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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...]

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...]

Trinity at the EPTA Conference 2017

11 October 2017

Govind Kharbanda, Trinity’s Product Support Manager for Music, recently attended the EPTA Conference 2017, at which Trinity was an exhibitor and sponsor. Here, he gives us [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...]

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...]

Letter from New Delhi

15 November 2015

Trinity exams happen in over 60 countries around the world. We know that exams can be stressful times, so the Trinity team works tirelessly behind the scenes to keep things [read more...]