Trinity College London Piano Exam Pieces Plus Exercises From 2021: Grade 8

This book contains a selection of 12 pieces for the Trinity Piano Grade 8 exam, carefully chosen, graded and edited by a panel of experts, along with informative performance notes to help students and teachers get the most out of the repertoire. It also includes the exercises required for the exam, which have been newly composed for the syllabus. Encompassing a wide range of styles and genres at every grade and with more pieces in each book than ever before, this progressive series provides a wealth of engaging repertoire for any pianist. An extended edition of this book is also available. This includes everything in this book along with the scales and arpeggios for the grade, an ebook of nine extra pieces (with performance notes) and downloadable audio for all 21 pieces. Note: Effective immediately, Trinity’s Piano 2021-2023 Exam Pieces syllabus books will no longer operate with an end date, and the pieces they contain will remain listed in the syllabus indefinitely. Any planned changes, or removal of pieces listed in the syllabus will be messaged out with a one-year overlap period. Trinity will be gradually amending the covers on these books upon reprint to ‘from 2021’, however there are books with the previous date range. In those cases, the change to syllabus arrangements overrides the dates printed on the cover of the book. Trinity’s 2021 Piano books will be indefinitely valid alongside the new 2023 Piano books. Full information about current syllabus arrangements can be found at:

There is a delicious mixture of the traditional and the unfamiliar in the final grade’s diverse list of options. On the one hand, regular favourites that appear just as much in past Grade 8 ABRSM as Trinity syllabuses are in evidence (Mozart Sonata in B flat K570 and Debussy’s Minstrels). On the other, it is refreshing and stimulating to see works by living composers, as well as shockingly neglected figures from past generations. We really are spoilt for choice in a syllabus that truly caters for just about everyone.
Murray McLachlan, European Piano Teachers Association, August 2020

.…when it comes to syllabus design that supports educational and musical excellence, it now seems to me that TCL have delivered the new number one choice, a syllabus that ticks every box. Welcome to the new “Gold Standard".
Andrew Eales, pianodao.com, August 2020

The exceptionally wide-ranging, new piano syllabus launched by Trinity last week goes out of its way to provide maximum flexibility and opportunity for candidates to flourish. The two-list format is quite different from ABRSM, and even though numerous pieces in both boards interchange and connect from grade to grade, the current Trinity list prioritises flexibility and freedom of choice to an exceptional extent. The sheer number of choices on offer is staggering, and though past syllabus material is present, the fact that candidates themselves have not known the music previously means that they are presented throughout the whole selection with an extremely diverse and contrasted range.
Murray McLachlan, European Piano Teachers Association, August 2020

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