basics of digital sound recording and gain a thorough understanding of the
aesthetics of electroacoustic music and the role of technology in creative sound
manipulation and mixing​.

Bent Sörensen Hans Abrahamsen John Adams Michael Nyman Helen Grime Morgan Hayes

Application, Education and curriculum

Submit portfolio

Round One: The portfolios (see below) are assessed by the Composition department entry
panel. This is the equivalent of the first-round live performance given by an instrumental or
vocal candidate to a panel at the Academy. You will be informed around the beginning of
November whether you have been selected for interview.

Round Two: The interviews for the selected candidates will take place during the main
audition period in London in December, and you should attend at the allocated time. If you
live outside the UK and are unable to travel to London for interview, please select Video
Interview in your UCAS Conservatoires application. We will arrange a video link during the
December audition session. However, if you are applying for transfer to year 2 or year 3 of
the BMus programme, you will need to attend a live interview in London.
University/Education

Universities in the United Kingdom do not have a coherent system of funding or governance,
and both remain heavily debated. Funding may come from charging students. From ​WW2
tuition fees in the UK​ were effectively abolished and ​local authorities​ paid ​maintenance
grants​. The ​Education Act 1962​ formally required this position for all UK residents,​ ​and this
continued through the expansion of university places recommended by the ​Robbins Report​ of
1963. However, over the 1980s and 1990s, grants were diminished, requiring students to
become ever more reliant on their parents' wealth. Further, appointed in 1996, the ​Dearing
Report​ argued for the introduction of ​tuition fees​ because it said graduates had "improved
employment prospects and pay."
British higher education has a strong international reputation, with over half of international
students citing this as one of the main factors in deciding to study in the UK. London has
also been ranked as the best city in the world for students. However, a number of universities,
including Cambridge UCL and the LSE, have warned that Brexit poses a reputational risk for
UK universities, and there are also fears about the impact of the government’s immigration
and visa policy

Economical aspects? Would you need a scholarship and/or is there any possibilities of getting
a CSN loan from Sweden? Living in e.g. UK? Student-rooms, renting or live-in?

BMus £9,250 per school year

Describe the different factors that have made an impact as you discover more about the
education and school. ​Has the education’s past students anything to do with your interest
today? Now, you do not have to cover all questions.

The academy has students from over 50 countries, following diverse programmes including
instrumental performance, conducting, composition, jazz and opera. The Academy has an
established relationship with King’s College London, particularly the Department of Music,
whose students receive instrumental tuition at the Academy. In return, many students at the
Academy take a range of Humanities choices at King’s, and its extended academic
musicological curriculum.

Background

A bit about myself and my interests. Being surrounded by arts and culture as well as
intellectuals.

Impacts and Impressions

I don’t want to support it, I don’t want to live in an english speaking country. Especially not
after Brexit’s gone through. Plus the disadvantageous economical aspects of attending that
school make it incredibly hard to justify when compared to many other European schools,
with more interesting faculty and more relevant culture.