Art'n'Voices
Art’n’Voices is a remarkable ensemble, with flexible voices, wonderful musicianship, creative programming, and a real sense of how to communicate their love of ensemble singing to their audiences, specialist or otherwise!
Simon Carrington, The King’s Singers
Art’n’Voices is an award-winning Polish vocal ensemble distinguished by its exploration of contemporary a cappella music and by a repertoire closely shaped around the individual qualities of its eight voices.
Bringing together singers with backgrounds spanning classical music, conducting, composition and improvisation, the ensemble combines precision and clarity of sound with an openness to new vocal techniques and different forms of musical expression. At the centre of its artistic identity is music created specifically for Art’n’Voices, including works by the ensemble’s own members.
This commitment to new music has developed into a close dialogue with a younger generation of Polish composers. The ensemble’s 2020 album Midnight Stories brought together twelve works inspired by the night, written especially for Art’n’Voices by composers including Paweł Łukaszewski, Szymon Godziemba-Trytek, Michał Ziółkowski, Marek Raczyński, Zuzanna Falkowska and Anna Rocławska-Musiałczyk. The recording received the Fryderyk Award for Album of the Year – Contemporary Music in 2021. In 2026, Art’n’Voices received the same distinction for a second time for Pieces of Myself, featuring music by Rocławska-Musiałczyk and Raczyński. Conceived as an exploration of nine emotional states, the album moves from tenderness, bliss and triumph to fear, isolation, jealousy and self-destruction.
Art’n’Voices has received numerous awards at national and international competitions, including ten Grand Prix prizes. In 2023, the ensemble won First Prize at the International a cappella Contest Leipzig, where its contemporary repertoire, distinctive ensemble sound and artistic precision attracted particular attention. The success led to a return invitation to the a cappella Festival Leipzig in 2024 with the programme Whispers from Within, subsequently broadcast by Deutschlandfunk.
The ensemble has appeared at venues including the Gewandhaus Leipzig, Teatro Petrarca in Arezzo and Théâtre Michel Portal in Bayonne, as well as leading Polish concert institutions. In December 2025, Art’n’Voices made its Elbphilharmonie Hamburg debut with Christmas at Sea, a programme juxtaposing specially composed music by Anna Rocławska-Musiałczyk and Marek Raczyński with works by Bach, Arvo Pärt, Sting and traditional Christmas repertoire.
Alongside its concert activity, Art’n’Voices founded the ArteFonie Festival in Wejherowo, which brings contemporary classical music into dialogue with jazz, alternative music and other artistic disciplines. Through the Art’n’Voices Virtual Library, it also makes contemporary choral scores freely available and promotes works by established and emerging composers.
During the 2026/27 season, Art’n’Voices appears at major Polish institutions including the National Philharmonic in Warsaw, National Forum of Music in Wrocław, Poznań Philharmonic, Gorzów Philharmonic and Pomeranian Philharmonic in Bydgoszcz. The ensemble was selected for the 2026/27 edition of Scena Muzyki Polskiej, a national programme devoted to the promotion of Polish repertoire, with performances in Warsaw, Poznań and Gorzów. Internationally, Art’n’Voices continues to expand its presence with further performances in Germany and elsewhere in Europe during 2026.
Discography
Pieces of Myself (2025)
The album reflects the universality of human emotions in their many forms – from the most difficult, untamed, and often shameful ones to those that accompany us every day. Composers Anna Rocławska-Musiałczyk and Marek Raczyński created the music especially for Art’n’Voices including lyrics by Marta Jundziłł, Edgar Allan Poe, Victor Hugo and others.
The album received Fryderyk Award for Contemporary Music Album of the Year.
Midnight Stories (2020)
Winner of the Frederic Award (Poland). Featuring 12 tracks inspired by the theme of the night, created exclusively for Art’n’Voices by young Polish composers.
Way of the Cross (2013)
Album with sacred music featuring compositions by Anna Rocławska-Musiałczyk, and Lenten reflections by Father Przemysław Lewiński, performed by actor Jerzy Kiszkis.
Sample programmes
Pieces of Myself
Anna Rocławska-Musiałczyk:
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Paranoia
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Bliss
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Destructivity
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Isolation
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Pride
Marek Raczyński:
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Fear
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Jealousy
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Triumph
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Tenderness
Spirit of Poland
Michał Malec - Ballada (A ballad)
Szymon Godziemba -Trytek- The Ackermann Steppe
Jakub Szafrański - I dreamt a dream
Feliks Nowowiejski- Dumka Ułana (Elegy of an Ulan)
Jan Krenz - Smutna (TheSorrowful)
Małgorzata Priebe - Uwoz, mamo, roz (Tell me, Mother)
Anna Rocławska-Musiałczyk - Nigle sà zerwie strzébrzny sznur (Before the silver cord is broken)
Józef Świder- Laudate Pueri Dominum
Paweł Łukaszewski - Tenebrae Factae Sunt
Paweł Łukaszewski - Recessit Pastor Noster
Anna Rocławska-Musiałczyk - Bibi Synkù, Bi (Sleep, my Son)