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New Music Biennial 2025

Fresh sounds from the UK’s most exciting composers.

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Explore the cutting edge of contemporary music at this free weekender.

6 – 8 June 2025

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 venues around 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 New Music Biennial programme 2025

Composers, musicians and performers announced

New Music Biennial 2025 will feature 20 pieces of brand new works selected through an open call, alongside pre-existing new pieces that were premiered within the last four years.

Composers include: Halina Rice, Jasdeep Singh Degun, Shae Universe, Ailís Ní Ríain, Shri Sriram, Uri Agnon, Xenia Pestova Bennett, Verity Watts, Linda Buckley, Alex Groves, Dali de Saint Paul, Maxwell Sterling, Charlie Hope and Rebecca Salvadori, Stef Conor, Emily Levy and Matthew Bourne, Rylan Gleave, Ellie Wilson, Hardi Kurda, Daniel Kidane, m3UNTITLED, GOMID, Mark David Boden and Chisara Agor.

Musicians and Performers include: BBC Concert and BBC Symphony Orchestras, Brìghde Chaimbeul, Ailis Sutherland, Maxwell Quartet, Kenzo Jae, Scout Bolton, Dave Kane, DJ Woody, Onyx Brass, Drum The Bass, CoMA, Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble, Zubin Kanga, Ensemble 1604, All Unto Me, The Carice Singers, Fenella Humphreys and Sinfonia Cymru.