Performers

Included: The Kraków Opera Choir, The Kraków Opera Children's Choir, The Kraków Opera Ballet, The Kraków Opera Orchestra.

Orchestre Pasdeloup is the oldest continually performing French orchestra, founded in 1861 by conductor Jules Pasdeloup, who initiated the series of Concerts populaires, featuring the most important works of that period. Invariably acclaimed ever since, the orchestra performs both widely popular repertoire and the most recent music

Born in 1990, a jazz pianist and composer. One of the most frequently awarded jazz musicians of the young generation studied at Krakow’s Academy of Music, and later at Berklee College of Music.

An outstanding Polish tenor. Enlisted in the Reserve Officer Cadet School in Zamość in 1939, he sang in a barbershop quartet there, and fought in the 1939 defensive war. He took up professional voice training in Lublin with Eugeniusz Kopp (1943), and continued it with Ignacy Dygas, already as a soloist in the Representative Artistic Ensemble of the Polish Armed Forces.

Ensemble Peregrina, founded by the Polish-Swiss singer and musicologist Agnieszka Budzińska-Bennett in Basel in 1997, researches and performs sacred and secular music of the Middle Ages. The group has released thirteen internationally acclaimed recordings (including ECHO Klassik 2009 and International Classical Music Award 2019) and performed at numerous prestigious festivals in Europe and in the USA.

Founded in 1974 on the initiative of Karol Stryja, this one of Poland’s oldest philharmonic choirs inaugurated its activity during the Silesian Philharmonic’s 30th anniversary celebrations. The Choir’s first artistic director was Jan Wojtacha, an outstanding choirmaster who held that post until 2004. Already in its third year, the Choir took part in the Wratislavia Cantans festival, performing Benjamin Britten’s "War Requiem" with the Silesian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra.

At its inaugural concert on 10 November 1947, the Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra was conducted by Stanisław Wisłocki, its first conductor. He was succeeded, in turn, by Jerzy Katlewicz, Robert Satanowski, Witold Krzemieński, Zdzisław Szostak, Renard Czajkowski, Wojciech Rajski, Wojciech Michniewski, Andrzej Boreyko, Mirosław Jacek Błaszczyk, José Maria Florêncio, Grzegorz Nowak and Marek Pijarowski. Since the 2021/2022 season, Łukasz Borowicz has served as Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra.

Jazz saxophonist and composer, a leading figure in the Polish and European jazz scene; 15-time ‘Jazz Forum’ magazine’s Best Soprano Saxophonist.