[All 3 Days] LRSM/FRSM Performance and ARSM/LRSM Teaching Dip Seminar

*This is a 3 day event which will run from April 15-17 9am to 5pm each day.

Emeritus Professor Edward Ho is very happy and excited to share his years of knowledge on selected Piano Diploma, LRSM & FRSM works to all valuable teachers and students. The bulk of the time in the seminar on Performance Diplomas will be focused on how to write programme notes and how to analyse the selected pieces to inform performance. Limited time will be set aside to play through part of the pieces.

LRSM/FRSM PIANO PERFORMANCE and ARSM/LRSM PIANO TEACHING

This three-day seminar is designed for those who are contemplating preparing themselves or teaching their pupils for the new online LRSM/FRSM Piano Performance or ARSM/LRSM Piano Teaching diploma exam.

DAYS 1 & 2 LRSM/FRSM PERFORMANCE
The new online LRSM/FRSM Performance exam requirements include Unit 1 Performance
and Unit 2 Written Submission or Spoken Delivery. The entire Day 1 and the morning of
Day 2 will be devoted to LRSM Performance. Discussion of FRSM Performance will follow
from mid-morning of Day 2.

Discussions will focus on strategies in programme planning and will highlight the important
performance issues relating to style and interpretation with in-depth analysis of selected
pieces (listed below). Sample programmes will be provided. Selected works will be
analysed and discussed in terms of written submission under four options listed below.

1. Informing your audience
2. Detailed analysis of a work or works
3. Programming your performance
4. Preparation for performance

ARSM Performance will not be included in this seminar, since Prof Ho already did it in
2023. However, Prof Ho will be happy to answer questions on ARSM Performance in the
additional FREE session on Day 4.

The morning of Day 3 will be devoted to the new online ARSM Teaching, and the
afternoon to the new online LRSM Teaching. Discussions will focus on topics for video
submission and written commentaries, as well as preparation for viva voce.

There will be a FREE session in the afternoon of Day 4. Teachers can ask questions
related to any diploma examination or discuss ARSM Performance pieces if they
wish. Prior notification should be given to the organiser from Yamaha so that the
relevant scores to be prepared in advance for Prof Ho.

LIST OF WORKS FOR DISCUSSION:
Copies with Prof Ho’s annotations will be provided for works marked with *.

LRSM
Bach Chromatic Fantasy & Fugue*
Prelude & Fugue no 8 from Part 1*
Partita no 5*
Scarlatti Sonata K426 & 427*
Haydn Sonata no 52*
Mozart Sonata K457*
Beethoven Sonata Op 31 no 2 ‘Tempest’
Schubert Sonata D959*
Chopin Ballade no 4
Fantasy
Scherzo no 2
Liszt Sonetto 104*
Granados The Maid and the Nightingale from Goyescas no 4*
Debussy Reflets dans l’eau*
Pagodes*
Ravel Jeux d’eau*

FRSM
Bach Partita no 6*
Beethoven Sonata Op 57 ‘Appassionata’
Sonata Op 109
Sonata Op 110
Schubert Sonata D959*
Brahms Sonata no 3 Op 5*
Grainger In Dahomey*

ARSM/LRSM IN MUSIC TEACHING

The new online teaching diploma content includes:

Unit 1A: Music Teaching in Practice
ARSM: Submission of a video of 30 minutes (+/- 10%) and
Supporting Commentary: 1500 words (+/- 10%), or Spoken 8 minutes
Assessment: 15 marks of diploma (30% of diploma)
LRSM: Submission of a video of 45 minutes (+/- 10%) and
Supporting Commentary: 3000 words (+/- 10%), or Spoken 16 minutes
Assessment: 30 marks (40% of diploma)

Unit 1B: Music Teaching in Context
ARSM/LRSM: Written submission 2000 words (+/- 10%), or Spoken 10 minutes
Assessment: ARSM 15 marks (30% of diploma)
LRSM 15 narks (20% of diploma)

Unit 2: Reflective Practice and Professional Values
ARSM: 30-minute Viva Voce with an examiner using video conferencing software
LRSM: 40-minute Viva Voce with an examiner using video conferencing software
Assessment: ARSM 20 marks (40% of diploma)
LRSM 30 marks (40% of diploma)
(Note: For more detailed information, please consult the ABRSM website: Teaching
Qualification Specifications.)

Day 3

- Morning will be devoted to ARSM
- Afternoon on LRSM
The topics for discussion will include:
Options in making a video
Guidelines in submitting supporting commentaries
Topics for written submission
Preparation for viva voce

ABOUT EMERITUS PROFESSOR EDWARD HO
Born in Hong Kong, Professor Edward Ho obtained the LRSM in Piano Performance
at the age of 17. Upon graduating in Geography & Geology from the Hong Kong
University, he moved to England on a scholarship to study music at Trinity College of
Music and the Royal School of Church Music. It was at Trinity that another
scholarship enabled him to study music for the BMus at Durham University, which
was duly completed within an incredibly short time of eighteen months of study. The
MMus and the prestigious award in 1975 of the higher doctorate of DMus inevitably
followed. Emeritus Prof Ho’s expertise and versatility have made him a well sought-
after teacher and mentor in performance and theoretical studies. During his time in
Kingston University, he was also a member of the Music Board under the former
Council for National Academic Awards. He had been an ABRSM examiner for 20
years and has examined many times in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong. Prof
Ho now lives in London and divides his time between private teaching both face-to-
face and online, public lecturing, consultation, and video recording of music courses
for China.

MORE INFORMATION

• 2 tea refreshments and 1 lunch available daily
• A $10 voucher will be given to each participant to purchase music books at the books display store at Concorde Hotel
• Selected annotated scores will be given to each participant who signs up for the seminar(only applicable to participants who sign up for the full 3-day or Day 1 & 2 only seminar).
• Q & A will also be given to all upon registration at the workshop counter
• *A complimentary chit-chat session with Prof Ho on Friday 18 April at Thomson Plaza from 12 pm to 3.30 pm (only applicable for those who signed up for the 3 full days seminar)