Academy of Fine Arts (London) is an examination body that was created in 1989 to examine students who wish to sit for various Carnatic Music disciplines and Performing Arts also get a qualification. Academy is not a teaching institution.

Academy Of Fine Arts is the first organisation to hold Carnatic Music, Mridhangam and Bharathanatyam exams in Europe.

The examinations are held in UK, Kuwait, New Zealand and Australia (Perth, Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney)

The highest qualification in each discipline is The Teacher’s Diploma.

The syllabus was based on the syllabus of an examination body in Sri Lanka called NCOMS (North Ceylon Oriental Music Society) and Prof P Sambamurthy, famous musicologist, was one of the creators of the syllabus. Padmashri Maharajapuram Santhanam was also associated with this institution. We, the Academy of Fine Arts have adapted the various syllabuses for various disciplines of the NCOMS to suit the European born children with especially South Indian and Sri Lankan backgrounds.