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        

for composition “Not I” with text by Samuel Beckett          

Witold Lutosławski – Lacrimosa, Tryptyk Śląski Agata Zubel – soprao Orchestra and Chior of Wroclaw Philharmonic Jacek Kaspszyk – conductor CD Accord 2014        

Album Blots on the Sun. El-Derwid nominated for “Fryderyk” Award          

German Record Critics Award for album of Marco Blaauw “Angels” Compositions of i.a.: G.F.Haas, R.Saunders, M.Padding, M.Smolka, A.Zubel Wergo 2014