International Festival of Kraków Composers

The International Festival of Kraków Composers (Międzynarodowy Festiwal Kompozytorów Krakowskich) is a contemporary music festival that has been held in Kraków, Poland since 1989. It is one of two major festivals of its kind held each year in Poland, the other being the Warsaw Autumn. The festival presents concerts that include music by composers with a connection to Kraków, as well as music by composers from around the world. In addition there are workshops and lectures.

Overall responsibility for the festival rests with the Kraków branch of the Polish Composers' Union. From 1994 until 2013 the festival was directed by the musicologist Jerzy Stankiewicz, and since 2014 the director has been Marcel Chyrzyński.

Although the festival is normally held in the Northern spring, the 2020 event was postponed until October because of the COVID-19 pandemic. For the same reason the 2021 festival was a totally online event.

Premieres of new works are a feature of the festival--in 2025 there were 31 world premieres. Each festival also includes musicological symposiums, with the 2025 topic being "Music in Music", i.e. quotation or incorporation of other music within works. Papers on this subject were delivered by musicologists from the Academy of Music in Kraków including Teresa Malecka, Małgorzata Janicka-Słysz, Natalia Szwab, and Marcin Strzelecki. At each festival a number of different venues host concerts; in 2025 the venues included the Kraków Philharmonic Hall, the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Kraków, and the Academy of Music in Kraków.

The festival is currently funded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (Poland) and the City of Kraków. Entry to all concerts and events is free.