We congratulate the private teachers, music schools, conservatoria and schools who achieved excellent results for the 2025 examination year. The honour roll appears below.

Most outstanding private teacher preliminary to grade 6 - keyboard    

• Olena Nikulina

Other commendations (alphabetical order)    

• Sarah Chen
• Shidi Chen
• Marie…

On Sunday 9 March 2025, AMEB (NSW) held their annual presentation ceremony at UNSW to honour students and teachers who excelled during 2024. Deputy CEO of NESA and deputy chair of the AMEB (NSW) board Paul Daniell acted as master of ceremonies for the event. 

680 people attended an afternoon of music and speech performances along with the conferring of AMEB diplomas and teaching awards. 223 diplomas were conferred, with 7…

Options for most practical exams include the Comprehensive and Repertoire formats. Visit the Subjects section of our website (www.ameb.nsw.edu.au/subjects) before you pay for your enrolment. This will ensure that you choose the correct subject code for each of your candidates and avoid any additional fees or nasty surprises on their exam day.

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The repertoire exam format is an exam option available for preliminary to grade 8 as an alternative to comprehensive (traditional) grade exams. 

Aural tests, sight reading, general knowledge and technical work are not examined in this type of exam. The candidate instead performs a program of four or five works only (depending on the grade and syllabus requirements), and the result achieved is based purely on…

Jade Park sat for her first trumpet exam with AMEB (NSW) at the age of 7. Over the next decade, she successfully completed twenty AMEB exams across six different subjects.  Jade’s AMEB journey culminated with receiving the Licentiate of Music (LMusA) for both oboe and trumpet in her early teens.

Wagga Wagga piano teacher Leonie Hunter began her association with AMEB in 1979 as a young child learning piano from the nuns at St Joseph's Convent in the small NSW town of Narrandera. 

She continued her studies into her teenage years and played piano as part of her music studies for her HSC. Leonie achieved her AMusA for piano in 1990, under the tutelage of Keith Radford, the director of the Wagga Wagga Conservatorium of…

The Sydney Morning Herald recently published an article about the fear of public speaking. The article shared that Chapman University in the USA published a survey that cited the fear of public speaking to be just behind a fear of sharks and ahead of a fear of snakes and spiders. In the UK, fear of public speaking was the third most common fear after a fear of heights and spiders.1

The study says between 60 and 70 per cent…

The NSW Government funds a Creative Kids program as an initiative to encourage NSW children to participate in the arts and explore their creativity.

Parents, guardians and carers can apply for a voucher with a value of up to $100 per calendar year for each student aged 4.5 to 18 years old enrolled in school. The voucher may be used with a registered activity provider for registration, participation and tuition costs for a…

AMEB (NSW) required all videos to be uploaded to YouTube with an Unlisted privacy setting to protect the candidate’s privacy. Child welfare and online safety has always been a priority of AMEB (NSW) so we will always evolve our processes to support child online protection policies.

In recent weeks YouTube has changed the enforcement of their Child safety policy to disallow presentation of photo ID on all videos uploaded to…

AMEB (NSW) recommends that all enrollers using YouTube should review their account from time to time and remove old videos that are no longer required.

• All videos from previous years should be removed.
• Please do not delete videos uploaded in the current year until the end of December, as stated in the Guidelines on the …