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Pro and Contra. New Music Stage Within the framework of the Ulysses Platform activities in 2026, the Myroslav Skoryk Lviv National Philharmonic presents the concert series Pro et Contra. New Music

In 2026, the ULYSSES Ensemble tours in June to Milan (Divertimento Ensemble) and Paris (IRCAM ManiFeste Festival) and in October to Barcelona (Festival Mixtur).

Anne Castex’s "Vif-creux" is a new work for ensemble and electronics, co-commissioned by Ircam-Centre Pompidou, Gaudeamus Festival, and IEMA, and performed in 5 countries.

The 2026 edition of the Composers Workshop will be held at the Tbilissi State Conservatory, as part of a three-year project that brings advanced musical education to the borders of Europe.

Divertimento’s Orchestra Conducting Course retraces the strategies used in the preparation of a public concert.

At Gaudeamus Festival 2026, several members of the IEMA-Ensemble will have the opportunity to shine as soloists or in small chamber music settings.

This project reflects on the social, political, and spiritual aspects of water infrastructure in a four-day programme featuring sound installations, performances, and in-depth exploration.

Ukrainian composer Akim Zvarych is selected to write a new compositon for the IEMA-Ensemble 2025/26, to be presented at the 2026 Gaudeamus festival.

At Gaudeamus festival, the IEMA-Ensemble takes the stage for a captivating lunchtime concert, featuring new works by Anne Castex, IEMA composer Haotian Yu and Akim Zvarych.

The Strasbourg-based collective lovemusic, a ULYSSES Emerging Ensemble and this year's focus ensemble at Gaudeamus, returns to festival with three concerts over September 12 and 13.

Within the framework of the Ulysses Journeys programme, Gaudeamus and Het Muziek team up for a special project: assembling a string orchestra for the Gaudeamus Festival 2026.

In Yrttitarha, a concert installation composed by Gaudeamus Award 2026 nominee Tytti Arola, percussionist Kalle Hakosalo tends to a herb-garden built on the stage as a way to research and compare various definitions of growth.

Composer and percussionist Luis Fernando Amaya was selected to write a piece in response to a joint call from Gaudeamus and Insomnio to create new works that challenge and expand the artistic research with Insomnio’s TouchLab TERMINAL.