A leading Polish chamber vocal ensemble, founded in 1990 by the conductor Anna Szostak, who remains their leader. While predominantly recognised for their performances of contemporary music, including world premieres, they are also extraordinarily well versed in interpreting early music.

Over a career spanning more than 30 years, the Camerata Silesia have won international renown, performing at the most prestigious concert halls of Europe and Asia, and regularly participating in the most important international festivals in Poland, including Warsaw Autumn, the Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival, Chopin and His Europe, and others, as well as major events abroad, such as the Sommerfestspiele Bregenz, ISCM World Music Days in Vienna (and Wrocław, Poland), Musikfestival Landschaft Westfalen in Münster, and Sounds New Contemporary Music Festival in Canterbury.

The ensemble has collaborated with the world’s best orchestras, conductors, solo singers and instrumentalists. It has performed with such top-class orchestras as Wiener Symphoniker, London Philharmonic, NOSPR Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, and the Sinfonia Varsovia. The choir’s standards were particularly valued by Krzysztof Penderecki, under whose baton the Camerata Silesia participated in multiple performances of his St Luke Passion, A Polish Requiem, and Seven Gates of Jerusalem, also presenting the Canticum Canticorum during the Warsaw Autumn festival. In 2012, the ensemble was invited to participate in live performances and DVD recordings of the stage version of Penderecki’s St Luke Passion directed by Grzegorz Jarzyna. In 2017, the choir performed the same work in London with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Vladimir Jurowski.

The ensemble has already featured on several dozen albums. Seven of their own projects, conducted by Anna Szostak, won the Fryderyk Awards of the Polish Phonographic Society (recently in 2025),while multiple others have been nominated. Other projects on which the Camerata collaborated with other artists have been awarded the Fryderyk as well: a 1997 album dedicated to music by Paweł Szymański, and the 100 for 100 box set documenting a hundred years of Polish music, which won two Fryderyks in 2020.

The ensemble operates under the patronage of the City of Katowice (since 2004) and in permanent collaboration with NOSPR orchestra, whose seat has become the Camerata Silesia’s regular performance venue. Since 2024, the Camerata Silesia Katowice City Singers’ Ensemble has been Katowice City’s municipal institution of culture, run jointly with the Minister of Culture and National Heritage.