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Press releases
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Pioneering music assessment marks landmark milestone as students opt to take 500,000 exams online
Remote performance exam changing face of global music learning – 30,000 renditions of Hässler later!
1 month ago -
Playing On around the world: ABRSM launches landmark fund to support more music makers around the globe
Grassroots music learning projects around the world are to share in a landmark new ABRSM fund set up to support, inspire and connect more communities of learners, teachers and music creators.
2 months ago -
ABRSM platform to ‘inspire, connect and champion’ global community of music teachers
Global ‘home’ for music teaching goes live today
4 months ago -
ABRSM supports next Brass Band England Youth Champs event
Brass Bands England (BBE) is delighted to announce a new partnership with ABRSM, the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, who will be supporting the Championship Section at the next National Youth Brass Band Championships.
5 months ago -
Marching on: film music and Afro-Cuban rhythms influence ABRSM’s widest ever brass syllabus repertoire
Afro-Cuban rhythms, Brass Band repertoire and the Harry Potter films are amongst influences in ABRSM’s widest ever Brass Syllabus repertoire.
6 months ago -
Pop Performer! : Songs by Coldplay, Ed Sheeran, Elton John and Adele feature in landmark collections of ABRSM graded piano arrangements
Pop classics and chart toppers help broaden repertoire for budding pianists
6 months ago -
Six composers join ABRSM mentor scheme as pilot hailed a success
ABRSM to help unlock world of music education for more emerging composers
6 months ago -
RAG ‘N’ BONE MAN AND DESTINY’S CHILD TO HELP INSPIRE NEW ERA IN CLASSROOM MUSIC LESSONS
Queen’s I Want to Break Free, Think by Aretha Franklin and Rag ’n’ Bone Man’s Human are to join favourites by Mozart and Holst after being selected to help reinvigorate school music lessons across the UK.
10 months ago -
Hits from Hamilton and Six The Musical star as ABRSM launches landmark new Singing for Musical Theatre Grades
Showstoppers from Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen, Six and West Side Story are amongst a century of stage and screen hits to feature on ABRSM’s landmark Singing for Musical Theatre syllabuses.
1 year ago -
Enriched woodwind syllabus aims to ‘inspire curiosity of learners'
A new, enriched woodwind syllabus designed to inspire the curiosity of learners and spark interest in music from all corners of the world and by people of all backgrounds is launched by ABRSM this week.
1 year ago -
Music from the rooftops: Make Music Day video celebrates how lockdown changed the way we make music
A powerful video showing how musicians around the world took to rooftops, bedrooms and even bathtubs to play on through a year of lockdown will be released by ABRSM on Monday.
1 year ago -
More than 100,000 students complete radical new exam designed to reach broader range of musicians
More than 100,000 students have now completed a radical new music exam designed to appeal to a broader range of musicians by focussing on their performance skills and assessing them by submitted video recordings.
1 year ago -
Landmark exam designed to reach broader range of musicians tops 100,000 bookings in just months
A radical new music exam designed to appeal to a broader range of musicians by focussing on their performance skills and assessing them by submitted video recordings has attracted more than 100,000 bookings.
2 years ago -
Landmark music exam puts musicians’ performance skills centre stage for first time
The UK’s oldest music examination board is breaking with 131 years of tradition with the launch of a landmark exam which, for the first time, spotlights students’ performance skills, letting them choose what they play and then submit videos of their performances.
2 years ago -
Award-winning Trinidadian musician tells young commonwealth composers: ‘be yourself’
An award-winning young Trinidadian composer has urged musicians to create music ‘that is an extension of themselves’ as they bid to repeat her success in the Commonwealth International Composition Award.
2 years ago -
48 pieces from ABRSM’s new 2021 & 2022 Piano syllabus available to buy as digital downloads
For the first time, ABRSM will make a selection of pieces from its Piano syllabus available as digital sheet music downloads.
2 years ago -
ABRSM’s new Piano syllabus 2021 & 2022
ABRSM have just released their new Piano syllabus, for use in exams from 1 January 2021.
2 years ago -
700 musicians aged 4-70 unite from around world for virtual performance of Disney track
ABRSM unites nations for June 21st Make Music Day
2 years ago -
Lockdown transforming instrument tuition with 87% UK music teachers adapting to online teaching, survey shows
Lockdown has transformed the way in which UK music teachers deliver instrument tuition, with 87% of them adapting lessons for delivery online, an ABRSM survey reveals.
2 years ago -
ABRSM launches new online exam booking and digital marking service
ABRSM, the world’s leading provider of music education resources, has this week launched new digital systems to offer more flexibility and an improved service for customers.
3 years ago