Fellowships

The Royal College of Music awards several fellowships, which are offered competitively to experienced musicians who aspire to take their performing careers further. They provide talented artists with the means and time to refine their artistic skills and to gain experience, confidence and connections that will help them establish themselves professionally.

All of our awards allow fellows to establish new professional contacts while continuing their development with appropriate guidance.

The majority of our fellows do not hold student status. They are generally considered junior colleagues by faculty members, with the autonomy and self-regulation this implies. We offer the following fellowships with non-student status:

Collaborative Piano Fellowships

Lord & Lady Lurgan Collaborative Piano Fellowship

Gilbert & Eileen Edgar and Anthony Saltmarsh Collaborative Piano Fellowship

Adami Award for Collaborative Piano Fellows

Other fellowships

Fellowship in Historical Keyboards

Junior fellowships for Artist Diploma in Performance

We also offer three junior fellowships, which are available to students on the Artist Diploma in Performance programme. These fellowships offer a bespoke, tailored programme of performance and artistic development opportunities to help launch the most talented instrumental students as soloists and chamber musicians.

All instrumentalists holding an offer of a place on an RCM Artist Diploma after the normal November / December in-person auditions will automatically be considered for one of the junior fellowships; no separate application will be needed.  

We offer the following junior fellowships:

Mills Williams Junior Fellowship

Constant & Kit Lambert Junior Fellowship

Carne Junior Fellowship