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.

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 18 & under
27 June 2025 • ages 19 & over

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.

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