Projects
Music that crosses borders — geographic, generational and even the border of silence. Expand a project to see the details.
2025–2026 International festival International Choral Festival Music Without Borders — Kutaisi Our choral festival in Kutaisi, Georgia: the first edition in October 2025, the second on 16–19 October 2026. We help choirs organise the whole trip.
The festival is the natural next step after the 2021 online edition: this time the choirs met in person. The regulations, programme and application card are available in the festival post, and reports are published on the festival’s Facebook page.
2025 Inclusive concert Song of Silence — a concert in sign language The Ad libitum choir and Seeing Voices Choir combined singing with Polish Sign Language so that music could reach Deaf and hard-of-hearing people too.
Organised by the foundation on 31 May 2025 in the concert hall of the State Music School in Jastrzębie-Zdrój. Two choirs met: the classical Silesian Chamber Choir Ad libitum conducted by Izabella Zielecka-Panek, and Seeing Voices Choir conducted by Dr Anna Wojtas-Rduch — teachers, sign language interpreters, Deaf, hard-of-hearing and hearing singers.
The programme included early, sacred, folk and popular music. This is exactly why the foundation exists: music that unites rather than divides.
2021 Online festival International Festival Music Without Borders 2021 (online) 16 choirs from 12 countries in one online festival — the foundation’s answer to the pandemic, when choirs could not perform.
The pandemic took away joint concerts, musical journeys and international meetings. On 23 May 2021 we held the International Festival Music Without Borders online, under the honorary patronage of the Mayor of Wodzisław Śląski, Mieczysław Kieca.
The festival presented recordings by 16 choirs from the Czech Republic, Ecuador, the Philippines, Malta, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Turkey, Ukraine, the USA and Italy. Perfection was not the point — friendship and cooperation were.
Selected ensembles
- SCC University Niš Academic Choir (Serbia)cond. Prof. Zoran Stanisavljević
- Catholic University of Santiago de Guayaquil Choir (Ecuador)cond. Prof. Alex Mora Cobo
- “Academy” Choral Theatre, Kemerovo (Russia)cond. Prof. Inna Shorohova
- Harmonia Choir of the University of Silesia, Cieszyn (Poland)cond. Prof. Izabella Zielecka-Panek
- Collegium Canticorum, Český Těšín (Czech Republic)cond. Dr Anna Kołowska
- “Yevshan” Galician Chamber Choir, Lviv (Ukraine)
- Silesian Chamber Choir Ad libitum (Poland)
- Canticum Novum Municipal Choir, Wodzisław (Poland)cond. Emilia Kopiec
Gallery
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Zdjęcia: materiały zespołów uczestniczących w festiwalu
2021 International online project Better World Project 103 singers, 11 choirs, 10 countries and one song recorded on phones during the pandemic. The foundation’s first project.
The foundation’s first artistic activity was co-organising the “Better World Project” with the Harmonia Choir of the University of Silesia in Cieszyn. The piece chosen was “Better World” by Ryan Cayabyab, the national composer of the Philippines.
Dariusz Panek and Jędrzej Panek arranged it as a pop song. Singers learned their parts at home with a pilot recording, recorded them on their phones and sent them to Poland. Jędrzej — then a high-school graduate with a small studio — cleaned, aligned, mixed and mastered all 103 parts. It took dozens of hours.
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