In 1998, a group of graduates of the Academy of Music in Katowice and Marek Moś, eminent violinist, conductor, and chamber musician, established an orchestra that was supposed to be something more than just a workplace for them – an area of artistic experiments and creative development, where they could create art of the highest value together. This is how AUKSO – Greek for growing – came to be. Young musicians, whose interests go far beyond the scope of the classical repertoire, pay special attention to Polish music, readily and successfully reaching for contemporary pieces. To date, artists such as Z. Bujarski, C. Duchnowski, W. Kilar, A. Lasoń, P. Moss, and G. Pstrokońska-Nawratil have entrusted the group with the first performances of their compositions. AUKSO gives concerts both in Poland and abroad, and the orchestra’s history includes its collaboration with many outstanding artists, including Jerzy Maksymiuk, Marc Minkowski, Piotr Anderszewski, Andrzej Bauer, Kaja Danczowska, Władysław Kłosiewicz, Janusz Olejniczak, and Olga Pasiecznik. Since 2000, Letnia Filharmonia AUKSO (The AUKSO Summer Philharmonic) has been held every year by the orchestra in the Podlasie region. The artists perform at festivals (including the Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival, Wratislavia Cantans, the Warsaw Autumn), and record albums with contemporary Polish music, including the works of G. Bacewicz, H.M. Górecki, W. Lutosławski, W. Kilar, and Z. Preisner. They reach the borderlines: combining classical music with jazz or rock, searching for a common denominator for them – or the other way round: playing with opposites and confronting separate musical languages. AUKSO gave concerts with artists such as Leszek Możdżer, Tomasz Stańko, Urszula Dudziak, Michał Urbaniak, and the Motion Trio. During the European Culture Congress in Wrocław in September 2011, AUKSO took part in two extraordinary projects – with the participation of the electronic music scene icon Aphex Twin and Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead. The result of the second meeting is an album with K. Penderecki’s and J. Greenwood’s compositions released in March 2012 under the imprint of Nonesuch, an American record label.