School Concerts
Waltons New School of Music
‘Don’t play the notes. Play the meaning of the notes.’
– Pablo Casals
‘I thank you in advance for the great round of applause I am about to get.’
– Bo Diddley
There is more to music education than lessons and practice, and learning to play both with and in front of others are as important as developing your technique and musicianship. Our monthly Friday Casual Concerts, as well as our End-of-Term and End-of-Year Concerts, are excellent opportunities to develop your performance skills in a relaxed and supportive setting.
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 7 – 8 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.
2024-2025 Concert Dates
25 October 2024 • ages 19 & over
22 November 2024 • ages 18 & under
13 December 2024 • End-of-Term concert, all ages
14 February 2025 • ages 19 & over
14 March 2025 • ages 18 & under
11 April 2025 • End-of-Term concert, all ages
30 May 2025 • ages 19 & over
27 June 2025 • ages 18 & under
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.
2024-2025 Video
Submission Deadlines
Term 1 Deadline • 30 November 2024
Term 2 Deadline • 29 March 2025
Term 3 Deadline • 14 June 2025
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.
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2025 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 24 June 2024. Go to the next section for links to YouTube playlists of previous End-of-Year Concerts.
John Mardirosian • Welcome & Scholarship Presentations
Emmagene Cooke • Voice
Daniel Hunter • Voice/Piano
Helen McDermott • Voice/Guitar
Alana Satterthwaite • Piano
Lucy Stack • Voice
Jackie Eglinton & Andriy Blyznyuk • Piano
Aoife Quinn • Voice
Emmy Huang & Andrew Keeling • Flutes
Suzanne McEnaney • Voice/Guitar
James McHugh • Voice
Yi Lu • Piano
Katrina Ellison • Voice
Philip Maguire • Voice/Piano
Amélie Kiefer & Gaia Sessa • Irish Harps
Rossella Parenti • Voice
Noah Behan • Voice/Piano
Julie Cruickshank • Piano
Wednesday Jazz Ensemble 1
Wednesday Jazz Ensemble 2
Past End-of-Year Concert Video Playlists
Playlists of videos from the New School’s End-of-Year Concerts, which took place in the National Concert Hall’s John Field Room (except our 2020 – 2022 concerts, which were virtual), can be viewed on the New School’s YouTube Channel. The channel also includes videos from other school concerts.
2015 Concert Playlist
2016 Concert Playlist
2017 Concert Playlist
2018 Concert Playlist
2019 Concert Playlist
2020 Concert Playlist
2021 Concert Playlist
2022 Concert Playlist
2023 Concert Playlist
2024 Concert Playlist