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Deadline: Grants for Instrument Purchase

The deadline to apply for grants for Instrument Purchase is at 5pm on Tuesday 31 May. Applications are open to students of UK Music Conservatoires or Colleges of Music. Priority is given to first year students and junior students who will shortly be embarking on full-time study. All applicants must be nominated by their conservatoire/college principal. Click here for more information.

Lara Aisha Ali, recipient of a 2023 Instrument Purchase Grant

Further funding opportunities

Each year, we are pleased to receive applications for our longstanding Instrument Purchase Grants for first-year undergraduates at UK music colleges.

Recent Recipients

Awards for the purchase of instruments have been made to the following music students:

Current Recipients

In July 2023, the Royal Philharmonic Society awarded a total of £17,000 to over 20 students from eight music colleges throughout the UK.

Instrumentalists

We know what it’s like: that looming pressure to find your path and make an impression once you’re at college, and doubly so once you leave. Here are some of the ways we can help musicians in your shoes:

Instrument Purchase

It's a startling fact that many music students often have no choice but to embark on their professional training without an adequate instrument of their own. The RPS can help.

Arie Dakesian

RPS Instrument Purchase Grant 2021 | £1000 towards a classical guitar

Recent musicians supported by the RPS: Northern Reeds (RPS Henderson Chamber Ensemble Award), Rosie Bergonzi (RPS Enterprise Fund), RPS Women Conductors advanced conductors cohort, Mebrakh Haughton-Johnson (RPS Isserlis Scholarship)

Meet our beneficiaries

As an RPS Member, you can take pride in being part of a Membership that is positively shaping the story of music. Thanks to Members like you, the Society was able to commission Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and continues to help musicians break new ground each year.

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RPS Corporate Partner

Many companies look for distinctive associations to demonstrate their charitable outlook and inspire colleagues and clients. We invite you to join forces with a venerable royal institution that has been at the heart of British music since 1813.

Performers

The RPS supports and champions a range of performers nationwide, from amateurs to those facing challenges and barriers to progress that we can help them overcome.philharmonic: adj. devoted to music; music-loving

Hannah Hever

2015 RPS Instrument Purchase Grant recipient BASS CLARINET

Danuta Wieczorek

2015 RPS Instrument Purchase Grant recipient CELLO BOW