Welcome to the admission procedure for your course at the Royal Conservatoire.
Every step of the registration procedure is described and explained below and all you have to do is complete each step in the process. Clicking on the + will reveal additional information. When you click on Studielink you will leave our website. After applying you will receive an e-mail from Studielink with a link to Osiris Online Application, which is part of our Student Administration System. You will upload all the requested documents to that page. If you have any questions during the process, please contact the student administration office at studentadministration@koncon.nl.
Don't forget to check the general admission requirements, these are applicable to all admissions. All information regarding the entrance exams will be published on koncon.nl/entrance-exams.
The deadline for uploading documents via Osiris Apply is February 28 at 11:59 PM (CET).
Pick a programme
- New Audiences and Innovative Practice
- Master Early Music Recorder
- Master Early Music Fortepiano
- Bachelor Early Music Historical Clarinet
- Master Early Music Historical Clarinet
- Bachelor Early Music Harpsichord
- Master Early Music Harpsichord
- Master Early Music Natural Horn
- Master Early Music Lute, Theorbo, Guitar
- Master Early Music Violin & Viola
- Bachelor Early Music Viola da Gamba
- Bachelor Early Music Natural Trumpet
- Master Early Music Natural Trumpet
- Bachelor Early Music Lute, Theorbo, Guitar
- Bachelor Early Music Recorder
- Bachelor Early Music Fortepiano
- Bachelor Early Music Natural Horn
- Bachelor Early Music Violin & Viola
- Master Early Music Viola da Gamba
- Bachelor Early Music Cello
Studielink is the online registration system for higher education in the Netherlands. When you register, you will also automatically be registered with DUO (Dienst Uitvoerend Onderwijs), the agency that arranges student financing, among other things.
- If you are a Dutch student, log on with your DigiD. If you do not yet have one, it can be requested at www.digid.nl. It could be several days before you receive the log-in codes.
- If you are an international student, log on with a user name and password that you will be able to create for yourself in Studielink.
- Apply for the course of your choice (the first step in your ‘to do’ list) under Royal Academy of Art/Royal Conservatoire The Hague. Complete each step in the screen. Detailed instructions and help with the process is available on the website of Studielink.
Note: you will now leave the website of the Royal Conservatoire. You are not done with the admission process after registering with Studielink. Please read the further instructions below first.
Start by collecting all the documents you will need to register for your entrance exam.
- CV
- Motivation form (see below)
- Master Study Plan for Music Education according to the Kodály Concep (see step 4)/ Master Project Plan for The Musician Educator (see step 5)
- Recording
Answer the questions in the motivation form and upload the document in Osiris Apply.
You are required to write a realistic Master Study Plan. Please refer to the guidelines document
Master Study Plan Guidelines for Music Education according to the Kodály Concept and Theory of Music.
You can also find these guidelines in the Entry Requirements section of the individual programme pages.
You are required to write a realistic Master Project Plan. Please refer to the guidelines document.
Master Project Plan Guidelines for Classical Music, Early Music, Jazz, Vocal Studies, Conducting (excl NMO), New Audiences and Innovative Practice (NAIP), Composition, Art of Sound, The Musician Educator.
You can also find these guidelines in the Entry Requirements section of the individual programme page.
- Check the entry requirements on the programme page of your choice (e.g. Bachelor Classical Music Flute or Master Jazz Guitar ) to get an idea of the level/works we are looking for.
- Make a recording on video. It can be a recording of you performing a concert or in an educational setting in which you teach. These videos should showcase your musical and technical level and abilities. Put the recordings on YouTube/Vimeo.
- Create a Word/PDF document with a list of the repertoire and all the activated links.
- You will upload the Word/PDF document at the appropriate question in Osiris Apply later in the process.
The decision on whether you will be permitted to sit the entrance exam (international candidates will sometimes be allowed to sit a NON-LIVE entrance exam. This is decided on a case by case basis and is not automatically valid for all courses. Please ask your department for further information.) is based on the information and the answers you have entered and the documents and sound and visual recordings you have uploaded. The Student Administration Office will inform you by e-mail before whether you will be invited for an entrance exam.
Based on the material that has been handed in, a selection will be made. Eligible candidates will be invited to the live-online entrance exam (Microsoft Teams) that will take place in April.
More information on the exam dates will follow here.
If you are admitted, you must ensure that all the necessary documents are submitted.
Non-EU/EEA students have to submit the proof of their English language proficiency (see step English proficiency) before 1 September.
If you are admitted you will receive information via e-mail and Studielink about payment of tuition fees.
Only when you have fulfilled all registration requirements will you be enrolled as a student. So make sure that you have submitted all requested documents before 1 September.
Language proficiency
Bachelor and Master students must have sufficient command of both written and spoken English to follow their course at the Royal Conservatoire.
EU/EEA students
Students from EU/EEA countries whose proficiency in English is inadequate are obliged to follow a language course. If it is found during the admission procedure that your command of English is insufficient, you will be required to follow a course and obtain a certificate of proficiency during the first year of the course.
Non-EU/EEA students
If you have been admitted and you are from a country outside the EU (with exception of Canada, Australia, New-Zealand, United States of America or South Africa), you must demonstrate – before 1 September - that your level of English is sufficient to follow the course. You can demonstrate your command of English with your score on any of the following English language proficiency tests: IELTS, TOEFL, TOEIC or Cambridge English (FCE/CAE/CPE). The test scores are valid for two years and your score must be valid as of 1 September.
The minimum standard is a score of 6.0 in the IELTS test or level 80 in the TOEFL.
Certificates from the Institutional TOEFL test, the TOEFL ITP test or other language proficiency tests will not be accepted.
More information about language proficiency, courses and the tests.
Non-EU/EEA students who are admitted to the programme they applied for need an entry visa and/or residence permit. You also need to make other practical arrangements before you come to the Netherlands and when you arrive here. Please check the website for international students coming to the Netherlands for all procedures, information and contact info.