The 61st "Warsaw Autumn" International Festival of Contemporary Music will be held on September 21-29, 2018. The program is already available on the Festival website.
On the 100th anniversary of Polish independence, the Warsaw Autumn Festival explores the relationship between modern music and the reality it addresses. The programme of this year’s Warsaw Autumn is framed by the words of Ignacy Jan Paderewski and Józef Piłsudski in Rafał Augustyn and Cezary Duchnowski’s text-and-sound composition, which will open the Festival, and Louis Andriessen’s De Staat (The Republic), a legendary treatise on statehood and power, with texts from Plato’s Republic, which will closure Warsaw Autumn.
Musical works, stage music, music theatre, intermedia, electronics, traditional and new instruments, improvisation, installations, and film. The third edition of Warsaw Autumn Hits the Club and the eighth of Little Warsaw Autumn. Plus the traditional meetings with composers, and the second edition of workshops for young composers and internet radio broadcasts. The Festrival feature many first performances and "Warsaw Autumn" commissions, including works by from Michał Nejtek, Aleksander Nowak, Anna Zawadzka-Gołosz, Rafał Ryterski, Krzysztof Wołek, Wojciech Błażejczyk, Mateusz Ryczek, Zbigniew Bargielski and Piotr Tabakiernik. Special features will include Stefan Prins, Bernhard Lang, Trond Reinholdtsen and Agata Zubel.
The performers this year will include the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir conducted by Jacek Kaspszyk, the Polish National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra of Katowice led by Etienne Siebens, the Beethoven Academy Orchestra led by Wiktor Kociuban, Klangforum Wien under Titus Engel, the EWCM with Rüdiger Bohn, the New Music Orchestra with Szymon Bywalec, Ensemble Recherche, Black Page Orchestra, Spółdzielnia Muzyczna Contemporary Ensemble, Kwartludium, proMODERN, as well as soloists such as Gareth Davies (bass clarinet), Kakushin Nishihara (biwa), Stephane Ginsburg (piano and multimedia) i Frederike Möller (piano).
More information at: http://www.warszawska-jesien.art.pl
