Concerts with chatter: sonic “moving without moving”

During this holiday, without leaving the neo-Renaissance building of Zachęta — the National Gallery of Art, we visit distant and quite close corners of the world, trying to reach their deep truth through sounds and music. In June we went to the rich musical world of West Africa, whose global symbol became the griots, hereditary masters of sound and poetic art.

July will be dominated by archaic music from Poland — resounding in the mysterious Kingdom of Kayaks, separated from the outside world by dangerous swamps, but also in the heart of the Brazilian jungle. And since we have already seen the pefyfera of the former Portuguese empire, we will take part in the mysterious rite of capoeira, the charms and sounds of which sailed across the Atlantic from the areas of modern Angola.

6.06 — West Africa

Adam Kosmeja
Polish pianist performing, among others, contemporary Nigerian music

Noums Dembele
master of bark, n'goni and balafon from Burkina Faso

11.07 — Brazil

Miłosz Pekala
Polish virtuoso of pekusja, performing, among others, contemporary Brazilian compositions for archaic instruments

Magdalena Tejchma
Polish ethnomusicologist and journalist, researching the music and culture of the Polish minority in Brazil

18.07 — Kayak Land

Miłosz Pekala
the drummer already known to us from the Brazilian tour, who this time sings obverse rhythms on the rim drum

Mateusz Kowalski
singer and violinist, exploring Polish traditional music

Witold Wojciechowski
researcher and practitioner of musical traditions of western Radom region

Antek Hasso-Agopsovich
expert in the musical tradition of the Kajoków microregion, singer and violinist

1.08 — Iran

Anna Kwiatkowska and Mikołaj Palosz
violin-cello duo performing, among other things, the music of Iranian composers

Dariush Rasouli
classical Iranian music, graduate of Tehran Academy of Music, master of edge flute Ney

Event as part of the cycle “Pocket Philharmonic 2026”

Organizers:
Zachęta — National Gallery of Art
Automatophone Foundation