Trinity College London Violin Exam Pieces from 2025: Grade 8

Due to be released in September 2025

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This book contains 12 newly selected pieces for Trinity Violin exams from 2025, carefully chosen, graded, and edited by a panel of experts. It includes informative performance notes to help students and teachers get the most out of the repertoire, plus downloadable demo and accompaniment tracks to aid learners’ practice and performance.

Encompassing a hugely expanded range of styles and genres, the 2025 Violin books contain Western classical, folk from around the world, and jazz- and Latin-inspired pieces, plus arrangements of global pop hits, and pieces from stage and screen.

This book can be used in conjunction with Trinity's 2020 Violin books, which remain valid for use in exams indefinitely. Pieces in this book can be performed for Trinity digital (repertoire-only or technical pathway) or face-to-face exams.

• Finale (3rd movt from Concertino) (Bacewicz)
• Allegro moderato (4th movt from Sonatine in G minor, D 408) (Schubert)
• Air, Strathspey and Reel (The Yellow Haird Laddie, Cutting Ferns, Gladstone) (Trad., Trad., & Scott Skinner, arr. Wood)
• Kaval Sviri (Trad., arr. Wilson & Wood)
• Ticaraca Tchoub (Trad., arr. Smart)
• Corrente (2nd movt from Sonata in D minor, op. 2 no. 3) (Vivaldi)
• Idylle (Esquisse façile, op. 4 no. 1) (Elgar)
• Atraente (Gonzaga, arr. Borter)
• Ladies in Lavender (Hess)
• Can I Be Franc? (Mainwaring)
• Counting Stars (OneRepublic) (Tedder, arr. Walshaw)
• A Gentle Breeze (Wood)