Dublin’s new music festival urges a brave leap of faith

The four-day contemporary music festival was initiated in 2013

James MacMillan will conduct the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra for a performance of his own composition Credo as part of New Music Dublin Pic: Hans van der Woerd

‘New Music Dublin is an amazing collection of talent that’s aimed at the artistically brave and the musically curious. I hope it will persuade new audiences to take that brave leap of faith into the dark to discover immense enrichment within the limitless horizons of modern music- making.”

So says John Harris, this year’s curator of the four-day contemporary music festival (March 1 to 4) in various venues around the city. It was ...