The Royal Conservatoire

Studying at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague means studying at the oldest conservatoire in The Netherlands, a music institute that for decades has stood for the highest quality, at which internationally renowned musicians are employed as teachers, and where tradition and craft are woven into the same fabric as experiment and innovation. The primary aim of the Royal Conservatoire is to equip young talent with the highest artistry, technical skill and flexibility in order to be able to perform in a highly demanding and constantly changing professional environment.

The Royal Conservatoire presents itself as a centre for education, research and production. This is not a random set of words, but a powerful triangle of elements which together form the DNA of our institute.

• Education, not only because we work to provide music and dance education at the highest level, but also because we see the learning process as a way of life for students, teachers, and in fact everyone who takes the arts and themselves seriously.
• Research, as much in the academic sense with the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts at Leiden University as within our Bachelor and Master courses, but particularly as a permanent attitude to everything we do.
• Production, because all expertise, craftsmanship and research leads to the production and presentation of dance and music performances, with the intention of sharing these with as many people as possible.

Studying at the Royal Conservatoire is not only about success, but also about learning, the sharing of experiences, the investigation of new paths and the pursuit of experiment. In this way the Royal Conservatoire is and will remain dynamic, emphatically contributing to the development and therefore the future of dance and music.