Agata Zubelaus modern

Agata Zubel (* 25 January 1978 in Wrocław) is a Polish composer and singer.

Life

Agata Zubel grew up in Wrocław and attended the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music there. She studied composition with Jan Wichrowski and singing with Danuta Paziuk-Zipser and received her doctorate in music in 2004. Since then she has worked at the academy as a lecturer. Zubel also studied at the Enschede Conservatory in the Netherlands and has received a number of grants and scholarships, including from the Polish Ministry of Culture, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation. She participated in an experimental improvisation project at the International Darmstadt Summer Courses.

As a vocal soloist, she is particularly concerned with contemporary music and has thus been involved in performances of these works: Chantefleurs et Chantefables by Witold Lutosławski, DW9 by Bernhard Lang, Luci mie traditrici by Salvatore Sciarrino, The Star by Zygmunt Krauze in the electroacoustic adaptation by Cezary Duchnowsky. On the opera stage she sang “Phaedra” in the opera Fedra by Dobromiła Jaskot in 2006, as well as the role of “Madline” in The Fall of the House of Usher by Philip Glass at the Polish National Opera in 2009.

Zubel is a laureate of numerous national and international competitions – both for composition and singing, such as the “International Krzysztof Penderecki Competition for Contemporary Chamber Music” and the “CHAIN Concours Moderne” in 2002. In early 2005, she received the Paszport Polityki prize for classical music. In 2018, she received the European Composers Prize in Berlin. Commissioned works include String Quartet No.1 for the Ultraschall Festival in Berlin (2007), Songs for Wratislavia Cantans in Wroclaw (2007), Cascando for the “Central European Music Festival” in Seattle (2007).

With the composer and pianist Cezary Duchnowski she founded the ElettroVoce Duo in 2001.

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