Music

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Choose from our highly regarded BMus undergraduate programme, a range of postgraduate and doctoral research programmes, and other opportunities, including short courses, summer schools and training for under 18s.

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Principal Study and Open Days

Principal Study and Departments

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. Explore the Principal Study areas we offer and our Music departments.

Clarinet players chat during a rehearsal

Open Days

Meet students and staff and find out more about training at Guildhall at our departmental open days.

string octet as part of the chamber music festival

Teaching Staff

We pride ourselves on the eminence of our international teaching staff, made up of some of the world's leading and most recognised performers.

Meet our Music teaching staff

Auditions & Interviews

To be considered for a place at Guildhall, you’ll be asked to take part in a performance audition.

Find out more about the process and what you’ll need to prepare

Upcoming events

From 30 November 2023 Opera

Autumn Opera Scenes

Outstanding performers from the first year of Guildhall School’s Opera Course present classical and contemporary operatic excerpts performed with piano accompaniment.

Anthony McGill smiling at camera holding clarinet

30 November 2023 Classical Music | Masterclass | Milton Court

Clarinet Masterclass with Anthony McGill

Milton Court Artist-in-Residence Anthony McGill – the New York Philharmonic’s Principal Clarinet – shares his ‘lustrous sound and dynamic range’ (Bachtrack) with Guildhall School musicians in an evening masterclass.