musical instruments - grades

[YellowLawn]

how do they compare internationally?
dc have just done their grade 1 and I wonder how we could 'transfer' should we move to another eu country?

Which exam board is it? Once I know this, I will try to help.

Associated Board and Trinity exams are the same, worldwide. AEB is broadly equivalent too.

it's the abrsm

I just don't remember grading exams from my school in forrin. we had entry exams for orchestras/ensembles and if course college entry if you wanted to study.

Not in uk and no grade exams here so there would be nothing to transfer iyswim

Externally adjudicated exams run by a national board are very much an anglophone thing. I'm not aware of anything similar elsewhere, except in Canada and Australia.

We are in France where serious music students study at publicly funded music schools ("conservatoire") with competitive entry and a formal syllabus. The curriculum is divided into cycles which are subdivided into years (broadly equivalent to grades), with exams at the end of each cycle in the form of an audition in front of a jury. But there is really nothing equivalent to an ABRSM exam and they probably wouldn't even know what that was. Entry is via audition so they know what level the student is at.

Obviously you can just stick with ABRSM as a foreign candidate if you can find a teacher who will prepare for them (should be easy enough in most large european cities).

If you are, and plan to remain in Europe, ABRSM exams are available in most countries. Trinity exams have been accredited as having the same weight/ breadth of learning, so if you ever had to transfer, at least you'd know that they are equivalent. Different in certain ways, but the same level of difficulty.