Pitch

• Highly accurate notes and intonation

Time 

• Fluent, with flexibility where appropriate
• Rhythmic character well conveyed

Tone

• Well projected
• Sensitive use of tonal qualities

Shape 

• Expressive, idiomatic musical shaping and detail

Performance 

• Assured
• Fully committed
• Vivid communication of character and style

Pitch 

• Largely accurate notes and intonation

Time 

• Sustained, effective tempo
• Good sense of rhythm

Tone 

• Mainly controlled and consistent
• Good tonal awareness

Shape 

• Clear musical shaping, well-realised detail

Performance 

• Positive
• Carrying musical conviction
• Character and style communicated

Pitch 

• Generally correct notes
• Sufficiently reliable intonation to maintain tonality

Time 

• Suitable tempo
• Generally stable pulse
• Overall rhythmic accuracy

Tone 

• Generally reliable
• Adequate tonal awareness

Shape 

• Some realisation of musical shape and/or detail

Performance

• Generally secure, prompt recovery from slips
• Some musical involvement

Pitch 

• Frequent note errors
• Insufficiently reliable intonation to maintain tonality

Time 

• Unsuitable and/or uncontrolled tempo
• Irregular pulse
• Inaccurate rhythm

Tone 

• Uneven and/or unreliable
• Inadequate tonal awareness

Shape 

• Musical shape and detail insufficiently conveyed

Performance

• Insecure, inadequate recovery from slips
• Insufficient musical involvement

• Consistently well-projected and involved, showing strong performance commitment and conviction
• Effective sequence and pacing of chosen programme; consistently good performance awareness and control

• Consistently effective stylistic characterisation; interpretative demands of the programme well met
• Consistently good awareness and control of textures and ensemble, with effective blending and balancing

• Consistently assured and controlled; technical challenges of the programme well met
• Consistently effective instrument management, fully responsive to the performance situation

• Mainly well-projected and involved, showing positive performance commitment
• Largely effective sequence and pacing of chosen programme; mainly good performance awareness and control

• Mostly effective stylistic realisation; interpretative demands of the programme largely well met
• Mainly good awareness and control of textures and ensemble, with appropriate blending and balancing

• Effectively controlled; most technical challenges of the programme well met
• Mostly effective instrument management, mainly responsive to the performance situation

• Projection and involvement sufficient to maintain an overall sense of performance
• Sequence and pacing of chosen programme shows adequate performance awareness and control

• Sufficient stylistic realisation to meet the interpretative demands of the programme
• Adequate awareness and control of textures and ensemble, with sufficient blending and balancing

• Generally controlled; technical challenges of the programme securely met overall
• Sufficiently reliable instrument management to meet the demands of the performance situation

• Insufficient projection or sense of involvement to maintain a sense of performance
• Sequence and/or pacing of chosen programme shows inadequate performance awareness or control

• Stylistic realisation not equal to the interpretative demands of the programme
• Insufficient awareness or control of textures and ensemble, and/or unsuitable blending and balancing

• Consistency of control insufficient to meet the technical challenges of the programme
• Insufficiently reliable instrument management to meet the demands of the performance situation