TCL Violin Exam Pieces from 2025: Grade 8

Description

** Available from September 2025 – Pre-order now **

TCL Violin Exam Pieces from 2025: Grade 8 contains 12 newly selected pieces for Trinity Violin Grade 8 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.

TCL Violin Exam Pieces from 2025: Grade 8:

• Hoe-Down (from Rodeo) (Copland)
• Methuen Home for Children 1957 and Main Theme (from The Queen’s Gambit) (Rafael Rivera, arr. Wyatt)
• Orange Blossom Special (Thomas Rouse, arr. Wilson)
• Marrocai (Smart)
• Dark Eyes (Ochi Chyorniye) (Trad., arr. Wilson & Wood)
• Danza Pastorale, Allegro (3rd movt from Concerto in E, ‘La primavera (Spring)’, op. 8 no. 1, RV 269) (Vivaldi)
• Dance (Żifna) (1st movt from Violin Sonata) (Vella Gregory)
• Eulogy (Sutton)
• Romanze (2nd movt from Violin Concerto no. 2, op. 22) (Wieniawski)
• Remembrances (from Schindler’s List) (Williams)
• Will Ye No Come Back Again (Wilson)
• Rendez-vous à Paris (Wood)