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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.

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Initial Performance Grade - coming soon for Piano and Bowed Strings

Early learners playing the piano, violin, viola, cello or double bass will soon have the opportunity to take a new exam.

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Music teachers take on Performance Grade challenge to raise money for local food bank

Jon Deakin and Chris Dunn, Senior and Junior Directors of Music at Shrewsbury High School, have taken on a challenge to learn a new instrument and pass their ABRSM Grade 5 Performance Grade exams within a year.

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Mentor scheme unlocks music education world for new generation of composers

Six talented young composers this month join the pilot of an ABRSM scheme which will support a new generation of musicians by opening up the world of music education and ultimately boost the variety of music available to everyone.

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National shift to more flexible and relevant exams welcomed by ABRSM

ABRSM has today welcomed a new national report which signals a post pandemic shift in the way students are assessed, with a rise in more flexible, adaptable and relevant approaches to examination.

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ABRSM’s World Theatre Day Competition inspires musical imagination

Performers across Europe and Asia participated in ABRSM’s song competition in celebration of World Theatre Day. Launched on 27 March, the competition invited participants to submit a video singing “Pure Imagination” from “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” to win musical theatre repertoire books.

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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.

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ABRSM partners celebrating after national award win and Culture Recovery grant success

ABRSM partner, the London Music Fund is celebrating its 10th anniversary with national award success after it was named ‘Outstanding Musical Initiative’.

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Helping more young people access music learning – why we welcome the new Model Music Curriculum

ABRSM today welcomes the Model Music Curriculum, published by the Department for Education in England.

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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.

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Cash help for music learners around the world as global fund re-opens

A global fund set up by the UK-based ABRSM music education charity to help provide inspiring experiences for music learners in different corners of the world re-opens today (20th January).

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Let the music Play On: ABRSM reaches out to musicians in lockdown

ABRSM is reaching out to inspire musical achievement and help music makers, parents and teachers Play On as nations around the world enter further lockdowns.

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New CEO unveils plans to put candidates first with ‘anytime, anywhere’ exams

ABRSM’s new Chief Executive has announced plans to extend the organisation’s digital transformation and build the music examination experience around the needs and preferences of candidates as he took up his post.

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Updates released for the Singing for Musical Theatre syllabus

ABRSM have today (3 December 2020) released updates to their Singing for Musical Theatre syllabus, so that it now offers a pathway for musical theatre singers from Grade 1 through to Grade 8.

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15,000 musicians sign up for innovative new music exam

Remote performance exam success shows music learning revolution here to stay, UK’s leading music exam board says.

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ABRSM Chief Executive decides to move on

Michael Elliott had decided that he would step down from his role as Chief Executive of ABRSM in 2021 to focus on new personal and professional priorities and has subsequently agreed to leave earlier than planned, at the end of December 2020, to assist ABRSM to effect a timely succession.

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New plan to promote greater diversity across all areas of ABRSM work

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Music Theory – updates and changes

Introducing Online Music Theory exams at Grades 1 to 5 from 2020 onwards

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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.

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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.

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