In 2015 the Adam Mickiewicz Institute celebrated its 15th anniversary. The event closing the celebrations was a gala concert performed by the Sinfonia Varsovia at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, dedicated to the Institute. The highlight of the programme was the world premiere of the horn concerto inspired by the famous 'Seneschal's Concerto' described in Adam Mickiewicz's epic poem Pan Tadeusz.
The concerto was composed by Dai Bo, one of the most acclaimed and talented Chinese composers of the younger generation. The musician has won many composer awards, including first prizes of the 'Gold Cap' Accordion Composition Competition and 'Cuellar – Nathan Cup' Chamber Music Competition, as well as the Merit Prize of the Palatino Violin Competition. In 2013 he was awarded the Rising Star award of the BNP Paribas Music Competition, and in 2014 the second prize in the composer competition run by the Ludwig van Beethoven Association as part of the project "Multiculturalism Does Not Work?".
One of Dai Bo's earlier works, Illusion Butterfly, was performed at the special concert during the 2012 Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music.
The solos were performed by Stephan Dohr, the first horn player of the Berlin Philharmonic. The orchestra was conducted by its artistic director Maestro Krzysztof Penderecki and Maestro Maciej Tworek. The programme of the concert also included Krzysztof Penderecki's Sinfonietta per archi and Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70.
Seneschal's Concerto is the third piece inspired by the works of Adam Mickiewicz, commissioned by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute. First of them was the Yankiel's Concerto composed by Jan A.P. Kaczmarek and the second - Aleksandra Gryka's Our Hell.
Sinfonia Varsovia performs in the most prestigious concert halls and at major festivals, working with world-renowned conductors and soloists. The orchestra's discography includes over 270 albums honored with prestigious awards. In 1997, Professor Krzysztof Penderecki became the orchestra's the musical director and in 2003 he assumed the post of its artistic director .
The previous concert projects of Sinfonia Varsovia carried out at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews were the result of the orchestra's cooperation with the Museum as well as the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland, and funded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage as part of two editions of concert series 'Great Composers - Polish-Jewish Musical Culture and European Heritage'.