ABRSM Annual Review 2009

ANNUAL RE VIE W 2009
A celebration
of the year
PRELUDE
‘Throughout its first 120 years
ABRSM has demonstrated a
steadfast commitment to music
and musical performance’
Stewart Sutherland
Chairman, ABRSM
‘From tiny beginnings ABRSM
has become an organisation
whose work has shaped and
inspired the training of
generations of musicians’
David Wright
Reader in the Social History of Music
at the Royal College of Music
CONTENTS
01 — 05
Welcome
About ABRSM
Who’s who
Chairman’s statement
Chief Executive’s statement
06 — 07
Highlights of 2009
08 — 17
Our work
Exams and assessments
Publications
Professional development
Giving
18 — 21
120th anniversary
A history in outline
Celebratory activities
22 — 23
Financial summary
24 — 36
Acknowledgements
The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music
Annual Review for the year ended 31 January 2010.
New diploma holders
New CT ABRSM holders
Awards
Prize winners
Examiners
CT ABRSM mentors
Representatives
ABOUT ABRSM
WHO’S WHO
Music is at the heart of our work. We are
here to support and encourage music
learning throughout the world so that
everyone can share in its power.
Patron
Her Majesty The Queen
01
We motivate musical achievement through
our authoritative assessment of students,
the professional development of their
teachers, and a wide range of published
resources. We also actively support music
education through funding and advocacy.
ABRSM is the leading authority on musical
assessment. By delivering our exams
rigorously and consistently we set the
worldwide gold standard, with over 600,000
people, in over 90 countries, choosing to
take them every year.
As part of our commitment to excellence
in music education, we provide a rich
resource of materials, from albums
of repertoire for the earliest stages of
learning to scholarly editions of the great
composers. Our online presence includes
SoundJunction, our award-winning site
for music learners.
President
His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales
Governing Body
Lord Sutherland of Houndwood kt, Chairman
Professor Jonathan Freeman-Attwood,
Principal of RAM
Professor Colin Lawson, Director of RCM
Philip Ramsbottom
Alan Smith
Professor Jonty Stockdale, Principal of RNCM
Tony Travis
Professor John Wallace obe, Principal of RSAMD
Nicholas Ward
Guy Perricone, Chief Executive
Timothy Leates, Secretary
Executive Directorate
Guy Perricone, Chief Executive
We know that good teachers endeavour
to enhance their professional skills. We
support their continuing professional
development through our innovative
courses and online learning resources.
Leslie East,
Executive Director: Syllabus & Publishing
To build on our 120 years inspiring
generations of musicians, we provide
charitable donations, scholarships and
sponsorships, as well as acting as an
advocate for music education. We do all
we can to give music a voice in public life
because we believe it has the power to
change people’s lives.
Richard Crozier,
Professional Development Director
Timothy Leates,
Executive Director: Finance & Administration
Tim Arnold, International Operations Director
Penny Milsom, UK Operations Director
Eugene O’Donnell, IT Director
Nigel Scaife, Syllabus Director
Ben Selby, Marketing Director
Clara Taylor, Chief Examiner
C H A I R M A N ’ S S TAT E M E N T
02
Throughout its first 120 years ABRSM has
demonstrated a steadfast commitment to
music and musical performance. Music
has the capacity to develop confidence in an
individual and bring different cultures closer
together. ABRSM’s work worldwide since
its founding is indicative of how widespread
and shared music is as a language.
This year we have celebrated the
achievements of the musicians ABRSM
has supported in the past 120 years. The
sheer weight of numbers is astonishing
when we consider the millions of exams
taken, the thousands of music teachers
who have developed their professional
skills by attending our courses, and the
multitude of new titles and recordings we
have published. Alongside all of this work,
ABRSM has always provided financial
support for individuals and organisations
within the field of music education.
The collected activities of ABRSM have
stemmed from a core belief in music’s
power, and in a commitment to excellence
and meticulous attention to detail. The
professionalism and creativity shown by all
colleagues – examiners, course leaders,
representatives and staff alike – now, more
than ever, drives the organisation forward.
‘The professionalism and
creativity shown by all colleagues –
examiners, course leaders,
representatives and staff alike –
now, more than ever, drives the
organisation forward’
In a year when we celebrated our history
and launched a new brand identity – having
first carefully considered exactly what
sort of organisation we were and wanted
to become – we also bade farewell to
Richard Morris, ABRSM’s Chief Executive
for the past 17 years. Richard has been a
wise and far-sighted leader. In his time the
organisation has developed, expanded, and
responded to a changing world. We remain
deeply in his debt. Happily he has agreed to
continue consolidating our links with China
and to develop to fruition the association on
which he has been working for the last few
years. We offer our warmest thanks and
good wishes for the other vistas that are
undoubtedly opening up before him.
Guy Perricone arrives at an exciting time
for ABRSM. Secure in its beliefs, values and
practices, the organisation can continue
to aspire to set international leading
standards in all that it does and be bold in
its developments in the coming years.
Stewart Sutherland
Chairman
03
C H I E F E X E C U T I V E ’ S S TAT E M E N T
04
To change whilst retaining that which is important to
us is a challenge that faces us all, both as individuals
and collectively. There is the need for continuity and for
keeping hold of the best parts of our traditions, which
are, after all, what have brought us this far. And yet we
must always be ready to face new realities, be flexible
enough to cope with and adjust to whatever life throws
at us, and be able to shape a future for ourselves.
ABRSM finds itself at a particularly interesting juncture,
where change is seemingly all around, at least on the
surface. Underneath it all, however, are those same
core values of excellence and open communication,
and our belief in the benefits that music brings. Whilst
I am actively involved in ABRSM’s work and mission,
I have been here but a few short months, and so the
achievements covered in this review of 2009 belong
to the time of my predecessor.
Richard Morris’s 17 years as Chief Executive saw
sustained growth in the number of candidates
examined each year – up from around 500,000 in the
early 1990s to consistently over 600,000 today – and
recognition of ABRSM as a leading advocate for music
education in the public arena. His unshakeable faith in
the value of educational excellence and the provision
of sustained, high quality experiences of making and
studying music helped to shape his work here. Those
who knew and worked with him will remember a kind
and dedicated man, and a leader who cared deeply
for the organisation and those within it.
‘ABRSM remains an organisation that
stands for music and that articulates
its vision through four areas of activity:
exams, publications, professional
development and charitable giving’
05
It will not be long until we see another significant
change in leadership at ABRSM as Clara Taylor, our
Chief Examiner since 1997, hands over responsibility
for examiner panels to John Holmes in August. The
processes for selection, training and moderation of
examiners have been transformed under Clara’s
excellent direction, and there will not be one amongst
us who will not miss her company, musical authority
and warm humour as she moves on to new projects.
So, whilst certain things change, ABRSM remains an
organisation that stands for music and that articulates
its vision through four areas of activity: exams,
publications, professional development and charitable
giving. This review summarises our collective activities
in all four areas throughout 2009, and I congratulate
our examiners, course leaders, representatives and
staff on their considerable accomplishments. Their
commitment to the core values and objectives of our
organisation is quite remarkable, and we are
extremely grateful to them for it.
A question I have been often asked by people outside
ABRSM since I joined in January is: ‘How do things
differ from one country to the next?’ A large part of
my first weeks and months at ABRSM has been spent
meeting the people who deliver our services in the UK
and throughout the world, and I now have an answer
to that question.
I’ve been to many countries and centres already,
and have sat in exam rooms from Doncaster, UK to
Singapore. The biggest difference between the two
was the weather. In all the important respects, the
similarities massively outweigh the differences, and
those of us who make it so are the reason for this. In
meeting our various teams, colleagues, partners and
supporters around the world, I have been struck by
their unwavering belief in the importance of
maintaining the highest quality in all our activities,
in upholding our standards and imposing them on
everything we do. As the leader in our market, we will
not allow complacency to set in, but will continue to
look for ways in which we can improve the services
we offer, adapting to the ever-changing environment
in which we operate. Things may change and progress,
but they will continue to be rooted in the strongest
traditions of ABRSM.
Guy Perricone
Chief Executive
HIGHLIGHTS OF 2009
06
637
k
416
75
26
1
ST
First ever High
Scorers’ Concert
in Dubai
Over 637,000
exams taken
in 2009
International
examiner tours
Over 75%
of UK exams
entered
online
Audio
download
shop
expanded
MP3
%
New
international
exam centres
added
21
273
17
45k
400
Over 45,000
UK children
took part in
the Music for
Youth Regional
Festival Series,
sponsored
by ABRSM
Scholarships
awarded to
students at four
Royal Schools
of Music
Over 400
bursaries,
awards
and prizes
presented
New CT ABRSM
holders from
Hong Kong,
Indonesia and
the UK
121
Entries to
the inaugural
ABRSM
International
Young
Composers’
Competition
BEST
CLASSICAL
PUBLICATION
The ABRSM Songbook named
‘Best Classical Publication’ by
the Music Industries Association
UK High
Scorers’
Concerts
07
EX AMS AND ASSESSMENTS
08
09
‘I am happy and
proud to do this
worthwhile and
The worldwide provision of music exams
fascinating job,
is ABRSM’s core activity and requires a
considerable network of staff, representatives and to feel that
and examiners. Nearly 300 volunteer
my contribution
Honorary Local Representatives (HLRs) in
the UK and Ireland, and 230 Representatives
is valued’
and Contacts throughout the world played a
We have supported music learning and
provided international benchmarks for over
120 years. The candidates and teachers
who use our music exams know that they
are part of the most respected and valued
system in the world.
critical role in overseeing exams locally last
year. Over 660 examiners met and examined
more than 637,000 candidates in 2009.
Through our collaborative approach to
syllabus development we seek the views of
a wide range of teachers, examiners and
specialist panels. This ensures that our
syllabuses are relevant and accessible to
all, no matter which teaching and learning
approaches are adopted.
K Honorary Local
U
Representative
EX AMS AND ASSESSMENTS
10
‘I have today, aged 47,
taken my first graded
exam. The examiner
could not have done
more to make me feel
at my ease’
UK exam candidate
EX AM DELIVERY
Facts and figures
More than 637,000 candidates took an ABRSM exam
in 2009, an increase of more than 2% on the previous
year. Particularly notable growth was demonstrated
in Bahrain, China, Italy, Korea, Kuwait, Switzerland,
Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Vietnam.
Practical exams and assessments remain the most
popular, with candidate numbers for graded exams,
diplomas, the Prep Test and Performance Assessment
approaching 500,000. The majority of exams taken
were at Grades 1–5. It was the best year yet for our UKbased Music Medals assessments, with the number of
candidates reached since their inception passing 30,000.
‘The ABRSM website is
extremely user-friendly,
and the online entry
service, which has
always been good, is an
example to all of how
such things should be
done – simply, quickly
and efficiently’
UK applicant
Our examiners saw candidates in more than 90
countries, with 416 tours to those outside the UK and
Ireland. We opened 26 new exam centres in Bermuda,
Germany, Greece, India, Jamaica, the Netherlands,
the Philippines, Portugal, Thailand and the USA, and
notably held our first ever Practical exams in Poland,
and a highly successful trial session in Shanghai, China.
Developments in customer service
Following research and customer feedback we
focussed on issuing UK Practical exam results more
quickly, reducing the waiting time in the summer and
autumn terms from three or four weeks to two weeks
for most candidates.
The online exam entry form was streamlined to
become more user-friendly, and we saw record online
entries in Malaysia (83%), the UK (75%) and Singapore
(75%). The take-up in Singapore allowed us to launch
compulsory online entry for all Theory entries in 2009,
with a view to all Practical entries also being made
online from 2010. Our Representative, the Hong Kong
Examinations & Assessments Authority, provides online
entry for Hong Kong exams, standing at 27% for 2009.
The UK online service was extended to include
notification of Practical appointments online plus venue
details, links to a map and exam guidance information.
Examiners
Our team of examiners consists of respected
musicians from every branch of the profession, and
was strengthened by the appointment of 25 new
members in 2009: 16 to the main graded panel and
nine to the diploma panel. A series of professional
development seminars was run throughout the year
to provide training and support for the main, diploma
and theory panels.
Representatives and HLRs
We held four regional conferences in Europe, Africa,
the Middle East and South East Asia involving over
50 Representatives and 11 staff (see also page 21).
Representatives were updated with the latest
developments (including our new brand), and they
in turn fed back about operations in their own areas.
Many ideas and suggestions from these conferences
have now been put into practice.
To further enhance links between staff and
Representatives and ensure the best support for
teachers, students and examiners, staff from the UK
met with members of our worldwide community in
China, Cyprus, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia,
Italy, Macau, Malaysia, the Philippines, Portugal,
Singapore, South Africa, Thailand, the United Arab
Emirates, the USA and Vietnam.
11
UK and Ireland HLRs came together for a meeting at
the 2009 Annual Lunch to look back at the long history
of their vital role over ABRSM’s first 120 years. From
consultation with HLRs on their understanding of the
role, our recruitment processes were reviewed and
updated to recognise their essential voluntary activities
in support of local musicians. New guidance about
exam day stewarding was created, drawing on HLRs’
expertise and ideas from HLR seminars. We introduced
new exam centre and piano reports to allow closer and
more consistent monitoring and help us to provide the
best possible facilities for all candidates.
Special events
Alongside ABRSM’s 120th anniversary we marked
60 years of exams in Kenya. Special anniversary
certificates were created for all successful candidates,
and a celebratory High Scorers’ Concert was held.
High Scorers’ Concerts are highly popular and enjoyable
dates in the calendar that give young musicians a
wonderful opportunity to share their achievements
with a wider audience outside the exam room. They
provide valuable performing experiences in supportive
and celebratory settings. It’s now 20 years since the
first High Scorers’ Concerts were held as part of
our centenary celebrations, and many thousands of
students have taken part in one since. In 2009 our
Representatives and HLRs organised 43 High Scorers’
Concerts in 15 countries, including 17 in the UK and
the first ever in Dubai.
‘What a fab range of
choice from such a
wide repertoire – some
old favourites, the great
masters, jazz, modern
and romantic. I’m sure
my students are going
to love all this’
UK applicant on the 2009–2010
Piano syllabus
SYLL ABUS DEVELOPMENTS
New in 2009
Revised syllabuses for Piano, Singing and Guitar came
into use in January 2009, and we have seen strong
growth in candidate numbers for these subjects.
We published revised lists of set pieces for Cello,
Double Bass, Trumpet, Trombone and Bass Trombone
in the summer of 2009 in preparation for the 2010
exams. Accompanied pieces now feature alongside
solos in Double Bass List C, and the number of pieces
to choose from was extended for the three revised
brass syllabuses. Additionally, more pieces written for
cornet were included in the Trumpet/Cornet/Flugelhorn
syllabus, to reflect the fact that a significant number
of candidates take the exam on cornet. We also
introduced the option of playing a ‘related’ instrument
for one piece to give more flexibility.
You can find details of the complementary publications
and recordings that we produced to support these
syllabuses on pages 12–13.
Looking ahead
An expert group began revising the Organ syllabus
ready for 2011. All aspects were reviewed before organ
teachers were invited to field-test the new approaches,
including the introduction of Grade 1.
We reviewed the detail of the aural tests that are
part of all Practical graded music exams. Most
modifications relate to the wording that examiners
use when conducting the tests, to make the
requirements clearer and more straightforward for
candidates. New material was commissioned from
a team of examiners in preparation for reissuing
examiner tests and the published specimen tests and
training materials.
A selection of string teachers piloted draft
sight-reading examples and scale requirements, and
their responses to these led to further development
work. We revised our proposals and put them online
for further comment. New sight-reading tests have
now been commissioned from nine composers.
P U B L I C AT I O N S
12
The year 2009 was the last in which none of our
syllabus-related Selected Exam Pieces (for Piano, Violin,
Flute or Clarinet) would be published, and we took the
opportunity to develop some new, distinctive titles.
with
CD
SPECTRUM
for VIOLIN
16 contemporary pieces
Compiled by Alexandra Wood
Good reads
Henry Purcell’s 350th birthday was celebrated by the
addition to our Extraordinary Lives series of Bruce
Wood’s fine biography. Described by BBC Music as ‘a
good read [that] will surely tempt readers ever further’,
this title now serves as one of the best introductions to
Purcell’s life and times.
Raising an Amazing Musician is our first self-help book
for parents, containing ‘20 lucid and information-packed
chapters that can gently guide responsible parents
through the long path that will take their child from
beginner lessons to the concert stage’
(Murray McLachlan, International Piano).
Music for strings
We launched three new titles at the European
String Teachers Association National Conference in
September: Spectrum for Violin (the latest addition to
our contemporary music series), More Time Pieces for
Cello and Time Pieces for Double Bass.
Spectrum for Violin includes exciting modern pieces
that even the earliest-grade violinists can handle.
Compiled by concert violinist and teacher Alexandra
Wood, the collection features composers as diverse
as Thea Musgrave and Kenneth Hesketh. The new
volumes in the Time Pieces series include many works
that appear on the revised Cello and Double Bass
syllabuses, making it easier for candidates to access
repertoire for their exams.
13
Inspirational performances
Some of the finest trumpeters and cornetists in the
UK – John Wallace, John Miller, Paul Archibald, Alistair
Mackie and Roger Webster – contributed inspirational
performances to our first ever recordings of Trumpet
syllabus repertoire. We also produced the third set
of recordings to support the Cello syllabus. As well as
a distinguished line-up of cellists, including Alexander
Baillie, William Bruce, David Burrowes, Sebastian
Comberti and Gemma Rosefield, the recordings are
remarkable for the playing of a fine collection
of pianists.
Joining the Dots: Book 1
A Fresh Approach
to Piano Sight-Reading
Many candidates cherish the ‘playalong’ piano
accompaniments that we provide as invaluable aids in
preparing for exams. To enable more students to take
advantage of this facility, we expanded our audio
download shop – www.abrsm.org/audioshop – to include
single-track downloads for violin, flute and clarinet.
Developing skills
The Joining the Dots series is one of ABRSM’s most
innovative new publications. It presents a fresh
approach to developing skill and confidence in piano
sight-reading, as created by composer, teacher and
examiner Alan Bullard. The five books cover Grades 1–5
and each volume contains several exercises,
characterful sight-reading pieces and a duet. This
integrated approach will help students to learn to read
music more quickly and easily, and we intend to extend
the format to other instruments.
Key titles that we publish every year – such as the
theory papers and model answers that are vital for
candidates’ preparation and success in exams – remain
central to our work, but the past year has reinforced
ABRSM’s reputation as being much more than a
publisher of exam material. The icing on the cake – and
a tribute to our compilers, consultants and staff – came
in October when UK music retailers voted The ABRSM
Songbook as the Music Industries Association ‘Best
Classical Publication’.
Alan Bullard
PROFESSIONAL DE VELOPMENT
14
Meeting teachers’ needs
Our CT ABRSM course is a big step for many teachers
to take – both financially and pedagogically – and so
we offer a range of courses and seminars to meet all
needs. In 2009 we introduced ‘Through the keyhole’, an
accessible series of one-day workshops for teachers
and parents of exam candidates. Alongside other core
courses and one-day seminars, we continued the
one-day Introduction to Instrumental and Vocal Teaching
in the UK and the extensive Professional Development
Programme in South East Asia, and offered two-day
courses in India and the West Indies supported by our
Centenary Travel Grant.
The concept of continuing professional development
for instrumental and vocal teachers is now the norm,
but this was far from the being the case when ABRSM
introduced its courses in 1995. The educational climate
has changed significantly over the past 15 years. The
revolution in communications during this time has
given teachers the means to do things that they could
only dream about previously. Teachers and learners
now have immediate access to huge free libraries of
information, recorded sound and video clips. Music can
be performed, transcribed, notated, arranged, listened
to, printed and transported at the touch of a button.
Embracing innovation
To be effective in this fast-moving world, with its daily
announcements of new technologies, teachers need
to be as aware of developments as their students are.
They need to understand and embrace innovation and
capitalise on the motivation it can bring to the teaching
and learning environment. Yes, change can be hard
to cope with, as it can threaten stability and purpose,
but we define change on a daily basis through musical
composition and performance. The first step to
mastering the new environment is to share one’s fears
with others. ABRSM professional development courses
were designed from the outset to facilitate this.
Jackie Frost teaches in Bedfordshire, UK, and was
nervous about embarking on the Certificate of Teaching
(CT ABRSM) course. With encouragement she signed
up for the fast-track course in 2009, and discovered
a different world: ‘When I enrolled on the CT ABRSM
course, little did I think that it would change my entire
approach to teaching, providing me with strategies to
help learners, whatever their needs.’
Setting the agenda
The 2009 CT ABRSM course in Manchester, UK
welcomed fourth-year students from the Royal
Northern College of Music (RNCM) for the first time.
RNCM Vice-Principal Linda Merrick and piano professor
Helen Krizos, a CT ABRSM mentor, facilitated this new
approach. Helen Krizos noted: ‘Our talented students
are tomorrow’s teachers. By exposing them to the
innovative thinking that is at the heart of the CT ABRSM
course we are helping them to set an agenda
for learners in the future.’
Number of teachers attending ABRSM
professional development courses and
seminars in 2009
121
30
175
78
Certificate of Teaching (CT ABRSM)
(Hong Kong, Indonesia and UK)
Teaching Music Effectively (UK)
Introduction to Instrumental and Vocal
Teaching (UK)
Let’s Teach Jazz (UK)
879
377
850
880
Professional Development Programme
seminars (South East Asia)
Centenary Travel Grant courses
(India and West Indies)
Examiner presentations and teachers’
meetings (international tours)
One-day seminars (UK)
15
GIVING
16
‘The generous
assistance an
ABRSM International
Scholarship provides
has enabled me to build up
my musical career and
expand my horizons’
Jun Ishimura, pianist and Royal College of
Music International Undergraduate Scholar, 2008
‘Our Regional
Festival Series is
about performing,
inspiring, learning
and celebrating, so there’s
a real synergy between
Music for Youth and ABRSM’
Lincoln Abbotts, Chief Executive, Music for Youth
17
To build on our 120 years inspiring generations
of musicians, we provide charitable donations,
scholarships and sponsorships, as well as acting as
an advocate for music education. We do all we can to
give music a voice in public life because we believe it
has the power to change people’s lives.
Scholarships
We continue to support young musicians at the beginning
of their professional music careers. We offered a
total of 21 scholarships to junior, undergraduate and
postgraduate students at four Royal Schools of Music
in 2009. These awards are among the most supportive
of those available to students who wish to study in
the UK. Each provides full payment of tuition fees for
the duration of a course, £4,500 towards living costs,
and a flight home upon completion of the course for
international scholars. Once again these scholarships
reflected the international and diverse nature of our
activities with students coming from China, New
Zealand, Russia, South Africa, South Korea and the
UK to study a wide range of subjects: double bass,
flute, horn, jazz drums, percussion, piano, saxophone,
trumpet, violin, voice and composition.
Bursaries and prizes
Our annual Macklin Bursaries helped four ABRSM
scholars – violinists Lisa Ueda Lee and Charis Jenson
from the UK, Japanese cellist Yoshika Masuda, and
South African violist Willem Mathlener – to further their
studies or launch professional careers. An additional
399 prizes were awarded to candidates who had
excelled in their graded music exams.
Sponsorship
We continued to provide financial support for a
number of music education organisations in the UK.
Our sponsorship of the National Association of Music
Educators and the Scottish Association of Music
Educators helped fund their annual conferences,
bespoke workshops and courses for instrumental,
vocal and classroom teachers nationwide. Our
sponsorship of the Federation of Music Services (FMS)
in turn funded a number of regional conferences for
UK-based music service teachers. ABRSM also
continued to provide the FMS with a consultancy on
professional development within music services thus
ensuring that the quality of teaching, learning and
musical leadership in the UK is supported at all levels.
In July we strengthened our relationship with
CLIC Sargent, the UK’s leading children’s cancer charity.
We supported its Practice-a-thon Music campaign,
a nationwide fund-raising initiative that encourages
people of all ages and abilities to practise their musical
instruments and raise money for the charity through
music. The campaign has raised over £500,000 to help
children and young people with cancer since it was
launched in 2002.
Finally our long-standing support for Music for Youth’s
(MfY) Regional Festival Series ensured that more than
45,000 children in England and Wales were able to
take part in this inspirational annual concert series.
Comprising 70 concerts, participants were given access
to live music-making opportunities, regardless of ability
or performance standard. Supporting MfY for another
three-year term was again illustrative of our interest in
developing musical talent at the grassroots level.
A HISTORY IN OUTLINE
D AV ID W R I G H T
18
‘If we want things to stay as they are,
things will have to change.’ Lampedusa’s
famous aphorism is one of the golden
rules of institutional continuity. If we apply
it to ABRSM’s 120-year history, we see that
there have indeed been times when the
Board has needed to change, sometimes
in significant ways. Constraining fresh
thinking or new practices, however, has
been the obligation to maintain ABRSM’s
standards and its educational purpose.
This is because the single, most important
thread running through its history is
the expectation of parents, teachers
and candidates that ABRSM will deliver
consistency of standards and fairness of
judgement. Loss of that reputation would
have undermined faith in the Board. So
there have been stretches of ABRSM’s
life when, through anxiety, it has resisted
necessary change, anxious to preserve the
illusion of the status quo. However, ABRSM
would have failed to reach its 120th
anniversary had it not periodically also
realised the need to renew its effectiveness
and its relevance as an educational
force, and taken effective means to
reorientate itself, which is the point of
Lampedusa’s precept.
Today’s musical pluralism has brought
a whole new set of challenges for the
examining process, including syllabuses
that must encompass a much more
eclectic variety of instruments and
compositional idioms – some a far cry
from the Board’s original focus on the
classical canon. The social, educational
and musical environments of the late
Victorian era when ABRSM began
examining are astonishingly different
from those of the 21st century, and in
response ABRSM has had to become a
very different sort of educational force.
The founders of ABRSM, from their
position of what we would today think of
as slightly remote paternalism, would
have found some of today’s requirements –
such as being subject to the external
scrutiny of quality assurance processes, and
the need to be responsive to customers –
very strange notions indeed. These very
different ends of the historical spectrum
show clearly that at least part of ABRSM’s
success has rested on its paradoxical
ability to change in some necessary
respects while staying the same in others.
The Associated Board of the Royal
Academy of Music (RAM) and the Royal
College of Music (RCM) held its first
exams in 1890 at 42 centres and with
1,143 candidates after only a few months
of planning. The Board constituted a neat
institutional bridge between the Royal
Schools. The aspirations of RCM’s
founding charter required the College,
amongst other things, to advance the
cause of music ‘by means of a central
working and examining body’ in Britain
through the ‘promotion and supervision
of such musical instruction in schools
and elsewhere’ as well as by ‘the
encouragement and promotion of Music
… throughout our Dominions.’
19
Alexander Mackenzie, who had become
the Academy’s Principal in 1888, fully
realised its implications, and therefore
moved quickly to seek this alliance with
the RCM. So was ABRSM established,
legitimised by the RCM’s charter.
The College and (by extension) ABRSM
were very much part of the late
19th-century drive to modernise British
society. There was great pressure to
expand the skills of the population through
the reform and expansion of university
education, by increasing the authority
of the chartered institutions to train and
regulate the professions, and by ensuring
the effectiveness of primary and secondary
school education. Armed with the RCM’s
charter, ABRSM saw its exams as the
means to regulate the quality of the music
teaching for the private and school music
lessons then being taken up with such
enthusiasm by the middle classes. At a fee
of two guineas for the senior exams and
15 shillings for the junior ones, they were
certainly not a cheap option.
Awareness of that background helps to
explain why graded music exams were
very much a British phenomenon and how
they came to spread so rapidly across
the British world. ABRSM’s immediate
success indicates how naturally its exams
fitted within their musical and social
environment. The jibe ‘a land without
music’ was only ever aimed at British
composition, and not at the incredible
amount of musical performance –
amateur and professional – then taking
place right across 19th-century Britain.
Moreover, the British were as fiercely
competitive about musical performance
as they were about sport, as was evident
from the huge popularity of brass band
contests and the growth of Competitive
Festivals. Certainly graded exams could
fuel highly competitive attitudes among
pupils and teachers alike, not least through
the press coverage given to the public
distributions of certificates at local centres.
ABRSM’s exams were also important
because they put practical music on
a par with attainment in other school
subjects. The Board effectively copied the
well-established system of local exams
for school subjects that the Oxford and
Cambridge exam boards had initiated in
the mid-nineteenth century. This accounts
for the original title of these music exams
as ‘Local Examinations’ in Music. Much
of this context is now lost, which
unfortunately means that we are now
largely unaware of a whole dimension of
British musical development.
The new ABRSM involved some of the
leading instrumental and compositional
figures of the day, which meant that its
exams carried the undoubted air of
musical authority. The rapid take-up of
these exams – and so the spread of
ABRSM certificates across the country –
helps explain just how it was that in a
remarkably short period of time, the
RCM and the rejuvenated RAM had firmly
established themselves on the national
landscape as the primary incubators of
British musical talent.
A HISTORY IN OUTLINE
D AV ID W R I G H T
20
The successes gained by pupils of former RAM and
RCM students in ABRSM exams reinforced this message,
because the quality of their teaching was seen to
demonstrate the value of conservatoire training. As
part of this process, the graded exam syllabuses of the
Board became crucial in shaping the music students of
the future because of the influence on the technical and
cultural formation of pupils from an early stage.
ABRSM’s Honorary Local Representatives – the eyes
and ears of the organisation on the ground, and pivotal
to the success of administering ABRSM exams –
were established from the very beginning. Meanwhile,
the exams themselves rapidly evolved. From only two
grades (Senior and Junior) in 1890, preparatory (or
‘School’) exams were introduced the next year and
others were gradually added. But the rationalisation into
the now familiar eight grade system came only in 1933,
partly as a cost-saving simplification of the system in
reaction to the effects of the great depression.
For many years, ABRSM’s exams served the drawing
room culture of piano, strings and singing (plus organ,
harmony and counterpoint), and only well after the
Second World War came the surge in orchestral
instruments. From 1895 the Board was invited to
examine abroad in conjunction with local universities,
beginning with South Africa, and then setting up
centres in Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and
the Far East – all of which has expanded into the huge
international operation ABRSM runs today.
Last year ABRSM examined over 637,000 candidates
worldwide; its work supported by a publishing house
whose practical, scholarly-based editions enjoy
significant critical acclaim. And as well as its exams,
scholarships and prizes, the Board’s professional
development programmes and courses contribute to
its support of instrumental and singing teaching
provision internationally. Thus from tiny beginnings,
ABRSM has become a large and complex organisation
whose work has shaped and inspired the training of
generations of musicians.
David Wright is Reader in the Social History of Music at the
Royal College of Music. His social and cultural history of ABRSM
will be published by Boydell and Brewer in 2011.
C E L E B R AT O R Y A C T I V I T I E S
21
To mark our 120th anniversary we ran a series
of international conferences for Representatives,
inaugurated the ABRSM International Young
Composers’ Competition and held a celebratory
concert in London, UK.
Sharing ideas
The conferences provided valuable opportunities for
nearly 50 Representatives and staff to discuss new
developments and share ideas. They were held in four
locations: London, UK; Cape Town, South Africa; Bali,
Indonesia; and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
All participants contributed through a series of
presentations, workshops and discussion groups.
Celebrating new music
Entry to the ABRSM International Young Composers’
Competition was open to anyone who had taken an
ABRSM exam, with two age categories: up to 14 years,
and 15–18 years. We received 273 entries from all over
the world, testifying to the truly international reach of
ABRSM and the global appeal of the competition.
The competition jury was made up of Thalia Myers
(pianist, teacher and creator of ABRSM’s Spectrum
series), Michael Omer (composer and ABRSM
examiner) and Leslie East, ABRSM Executive Director:
Syllabus and Publishing, who noted: ‘The jury
unanimously agreed that all four prize-winning entries
are notable for their originality and technical fluency.
They are well-written for their instruments and
well-judged in terms of application of the content to
the length of the piece.’
Up to 14 years
Winner:
Daniel Evans (14)
for Appearances
for solo piano
Runner up:
Sarah Gait (14)
for Satellite 2:
Activity on a
Distant Moon for
cello and piano
Highly
commended:
Wang Yi Fei (7)
for The Little
Green Bunny for
solo piano
Runner-up:
Christopher
Gough (18) for
Pour La Perte
d’un Frére for
french horn and
piano
Highly
commended:
Leung Hok Kiu
Johnson (16) for
Colour 2nds for
solo piano
15–18 years
Winner:
Toby Young (18)
for Jubilate for
solo piano
In performance
The audience at the anniversary concert on 27 July
2009 at Cadogan Hall, London was treated to world
premiere performances of the two winning pieces
from the International Young Composers’ Competition.
Offering a snapshot of repertoire from ABRSM
syllabuses over the years, the concert programme
featured performances from some of our High Scorers
and scholars as well as special guest ensembles
Panatical and Catfish Blue.
‘We will maintain the commitment to contemporary
composition shown by our anniversary competition,’
ABRSM’s then Chief Executive Richard Morris told
attendees on the night. ‘We will also seek to reach out
more, whether it be to young people in the early stages
of instrumental and vocal learning, to parents seeking
guidance about music education, to teachers or older
learners. Whatever the future holds, ABRSM will
hold to its mission of motivating musical achievement
in the most holistic sense.’
FINANCIAL SUMMARY
22
Income
2009-2010:
£36.5m
48% International exams
36% UK & Ireland exams
15% Publishing
1%
Professional
development
& other
This financial summary applies to the
financial year ended 31 January 2010.
These graphs indicate the approximate
proportions of ABRSM’s income and
expenditure arising from and applied to its
different activities. They have not been taken
Expenditure
2009-2010:
£35.4m
from the full annual accounts and have not
been audited, independently examined or
subject to a reporting accountant’s report.
The most recent full annual accounts,
trustees’ report and external auditor’s report
are available from both the Companies
House and Charity Commission websites.
23
45% Exams
19% Staff
18% Scholarships
& donations
11% Administration
& development
7%
Publishing
NEW DIPLOMA HOLDERS
24
DIPLOMA OF
THE ASSOCIATED
BOARD OF THE ROYAL
SCHOOLS OF MUSIC
Francisca Si Min Lin Fei
Jerry Feng
Fares Kardous
Hirosei Kuruma
Australia
Shu Yin Crystal Lai
Adam Chan
Li Hok Chung
Kevin Chow
Minna Liu Shi Yang
Bella Chu
Sun Pei
Edward Robert Scheffer
Cliff
Tang Mian
Jane Farnan
Vanessa Yuen-Ting Ho
Sabina Im
Stephanie Jones
Sherlynn Khoo
Yi Ting Lam
Jaslyn Lee
Seul Lee
Lee Queenie Ting Yan
Melissa Lim
Wai Chun Liu
Xiao Hui Ma
Alexander Chi Yuen Mau
Kerryn Schofield
Gregory Hamilton Smith
Kiarash Taghavi
Hsern Ern Tan
Hui Sien Teo
Emily Weng
Yip Sum Wu
Yang Ying Yan
Jing Yun Yu
Zhang Yan
Zhong Yu
Jia Qi Zhou
Zou Zhizhao
Cyprus
Polys Christofi
Louiza Christou
Pamela Michaelides
Egypt
Sherif Aly Dahroug
Wafik Adly Gayed
Nabil Kamel Agaiby
Gebraeil
Yvonne Teo
Charlene Wijaya
France
Ruth Maybank
Barbados
Emily Spagnol
Margaret Austin
Alice Zimmermann
Leandro Layne
Germany
Canada
Mark Ehrenfried
Ning Zhou
Ulrike Götz
Sylvia Yong
Helene Grabitzky
Uy Lily Chua
Lisa Volk
Stephan Ziegler
China
Bin Zhaoqi
Ghana
Chen Yu
Ayodeji Mayowa Ajayi
Ke Ni Fang
Ogebule Oluwafemi
Abayomi
Oparamanuike Joseph
Chinedu
Aderayo Abiodun
Oyegbade
Grenada
Fung Hoi Tin
Miu Kwan Fung
Fung Yi Ni
Bethan Joan Greaves
Ha Yi Man
Ethorn Francis
Ho Chi Wing
Hong Kong
Chun Hang Huang
Au Wing Yee
Au Yu Man
Bat Ka Man Carmen
Chan Amy June
Chan Ching Man Emme
Chan Hei Lam Cecilia
Chan Hok Pang Aaron
Chan Kai Lung
Chan Lai Yee
Chan Mun Tak Ada
Pui Yu Irene Chan
Chan Siu Tung
Wai Kuen Vicky Chan
Chan Ying Ying
Chau Kei Lok
Yan Ying Chen
Yan Ho Cheng
Sze King Cecilia Cheng
Cheung Ka Man
Cheung Tsz Him
Yat Wai Maggie Cheung
Cheung Wai Kwan
Wai Lam Vivian Cheung
Ka Wai Chi
Chiu Tak Yee Amy
Chiu Yuk Ying
Chong Kai Hin
Chow Hoi Ying
Chow Yin Ching
Ping Ting Brenda Chow
Tak Chuen Chow
Chu Wai Lok
Siu Han Chung
Ding Pak Lun Kevin
Zhao Jing Ding
Hong Chung Fu
Yik Yin Ho
Hui Ming Kit
On Yu Hui
Hwang Wai Ki Christine
Man Sze Kan
Kwan Long
Kwong Hoi Shan
Lai Chi Hin
Lam Pak Lun
Tin Oi Lam
Lam Tsun Yat Kenny
Wong Fai Lam
Yu Suen Lam
Sze Yin Lau
Wai Pik Lau
Ying Tung Lau
Puiyan Law
Law Wai Lam Juanita
Law Yu Hin
Lee Chi Hung
Fiona Kizzie Lee
Flora Chi Yan Lee
Lee Tin Yan
Wai Yin Vivien Lee
Ka Wing Leung
Man Hin Leung
Tsz Wai Leung
Li Kin Keung
Li Kit Sum
Li So Yee
Po Fung Andrew Liu
Liu Tsz Ying Ellen
Lo Wing Man
Ping Lo
Sze Man Lok
Lou Ching Ki
Xinxin Lu
Our diplomas are designed to encourage
a diversity of approaches to performing,
directing and teaching music and to
stimulate achievement through acquiring
skills, knowledge and understanding.
These highly respected and letter-bearing
qualifications carry worldwide recognition.
ABRSM diplomas are available at three
levels – Diploma, Licentiate and Fellowship –
and in three subjects: Music Performance,
Music Direction and Instrumental/Vocal
Teaching. We offer our congratulations to
the following musicians who successfully
gained their diplomas in 2009.
25
Cheryl Cecilia Lui
Wong Yuen Yee
Mercyani Lunardi
Jordan
Sze Wan Candy Luk
Wong Yuk Ting
Dian Novita Matondang
Rasha Abu-Ajwah
Bok Yin Gabriel Lynn
Wong Wai Ling Helen
Franciska Monalisa
Linda Assbeihat
Ma Man Kee Teresa
Woo Ming Xi
Andre Nathaniel
Ng Hon Sun
Wu Guanqing
Frida Nathania Obadja
Mounir William
Ennenbach
Ng Pok Yee Pauline
Yeung Kin Hung
Pek Natalia
Ng Tsz Nok
Yeung Yan Lok Felix
Vinsenso Julius Pratama
Ng Wing Kei Tracy
Yiu Yun Kwan
Aurelia Nitya Primantari
Ng Yui Ching Eugenie
Eugene Oscar Yuen
Fenny Rosita
Cheung Lui Amina Pan
Yuen Yit Won Angela
Evelyn Yuliani Teguh
Ching Hin Pau
Yee Kei Zheng
Grace Visca
Pun Tsz Kin
Chung Hing Sham
Iceland
Shum Wan Kei
Hrafnhildur Árnadóttir
Yeuk Lam Shum
Hrund Ósk Árnadóttir
So Pak To Plato
Aron Axel Cortes
(Performing)
Tai Kwok Ching
Lee Chi Tiffany Tam
Tam Wai Ying
Tam Ka Man Carmen
Bing Kay Gary Tang
Tang Shun Chi
Tong Lik Yin
Tsang Ming Yee Shermain
Tse Wing Yuk
Yee Man Tso
Wing Yue Tsui
Lai Sze Tsui
Cheuk Yin Jarita Wan
Ho Ting Benedict Wan
Wan Kin Ying
Wat Chun Pong
Wong Cheuk Fung
Wong Ling Ling
Lisa Pui Wei Wong
Lok Ching Wong
Man Yan Carmen Wong
Nga Chung Angela Wong
Wong Oi Wai Irene
Elaine Rachelle
Wangsawidjaja
Hanna Franjieh
Rani Kaylani
Kenya
Jacinta Mulaku
Korea
Lang Jo
Fauzie Wiriadisastra
Yeahkyung Elizabeth Ryu
Ireland
Macau
Richard Coady
Cheung An Yu
Dearbhla Doherty
Ho Weng Sam
Samuel Esses
Ieong Man Chi
Colin Jermyn
Iong Hoi Cheng
Rosina Joyce
Ip Ka I
Jennifer Lee
Lao Chak Cheong
Francis Long
Lei I Lei
Halla Marinósdóttir
(Teaching)
Claire O’Brien
Lou Cheok Lam
Liz O’Brien (Performing)
Si Hoi Ian
Fjóla Kristín Nikulásdóttir
Liz O’Brien (Teaching)
Vong Man Teng
Stephen O’Doherty
Wong Su Iong
Aron Axel Cortes
(Teaching)
Ivar Helgason
Julian Isaacs
Oddur Arnþór Jónsson
Halla Marinósdóttir
(Performing)
India
Michael Dominic Thomas
Gopal Chakravartty
Michael Young
Justin Yi-En Hockey
Malawi
Wina Tamani Sangala
Amintha Jayant
Italy
Ennuri Jo
Emanuel Geromin
Malaysia
Lothunglo Mozhui
Riccardo Liberatore
Chang Chow Chien
Giulia Pierucci
Cheong Chor Kim
Alessandro Talia
Eleasha Chew Sue Yuen
Indonesia
Michael Adi Tjandra
Valerie Christabel
Gunawan
Maria Yolanda Haliman
Wong Sze Ting Melissa
Andreas Librawan
Harsono
Wong Wai-Man
Anthony Hartono
Wong Yat Lam
Jap Rina Setyani
Wong Yee Man
Meitalia Khie
Yi Hang Cherie Wong
Kevin Indra Lasmono
Kelvin Yung Hung Chong
Jamaica
Nur Izwani Ismail
Helen Rosemary Bromley
Ryner Lai Wei Chuen
Regnarene Brown
Eileen Lau
Lee Shan Li @ Sally Lee
Japan
Shyh Hong Lee
Mayu Funaba
Lim Khai Shing
Tomoko Okano
Jessica Lim Yi-Wen
Hiromi Shimada
Aldrich Tanying Pinso
NEW DIPLOMA HOLDERS
26
Megan Khai Khee Tan
Portugal
Lee Yu Zhou
Wong Yan Lei Grace
Tanaporn Ratitamkul
Jeremy Jia Cai Yeo
Isabel Fonseca
Leong Xiao Han
Wong Yushan
Hyeamin Suh
Yeow Liiyung
Carlos Soares Da Silva
Lew De Yi Norvin
Woo Tze May Annette
Joanna Verkade
Li Chu Ren
Kimberlyn Wu Peishi
Heewon Woo
Malta
St Vincent
Lim Hsi Mei
Ye Zuyi
Christine Marie Borg
Victor Methoro Job
Japher Lim
Yeap Si Jing
Trinidad & Tobago
Lim Jue Min Jeremy
Yee Jia Rong
Wang Chen
Ian Peter Bugeja
Clara Galea
Serbia
Lim Wan Qi
Yeo Hua Sheng Raphael Gabriel
Josef Grech
Snezana Grujic
Lim Yan Ting
Yeo En Jie Isaac
Turkey
Sarah Micallef
Ana Nedeljkov
Lim Yi Jin Eileen
Zhang Bi Lan
Nevin Akcinar
Martha Mifsud
Ivana Novak
Lim Yin Liang
Zhu Xiao Tong Amanda
Suzan Akcinar
Lim Zhuo Min
Lara Scerri
Singapore
Winnie Lim Hui Chean
South Africa
Uganda
Mauritius
Rudy Wijaya Alamsyah
Esther Lim Man Yu
Laura Boeke
Beatrice Nyatia Geria
Guy-Noel Sylvio Clarisse
Daniel Gordon Ang
Christina Lim Yui Hung
Devandre Boonzaaier
Marie Christinne Clarisse
Vincent Brian Arifin Tjeng
Loh Seet Ee
Kirsty Jane Brittain
United Kingdom
Chen Yitie
Vanessa Loh Jie Wen
Milica Conkic
Jasper Benedict Affonso
Mexico
Cheng Pei Yun
Pearlyn Loh Wan Jing
Annelize De Villiers
Rachel Alban
Jesus De Rafael Lopez Perez
Cheong Sue-Ann Faith
Rebecca Lok
Michael Duffett
Ashleigh Alderslade
Cheow Ying
Long Mei Ling
Welmien Faul
Thomas Aldren
The Netherlands
Adi Widjaja Chew
Loo Jia En Joanne
Jaydene Toni Forbes
Zoe Alexander
Sarah Feord
Chew Jia Ying
Low Hui Xin
Jorn Friedland
Lucy Armstrong
Valentina Punzhina
Genevieve Chia Rui Lin
Low Jinhong
Maresa Grobbelaar
David Arthur
Chong Berwyn Joel
Low Szu-Yen Karen
Clare Hendry
Florence Clare Astley
New Zealand
Chong Hui Yan Shermaine
Low Yeu Jia
Judith Hill
Minor Ozgun Atabek
Sophie Bang
Chong Yuan Yi Cheryl
Inge Jacobs
Nicola Auchnie
Mary Elizabeth Belcher
Clive Choo Jun
Muhammad Riesal Bin
Mohd Idries
David Austin
Kimberley Chan
Choon Hong Yi
Ng Yi Wen Jeremy
Sarah-Jane Laten
Emma Luyendijk
Sarah Ayoub
Paul Chiu Fan Chan
Chow Li Yue
Luke Newby
Helen Baines
Robert Drage
Chu Le Shan
Simiso Radebe
Rebecca Joy Kate Baker
Harrison Ellerm
Chua Si Min
Abel Selaocoe
Judith Ball
Amber Evemy
Chua Tsin Li
Justin Stone
Andrew Ballantyne
Charlotte Olivia Fetherston
Chua Yi Rui
Tshiama Tshibangu
Caroline Bannatyne
Salina Fisher
Chua Zhe Xuan
Cornelia Maria Van Oostrum
Peter Barrow
Yujing Gao
Gloria Ee Jun
Cathy Lynne Watson
David Charles Michael Barton
Maple Feng Goh
Clara Fong Ping Ping
Ann Yates
Lorenzo Bassano
Jesbery Jehar Hartono
Fu Weihao
Nancy (Yu-Wen) Huang
Fung Jia Hong
Chao (Mason) Ji
Giam Yue Ling
Jimin Kang
Goh Seng Sing Anna
Cheng Song Lam
Goh Yuheng Samuel
Amy Michelle Lewis
Goh Chun Wei Benjamin
Jingyi Liu
Guan Yichao
Marcus Norman
Guo Yu Ze
Gillian Pan
Nicholas Han Rui Zhou
Emily Peach
Hang Liting
Antony Gerard Ramsay
Heng Jiamin Gladys
Leo Jong Ha Shin
Ho Shu Min Shirlene
Francesca Louise Short
Ho Si Min Placida
Cho Ki Jacky Siu
Ho Yong Zheng Joel
Cho Yee Joey Siu
Ho Jia Qin
Veronica Struthers
Hong Shao Yu
Joyce Zi Yi Tang
Hsu Tsai Ping
Joan Lynette Sze Ern Tay
Huang Xi Hui Paul
Amelia Taylor
Hui Man Qin
Katie-Lee Taylor
Elvia Husein
Alex Wu
Jiang Yiwei
Jimmy Wu
Jocelyn, Singapore
Yiru Xue
Kang Mei Chen
Tony Tianheng Zhai
Khong Kah Fai Aldy
Koh Geok Fang Annabella
Oman
Koh Poh Ling Eileen
Shadya Bint Salim Al Aghbari
Kor Chong Luck Ryan
Saif Bin Suleman Al Mayyahi
Kow Wei Ling Jasmine
Ziyanam Bint Salim Al Rajhi
Kwok Kwai Ming Natalie
Lai Yan Lam
The Philippines
Lee Cheng Wei
Georgia Lim
Lee Leng Na
Franz Miguel Ramirez
Lee Yi Hui
Ng Chui Suan
Ng Wang Nee (Huang Wanli)
Ong Rui Qi Edwyna
Evangeline Ong Yiling
Phua Jia Le
Qiu Yonghui
Joan Quah Mei Yin
Quek Ling Ling
Seah Kiat Hong
Seow Shen Min Claire
Seow Kheng Boon Anthony
Sim Jia Hui Vanessa
Sim Lian Kiat Eddie
Sit Kwan Yee Queenie
Soh Kuan Wei
Soon Shu Xian Janice
Soon Li Lian Evelyn
Melody Tam Wing Yiu
Tan Hwee Min Michelle
Tan Ik Shan
Tan Jia En Rebecca
Tan Jun Hao Nicholas
David Sidney Beck
Spain
Rebecca Bell
Aida Calo Perez
Susan Bennett
Santiago Dura Mascarell
Suzanne Berger
José Amadeo Guillot Montaner
Benjamin John Angelo Bernard
Carlos Martínez Costa
Inez Beveridge
Giuseppe Pegorari
Camilla Biggs
Emma Randle
Felix Zoot Billson
Juan Carlos Roldan Gracia
Holly Marie Bingham
José Vicente Sanchis Mas
Georgina Binns
Susana Torregrosa Cao
Sarah Jane Birch
Javier Vilaplana Muñoz
Andrew Bisgrove
Amy Bladon
Sri Lanka
Simon Blake
Dhanushya Amaratunga
Imogen Blamires
Sasini Chandrasinghe
Joy Boole
Cara Tan Hwei Xin
Thanuja Prasanthi
Mariatta Perera
Laura Borrows
Jacob Tan Jie Te
Renushi Perera
Tan Lay Soon Emilyn
Tan Li Min Ann
Tan Si Heng Timothy
Darren Tan Ngiap Hao
Rowena Tan Wan Pei
Switzerland
Meri Tan Wei Yan
Timothee Coppey
Amelia Angela Tanumihardja
Keith Dale
Teh Tzyy Yun
Teo Chia Kai
Taiwan
Teo Rongsheng Steven
An Yi Chao
Teoh Ying Da
Chen Ho-Jung
Ting King Mee
Chiu Yu-Shan
Toh Li Wen
Lin Ya Ping
Tong Ying Er
Tsang Weng Yip Shirlyn
Thailand
Tse Kay Krystle
Ravin Pantumasen
Chindahporn
Tseng Yi Ying
Elysia Widjaja
Pornvarin Kansirisin
Alexandra Bowen
Fiona Brannon
Adrian James Breen
Philippa Claire Briggs
Antonia Claire Brindle
Emma Brown
Edward Buchanan
James Buchanan
Natalie Burch
Emma Burgess
Rosemary Burgess
Ruth Burke
Hayley Alexandra Burton
Anne Bury
Rebecca Buswell
Matthew Butler
Alex Butters
Margaret Errington
Cherry Ho
Ross Learmonth
Yoh Murakami
Joanna Byers
Mary Erskine
Yin Shan Ho
Jenny Leary
Felicity Murphy
Orlando Byron
Carys Alexandra Evans
Emma Holdich
Rachel Leggett
Hannah-Jade Murphy
Juliette Ahyoung Byun
Jason Evans
Grace Hollingworth
Daniel Sek Meng Leung
Lewis Murphy
Harriet Caddick
Oliver Farrant
Alison Hopper
Derek Cheuk Cheung Leung
Keith Murray
Kieran Cameron
Nicole Marie Elizabeth Farrell
Harriet Hougham-Slade
Nicola Lewis
Laurence Newnes
Alasdair Campbell
Emma Field
George Howard
Claudia Li
Olivia Newton
Amy Campbell
Daniel Fields
Gessica Howarth
Jonathan Lilley
Jennifer Newton-Smith
Harriet Campbell
Lucy Fisher
Matthew Howells
Amanda Lim
Anna Louise Nielsen-Scott
Sarah Campbell
Henrietta Ford
Alice Hudson
Kiyam Lin
Adam Michael Nyberg
Lucy Campion
Miranda Ford
Anthony Robert Hughes
Yang Liu
Obianuju Ogbonna
Andrew Cankett
Anthony Fowler
Jason Hui
Bethan Lloyd
Joanne Ollier
Laurence Carnall
Vanessa Fuidge
James William Hulme
Hannah Lockwood
Nelli Orlova
Rory Cartmell
Ryo Fukaura
Sophie Hunt
Edward Longstaff
Charlotte Ormson
Tom Cartmell
Shelley Gabriel
Alex Hunter
Heidi Lough
Kumiko Otsuka
Catherine Jane Cavan
Jade Alicia Gall
Mari Hunter
Alex Loveday
John Oxlade
Benjamin Chan
Sarah Kate Gardner
Seungyeon Hur
James Lumsden
Emily Padfield
Henry Chandler
Megan Garrity
Victoria Hutter
Alexander MacDougall
Martin Palmer
Rosemary Channin
Ed Gaudencio
George Hyde
Clare MacEwen
Miku Pancoast
Zain Chaudhry
Maria Gavriliouk
Timothy Hynd
Alastair MacFarlane
Laurence Panter (Piano)
Andrew Chettleburgh
Lucy Jane Geddes
Charlotte Ibbetson
Tamiko Mackison
Laurence Panter (Singing)
Jo-Yee Cheung
Iain Gibbs
Katrina Ievins
Anna Maddox
Julia Parfett
Yew Hone Cheung
Mark Gibbs
Jacqueline Igoe
Alexandra Madgwick
Tristan John Parsons
Alastair Chilvers
Valerie Gibson
Saskia Ilsen Nunn
Matthew Maguire
Jane Patrick
Ken-Ee Choong
Georgia Gibson-Smith
Thalia Ilsen Nunn
Katarina Majcen
Lizzie Peacock
Marie Christie
Henry Gleave
Sarah Itam
Jason Kei Chak Mak
Michael John Peacock
Joanna Cichonska
Christine Ann Godfrey
Zofia Jakubiel-Smith
Betty Makharinsky
Gordon Penman
Robert Clark
Victoria Godley
Mark James
Gwendoline Elizabeth Manley
Susannah Peterson
Janet Clark
Jonathan Ronald Goodwin
Phoebe James
Michelle Karen Mannveille
Harry Lewis Petty
Henry Clarke
Zelida Gordon
Sian Jamison
Charity Mapletoft
Kate Frances Petty
Edward Coe
Daniel Graham
Isobel Jenkins
Catherine Margaret Marchesi
Thomas Pollock
Rebeccah Considine
David Graham-Young
Bethany Jerem
Christina Marroni
Christopher Potts
Oliver Cook
Alexandria Grant
Camellia Genevieve Johnson
George Edward Martin
Amy Preece
Alex Tristan Coombes
Darius Gray
Katharine Johnston
Laura Martin
Sarah Price
Jaymee Coonjobeeharry
Kristina Greally
Annabel Jones
Antony Matthews
Veronica Price
Declan Corr
Peter Grey
Freya Jones
Hane Htut Maung
Nicholas Pritchard
Bethany Louise Cox
Alicia Griffiths
Georgina Jones
Jane May
Alison Elizabeth Purvis
Michael Craddock
Georgiy Grigorev
Graham Jones
Jacqueline Anne Mayer
Fiona Raggatt
Laura Cross
Victoria Guise
Laura Jones (Manchester)
Mary Mazur-Park
Joseph Christopher Rainer
Gillian Cunnison
Georgina Anne Haddon
Laura Jones (Newcastle)
Laura McAvoy
Mark Ramsey
Elidir Dafydd
Lorna Louise Haddon
Ruth Amy Jones
Anna McClure
Maya Ravindran
Edmund Daley
Tristan Hall
Remy Jugue
Emma Jane McFadyen
James Rawlinson
Eleanor Davidson
Helen Hambling
Daniel Keeling
Sean McMenamin
Mary Reid
Adam Davies
Alexander Hamilton
Timothy Kellett
Charlotte Meakin
Lucy Revis
Ellen Davies
Alistair Hamilton
Thomas Kelsey
Andy Mei
Hannah Rice
Samuel Pascal Davis
Chloe Hancox
Phoebe Joy Kemp
Henry Melbourne
Jennifer Louise Riley
Anthony Davison
Tess Hardwick
Linda Kiakides
Vieda Mercer
Catherine Ring
Michael Dawson
Richard Barnes Harker
Yoko Kikuchi
Ru Merritt
James Risdon
Dominic Philip De Souza
Katherine Harries
William Kilvington-Shaw
Kirsten Miller
Martin John Robbins
Therese Catherine De Souza
David Harrington
Kate Sarah King
Lucy Miller-White
Claire Victoria Roberts
Hamish Dean
Susan Harrington
Sarah King
Alexia Millett
Dee Dee Roberts
Tom Deasy
Camilla Harris
Charlotte Kitson
Patrick Cosimo Milne
Katherine Roberts
Anne Denholm
Rosemary Harvey
Beata Kluz
Simon Robert Minshall
Leo Roberts
Elliott James Devivo
Frances Hastie
Rachel Mary Knight
Peter David Mitchell
Rebecca Amy Robertson
Diana Dickerson
Jessica Anne Hateley
Nadia Kottegoda
Samuel Moffitt
Rebecca Robinson
Hannah Ruth Dobra
Edward Hawkins
Asuka Kumon
Samuel Moodey
Rory Robinson
Rebecca Louise Dowling
Janette Audrey Hawkins
Joy Kwong
Helena Moore
Peter Rogers
Sharon Doyle
Sarah Haynes
Roshan Laidlay
Peter Moore
Tom Rogers
Ryan Joshua Drucker
Samantha Hayward
Shing Yuen Lam
Katherine Moore
William Round
Natasha Dunne-Burns
Michael Hearman
Jacqui Larkin
Cerith Dafydd Morgan
Luke Russell
Benjamin Durrant
Mark Heath
Felix Lashmar
Lowri Mair Teresa Morgan
Sebastian Sadr-Salek
Lynn Edwards
Clare Heneghan
Cara-Rose Laskaris
Frederick David Moroni
Yukiko Saito
Elen Angharad
Heather Edwards
Sophie Hewitt
Abigail Lau
Nia Eleri Morris
David Salihi
John Elliot
John Anthony Hewitt-Jones
Hannah Lau
Nicholas Morris
Lucas Salmins
Joanne Highley
Jing Yu Jane Lau
Daniel Mort
Yudit Samad
Louise Hill
Dominic Lawson
Jennifer Morton
William Savage
Rosalind Hill
Louisa Mary Renwick Lawson
Jennifer Moyes
Andrew Savill
Robert Samuel Hillen
Elizabeth Joanne Lawton
Gary James Mullins
Victoria Sawyer
Rosemary Anne Hinton
Emily Tat Yin Lay
Hannah Munro
Sophie Sayer
Julie Elliott
Tess Ellison
Anthony Elward
Jane Eminson
27
NEW DIPLOMA HOLDERS
28
Matthew Sayers
Fainche Whelan
Sarah Nahhyun Yu
Woo Wing Ching Caleb
Singapore
Victoria Schmidt
Natalie Wild
Wesley Yu
Woo Yik Sze
Ang Kai Jie Davin
Gretel Scott
Harriet Elisabeth Wilkes
Steve Zhou
Wun Wai Ki
Chen Pui Yee Betty
Matthew Scott
Jessica Wilkes
Yong Ching Ha
Chen Meihua Nerissa
Emma Nicola Segrave
Lynne Williams
Rosanna Sells
Mark Williams
Bethan Mair Semmens
Henry Williams-Bird
Mary-Rose Shand
Katherine Willis
Jacob Shaw
Charlotte Wilson
Anna Sideris
Joanna Wilson
Alexandra Sill
Michael Wilson
Eleanor Simmance
Hannah Wisdish
Nicola Sims
Kate Imogen Wolton
Kathryn Anne Smale
Joe Wood
Jessica May Smart
Alice Woods
Alastair Smith
Ruth Woolley
Lucy Smith
Alastair Wright
Robert Smith (Birmingham)
Jonathan Wright
Robert Smith (Nottingham)
Timothy Yap
Stephan Solomonidis
Dominic Yeo
Jocelyn Somerville
Benjamin Yip
David Wong Chuen Soong
Cassandra Hui Ping Yong
Bulgaria
George Spence-Jones
Irena Zablocka
Mario Tomov Yotsov
Diana Frances Mary Statham
Henry Zeffman
Lucy Stephenson
Anastasia Zemtsova
Canada
Delia Stevens
James Ying-Hua Zhao
Stephanie Ka Ching Chan
Jessica Stevens
Calum Zuckert
Ching Wai Rebecca Choi
LICENTIATE OF
THE ROYAL SCHOOLS
OF MUSIC
Australia
Fiona Jean Campbell
Luke Gilmour
Yollanda Ng
Hong Chun Felix Pang
Austria
Caroline Duffner
Barbados
Michael Andrew Allman
Hascal Leeanda Stevenson
Johnson
Jennifer Ho
Benjamin Peter Stevenson
Chong Yao Feng Victor
Iceland
Mark Brian Dun Wei Foo
Hulda Björg Viðisdóttir
He Zongyi
Ho Sze Wei
India
Huang Xuhua
Marianne Generosa
Aiman D’Cruz
Kwek Mu Yi Theophilus
Dielle Julienne Braganza
Indonesia
Ingrid Maryane Cahya
Novinia Liady
Edwin Eduard Philips
Ireland
Annina Ahola
Davina Mary Baker
Robert Mortell
Aoife Sadlier
Robert William Yeo
Italy
Valerio Vezzani
Jamaica
Lam Yin
Lim Siok Khun
Lin Li
Liu Xinle @ Liu Xinyue
Olivia Matius
Ng Hwee Cheng Mary-Anne
Pan Shixuan
Pauline, Singapore
Soh Wai Keong Paul
Tan Jia Hui
Tan Li Hsing
Tan Mei Hui
South Africa
Jaco Meyer
Catherina Maria Mulder
Spain
Joanne Steward
United States of America
Michael Jun Yuan Huang
Isabel Stoppani-Lawless
Seo Hyoun Eileen Bang
Preston Jordan Lim
Andrew Tait
Caresse Boyers
Lisa Suet Ying Ng
Jessica Katherine Yap
Jonathan Tan
Jana Lynn Brown
Chun Yin Douglas Tang
Joshua Chao
Czech Republic
Japan
José Francisco Sánchez
Sánchez
Andrew Bruce Taylor
Ford Chen
Kristýna Kucerová
Kayano Nagai
Francisco José Serrano Luque
Gordon Taylor
Wesley Chen
James Taylor (Cardiff)
William Chen
Germany
Macau
Switzerland
James Taylor (York)
Terence Chuntsung Choy
Ulrike Götz
Júlio Miguel Dos Anjos
Rosemary Clare Sprackling
Cheryl Taylor
Jessilyn Chwa
Emma Tenison
Kattie Coffman
Ghana
Malaysia
Taiwan
Deni Teo
Jusak Djatmiko
Ibiyefiebo Harry
Lim Pei Bernadette
Ng Jiaxin Vania
Peter Teverson
Igor Do Amaral
Oluwaseun Daniel Oluwabusuyi
Chin Hui Yi
Fred Leo Thomas
Stephanie Doo
Chung Sing Lee
Thailand
Ashleigh Juliet Tilley
Marisa Edwards
Hong Kong
Wong Jia Hui Michelle
Jonas Dept
Bridget Tizzard
Andre Garrett
Michael Chan
Tan Ye Teik
Shunsuke Takemura
Kristoffer Ching Him To
Robert Gemmell
Chan Miu Chu
Fiona Penelope Tompkins
Anna Horne
Yi Mei Chan
Malta
Trinidad & Tobago
Samuel Tong
Alex Ip
Chan Yuen Miu
Gary Magri Gatt
Jerome Dinchong
Mai Charissa Tran Ringrose
Ritchie Iu
Chau Chuck Jee
Thomas Trennery
Jason Jin
Cheung Joyce Pui Chih
Mexico
United Kingdom
Man Hon Tse
John Kabiling
Choi Ka Yan
Emilio Ahedo Maldonado
David Alcock
Nicholas Tudor
Serena Eve Kamps
Fang Fang
Damiana Orue De Avendaño
Catherine Anderson
Fin Twomey
Elvin Lee
Kam Man Yin
Maria Jessica Vega Cervantes
Sebastian Armstrong
Mary Tyler
Constance Lin Kaita
Lau Hiu Tung
Yumi Uchiyama
Jessica Liu
Wilson Chi Kuen Lau
Rachael Ueckermann
Michelle Liu
Law Hong Yee
Inbar Vernia
Truman Liu
Leung Hok Kiu Johnson
Emma Wade
Osker Lu
Li King Yue
Stephanie Waite
Penny Luan
Chit Ling Jeanie Lui
Mathew Walker
Michelle Ma
Jing Yi Anthea Ma
William Kevin Walsh
Haley Rebecca Muhlestein
Ma Wei Kei
Sarah Warren
Emily Pham
Mak Chun Yue
Mamiko Watanabe
Elizabeth Polatin
Pang Kit Yung
Jane Elizabeth Waters
Eugenie Yu Quan
Dennis Ho Man Tam
Rachel Watson
Amy Shafer
Tan Ying Ming Benjamin
Matthew Watts
Dylan Sun
Po Yi Tang
Carol Waugh
Joyce Tang
Wan Christopher Kai Hin
Georgia Way
Paul Von Autenried
Wan Yat Long
Nicholas Webb
Anna Raines Wicker
Wong Hei Wan Rhythmie
Rebecca Webb-Mitchell
David Wolfe
Wong Pui Hing Edith
Lynora Welland
Peter Xing
Pui San Bessie Wong
Philip Andrews
Gabriel Alcaide Roldan
José Marco Campos
Angel Luis Carrillo Gimeno
Danielle Audley-Wiltshier
New Zealand
David Austin
Edward Giffney
Sarah Jane Bennett
John Mercer
Matthew Blunt
Kate Oswin
William Bosworth
Amie Sweetapple
Lynette Bowring
Rachel Bristow
Oman
Tom Cartmell
Nadir Mubarak Shambeh
Al Balushi
Alberto Castillo
Younis Nasser Humaid Al Siyabi
The Philippines
Alejandro Consolacion II
St Lucia
Joseph Grantly Charles
Pei-Fen Chen
Katharine Choonara
Gregory Coughlin
David Cowen
Lucia D’Avanzo
Justine Davidson
Josephine Davies
Charlotte Elizabeth Dowding
Gabrielle Fisher
N E W C E R T I F I C AT E O F T E A C H I N G
(CT ABRSM) HOLDERS
Elizabeth Anne Fitzpatrick
Rosemary Fox
United States of America
Jade Alicia Gall
Caresse Boyers
William Gardner
Abigail Crouch
Russell David Gilmour
Kwame Lewis
Estelle Gouws
Julie Mueller
Steven Green
Amy Shafer (Performance)
Simon Hancock
Amy Shafer (Teaching)
Charlotte Hawkins
Allison Tsai
Tom Hay
James Henderson
Thomas Hutchinson
Christopher I’Anson
Bethan Caryl Jones
Eun Hee Kim
Adrian Kingston
Hoy Wein Natalie Kong
Julian Latham
Dominic Lawson
Eleanor Lighton
Nicola Amanda Lycett
Michelle Emily Mary Mackle
Andrew Marris
James Marshall McCabe
Ruth McGibben
Richard Mepstead
Dan Miller
Farhad Moayedi
FELLOWSHIP OF
THE ROYAL SCHOOLS
OF MUSIC
29
Our flagship Certificate of Teaching (CT ABRSM)
course gives participants the opportunity to spend
an extended period of time developing knowledge
and skills, and refreshing their personal approach
to teaching. The course takes place either over one
year or, for the fast-track course, six months.
We offer our congratulations to the following
teachers who successfully completed the
Certificate of Teaching (CT ABRSM) course in 2009.
Hong Kong
Sophie Louise Holden
Ebonard Lysander
Ang Wai Ling
Elizabeth Holland
Corinne Miley-Smith
Cheng Oi Yin
Thomas Hosking
Katherine Moore
Cheng Yung Ting
Laura Hughes
B James Moriarty
Cheung Yat Wai
Ann Miller
Alison Morris
Kumwon Chung
Robin Padgham
John Leigh Nixon
Fung Pui Man
Christopher Rickman
Heather Oram
Hong Kong
Lai Yuen Yan
Amy Stew
Hazel Rowley
Hui Wing Chun
Lam Ching Man
Gail Stone
Eshadhi Seneviratne
Lai Bui Sie Michelle
Lam Lut Hei
Robert Thomas
Nadia Sinnett
Long I Ian
Lee Siu Po
Helen Thompson
Helen Tudor
Poon Ka Mei Camille
Mak Wai Yiu
Martin Wake
Andrea Williamson
Ng Kwok Ying
Nichola Williamson
Mauritius
Ng Pei Xuan
Irene Wong
Yvon Luco Kenneth
Veerasawmy Babajee
Tang Ming Chak
Bulgaria
Ilia Zdravkov Mihaylov
France
Denise Dowling
Laura Newman
David Onac
Oman
Timothy Richard Pannell
Khalid Bin Khalfan Al Jabri
Abigail Parker
Manchester
Michael Bateson
Tsang Chung Ming
Bristol
Deborah Cooper
Wendy Venn
Heidi Choat
Ruth de la Mare
Wong Wing Yee
Judith Dauncey
Gavin Lee
Yu Lai Shan
John Hobbs
Stella Leigh
Adelle Kirby
Beverley Magee
Shelley Payne
Singapore
Helen Pugh
Ang Yong He Thomas
Indonesia
Emma McQuillen-Wright
Philippa McCartney
Mark Dylan Purvey
Tseng Xin Ying
Kelvin Mosara Ang
Rachel Misson
Victoria Morris
Maris Stella Ang
Kate Morgan
Lynne Saunders
Maria Putman
Elin Rebecca Rees
United Kingdom
Linda Chandra
Penny Morgan
Richard Thomas
Danielle Rogan
Virginia Jane De Ledesma
Fifi Embut
Carole Rees
Christopher Waddington
Louise Saunders
Sarah Denbee
Juuke Hartana
Colin Rees
Ann-Marie Wood
Lydia Jane Scadding
Giséle Grima
Miriam C Kuswanto
Ruth Thomas
Juan Wright
Phillippa Slack
Peter Liang
Listya Mulyadi
Alison Whitfield
Anthony Richard Smith
Mairi MacLeod
Yola Mathilde Nur
Katherine Steele
Luke Martin
Jonathan Martindale
Linda Prabaraharja
Edinburgh
Alice Stobart
Cheryl Taylor
Stephanie Oade
Tjindrawati Soesanto
Ekaterina Belik
Aileen Thomson
Kit Perona-Wright
Elise A Sulaiman
Andrew Brown
Andrew Turner
Hugh Robson
Sany Tjiuwi
Janette Hall
Hadwin Umar
Harvey Lockwood
Yuyun Yuniastuti
Paula McKeeve
Charlotte Abigail Unwin
Robert Peter Webb
United States of America
Isobel Wick
Katherine Elaine Loughrey
Tom Wilkes
Priyeshni Peiris-Perera
James Williams
Derric Gene-Hau Tay
Lesley Mines
United Kingdom
Janet Noakes
Bournville (fast-track course)
Alastair Paxton
Helen Arney
Lesley Ross
Christopher Barnes
Agnes Wards
Katherine Blebta
Susanne Watson
Gary Wyatt
Sharon Burnham
Thelma Worthington
Debbie Yu
James Christopher
Mark Zarb-Adami
Cathy Custance
London
Emma Davies
Aylin Amiral
Anne Deans
Christine Brightman
Debra Dixon
Rebecca Dowding
Jackie Frost
Barry Fowkes
Lisa Greenslade
Caroline Harris
Claire Grocock
Nicole Hobday
Christine Hague
Theresia Hubar
Lee Halford
Debbie King
Jennifer Hall
Claire Elizabeth Lavery
Sally Hands
Chen-Yen Liu
Jonathan Chak Wang Wong
0DU\$QQ6KHLOD:RRWWRQ
Catharine Wright
AWA RDS
PRIZE WINNERS
30
Scholarships
We award scholarships each
year to junior, undergraduate
and postgraduate students at
four of the Royal Schools of
Music. The following students
were awarded scholarships
for courses of study beginning
in 2009.
Macklin Bursaries
The following outstanding
ABRSM scholars were awarded
bursaries to assist with further
studies or the launch of their
professional careers.
Royal Academy of Music
Junior
Jessica Price (UK), double bass
Royal College of Music
Charis Jenson (UK), violin
Undergraduate
Hugh Sisley (UK), horn
Zoya Vyazovskya (Russia), flute
Postgraduate
Christopher Avison (UK),
trumpet
Runette Botha (South Africa),
soprano
Royal College of Music
Junior
Anthony Tat (UK), piano
Undergraduate
Ben Baker (UK), violin
Postgraduate
Colin Alexander (UK),
composition
Sergey Basukinsky (Russia),
piano
Paul McEachran (UK),
saxophone
Royal Northern College
of Music
Junior
Nathan Dale (UK), trumpet
Undergraduate
Ignatius Kim (South Korea),
violin
Maria Nolan (UK), double bass
Postgraduate
Jennifer France (UK), soprano
Bo Wang (China), tenor
Royal Scottish Academy
of Music and Drama
Junior
Luke Maher (UK), horn
Undergraduate
Gongbo Jiang (China), violin
John Lowrie (UK), jazz drums
Postgraduate
Stephen Chambers
(New Zealand), tenor
Philip Hague (UK), percussion
Elin Pritchard (UK), soprano
Royal Academy of Music
Lisa Ueda Lee (UK), violin
Royal Northern College of
Music
Yoshika Masuda (Japan), cello
Royal Scottish Academy of
Music and Drama
Willem Mathlener (South
Africa), viola
Gold and Silver Awards
We give these awards to
candidates in the UK and
Ireland who gain exceptional
results in a Practical exam at
Grade 6, 7 or 8.
Gold Awards
Michael Ash, Grade 6 Singing
Benedict Kearns, Grade 8
Singing
Joshua Cox, Grade 6 Piano
Caitlin Mayall, Grade 8 Singing
Isobel Howard-Cordone,
Grade 7 Violin
Barney Couch, Grade 8 Oboe
Ewan James Zuckert, Grade 8
Clarinet
Imogen Sebba, Grade 7 Singing
Anna Judy Stibbles Burns,
Grade 8 Singing
Silver Awards
Athena Hawksley-Walker,
Grade 7 Violin
Danny Lewis, Grade 8 Violin
Grace Howson, Grade 8 Oboe
William Alexander Shaw,
Grade 8 Piano
Joe Iles, Grade 7 Piano
Simon McKenzie, Grade 8 Viola
Lydia Lallemant, Grade 8 Piano
Joe Norris, Grade 8
Alto Saxophone
Euan Ferguson, Grade 8
Alto Saxophone
Christopher Block, Grade 8
Alto Saxophone
Michael Wall, Grade 8 Piano
George Speck, Grade 7
Alto Saxophone
Calla Randall, Grade 8 Flute
Josephine Bentley, Grade 8
Flute
Jocelyn Coates, Grade 8
Singing
Matthew Chambers, Grade 8
Violin
Hedy King Robinson prizes
These prizes reward high
achievement in Theory of Music
exams. They are awarded to
candidates worldwide who
score 90 marks or above at
Grades 6 to 8, and, additionally,
to those in the USA who achieve
full marks (100) at Grades 1 to 5.
We offer our congratulations to
the following candidates who
were awarded prizes for exams
taken in 2009.
Bulgaria
Grade 6
Evelina Stoyanova Parapanova
Grade 7
Kalina Kourdova
China
Grade 6
Shu Ming Hu
Yang Zeng
Cyprus
Grade 8
Janno Õnneleid
Czech Republic
Grade 8
Angus Grundy
Indonesia
Grade 6
Sylvira Setyana
Shelly, Medan
Wilson, Medan
Grade 7
Eunike Nathania Winoto
Grade 8
Andry Effendy
Ireland
Grade 7
Petronilli Emiliano
Japan
Grade 6
Akiko Kosi
Malaysia
Grade 6
Cheah Wen Yee
Chong Jia Ying
Choo Shuet Yee
Adeline Hoe Yan Ling
Kok Je Sen
Kong Wai Sing
Johanan Kong Xian En
Lai Ghin Yee
Lee Chia Yin
Lee Khai Wey
Lee Siew Xuen
Lim Gia Huey
Jonathan Lim Jun-Yong
Lim Ker Ikr
Loo Yan Ying
Neo Li Ying
Ng Kim Suai
Ng Yan Wen
Ong Seow En
Ooi Jun Wei Dennis
Ow Ji Tsong
Phang Chiang Ken
Tam Hong Le
Tan Shir Leen
Tan Yao Mei
Tan Yi Ying
Grace Tee Hui En
Marion Wan Sze-Ni
Wong Li Yee
Wong Voon Kean
Ivanna Yap En Tse
Grade 7
Eunice Chen Yian Lu
Der Yi Shan
Ho Shuyan
Kuo Yu Shin Iris
Lee Hong Ye
Rachel Jie Rui Louis
Janet Lee
Samuel Lim Qi En
Lim Xi Xing
Ng Zhou Ling
Ong Sze Ming
Rohit Menon
Danial Iskandar Bin
Shahrum Ali
Sim Jin Yee
Adelyn Teoh May Yen
Wong Yee Ling
Yeoh Mei Ling
Grade 8
Chan Wenfang
Brian Cheong Mun Yew
Cheong Yi Chen
Chow May Suen
Ho Yen Nee
Kimberley Gerard
Lee Sy Yeong Mark
Lee Yi Qi
Lim Ee Jane
Lim Peggy
Lim Seng Mei
Lim Wen Li
Looi Qi Wei
Lui Wan Yen
Ng Jui Yee
Siow Lian Cheng
Tham Horng Kent
Marion Wan Sze-Ni
Yeoh Ai Lim
Malta
Grade 6
Mark Anthony Sammut
Mexico
Grade 8
Isaac Beristain Arriaga
Juan Carlos Lara Lara
Guillermo Martinez Ruiz
New Zealand
Grade 6
Mary Elizabeth Belcher
David Chen
Sherry Lee
Alice Morgan
Alexander Van Laar Veth
Christopher Brett Whiteley
Grade 7
Hannah-Elizabeth Teoh
Grade 8
Gordon Lu
Nigeria
Grade 7
Adebola Mobolaji Ola
Singapore
Grade 6
Chuah Xiao Fen
Goh Wen Yaw Samuel
Lam Yi Hui Angeline
Lee Yue Zhi
Li Jincheng
Low Rui Yun Amanda Jean
Loy Xuewei
Parn En Hui Gloria
Tan Jia En Rebecca
Tan Tze En
Tan Yan Yu
Tan Xin En Rachel
Teo Raymynn
Wong Koi Lin
Wong Shi Qi Audrey
Yaputra Juliany
Yeo Ting Ya Caresse
Zhang Tianjiao
Grade 7
Chua You Zhi Theodore
Lim Tian Wei
Mok Xiao Rong Joscelin
Neo Sheng Xiong
Ng Sai Meng
Ng Sining Adelia
Ong Si Hui
Sitoh Ying Yue Nadya
Tan Yi Rachel
Tay Yee Shin Claire
Tay Wei Yi Russell
Wong Mann
Grade 8
Ee Adeline
Gay En Hui Moses
Goh Khoon Mei Rachel
Kamil Victor Indrawan
Lee Yue Zhi
Low Jia Min Elissa
Low Qiao Ting Charmaine
Ng Siang Lin
Quek Wei Sheng Nicholas
Sachdev Nikhel
Tan Hwee Min Michelle
Tay Yee Shin Claire
Tong Ying Er
Yiau Chia Han Daniel
South Africa
Grade 6
Friederike Scholtz
Spain
Grade 7
Manuel Escanciano Escanciano
Marta Torres Pallès
Grade 8
Javier Montañana
Fernando Pedros Tomas
31
Sri Lanka
Grade 7
MM Roshanie Perera
Thailand
Grade 6
Supakorn Aekaputra
United Kingdom
Grade 6
Lucy Biddle
Louis Brown
Elizabeth Camp
Richard Coleman
Thomas Crane
Julie Forsdick
Francis Goodburn
Kevin Harvey
Shreya Ingley
Carmel Rosemary Keogh
Jonathan Minter
Marian Needham
Simon Nicholls
Edward Nichols
Kirsty Norman
Sandra Reffold
Katherine Rodd
Marianne Schofield
Matthew Stubbs
Delia Stevens
Celine Tang
Rebecca Thomson
Laura Turner
Richard Waring
Zena Wigram
Peter Woffenden
Sheila Wright
Grade 7
David Austin
Nicholas De Oliveira
Susan Dyson
Jonathan Fitzpatrick
Sophia Mina Funatsuki
Oliver Hazell
Daniel Hurst
Matthew Huxley
Charlotte Kennedy
Owain Park
Toby Scadding
Jorisjan Tang
Jonas Simeon Tattersall
Charles Troup
Jamie Van Der Sanden
Grade 8
Joshua Asquith
Antony Camillo
Emmanuel Charalabopoulos
Nicholas De Oliveira
Laura Embrey
Theodore Hill
Craig Hudson
Benjamin Jameson
Steven Jones
Christopher Swift
Ian Toone
Peter Townsend
United States of America
Grade 1
Emily Bauman
Vicki Beazley
Thomas William Brown
Natalie Lok Man Chow
Jacqueline Lok Ming Chow
You Chan Kim
Tanya Lam
Andre Le
Adrienne Lee
Punita Peketi
David Rodriguez
Jacob Rogers
Matthew Sie
Justin Vo
UK and Ireland prizes
These prizes recognise high
achievement in Practical
and Theory exams in the UK
and Ireland. They are made
possible by generous donations
from a range of organisations
and individuals. We offer our
congratulations to the following
candidates who were awarded
prizes for exams taken in 2009.
Grade 2
Otto Chen
Varun Danda
Betsy Everitt
Michelle Liu
Erica Sadler
Isabella Simon
Melanie Sklar
Aberystwyth
Philip F Walsh Memorial Prize
Grade 7 Clarinet
Megan Haf
Grade 3
Upasana Chandra
Kevin Courchesne
Masha Feygelson
Wendy Luo
Amanda Ricasa
Grade 5
Yujing Fan
Chelsea Pan
Claudia See
Grade 6
Angela Ow
Aberdeen
Gina Dallas Harper Award
Grade 8 Piano
Bethany Crockett
Belfast
Philip F Walsh Memorial Prize
Grade 8 Alto Saxophone
Joanna Blake
Birmingham
Beryl Chempin Prize
Grade 7 Piano
Ji-Hyun Park
Grade 8 Piano
Ellie Parkes
David Riley Memorial Prize
Grade 3 Guitar
Benedict Mann
Bristol
Sylvia J Frost
Memorial Prize
Grade 6 Piano
Alice Kabala
Grade 7 Piano
Stephen Sheard
Cambridge
Marguerite Swan
Memorial Prize
Grade 8 Cello
Victoria Nicoll
Durham
Margaret Harle
Memorial Prize
Grade 8 Oboe
Sinead McKenna
Vivienne Scott
Memorial Prize
Grade 8 Piano
Andrew Tait
Edinburgh
Elizabeth J Ehrlich Prize
Grade 8 Singing
Catriona Hewitson
Cardiff
Dorothy Grace Atkinson Prize
Grade 6 Piano
Angharad Thomas
Samuel Vine
Grade 7 Piano
Bianca Luu
Geraint Owen
William Percy
Grade 8 Piano
Geraint Herbert
Rachel Starritt
Philip F Walsh
Memorial Prize
Grade 8 Clarinet
Ewan James Zuckert
Henry, Edith and Constance
Haddon Memorial Prize
Grade 7 Piano
Geraint Owen
Ivan Cousins
Memorial Prize
Grade 6 Piano
Arpan Sharma
Mr Jeffreys and Mrs Christina
Jeffreys Memorial Prize
Grade 7 Piano
Geraint Owen
Sheila Mossman
Memorial Prize
Grade 6 Piano
Arpan Sharma
Carmarthen
ISM South Wales
Centre Prize
Grade 8 Singing
Claire Victoria Roberts
Marie Earle Prize
Grade 6 Piano
Millicent Forrest
Bournemouth
Edie Marr Prize
Grade 6 Singing
Georgia Way
Bradford
Irene Martin Prize
Grade 8 Piano
Alan MacDonald
Brighton
Amina Lucchesi
Memorial Prize
Grade 8 Violin
Kieran Burling
Mimi Scharrer
Memorial Prize
Grade 7 Singing
Beckie Burtenshaw
Dundee
Nora C Leggatt Prize
Grade 6 Piano
Alice Chalkley
Grade 7 Piano
Gregory Myles
Sheila Mossman
Memorial Prize
Grade 6 Piano
Nicola Ede
Edith Oulton De Pauley Prize
Grade 7 Singing
Tamsin Elsey
Blackburn
Frances E Walker
Memorial Prize
Grade 7 Flute
Sophie Tomlinson
Dublin
Philip F Walsh
Memorial Prize
Grade 7 Violin
Isobel Howard-Cordone
Chepstow/Forest Of Dean
Gwent Foundation Award
Grade 8 Violin
Gemma Ratcliffe
Crewe
William Henry Wilcox
Memorial Prize
Grade 8 Piano
Joanna Lam
Denbigh
Mr Jeffreys and Mrs Christina
Jeffreys Memorial Prize
Grade 8 Piano
William Alexander Shaw
Sheila Mossman
Memorial Prize
Grade 8 Piano
William Alexander Shaw
Glasgow
Lindsay Lamb
Memorial Bursary
Grade 8 Piano
Ruth Penny
Marguerite Swan
Memorial Prize
Grade 6 Cello
Hebba Benyaghla
Nivena MacDuff Prize
Grade 2 Piano
Sarema Shorr
Gloucester
Iris Dyer Prize
Grade 8 Piano
Esther Harding
Rachel Hobby
Great Yarmouth
Evelyn Rose Phillips
Memorial Prize
Grade 8 Piano
Richard Ward
Frances M L Willden and
Margaret D Willden Prize
Grade 8 Violin
Jamie Sapsford
Grimsby
Alma Machin Prize
Grade 4 Piano
Leonie Brummitt
Patrick Guthrie
PRIZE WINNERS
32
Harrogate
Audrey Pass
Memorial Prize
Grade 5 Piano
Benjamin Dunn
Grade 5 Singing
Francis Goodburn
Lloyd Hartley
Memorial Prize
Grade 6 Piano
Joseph Miles
Grade 7 Piano
Ho Tsz Hin
Grade 8 Piano
Peter Hateley
Charlie Manchester
Hastings
Marguerite Swan
Memorial Prize
Grade 6 Cello
Shona Wedner-Ross
Hemel Hempstead
Marguerite Swan
Memorial Prize
Grade 7 Cello
Ellie Winter
Huddersfield
David Cawthra
Memorial Prize
Grade 4 Piano
Lorscyon Frampton-Clarke
Elsie Roberts Prize
Grade 7 Piano
Rosemary Elizabeth Sillitoe
Huddersfield District Prize
Grade 5 Piano
Alice Molly Cousins
Peter Gavin
Ipswich
Ann Barbanell Prize
Grade 8 Piano
Maralyn Hicks
Kendal
Peter & Elizabeth McEwan
Memorial Prize
Grade 5 Piano
Sally Catherine Mills
William Simpson Rickaby
Memorial Prize
Grade 7 Cello
Matthew Bell
Kidderminster
Sheila C Freeman Prize
Grade 8 Cello
Benjamin Jones
Kirkcaldy
Alice Calder
Memorial Prize
Grade 6 Piano
Kathryn Hartley
Lancaster
Vinnie Willis
Memorial Prize
Grade 5 Violin
Iona Branford
Leeds
Lloyd Hartley
Memorial Prize
Grade 6 Piano
Jasmine Simons
Grade 7 Piano
Laura Katie Marks
Grade 8 Piano
Chen-Wei Ng
London: Sutton
Carshalton Music Prize
Grade 7 Violin
Susanna Xu
Plymouth
Hamilton Akaster Prize
Grade 5 Violin
Jenny Symes-Podic
Thanet
Leslie Wheeler Prize
Grade 6 Piano
Mark Prentice-Whitney
Manchester
Besso Memorial Prize
Grade 5 Piano
Fides Lu
Lincoln
Sheila Mossman
Memorial Prize
Grade 8 Piano
Lydia Lallemant
Sheila Mossman
Memorial Prize
Grade 6 Piano
Joshua Cox
Grade 7 Piano
Alex Wilson
Portsmouth
Sheila Mossman
Memorial Prize
Grade 6 Piano
Gemma Liu
Trowbridge
Sheila Mossman
Memorial Prize
Grade 7 Piano
Joe Iles
Preston
Florence Purdy
Memorial Prize
Grade 6 Violin
Gemma Broomhead
Tunbridge Wells
Marguerite Swan
Memorial Prize
Grade 2 Cello
Olivia Fitton-Brown
Grade 8 Cello
Eliza Hardwick
Liverpool
Margaret Wethered Prize
Grade 4 Cello
Eliza Carew
Grade 6 Singing
Laura Cunliffe
May Frizzel Memorial Prize
Grade 5 Jazz Alto Sax
Broady Blackwell
London: Blackheath
Philippa Nankivell-Aylett
Memorial Prize
Grade 4 Piano
Sarah Limb
London: Croydon
Marjorie Baldwin Bequest
Grade 5 Piano
Narumi Ito
Grade 6 Piano
Camilla Clark
Grade 7 Piano
Edward Howell
Grade 8 Piano
Henry Melbourne
London: Ealing
Sheila Mossman
Memorial Prize
Grade 6 Piano
Andrew Keck
London: Finchley
Dorothy Fryer
Memorial Prize
Grade 5 Piano
Michael Cheng
Daniel Shlomo
Grade 7 Piano
Molly Berghout
Grade 8 Piano
Lillian Chan
Oliver Till
London: Muswell Hill
Dorothy Fryer
Memorial Prize
Grade 5 Piano
Georgina Lloyd-Owen
Grade 8 Piano
Adam Cigman Mark
Samuel Peterson
Sheila Mossman
Memorial Prize
Grade 6 Piano
Jonathan Lack
Middlesbrough
Derek Henderson
Memorial Prize
Grade 8 Flute
Alice Hannah Trent
Monmouth
Gwent Foundation Award
Grade 7 Organ
Harry Jacques
Newcastle upon Tyne
Sir William Bigge
Memorial Prize
Grade 6 Treble Recorder
Jessica Weisser
Norwich
Evelyn Rose Phillips
Memorial Prize
Grade 7 Piano
Gabriel Kai Yin Chiu
Marguerite Swan
Memorial Prize
Grade 8 Cello
Thomas Isaac
Saxton Noble
Memorial Prize
Grade 6 Cello
Reuben Ard
Grade 7 Clarinet
Jessica Collinson
Nottingham
Nellie Greenhill
Memorial Prize
Grade 5 Piano
Josie McCullen
Grade 6 Piano
Matthew Stuart Wilmot
Grade 7 Piano
Matthew Glendening
Grade 8 Piano
Daniel Lin
Marguerite Swan
Memorial Prize
Grade 8 Cello
Sheku Kanneh-Mason
Oxford
Sheila Mossman
Memorial Prize
Grade 7 Piano
Michael Sing Yean Ng
Peterborough
Maxima Mercer
Memorial Prize
Grade 8 Piano
Rachel Abena Owusu-Agyei
Serena Shah
Petersfield
Laura Marco Prize
Grade 8 Flute
Josephine Bentley
Horatio Waywell
Memorial Prize
Grade 8 Alto Saxophone
Daniel Wright
St Andrews
Alice Calder Memorial Prize
Grade 7 Piano
Alison Miller
Grade 8 Piano
Ruairidh Tarvet
Sevenoaks
Marguerite Swan
Memorial Prize
Grade 2 Cello
Ben Shepherd-Barron
Grade 5 Cello
Matilda Lloyd
Sheffield
Winifred Liversidge Prize
Grade 8 Piano
Laura Brown
Jo-Yee Cheung
Anna Cordwell
Andrew Groom
Henrietta Eleanor Hill
Thomas Jarvis
Daniel Wallington
Michael Andrew Withers
Stockton-on-Tees
Frank Tiesing
Memorial Prize
Grade 5 Cello
Katie Peeling
Sunderland
Amy Mills Robertson Prize
Grade 6 Piano
Michael Moore
Arthur Dickeson
Memorial Prize
Grade 5 Singing
Elizabeth Ruth Fetherston
Swansea
Don Preece Memorial Prize
Grade 8 Violin
Lowri Thomas
Taunton
Vicars Close Prize
Grade 7 Violin
Ben Le Neve-Foster
Grade 8 Piano
Emily Owen
Wells
Vicars Close Prize
Grade 6 Piano
Rhung Wei Low
Alex Shaw
Grade 7 Piano
Ralf Ayling-Miller
Harry Whitehead
Grade 8 Piano
Bethan Morgan-Williams
Chern Ji Saw
Wolverhampton
Ralph Bassett Prize
Grade 5 Violin
Yuna Lee
Grade 7 Violin
Laura Brownsell
Grade 7 Cello
Deyashini Mukherjee
Wrexham
Sheila Mossman
Memorial Prize
Grade 8 Piano
Michael Wall
Yeovil
Vicars Close Prize
Grade 6 Piano
Joshua Huntington-Rainey
EX AMINERS
Over 660 examiners assessed Practical and
Theory exams for us in 2009. Our team of
examiners consists of respected musicians from
every part of the profession. It includes orchestral
players, soloists, chamber music players, heads
of school music departments and professors from
the Royal Schools of Music.
A
Juliet Allen
Bryan Anderson
Elizabeth Angel
Mark Armstrong
Paul Arnell
Helen Arnold
Timothy Arnold
Philip Aslangul
Janice Assersohn
Lynton Atkinson
Joy Austen
Marjorie Ayling
B
Michael Bailey
Robert Bailey
Dan Baker
Michael Baker
Michael Ball
Patricia Ball
Graham Barber
Penelope Barclay
Bernard Barker
Andrew Barlow
Charles Barnes
Vincent Barr
Timothy Barratt
Neil Barry
Kenneth Bartels
Jonathan Beatty
Kerry Beaumont
Alison Beeson
Colin Beeson
Sally Bell
Quintus Benziger
Marion Best
Michael Beynon
Martin Biggs
Robin Bigwood
Heather Birks
Virginia Black
Lowri Blake
Douglas Blew
Timothy Blinko
Nicholas Blunn
Anne Boardman
Andrew Bolton
Teresa Bond
Olivier Bonnici
Jane Booth
Joanna Borrett
Elisabeth Boulton
Alan Bourne
Mark Bousie
Michael Bowden
Timothy Bowers
Simon Bowler
Kevin Bowyer
Eric Boyd
Sarah Boyer
Rory Boyle
Chris Brannick
Christopher Brayne
Elizabeth Brazier
Charles Brereton
David Brindle
Deborah Brittain
Peter Broadbent
Rosemary Broadbent
Gerard Brooks
Roger Brooks
Christopher Brown
Helena Brown
Lesley-Ann Brown
Susan Brown
Stephen Browne
William Bruce
David Bruce-Payne
Andrew Bryden
Alan Bullard
Patrick Burnham
Russell Burton
John Byrne
C
Anthony-Benedict Cain
Susan Calvert
Robert Carey
Stephen Carleston
Samantha Carrasco
Jeremy Carter
Neil Carter
Nicholas Carter
Mark Cartwright
Sally Cathcart
Helen Cawthorne
Myra Chahin
Dale Chambers
Pearl Chatfield
Alan Childs
John Chillingworth
Pamela Chilvers
Fiona Chryssides
Judith Clare
Barry Clark
Susan Clark
Andrew Clarke
Ian Clarke
Simon Clarkson
Peter Clements
Caroline Clemmow
Lynda Cochrane
Stephen Collisson
Margaret W Cooke
Iain Cooper
Jean Cooper-Smith
Julie Costley-White
Martin Cotton
Mervyn Cousins
Margaret Cowling
Rowan Cozens
Guy Cremnitz
Roger Crocker
Anthony Crossland
Jane Crouch
Annette Cull
Penny Cullington
Gillian Cummins
Ian Curror
Alexander Curtis
D
Peter Dains
Muriel Daniels
Glyn Davenport
John Davenport
Harvey Davies
Hugh Davies
Adrian Davis
Dorothy Davis
Elizabeth Davis
Michael Davis
Rodney Dawkins
Helen Deakin
Andrew Dean
Ian Denley
Andrew Dibb
Richard Dickins
Dorothy Dickinson
Caroline Diffley
Joan Dixon
Stephen Doughty
Peter Downey
Elizabeth Drew
Tessa Drummond
Helen Duffy
Kevin Duggan
David Dunnett
Lesley Dunstan
Richard Dunster-Sigtermans
Michael Dussek
Mark Duthie
Brenda Dykes
E
Frances Eagar
Alison Eales
Harold East
Graham Eccles
David Eccott
Margaret Ede
Michael Edwards
Joanne Edworthy
Paul Ellis
Richard Ellis
Stephen Ellis
Donald Ellman
Jonathan Enright
Peter Esswood
Euros Rhys Evans
Howard Evans
Robert Evans
F
Rosslyn Farren-Price
Robert Ferguson
Christopher Field
Eileen Field
Judith Fleet
Peter Flinn
Malcolm Floyd
Tamandra Ford
Theresa Ford
Christopher Foster
Joan Foster
John Foster
David Francis
David Frankel
Kaye Fraser
Anthony Froggatt
Anthea Fry
G
Benjamin Gant
Michael Garbutt
David Garforth
Franklyn Gellnick
Michael George
Ruth Gerald
Fiona Gillett
Jonathan Gleeson
Malcolm Goldring
Lauren Goldthorpe
Carol Goodall
Andrew Goodwin
David Gorton
Peter Gould
Rosemary Gould
Sharon Gould
Timothy Goulter
Geoffrey Govier
Christopher Gower
Robert Gower
Jean Graham-Jones
Christopher Grant
Ian Gray
Gareth Green
John Green
Christopher Green-Armytage
Howard Gregory
Jonathan Gregory
Jane Gregson
Stephen Gregson
Keith Griffiths
Graham Griggs
Christopher Gumbley
Kathryn Gunn
H
Gaynor Hall
Irene Hall
Richard Hall
Rob Hall
Keith Hamilton
Michael Hancock
Christine Hankin
Andrew Hansford
Malcolm Harding
Ian Hare
Glenville Hargreaves
Geoffrey Harniess
Catherine Harper
Norman Harper
Clive Harries
Kathryn Harries
Michael Harris
Paul Harris
Derek Harrison
Simon Harvey
Richard Haslam
Emma Hattersley
Patrick Hawes
Elizabeth Hayes
Elizabeth Hayley
Michael Haynes
Deirdre Hayward
Moira Hayward
Julian Hellaby
Tony Henwood
Corinne Hepburn
Russell Hepplewhite
Ita Herbert
John Heritage
Douglas Hewitt
Peter Hewitt
Timothy Hewitt-Jones
Richard Hickman
Malcolm Hicks
Charlotte Hill
Lyndon Hilling
Claire Hobbs
Richard Hobson
Andy Hodge
Eleanor Hodgkinson
Rosalind Hoffler
Celia Holland
Sandy Holland
Leslie Hollingworth
John Holmes
Alec Hone
Ian Hooker
Manya Horn
Colin Howard
Ailsa Howarth
George Howarth
Gareth Hudson
Graeme Humphrey
John Humphreys
Karen Humphreys
Amanda Hurton
Nigel Hutchinson
Marcus Huxley
I
Leslie Inness
Peter Inness
John Iveson
J
Julian Jacobson
Heather James
Richard James
Paul Janes
Rachel Jeffers
Michael Johnson
Nicholas Johnson
David Jones
David Leiher Jones
Grahame Jones
Ian Jones
Ieuan Jones
Ilid Jones
Robert Jones
K
Skaila Kanga
Naomi Kayayan
Nicola-Jane Kemp
Stewart Kempster
Richard Kennedy
Christopher J Kent
Jeremy Kimber
Bernard King
James Kirby
Brigid Kirkland-Wilson
Helen Knight
Richard Knight
Elena Konstantinou
L
Vivien Laird
Richard Lakin
John Lambert
Deborah Lammin
Barry Lancaster
Robert Langston
Louise Lansdown
Julian Larkin
Vanessa Latarche
Dorina Latawska
Peter Lawson
Antony Le Fleming
Peter Lea-Cox
Paul Leddington Wright
David Leeke
Alexander L’Estrange
Kelvin Leslie
Michael Lewin
Richard Lewis
Christopher Liddle
Felicity Lipman
Nancy Litten
Ian Little
Josephine Lively
Angela Livingstone
Frank Lloyd
Richard Lloyd
Marion Long
Bang Hean Loo
Ian Lowes
James Lowry
Adrian Lucas
Peter Lynch
33
EX AMINERS
34
M
Christopher Mabley
Alexandra Mackenzie
Patricia MacMahon
Peter Madan
John Madden
Margaret Madeley
Harry Malpass
Neil Mantle
Richard Markham
Corinne Marsh
Anne Marshall
Mark Marshall
Jonathan Marten
Catherine Martin
Philip Martin
Ann Martin-Davis
Catherine Marwood
Hilary Mason
Louise Matthew
Gary Matthewman
Phyllida Maude-Roxby
Neil McFarlane
Colin McGuire
Margaret Murray McLeod
Julian McNamara
Anthony McNaught
Russell Medley
Delia Meehan
Simon Mercer
Rachel Meredith
Angus Meryon
Mary Methuen
Morag Michael
Beverley Miller
Sarah Miller
Andrew Millington
Alison Moncrieff-Kelly
Jane Money
Moyra Montagu
Mark Monument
Christopher Moore
J Stephen Moore
Andrew Morris
Alan Morrison
Kathryn Mosley
Daniel Moult
Philip Mundey
Hilary Murphy
David Murray
Roger Muttitt
N
Robert Neden
Robin Nelson
David Nettle
Bernard Newman
Janet Newman
James Nicolson
Peter Noke
Timothy Noon
Antonietta Notariello
O
Carole Oakes
Rosemary O’Connell
Peter O’Hagan
Dianne O’Hara
Jessica O’Leary
David Oliver
Nicholas Oliver
Michael Omer
Bernard O’Neill
Stephen Ostler
William O’Sullivan
Anthony Ovenell
Jean Owen
Jeannette Owens
P
Andrew Padmore
Neil Page
Robin Page
Rosalind Page
Christine Palmer
Simon Parkin
Christopher Pascoe
Fali Pavri
Janet Payne
Alison Pearce
Heidi Pegler
Robert Pell
Mary Pells
Nigel Penfold
Valerie Perrett
Muriel Phillips
Alan Pickard
Stephen Pinnock
Joe Polglase
David Ponsford
Mary Porter
Geoffrey Pratley
David Price
Gareth Price
Sarah Price
Scott Price
Malcolm Pritchard
Robin Proctor
Rebecca Prosser
Linda Pyatt
R
Elizabeth Randell
Peter Read
Jonathan Rennert
John Reynolds
Martin Richards
Sharon Richards
Tim Richards
Michael Ridley
Tim Ridley
Max Ritchie
Emyr Wyn Roberts
Stephen Robertson
Philip Robinson
Roy Robinson
Robert Rogers
Brenda Ross
Pete Rosser
Neil Roxburgh
Keith Rusling
S
Graham Salvage
Martin Sanders-Hewett
Victor Sangiorgio
Robert Saudek
Ingrid Sawers
Philip Sawyers
Roger Sayer
Nigel Scaife
Vanessa Scott
Nicholas Scott-Burt
Christopher Seed
Peter Selwyn
Margaret Semple
Howard Seymour
Polly Sharpe
Luan Shaw
Robert Shaw
Anthea Shepherdson
Susan Sheppard
Aaron Shorr
Lesley Shrigley Jones
Clive Simmonds
William Sivier
Philip Skelton
John York Skinner
Ruth Slater
Rodney Slatford
Iain Sloan
Jonathan Small
Catherine Smart
Michael Smedley
Eleanor Smith
Mark Smith
Sarah Smith
Susan Smith
Vanessa Smith
Brian Snary
John Snook
Jonathan Snowden
Ashley Solomon
Christopher Sparkhall
Nigel Speak
Alan Spedding
David Spencer
Grant Spencer
Nigel Spooner
Peter Stearn
Ralph Stenner
Christine Stevenson
Frederick Stocken
Richard Storry
Kevin Street
Karis Stretton
Lynette Stulting
Jennifer Sturgeon
Paul Sturman
Hilary Sturt
Susan Suart
Philip Sunderland
Adrian Sutcliffe
Alison Sutton
Christopher Swann
T
Robin Tait
Mark Tanner
Stephen Tanner
Carol Taylor
Clara Taylor
Jonathan Taylor
Karen Taylor
Matthew Taylor
Philip Taylor
Andrew Teague
Raphael Terroni
Gillian Thoday
Christina Thomas
Meurig Thomas
William Thomson
Christina Thomson
Jasper Thorogood
Annabel Thwaite
Helen Tierney
Christopher Tilbury
Colin Tipple
John Farquhar Todd
Barbara Tomlinson
Philippa Topham
John Treherne
Paul Trepte
Graham Trew
Margaret Turner
U
V
Alison Uren
Matthew Vine
Clement Virgo
W
Christopher Walker
Colin Walker
Geoffrey Walker
Martin Walker
Ian Wallace
Alison Waller
Ann Ward
Chris Ward
Jane Ward
John Wardle
John Ware
Edward Warren
David Warwick
Ian Warwick
Shuna Watkinson
Jane Watts
Malcolm Weale
Geoffrey Weaver
Daniel Webb
Hilary Webster
John Wells
Robin Wells
Timothy Wells
Barbara White
Martin White
Philip White
John Scott Whiteley
Anthony Whittaker
Frank Wibaut
Joanne Wicks
Mark Wildman
Steven Wilkie
Nigel Wilkinson
Jonathan Willcocks
Anthony Williams
David Williams
Gillian Williams
John Williams
Andrew Wilson
Ross Winters
Christopher Wood
Cynthia Wood
Joyce Woodhead
John Worthington
Steven Wray
Ian Wright
John Wright
Simon Wyatt
Julia Wynn
Y
Stephen Yeo
Michael Young
Z
Robin Zebaida
Theory of Music only
Eve Barsham
Derry Bertenshaw
Hugh Bowman
Brian Bussell
Alan Cuckston
Amy Dann
James Eastham
Terence Greaves
Graeme Hall
Philip Hamond Moore
Jane Huntington
Graham Ireland
Michael Jacques
Debra Jones
John Jordan
Nicholas King
Rayford Kitchen
Rebecca Learmont
Richard Lyne
Helen McAndrews
John Morehen
Angela Mundey
Gordon Munro
Alison Murfin
Michael Nicholas
David Patrick
David Pettit
David Pritchard
Stuart Rees
David Robinson
Michael Smith
Derek Stevens
Alan Tait
Alan Taylor
Alexandra Teal
Teo Li-Lin
Rosemary Walker
Meurig Watts
Percy Welton
William Whittle
Wallace Woodley
Elizabeth Worthington
Thank you
The following examiners retired
or resigned in 2009, and we
thank them for their dedicated
service.
Rory Boyle
Jane Crouch
Rodney Dawkins
David Eccott
David Garforth
Christopher Kent
Stephen Ostler
Peter Read
Obituary
Terence Greaves (1933-2009)
Terry was a consummate
musician, an inspirational
and delightful colleague, and
a devoted husband, father
and grandfather. He became
a Practical examiner in 1968
since when, right up until his
final short illness in December
2009, he gave invaluable
service not only in that sphere
of activity but also in the Theory
sector where, until recently, he
was Chief Theory Moderator.
Many candidates will know his
attractive compositions that
have frequently appeared on
syllabuses, and many more
will have performed (or at least
attempted) the considerable
body of test material that he
wrote for grade and diploma
exams.
CT ABRSM
MENTORS
R E P R E S E N TAT I V E S
Every member of our
130-strong mentor
panel is trained to help
teachers fulfil their
ambitions through
continuing professional
development courses.
The following members
of the panel served as
Certificate of Teaching
course leaders and
mentors for the
2008–09 one-year
courses and the 2009
fast-track course.
During 2009, over 500 representatives were involved
with the work of ABRSM around the world. They
have an immensely important role to play: assisting
with the local administration of exams; liaising with
teachers, pupils and parents; and organising a range
of activities including High Scorers’ Concerts and
seminars.
Hong Kong
Peter Noke
Emyr Roberts
Penny Stirling*
Indonesia
Akiko Iijima
Emyr Roberts
Penny Stirling*
United Kingdom
Bournville
(fast-track course)
Lydia Dalby
Jan Dobbins
Lauren Goldthorpe
Ruth Harte
Nigel Mainard*
Penelope Price Jones
Lee Stanley
Bristol
Helen Arnold
Carole Jenner-Timms
Brian Ley*
Marie Roberts
Edinburgh
Peter Noke
John Treherne*
Leo Turner
London
Joy Austen
David Barnard*
Mary Pells
Patricia Sabin
Janet Way
Manchester
Peter Argondizza
Walter Blair*
Naomi Kayayan
Tim Rogers
* Course leader
INTERNATIONAL
REPRESENTATIVES,
CONTACTS AND
HONORARY LOCAL
REPRESENTATIVES
Faroe Islands
Martin Mouritsen (Contact)
Andorra
Roser Palomero Vendrell
Germany
Edition Hinrichsen GmbH
(Thomas Stein)
Anguilla
Joycelynne Ashby
Antigua
Jean Esther Michael
Aruba
Revd Sydney Michael Jacob
(Contact)
Australia
Anastasia Nga Fong Chan
Ian Coss
John Masson
Elizabeth Pulsford
Gregory Smith
Judy Thönell
Austria
Joanne Klein
Bahamas
Elizabeth Thornton
Bahrain
Capt Rod Taylor
Bangladesh
Shantha P Gunasekera
(Contact)
Barbados
Milton Inniss
Belgium
Vera Bishop
Belize
Alice Williams
Bermuda
Antoinette Davis
Brunei Darussalam
Awg Hj Muhd Masa Masdi Bin
Muhd Sa’Idun
Bulgaria
Steve Todorov
Canada
Patricia Rolston
Cayman Islands
Fred Speirs
China
Guandong Zinghai Concert
Hall (Lin Pai Shi)
David & Shirley Gwilt
(Consultants)
Cyprus
The British Council (Emilia
Fiakkou Hadjicharou)
Czech Republic
David Talacko
Denmark
Kaj Nyvang (Contact)
Dominica
Catherine Daniel
Egypt
Dr Mohamed El Tobgy
Karim Frege (Contact)
Falkland Islands
Shirley Adams-Leach
(Contact)
France
Dr Atarah Ben-Tovim mbe
Steven Calvert
Joanne Walker
Ghana
West African Examinations
Council (E N K Adenku,
Theory only)
E B Takyi-Micah
(Practical only)
Gibraltar
Aurelio Gonzalez
Greece
Eftichia Adilini Bobis
Inga Forward Pediadiiti
(Contact)
Grenada
Jerome McBarnette mbe
Guyana
Daphne Rogers (Contact)
Hong Kong
Hong Kong Examinations
& Assessment Authority
(George Pang)
Petina Law
(Administrative Associate)
Dorcas Wong
(Administrative Associate)
Hungary
Eszter Nemeth
Iceland
Garðar E Cortes (Contact)
India
Regional Co-ordinators
Anthony Braganza
Gita Chacko
Stephen D’Cruz
Homai Desai
Carlos Álvares Ferreira
Ritesh Khokhar
HLRs
Sofy Abraham Thomas
Norbert Aneish Anto
Ravi Cyril Arthur
Philomena D’Cruz
Benita Fernandes
Lissamma John
James Kullathungal
Benjamin Marthand
Narendran Nair
António Peregrino Da Costa
Sudhin Prabhakar
A & Aparna Ram
Umarani Sankaranarayanan
Lisa Stewart
Jehangir Tabak
Thomas Varghese
Susan Verghis
Indonesia
Denis Umar
Italy
Calogero Amodio
Maria Dolores Amodio
Martin Biggs
Danilo Manto
Michele Massaro
Jamaica
Marie Clarke
Japan
Takuya Shigeishi
Norway
Lirica Yamase
Jordan
Kifah Fakhouri
Oman
Phillip Stallwood
Kenya
Kenya National
Examinations Council
Kenya Conservatoire of Music
(Atigala Luvai)
The Philippines
Aileen Ruzano
Korea (South)
Seungsil Chang
Kuwait
The British Council
(Rathna Kishore, Contact)
Luxembourg
Jacqueline Fleming
Macau
Jimson Hoi Kin Wa
Malawi
The British Council
(Doreen Kanjuchi)
Malaysia
Abdul Jalil Bin Abdul Hamid
Abdul Salim Bin Abdul Karim
Azian Muhamad Ariff
Sukhaimi Bin Basar
Abu Latifei Bin Mohd Thani
Johnny Bong
Che Wan Mohd Amil
Chen Lan En
Daud Bin Kassim
Juharani Bin Dollah
Alias Bin Mohamad
Mohd Sabri Bin Salleh
Nawal Binti Salleh
Sabudin Bin Mustafa
Sanapi Bin Mat Aris
Zaiton Bin Mohd Sari
Ramlan Zulfikri
The Maldives
Abdul Hannan Waheed
(Contact)
Malta
Maria Conrad
Mauritius
Mauritius Examinations
Syndicate (Lucien Finette)
Namibia
Dina Potgieter
The Netherlands
Karin Hollreiser
New Zealand
Heather Gummer (National
Co-ordinator)
HLRs
Gladys Armstrong
Judy Barrett
Wendy Bloomfield
Marjorie Booth
Rachel Brownrigg
Vin Carey
Lois Dalton
Dianne Dellow
Joan Gaines
Helen Govan
Erin Hall
Karen Hall
Evelyn Hatfield
Judy Knox
Jenny McDonald
Janice McIntyre
Marilyn Murray
Jan-Maree Parker
Beverley Peach
Laurie Rogers
Marios Sophocleous
Julie Sperring
Olga Stancliff
Joan Stichbury
Bev Underwood
Isabel Worboys
Nigeria
MUSON Centre
(Marion Akpata)
Poland
Mateusz Slojewski
Portugal
Prof Fátima Vieira
Qatar
Margaret MacKenzie
St Helena
Derek Henry (Contact)
St Kitts & Nevis
Dr Louisa Lawrence
St Lucia
John Bailey
St Vincent
Festus A Toney
Saudi Arabia
Egon Liepa (Contact)
Neil Hugo (Contact)
Neil Reynolds (Contact)
Serbia
Dr Dorian Leljak
Seychelles
David Chetty
Sierra Leone
Dr Kitty Fadlu-Deen (Contact)
Singapore
Singapore Symphonia
Company (Su-San Hay)
South Africa
Regional Co-ordinators
Jill Eichler
Meg Twyford
Ilse Van Der Walt
HLRs
M D Conradie
Runa Edeling
Mariela Engelbrecht
Leon Fouché
Elmien Mare
Rina Mare
Lisa Markovic
Patricia Ann Metcalf
Beverly Claire Moll
George Norman
Bernice Oberholzer
Pauline Roberts
Moira June Schäfer
Spain
Alison Jackson
María J Martínez
Ismael Perera
Kevin Robb
Juan Vázquez
Sri Lanka
Mano Chanmugam
Sweden
Hildur Elsie Eriksson
(Contact)
Vivianne Vikersjo
Gun-Marie Engström
Switzerland
David Smith
Taiwan
Shao I-Shih
Tanzania
National Examinations
Council of Tanzania
Aloys Ng’asi (Special
Scheme Co-ordinator)
Keiron White (Contact)
Thailand
Chorlada Bunnag
Trinidad & Tobago
Jessel Murray
35
R E P R E S E N TAT I V E S
36
Turkey
Maria Rita Epik
Barnsley
Rita Currie
Uganda
Simon Yiga
Barnstaple
Rowland Chapman
United Arab Emirates
Capt Richard Higgins obe rn
Ju Hua Zhu Li
Gabriele Leichtle-Malzahn
Suzanne Marie McKay
Bath
Pauline Sparrow
United States of America
C F Peters Corporation
(International
Administrative Agents)
Sally & Jeff Chen
Rose Marie Dunsford
Winnie S C Ip
Gelene Johnson
Dora Lee
Dr Lin Chiu-Ling
Margaret Liu
Ruth Mack
Nancy Maclachlan
Susan Mattson
Stephen Ng
Wesley Knox Ramsay III
& Carol McClure
Helga Swatzak
Dr Benita Tse
Belinda Wee
Vietnam
Elizabeth Druitt
Emma Morris
Beaconsfield
Michael & Sheila Newland
Bearsden & Paisley
Douglas McBay
Bedford
Rupert & Jenny Brown
Belfast
Carmel Gibson
Berwick-upon-Tweed
Denise Wilman
Beverley
Geoffrey & June Stephenson
Birmingham
Linda Martin
Bishop Auckland
Joan Johnson
Bishop’s Stortford
Steve Maddams
Blackburn
Paul Greenhalgh
Blackpool
Marilyn Stewart
Virgin Islands (British)
Dr Charles Wheatley obe
Blaenau Ffestiniog
Eirwen Langdown
Zambia
Moses Kalomo
Blandford Forum
Brian Levy
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe School
Examinations Council
Bognor Regis
Helen Phillips
IRELAND HONORARY
LOCAL REPRESENTATIVES
Boston
Owen Moorin
Cork
Fedelmia O’Herlihy
Dublin
Miriam Halpin
Galway
Joanne Cater
Limerick
John Davis
Waterford
Julie Quinlan
UNITED KINGDOM
HONORARY LOCAL
REPRESENTATIVES
Aberdeen
Judith Baker
Alnwick
Jennifer Young
Amersham
Pamela Hearn
Andover
Roslyn Penny
Ashburton
Sheila Harman
Ashford
Prue Forbes
Ayr
Norma Kelly
Banbury
June Headland
Bangor
Geraint & Meinir Lloyd Jones
Bangor (Co Down)
Sharon Forte
Bolton
Chris White
Bournemouth
Janet Allen
Bradford
Malcolm Dyson
Brecon
Hazel Gedge
Cardiff
Peter Fry
Yvonne Laurent
East Grinstead
Pauline Maynard
Simon Morris
Cardigan
Sarah-Jane Absolom
Miriel Griffiths
Eastbourne
Sally Munns
Carlisle
Elizabeth Reed
Edinburgh
Valerie Akhtar
Sheila Boyes
Carmarthen
Gilmour & Elaine Davies
Elgin
Pamela Gillan
Carrickfergus
Brian Lynas
Epsom
Sheila Colchester
Chandler’s Ford &
Winchester
Marion Silvester
Exeter
Vivien Goodwin
Pamela West
Chard
Shirley Long
Finstock
Celia Garrick
Chelmsford
Debra Cox
Folkestone
Christopher McNeilly
Cheltenham
David Webber
Frimley
David & Margaret Sandfield
Chepstow/Forest of Dean
Rosemary Griffiths
Glasgow
Jonathan Buchan
Chester
Colette Sarson
Gloucester
Janet Baldwin
Chesterfield
Christine Bishop
Gosport & Portsmouth
Neil & Karen Bennett
Chichester
Margaret Lloyd
Grantham
Carolyn Midgley
Chippenham
Sylvia Stables
Gravesend
Geoffrey & Valerie Dyke
Clacton-on-Sea
Brenda Ellis
Great Yarmouth
Margaret King
Clevedon
Robin Matthews
Greenock
Amy McMillan
Clitheroe
Catherine Carr
Grimsby
Anne Holmes
Cockermouth
Richard Bennett
Guernsey
Jane Langlois
Colwyn Bay
Dafydd Lloyd &
Catherine Jones
Guildford
Margaret Hennessey-Brown
Congleton
Roy & Patricia Page
Brentwood/Billericay
Jean Bader
Coventry
Paul & Sheila Leddington
Wright
Bridgend
Susan Mascall
Craigavon
Darren Canmore
Bridgwater
Kate Hewson
Crewe
Gwen Manley
Brighton
Jackie Chase
Valerie Robinson
Darlington
Mavis Robson
Bristol
Rodney Drew
Nigel Guzek
Bromsgrove
Meryl Davies
Burton-upon-Trent
Angela Moffat
Bury St Edmunds
Dee-Dee Dobell
Buxton
Gillian Morton
Caithness
Ann Warner
Calne
Mary Pilcher-Clayton
Cambridge
Christine Jones
Jennifer Thornton
Cannock
Andrew & Judith Bywater
Canterbury
Meryl Haskins
Denbigh
Morwen Murray
Derby
Margaret Clarke
Karen Eley
Dereham
Val Medlar
Dingwall & Inverness
Christina Cameron
Doncaster
Jean Stewart
Dorchester
Heather Reed
Dover
Elizabeth Weaver
Dumfries
Fiona Watson
Dundee
Avril Ogilvie
Durham
Christine Woods
Halifax
David & Margaret Whiteley
Harlow
Jane Steer
Harpenden
Caroline Marriott
Harrogate
Christine Brown
Hartlepool
Stephen Sild
Hastings
Mark Napier
Haverfordwest
Emma Halls
Haverhill
Allan Charlwood
Huntingdon
Elaine Williamson
Ipswich
Sue Lambert
Alan Munson
Isle of Man
Alan & Avril Pickard
Isle of Wight
Peter Marchant
Jersey
Malcolm Whittell
Kendal
Mary Powney
Kettering
Derek Miller
Keswick
Elaine Moor
Kidderminster
Jane Johns
William Wear
King’s Lynn
Sarah Felmingham
Kirkcaldy
Roger Weatherhogg
Lancaster
Dorothy Dickinson
Leamington Spa
David & Adrienne Lloyd
Leatherhead
Clare Harris
Leeds
Nicola Bagnall
Leicester & Loughborough
Burne Huttchins
Leighton Buzzard
Barbara Springthorpe
Lichfield
Karen Caddy
Lincoln
Sybil Greed
Liskeard & Plymouth
Victoria van der Vliet
Liverpool
Rosalind Werner
Llanelli
Hugh & Eirlys Roberts
London: Barnet
Myrna Edwards
London: Blackheath
Mary Moore
London: Croydon
Freda Lodge
London: Ealing
Shirley Phimister
London: Enfield
Gordon Giles
Haywards Heath
Gwyneth Paine
London: Finchley & Palmers
Green
Janice Twiselton
Helensburgh
Anne Binnie
London: Hampstead
Maureen Keetch
Hereford
Rhian Morris
London: Harrow
Anita MacDonald
Hertford
Richard & Kathleen Lord
London: Ilford
Shea Lolin
Hexham
Mary Finlinson
London: Romford
Jane Harder
Hitchin
Lisa Railton Jones
London: Sidcup
Janet D’Cruz
Horsham
Geoffrey Lunn
London: Streatham
Robert Webb
Huddersfield
Patricia Kenworthy
London: Surbiton
David & Pamela
Speed-Andrews
Hull
Rosemary Stones
CREDITS
London: Sutton
Geoffrey Barham
Marjorie Utting
London: Wimbledon
Ann Durrant
Londonderry
Heather Buick
Louth
Barbara & Tony Peebles
Lowestoft
Marilyn Zipfel
Maidstone
Karen Martin
Malvern
Eileen Wilson
Manchester
John Reade
Matlock
Peter Vale
Melton Mowbray
Elizabeth Sampson
Merthyr Tydfil
Maureen Prothero
Middlesbrough
Barbara White
Jean White
Milton Keynes
Mike James
Joy Shirley
Minehead
Vivien Irwin
Monmouth
Hilary Petrie
Morpeth
Liane Todd
Newark
Diana Robertson
Newcastle upon Tyne
Margaret Huntington
New Milton
Margaret Jarvis
Newport (Gwent)
Carole & Colin Rees
Newport (Salop)
Penny Westgate
Newry
Nuala Curran
Newton Stewart
William Lindsay
Northampton
Peter Dunkley
Northwich
June Wright
Norwich
Carmela Furniss
Anthony Joule
Nottingham
Barbara Burton
Sheila Middleton
Nuneaton
Jacqueline Stretton
Oldham
Brenda Gillespie
Orkney
Gemma McGregor
Oxford
Ruth Holleley
Paignton
Jo Dolman
Penzance
Gillian Poznansky
Perth
Sarah Safian
Peterborough
Jacqueline Over
Peterhead
Alistair MacDonald
Stirling
Pat Hutton
Poole
Judith Dutch
Stockport
Christopher Ellis
Porthcawl
Liz Dewhurst
Stoke-on-Trent
Geoffrey & Brenda Rainbow
Preston
Susan Phillips
Stourbridge
Gerald Johnson
Pwllheli
Griffith Wynn Williams
Stranraer
Charlotte Smith
Reading
Monica Roberts
Stratford-upon-Avon
Laurence & Rosemary Robson
Redhill
Pamella Semm-Skrzypecka
Stroud
Suzanne Barnes
Richmond (N Yorks)
Tim Jackson
Sunbury-on-Thames
Moira Edwards
Ringwood
Pauline Boyer
Sunderland
Anne Ward
Ripon
Jean Willimott
Sutton Coldfield
Barbara Howell
Rochdale
Michael Lucas
Swansea
Helen Hopkins & Alex Lewis
Rochester
Norman Blow
Swindon
Dawn Ball
Rotherham
Joy Crick
Tain
Christopher Williams
Rugby
Judy Price
Taunton
Hilary Daniel
St Albans
Vera Tufnell
Tenby
Janis Hartzell
St Andrews
Helen Russell
Thanet
Stuart Horsburgh
St Austell
Ann Fleet
Torquay
Keith Thompson
Salisbury
Elizabeth Weager
Tredegar
Stella Martin
Scarborough
Maureen Calvert
Truro
Michael Sadka
Scunthorpe
Jeffrey Blewett
Tunbridge Wells
Verna Keary
Selly Oak
Marjorie Palmer
Wakefield
Margaret Goss
Sevenoaks
Helen Isom
Warrington
Catherine Poole
Sheffield
Edward Woodhead
Watford
Sally Nicols
Richard Norwood
Sheringham & Cromer
Norman Moor
Shetland
Anne Halcrow
Shrewsbury
Grace Harvey
Sidmouth
Pamela Dunkley
Sittingbourne
Cynthia Swade
Skegness
Cherrie Dutton
Skipton
Christopher & Irene Truman
Ann Ware
Wells
Karen Foster
Welwyn Garden City
Daphne Barker
Weston-super-Mare
Philip & Margaret Hopes
Weymouth
Marilyn Mackenzie
Whitby
Barbara Anderson
Wigan
Graham Hart
Windermere
Janet McCallum
Solihull
Stephen Clarke
Wisbech
Dorothy Morris
Southampton
Alain Brumby
Fiona Willsher
Woking
Sheila Mansfield
Southend-on-Sea
Douglas Powell
Southport
Susan Sale
Spalding
Colin Faulkner
Stafford
Kevin Bennett
Wolverhampton
Richard Anderson
Worcester
Josephine Hunt
Worksop
Richard Leach
Yeovil
Kathryn England
York
Maurice Ridge
Thank you
The following representatives
stepped down during 2009, and
we thank them for all of their
work on behalf of ABRSM.
Design
300million
www.300million.com
International
Representatives
Jocelynne Ashby, Anguilla
Paula Collins, USA
Annette Jungjohann,
Germany
Michele Massaro, Rome
Vivianne Vikersjo, Sweden
Chris Christodoulou
(pages 4, 8, 9, 14, 20, 21)
UK & Ireland Honorary Local
Representatives
Isabel Anderson, Ayr
Molly Austin, Wakefield
Elizabeth Bell, Taunton
Vivienne Bott, Brighton
Eric Boyd, Ballymena &
Antrim and Ballymoney
Alexander Christie, Falkirk
Glen Clayton, Preston
Angela Dyball, Bury St
Edmunds
Janet Gray, Stockton-on-Tees
Hilary Holloway, Harrow
Audrey Jones, Streatham
Elaine Mills, Craigavon
Mary Organ, Canterbury
Elizabeth Pass, Bury
Julie Paisley, Kirkcaldy
Marilyn Richardson, Durham
Janice Sugg, Yeovil
Maureen Toyer, Luton
Anthony Veal, Solihull
Joan Williams, Wrexham
Helena Wright, Salisbury
Obituaries
Elizabeth Holliday
Elizabeth was HLR for Hemel
Hempstead, UK from 2002
until her death in April 2009.
She remained dedicated to
ensuring the smooth running
of exams despite illness in her
last few months. Examiners
will remember her for the
very warm welcome she
always gave at the centre.
Brian Olver
HLR for Burnley, UK for eight
years, Brian died in December
2009. A loyal and efficient
HLR, Brian was also a well
known music teacher and
organist for his local church,
which was used as a venue for
ABRSM exams.
Fred Speirs
Fred was our Representative
in the Cayman Islands from
July 2007, and passed away in
late 2009 after a short illness.
Fred was a highly motivated
individual who endeavoured
to help others realise their
potential by ensuring that
they had the chance to further
their education and learning.
Festus Toney
As our Representative in
St Vincent, Festus was an
integral part of ABRSM
operations in the West Indies
for many years. He was
dedicated to the service of
others, and his commitment
to music education ensured
that exams have been
provided every year since 1957.
Photography
Alan Pappe (pages 6-7)
Krakozawr (pages 22-23)
Medioimages/Photodisc
(pages 2-3)
Mizanur Rahman (pages 18-19)
Music for Youth (page 16)
Philip Taylor Photography
(pages 5, 17)
Royal College of Music (page 16)
Shutterstock
(Front and back cover)
Stockbyte (pages 24-25)
Tim Hawley (pages 8-9)
POSTLUDE
‘Secure in its beliefs, values and
practices, ABRSM can continue to
aspire to set international leading
standards in all that it does and
be bold in its developments in
the coming years’
Stewart Sutherland
Chairman, ABRSM
‘We will continue to look for ways
in which we can improve. Things
may change and progress, but
they will continue to be rooted in
the strongest traditions of ABRSM’
Guy Perricone
Chief Executive, ABRSM
Cover wrap printed
on revive 50:50 offset
A recycled paper produced from 50%
recovered waste and 50% virgin fibre
at a mill accredited with ISO 14001
environmental management standard.
The pulp used in this product is
bleached using a Totally Chlorine
Free process.
ABRSM
24 Portland Place
London W1B 1LU
United Kingdom
www.abrsm.org
Main section printed on revive 75 silk
A recycled paper produced from 75%
recycled waste at a mill accredited with
ISO 14001 environmental management
standard. The pulp used in this product
is bleached using an Elemental Chlorine
Free process.
Hedy King Robinson prizes
Supplement to pages 30-31
Hong Kong
Grade 6
Tsz Ngai Kam
Fengyi Li
Grade 8
Po Yau Chan
Sum Ming Samuel Chan
Lok Kan Chau
Ling Kit Cheung
Man Ting Ho
Manly Man Wai Lam
Wai Chun Lau
Wing Yin Lau
Mei Wun Leung
Fengyi Li
Wai Yin Mercury Tam
Ho Fung Tang
Hiu Nam Peggy Wu
Kin Man Yeung
Yiu Wah Yung