The sale of tickets for the Festival starts on August 27 from 10.00 a.m. and will be conducted through the websites: www.biletomat.pl and www.filharmonia.pl (only for the Inaugural Concert at the National Philharmonic) and www.trwarszawa.pl (for concerts on September 25 at 7.30 and 10.30 p.m.). The 61 st edition of the Festival will take place on September 21-29, 2018.
The main topic of this year’s edition, Res publica, is linked to the centenary of Polish’s regained independence. The 61st Warsaw Autumn Festival explores the relations of contemporary music with the reality it addresses, as well as creative musical approaches to the public sphere. It looks at music as a community and civic medium, an expression of personal and social identity. The Warsaw Autumn Festival will be a place of artistic debate, presenting various musical statements about ourselves and the surrounding world.
The programme of this year’s Warsaw Autumn Festival will open with the words of Ignacy Jan Paderewski and Józef Piłsudski in the verbal–sound composition by Rafał Augustyn and Cezary Duchnowski, played at the inaugural concert. At the final concert, we shall hear Louis Andriessen’s De Staat, a legendary treatise about the state and authority, with texts drawn from Plato’s The Republic. The civic art of prematurely deceased Polish composer Andrzej Bieżan will also have a special place in this year’s programme. An important character of alternative music and political contestation in the 1970s and 1980s, he will be featured with the installation Piano For All and music–theatrical happening Barricade. The Museum of Warsaw will host the audiovisual space Forging the Scythes, an installation with electroacoustic compositions, inspired by the eponymous painting by Wojciech Fangor of 1954. The Warsaw Autumn Festival will also prominently feature four other composers: Bernhard Lang, Stefan Prins, Trond Reindholdtsen, and Agata Zubel.
The festival will be traditionally accompanied by two series of events: Little Warsaw Autumn and Warsaw Autumn Hits the Club.
More information at: www.warszawska-jesien.art.pl