About Us

New Music Calendar is a volunteer-run, no-frills listing platform for contemporary concert music, with occasional forays into experimental, improvised, and avant-jazz musics.

With the loss of essential resources like the beloved Calendar for New Music, as well as the elimination of weekly event listings in the New York Times, Village Voice, Time Out NY (RIP), and others, the New Music community lacks a centralized, clear, and accessible way to track the many new music events happening daily. While there have been several efforts over the years to remedy the situation, most have been hampered by the need to develop large scale infrastructure, limited money-making potential, and mismatched goals between creators and users.

At New Music Calendar, our mission is simple: to provide a comprehensive, sometimes attractive, easy-to-navigate listing of new music events, answering the proverbial question: "What's happening tonight?" This is not a marketing or advertising platform for ensembles, presenters or performers, nor is it designed to drive ticket sales. While we can envision a future where the site might function as a global repository of repertoire, performances, ensembles, venues, and trends, or even a way to revive music journalism, we recognize our limitations and, at least until someone grants us lots of money and staff, we are focused solely on listing the Who, What, Where, and When of events in New York City (and Boston) over the coming season.

We currently limit our listings to concert music events at which the majority of work presented is by living composers. We do not list events whose contents would be understood as jazz, world music, musical theater, popular music, or commercial music. Events that we think are particularly interesting are shown in bold italics.

Feel free to contact us at newmusiccalendar [at] gmail [dot] com with suggestions, information, questions, or to donate your skills, resources, or funds to help New Music Calendar thrive.

Have an event you'd like to list? Email us: newmusiccalendar [at] gmail [dot] com