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.
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
GREAT Scholarship – For postgraduate music students from India, Malaysia or Turkey
Scholarships for Musical Theatre
For Musical Theatre Undergraduates
The Hearn Foundation Scholarship – supported by the Hearn Foundation
Available to one UK student on the BA (Hons) Musical Theatre Performance
Scholarships for Dance
Bursaries for Summer Schools
Thanks to the generous support of Evangeline Dobson Douglas’s family and Victoria Worsfold Griffiths’s family Trinity Laban is able to offer bursaries to cover the full cost of Dance Summer School and How Movement Works in 2025.
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Three bursaries covering the full cost of dance Summer School
Victoria Worsfold Griffiths Bursary
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One bursary covering the full cost of Dance Summer School
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One bursary covering the full cost of How Movement Works
The bursaries cannot be used for accommodation or travel costs.
Bursary application criteria
Trinity Laban can award the bursaries to dance teachers or practicing artists to attend Dance Summer School.
The successful applicants for the bursary places will, in the opinion of the awarding panel, meet the following criteria:
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be a practicing artist or working / training as a dance teacher in UK schools, youth or community settings
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demonstrate an interest in and commitment to contemporary dance practice
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provide a statement of financial need
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provide a strong and coherent rationale as to how attendance at the Trinity Laban Dance Summer School would further their professional development.
To Apply
Please email your CV, and a cover letter which addresses how you meet the bursary criteria to dancesummerschool@trinitylaban.ac.uk
Please ensure you include ‘DSS / HMW Bursary 2025’ in the subject line of your email.
Deadline: 12.00pm on Friday 30 May 2025.
Applications received after the deadline will not be considered. All applicants will be notified whether or not they have been awarded a bursary by Monday 16 June 2025.
The decision of the awarding panel is final. Due to the number of applications we receive Trinity Laban is unable to provide individual feedback on bursary applications.
Successful applicants
The successful applicants will be required to provide a short report by 1 September following completion of the intensive, explaining how attendance at Dance Summer School has supported their professional development.
Successful applicants of the bursaries will also attend a lunch with the benefactor of the bursaries during the Summer School course.
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.