A collaborative process to create music performance assessment criteria for disabled young musicians

Description

This paper charted the collaboration of Open Up Music, an organisation running inclusive and open orchestras across the UK, with ABRSM, a global music exam board, in creating attainment descriptors for their young musicians. The paper discussed the existing marking criteria model, ways we can measure the right things in music performance and some of the challenges of implementing attainment descriptors with music leaders and young musicians.

Period	27 Jun 2025
Held at	University of Surrey, United Kingdom