Concerts Premiering New Music ~ Summer 2026
Concerts premiering new music this summer, by composers including Anna Clyne, Mica Levi and Elaine Mitchener. For all recommendations, visit our event listings. Please note that this article includes paid event placements.
Pulitzer winner Tyshawn Sorey honours Morton Feldman and the Rothko Chapel with a meditative new work exploring sound, memory, and spiritual resonance, featuring Artist in Residence Davóne Tines.
Looking Glass brings together Adler Quartet, Ensemble Isis, conductor Alpesh Chauhan and the Augmented Orchestra to create a captivating contemporary orchestral experience.
As part of The Black Lights festival, BBC Philharmonic will perform in Blackpool for the first time in eight years.
Three new commissions reflect on what it means to be European today.
A bold contemporary programme including a world premiere.
This performance celebrates the shared creative energy that unites Baroque musicians and contemporary improvisers.
To Your Ear presents an evening of new experimental music for strings, piano, electronics and objects.
Grimeborn Opera Festival continues to rip up the rulebook and create something radically new. Powerful new operas exploring the climate crisis, social injustice and women’s perspectives, sit alongside reimagined classics.
New music inspired by seminal sculptor Brâncuși at the LPO’s unmissable Debut Sounds showcase.
Join Manchester Collective, percussionist extraordinaire Sidiki Dembélé and his band for folksong and storytelling from Côte d’Ivoire, Mali and Senegal.