Entry Deadline - 2017 Waltons Music for Schools Competition

Entry Deadline - 2017 Waltons Music for Schools Competition

Friday, 10 March 2017, 5.00pm

Now in its sixth year, the Waltons Music for Schools Competition is a non-profit national event celebrating music in Irish schools. The Competition annually awards a total of €10,000 worth of vouchers for musical instruments and equipment from Waltons Music, to be divided among six winning primary and post-primary schools, including two First Prizes of €3,000 vouchers, and music groups from twelve Finalist schools will have the opportunity to perform before their peers and distinguished adjudicators in a gala Finalists Concert at the National Concert Hall.

All primary and post-primary schools recognised by the Department of Education in the Republic of Ireland are eligible to enter the Waltons Music for Schools Competition. To date, schools from all 26 counties have participated.

To enter your school in the 2016 Competition, please send us – by Friday, 10 March 2017 – an entry form, photo and video of a single piece or song, performed by an instrumental, vocal or mixed group from your school (maximum 40 performers), that in some way addresses the 2017 Competition theme of ‘Music Has No Borders’. The entries can be in any genre or combination of genres – classical, popular, traditional, jazz, world, etc. – and can be performed by any combination of singers or instrumentalists you choose. Anything goes!

This is an opportunity for schools to work with any combination of students to develop a creative and original musical project that has learning potential at every stage of the process.

The Waltons Music for Schools Competition is presented by Waltons Music and Waltons New School of Music, in association with RTÉ lyric fm and the National Concert Hall.

2017 COMPETITION CALENDAR

Friday, 10 March, 5 pm • Entry Deadline
Deadline for schools to submit their entries (consisting of an entry form, video recording of the ensemble piece or song, and photograph).

10 – 21 March • Selection of Finalists
Twelve Finalist schools (six primary and six post-primary) are selected by our initial judging panel.

Wednesday, 22 March, 10 am – 12 pm • Announcement of Finalists
The twelve Finalist schools are announced by Liz Nolan on RTÉ lyric fm.
Finalist school videos are added to the Waltons Music for Schools Competition YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/waltonsmusicschools).

Tuesday, 2 May • Finalists Concert, National Concert Hall
The twelve Finalists school groups perform in a gala Finalists Concert. The six winning schools are announced after the concert.
Finalists Concert videos are added to the Music for Schools Competition YouTube channel.

MORE INFORMATION

Competition Web Page
www.newschool.ie/musicforschools 
Competition YouTube Channel
www.youtube.com/waltonsmusicschools 

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Published by Waltons on 9 December 2016

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