The 2026 Irena Santor "Vistula Sounds" International Festival was held on 12-16 August. Five wonderful days with a diverse program, artists from around the world, exquisite concerts, and insightful workshops – all this made it a time full of musical excitement and inspiration. Ciechocinek became the capital of international and Polish song, resounding with music sung by artists from 22 countries! An unforgettable experience with a lineup of stars from the Polish and foreign music scene.

Special performances on the festival stages included Grażyna Brodzińska, the duo Alicja Majewska and Włodzimierz Korcz, Anna Rusowicz, Pavlo Tabakov (Ukraine), and Andria Putkaradze (Georgia, Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 winner).

The festival contestants were judged by an international jury led by Grażyna Brodzińska, with experts including Jarosław Wasik, Joanna Zagdańska, Anna Poghosyan (Armenia), Adam Barro (France), Rossi Yordanova (Bulgaria), and many others.

It was a true celebration of music without borders!

This festival is also unique for yet another reason! Its format has been designed to give the contestants the time to mingle and socialize. These five days and 14 events proved a great artistic, organizational, and educational success.

We are confident that the 5^th anniversary festival in 2026 will once again dazzle our contestants, guests, and viewers with new surprises and experiences.

See you in August 2026 in Kuyavia and Pomerania.

Sar Sargsyan Cultural Entertainment is the only Polish representative to present the winner of the Irena Santor "Vistula Sounds" International Festival at the Chuva De Estrelas Douro Festival in Portugal each year. This year, it was the winner of the 2023 edition, Mɪᴄʜᴀᴌ Mᴀᴛᴜsᴢᴇᴡsᴋɪ. The singer performed with great class, successfully taking second place. Huge congratulations to our artist!
The competition took place on July 12, 2025, in Peso da Regua. We would like to thank the festival organizers for the high standard of the event and the organization. We thank them for the warm welcome of our Polish delegation.
See you in Portugal next year!

On July 3, 2025 our directors met with the mayor of the city of Ciechocinek to agree the details of our collaboration on the 4th Irena Santor "Vistula Sounds" International Festival. We are happy to share that the meeting concluded with the signing a partnership agreement between the parties which also provides for funding granted by the city council. Thank you very much!

The meeting was attended by Jarosław Jucewicz, Mayor of Ciechocinek, Mariusz Kisielewski, Managing Director of the Vistula Sounds Festival, and Saribek Sargsyan, Artistic Director.

You are also encouraged to follow all festival announcements published regularly on the Festival's Facebook, Instagram and TikTok fan pages: https://www.facebook.com/VistulaSounds, https://www.instagram.com/vistulasounds/ and https://www.tiktok.com/@vistulasounds

See you in Ciechocinek on August 12-16, 2025!

Photo: City ​​promotion office of the Ciechocinek

On 26-30 June 2025 the picturesque resort Spanish town of Lloret de Mar on the Mediterranean Sea hosted another edition of the "Summer Talent League" Festival – an annual event organized by our Lithuanian partner, Ars Festa. The festival attracted over 500 contestants from over 10 countries and, as usual, Poland was also represented thanks to the support of SSCE Agency and SSCE Foundation. Polish contestants, including Antonina Małecka, Nicola Rykowska, and Gabriela Nagięć, singers of "Your Song" band from Ostrów Wielkopolski and winners of the 3^rd "Vistula Sounds" Festival in 2024, sang both in solo and group categories. Saribek Sargsyan, Artistic Director of the Agency and VP of SSCE Foundation, represented Poland on international judging team. The young artists demonstrated their wonderful talents and won 1^st places in both categories. In addition to competition performances, Polish participants took part in the Festival concerts. We wish to extend huge thanks to their coaches for their tremendous work which helped prepare the young artists, as well as to the parents for the support they offered throughout. The international audience went wild, especially after the group's wonderful performance of the folk song "W moim ogródeczku" (“In my little garden”). We are delighted that a Polish piece was so beautifully presented at an international forum, as promoting Polish song worldwide is one of the key goals of SSCE Agency and SSCE Foundation. We wish to thank the organizers for a great event and their hospitality.

From 11 to 13 April 2025, another edition of the International Vocal Competition Muzikos talentų lyga / Music talent league took place in Vilnius. Talented individuals, presented by both our Agency and other music institutions from Poland, took part in the Competition, achieving very good results. We are very happy about the successes of all Polish participants. Congratulations and we wish you further success!
Our artistic director Sar Sargsyan was invited to Vilnius as a member of the international jury representing Poland.
The Competition was organized by Ars Festa (President Asta Bagdonaviciene), which has been our Partner since the day the SSCE Agency was established. As always, the cooperation is excellent, and the events organized by Ars Festa are of a high standard.
We would like to thank the Festival Organizers for the high level of the event and the wonderful organization. Thank you for the warm welcome.

The 8th edition of the Golden VOICE International Festival took place in Malta from 27 to 30 March 2025. At the invitation of the organisers, our SSCE Agency presented two participants from Poland: Alicja Kłosińska and Kinga Linkiewicz. Both had very good performances, which were positively assessed by the international jury. Here are the results: Alicja Kłosińska - 1st place; Kinga Linkiewicz - 2nd place. The artistic director of the SSCE Agency, Sar Sargsyan, was invited as a member of the international jury representing Poland, as well as a performing artist as a Special Guest during the Gala Concert.

In addition to our representatives, the Festival was attended by yung talents, presented by other music institutions from Poland, who also had very good results. We are very happy with the successes of all Polish participants. We congratulate and thank you for once again representing our Polish culture abroad so nobly with their excellent performances on the international stage. We wish you further success!

On 3-4 January, 2025, another edition of the International Christmas Talent League Competition took place in Vilnius, where this year Poland was represented by 2 people who competed in different age categories and received: Julia Markowska - 1st place and Mini Grand Prix, Anna Sękala - 1st place and Mini Grand Prix.Big congratulations to our winners. We wish you further success with our Agency and beyond!We would like to mention that the artistic director of SSCE Sar Sargsyan, as every year, was also a member of the International Jury of the Competition in Vilnius.
The Competition was organized by Ars Festa.
We would like to thank the Competition Organizers for their wonderful organization.
By the way, we invite you to participate in all Ars Festa competitions in 2025. All details are already available on the agency's website: https://muzikostalentulyga.lt/konkursai/

As we started the year, so we close it with the success of Polish talents on the international stage! This time we have good news from the capital of Latvia. On 06.-09.12.2024, another edition of the International Vocal Festival "Riga Symphony" took place in Riga, where the SSCE Agency, this year for the last time, presented Polish talents. The festival took place in the beautiful halls of "Kultūras pils Ziemeļblāzma" and "VEF Kultūras pils" in Riga and gathered participants from 18 countries around the world. Poland was represented by 3 people who competed in various genre categories. As always, the performances of our talents had a high vocal and artistic level, which was appreciated by the members of the international jury. Here are the results: Duo Alicja Kłosińska & Daniel Siroń - 2nd place; Kinga Linkiewicz - 1st place; Alicja Kłosińska - 1st place and Grand Prix. We are very happy and congratulate everyone on such excellent results.We would like to mention that the artistic director of SSCE Sar Sargsyan was also a member of the international jury of the Competition in Riga, and during the ceremonial Gala Concert of the Festival he performed as a Special Guest.The Festival is organized by the “EUROPEAN CENTRE OF MUSIC FOR YOUTH“ (President Ms. Jelena Loreina Svilpe). We would like to thank the Festival Organizers for the high level of the event and the excellent organization. Thank you for the warm welcome.

We are thrilled to announce that Irena Santor, one of the biggest stars of Polish popular song, has decided to give her name to the international “Vistula Sounds” festival in Ciechocinek. The artist made her decision after she participated in this year’s edition of the festival as a guest of honour.

The name granting ceremony was held on November 25, 2024 at the Ciechocinek City Hall, and was attended by the artist, the festival directors, as well as the mayor of Ciechocinek, and other guests. As a result, as of the 4th edition of the festival, the event will be called the Irena Santor “Vistula Sounds” International Festival. The 2025 edition of the festival has been scheduled for the week of August 12-16, 2025. 

See you there!

Artistic Director of Sar Sargsyan Cultural Entertainment Artistic Agency Sar Sargsyan was in Bulgaria from 19 to 24 September 2024. His stay there was of a varied nature. Firstly, from 19 to 21 September he was a jury at the International Music Festival "Sofia Grand Prix" in the capital of the country, organized by our Partner in Bulgaria, the Artistic Agency "Festival Music Agency Artvoices". During the Gala Concert of the Festival, Sar presented official invitations to our "Vistula Sounds" Festival in 2025, which in his opinion were received by the most interesting artists from different countries of the world. On September 22, he performed as a guest at a concert in Plovdiv, organized by the Armenian Church in Bulgaria dedicated to the independence of Bulgaria and Armenia. Then Sar performed in Sofia as part of the "Oktoberfest" Festival with a solo recital.
On behalf of Sar, we would like to thank the organizers of all the above-mentioned events for the invitation, warm welcome, hospitality and great organization.