6–8 Jun 2025
New Music Biennial 2025
Fresh sounds from the UK’s most exciting composers.
Explore the cutting edge of contemporary music at this free weekender.
New Music Biennial is a three-day festival celebrating the best new music across all genres from the country’s most exciting composers – and in 2025, for the first time, it’s coming to Bradford.
From Bradford Cathedral to The Underground, the Biennial will be taking over venues across the city centre for three days and nights of performances showcasing 20 pieces of new music – with all shows absolutely free. Along with live performances of outstanding contemporary works, many performed in Bradford for the first time, there’ll be world premieres of brand new commissions. The works will then be performed at London’s Southbank Centre, broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and released by NMC Recordings – but we’ll hear them first.
The full programme will be announced in January 2025. Save the date – and stay tuned…
Call for proposals
Applications are now open for organisations to partner with exciting music creators and be a part of New Music Biennial 2025. The deadline for applications for new commissions or to present existing pieces of new work is 4th November 2024.
Lead image: © Garry Jones Photography
