The annual NOSPR Festival of Premieres will take place at NOSPR Hall in Katowice from March 14-16, 2025. Below is how organizers as the Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra describe this huge undertaking, with bold letters added to those composers and pieces that will be premiered:
The Festival of Premieres is a celebration of discoveries – both the latest ones and those which had to wait for their time to come. After all, the masters of traditional and baroque music taught us that discoveries can be made after hundreds or even thousands of years. The forgotten minimalistic works by Tomasz Sikorski and Zygmunt Krauze waited decades for their premieres, and so did Barbara Buczek’s Anekumena, which could not be more stylistically distant from the two. In order to discover themselves, composers sometimes need extraordinary soloists who play unusual instruments (PawełRomańczuk’s theremin in Paweł Hendrich’s Sfumato) or such instruments that are only superficially usual (Małgorzata Walentynowicz in Jacek Sotomski’s Piano Concerto). An intergenerational, acoustic-electric meeting is about to take place between the Silesian String Quartet and the NeoQuartet, while the ensemble OMN will perform together with the Camerata Silesia. We will also take care of the little ones (Baby Opera by EwaFabiańska-Jelińska), and the AUKSO strings will sing Krzysztof Knittel’s composition on “the gift of life” (the Hawaiian ka makana o ke ola). And what discoveries will the Warsaw-based Hashtag Ensemble bring us? See (and hear!) you at NOSPR from 14th to 16th March.
Other works not listed above that will also be premiered during the Festival include:
• Sławomir Kupczak: Moment I, II & III
• Krystyna Moszumańska-Nazar: Overture No. 2
• Dominik Strycharski: We Have a Problem for string octet, electronics and video
• Ewa Trębacz: Nostalgia for two string quartets and electronic media
• Olga Hans: me-mo-traces for string quartet
• Hubert Gabriel Żmudzki: No Quarter for string quartet
• Monika Szpyrka: Conchoidal for electrified string quartets and electronics
• Joanna Woźny: Echi dell’Informe for string quartet
• Aleksandra Gryka: Q for string quartet
• Marcel Chyrzyński: Mindscape No. 1 for string quartet
• Nina Fukuoka: Body without Organs for ensemble, electronics and live animation
• Mateusz Śmigasiewicz: mist for choir and electronics
• Sławomir Wojciechowski: Equally real for choir, chamber orchestra and two-channel sound projection
• Krzysztof Wołek: Bellows Breath – Concerto for accordion and string orchestra
• Martyna Kosecka: Erēmos for trumpet and string orchestra
• Jacek Domagała: Preludium i chorał for string orchestra
• Jagoda Szmytka: Stany materii – szkice orkiestrowe [States of Matter – Orchestral Sketches]
• Nikolet Burzyńska: Natural Intelligence for chamber ensemble
• Jarosław Płonka: life of a ghost for cello and chamber ensemble
[Source: nospr.org.pl]