Our Music Grade and Diploma exams are available both in digital and face-to-face formats.
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Continuing Trinity’s ground-breaking syllabus approach, all pieces in the Violin Exam Pieces from 2020 books continue to be valid for the exams, and both these and the brand-new Violin Exam Pieces from 2025 books will remain valid indefinitely*, offering a constantly growing collection of repertoire for learners to enjoy. There’s no need to stop playing what you love — choose what inspires you and perform it your way.
Book all music exams via your local Trinity representative.
Build authentic skills
Develop the skills that are specific to your instrument and authentic to the performer you want to be. A combination of bowing exercises and performance-led studies, along with orchestral extracts, develops essential and authentic skills and techniques progressively through the grades.
Explore diverse repertoire
Our strings specialists have developed wide-ranging repertoire lists, which now features more female composers and contemporary works. Pieces have been selected to develop expressive playing and instrument-specific techniques, and include a diverse range of styles and genres.
Benefit from industry expertise
Use the syllabus, supporting books and online resources, developed with prominent string players, to explore our exams and see where they can take you.
We offer Strings exams from Initial to Grade 8. The Initial exam acts as an introduction to the exam system for new performers.
Full details (including our procedures, syllabus requirements, what to expect, and what to bring with you) can be found in our Information & Regulations.
Discover a range of resources to support Trinity’s Strings Syllabus.
NoteLab Music is a powerful resource available to teachers, parents and students to support lessons, personalise music choices, build technique, maintain engagement and track progress.
Our Theory of Music syllabus responds to modern teaching and learning styles and can be taken as a paper-based exam or as on on-demand digital exam.
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