Agata ZUBEL, is a composer and vocalist, known for her unique vocal range and the use of techniques that challenge stereotypes.

Zubel gives concerts throughout the world and has premiered numerous new works. As a singer and composer, Agata Zubel has collaborated with several dozen philharmonic companies, such as: Carnegie Hall in New York, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Konzerthaus in Vienna, Konzerthaus in Berlin, Musikgebouw in Amsterdam, Musikverein Wien, Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall in London, Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Philharmonie in Berlin, Cologne, Luxembourg, Casa da música in Porto, Seattle Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Baltimore Symphony. She was also present at the festivals: BBC Proms, Wien Modern, Donaueschingen Musiktage, Festival d’Automne à Paris, März Musik, Darmstadt Summer Course, Ultraschall, Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Trans Art, Warsaw Autumn, Beethoven Festival in Bonn and Musikprotokoll.

 

She has worked together with the world’s leading ensembles : Klangforum Wien, Ensemble InterContemporain, musikFabrik, London Sinfonietta, Ictus, Eighth Blackbird, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Münchener Kammerorchester, Neue Vocalsolisten, Remix Ensemble, 2e2m Ensemble, Seattle Chamber Players, as well as The ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Radio-Sinfonieorchester des SWR, Deutschlandfunk, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Staatsoper Hannover, The Grand Theatre – National Opera in Warsaw and others.

Winner of several competitions, both as singer and composer, she also boasts such important accolades as

- the selected work of the 60th UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers (the grand prix) for the piece Not I,

- the European Composer Award, Erste Bank Kompositionspreis, “Fryderyk” phonographic Award for Cascando – a CD programme of her own compositions and Vocal Recital Apparition

-  as well as, with her dramopera Oresteia the “Passport” Award of the “Polityka” weekly for classical music,

- the “Polonica Nova” Prize, Coryphaeus of Polish Music and SWR Symphonieorchester Prize for the composition Outside the Realm of Time at the Donaueschinger Musiktage 2022.

 

She lives in Wroclaw where she teaches at the University of Music. In 2020 she obtained a professor degree in arts. She was honoured with the Badge of Merit to Polish Culture and Medal “Gloria Artis”.

She has received scholarships from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, the Rockefeller Foundation, Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung and Kultur Kontakt Austria.

She is also a member of the Polish Composers’ Union.

Her discography consists of more than a dozen titles, including albums dedicated to her own music – Cascando (CD Accord), Not I (KAIROS) and Cleopatra’s Songs (KAIROS), Bildbeschreibung (Anaklasis), Oresteia (Anaklasis) and, as well as her vocal interpretations of songs by Ravel, Barber, Szymanowski, Crumb, Lutosławski, Obradors, Copland, Berg, Szymański, André Tchaikowsky.

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