Enrolment Procedure

All applicants are advised to read the information below and familiarise themselves with the relevant sections on the School's website before making an application.

Deadline

The deadline for applicaitons for September 2025 has now passed. 

We are taking late applications for the below programmes:

• Access Musicianship, Adult Courses and Choirs - Deadline 30th of September 2025

please note late applications are not always guarenteed a place.

 

How to Apply

We use a system called Classter to manage our database and class registrations. This is a new system being brought in for programmes starting in September 2025. You will need to create a profile with Classter and then use that login to access your applications. The information you submit in this application is the information we will use to contact you.

Please click on the links below to set yourself up with a Classter profile to apply for places.

Download Classter Registration Guide

Download Classter Application Guide

Classter Application Guide Video

 

Register with Classter (for first time users, who don't already have a profile)

Logon to Classter Here (if you have a profile already)

 

Important Notes

General Applications

• Applicants who are not placed in a given year should reapply as waiting lists are not carried forward from year to year.
• All primary school-age music students are required to take the Junior Musicianship course unless exceptional circumstances prevail (please contact the Head of Musicianship and Academic Studies).

 

Individual Lessons

• When filling in the application form, please note that a ‘beginner’ is a student who has never taken lessons on the instrument/discipline for which they are applying. A ‘non-beginner’ is a student who has already received lessons on the instrument/discipline for which they are applying.
• All applicants will be assessed and ranked; places are allocated by the relevant Head of Department as they become available (which is not necessarily only at the beginning of an academic year).
• Only one place can be allocated to a beginner in any given year. In the event you have applied for, and been offered a place for another instrument/discipline, you will have to choose between the two offered.
• Only students who have successfully completed the first year of the School’s mainstream Musicianship course may apply as beginners for individual piano or violin tuition. Applications for these instruments (from beginner’s age, 6 – 8 years) will not be processed unless they have completed the first year of a Junior Musicianship programme.

*Please note that it is CSM policy that all Primary school-age instrumental students must attend an appropriate Musicianship class (excluding Organ, Harpsichord, Speech & Drama and Voice)

Performing Ensembles

• External students who wish to apply to join one of the School’s instrumental ensembles should contact the relevant Head of Department directly.