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POCKET PHILHARMONIC 2026
Exciting musical adventures and sonic contemplations beyond anything cultural managers have ever dreamed of.
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Pocket Philharmonic 2026
“If the mountain will not come to Muhammad…”. Philharmonies around the world are wondering how to reach new audiences—people who are not necessarily drawn to the idea of a two-hour concert consisting solely of music composed two hundred years ago. What if, instead, we brought fresh music to places where audiences already engage with live culture? Galleries, theatres, cinemas. A short format, emotions entering into dialogue with a specific film, performance, or exhibition, and the atmosphere of intimate, acoustic, at-home music-making.
That is the Pocket Philharmonic.
Over 80 mini-concerts at the Dramatic Theatre, Muranów Cinema, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and Centrum Jasna 10. Without leaving Chopin’s city, we will visit five continents and nearly 20 countries, while reflecting on whether the heart of new music truly beats in the North today. We invite you to exciting musical adventures and sonic contemplations beyond what cultural managers have ever imagined.
Organizer: Automatophone Foundation
Co-organizers: Gustaw Holoubek Dramatic Theatre, Muranów Cinema, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Centrum Jasna 10, Warsaw Autumn
The project is co-financed by the City of Warsaw and the Minister of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund.
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8-10 May 2026
Gustaw Holoubek Dramatic Theatre in Warsaw, before the performance "Jubileusz" ("Jubilee")
8 May approx. 19:00
9 May approx. 19:00
10 May approx. 17:00
Location: ground floor – platform by the cloakroom
Michael Nyman - I'll Stake My Cremona to a Jew's Trump
Performed by: Anna Kwiatkowska – violin; Aleksandra Demowska-Madejska – viola; Kosma Standera – magic and electricity
An unfinished opera based on a nine-volume novel masquerading as an unfinished autobiography? Michael Nyman’s music to the ramblings of Mr. Tristram Shandy sounds like Mozart’s melodies (a coincidence? I don’t think so…) played by the Sex Pistols after Malcolm McLaren took away their guitars and handed them string instruments instead. You can try to make sense of the text, but it may be better to let yourself be carried away by the classicist punk of this English leftist who, before becoming a sought-after film composer, was nearly starving as a court critic and theorist of homeless experimental music. In I’ll Stake My Cremona to a Jew’s Trump there is both Buckingham Palace and the London docks, as well as the working-class pubs where Nyman supposedly spent the better half of his life. One wonders whether it was in one of those establishments, over a pint of golden pale ale, that he admitted: “I’m no discoverer. Basically, I deal in using, stealing, acquiring, reproducing, and recycling other people’s music.”
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Organizer: Automatophone Foundation
Co-organizers: Gustaw Holoubek Dramatic Theatre, Muranów Cinema, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Centrum Jasna 10, Warsaw Autumn
The project is co-financed by the City of Warsaw and the Minister of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund.
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8-10 May 2026
Gustaw Holoubek Dramatic Theatre in Warsaw, before the performance "Jubileusz" ("Jubilee")
8 May approx. 19:00
9 May approx. 19:00
10 May approx. 17:00
Location: ground floor – platform by the cloakroom
Michael Nyman - I'll Stake My Cremona to a Jew's Trump
Performed by: Anna Kwiatkowska – violin; Aleksandra Demowska-Madejska – viola; Kosma Standera – magic and electricity
An unfinished opera based on a nine-volume novel masquerading as an unfinished autobiography? Michael Nyman’s music to the ramblings of Mr. Tristram Shandy sounds like Mozart’s melodies (a coincidence? I don’t think so…) played by the Sex Pistols after Malcolm McLaren took away their guitars and handed them string instruments instead. You can try to make sense of the text, but it may be better to let yourself be carried away by the classicist punk of this English leftist who, before becoming a sought-after film composer, was nearly starving as a court critic and theorist of homeless experimental music. In I’ll Stake My Cremona to a Jew’s Trump there is both Buckingham Palace and the London docks, as well as the working-class pubs where Nyman supposedly spent the better half of his life. One wonders whether it was in one of those establishments, over a pint of golden pale ale, that he admitted: “I’m no discoverer. Basically, I deal in using, stealing, acquiring, reproducing, and recycling other people’s music.”
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Organizer: Automatophone Foundation
Co-organizers: Gustaw Holoubek Dramatic Theatre, Muranów Cinema, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Centrum Jasna 10, Warsaw Autumn
The project is co-financed by the City of Warsaw and the Minister of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund.
