Agata Zubel

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Agata Zubel

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

Life

Agata Zubel grew up in Breslau ( Wrocław ) and attended the Karol Lipiński Music Academy there . She studied composition with Jan Wichrowski and singing with Danuta Paziuk-Zipser and received her PhD in music in 2004. Since then she has been working as a lecturer at the academy. Zubel also went to the Conservatorium Enschede in the Netherlands to study and received a number of grants and grants from the Polish Ministry of Culture, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation . She took part in an experimental improvisation project at the Darmstadt International Summer Courses .

As a vocal soloist, she is particularly concerned with contemporary music and has 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 electro-acoustic adaptation by Cezary Duchnows . On the opera stage in 2006 she sang "Phädra" in the opera Fedra by Dobromiła Jaskot , and in 2009 the role of "Madline" in The Fall of the House of Usher by Philip Glass at the Polish National Opera .

Zubel has won numerous national and international competitions - both for composition and for singing, such as the 2002 “International Krzysztof Penderecki Competition for Contemporary Chamber Music” and the “CHAIN ​​Concours Moderne”. In early 2005 she received the Paszport Polityki Prize for Classical Music. In 2018 she received the European Composer Prize in Berlin. Commissioned works include the String Quartet No. 1 for the Ultrasound Festival in Berlin (2007), songs for Wratislavia Cantans in Breslau (2007), and Cascando for the "Central European Music Festival" in Seattle (2007).

In 2001 she founded the ElettroVoce Duo with the composer and pianist Cezary Duchnowski .

Works (selection)

Compositions

  • Lumière: pour percussion , 1999
  • Zdjęcia z albumu: na marimbę i kwartet smyczkowy (photos from the album for marimba and string quartet), 2001
  • Trivellazione a percussione , 2001
  • Symphony no. 2: for 77 performers , 2005. Commissioned composition for Deutsche Welle , world premiere at the Beethovenfest 2005 in Bonn
  • Symphony no.3 , 2009

Recordings

  • Cascando , 2009 - own compositions
  • Poems , 2009 - songs by Copland, Berg and Szymański

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Warsaw. Premiera w cyklu "Terytoria" w Operze Narodowej
  2. ↑ Message on Music Today
  3. ↑ elettrovoce October 20, 2010 at the Polish Institute Berlin
personal data
SURNAME Zubel, Agata
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish composer and soprano
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw