Violin 2025 Initial

This book contains 12 newly selected pieces for Trinity Violin Initial 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. 

Follow the Yellow Brick Road (from The Wizard of Oz) (Arlen, arr. Wyatt)

On the Go (no. 5 from Cool Beans) (Cobb & Yandell)

Lazy Dayz (Dryer-Beers)

La Puertorriqueña (The Puerto Rican Woman) (Seraphine Gotay, arr. Dryer-Beers)

The Little Boat that Rocked (Mainwaring)

My Fairy Swing (no. 9 from Tunes for My Violin) (Murray & Tate)

Canon (Pachelbel, arr. Beach & Dryer-Beers)

Coulter’s Candy (Trad., arr. Wood)

Cayo Coco (Walshaw)

The Cleveland Bay (Walshaw)

Lean on Me (Bill Withers, arr. Wyatt)

Polka (Wohlfart, arr. Nelson)