New Music Dublin

New Music Dublin for 2026 has come to a close and returns next April

Festival Director John Harris comments:
"And just like that … New Music Dublin 2026 was over! 4 days and a bonus opening evening of shiny new music - a programme packed to the gunwales with the magnificent, the confounding, the virtuosic, the spectacular, the downright strange and the alluringly beautiful, running the gamut from the noisiest of noises to the quietest of whispers, and pretty much everything in between.

Thank you everyone who came, who performed, who organised, who ushered, who fed and watered, who promoted, who funded, who composed, who improvised, who led, who lit, who engineered, who designed, who transported and who simply watched and scratched their heads in wonder at it all.

I’m going to do my traditional thing of not even attempting to pick a favourite moment, because I literally can’t. But I can say that even I, as a hard-bitten old festival director, had moments where I was taken out of myself with joy at what I was seeing and hearing - and moments where the emotional power of the performance had me and other members of the audience stunned to quiet tears.

Thank you, one and all, for being and doing, and being part of the New Music Dublin endeavour once again."