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The Royal Military School of Music (RMSM), Kneller Hall is situated near Twickenham, about 9 miles from central London, and was formed in 1857 by Field Marshal HRH The Duke of Cambridge, then Commander in Chief of the British Army. Built in 1709, Kneller Hall was originally the country house of the celebrated court portrait painter Sir Godfrey Kneller.
Your instrumental training is undertaken on the Foundation Course; which lasts between 11 and 44 weeks (depending on your standard of musicianship on entry).
This is a rolling course, designed to allow musicians to fulfil their potential early, pass the mandatory tests, and be posted to a band as soon as possible.
We play and teach all the instruments of the orchestra including strings and vocal instruction. And we teach all these instruments in exactly the same way, to exactly the same standards, as any first-class music college in the world.
What we need are musicians who are keen to make a real musical contribution to the ensemble. We don't try to teach a standard 'Army' way of doing things: we expect students to think for themselves, be creative, and develop their own individual approach to music-making.
Tuition at Kneller Hall is delivered by some of the country's leading instrumental and academic professors, many of them the same people who play in the great London symphony orchestras and teach in the leading London music colleges, thus ensuring strong contemporary links with the world of civilian professional music.
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