The autumn edition of the NOSPR Festival of Premieres will begin with the installation Prisms by Przemysław Scheller and Piotr Ceglarek, which will be exhibited at the Rondo Sztuki Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts from the beginning of September. Hanna Kulenty, Agata Zubel, Marcin Stańczyk, Karol Nepelski and Barbara Kinga Majewska will also be among the protagonists of this year's biennial of new Polish music, which will last until 26 November 2021.

This year's 9th edition of the Festival of Premieres has been divided into two parts – spring and autumn. The April concerts, due to the pandemic, were available only in live streaming. During the autumn edition, the audience will again be able to visit the concert hall and explore two sound installations.

The second installation to be included in the Festival programme is called A Narrow Passage with Steep Walls. It will be presented to the public for the first time by the author, Barbara Kinga Majewska, in the foyer of the NOSPR on 10 October.

The concert part of the programme will also begin in the first days of October. This fall we will have a total of seven festival concerts, during which 22 new compositions will have their premiere. On 3 October, the NOSPR musicians will perform under the baton of Franck Ollu with premieres of works by Hanna Kulenta, Marcin Stańczyk and Katarzyna Krzewińska. The following concerts will include, among others, an opera for children by Jerzy Kornowicz, choral pieces by Aleksander Nowak, Paweł Łukaszewski and Romuald Twardowski, and string quartets by Andrzej Kwieciński and Joanna Wnuk-Nazarowa.

Among the performers, apart from such top Polish ensembles as NOSPR, New Music Orchestra, and Kompopolex, for the first time the festival will host one of the most appreciated foreign ensembles of new music – Klangforum Wien, who will present new compositions by Agata Zubel and Cezary Duchnowski.

The works by Tadeusz Wielecki, Cezary Duchnowski, Jerzy Kornowicz, Rafał Ryterski, Agnieszka Stulgińska, Karol Nepelski, Aleksandra Gryka, Agata Zemla were created as part of the "Composing Commissions" programme carried out by the National Institute of Music and Dance.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Full programme: https://nospr.org.pl/pl/program/festiwal-prawykonan