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ABRSM, the world's leading authority on musical assessment, has launched an app to help people practise and improve their musical aural skills which form part of ABRSM's internationally renowned graded music exams.

ABRSM has announced a new partnership with Music for Youth (MFY), the music education charity providing free access to performance and audience opportunities for young musicians across the UK.

The first NYO Inspire Day, supported by ABRSM and set up to encourage young people to develop their individual and group music-making skills, will take place in April this year.

ABRSM is pleased to announce the appointment of Lincoln Abbotts, currently Chief Executive of Music for Youth, to the new position of Teaching and Learning Development Director with effect from April 2012.

ABRSM, the world's leading authority on musical assessment, and the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain (NYO), will announce details of a new partnership tonight encouraging young people to develop their individual and group music-making skills.

ABRSM welcomes the publication of The Importance of Music - A National Plan for Music Education and the fact that the Government recognises the transformative power of a good music education.

ABRSM is delighted to announce its sponsorship of Vocal Futures, a UK-based foundation aiming to identify, involve and inspire young people to 'engage with classical music and in particular large scale choral music, performed in unusual spaces'.

ABRSM, the world's leading authority on musical assessment, and the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA) are pleased to announce a new scholarship for students attending the Academy's School of Music.

ABRSM, the world's leading authority on musical assessment, has launched a new International Sponsorship Fund as part of its ongoing commitment to support and encourage music learning throughout the world.

Lang Lang, the Chinese concert pianist - who will be performing at the Last Night of the Proms in London on Saturday - has voiced his support for ABRSM's work in Hong Kong ahead of a concert which celebrates the organisation's 60th anniversary in the city-state.