The 66th Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music will be held in Warsaw from 15 to 23 September 2023. The Festival will consist of 57 events, festival club concerts, meetings and discussions. The programme includes works by 35 female and 46 male artists.

According to the organisers, “Sounding Things” is the motif of the 66th Warsaw Autumn, which brings sound and musical installations, sound spaces and buildings filled with shapes and sounds. Classic instruments and ensembles will be juxtaposed with new constructions, and all together composers and performers will treat them as resounding objects.

“The sound world of this year’s Warsaw Autumn is open to a broadening of the sound field, to a certain redefinition, and all this to provide, as always, a certain freshness, but also in the hope that this will make the music more credible and authentic”, said Jerzy Kornowicz, director of the Festival.

The very inauguration of the festival at Warsaw’s National Philharmonic, where artists will present themselves not only in the concert hall, but also in various corners and nooks of the building, will be innovative.

“We wanted to show different spaces at the National Philharmonic and fill them with sounds and actions. It will to some extent be a matter of your choice which route you take. There will be both works and installations. There will be typical pieces, but in this context we hope that they will sound differently or be received differently. For example, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki’s fascinating piece Genesis, which from the very beginning was a piece of state, i.e. a kind of time management, which invites us to be in the piece rather than impressing us with its dramaturgy, and may sound completely different surrounded by these robots”, announces Jerzy Kornowicz.

Adrian Andrzejewski