This annual festival of “adventurous new music for curious ears!” returns with an array of exciting
offerings including Irish premieres of major works by composers Kaija Saariaho and Louis Andriessen
performed by the RTE Concert Orchestra. Central to NMD’s programme is the showcasing of 15 new
works by Irish composers including the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra’s performance of David
Fennessy’s Conquest of the Useless and Jennifer Walshe’s The Site of an Investigation. Cologne’s
Ensemble Musik Fabrik will have their own inimitable take on the work of Frank Zappa, namely The
Black Page which is known for being extraordinarily difficult to play. They will be joined by the renowned
free jazz saxophonist Peter Brötzmann as they tease out hallucinatory improvisations of Zappa’s jazz
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National Concert Hall, Thursday February 28 to Sunday March 3
