Trinity College London Piano Exam Pieces Plus Exercises From 2021: Grade 6: 12 pieces plus exercises for Trinity College London exams 2021-2023
Trinity College London Press
Overall, this is one of the most enterprising, original and intriguing selections of music in any grade exam syllabus I can recall! To have Fanny Hensel, Fibich, David Earl and Alan Bullard as bedfellows – not to mention the likes of Philip Lane, Theodore Chanler, Paul Harris, Thomas Peter-Horas, Ludwig Schytte and Anton Eberl – is little short of extraordinary. I freely confess to never having heard the names of some of these fascinating figures, let alone listened to their music! Quite the embarrassment of fascinating riches. Space forbids more than a fleeting mention of some of this colourful material but do check out the post-Schumannesque richness in At Miss Florence’s (David Earl) as well as the fast metre changes in Alan Bullard’s 8th Prelude from 2017. Clearly Trinity Grade 7 could prove an education for pedagogues as much as for pupils.
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