A Journey of Artistic Discovery Across Europe
ULYSSES JOURNEYS FOR COMPOSERS
Organised by Warsaw Autumn, Poland
Each year, composition workshops are organised within the framework of Warsaw Autumn Festival.
The workshops offer composers the opportunity to consult with authors who visit Warsaw on the occasion of their works’ performance. The workshops consist of individual tuition with a single lecturer (maximum two), selected by the participant. Participants are also free to attend other tuition sessions.
The workshops are organised in cooperation between the Warsaw Autumn Festival and the Youth Circle, the young authors and scholars’ section of the Polish Composers’ Union, which unites almost all Polish composers and musicologists, as well as foreign authorities linked to Polish culture. The Polish Composers’ Union Association is also the founder and organizer of the Warsaw Autumn Festival, established in 1956.
Besides the composition workshop, each edition of the Warsaw Autumn Festival includes open meetings with composers participating in each edition, focusing on issues of culture, art, and technology. Combined with the workshops, these meetings allow participants to build comprehensive general and specific knowledge.
Composers who have run workshops in the last years include Mark Andre, Magdalena Długosz, Cathy van Eck, Juliana Hodkinson, Pierre Jodlowski, Matthias Kranebitter, Zygmunt Krauze, Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil, Niels Rønsholdt, François Sarhan, Elżbieta Sikora and Raphäel Cendo, Franck Bedrossian, Lidia Zielińska.
This year Warsaw Autumn invited the following composers to lead the workshops with young composers:
Krzysztof Knittel (September 19)
François Sarhan (September 21)
Niels Rønsholdt (September 24)
Tadeusz Wielecki (September 25)
In 2026, two young composers have been selected to attend the workshop and festival in the framework of their ULYSSES Journey: Sohui Jeong and Lautaro Figueroa Balcarce.
