- Luboš Mrkvička: String quartet, part A – a world premiere commissioned by Contempuls
- Ernst Helmuth Flammer: String quartet No. 3
- Tomasz Prasqual: String quartet No. 3
- Johannes Kalitzke: Europe
- Tiina Myllärinen: "SMOOTH OUT" String Quartet No. 3
The Polish string quartet NeoQuartet, consisting of Karolina Piątkowska-Nowicka (1st violin), Paweł Kapica (2nd violin), Michał Markiewicz (viola), and Antoni Majewski (cello), specializes in the performance of contemporary music. The quartet is among the most active European ensembles in the field of new music and regularly performs at prestigious festivals in Europe, China, South Korea, Japan, and the USA. They often combine a classical sound with visual arts, modern dance, and electronics. They have recorded ten albums for Polish, German, Greek, and American labels, hold the 2018 Pomeranian Artistic Award, and have received several nominations for the Fryderyk Award. Since 2012, they have organized the NeoArte – Synthesizer of Arts festival in Gdańsk, which focuses on popularizing contemporary creation, organizing masterclasses, and commissioning new works from Polish and international authors. Starting in 2026, NeoQuartet will become the new ensemble-in-residence of the Contempuls festival for a three-year period, for which they will annually rehearse a new composition commissioned from a Czech author.
In the standalone part of the closing evening, the ensemble will perform works by Johannes Kalitzke, Ernst Helmuth Flammer, Tomasz Prasqual, and Tiina Myllärinen. The centerpiece of the concert and the finale of the entire year's edition will subsequently be the world premiere of the new String Quartet No. 1 by Luboš Mrkvička. This composition was commissioned by the festival as the first Czech work within the aforementioned multi-year residency project.