RPS Isserlis Scholarship - Application Form

Applications for the RPS Isserlis Scholarship are open until 11am on Wednesday 18 February 2026. Please ensure you have read the application guidelines before completing the application form below.

In spending time on your application, we advise you save your answers (particularly for the questions requiring longer answers) in a Word document or equivalent on your computer in case of any technical glitch.

Your application will only be submitted once you have completed all obligatory fields in the form and clicked the ‘submit' button at the end.

First Name

Last Name

Instrument

Nationality

Date of birth

Date

Your age at the closing date

Your contact details

Phone number

Mobile preferred - please don't enter with characters or spaces

Your Address

Address 1

Address 2

City

Postal Code

County

Please confirm the following statement:

I confirm the address given above is my current fixed address in the UK.

Please confirm the following statement:

I confirm that I have the right to work in the UK for the next two years.

If you are under the age of 18, please also supply contact details for a parent/guardian.

Parent/Guardian First Name

Parent/Guardian Last Name

Parent/Guardian Email Address

Parent/Guardian Phone Number

Mobile preferred - please don't enter with characters or spaces

Other

If other selected above, please give details:

your story

In just a few sentences, give us a picture of your musical studies, progress and career to date.

Please include any key years - for example: Junior RNCM (2013-16), NYO (2016) - and the name of your current instrumental teacher.

Your plans

In a few sentences, tell us your plan for studying abroad and how you feel you would benefit from this.

Provide as much clear detail as you can at this stage, including place of study, likely dates and teachers. Let us know if any elements have been provisionally offered or confirmed, and where you are in any application process. Do include detail illustrating why you believe it will be of vital worth to you at this stage, and how this would positively impact your future career aspirations in the UK.

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Your budget

Total amount you are seeking from the RPS

As detailed in the guidelines, please upload a simple budget document using our template linked here.

Please upload your budget here.

If there is anything else you wish to share with us about your financial situation, not included in your budget, please do so here:

If the costs in your budget are considerably more than the funds you have listed, please also tell us here how you hope to address the difference.

200 words left

Footage

Please read our guidelines before submitting your footage.

Link to recording #1

Password to view recording #1

If applicable

Name of piece - composer (#1)

Date of filming (#1)

Month, Year

Start time (#1)

If you do not commence playing at the very start

Link to recording #2

Password to view recording #2

If applicable

Name of piece - composer (#2)

Date of filming (#2)

Month, Year

Start time (#2)

If you do not commence playing at the very start

References

A written reference from one musician of standing (such as your music teacher) who is prepared to endorse your application must be sent by the referee to admin@philharmonicsociety.uk by the application closing date.

The reference must relate to your application and arrive no later than 11am on Wednesday 18 February 2026. Your application will only be considered upon safe receipt of this.

Please provide the details of your referee below.

Referee Name

Referee email

Please carefully read through your application and check you have filled in all fields correctly before submitting. When you click submit, a successful submission will take you to a page confirming this. From this page, there will be a link to some standard inclusivity monitoring questions, which we invite applicants aged 18 and over to complete. The answers you give are confidential and will be reviewed separately from your application.

If the application form page refreshes after you click submit, this means you have incorrectly filled in a field. Please take time to go back and make sure you have filled in everything correctly. Common application form errors are:

you have other characters such as brackets, spaces or plus signs in the 'Phone Number' field. This should contain numbers only.
you have exceeded the character count in a longer question.
there is a compulsory check box which you have not ticked.

DECLARATION: By submitting this application, you confirm that you have read the terms of entry and are eligible to apply, that you agree to the terms of the prize and that the information you have submitted is correct to the best of your knowledge.