The Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival is held in Plymouth, Devon, England. It has a program of leading-edge orchestral, operatic, jazz, and electroacoustic performances, along with film, and music theatre. Composers and performers who have been part of the festival include Michael Stimpson, Evelyn Glennie, Sally Beamish, liminal, Jem Finer, the Maggini string quartet, Dominic Murcott, Eduardo Reck Miranda, John Matthias, Plaid, Alexis Kirke and Jonty Harrison.
Performances centre around the University of Plymouth's award-winning Roland Levinsky Building.
In 2011 the festival took place from the 10 February to 13 February.
In 2010 the festival took place from the 26 February to 28 February.
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