New Music Biennial

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.