The Reina Sofía School Of Music’s 2025-2026 Academic Year Application Period is open

The Reina Sofia School of Music (Madrid, Spain) has opened its admission process. Applications will be open until next December 19, 2024 for any young musician interested in one of the studies offered: 

• Bachelor’s Degree (240 ECTS)
• Master’s Degree in Music Performance (60 ECTS)
• Master’s Degree in Dramatic Composition and for Instrumental Ensemble (60 ECTS)
• Foundation Course
• Diploma in Music Performance/Composition
• Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Orchestra Conducting Studies
• Postgraduate Diploma in Contemporary Piano

The Reina Sofia School of Music offers 15 specialities: bassoon (professor: Gustavo Núñez); cello (professors: Jens Peter Maintz and Ivan Monighetti); clarinet (professor: Pascal Moraguès); composition (professor: Fabián Panisello); conducting (professor: Nicolás Pasquet); contemporary piano (professor: Florent Boffard); double bass (professor: Wies de Boevé); flute (professor: Jacques Zoon); horn (professor: Radovan Vlatkovic); oboe (professor: Hansjörg Schellenberger); piano (professors: Milana Chernyavska and Stanislav Ioudenitch); trumpet (professor: Reinhold Friedrich); viola (professors: Nobuko Imai and Diemut Poppen); violin (professors: Zakhar Bron, Christoph Poppen and Marco Rizzi), and voice (professor: Juliane Banse).

The selection of the students is carried out through an audition process, in which talent is the only criterion. With an average admission rate of 9%, the Reina Sofia School is one of Europe’s most selective schools. The auditions will take place between February and March 2025.

Every year more than 150 students from over 30 nationalities study at the School, considered to be one of the best in Europe, where they receive personalised teaching from internationally renowned professors, receiving ten hours a month of individual instrument lessons and four hours with a specialised pianist. They also have the opportunity to perform in the extensive programme of concerts organised annually by the School, and to participate in a rigorous programme of chamber and orchestral music, including contemporary ensembles, historical performance and choir.

All students enjoy free tuition, thanks to the scholarships granted by the sponsors of the School, and, additionally, the School has a system of financial assistance to make it easier for students to meet all their needs during the academic year. The only payment that students have to assume is 1,200 euros for the reservation of a place. 

You may find all the information regarding the admission process here