Agata Zubel (b.1978, Wroclaw) graduated with honors Primus Inter Pares from the Karol Lipinski Academy of Music, where she studied composition with Jan Wichrowski and Danuta Paziuk-Zipser. She has enjoyed as much acclaim for her singing as her composing, and frequently performs her own music. She has won several competitions, for both voice and composition. In 2005, she received the prestigious Passport of Polityka award for classical music. In the same year, her second symphony - commissioned by Deutsche Welle - was premiered during the Beethoven Festival in Bonn. She has performed extensively throughout Europe, Canada and the U.S. She is featured on two CDs recently released by CD Accord: Cascando, with her own chamber music, and Poems, with the songs of Copland, Berg and Szymanski. She is a member of the Polish Composers' Union and is on the faculty of the Academy of Music in Wroclaw. Her motto is "At the
beginning there was rhythm and colour" !
Music excerpts:
Cascando (2007)
Agata Zubel, Voice; Seattle Chamber Players: Paul Taub, flute; Laura DeLuca, clarinet;
Mikhail Shmidt, violin; David Sabee, cello
from Cascando (Accord 123-2)
Maximum Load (2006)
Jan Pilch, percussion; Agata Zubel, computer
from Cascando (Accord 123-2)
Parlando (2000)
Agata Zubel, voice; Cezary Duchnowski, computer
from ElettroVoce (Polskie Radio 1003-4)
Agata Zubel (b.1978, Wroclaw) graduated with honors Primus Inter Pares from the Karol Lipinski Academy of Music, where she studied composition with Jan Wichrowski and Danuta Paziuk-Zipser. She has enjoyed as much acclaim for her singing as her composing, and frequently performs her own music. She has won several competitions, for both voice and composition. In 2005, she received the prestigious Passport of Polityka award for classical music. In the same year, her second symphony - commissioned by Deutsche Welle - was premiered during the Beethoven Festival in Bonn. She has performed extensively throughout Europe, Canada and the U.S. She is featured on two CDs recently released by CD Accord: Cascando, with her own chamber music, and Poems, with the songs of Copland, Berg and Szymanski. She is a member of the Polish Composers' Union and is on the faculty of the Academy of Music in Wroclaw. Her motto is "At the