Projects

Ongoing projects first. Below — operas, stage works and series that have already taken place.

Ongoing

Dialogi — musical encounters in historic artists’ studios

every autumn, September to December · since 2022

A cellist and a harpsichordist play in an attic studio full of sculptures, paintings and books.
photo: Anita Wąsik-Płocińska
A violinist and a cellist play in a wooden attic studio, a table with scores in the foreground.
photo: Anita Wąsik-Płocińska
A cellist plays in a studio attic among paintings, with the audience sitting right next to her.
photo: Anita Wąsik-Płocińska

A series of micro-concerts in the spaces where some of Warsaw’s most important artists — painters, sculptors, fashion designers, photographers — created their work. The aim is to bring visual art and music closer together and to show how they can enter into dialogue and influence each other.

Each encounter combines a concert with a curator-led tour of the studio, hosted by its present custodians or the artists who work there. Every concert also includes an improvised piece, happening “here and now”.

The first edition (2022) took us to the studios of Karol Tchorek, Grażyna Hase, the Jarnuszkiewicz family, Wanda Czełkowska and the Dłużniewski family. Since then the series has returned every autumn.

The series was conceived and is curated by violinist Maria Sławek. “Dialogi” was nominated for the City of Warsaw’s S3KTOR award for the best Warsaw non-governmental initiative. The series is funded by the Monument Conservator’s Office.

dialogiwpracowniach.pl

  • polmic.pl – Polish Music Information Centre
  • Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
  • Spotkania z Zabytkami
  • Funded by the City of Warsaw
  • Ministry of Culture and National Heritage
  • National Institute of Music and Dance

Dofinansowano ze środków Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego pochodzących z Funduszu Promocji Kultury w ramach programu „Muzyka”, realizowanego przez Narodowy Instytut Muzyki i Tańca.

Match Match Ensemble

vocal ensemble · project-based · since 2022

Lilianna Krych conducts expressively, hands raised above the music stand, in a bright rehearsal room.
photo: Marzena Lewandowska
Singers of Match Match Ensemble during a recording — eyes closed, hands cupped to their ears.
photo: Marzena Lewandowska
Singers of Match Match Ensemble hold burning torches aloft against greenery and high-rise buildings.
photo: Marzena Lewandowska

A vocal ensemble founded in 2022 on the initiative of Lilianna Krych under the auspices of Warszawskie Towarzystwo Sceniczne. It was formed for the first Polish performance of David Lang’s Pulitzer Prize-winning the little match girl passion at the 65th Warsaw Autumn festival. The name refers to that piece and to the “match” of voices and ideas that ensemble singing requires.

Recently: the album Music of David Eisenstadt and its concert premiere at the POLIN Museum (2024), a tour with this programme to Berlin and Hanover (2025), and a new programme, Music of Silesian Synagogues — premiered at the Lutheran church in Legnica (10 October 2025) and recorded there — the album was released on 27 September 2026.

matchmatch.pl Instagram @matchmatchensemble

Album Music of David Eisenstadt (2024)

  • Ministry of Culture and National Heritage
  • National Institute of Music and Dance

Dofinansowano ze środków Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego pochodzących z Funduszu Promocji Kultury, w ramach programu „Muzyczny ślad”, realizowanego przez Narodowy Instytut Muzyki i Tańca.

Winter in Jarosław (Zima w Jarosławiu)

workshops · every February

A singer in a black gown performing in a bright hall, a pianist at the grand piano beside her.
photo: Centrum Kultury i Promocji w Jarosławiu
Workshop participants and tutors pose on stage after the final concert, holding flowers and certificates.
photo: Centrum Kultury i Promocji w Jarosławiu
The Benedictine Abbey in Jarosław: two church towers above the convent buildings and an autumn garden.
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Winter in Jarosław is a music workshop held every February at the Benedictine Abbey in Jarosław. At its heart are vocal masterclasses led by Prof. Jolanta Janucik and the guests she invites — specialists in singing, choral and organ music. Organised together with the Jarosław culture promotion centre and music school, it combines intensive artistic work with concerts open to the public in historic churches and on the town’s market square.

Commissions

new works for Hashtag Ensemble and other performers

2026: Oskar Tomala — new work, Warsaw Autumn (19 September 2026). Rafał Ryterski — new work, Komuna Warszawa (11 December 2026).

2025–2026: Tomasz Prasqual’s opera only Love can break your Heart, world premiere in July 2026 at TR Warszawa, with Hashtag Ensemble and Hashtag Lab.

2024–2025: Teoniki Rożynek’s Tomba Emmanuelle (a two-year commission) — world premiere at the 4th AżTak Festival (5 July 2025, Wanda Czełkowska’s studio) with Hashtag Ensemble and Match Match Ensemble.

Earlier: Karol Nepelski for Dialogi (2024), Rafał Ryterski for the Sinfonia Varsovia festival (2020), Zofia Dowgiałło for the Audio Art festival (2020).

Composer commissions 2025–2026: Tomasz Prasqual (only Love can break your Heart), Oskar Tomala, Rafał Ryterski

  • Ministry of Culture and National Heritage
  • National Institute of Music and Dance

Dofinansowano ze środków Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego pochodzących z Funduszu Promocji Kultury – państwowego funduszu celowego, w ramach programu „Zamówienia kompozytorskie”, realizowanego przez Narodowy Instytut Muzyki i Tańca.

Festival co-organisation

AżTak Festival · Rywka Tiktiner Festival

Match Match Ensemble after the AżTak Festival final concert in Wanda Czełkowska’s studio: singers in black in front of large windows full of greenery.
photo: Zuza Balcerzak
Match Match Ensemble sings in the Great Synagogue in Tykocin, the conductor in front, the audience in the pews.
photo: Michał Kość

AżTak Festival is a summer festival of contemporary music organised by Hashtag Ensemble since 2022. It brings together concerts, performances, theatre, art installations and workshops, leaving traditional concert halls for unexpected spaces across Warsaw. Each edition is built around a different theme, engaging with current social and cultural phenomena and looking for new ways for music to meet other art forms and its audience. Five editions so far: Superorganism (2022), Home (2023), Body (2024), Contemplation (2025) and Obsessions (2026). More: hashtaglab.pl

The Rywka Tiktiner Jewish Music Festival takes place in the historic Great Synagogue in Tykocin. It is devoted to rediscovering and restoring the memory of the richness of Jewish musical culture, presenting both works by composers of Jewish descent and pieces inspired by Jewish tradition. Curated by Maria Sławek and Lilianna Krych, the festival combines concerts by outstanding artists with educational events and meetings, creating a space for dialogue between history, memory and the present. More: tiktiner.pl

AżTak Festival — partners (from hashtaglab.pl)

  • Dwójka – Polish Radio, polmic.pl, wyborcza.pl, 80 years of Ruch Muzyczny, co-financed by the City of Warsaw – Permanent Cultural Programme

Tiktiner Festival 2026 — organisers and partners (from tiktiner.pl)

  • Organisers: Mieczysław Weinberg Institute, Warsaw Stage Society
  • Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, National Institute of Music and Dance
  • Partners: Podlaskie Museum in Białystok, Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Jewish Historical Institute Association in Poland, Fortepiano Otwock
  • Podlaskie Voivodeship (public task co-financed by the Podlaskie Voivodeship), Villa Regent, STOART

Dofinansowano ze środków Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego pochodzących z Funduszu Promocji Kultury w ramach programu „Muzyka”, realizowanego przez Narodowy Instytut Muzyki i Tańca.

Past

  1. 2026

    only Love can break your Heart — opera by Tomasz Prasqual

    World premiere in July 2026 at TR Warszawa, with Hashtag Ensemble and Hashtag Lab. Producer: Zofia Zajkowska.

    Three performers in white bathrobes and dark sunglasses, one with a bandaged face, a violin behind them.
    photo: Michał Piórkowski

  2. 2024

    Solaris — opera by Karol Nepelski and Waldemar Raźniak

    Opera Rara festival 2024 at the SOLARIS National Synchrotron Radiation Centre in Kraków, co-produced with the National Stary Theatre. 11 performances, the last at the European Festival City of Science in Katowice (14 December 2024).

    stary.pl

    A man reclines in an armchair in front of a huge projection of an older man’s face against a night city.
    photo: Filip Adamus

  3. 2023

    Aspern — opera by Salvatore Sciarrino, Polish premiere

    STUDIO teatrgaleria, Malarnia stage, 16 and 19 September 2023 — a fringe event of the 66th Warsaw Autumn. Directed by Pia Partum, set design by Magdalena Maciejewska, musical direction by Lilianna Krych; with Joanna Freszel and Hashtag Ensemble.

    teatrstudio.pl

    • STUDIO teatrgaleria
    • Ministry of Culture and National Heritage
    • National Institute of Music and Dance

    Polską premierę „Aspern” dofinansowano ze środków Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego pochodzących z Funduszu Promocji Kultury – państwowego funduszu celowego, w ramach programu „Muzyka”, realizowanego przez Narodowy Instytut Muzyki i Tańca.

    Two figures walk down a corridor of large screens showing projected Venetian façades in green light.
    photo: Sisi Cecylia

  4. 2022

    Little Thunder. Saint Catherine of Siena

    A theatrical concert by Julianna Bloodgood and composer Katarzyna Szwed, musical direction by Lilianna Krych. Performances: Grotowski Institute, Wrocław (5 March 2022); Nowe Epifanie Festival at CSW Laboratorium, Warsaw (8 March 2022); Retroperspektywy Festival, Łódź (27 August 2022).

    SoundCloud

    Five performers in coloured dresses on a dark stage, three holding frame drums, one singing expressively.
    photo: Marta Ankiersztejn

  5. 2020

    Aspern Suite — video opera

    To music by Salvatore Sciarrino; Hashtag Ensemble, Joanna Freszel, directed by Pia Partum, video by Aleksandra Ołdak. Funded by the National Centre for Culture (Culture Online programme).

    YouTube

  6. 2020

    Vermillion Calm — Polish-Japanese opera by Keiko Fujiie

    Directed by Pia Partum, set design by Magdalena Maciejewska, choreography by Agnieszka Dmochowska. Supported by the City of Wrocław and the Grotowski Institute, under the patronage of the Embassy of Japan.

    wroclawskiefakty.pl

    On a bright white stage a woman in a short dress walks past a man kneeling on the floor.
    photo: Maciej Kulczyński

  7. 2019

    Birdy — opera by Karol Nepelski

    Tête-à-tête Festival, London. Directed by Waldemar Raźniak, conducted by Lilianna Krych. Supported by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and the Polish Cultural Institute in London.

    tete-a-tete.org.ukVimeo

    • Adam Mickiewicz Institute – Polska Music
    • Polish Cultural Institute London
    Two singers on stage in blue light, one singing with his mouth wide open.

  8. 2018

    Tragedia albo wizerunk Śmierci Przeświętego Jana Chrzciciela by Jakub Gawatowic

    A stage work produced with Teatr Chorea and Fabryka Sztuki in Łódź. Directed by Waldemar Raźniak, choreography by Liwia Bargieł.

    chorea.com.pl

    Figures in baroque costumes stand in circles of light on a dark, empty stage.
    photo: Teatr Chorea

  9. 2015

    Orlando Paladino by Joseph Haydn

    With the Acting Department of the Theatre Academy, the Vocal Department of the Chopin University of Music and the Scenography Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (January 2015).

    More about the production: tcn.at.edu.pl

    Orlando Paladino poster: black background, a stylised eye in black, white and red shedding a red tear.

  10. 2014

    Mokotów Music Salons

    Concerts in the private flats of Mokotów residents, with the Mokotów District Office.

  11. 2013

    The Rape of Lucretia by Benjamin Britten

    With the Britten-Pears Foundation, Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera, the Chopin University of Music and the Theatre Academy. Performed 8 times at the Old PAP Printing House in Praga and at the Miskolc SZEM Festival 2014 in Hungary.

    A stage in a dark hall: a figure in pale clothing stands before a row of flames, fire reflected on the floor.
    photo: Kamila Siwińska

  12. 2011–2013

    City of Art — Jarosław

    Art courses and workshops for children and adults, with the Centre for Culture and Promotion in Jarosław.