Trinity Music Grade Exams

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...]

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...]

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...]

Talk Trinity: The benefits of singing in a foreign language

7 December 2017

Trinity’s new Singing 2018-2021 syllabus has been created to encourage learners to explore as wide a range of songs as possible, allowing them to develop their own musical [read more...]

Talk Trinity: Piano syllabus Q&A – Foundation

31 July 2017

We marked the launch of our new Piano syllabus by inviting our friends in the Piano Network UK Facebook group to send Peter Wild, Trinity’s lead senior examiner, their [read more...]

Talk Trinity: The values behind our new Piano syllabus

11 July 2017

Peter Wild, lead senior examiner for Trinity College London, explains the values that underpin some of the choices for the new Trinity piano syllabus ahead of the first exams [read more...]

Talk Trinity: The relevance of the graded music exam today

4 July 2017

Does the graded music exam still provide a relevant musical pathway for young people? ‘In many ways, the graded music exam is an extraordinary success story. What other [read more...]

BBC Music Day – Ten Pieces

15 June 2017

To celebrate their Music Day on 15 June 2017, the BBC is running Ten Pieces to encourage learners to ‘get creative with classical music’: The repertoire lists put [read more...]