Past Editions

In 2025, the Month of Contemporary Music will once again present the unparalleled richness of Berlin's contemporary music scene. The umbrella festival invites you to discover current works by Berlin ensembles, artists and composers in concerts, performances, and sound installations.

The 2025 edition of the Month of Contemporary Music opens with a concert by the AGGREGATE Festival on 13 September at 8pm at the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church.

The Month of Contemporary Music presents the diversity of Berlin's contemporary music scene. Current works can be discovered in concerts, performances and sound installations - both in established concert halls and in independent venues.

Since the 1930s, Kissas have been serving listening sessions with selected records on high-quality audio systems in intimate cafés in Japan for the price of a coffee or whisky.

Since 2019, the program »The Rest Is Music« has been featuring music from the 20th and 21st centuries. On Tuesdays during Contemporary Music Month, host Nico Daleman invites artists from the festival to the studio.

The Month of Contemporary Music is a collaborative project: it is the ensembles, festivals and artists who shape the programme of the umbrella festival with their own events. As a result, there is a variety of themes and forms of music-making and composing that run through the programme as...

Here you can find the addresses of the venues taking part in the Month of Contemporary Music.

In a three-day program from September 13 to September 16, 2025, we invite musicians, composers, ensembles, and curators to explore the Berlin scene and connect with its key actors.

The Month of Contemporary Music is the umbrella festival of the contemporary music scene in Berlin. Together, its organisers present over 120 concerts, installations and performances with current works and a wide variety of artistic perspectives on around 50 stages over the course of a mon...

The Month of Contemporary Music 2024 will open on August 31 at the Kühlhaus with the Festival »Intersecting Encounters«, which is dedicated to the intersections of composition, collective creation and improvisation. The trio Dell-Lillinger-Westergaard, the vocal artist Sofia Jernberg, the ...

Berliner Philharmoniker • Cantando Admund • Contagious • Dell-Lillinger-Westergaard • Ensemble adapter • Ensemble Dissonart • Ensemble KNM Berlin • Ensemble Modern • ensemble mosaik • Ensemble Musikfabrik • Ensemble Phase • EXAUDI • Ensemble Resonanz • FrauVonDa • glanz&krawall • Konzertha...

The Month of Contemporary Music is a collaborative project: it is the ensembles, festivals and artists who shape the umbrella festival’s programme with their own events. As a result, there is not a pre-defined motto, but rather a variety of themes and forms of music-making and composing th...

A complex story of intrigue, secrecy and artistic rivalry unfolds within Berlin's new music scene. The four episodes are centrer on a group of Latin American artists whose careers and personal lives are intertwined by unexpected events and revelations. Competition, love, community and pass...

Hier geht es zur Übersicht aller Veranstaltungsorte und Adressen. Die Informationen zu den Spielorten sind auch im Veranstaltungskalender zu finden.

Hol dir das exklusive T-Shirt zum Monat der zeitgenössischen Musik 2024 und zeige deine Unterstützung für Berlins zeitgenössische Musikszene!

Berlin is considered one of the most exciting cities in the world for contemporary music with its striking variety of trends and sheer number of events happening throughout the year. September is the Month of Contemporary Music, which will present the diversity of the scene packed into a 3...

At the opening on 1 September, Zinc and Copper and Robyn Schulkowsky will perform a portrait concert in honour of Christian Wolff at Kulturraum Zwingli-Kirche. The brass ensemble and the percussionist juxtapose the works of the legendary American composer with contrasting approaches to con...

With around 90 events on 45 stages in just four weeks, the Month of Contemporary Music is jam-packed, serving as a reflection of current trends in Berlin's contemporary music scene and beyond. The resulting variety is impressive.

In 2023, a number of Berlin and international artists, ensembles and groups performed on over 50 venues throughout Berlin.

Throughout September, the Month of Contemporary Music (Monat der zeitgenössischen Musik) presents musicians, composers and ensembles from Berlin that work in the realm of new music, sound art, music theatre, echtzeitmusik and improvisation. They take to the stages of both established conce...

The Ensemble KNM Berlin will perform new works dealing with the phenomenon of the street at the opening on September 2nd at FAHRBEREITSCHAFT.

To call the Month of Contemporary Music a festival would be pure understatement. With its approximately 150 events in 65 venues in just four weeks, the Month of Contemporary Music is not only more than comprehensive, but also a reliable barometer of current trends in the field of contempor...

2022 spielten eine Reihe an Berliner und internationalen Künstler*innen, Ensembles und Gruppen an über 50 in ganz Berlin verteilten Bühnen.

In the fifth edition of the Month of Contemporary Music from 27 August to 30 September 2021, Berlin musicians, composers and ensembles will once again present a wide variety of artistic positions in concerts, performances and sound installations both at major concert halls and on the venue...

What is the relationship between music and place? With the Sound Walk Berlin, we aim to deepen the debate surrounding the social and political significance of music in urban space and its representation, while also observing the sound of the city itself. With the Sound Walk Berlin, the con...

2021 spielten eine Reihe an Berliner und internationalen Künstler*innen, Ensembles und Gruppen an über 50 in ganz Berlin verteilten Bühnen.