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Introduction

Trinity Laban offers 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) within our Music or Dance faculties at Trinity Laban in London.

Read more on the Fulbright Website

Trinity Laban is the UK’s only conservatoire of music and contemporary dance. The unequalled expertise and experience of our staff and our world class facilities are housed in landmark buildings. Trinity Laban has 260 postgraduate students across music and dance, and offers a range of Masters and research degrees.

For further enquiries, please email admissions@trinitylaban.ac.uk.

How to apply

Candidates are required to complete two separate applications – one to the  opens in a new windowFulbright Commission, and the other directly to Trinity Laban via  opens in a new windowUCAS Conservatoires – in order to be eligible for Trinity Laban’s UK Partnership award.

To see the full application procedure, visit both the  opens in a new windowFulbright website and the Trinity Laban website.

Applications to Trinity Laban open in mid-July each year and applications to Fulbright close in October for the following year’s intake.

The Trinity Laban application, along with all supporting materials and recorded audition where relevant, must be submitted and made available for consideration by mid-November before the year of intake for applications to the Faculty of Music and mid-January of the year of intake for applications to the Faculty of Dance.

Please see our How to Apply pages for details of what is needed for each programme.

Current Fulbright Scholar

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Garrett Snedeker is a 2019 graduate of Washington State University, with a Bachelor of Music Degree in Piano Performance/Pedagogy.

I’m thrilled to continue my study of music, gender, and social change as an ambassador through the U.S. Fulbright Program. I’m looking forward to learning as much as I can while in London, and absorbing a new and creative environment.

Past Fulbright Scholars

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2018/19 Oluwaseun Olayiwola: Oluwaseun is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance Studies. During his tenure as Fulbright Scholar, Oluwaseun studied on the MFA Choreography Programme, exploring issues of identity.

 

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2017/2018 Roman Baca: During his tenure as Fulbright Scholar, choreographer Roman Baca developed immersive dance installations exploring experiential memory and ways of connecting military veterans, victims of war and civilians to evaluate how training for war impacts the individual.

 

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2016/17 (inaugural recipient), Madison McGrew: A graduate of the University of South Florida, Madison completed her MSc Dance Science at Trinity Laban. Read an interview with Madison on our blog.

Trinity Laban is a world leading conservatoire, and we are proud to be a partner of the renowned Fulbright Scholarship Programme. Fulbright Scholarships are highly sought after and greatly extend the financial support Trinity Laban is able to offer the world’s best prospective postgraduate students. The Fulbright-Trinity Laban Scholar will be immersed in high-quality teaching and a diverse and international student community, in the world’s most vibrant and exciting city.

Trinity Laban Principal, Professor Anthony Bowne

Work in Progress

Choreography by Roman Baca, Fulbright Scholar 2017/18