Wratislavia Cantans

One of the most important classical music festivals in Europe. Established in 1966 by Andrzej Markowski as an oratorio and cantata festival, to this day it focuses primarily on presenting the beauty of the human voice. Each year, star-studded concerts attract thousands of music lovers to the acoustically excellent NFM halls and the historic interiors of Wrocław and Lower Silesia. The Artistic Director of the festival is conductor Andrzej Kosendiak.

Andrzej Kosendiak / fot. Łukasz Rajchert

Andrzej Kosendiak

Andrzej Kosendiak is a conductor and teacher, one of the most active musicians and organisers of musical life in Poland. He is a graduate of the Department of Composition, Conducting and Music Theory at the Academy of Music in Wrocław. In the years 2001–2009, he was head of the Inter-Faculty Study of Early Music there, in 2013 he obtained a postdoctoral degree; in the years 2014–2016, he lectured at the Academy of Music in Gdańsk. In 2021, he received the title of professor. Since 2018, to the present day he has been teaching at his alma mater. In 2005, he became director of the Wrocław Philharmonic and International Festival Wratislavia Cantans – he led to the change of both institutions and their transformation into the Witold Lutosławski National Forum of Music, which he led until September 2024. After that time, he took over the role of artistic advisor to the NFM director and artistic director of the Andrzej Markowski International Festival Wratislavia Cantans.