Warsaw | 66th International Festival of Contemporary Music ‘Warsaw Autumn’

‘Sounding things’ is the theme of the 66^th International Festival of Contemporary Music ‘Warsaw Autumn’. Between the 15^th and the 23^rd of September, 2023, classical instruments and ensembles will be juxtaposed with new constructions that composers and performers will treat as resounding objects. Many objects will become objectphones - new instruments!

The works of 81 artists will be presented, 42 of whom are associated with Poland. In 12 points on the map of Warsaw, 47 mainstream events, Warsaw Autumn Club and Little Warsaw Autumn will take place. 22 works will be presented for the first time. 5 orchestras, 1 choir, 11 ensembles and 23 soloists will perform. There will be 16 events accompanying the festival.

This year's ‘Warsaw Autumn’ guest festival is the ‘Ad Libitum’ festival: a special concert and a meeting with the creators of the festival will be held on this occasion. And on the 22^nd of September, during another special concert, organized by the Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne, the New Music Orchestra, Agata Zubel, Dorota Adamczak and Michele Marelli will perform under the direction of Szymon Bywalec.

For the twentieth time, the Polish-German ensemble of the European Workshop of Contemporary Music EWCM will perform at Warsaw Autumn. Young performers from Poland and various German musical centers will meet at workshops conducted by soloists from the Musikfabrik group before they perform at the concert.

The ‘Little Warsaw Autumn’ addressed to the youngest audience and entire families will consist of several events organized in the form of three world premieres titled ‘Sounding Worlds’.

The programme also includes Composers' Workshop, a founding meeting of a platform of ensembles and organizations of contemporary music organized by Ania Karpowicz and Hashtag Ensemble, a symposium of European festivals associated in the Sounds Now organization, a panel entitled Composers, festivals and criticism - shared or divided space in Hashtag Lab and radio broadcasts internet.

This year's edition will be realized thanks to the co-organizers of the Festival, partners and sponsors: the Capital City of Warsaw, the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, the National Philharmonic, Programme 2 of the Polish Radio, the Association of Authors ZAiKS, the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, the Academy of Fine Arts, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, the Polish Music Edition and the Żoliborz Cultural Centre.

The festival was co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund - a state special purpose fund as part of the ‘Muzyka’ programme, implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance and the capital city of Warsaw, PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna and the PZU Foundation. The festival is co-financed as part of the ‘Creative Europe’ programme of the European Union. The festival is a member of the European Ulysses network associating cultural institutions.

The commissions for Tadeusz Wielecki's Poster and Sławomir Wojciechowski's Digging for Gold were co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund as part of the ‘Composers' commissions’ programme implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance.

Festival website: https://warszawska-jesien.art.pl/2023/strona-glowna