The programme of the Musicians Associated Contemporary Ensemble will include compositions by artists of the young generation. All are firmly rooted in syncretic thinking and fascinated by combining different artistic disciplines. Their works contain numerous visual and performative elements. They comment on the surrounding reality and the latest events, which they tend to filter through their own personalities and sensitivities.

Piotr Peszat, born in 1990, is the author of the Real Life Proof, as well as winner of many national and international competitions. He is a graduate in the composition class of Krzysztof Meyer of the Academy of Music in Kraków. He continued his studies in Denmark with Simon Steen-Andersen. Born in 1988 to a Polish Japanese family, Nina Fukuoka is a graduate of the Academy of Music in Łódź in the class of Zygmunt Krauze and the Royal Conservatory in Brussels, where she studied with Peter Swinnen. She is often inspired by science fiction literature. The Yuggoth was completed in 2018, its title taken from the name of the planet appearing in Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s short stories. In the same year, Rafał Ryterski, born in 1992, composed the Disco Bloodbath. Rafał focuses on the relationship between virtuality and reality. The artist admits that he is interested in a situation in which a player playing a character is at the same time virtual and not real. The YOUR ONLY LIMIT IS YOU by Marta Śniady from 2019 was first performed in Graz in the same year as part of the Internationale Ensemble- und Komposistenakademie für zeitgenössische Musik. The irony of the title suggests that not everything is dependent on us, and external constraints are often very real. The Stimm(i)[u]ng by Wojciech Blecharz educated in Warsaw and San Diego was presented for the first time during the last year edition of the Sacrum Profanum Festival in Krakow. In accordance with the composer’s intentions, this work refers to autism, which in a poetic way is symbolized by the cello held with strings facing the performer.