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Watch: Atomic Hope illustrated, with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra

New Music Dublin: Crash Ensemble present Granulated Frequencies

Granulated Frequencies features the world premiere of Metamold by the 2019 Barlow Prize Winner, Bekah Simms and the world premiere of Images & Sensations by Irish producer and DJ Ellen King...

New Music Dublin • 26 Apr 21

New Music Dublin: Chamber Choir Ireland in concert

Chamber Choir Ireland celebrate some of the best contemporary choral music from Ireland in recent years...

New Music Dublin • 25 Apr 21

New Music Dublin: Crash Ensemble play Wingform

Ireland's leading new music ensemble present the world premiere of Wingform, a new commission by Crash Ensemble from composer-in-residence and guitarist Barry O'Halpin.

New Music Dublin • 25 Apr 21

New Music: RTÉ Concert Orchestra - Natasa Paulberg's Atomic Hope

Atomic Hope is an orchestral piece of music exploring the component parts of the atom as a metaphor of our current human experience

New Music Dublin • 24 Apr 21

New Music Dublin: Grounded - a musical journey by land and sea

Grounded is a project originally inspired by soprano Juliet Fraser's commitment to travelling entirely by land and sea, eschewing air travel entirely...

New Music Dublin • 23 Apr 21

New Music live: The RTÉ NSO play Farrell, Buckley and Shaw

New Music Dublin • 23 Apr 21

Natasa Paulberg's Atomic Hope is coming to New Music Dublin

New Music Dublin live on RTÉ Culture - your essential guide

For this year's event, which runs from 21st - 25th April, we're delighted to host a series of New Music Dublin events on RTÉ Culture...

Music • 22 Apr 21

Composer Irene Buckley premieres a new work at this year's New Music Dublin

New Music Dublin 2021 to stream concerts live on RTÉ Culture

New Music Dublin have announced the highlights of their 2021 programme with a full complement of World Premieres from Irish composers and new music from a host of contemporary Irish talent...

Music • 02 Apr 21

New Music Dublin: RTÉ CO meet the Bang on a Can All-Stars

There's an Irish premiere on Sunday when the RTÉ Concert Orchestra performs Gerald Barry's Viola Concerto with the violist for whom it was written, Lawrence Power, in a commission by Britten Sinfonia and RTÉ - it all kicks off on Sunday, March 1st at 8pm

New Music Dublin • 01 Mar 20

New Music Dublin: RTÉ NSO celebrate Irish & Icelandic composers

Watch Now: THe RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra take to the stage for a concert of music by Irish and Icelandic composers including a world premiere by Jane O'Leary.

Culture • 29 Feb 20

Bang on a Can All-Stars are coming to this year's New Music Dublin

Watch New Music Dublin live on RTÉ Culture

New Music Dublin kicks off this Thursday in the National Concert Hall - the 4-day festival promises to make your head spin and your ears ring and features music and performers from Ireland and around the world...

New Music Dublin • 27 Feb 20

Listen: Composer Una Monaghan boards the Mystery Train

Harpist and composer Una Monaghan climbs on board the Mystery Train Sunday Service with John Kelly, and talks astrophysics, Brian Wilson and the forthcoming New Music Dublin festival...

Mystery Train • 25 Feb 20

Composers Úna Monaghan will present work at this year's New Music Festival

New Music Festival 2020 presents 22 world premieres

New Music Dublin, the annual festival of contemporary new music that celebrates the very best of new work from Irish and International composers, have announced their full programme for 2020...

Music • 18 Feb 20

Diatribe Records at New Music Dublin - sounds from a broad church

For the New Music Dublin Festival 2020, taking place in the National Concert Hall from Thursday 27th February to Sunday 1st March, Irish label Diatribe Records will release an astonishing seven new records on a dedicated stage over the weekend...

New Music Dublin • 21 Feb 20

Violinist Hae Sun Kang joins the RTÉ Concert Orchestra for tonight's concert

Watch: Lyric Concert live from New Music Dublin 2019

Bernard Clarke presents The Lyric Concert live from the stage of the National Concert Hall as part of New Music Dublin 2019, featuring the Irish premieres of works by two of the greatest living composers - Kaija Saariaho: and Louis Andriessen.

Music • 04 Mar 19

Artist Karen Power on sounding out a sense of place

Sound and installation artist Karen Power writes for Culture about her work location location location, which will feature at this year's New Music Dublin festival in the National Concert Hall.

visual arts • 28 Feb 19

Ensemble Musikfabrik are coming to this year's New Music Festival.

Five must-sees at New Music Dublin 2019

New Music Dublin 2019 does exactly what it says on the tin: it really is all about the New...

Music • 26 Feb 19

The Site of an Investigation - composer Jennifer Walshe

The Site of an Investigation - a symphony for the modern age

Liam Cagney writes for Culture about composer Jennifer Walshe's work The Site of an Investigation, which receives its World Premiere on February 28th 2019 at the National Concert Hall, as part of the New Music Dublin festival.

Music • 28 Jul 22

Crash Ensemble kick off this year's New Music Dublin bash with an outdoor performance

New Music Dublin - bring the noise

The programme has been announced for this year's New Music Dublin festival at the National Concert Hall, the annual celebration of cutting-edge contemporary music from across the globe.

Music • 27 Feb 18

Karen Dervan (second from right) and the Kaleidoscope team, appearing this weekend at New Music Dublin.

New Music Dublin - a Kaleidoscopic take

Musician Karen Dervan, the curator of popular 'genre-blind mini festival' Kaleidoscope, offers her own choice picks for New Music Dublin, which takes place in Dublin's National Concert Hall this weekend.

Music • 02 Mar 17

Crash Ensemble assemble, ahead of their appearance at this week's New Music Dublin bash.

Crash Ensemble on Crashing New Music Dublin

Ireland's foremost contemporary music ensemble Crash Ensemble will be front and centre at this week's New Music Dublin Festival at the National Concert Hall.

Culture • 28 Feb 17

New Music Dublin - composer Linda Buckley on 'being the noise'

Next month's New Music Dublin Festival features a range of Irish and world premieres from modern composers; one of the artists taking part is Linda Buckley, who writes for RTÉ Culture from New York about process, passion and the power of music.

Music • 23 Feb 17

New Music Dublin