Friday Casual Concerts

The New School’s Friday Casual Concerts are a great opportunity for students of all instruments and genres to play in public, in a relaxed and supportive setting, before friends, family and other students. These brief concerts, which take place monthly on Friday evenings at 6.30 – 7.30 pm in the school, allow individual students and ensembles to perform in public, show off their skills and learn how to cope with nerves. They are also highly recommended for students preparing for exams.

Your teacher will recommend the best concert date(s) for you. Students of melody instruments or voice who require a school accompanist at a Casual Concert are asked to contribute €10 to help cover this cost.

2025-2026 Concert Dates

14 November 2025
12 December 2025
27 February 2026
27 March 2026
22 May 2026
19 June 2026

Virtual Concerts

In addition to our Friday Casual Concerts, we also have Virtual End-of-Term Concerts after each of our terms for students who would prefer to perform this way. For these concerts, students submit videos of their performances, which are then added to concert playlists on our YouTube Channel. Video submission deadlines are two weeks before the end of each term.

2025-2026 Video
Submission Deadlines

Term 1 Deadline • 29 November 2025
Term 2 Deadline • 14 March 2026
Term 3 Deadline • 6 June 2026

End-of-Year Concerts

Our annual End-of-Year Concerts take place in the National Concert Hall’s John Field Room in June and showcase some of our best students and ensembles, of all ages and in all music genres, as well as scholarship and prize winners of our annual Scholarship Competition. Performers are selected by their teachers and the school administration.

2026 End-of-Year Concert Date

To be confirmed.

End-of-Year Concert Videos

This section includes videos, in concert order, of our last End-of-Year Concert, which took place on 26 June 2025. Go to the next section for links to YouTube playlists of previous End-of-Year Concerts.

Wednesday Jazz Ensemble (1)

Wednesday Jazz Ensemble (2)

Selam Ines Kobach • Piano

Fu Fujimoto • Voice

Charlie Lynch • Piano

Andrew McMackin • Guitar

Jack O’Connor • Voice

Daniel Hun • Piano

Andrew Martin • Voice

Mark Kelleghan • Voice

Gráinne Lowe • Piano

Rosella Parenti • Voice

Séamus Collins • Piano

Noah Behan • Voice/Piano

Joan Healy • Voice/Guitar

Aoife Quinn • Voice

Sing Your Heart Out Choir (1)

Sing Your Heart Out Choir (2)

Sing Your Heart Out Choir (3)