24.09.2025 | 6:00 PM

The Theatre Hall of the Zagłębie Palace of Culture

After the successful stage performance of the orchestral and choral ensembles of the Music School Complex in Sosnowiec and the State Music School Complex in Żory during the Spisak Festival in 2024, teacher and conductor Maciej Cisowski, along with his students, are returning in an expanded group to the festival stage. More than 100 music school students from the Music School Complex in Sosnowiec, the State Music School Complex in Żory and the State Music School Complex in Bielsko-Biała, forming school orchestra formations, will perform together on the stage of the Zagłębie Palace of Culture. They will present their skills in front of an audience in Polish and foreign repertoire of various eras and styles, including works by Henryk Mikołaj Górecki – a friend of Michał Spisak.

Performers:

• Zuzanna Piesik – soprano (Music School Complex in Sosnowiec)
• Izabela Poloczek – cello (State Music School Complex in Żory)
• Marta Fober – violin (State Music School Complex in Bielsko-Biała)
• Maciej Cisowski – conductor
• School Symphony Orchestra of the Stanisław Moniuszko Secondary Music School in Bielsko-Biała
• String Orchestra of the Secondary Music School in Sosnowiec
• Instrumentalists of the Wind Orchestra of the Secondary Music School in Sosnowiec
• Orchestra of the Secondary Music School in Żory

Repertoire:

• Stanisław Moniuszko – Fantasy Overture “Fairytale”
• Arturo Marquez – Danzon no. 2
• Edward Elgar – Cello Concerto op. 85, part I Adagio Moderato, part II Lento Allegro molto
• Henryk Mikołaj Górecki – Symphony no. 3 “Sorrowful Songs” op. 36, part III Lento-Cantabile semplice
• Piotr Tchaikovsky – Violin Concerto in D major op. 35, part I Allegro moderato
• Henk van Lijnschooten – Ouverture 2000
• Jakob de Haan – Ross Roy
• Jakob de Haan – Virginia
• Georg Gerschwin – An American in Paris

Orkiestra Symfoniczna Młodej Filharmonii Międzyszkolnej (literal translation from Polish: Symphony Orchestra of the Inter-School Young Philharmonic) – the ensemble shapes the professional performance skills of young music students. The musicians perform works that are part of the canon of art music literature – from the Baroque period to contemporary music. The project integrates the community of young musicians from the Podbeskidzie, Silesia, and Zagłębie regions, who actively participate in the life of the music schools in these areas. The ensemble is composed of musicians studying at the Stanisław Moniuszko State Music School Complex in Bielsko-Biała, the Music School Complex in Sosnowiec, and the State Music School Complex in Żory. The orchestra realizes artistic events reaching out to school and local communities, as well as those with a regional and national scope. The concerts take place in concert halls and other venues that are conducive to the performance of art music.

In April 2024, the orchestra participated in workshops at the Krzysztof Penderecki European Music Centre in Lusławice. During the workshops, the young musicians received training under the guidance of Elżbieta Tomczyńska (the Music School Complex in Sosnowiec), Michał Pradela (the State Music School Complex in Żory), Zuzanna Hajda (the Music School Complex in Sosnowiec), Marta Huget-Skiba (AUKSO), Jakub Witek (the State Music School Complex in Żory), Ewa Sidor (the Music School Complex in Sosnowiec), Adam Krzeszowiec (Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra), Aleksander Lasoń (AM Katowice), and Maciej Cisowski (the Music School Complex in Sosnowiec – the State Music School Complex in Żory).

The orchestra’s activities initiate a new tradition for the schools, contributing to the ongoing concert activities of both the institutions and the cities in which they are located. Since its inception in 2020, the orchestra has been conducted by Maciej Cisowski. Since then, the ensemble has regularly performed in a symphonic setting. The performances of the young music students, presented at numerous concerts, have gained recognition from both the public and critics.

Maciej Cisowski | composer, conductor, educator – a graduate of the second-degree studies in composition under the guidance of Professor Aleksander Lasoń at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. During his studies, several of his works were premiered, including Cinematic (performed by Sinfinietta Sonora), Slides (performed by the New Music Orchestra, conducted by Wojciech Wantuloka), Gdzie duch przenika zmysły for a cappella choir (1st place at the 8th F. Nowowiejski Composition Competition in Olsztyn, performed by the Chamber Choir of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, conducted by Professor Maria Piotrowska-Bogalecka), and Days on the Coast (performed by the New Music Orchestra, conducted by Filip Huget).

In 2015, he obtained the title of Master of Arts in the field of Symphony and Opera Conducting at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. He has conducted, among others: the Symphony Orchestra of the Henryk Mikołaj Górecki Silesian Philharmonic in Katowice, the Silesian Chamber Orchestra, the New Music Orchestra, the Karol Szymanowski Youth Symphony Orchestra, and the Archetti Chamber Orchestra from Jaworzno. He has collaborated with many soloists, including: Adam Krzeszowiec, Piotr Ptak, Celina Kotz, Marcin Wyrostek, Piotr Schmidt, Wojciech Myrczek, and the Vołosi ensemble. He has also conducted numerous premieres of works by other composers, including Drei Kleine Stücke and Strzępy snu by Tomasz Kubiak, Reconsiliation by Kamil Polak, Na precyzyjnie rozstrojone instrumenty and Synchronike by Marcin Jerzy Chrostek, Meditatio by Przemysław Szczotka, Little blue poem by Adam Potera, Introduction by Michał Witta, and Mioklonie by Adrianna Kubica-Cypek.

From 2018 to 2021, he conducted the orchestra of the part-time studies programme, Sinfonietta Sonora, at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. Since September 2020, he has been conducting school choirs and orchestras at the State Music School Complex in Żory and at the Music School Complex in Sosnowiec, and from September 2023, at the State Music School Complex in Bielsko-Biała. In 2024, he performed at the Szalone Dni Muzyki Festival in Warsaw, the Michał Spisak International Festival in Dąbrowa Górnicza, and the Polish Composers’ Festival in Bielsko-Biała. He also led orchestral-choral workshops at the Krzysztof Penderecki European Music Centre in Lusławice as part of the Młoda Filharmonia Międzyszkolna project.