The 20th Ad Libitum Festival kicks off on 11 September!

It is as many as five days in five different spaces - Pardon, To Tu, Hashtag Lab, the Laboratory of the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle and its park surroundings, and the finale at the Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio of the Polish Radio.
40 artists will perform at 14 concerts! Free entrance, you are welcome!
Dedicated to the idea of improvisation in music, every year the Ad Libitum festival discovers new meanings for it, creates new artistic situations, presents unique events and seeks new territories for artists to collaborate.
Our mission is to bring together artists of different generations and backgrounds in collaboration, creating a living laboratory that is a place for international, creative contact and artistic exchange.
It is a themed festival, in each of its editions directing attention to a chosen aspect, field or strand of the art of improvisation.

PROGRAMME 2025

Thursday, 11 September, 8.00 pm - Pardon, To Tu

HALVVA [Kamil Piotrowicz - piano, synthesisers, electronics & Jacek Prościński - percussion, electronics] feat. Timothée Quost - trumpet, electronics

Tomo Jacobson - double bass / Jesper Zeuthen - alto saxophone / Kresten Osgood - drums

Friday 12 September, 7.00 pm - Hashtag Lab

Radio Noise Duo [Tomasz Misiak and Marcin Olejniczak] - radios, radio signal, electronics & Artur Rumiński - guitar

Lê Quan Ninh - solo percussion instruments

Tonic Train [Knut Aufermann and Sarah Washington] - radio signal, radio art, electronics

Saturday 13 September, 7.00 pm - Hashtag Lab

Piotr Peszat "Non-Lieux" - electronics, ambient sounds

TJ Fool [Justyna Banaszczyk] & Konrad Gęca - cassette improvisation duo

Tanja Schlander "The Pocket Orchestra" - cassette orchestra of improvisers

Sunday, 14 September, 2 pm - park surroundings of the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle

Aleksandra Słyż "Aether" / Piotr Peszat "Soundscape", performed by: Aleksandra Słyż, Piotr Peszat - electronics, ambient sounds, Małgorzata Mikulska - flute & Biuro Dźwięku Katowice 2.0 - collective composition with elements of improvisation for solo flute, multi-channel audio playback and live electronics (Composition commission)

Sunday, 14 September, 7.00 pm - W. Krukowski Performance Hall (Laboratory) Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle

Sambar [Paulina Owczarek and Tomasz Gadecki - saxophones] & special guest - Paul Lytton - drums

Axel Dörner - trumpet & Ad Libitum workshop group: Katarzyna Karpowicz - koto / Aleksandra Krynska - violin / Natan Kryszk - saxophones / Mateusz Loska - double bass / Patrycja Wybrańczyk - percussion

Monday, 15 September, at 19.00 - Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio of the Polish Radio

Zofia Ilnicka - flutes / Aleksandra Rzepka - percussion / Axel Dörner - trumpet / Erhard Hirt - guitar [in collaboration with Avant Art Festival].

Günter Sommer "Hörmusik" - solo percussion

King Übü Örchestrü [Phil Minton - voice / Mark Charig - cornet / Axel Dörner - trumpet / Stefan Keune - sopranino saxophone / Matthias Muche - trombone / Melvyn Poore - tuba / Erhard Hirt - guitar / Phillipp Wachsmann - violin / Alfred Zimmerlin - cello / Torsten Müller - double bass / Paul Lytton - percussion].