International award-winning New Dublin Voices is a leading Irish chamber choir. Founded by conductor Bernie Sherlock in 2005, from the start the choir has presented concert programmes that are fresh, innovative, and exciting, ranging widely in style and period from the medieval to the contemporary. The choir takes special pleasure in exploring the music of living composers and has given numerous Irish and world premieres. New Dublin Voices has won prizes at major competitions in France, Hungary, Germany, Finland, Belgium, Spain, Latvia, Ireland,Slovenia, England and Italy, including first prize at the Concorso Polifonico in Arezzo, Italy in August 2013, thereby becoming the first Irish choir to win a place in the European Grand Prix for Choral Singing. Awards also include the Grand Prix at the 2nd International Baltic Sea Choir Competition in Jūrmala, 2017, the Grand Prix at the 12th Budapest International Choir Competition 2009, and all six prizes, including Choir of the Festival, at the 2011 International Choir Contest of Flanders-Maasmechelen, 2011. Most recently they were awarded the 1st prize overall in the International Competition at the 7th City of Derry International Choir Festival, 2019, and the 3rd prize overall at the 16th International Chamber Choir Competition Marktoberdorf, 2019.The choir’s busy calendar also includes fund-raising for charities, television appearances, guesting with Ireland’s professional orchestras, and performing at special public events