How To Apply | New Music Biennial

Organisations looking to apply for New Music Biennial 2025 - can find out more in our 'How To Apply' video hosted by Grants & Programmes Manager Elizabeth Sills. Festival weekends to take place in Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture and at London’s Southbank Centre. Organisations can apply to work with exciting music creators to commission a new work or present exceptional works from the last 4 years. PRS Foundation and Southbank Centre announce today the call for proposals for their critically acclaimed New Music Biennial. Presented in partnership with Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture, BBC Radio 3, NMC Recordings and with support from Arts Council of England, New Music Biennial 2025 will comprise 20 new pieces of music: consisting of brand new works selected from an open call as well as a chance for audiences to see repeat performances of outstanding works premiered within the last 4 years. New Music Biennial includes new music from across all genres: from classical and chamber opera to jazz, folk and electronic. Each work is no longer than 15 minutes in duration in response to the New Music Biennial’s aim to create a pop-up, interactive way for audiences to discover new music. The deadline for applications from organisations for new commissions or to present existing pieces of new work is 4th November 2024 and the winning compositions will be selected by a prestigious and diverse panel of judges. The final programme will be announced in early 2025.