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The Department of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London is delighted to announce three scholarships for its MMus programme for the coming academic year, 2026-27. Pathways are available in Performance; Film, TV, and Game Music; Collaborative Piano; Composition; Ethnomusicology and Musicology.
We are offering a Corky McGuinness award in Musicology. This will provide a tuition fee reduction of £4,000 to a new full-time student with Home fee or International fee status studying for a MMus in Music with a specialism in musicology or ethnomusicology. The successful applicant will have an offer to study the MMus in Music, and have achieved or be expected to achieve a first-class honours degree or equivalent.
Two Headley Trust scholarships, amounting to £12,000 (that is, the full sum of a year’s home student tuition fees) will be available this year. Successful applicants will live and have been educated in the United Kingdom, have an offer to study the MMus in Music, and have achieved or be expected to achieve either a first-class honours degree or first-class levels of excellence in their area of specialism. The latter would include those returning to study, who may demonstrate their talent through submission of a portfolio of professional work.
We advise all students intending to apply for these awards to submit their application for an MMus place by 15 May 2026 at the latest, to allow time for their application for a place on our programme to be processed. Once they have a conditional or unconditional offer of a place, they may then apply for scholarships via a separate form on our online application system (with a deadline of 15 June 2026 for the scholarship application).
Further enquiries should be sent to the Director of the MMus programme, Prof. Mark Berry, at mark.berry@rhul.ac.uk.
