Our philosophy is to give consistent preference to the quality of performance and to critically select the compositions to be presented. That is why the festival organisers have above all invited leading foreign ensembles and soloists, artists who are entirely dedicated to performing contemporary music. Consequently, Prague audiences can savour the current international creations, presented in top quality. The festival programmes have also included new pieces by Czech composers, who have thus been afforded the chance to work with superlative foreign performers. CONTEMPULS has regularly commissioned new works and also provided young Czech ensembles with the opportunity to introduce themselves within the international context.