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•Guitar is an official RNCM Principal Study option with individual tuition, specialist classes, and masterclasses

•The four-year BMus combines Principal Study, ensembles, career development, placements, projects, and academic studies

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•Students perform in RNCM ensembles, chamber groups, solo recitals, and cross-school projects

•Manchester provides a major professional music and creative-industry setting

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Training

•Guitar is an official RNCM Principal Study option with individual tuition, specialist classes, and masterclasses

•The four-year BMus combines Principal Study, ensembles, career development, placements, projects, and academic studies

Performance Opportunities

•Students perform in RNCM ensembles, chamber groups, solo recitals, and cross-school projects

•Manchester provides a major professional music and creative-industry setting

Program Highlights

Training

•Guitar is an official RNCM Principal Study option with individual tuition, specialist classes, and masterclasses

•The four-year BMus combines Principal Study, ensembles, career development, placements, projects, and academic studies

Performance Opportunities

•Students perform in RNCM ensembles, chamber groups, solo recitals, and cross-school projects

•Manchester provides a major professional music and creative-industry setting

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Fall 2027

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UCAS Conservatoires Deadline (Most Performance Courses)Oct 1, 2026

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•Prepare TWO contrasting pieces of your own choice. These do not need to be played from memory but should be commensurate with a standard of ABRSM Grade 8 or above. Suggested composers include J S Bach, Agustin Barrios, Lennox Berkeley, Leo Brouwer, Napoleon Coste, John Dowland, Roland Dyens, Mauro Giuliani, Manuel Ponce, Joaquin Rodrigo, Domenico Scarlatti, Fernando Sor, Francisco Tarrega, Joaquin Turina and William Walton.

•We recommend that you endeavour to choose works that demonstrate your strengths and contain a variety of technical demands and expressive detail.

•For those attending in person, your audition will also include an interview, giving the panel an opportunity to learn a little more about you and your future aspirations, whilst giving you the chance to ask any questions you might have about studying with us. You may also be asked to perform a quick study.

•Audition Recordings (Overseas and GRNCM Applicants)

•If you are submitting an audition recording, please record your chosen pieces/movements in their entirety where they fit within 15 minutes of recorded material. If longer, please stop at an appropriate point in the music. Cadenzas are not compulsory, but you have the option to include one subject to it fitting within your 15 minutes of music.

•Your submission should also include a two-minute introduction (either as a separate video or as part of your main audition recording), outlining who you are, why you would like to study with us, and a little about the repertoire you’re playing.

•If you have submitted an audition recording and you are shortlisted, you will be invited to undertake a live audition via Zoom. Here you should perform a different piece of ABRSM Grade 8 standard or above lasting no longer than five minutes. Please choose something that you think best demonstrates your skills and ability.

•This part of the process will also include an interview, where the panel would like to learn a little more about you and your future aspirations, and quick study. The quick study will be provided in advance (via email).

•For BMus (Hons) Popular Music Guitar audition requirements, please click here.

•Applicants for postgraduate study should perform TWO contrasting works, one of which should be from the baroque/classical period.

•Audition Recordings (Overseas Applicants)

•For MMus Popular Music Guitar audition requirements, please click here.

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Application Process

•Submit UCAS Conservatoires first, followed by the required Acceptd submission

•The application is incomplete until both submissions are received

•The RNCM assessment fee is £80 for Single Principal Study and £120 for Joint Principal Study

Online Audition Eligibility

•Overseas applicants unable to travel may request an online audition through UCAS Conservatoires

Transfer Pathway

Exceptional applicants with suitable prior higher-education music study may be considered for direct entry to Year 2 after RNCM reviews their transcripts, academic preparation, audition, and interview.

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•In-person applicants complete a live audition at RNCM

•Overseas applicants requesting an online audition upload a recording through Acceptd for review

•Shortlisted online applicants complete a live online audition or interview

•RNCM automatically considers every applicant for scholarships through the audition

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•Every applicant is automatically considered for RNCM scholarship awards

•Awards recognise outstanding ability and potential demonstrated at audition

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Grad Rate

900

Enrollment

£25k

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Training

•Guitar is an official RNCM Principal Study option with individual tuition, specialist classes, and masterclasses

•The four-year BMus combines Principal Study, ensembles, career development, placements, projects, and academic studies

Performance Opportunities

•Students perform in RNCM ensembles, chamber groups, solo recitals, and cross-school projects

•Manchester provides a major professional music and creative-industry setting

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