Music Ensembles - MINSTREL - Orkiestra Muzyki Nowej

Each year, tens of thousands of new compositions see the light. In this mass, there are very good, excellent, and congenial works. The New Music Orchestra (ORKIESTRA MUZYKI NOWEJ, OMN), founded in 1996 by Aleksander Lasoń, has explored this area for over a decade, looking for compositions that are meaningful for culture as a whole, engaging for listeners, forward-looking, perhaps unjustly neglected, worth reviving, presenting in public and recording.

History

The name means off course „New Music Orchestra” - and explains itself. Founded in 1996, this chamber ensemble was formed from students at the Music Academy of Katowice.

Today, the orchestra is made up of both graduates and students giving a powerful balance between youth and experience.

The Orkiestra Muzyki Nowej is a regular performer at the Warsaw Autumn Festival, as well as hosting its own festival, the New Music Festival in Bytom.

Being an ensemble of young people Orkiestra Muzyki Nowej is concerned with the challenge of engaging a larger audience to contemporary music – and not least how to maintain a young audience. The tools for this includes workshops for children, concerts for students, and in the NewAud project Orkiestra Muzyki Nowej looks forward to explore other tactics for unlocking new music to more people.

Records

http://omn.art.pl/albumy/

Year of foundation

1996

Genres

Contemporary

Instrument types

Brass, Keyboard, Strings (bow), Strings (plucked), Woodwinds

Artistic director

Szymon Bywalec

Country

Poland