Scholarships & Bursaries
We offer a wide range of scholarships to reward, encourage and help you to fulfil your potential.
Scholarships can be awarded:
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for outstanding performance ability, demonstrated at audition
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for particular disciplines, including shortage instruments
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to remove barriers to access for underrepresented or disadvantaged students
The majority of our scholarship awards are given in the form of a reduction in your tuition fees. We also offer some full tuition awards to especially gifted musicians.
All undergraduate students with Home fees and a residual household income of up to £30,000 qualify for financial assistance under the Trinity Laban Undergraduate Bursary Scheme. Students who have been granted a Student Loan will receive an annual cash bursary of £1,250 for the duration of their undergraduate programme.
A selection of the scholarships we offer is below. Every student who auditions at Trinity Laban will be considered for them automatically, with no specific application necessary.
Scholarships for Music
Trinity College London Scholarships – Prestigious scholarships for music students supported by Trinity College London, our sister organisation.
Loveday Scholarship – For postgraduate music students
Derek Butler Scholarship – For postgraduate music students
In order to be eligible, you must have undertaken your undergraduate studies in the UK. The Derek Butler Scholarship is not open to students who are progressing from postgraduate studies at another institution
Alfred and Therese Kitchin Scholarship – For undergraduate or postgraduate piano students
Kathleen Roberts Vocal Scholarship – For postgraduate vocal students
Violet Wright Scholarship – For undergraduate or postgraduate violin students
Archer Scholarship – For jazz instrumentalists
Gladys Bratton – For undergraduate or postgraduate music students
Alan Niekirk Scholarship – For postgraduate music students
Scholarships for Dance
External funding
There are a number of external organisations which help support young artists. You apply to these organisations yourself, rather than through Trinity Laban. You can find a full list of organisations, trusts and foundations in our External Funding information.
We also offer a Fulbright Scholarship: the Fulbright Trinity Laban Award in Music & Dance, which gives US citizens the chance to pursue a one-year Master’s degree (or the first year of a longer Master’s or PhD degree program) in London.
Spotlight on the Fulbright Trinity Laban Award
In 2019, Lauren Auyeung created the first ever full-length hip hop dance performance as her senior thesis at Princeton University. In 2020, she brought her pioneering spirit to Trinity Laban as a Fulbright Scholar.
The Fulbright Trinity Laban Award covers the first year of any taught master’s programme in Music, Dance, or Musical Theatre, and the Artist Diploma in Music.
Past scholars have used dance to explore PTSD in veterans; launched a music outreach project for inner-city teens; investigated the psychological and physiological bases for pain tolerance in dancers and developed a queer performance theory around Classical works.