Press releases

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.

3 weeks 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

3 weeks ago

Six composers join ABRSM mentor scheme as pilot hailed a success

ABRSM to help unlock world of music education for more emerging composers

1 month 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.

4 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.

8 months 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.

1 year 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

School Standards Minister Nick Gibb MP presents Classical 100 prize to winning school

3 years ago

ABRSM New Singing for Musical Theatre Exams Supported By Industry Experts and Global Theatre Talent

Announcing new exams in Singing for Musical Theatre at Grades 1–3

3 years ago

Newham Music and ABRSM launch London’s first dedicated centre for Certificate for Music Educators (CME)

4 years ago

ABRSM releases new resources for singers

ABRSM has today (26 October) expanded its Songbook Series with the addition of five Songbook Plus books for Grades 1 to 5.

4 years ago

ABRSM releases new singing syllabus

ABRSM has today (7 September) released a new singing syllabus for candidates who will be taking exams from January 2018 onwards.

5 years ago

New Chair of ABRSM appointed

It has been announced today that Tony Hales CBE, Chair of the Greenwich Foundation and a board member of the Welsh National Opera, has been appointed the Chair of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM).

5 years ago