Academy of Contemporary Music

The Academy of Contemporary Music (ACM) is a music academy in Guildford, Surrey, England providing contemporary music-based courses.

The Academy of Contemporary Music

Music School

World Leaders in Music Industry Education^[1]

1997^[2]

http://www.acm.ac.uk/

The school of music has a focus on rock, pop music, electronic dance music and a vocational approach. The school has links with Guildford's Electric Theatre, Guildford College, Middlesex University and University of Surrey.

guitarist/singer/songwriter whose album Hand Built By Robots went to number one in the UK Albums Chart.

Newton Faulkner

member of The Sugababes.^[3]^[7]

Amelle Berrabah

lead guitarist with The Yardbirds.^[7]

Ben King

Guy Davis, of rock group .

Reuben

singer-songwriter of band the 1975, Ivor Novello and Brit Award winner, and two-time Grammy nominee^[8]

Matty Healy

singer-songwriter, Ivor Novello, Brit Award and Grammy winner^[9]

Ed Sheeran

dubstep producer

Zomboy

Ryan Fletcher and Joel Peat of the band

Lawson

singer-songwriter and the United Kingdom's Eurovision Song Contest 2014 entry

Molly Smitten-Downes

author

Dominic Lyne

guitarist (Dorje and Toska)

Rabea Massaad

George Berry, drummer and record producer,

Bears in Trees

member of Pendragon

Jan-Vincent Velazco

Jamie Irrepressible (founding member)

The Irrepressibles

Nicol River, director of River Music School London

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Alumni / former students of ACM (including academic music courses in which vocational placements were made with ACM) include:

The Academy of Contemporary Music website

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