Agata Zubel Explained

Agata Zubel (born 1978 in Wrocław, Poland)^[1] is a Polish composer and singer.^[2]

Life

Zubel is a graduate of Wrocław's Karol Szymanowski High School of Music (percussion and music theory) and the Karol Lipiński University of Music, where she studied composition with Jan Wichrowski. She is a member of the Youth Circle of the Polish Composers' Union and a recipient of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage scholarship. Currently she teaches at the Academy of Music in Wrocław (full professor).^[3] In 2013 she was honoured by the International Music Council’s International Rostrum of Composers^[4] with the best composition title for Not I, which she wrote for soprano, instrumental ensemble and electronics.^[5]

In October 2017 she was awarded the Bronze Medal "Gloria Artis". She is an ordinary member of the Polish Composers' Union.^[6]

Selected works

• Lumiere pour percussion (1997)
• Nocturne for solo violin (1997)
• Three Miniatures for piano (1998)
• Birthday for mixed a cappella choir; text by Wisława Szymborska (1998)
• A Song about the End of the World for voice, reciter and instrumental ensemble; text by Czesław Miłosz (1998)
• Meditations for mixed a cappella choir; text by Jan Twardowski (1999)
• Ragnatela for bassoon and string orchestra (1999)
• Ludia and Fu for solo guitar (1999)
• Ballad for voice, percussion and tape (1999)
• Photographs from an Album for Marimba and String Quartet (2000)
• Trivellazione a percussione for percussion (2000)
• Re-Cycle for five percussionists (2001)
• Lentille for string orchestra, voice and accordion (2001)
• Symphony No. 1 for orchestra (2002)
• Nelumbo for four marimbas (2003)
• Unisono I for voice, percussion and computer (2003)
• Unisono II for voice, accordion and computer (2003)
• Concerto grosso for recorder, baroque violin, harpsichord and two choirs (2004)
• Stories for voice and prepared piano (2004)
• Symphony No. 2 for 77 performers (2005)
• String Quartet No. 1 for four cellos and computer (2006)
• Maximum Load for percussion and computer (2006)
• Cascando for voice, flute, clarinet, violin and cello (2007)
• nad Pieśniami (of Songs) for soprano (mezzosoprano), cello, mixed choir and orchestra (2007)
• Between – opera/ballet for voice, electronics and dancers (2008)
• Not I for voice, ensemble and electronics; text by Samuel Beckett (2010)
• Symphony No. 3 for a double Bell trumpet and symphony orchestra (2010)
• Aphorisms on Miłosz, for soprano and ensemble (2011)
• Violin Concerto (2014)
• where to for soprano and chamber ensemble (2015)
• Double Battery for instrumental ensemble (2016)
• Bildbeschreibung, opera form for two voices, instrumental ensemble and electronics; text by Heiner Müller (2016)
• Cleopatra's Song for voice and ensemble; text by William Shakespeare (2017)
• Fireworks for large symphony orchestra (2018)
• Chamber Piano Concerto (2018)
• 3x3 for ensemble (2019)
• Triptyque for ensemble (2020)
• Memory of Bronze for carillon (2021)
• Outside the Realm of Time for hologram-soloist and orchestra (2022)

External links

• Agata Zubel at PWM Edition
• Profile at culture.pl
• Profile at sfcmp.org
• Review of "Where To" in San Francisco Chronicle

Notes and References

1. News: Wprost i Kultura—SUDDEN RAIN/BETWEEN. https://archive.today/20130416101718/http://www.wik.com.pl/teatr_opera/zapowiedzi/?id=15375. dead. 16 April 2013. 5 June 2006. Wprost. Polish. 23 February 2012.
2. Web site: Soprano Agata Zubel. 21 August 2006 . Deutsche Welle. 23 February 2012.
3. Web site: Prof. Dr hab. Agata Zubel-Moc - Akademia Muzyczna im. Karola Lipińskiego we Wrocławiu .
4. Web site: International Rostrum of Composers 60th Anniversary.
5. Web site: Zubel with UNESCO Prize for a Musical Beckett. 5 June 2013. Culture.pl. 7 June 2013.
6. Web site: The Koussevitzky Music Foundation Previous Grants . 2022-05-18 . www.koussevitzky.org.