W.Lutosławski – Chantefleurs et Chantefables A.Czajkowski – Seven Shakespeare Sonnets Agata Zubel – soprano Joonas Ahonen – piano CD Accord 2015        

Nomination “This award aims to give international recognition to the people who are doing the most to push things forward with daring yet intelligent, effective and successful “out-of-the-box” thinking, planning and action.” Jennifer Dautermann, Classical:NEXT Director          

The Best Polish CD Abroad Klangforum Wien Clement Power KAIROS 2014                

“where to” commission from TenFourteen LLC, an arm of the Jebediah Foundation for San Francisco Contemporary Music Players “Madrigals” commission from Westdeutschen Rundfunks for Neue Vocalsolisten        

Listening to Agata Zubel’s music you get the sense of a composer who is restless, searching, embryonic. Watching her sing her music live, you get the added dimension of your own mesmerized, unsettling voyeurism of an act of powerful, original creation. Zubel is an ascendant voice in new music whose music demands to be heard…

recommended by Alex Ross              

Shakespeare’s Sonnets Agata Zubel – soprano Anna Stempin-Jasnowska – piano CD Accord 2014          

Nomination in the category of PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR. Award of the Polish music environment. There were a total of nearly 162 candidates, of which five nominees were selected by the program committee in each category.

The annual Award of the Polish Composers’ Union has been granted since 1949 to Polish composers, performers, musicologists, teachers and music life organisers for outstanding artistic and academic achievements. Its winners include: Grażyna Bacewicz, Tadeusz Baird, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, Wojciech Kilar, Witold Lutosławski, Krzysztof Penderecki i Bogusław Schaeffer.

Labyrinth, Aphorisms on Miłosz, Shades of Ice, Not I Agata Zubel – voice Klangforum Wien Clement Power – conductor KAIROS 2014