Launched in March 2023, Renewable Music - V4 Composers for Sustainability is a project whose primary objective is to reinvigorate the international music scene after the pandemic by integrating environmental and sustainability issues. Over the past year, the project has yielded four new compositions that embody the idea of renewable music in their own unique way - perhaps most spectacularly by incorporating unusual instruments made from recycled or reused materials alongside traditional instruments and modern audiovisual techniques.

The Visegrád Four countries are each represented by a composer, an ensemble and a concert venue: the compositions by Hungarian composer Máté Balogh, Czech composer Samuel Hvozdík, Polish composer Katarzyna Krzewińska and Czech composer Ian Mikyska will be performed by the BERG Orchestra in Prague, the Hashtag Ensemble in Warsaw, the UMZE Ensemble in Budapest and finally EnsembleSpectrum in Bratislava. The Budapest concert takes place on the open-air stage of the House of Music Hungary on the evening of 2 August. The concert will be preceded on 1 August by a public masterclass at the BMC, where both professionals and the public are welcome. During the course, the four composers will work with the UMZE Ensemble on the works to be performed at the concert. The venue is the BMC Roof Hall.