The performing competences of the OMN are highly valued by composers, festival organisers, promoters of modern music and record publishers. These competences spring from a co-operation with leading conductors, soloists and sound engineers, and a courage in undertaking artistic challenges, including the presentation of several tricky 20th-century music works, including Boulez’sRépons and Dérive 2, as well as first performances of works often considered unperformable and rejected by other musicians. The OMN also inspires and organises many artistic events including the recording and publication of new CDs, the organisation of New Music festivals, promotional concerts and interdisciplinary projects with the participation of dancers, soloist, vocalists, multimedia and computer technologies, performed outside traditional concert stages in atypical venues such as post-industrial buildings. The OMN has for many years participated in international artistic projects, co-operating with the leading ensembles of new music as well as institutions promoting modern music in Europe, Asia and the United States. During these projects, the OMN has commissioned and premiered works by Eastern European composers, within the Förderpreis für Polen programme of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation (2001–06). It has also exchanged repertoire with the leading European ensembles of new music (RE:NEW MUSIC, 2009–10, within the 2007–13 Cultural Programme). Moreover, in 2010 and 2011 the ensemble participated in the Adam Mickiewicz Institute’s Asia Project, with the aim of increasing Polish cultural presence in Asia. Between 2007-13 the Orchestra took part in the NEW MUSIC: NEW AUDIENCES project (Cultural Programme) designed to share experience with other European ensembles and promoters of modern music and build a strategy to find new audiences for new music.