Spółdzielnia Muzyczna (Musical Cooperative) is among Poland’s  most dynamic ensembles specialising in the performance of contemporary music. It has appeared at festivals such as MaerzMusik  in Berlin, the Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt,  Afekt in Estonia, as well as the leading festivals in Poland including Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary  Music, Sacrum Profanum, Audio Art, Unsound, and Musica Polonica Nova. Their most noteworthy accolade includes the prestigious Ensemble Prize awarded by the Ernst von Siemens Music  Foundation, as well as nominations for the Coryphaeus of Polish  Music and the 2022 Fryderyk awards in the Contemporary Music  Album of the Year category.

The ensemble has had the privilege of participating in the Ensemble-Akademie Freiburg masterclasses for ensembles led by  ensemble recherche, and selection, as one of only four ensembles, for the Young Ensemble Academy, where they worked with  the legendary Ensemble Modern.

Spółdzielnia Muzyczna is strongly connected to Cracow, its  home city, where it has long developed a variety of regular projects. These include Interakcje / Interactions, concerts combined  with open discussions bridging the creator–performer–audience  divide; Playground: call for cooperations inviting selected artists to  compose together, culminating in the performance of the jointly  developed works; Open Space, workshops in new instrumental  techniques for composers; as well as Otwórz uszy/otwórz oczy  (Open your ears/Open your eyes) and Spółdzielnia na miejscu  (Spółdzielnia is here), educational and interdisciplinary events  designed to open broad audiences to introduce new sounds. As  part of the last initiative, Spółdzielnia also organises Rytmiczne  wierszowanki (Rhymes in Rhythm) sessions for children where  they set well-known poems by Polish poets to sound, incorporating among others elements of body music; Orkiestra Hałasów  (Orchestra of Noises) with music made together on unconventional instruments; and Sound Walk during which participants  prick up their ears to the sounds of the city.

In its programs, the ensemble tries to combine twentieth-century  classics with the music of the young generation, giving a special  place to Polish artists such as Zygmunt Krauze, Paweł My kietyn,  Agata Zubel, Andrzej Kwieciński, Artur Zagajewski, Piotr  Peszat, Monika Szpyrka, Piotr Tabakiernik, Anna Sowa, Nina  Fukuoka, Martyna Kosecka, Marta Śniady, Paweł Malinowski,  Jacek Sotomski, Aleksander Nowak, and Cezary Duchnowski.  Spółdzielnia Muzyczna’s repertoire also includes compositions  by Alex Mincek, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Malin Bång, Marco  Ciciliani, Alex Paxton, Joanna Bailie, Oscar Escudero, David  Fennessy, Johannes Kreidler, Ricardo Eizirik, Matthew Shlomowitz, Trondem Reinholdtsen, Gerard Grisey, Franco Donatoni, Giacinto Scelsi, Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Boulez, Luciano Berio, Morton Feldman, George Crumb, Georges Aperghis, and  Salvatore Sciarrino.