Royal Academy of Music

Not to be confused with the Royal College of Music or Handel's Royal Academy of Music.

Royal Academy of Music
TypePublic
Established1822; 202 years ago (1822)
Parent institution
University of London
Affiliation
Endowment£58.3 million (2023)[1]
Budget£32.5 million (2022/23)[1]
PresidentThe Duchess of Gloucester
PrincipalJonathan Freeman-Attwood
Students785 (2022/23)[2]
Undergraduates385 (2022/23)[2]
Postgraduates395 (2022/23)[2]
Location
Marylebone Road, London, England

51°31′25″N 0°09′07″W / 51.52361°N 0.15194°W / 51.52361; -0.15194
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The Royal Academy of Music (RAM)[3][4] in London, England, is one of the oldest music schools in the UK, founded in 1822[5] by John Fane and Nicolas-Charles Bochsa. It received its royal charter in 1830 from King George IV with the support of the first Duke of Wellington.[4]

The academy provides undergraduate and postgraduate training across instrumental performance, composition, jazz, musical theatre and opera, and recruits musicians from around the world, with a student community representing more than 50 nationalities. It is committed to lifelong learning, from Junior Academy, which trains musicians up to the age of 18, through Open Academy community music projects, to performances and educational events for all ages.[6]

The academy's museum[7] houses one of the world's most significant collections of musical instruments and artefacts, including stringed instruments by Stradivari, Guarneri, and members of the Amati family; manuscripts by Purcell, Handel and Vaughan Williams; and a collection of performing materials that belonged to leading performers. It is a constituent college of the University of London and a registered charity under English law.[8]

Famous academy alumni include Henry Wood, Simon Rattle, Brian Ferneyhough, Elton John and Annie Lennox.

  1. ^ a b "ANNUAL REVIEW AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR YEAR ENDING 31 JULY 2023" (PDF). Royal Academy of Music. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
  2. ^ a b c "Where do HE students study?". Higher Education Statistics Agency. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  3. ^ Stanford, Charles Villiers (1916). "William Sterndale Bennett: 1816–1875". The Musical Quarterly. 2 (4): 628–657. doi:10.1093/mq/ii.4.628. JSTOR 737945.
  4. ^ a b Temperley, Nicholas; Olleson, Philip; Bowers, Roger; Johnstone, H. Diack; Rastall, Richard; Holman, Peter; Axton, Marie; Luckett, Richard; Wathey, Andrew; Hume, Robert D.; McVeigh, Simon; Croft-Murray, Edward; Jacobs, Arthur; Dideriksen, Gabriella; Snelson, John; Ehrlich, Cyril; Musgrave, Michael; Wright, David C.H.; Roche, Elizabeth; Rainbow, Bernarr; Kemp, Anthony; Dale, Kathleen; Jones, Peter Ward; Conner, William J. (2001). "London (i), VIII, 3(i): Educational institutions: Royal Academy of Music (RAM)". Grove Music Online. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.16904.
  5. ^ "Hero, Royal Academy of Music". Archived from the original on 29 April 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2011.
  6. ^ "What's On – Royal Academy of Music". www.ram.ac.uk. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
  7. ^ "Instrument collections – Royal Academy of Music". www.ram.ac.uk. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
  8. ^ "Royal Academy of Music, registered charity no. 310007". Charity Commission for England and Wales.