Study Music

Training principles

When you study Music at Guildhall, there are two central principles which will be fundamental to your training:

• Inspiring the extraordinary in everything you do: achieving your potential as an outstanding music-maker, whatever your field of expertise.
• Evolving as an artist in society: becoming an artist who is curious and whose work is vibrant and relevant to 21st century life. With an ever-growing awareness of your own creative values, you will harness your knowledge to define and build your own career and bring transformational change to others.

As an artist who can bring these two elements together, you will have the greatest freedom to determine your own future, to forge your own career path, curate your own events, establish your unique place in the performing arts, and act as an agent of change in the wider world.

You benefit from our partnerships

At the heart of your training will be intensive, one-to-one and small ensemble sessions with Guildhall's core staff of over 400 practitioner teachers. You will also work with some of the world’s finest international visiting artists and ensembles. Our partnerships with five key organisations – the Barbican Centre, the London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Opera House and the Academy of Ancient Music – ensure that you will benefit from links with the profession before you graduate.