The I, CULTURE Orchestra toured to Reykjavik, Gothenburg, Copenhagen, Tallinn and Kiev. The tour followed two weeks of workshops, rehearsals, and an initial concert in Gdañsk on 26 August. Conducted by Kirill Karabits, the tour also featured soloists Truls Mørk and Khatia Buniatishvili.

Gathering together young musicians from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Poland and Ukraine, the I, CULTURE Orchestra was formed in 2011 by the Adam Mickiewicz’s Institute as part of the International Cultural Programme of Poland’s Presidency of the European Union.

The tour programme included Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra and two alternating concertos; Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No.1 (with Khatia Buniatishvili) was performed in Reykjavik (29 August), Tallinn (3 September) and Kiev (4 September); Lutoslawski’s Cello Concerto was performed in Gothenburg (31 August) and Copenhagen (2 September) by its renowned interpreter Truls Mørk. The tour programmes opened with Lyatoshynsky’s Symphonic Ballade Grazhyna.

The orchestra’s appearance in Gothenburg also featured an education project and a ​‘side-by-side’ concert with young Swedish musicians on 1 September. They performed together in Wagner’s Overture to Der Fliegende Holländer and Mussorgsky’s A Night on the Bare Mountain.