Upcoming Events
Jubilate! New Dublin Voices Composition Competition Winners Concert
Five fabulous new compositions will be premiered at New Dublin Voices upcoming concert marking the end of the 20th anniversary celebrations.
From the almost 150 entries, the international adjudication panel made up of the renowned composers Jaakko Mäntyjärvi (Finland), Dr Seán Doherty (Ireland), and the founder-conductor of New Dublin Voices, Dr Bernie Sherlock, awarded prizes to six composers for their excellent pieces:
First Prize – Motshwane Pege – Jubilate Deo
Second Prize – Ben Heneghan – He Wishes For The Cloths of Heaven
Third Prize – Gerard López Boada – Laughing Song
Highly Commended
Richard Barnard – In the Fields
Ádám Brandenburg – Metamorphosis
Monica Nasti – Donna M’Apparve
Hear these works and more on March 8th.
New Music Dublin 2026, RTÉ Concert Orchestra with New Dublin Voices
RTÉ Concert Orchestra
Gavin Maloney, conductor
Aoife Miskelly, soprano
Seán Boylan, baritone
New Dublin Voices
Jane O’Leary Fanfare: From 2RN to RTÉ – Celebrating 100 Years [World Premiere]
Kevin O’Connell Paradiso [World Premiere]
The RTÉ Concert Orchestra performs works by Jane O’Leary and Kevin O’Connell as part of New Music Dublin 2026. Under the baton of RTÉ Concert Orchestra Associate Principal Conductor Gavin Maloney, the orchestra is joined by soprano Aoife Miskelly, baritone Seán Boylan and internationally renowned chamber choir New Dublin Voices (artistic director Bernie Sherlock)
The programme features Kevin O’Connell’s Paradiso, a listening to Dante’s third cantica for soprano, baritone, chorus and orchestra, and is preceded by Jane O’Leary’s Fanfare: From 2RN to RTÉ – Celebrating 100 Years, composed in celebration of RTÉ 100, marking a century since the state’s first public radio transmission.
Presented by New Music Dublin with support from the Arts Council and in partnership with RTÉ and the National Concert Hall
Cork International Choral Festival
Enjoy unbeatable value for our six Gala Concerts with the Friend of the Festival pass discount! Purchase at least one ticket to activate the Single Pass (€120 instead of €195), or two tickets to activate the Double Pass (€200 instead of €390), for each of the six evening Gala Concerts. For the concerts in Cork City Hall, all tickets should be purchased in either the Balcony or Front Parterre.
Acclaimed for a “choral effect… simply breathtaking… in its refined beauty” (The Sunday Business Post), New Dublin Voices is a leading Irish chamber choir. It has given the world premieres of nearly 90 works, demonstrating its commitment to championing new music and capping a vast repertoire that spans the centuries.
Founded by its international award-winning conductor Bernie Sherlock in 2005, the choir is renowned for concert programming that strives to captivate, surprise and reward its audiences. New Dublin Voices is a leading light in commissioning, premiering and performing music by living composers; this includes disseminating choral music written by Irish composers, both in Ireland and abroad, and introducing music from outside Ireland to audiences at home. International composers who have written for the choir include Ēriks Ešenvalds, Paweł Łukaszewski, Roxanna Panufnik, Jaakko Mäntyjärvi and Sarah Quartel, very often with settings of Irish poetry.
New Dublin Voices 20th Anniversary Gala Concert: 20 Years of Colour
New Dublin Voices and its acclaimed founding conductor Bernie Sherlock are proud and very pleased to announce their big 20th Anniversary Gala Concert, 20 Years of Colour. This will be the climax of the anniversary year's Irish tour and will reflect all the many different colours of music which New Dublin Voices has been bringing to audiences in Ireland and to countries as far away as the United States and all around Europe for twenty years.
The gala programme features truly excellent music in an eclectic mix, featuring highlights from the ten years since our tenth anniversary. There will be the Irish Premiere of Jubilate Deo by the South African composer Motshwane Pege who took First Prize in the inaugural New Dublin Voices Choral Composition Competition. The programme also includes the first ever Irish performance of the extraordinary Observer in the Magellanic Cloud by Mason Bates, a pulsating yet ethereal combination of Maori chant and choral syncopation, all marshalled by the steady pinging of a satellite far off in a distant galaxy. The choir will present Wolfram Buchenberg’s mesmeric Ich bin das Brot, Levente Gyöngyösi’s jazz-inspired Puer natus in Bethlehem, and Gabrieli’s Angelus descendit, alongside innovative arrangements of jazz and folk favourites, such as Duke Ellington's It don’t mean a Thing and Eoin Conway’s Beidh Aonach Amárach.
Other highlights include the quirky Scottish folk tale The Wee Wee Man, set by Vagn Holmboe, the American composer Greg Knauf’s beat-driven Gloria, and the haunting Die Stimme des Kindes by Finland's Jaakko Mäntyjärvi. And in a really special 20-year anniversary moment, a number of choir alumni will join New Dublin Voices on stage for Eoin Conway’s beautiful arrangement of The Parting Glass.
Founding conductor Bernie Sherlock says, “We are thrilled to invite an audience to come and join us in our celebration of twenty years. And we are excited to be both presenting premieres and revisiting beloved favourites in what promises to be an unforgettable night that showcases the passion, skill, and artistry that New Dublin Voices has shared with audiences for two decades”.
Doors open at 7.30pm. Seating allocation is on a first come first served basis. Some seating may have restricted view of the choir.
You Know How I Feel
New Dublin Voices is delighted to present You Know How I Feel, our late-summer concert showcasing how composers instinctively tap into the way we experience things like joy, despair, excitement, awe, grief and humour.
How do we feel about love, about war, about the galaxy, about nature, about faith? New Dublin Voices invites audience and composers to match feelings across a stunning selection of wonderful pieces.
Festival of Voice: 20 Years of New Dublin Voices
Festival of Voice is a weekend festival celebrating the power, beauty and universality of the human voice.
New Dublin Voices is among Europe's leading chamber choirs. Its goal is to captivate and reward the audience. A vast repertoire spanning the centuries includes a joyful advocacy of music by living composers – 85 world premieres and counting. The choir has won multiple prizes at competitions across Europe. New Dublin Voices is directed by its founder, internationally acclaimed conductor Bernie Sherlock.
Festival of Voice will include a series of pop-up events
· Morning Songs – a song to start the day
· Songs of the Liberties – a collective participative choir event celebrating the songs of the city
· Puccini in the Pub – Puccini over a pint…
We will announce details of pop-up events in the run-up to the festival
Presented by NCH and supported by IPUT Real Estate Dublin
New Dublin Voices In Bloom
On Saturday April 26th, internationally renowned Irish chamber choir New Dublin Voices and conductor Bernie Sherlock are delighted to present the first concert of their 20th anniversary year, In Bloom.
In the stunning setting of All Hallows Chapel in DCU, New Dublin Voices will dive into a one-hour programme that tiptoes reverently through the sacred — from the soaring beauty of Rheinberger’s Kyrie and Martin’s Credo to the shimmering mystery of Elder’s O Magnum Mysterium — before letting their hair down for some sun-soaked fun.
Expect divine sounds, unexpected turns, and a cheeky wink as New Dublin Voices go from Łukaszewski’s contemplative O Sapientiae to Kirby Shaw’s jazzy Summertime and Paul Hart’s delightfully theatrical Seaside Rendezvous. (Yes, there may be kazoos. No, we’re not sorry.)
Whether you're here for the Mass or the madness, there’s a moment for everyone.
This concert is presented in association with the second Dublin Choral Conducting Masterclasses taking place at DCU All Hallows on 26th and 27th April 2025.
For further information, please contact newdublinvoiceschoir@gmail.com
Carols for Christmas
On Saturday December 7th 2024, Ireland’s international award-winning chamber choir New Dublin Voices and conductor Bernie Sherlock return to Christ Church Cathedral in Carols for Christmas. Now a long-running annual tradition, Carols for Christmas with New Dublin Voices always features a truly superb selection of much-loved carols and songs, ranging from the ancient to the very new, and including age-old favourites dressed-up in fresh new apparel. Enjoy the beautiful music of the Christmas season amidst the history and majesty of Christ Church Cathedral, and one of the best acoustics in Ireland.
Come along and join us for an evening filled with the songs of the season and the stories and poems of Christmas.
*Seating allocation is on a first come first served basis. Some seating may have restricted view of the choir.
Carols for Christmas (Copy)
On Saturday December 7th 2024, Ireland’s international award-winning chamber choir New Dublin Voices and conductor Bernie Sherlock return to Christ Church Cathedral in Carols for Christmas. Now a long-running annual tradition, Carols for Christmas with New Dublin Voices always features a truly superb selection of much-loved carols and songs, ranging from the ancient to the very new, and including age-old favourites dressed-up in fresh new apparel. Enjoy the beautiful music of the Christmas season amidst the history and majesty of Christ Church Cathedral, and one of the best acoustics in Ireland.
Come along and join us for an evening filled with the songs of the season and the stories and poems of Christmas.
*Seating allocation is on a first come first served basis. Some seating may have restricted view of the choir.
Carols for Christmas (Copy)
On Saturday December 7th 2024, Ireland’s international award-winning chamber choir New Dublin Voices and conductor Bernie Sherlock return to Christ Church Cathedral in Carols for Christmas. Now a long-running annual tradition, Carols for Christmas with New Dublin Voices always features a truly superb selection of much-loved carols and songs, ranging from the ancient to the very new, and including age-old favourites dressed-up in fresh new apparel. Enjoy the beautiful music of the Christmas season amidst the history and majesty of Christ Church Cathedral, and one of the best acoustics in Ireland.
Come along and join us for an evening filled with the songs of the season and the stories and poems of Christmas.
*Seating allocation is on a first come first served basis. Some seating may have restricted view of the choir.
