Previous Events
Click on the dates to read previous reviews and flick through the galleries below to see some of the previous performances, masterclasses and events NESMS pupils and tutors have been involved in through the years. We are regularly updating these galleries so be sure to check back.
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Previous Concert Reviews
Cowdray Hall Lunchbreak Concerts
3 March 2023 - Hannah Magill, Scott Manson
3 November 2022 - Eve Begg, Chenghong Zhu, Charlotte Slater
12 March 2020 - Stephanie Walker, Aaron Magill, Emily Gow, Shirley Magill
27 February 2020 - St Margaret's All Stars!
18 October 2018 - Joseph Long : Debussy
12 April 2018 - Joseph Long : Balakirev
7 April 2018 - Roger Williams, Margaret Preston, Margaret Hearne and Gillian Jack
5 October 2017 - Christopher Smith, Isla Cartney, Ngoni Masiyakurima, Imogene Newland
27 April 2017 - Joseph Long: Sibelius, Bartók, John Ireland
19 January 2017 - Lisa Milne and Harry Williamson
1 December 2016 - Joseph Long : Chopin
10 November 2016 - NESMS Flute Choir
28 April 2016 - Joseph Long : Mozart
19 November 2015 - Rachel Groves, Alex Brown, Benedict Stammeijer, Drew Tulloch
28 May 2015 - Ian Wilson, Roger Williams
3 February 2015 - Joseph Long : Beethoven
11 December 2014 - Fiona Marshall, Duncan Pirie, Miriam Aspden
20 November 2014 - Kay Ritchie, Colin Brockie, Roger Williams
3 October 2013 - Lisa Abraham, Emma Barnett, David Ferguson
Other Concerts Involving NESMS Performers
2 June 2022 The Guildhall Recorder Consort
10 November 2022 Moira Docherty & Barbara Scott Lunchbreak Concert
1 May 2018 Turriff & District Rotary Club Concert
2 September 2018 Derek Buchan plays at Queen's Cross Church
18 June 2017 Grampian Youth Orchestra Summer Concert
4 September 2016 Sunday @ 6 Piano Recital - Colin Sinclair
5 March 2015 Celebrity Piano Recital - Joseph Long plays Chopin
13 June 2014 Celebrity Piano Recital - Murray McLachlan
27 May 2014 Turriff & District Rotary Club Concert
30 March 2014 Two Cellos - Megan Rolf & James Halsey
Other Special Events
NESMS at the Big Sky Studio
1 - Grand Tour Concert 13 July 2019
2 - The NESMS Clarinet Trio 10 August 2019
31 August 2018
Early Evening Concert -
The NESMS Clarinet Trio
25 March 2018
NESMS Student Concert -
Music From Around The World
8 October 2017
NESMS Student Concert -
Movies, Musicals and More!
21 May 2017
NESMS Jazz at The Blue Lamp
5 March 2017
NESMS Student Concert
2 October 2016
NESMS Student Concert
40th Anniversary Piano Festival
20 September 2015
Nigel Clayton and Francesca Leonardi
20 September 2015
Joseph Long Plays Jazz
19 September 2015
Gina McCormack and Nigel Clayton
Freya Corry, Matthew Mcguigan, Isla Rippiner, Harry Wood, Emily Gow
with accompanist Harry Williamson.
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Eve Begg, Charlotte Slater, Laura Smith, Olwenn Stewart, Chenhong Zhu
with accompanist Blair Cargill.
A pre-recorded online concert by Louis Kowal, Ruaraidh Williams, Chenghong Zhu
and Eve Begg
June 2019
Emma Barnett, Kirsty Campbell,
Isabella Cook and David Ferguson
with accompanist Harry Williamson
June 2017
Ailsa Anderson, Alex Riddell, Eleanor Cozens,
Clara Daley, Kirsty Campbell, Siobhan Ironside
June 2016
Amy Birse, Kathleen Cronie, Anna Morrison,
Rachel Groves with accompanist Richard Bailey
June 2014
Megan Cormack, Duncan Pirie, Tracy Lee,
Sophie Stammeijer, Emma Barnett
with accompanists Colin Sinclair & Ian Lovegrove
June 2013
Cara Garton, Lisa Abraham, Iain Hall,
Laura Cheyne, David Ferguson,
with accompanists Drew Tulloch & Richard Bailey
Charlotte Hay, Aaron Magill,
Hannah Magill and Scott Manson
with accompanist Shirley Magill
June 2018
Aaron Magill, Christopher Smith, Iona Baillie, Kara Taylor, Laura Smith, Malik Salloum and Matthew Crabb with accompanists Andrew Leadbetter, Colin Sinclair and Shirley Magill
June 2015
Adam Auchie, Ella Clapperton, Iona Fyfe,
Sam Garioch, Ngoni Masiyakurima
Annual Scholarship Concert
The annual Scholarship Concert has taken place in June at Springfield Church (formerly named Craigiebuckler Church) for many years. This concert provides a platform to highlight those NESMS students holding named full scholarships and provides a wonderful evening of music for friends and family.
Below are reviews of the concerts from the past decade.
The next Scholarship Concert will take place at Springfield Church on 20th June 2025
Masterclasses & Workshops
Keynote Lunches
The popular social highlight of the NESMS calendar is the Annual Keynote Lunch regularly held each November at the Marcliffle Hotel, Pitfodels in Aberdeen. What initially started off as a large scale auction event aimed towards corporate fundraising has been scaled back over the years but still includes a delicious two course Sunday lunch, musical performances from NESMS students or tutors and a Prize raffle draw.
Big Sky Studio concerts
Grade-1-athon
In 2006 we launched the first Grade-1-athon challenge; inviting all local musicians to pick up one new instrument, having only one group lesson, then a 10 week practice period before sitting a grade 1 exam! This event was in conjunction with Childrens First and was kindly sponsored by AMEC. The group lessons, grouped per instrument, was held up at the old Summerhill School with local tutors. We're pleased to say that everyone passed their exam and were presented with certificates and medals, presented by Jennifer Shirreffs of the NESMS Fundraising Committee. Some students have since carried on with their "new" instrument and advanced up through the grades.
Summer Singing School 2019
In 2019 NESMS launched its first ever Summer Singing School for young students to come for an intensive week of singing lessons and rehearsals with Gillian Jack and Graeme Lauren and music theory sessions with Joseph Long. With songs tracing the history of Musical Theatre, from Scarlatti to Sondheim and Mozart to Menken, the building was filled with solos, duets, trios and ensemble singing all week culminating in a performance for friends and family held in the hall opposite NESMS, within St Mary's Cathedral.
