Agata Zubel

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

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Life

Agata Zubel grew up in Breslau ( Wrocław) and attended the Karol Lipinski Academy of Music. She studied composition with Jan Wichrowski and singing with Danuta Paziuk - Zipser and received his doctorate in 2004 in music. Since then she has worked as a lecturer at the Academy. Zubel went to study at the Conservatorium Enschede also in the Netherlands and received a number of grants and scholarships, so the Polish Ministry of Culture, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation. At the International Darmstadt summer courses she took part in an experimental improvisation project.

As a soloist, she has a particular focus on contemporary music and was so involved in performances of these works: Chantefleurs et Chantefables of Witold Lutosławski, DW9 by Bernhard Lang, Luci mie traditrici by Salvatore Sciarrino, The Star of Zygmunt Krauze in the electroacoustic adaptation of Cezary Duchnowsky. On the opera stage, she sang 2006, " Phaedra " at the opera Fedra of Dobromila 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 is the winner of numerous national and international competitions - both in composition as well as for vocals, so in 2002 the "International Krzysztof Penderecki Competition of Contemporary Chamber Music " and the " CHAIN ​​Concours Moderne ". In early 2005 she was awarded the prize Paszport Polityki for classical music. Commissioned works include the String Quartet No.1 for ultrasonic 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 in 2001 the ElettroVoce duo.

Works (selection)

Compositions

  • Lumière pour percussion, 1999
  • Zdjęcia z albumu: na Marimbe i kwartet smyczkowy (photos from the album for Marimba and String Quartet ), 2001
  • Trivellazione a percussione, 2001
  • Symphony no 2: 77 performers for 2005 commission for the German wave, world premiere at the Beethoven Festival in Bonn in 2005.
  • Symphony no 3, 2009

Recordings

  • Cascando, 2009 - his own compositions
  • Poems, 2009 - Songs of Copland, Berg and Szymański

References

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