Ideas for teaching vocal exercises
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...]
Trinity Music Syllabuses
Exploring Trinity’s new Vocal Exercises
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
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...]
Talk Trinity: Piano syllabus Q&A – Foundation
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
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
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
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...]
New 2017-2020 Flute syllabus
My name is Clara and I trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in Orchestral Flute. From the moment I began playing it was the voice of the flute, combined with my [read more...]
New Strings Syllabus Q&A
The new Trinity College London strings syllabus for 2016 – 2019 was released in July last year. Two members of our string examiner panel, Anna Dryer-Beers and Liz [read more...]