And very few people, if any, outside the profession (parents of students for example) will appreciate the difference. By calling it a “diploma” ABRSM have blurred the boundaries between the graded amateur exams and the higher professional diplomas.So it devalues genuine associate diplomas as a whole, and is misleading to potential students/parents. ![]() It claims “associate” status, but simply isn’t on that level.I just don’t think it is sufficiently rigorous to be called a Diploma.So like a diploma, minus the bits people complain about. Doesn’t this just devalue the DipABRSM in performance? By all means have the equivalent of the Trinity Advanced Certificate but don’t call it a diploma when it so clearly isn’t!.I don’t understand why it is marketed at associate level.It’s essentially a composite of other products/services that ABRSM already offer – an examiner who is already there to examine Grade 1 players, a repertoire list that already exists… from a business point of view it seems like a great idea because ABRSM don’t seem to have needed to do much at all to add this to their overall offer, but the market could be quite large.So the exercise itself is kind of worthless, and the marking will be pretty irrelevant. Any old examiner, presumably no requirement for them to be a specialist in your instrument.Something on easy terms just to get letters after people’s names. I find the fact that Distinction is set at 45/50 interesting (in comparison to 70/100 for the dip/Licentiate levels) – though I have yet to decide what this actually means, if anything, about the marking, relative standards required, contributions of the viva and quick study….Level of attainment, marking and assessment criteria My own comments and views about the ARSM diploma are in italics. They are drawn from a diverse range of British piano teachers of differing ages and experience. Please note that any views expressed here are independent and my publishing them does not necessarily mean Andrew and I support or endorse them. ![]() My colleague and friend Andrew Eales, who writes the excellent Piano Dao blog, will be publishing a more considered response to the ARSM, together with an interview with Penny Millsom of the ABRSM in which he hopes to clarify some of the issues raised below. ![]() I would like to share some of these views here. To all intents and purposes this “diploma” looks very much like a reinvented version of the Advanced Certificate or Trinity’s Advanced Performance Certificate.Ĭoncerns about the new ARSM have been expressed by piano teachers via Piano Network UK, a large and very active Facebook group comprising piano teachers, pianists (professional and amateur) and piano lovers, of which I am co-administrator. The repertoire list is taken from the DipABRSM syllabus, though much reduced, and candidates may include 10 minutes of own-choice repertoire of Grade 8 or above standard to create a recital programme lasting 30 minute in total. The new Diploma, ARSM (Associate of the Royal Schools of Music), is different to both Grade 8 and the DipABRSM in that it includes no supporting tests (technical work, sight-reading/quick study, viva (for DipABRSM) or programme notes). The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) has launched a new performance diploma, the ARSM, designed as “a bridge between Grade 8 and the DipABRSM”.
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