2018 – Trinity music blog

Trinity’s piano technical work – developing the all-round musician

14 June 2018

Trinity’s piano exams comprise three sections: pieces, supporting tests and technical work. The technical work section supports the development of technical skills by [read more...]

Exploring Trinity’s 2018-2020 piano exercises

14 June 2018

As part of the technical work section of a Trinity piano exam, students perform two exercises from three they’ve prepared – one chosen by them and one by the examiner. [read more...]

Ideas for teaching vocal exercises

4 May 2018

Following the publication of Trinity’s new Vocal Exercises Initial-Grade 8 book, we spent an afternoon exploring some of its short, fun mini-pieces with peripatetic singing [read more...]

Exploring Trinity’s new Vocal Exercises

30 April 2018

To support teachers and learners working towards a singing exam, Trinity recently published Vocal Exercises Initial-Grade 8. Accompanying Trinity’s new Singing 2018-2021 [read more...]

Meet the composer: Kay Charlton

13 March 2018

The repertoire of Trinity’s Piano 2018-2020 syllabus includes specially commissioned pieces by contemporary composers. Here we meet one of those composers, Kay Charlton, to [read more...]

Trinity meets pianist Alberto Menjón

27 February 2018

Alberto Menjón is a pianist educated in his home town of Zaragoza, Spain, and later in Dresden, Germany, where he is currently pursuing a Master’s degree at Hochschule [read more...]

Talk Trinity: What music means to us

23 February 2018

In this latest #TalkTrinity piece Nick Beach, Trinity’s Group Director of Strategy, talks about Trinity’s newly defined music values, and explains why we feel they are so [read more...]

Meet Trinity’s Music Examiner: Sheila Kent

30 January 2018

This month we meet music examiner Sheila Kent, and hear about her most memorable moments as an examiner, as well as her tips for candidates preparing to take a music exam. [read more...]

Choosing your singing repertoire

25 January 2018

With so much potential repertoire to choose from, putting together a programme for your student’s singing exam can be a challenge. We asked professional soloist, consort [read more...]