New Voices is an award for emerging composers made by the Celtic Connections festival annually since 1998.
It is a musical commission which enables recipients to compose and perform a significant new suite of music of about forty-five minutes, based on traditional themes.
Usually there are three commissions each year, with each composer performing their work at a lunchtime concert on one of the three Sundays of the festival.
Sometimes a musician may approach the festival with an idea for a new work, other times festival director Donald Shaw proposes participation to a musician he thinks would benefit and create something worthwhile.
In 2020 the awards were sponsored by the Scottish edition of The Times and Sunday Times, and the composers were Marit Fält, Pàdruig Morrison and Catriona Price.