About New Music Dublin
New Music Dublin (NMD) is Ireland's foremost contemporary music festival, taking place in Spring each year within the National Concert Hall and other venues throughout Dublin.
The festival aims to present contemporary music as vital, adventurous, and reflective of modern Ireland - highly inclusive, strongly collaborative and artistically ambitious - and it challenges perceptions that new music is niche or inaccessible. NMD is presented in partnership with the Arts Council, NCH/NSOI, RTÉ, Culture Ireland, CMC and multiple other organisations and performing groups, both national and international.
These organisations, and the people who work within them, give extremely generously of their time and resources to create, collaboratively, an annual festival which provides an accessible, high-profile platform for the broadest possible spectrum of Irish new music-making within a national and international context.
NMD's principal objectives are:
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To give an equitable, diverse and inclusive platform to composers and performers from across the spectrum of Irish new music to show their work to the widest audience, both live and broadcast, within Ireland and internationally
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To increase and develop a diverse and representative audience for new music-making across Ireland
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To increase and develop accessible participation in new music-making in Ireland
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To create opportunities for a diverse range of composers, performers and new music-makers from Ireland to develop their national and international networks
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To create and develop inclusive opportunities for collaboration and cooperation between Irish and international ensembles, new music organisations, composers and performers, to promote best practice, and work towards shared artistic and organisational goals
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To create opportunities for emerging composers and performers from all backgrounds across Ireland to develop their professional skills, to grow their national and international connections, and to help them realise their professional and artistic ambitions and creative potential
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To respond to the climate crisis by developing new ways to fulfil NMD’s objectives whilst reducing our overall environmental impact.
