Founded in 1848, the Royal Irish Academy of Music is Ireland's oldest conservatoire, ranked in the top 50 institutions worldwide for the performing arts. RIAM trains gifted musicians from all over the world for careers in music performance, composition and pedagogy. Their graduates are innovative and reflective, with skills that enable them to take on the challenge of life in the creative arts with confidence and zest.
RIAM offers continuing professional development courses to three thousand instrumental and vocal music teachers nationally who enter 40,000 students for RIAM Exams.
The teaching staff includes many international prize-winners and principals of professional orchestras in Ireland. It also includes individuals whose names have become synonymous with music education in Ireland. These experienced teachers are passionate about working with talented students to unlock their artistic potential.
RIAM's 150 full-time students enjoy the best of both educational worlds. RIAM is an associate college of Trinity College, the University of Dublin, Ireland's highest-ranking university, students benefit from an intimate conservatoire experience in their campus on Westland Row.
In recent years students of the RIAM have been finalists and winners of some of the world's most prestigious international competitions, including the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition, the Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, the China International Vocal Competition, the Cologne International Piano Competition, the Dublin International Piano Competition and the Kohn Foundation Wigmore Hall Song Prize.
On the international stage, former students are currently members of leading orchestras: the London Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, and opera houses from the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden to La Scala, Milan. Still, more RIAM graduates are busy chamber, community and contemporary musicians and teachers, using their flexible skills to forge successful portfolio careers.
RIAM currently has 135 staff; 175 Bachelor, Master and Doctorate students; 1750 pre-college students; and 40,000 annual examination candidates.
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