THE Vale of Glamorgan Festival of Music will take place from May 12 – 23 with a packed line-up of shows in Penarth and Cardiff.

Coming up in the first week will be Atmospheres – New Music Day on Tuesday 12 at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, which runs all day.

Experience the raw energy of the work of emerging young composers in a unique festival-in-a-day. Featuring an exciting range of world premieres from immersive sound environments, electronic interventions and formal chamber concerts.

The day includes a concert by the Nieuw Ensemble performing works by the students.

Tickets cost £8/£6 for concessions or a full day pass is £15/£12 for concessions. To book visit rwcmd.ac.uk or call 02920 391391.

On Wednesday 13 at All Saints Church, Penarth will be Nieuw Ensemble with Ed Spanjaard (conductor) and Romain Bischoff (baritone) at 7.30pm.

Nieuw Ensemble presents music from two countries that have become key players on the new music stage. From Estonia, composer Helen Tulve and Toivo Tulev offer music of sensuous richness with its roots in Gregorian chant; from China, Tan Dun’s Circle, steeped in ancient ritual and music by the 16-year-old Erqing Wang, one of the country’s most hotly-tipped young composers.

Post-concert Discussion: Nicola Heywood Thomas in conversation with John Metcalf and Joël Bons.

Tickets cost from £3 to £15 from valeofglamorganfestival.ticketsource.co.uk or call 0844 8700 887.

On Thursday 14 at 1.15pm, Nieuw Ensemble will return to the Welsh College of Music and Drama in the Dora Stoutzker Hall.

Paintings and images lie at the centre of this concert of bite sized miniatures: a serving maid featured on the front of a famous cocoa tin, a flowing river with a frozen ‘crust’, the expressionist work of Brazilian artist Iberê Camargo and Alfred Wallis’s vivid landscapes of the Cornish coastline.

Tickets cost from £3 to £8 from valeofglamorganfestival.ticketsource.co.uk or call 0844 8700 887.

On the same day at Dyffryn House, St Nicholas at 7.30pm will be Sara Trickey (violin) and Robin Green (piano).

With its timeless, other worldly qualities it’s little wonder Arvo Pärt’s Spiegel im Spiegel provided the soundtrack to the Oscar award-winning film Gravity. Returning to earth, Dabrinka Tabakova evokes the mountains of her homeland Bulgaria and John Metcalf the gardens of Derek Jarman whilst David Matthews draws on the story of Adonis in music permeated by folksong – a quality that also runs through Tabakova’s Spinning a Yarn, written for violin and hurdy gurdy.

Tickets cost from £3 to £15 from valeofglamorganfestival.ticketsource.co.uk or call 0844 8700 887.