Performers

Violinist and conductor; winner of the 10th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition. He graduated with honours from the G. and K. Bacewicz Academy (now University) of Music in Łódź. He also studied at the Hochschule der Künste Bern (Switzerland), winning that school’s Eduard-Tschumi-Preis. Apart from his triumph in the Wieniawski Competition, he also won the prestigious Internationaler Musikwettbewerb der ARD in Munich (1995) as well as the international competitions in Bayreuth and Monte Carlo.

Founded by Jerzy Gert in October 1948. For almost 70 years of operation, the choir has been performing both unaccompanied works and vocal-instrumental forms that represent various styles and periods, with a particular focus on Polish music.

Jazz-rock guitarist and composer; graduate of the Jazz and Popular Music Department at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, from which he obtained his doctoral degree in 2017 (in connection with his third album, Nada).

Now known as the Orchestra of the Stanisław Moniuszko Grand Theatre in Poznań, it first played at the Grand Theatre’s inaugural spectacle (Moniuszko’s Halka) on 31st August 1919. In 1925 Pietro Mascagni conducted his Cavalleria Rusticana at this theatre.

Founded in 2007, the Lutosławski Quartet was named after one of Poland’s most eminent 20th-century composers. It is one of the ensembles-in-residence at Wrocław’s National Forum of Music. Its members are: Roksana Kwaśnikowska (1st violin; previously – Bartosz Woroch), Marcin Markowicz (2nd violin), Artur Rozmysłowicz (viola), and Maciej Młodawski (cello). Their repertoire comprises primarily 20th- and 21st-century Polish works, particularly those of Witold Lutosławski, Karol Szymanowski, and Paweł Mykietyn.

One of the most active and versatile wind ensembles in Poland. Founded in 2013 to mark Witold Lutosławski’s birth centenary, LutosAir Quintet is one of the ensembles-in-residence at Wrocław’s National Forum of Music. Its members are soloists of NFM Wrocław Philharmonic and NOSPR: Jan Krzeszowiec (flute), Karolina Stalmachowska (oboe; previously - Wojciech Merena), Maciej Dobosz (clarinet), Alicja Kieruzalska (bassoon), Mateusz Feliński (horn). The quintet focuses especially on most recent music, such as the works of Paweł Hendrich (including a CD under the DUX label), Marcin Stańczyk, Rafał Augustyn, and Nikolet Burzyńska.

Adam Bałdych’s band consists, apart from its leader, of Marek Konarski (tenor saxophone), Łukasz Ojdana (piano), Michał Barański (bass), and Dawid Fortuna (drums).
The Quintet develops Bałdych’s concept of music balancing between genres and focusing in particular on the borderline area between jazz and classical music. This borderland is for the violinist a space of experimentation and of constructing his own, highly personal instrumental language.

Originally founded in Warsaw and led by Grzegorz Fitelberg,
the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra gave its
first concert on the air on 2nd October 1935. Its performances
were regularly broadcast on Polish Radio
till the outbreak of World War II. Reactivated in 1945
in Katowice by Witold Rowicki, it was again directed
by Fitelberg from 1947 onwards, assuming the name
of the Great Symphony Orchestra of Polish Radio (since
1999 – the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra).