100th Anniversary Festival of the Polish Composers’ Union: Concert of the Gdańsk Branch

The Gdańsk Branch of the Polish Composers’ Union invites audiences to a concert on November 12, 2025, at 7:00 PM, as part of the 100th Anniversary Festival of the Polish Composers’ Union. The program includes several world premieres written especially for this occasion — including four concertante works performed by outstanding soloists. They will be accompanied by the Sinfonietta Pomerania Orchestra under the direction of its artistic director Tadeusz Dixa, performing in the Concert Hall of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. Admission is free!

“We have focused on the diversity of aesthetics proposed by composers representing several generations, whose interests range from new interpretations of the great classics to the latest sound experiments aimed at expanding the sonic imagination — both their own and that of the listeners,”
says Andrzej Dziadek, President of the Gdańsk Branch of the Polish Composers’ Union.

The concert will feature compositions by Krzysztof Olczak, Piotr Jędrzejczyk, and Leszek Kułakowski, written in earlier years and now established in the regular concert repertoire. The program also includes several new works composed especially for this event by Anna Pęcherzewska-Hadrych, Tadeusz Dixa, Adam Diesner, and Andrzej Dziadek himself.

Solo parts in the concertante works will be performed by acclaimed artists:
Rafał Jędrzejewski (flute), Andrzej Szadejko (organ), Andrzej Wojciechowski (clarinet), and Paweł Zagańczyk (accordion).

Full festival program: https://100latzkp.org.pl/wydarzenia.php

The event is co-organized by the National Institute of Music and Dance, co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, and the City of Warsaw.

Co-organizer: Program 2 of Polish Radio

Partners: ZAiKS Authors’ Association, National Philharmonic, Fryderyk Chopin University of Music, Polish Music Publishers (PWM Edition)

Media patrons: Program 2 of Polish Radio, Presto Publishing, Waw4Free, “Wolna sobota”, “NaM!” naszemiasto.pl

Editorial cooperation: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Program:

• Krzysztof Olczak – Anioły ciemności (Angels of Darkness) (2002)
• Piotr Jędrzejczyk – Music for Flute and String Orchestra (2015)
• Anna Pęcherzewska-Hadrych – Skrzypissimo (2025, world premiere)
• Leszek Kułakowski – The Discreet Charm of Consonances (2003)
• Tadeusz Dixa – Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra (2025, world premiere)
• Adam Diesner – Materia nigra (2025, world premiere)
• Andrzej Dziadek – Concerto for Organ and String Orchestra (2024 version, world premiere)