The Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco, in cooperation with the Rainier III Academy of Music and Theater and with the support of the Princess Grace Foundation, has been awarding a composer’s prize for the latest musical work chosen by young musicians and music lovers since 2011. This year, the nominees include the piece “Outside the Realm of Time” by Agata Zubel.

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Iconic songs by Zygmunt Konieczny that audiences of Ewa Demarczyk loved decades ago in a new arrangement. The latest ANAKLASIS album featuring Agata Zubel, Andrzej Bauer, Bartek Wąsik, Cezary Duchnowski and the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Humala is now available for purchase.

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On September 26, 2024, a concert from the ANAKLASIS NA FALI series took place at the Romana Bobrowska Studio of Radio Kraków. #WYOSTRZSŁUCH NA RADIO KRAKÓW. Agata Zubel, Andrzej Bauer and Cezary Duchnowski presented material from the CD “e-Songs” – Stanisław Moniuszko’s songs from “Śpiewniki domowe” in a new version. On April 25 this year, the online premiere of this concert, produced by Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne, took place.

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On February 7th, the Theaterhaus in Stuttgart will host the premiere of the piece Abstract Paintings for 24-voice mixed choir during the Eclat Festival. The piece consists of 14 parts, each inspired by a different abstract painting by Gerhard Richter. The performer will be the renowned SWR Vokalensemble, and the concert will be broadcast live on the SWR Kultur channel.

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The Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco has been awarding a composer’s prize for the latest musical work since 1960. This year, the Music Council’s nominees include Agata Zubel’s “Outside the Realm of Time.”

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During Wrocław Day on June 24, the Wrocław Awards were presented. The justification for the award for Agata Zubel reads: “a composer, a vocalist with a non-standard vocal range, a professor of musical art cooperating with many prestigious artistic institutions around the world.”

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During the 30th anniversary edition of the Gala, the ‘Fryderyk’ phonographic award in the ALBUM OF THE YEAR CHORAL MUSIC category went to the album “Oresteja” released by Anaklasis.

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For 25 years, Agata Zubel’s scores have been published by the PWM Edition Publishing House. This time, as a result of a publishing agreement, the latest sheet music – contemporary arrangements of the Songs of Alma Mahler (for soprano, harp and string orchestra) – were published under the Universal Edition banner.

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The album was nominated in two categories – THE BEST RECORDING OF POLISH MUSIC and ALBUM OF THE YEAR – CHORAL MUSIC.

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Schallfeld launches a call for scores for an ensemble/chamber music workshop for composers. Applications will be accepted from now until 4 February 2024. The workshop (14-17 of April 2024, Graz) consists of one private lesson with Agata Zubel and two rehearsals with the Schallfeld Ensemble. The works of the selected participants will be performed in a public concert on 17 April 2024 in the Großer Minoritensaal Graz.

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The album is available on compact disc from May, and also available as vinyl from November 20.

ANAKLASIS 2023

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The Ljubljana New Music Forum festival presents the work of contemporary composers. This year, it will present Agata Zubel – both as a composer and a performer. The festival will last from November 18 to 26.

Ljubljana New Music Forum 2023

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A live recording from the premiere that took place in 2021 during the November Music festival in the Netherlands, available on CD from November 17.

Ensemble Klang Records 2023

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In the academic year 2023-2024, Agata Zubel is composer-in-residence at HEMU – Haute École de Musique in Lausanne. In the current season, HEMU offers a series of events – concerts, workshops, master classes and discussions introducing the composer’s work.

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Nomination in the Personality of the Year category “for the premiere of the piece Outside the Realm of Time for a hologram soloist and orchestra during the Donaueschinger Musiktage festival, boldly and consistently going beyond the traditional boundaries of a musical work.”

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During the Little Warsaw Autumn, the hologram opera for children Catless Smile will have its premiere, based on Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass and Alice in Wonderland. The opera produced in cooperation with Sema Studio and SWR Experimental Studio in Freiburg will be presented from 16 to 24 September at the Gulliver Puppet Theater in Warsaw.
LITTLE WARSAW AUTUMN

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On May 29, the new Anaklasis album with Oresteia will be released. The trilogy of ancient Greek tragedies by Aeschylus is interpreted by Danuta Stenka. The performers include: Michał Sławecki, Tomasz Piluchowski, Anna Zawisza, and the Polish Radio Choir conducted by Szymon Wyrzykowski.
ANAKLASIS 2023

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Composer.pl – composers residency program extends its formula. The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice joined the Partners of Icelandic residencies for young Polish composers!

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On January 25th 2023 Vilnius began celebrating its 700th anniversary. The project “Music fir Vilnius” is inviting seven contemporary composers to create works dedicated to the city:

Toshio Hosokawa, Heiner Goebbels, Ivan Fedele, Anna Korshun, Agata Zubel, Beat Furrer, Michael Gordon.

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Every year, at the end of the Donaueschinger Musiktage festival, the SWR Symphonieorchester Orchestra Prize is awarded. This year, it was awarded to Agata Zubel’s piece “Outside the Realm of Time” for a hologram soloist and orchestra.

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Silver medal Gloria Artis

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A new project with songs by Alma and Gustav Mahler arranged by Agata Zubel and Ernst Kovacic.

Wratislavia Cantans Festiwal – 16 IX 2022

Szalone Dni Muzyki – 24 IX 2022

Kunsthaus Mürz – 30 III 2023

Krems – 31 III 2023

Kraków, Teatr Łaźnia Nova – 18 V 2023

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PER/FORM – Masterclasses in Composition and Interpretation

Agata Zubel, Nanine Linning, Szymon Bywalec, Noam Holdengreber, Stefanie C. Braun

Künstlerhaus Boswil / Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts

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Strasbourg – Festival Musica – 15 IX 2022

Brussels – Ars Musica, Bozar – 24 XI 2022

Hamburg – Elbphilharmonie – 18, 19 I 2023

Cologne – Kölner Philharmonie – 12 VI 2023

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Warsaw Autumn, September 17^th – „Flash”

Donaueschingen Musiktage, October 14^th – „Outside the Realm of Time”

London Philharmonic, November 9^th – “Piano Concerto No.2”

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The French Académie Charles Cros awarded the ‘Coup de coeur 2021’ in the category of ‘Contemporary Music’ to the CD POLISH HEROINES OF MUSIC, which includes my orchestral piece In the Shade of an Unshed Tear.

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Two albums under the Anaklasis label have been nominated for the 2022 Fryderyk Awards of the Polish Phonographic Academy: Polish Heroines of Music (featuring the orchestral In the Shade of an Unshed Tear) in the category of ‘Album of the Year: Concerto Forms’ and   Contemporary Carillon (including Memory of Bronze) – as ‘Album of the Year: Solo Recital’.

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We feel powerless in the face of the harsh war, but this does not make us stay silent.

Charity concerts for Ukraine: on 20^th March at Polish Radio Concert Studio; on 14^th April at the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera in Warsaw.

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The spectacle Purification, a setting of composition Streets of a Human City, will be shown on 4^th December as part of the Divine Comedy festival. It had its first preview at the Sacrum Profanum festival and will be premièred on 8^th January 2022 at Łaźnia Nowa Theatre in Cracow.

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International Master classes in Lucerne – February 7th till 11th, 2022.

Online registration until December 3rd, 2021.

Artists-in-residence 2022: Mirela Ivičević, Agata Zubel and Taylor Ho Bynum

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A new CD in the SOUNDS series under the ANAKLASIS label comes out on 3^rd September.

Memory of Bronze, written for the carillon of St Catherine’s Church in Gdańsk and released on the album CONTEMPORARY CARILLON, will have its world première on 5^th September in Gdańsk.

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ElettroVoce’s 20^th anniversary concert will be held at Wrocław’s National Forum of Music as part of the Musica Electronica Nova festival. The programme comprises, apart from the duo’s own compositions, also three premieres of new works written specially for this occasion.

NFM, 27^th May at 8 p.m

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This documentary (‘Słowa jak dźwięki’), produced in the context of work on the opera Bildbeschreibung, can be watched on VOD  online platform.

The film is also available as part of the recent Blu-Ray release of this opera.

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The CD Cleopatra’s Songs released by Kairos has been nominated for the Fryderyk Award of the Phonographic Academy in two categories: Best Polish Album Recorded Abroad and Most Outstanding Recording of Polish Music

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A broadcast of Ensemble PHACE’s concert under Lars Mlekusch, given during Salzburg’s Aspekte Festival and including the composition Not I, can be watched on YouTube Channel  as of 6^th March

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A concert version of Oresteia (featuring Danuta Stenka and the Polish Radio Choir under Szymon Bywalec) will be streamed on NOSPR website as of 6th February

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The new album in PWM Edition’s Anaklasis series, to be released on 29th January, features, among others, Agata Zubel’s In the Shade of an Unshed Tear, performed by Orchestre Pasdeloup under Marzena Diakun. The CD, described as “a fascinating journey across orchestral landscapes as seen through the eyes of Polish women-composers”, also comprises works by Grażyna Bacewicz, Hanna Kulenty, and Elżbieta Sikora.
ANAKLASIS 2021

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The composition mono-drum, commissioned by Ensemble Intercontemporain and Théatre du Châtelet, will be premiered on 21st December in Paris.

The event is scheduled to be streamed live on YouTube.
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The first performance of Piano piano but not pianissimo will be given online on 17th December on the website of the National Forum of Music (NFM). The performer is Małgorzata Walentynowicz.
 YouTube NFM
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The Polish Radio Channel Two broadcast Nowa Polska [New Poland], featuring works from Agata Zubel’s most recent album, can now be listened to online.
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With Polish Radio Channel Two, we invite you to ElettroVoce duo’s online concert, whose programme includes, apart from this ensemble’s typical repertoire, also… operatic arias.
Available on PR 2’s website and YouTube channel.

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The opera Bildbeschreibung, recorded during its Polish premiere at the Warsaw Autumn (perf. Klangforum Wien, cond. Titus Engel), has been released on Blu-ray. The release also comprises the documentary Words Like Sounds.
ANAKLASIS 2020

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On 29th October, during the final stage of the Concours International de Piano d’Orléans, the three finalists will play Agata Zubel’s Chamber Piano Concerto as an obligatory piece. The soloists will be accompanied by Ensemble Intercontemporain under Simon Proust. The event is scheduled to be streamed live on YouTube.

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Cafe “Muza” broadcast available for listening on the Internet.
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The second (after Not I) album of Zubel’s music under the KAIROS label comprises, apart from the eponymous Cleopatra’s Songs, also the recent Double Battery and Violin Concerto – three large-scale compositions performed by three outstanding ensembles: Klangforum Wien, Ensemble InterContemporain, and Orkiestra Muzyki Nowej (New Music Orchestra).
KAIROS 2020
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The opening concert of ManifesteFestival “Ouverture” will be available on the Radio France (since 30 IX) and on the website of the Festival and the IRCAM YouTube (5 – 12 X)
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Festival Cordes sur Ciel was cancelled due to coronavirus but premiere of new piece “Friction” commissioned by Linea Ensemble will take place in the Internet.
It will be available from July 21st till the end of the year 2020.

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APPARITION among Bestsellers in Naxos Records
till May 14th – free download
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The CD APPARITION by Agata Zubel and Krzysztof Książek won the FRYDERYK 2020 Award
of the Polish Phonographic Society in the category of “Album of the Year – Best Solo Recital

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The CD STANISŁAW MONIUSZKO: E-SONGBOOK has been nominated for the Olśnienia Award.
You can vote only till 9th March! Vote HERE.

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Two nominations for Fryderyk Awards of the Polish Phonographic Society:
APPARITION Agata Zubel, Krzysztof Książek
E-ŚPIEWNIK Agata Zubel, Cezary Duchnowski, Andrzej Bauer

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Entries from young Polish composers interested in artistic residencies in Iceland can already be sent in. Details of this new edition of our programme – on the website COMPOSER.PL

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Stanisław Moniuszko – Revisions
Agata Zubel – voice
Andrzej Bauer – cello
Cezary Duchnowski – arrangement, electronics
Anaklasis 2019

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NEOS SWR Classic has released a Super Audio 2CD album including Chamber Piano Concerto, apart from works by other composers: Ivan Fedele, Malin Bång, Marco Stroppa, Mirela Ivičević, Francesco Filidei, Hermann Meier.
NEOS 2019

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Ravel, Barber, Crumb, Szymanowski, Obradors
Agata Zubel – soprano
Krzysztof Książek – piano
CD Accord 2019

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Bilingual publication French-English book from the collection “À la ligne” 2e2m is devoted to Agata Zubel

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Premiere screening of a documentary film “Words like Sounds”
and an opera “Bildbeschreibung” during Warsaw Autumn Festival and in TVP Kultura.

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A new recording of Not I has been released by PWM Edition as part of the exclusive 36CD box 100 for 100, a survey of the last 100 years of Polish music history, which comes complete with Danuta Gwizdalanka’s book One Hundred Years of Polish Music History.
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Entries for the COMPOSER.PL artistic residencies in Iceland can already be sent in.

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It was presented during the gala on 12th June. Agata Zubel has contributed all of her prize money toward artistic residencies abroad for young composers.

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PWM Edition has just published a ‘fairy tale’ by Zbigniew Dmitroca, illustrated by Jagoda Charkiewicz, whose heroine is… Agata Zubel. It’s written in earnest, but also a bit in jest, and though it is a fairy tale, all of it is true. And it’s not only for children.

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Three new live concert recordings online
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Agata Zubel and Krzysztof Książek in the “Scena klasyczna” cycle on TVP Kultura
Programme: George Crumb, Karol Szymanowski.
Video recording available at www.vod.tvp.pl

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Because of the residency with 2e2m ensemble in Paris
a new 3×3 work for 9 instruments, written specially for this
occasion, will receive its premiere on 9 April.
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Concours International de Piano d’Orléans remains the world’s only international piano competition exclusively devoted to 20th and 21st century music. The participants who will reach the finals will perform the Chamber Piano Concerto by Agata Zubel as a test piece. The soloists will be accompanied by Ensemble Intercontemporain under Simon Proust.
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A new book on women composers.
A chapter on Agata Zubel by Michèle Tosi.
France Musique Editions

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Nearly all of Agata Zubel’s compositions have been released by the national publisher.
In January, in order to honour the Composer of the Month, PWM published a special article and offered promotional prices for her works.

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At the invitation of 2e2m ensemble
Agata Zubel will be composer in residence
in Paris in 2019.

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Agata Zubel is the winner of this year’s Erste Bank Kompositionspreis.

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Radio SWR has broadcast online a recording of Cikada Ensemble concert at the Donaueschinger Musiktage, featuring the premiere of “Chamber Piano Concerto” with pianist Ingfrid Breie Nyhus.
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Three premiers of Agata Zubel’s “Fireworks”: at the Festival Chopin and his Europe in Warsaw, Young Euro Classic in Berlin and BBC Proms in London won EVENT OF THE YEAR award.
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“Chamber Piano Concerto” – new composition commissioned by SWR
will be premiered on October 20th during Donaueschinger Musiktage,
performed by Ingfrid Breie Nyhus and Cikada Ensemble.
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After the premiere in Berlin during the Young Euro Classic Festival (Konzerthaus 14 VIII 2018)
composition “Fireworks” received European Composer Award 2018.
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Autumn in Warsaw – Warsaw Autumn x3 :
27.IX Bildbeschreibung – Klangforum Wien, Zubel, Wörner, Engel
28.IX Violin Concerto – European Workshop for Contemporary Music, Duda, Bohn
28.IX Meet the Composer and Composition Workshop: Agata Zubel

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6.IX TransArt Festival, Bolzano
27.IX Warsaw Autumn
29.IX Konzerthaus Wien
Klangforum Wien, Zubel, Wörner, Engel, Nalazek

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Enrolment has already started for international courses of new music in Graz, Austria – Impuls Academy 2019.
Agata Zubel – voice and composition
The courses take 13 days. They comprise lectures and workshops dedicated to the most recent music.

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Agata Zubel and Krzysztof Książek
present a joint chamber music programme:
Ravel, Barber, Adès, Crumb, Szymanowski, Obradors.

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An unusual six-month sequence at Vienna’s Konzerthaus: five guest concerts – five wonderful programmes.
8 V L.Janáček / G.Aperghis, Ensemble Resonanz, E.Pomàrico
29 V H.Lachenmann / A.Zubel, Phace Ensemble, M.Wendeberg
29 IX A.Zubel, Klangforum Wien, T.Engel
8 X E.Křenek / K.Weil, Leopoldinum Orchestra, E.Kovacic
21 XI A.Zubel / W.Schurig, Klangforum Wien, J.Kalitzke

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New piece for symphony orchestra Fireworks will be performed three times this season:
– at the Festival “Chopin and His Europe” in Warsaw’s Grand Theatre – National Opera;
– at the Berlin Konzerthaus;
– at the BBC Proms in London’s Royal Albert Hall.

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New composition Cleopatra’s Songs, commissioned by Klangforum Wien, will be premiered during the Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik on 27th April 2018.
The concert will be streamed on WDR 3 radio live and for 30 days after the premiere.

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Leoš Janáček’s song cycle Zápisník zmizelého (The Diary of One Who Disappeared) in a new adaptation with musical commentary by Georges Aperghis. Seven concerts in 2018 in Europe’s most important concert halls:
Philharmonie Berlin – 22.III
Elbphilharmonie Hamburg – 12,13,14.IV
Konzerthaus Wien – 8.V
Concertgebouw Amsterdam – 15.XI
Philharmonie Luxemburg – 16.XI

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Medal Gloria Artis

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Audycja Bariera Dźwięku dostępna do posłuchania w internecie.

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An international jury has selected seven works from among those submitted by radio broadcasters from all over the world.

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Until the end of July 2017, the Finnish Radio YLE 1 made available a streaming version of its broadcast of the Violin Concerto recorded live during the Avanti! Festival. The performers of this enthusiastically received Scandinavian premiere were:
John Storgårds (violin)
Dima Slobodeniouk (conductor)
and Avanti! Chamber Orchestra

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New Music Festival with Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Two days… five pieces.

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Finnish Festival Avanti!
Three days… four concerts.

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Katowice Kultura Natura Festival Earth will be accompanied by a special event – Mother Lode I-III, a music installation (May 13th – 19th). The installation will use the space of the Silesian Museum: the Bartosz pit shaft Engine Room, the Workshop and the Smithy, and the Hallway of the Gallery of One Work. In each of these places, a short piece of music will be presented by the New Music Orchestra.

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Polish Radio Choir has recorded music for the drama/opera Oresteia for soloists, actors, choir, percussions and electronics. The recording was premiered on Polish Radio on 3rd April 2017

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Apart from aesthetic experience (W. Lutosławski’s Chantefleurs et Chantefables and K. Szymanowski’s Songs of the Fairy-Tale Princess performed by Sinfonia Varsovia under Renato Rivolta), the concert held on 12th February 2017 at the Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio of Polish Radio also provided an occasion for presenting the soloist Agata Zubel and the conductor with honourable decorations – the Medals of Witold Lutosławski Year, awarded by the Witold Lutosławski Society jointly with the Institute of Music and Dance.

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Radio France has broadcast online a recording of Ensemble InterContemporain’s concert at the Parisian Festival d’Automne, featuring the French premiere of Double Battery at the Philharmonie de Paris.
Earlier this year (till the beginning of March) WDR 3 German radio station made available online a recording of the German premiere of Aphorisms on Miłosz with Ensemble InterContemporain at Essen Philharmonic.

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NORTHERN VOICES
Vocals woven out of my Icelandic memories; out of the landscapes of the North; out of the wish to explore unmapped territories… around me and inside me – in the voice!
SEMA Studio followed these fascinations of mine by recording and documenting on film my vocal inspirations with the Far North. The long-awaited “video clip” can now not only be heard, but also… “peeked at”.
The video clip engages us in the pursuit of nature… Also the nature of the voice.

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Zygmunt Konieczny arrived in person for the first public presentation of the new arrangements of his songs. His enthusiasm, greeted with great satisfaction by the artists, matches the extraordinary applause of the audience. As a result, the project took on an even more spectacular form. It simply CALLED for further development! The composer himself wrote a song specially for Agata Zubel, while Cezary Duchnowski agreed to add a symphonic layer to the electronic material he had previously prepared. All this will be heard for the first time in January 2017, at Zygmunt Konieczny’s anniversary celebrations in Katowice.

AGATA ZUBEL – voice, BARTEK WĄSIK – piano, ANDRZEJ BAUER – cello, CEZARY DUCHNOWSKI – electronics

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This new project, prepared in collaboration with a leading early music ensemble – ARTE DEI SUONATORI, is not so much about contrasting radically different aesthetics as about finding a common denominator and disproving the myth of impassable boundaries of expression. The project draws on the timeless quality in music. In simple terms – Mozart and Stockhausen meet in Wonderland.

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The Polish Radio Channel Two broadcast Bita godzina [A Whole Good Hour] can now be listened to online.

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CORYPHAEUS OF POLISH MUSIC
in the category PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR

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October 3rd – Festival Sacrum Profanum in Kraków
November 11th – Festival NOW! Word Up! in Philharmonie Essen
December 9th – Festival d’Automne à Paris in Philharmonie de Paris

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Nomination in the category of PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR.
Award of the Polish music environment.
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Online transmissions:
13 VIII Polskie Radio pr.II, NPO Radio 4
14 VIII Rai Radio Classica, Arte Tv, Medici Tv (30 days)
19 VIII BBC Radio 3 (30 days)
21 VIII Yle Areena Radio
30 VIII BBC Radio 3 (30 days)
1 IX Kulturradio RBB
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27th of October – premiere of the orchestra piece In the Shade of an Unshed Tear commissioned by Seattle Symphony
28th of October – performance of Chantefleurs et Chantefables of Witold Lutosławski and Chapter 13
29thof October – performance of In the Shade of an Unshed Tear

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Nowy projekt z pieśniami Erika Satie z okazji w 150. rocznicy urodzin genialnego kompozytora.
Wraz z Piotrem Orzechowskim “Pianohooliganem” przy fortepianie niebanalne piosenki przybrały nowe formy i pozwoliły pokazać inne spojrzenie na najbardziej ekscentrycznego kompozytora Fin de siècle’u.

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In 2016 the ElettroVoce Duo celebrates 15 years of its activity with a new CD (“Znikąd Historie” – “Stories Nowhere From”) and a concert held at Wrocław’s National Forum of Music on 16th May 2016, with a programme that is both a glance back and a glimpse forward – introducing the duo’s new sound.

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Double Battery
Musica Electronica Nova Festival – commissioned by Ensemble InterContemporain
Recital for Four
Musica Polonica Nova Festival

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ALBUM OF THE YEAR CHAMBER MUSIC – Dream Lake
Lutosławski, Tchaikovsky; Agata Zubel – soprano, Joonas Ahonen – piano
ALBUM OF THE YEAR MODERN MUSIC – Stories Nowhere From
ElettroVoce: Agata Zubel – voice, Cezary Duchnowski – piano, electronics

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New York Ferus Festival – January 14th
Los Angeles Philharmonic – January 19th
Chicago Contempo Festival – February 29th
Chicago Symphony Orchestra – March 7th

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Agata Zubel – voice
Cezary Duchnowski – piano, electronis

CD Accord 2015

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KulturKontakt Austria in Vienna
The residency (September 1st – December 31st, 2015) will focus on the composition”Bildbeschreibung” – opera for two voices, instrumental ensemble and electronics with text by Heiner Müller

Become one of Europe’s most accomplished and internationally successful contemporary classical composers and vocalists. In 2013 her composition “Not I” for chamber ensemble, electronic instruments and voice was deemed the best of the year by the International Music Council’s International Rostrum of Composers. She has been commissioned to write pieces for global festivals and orchestras from Seattle to Tel Aviv. Her discography includes over a dozen albums.
The New York, Ginanne Brownell
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Nomination

for Agata Zubel’s original album Not I, which also reached the Top Ten of “The New Yorker” CD charts. The album was nominated for vocal virtuosity, compositional talent and the ability successfully to combine these two demanding roles: that of a singer and a composer; for persistence in striving for perfection, which led the composer to the heights of achievement in Polish contemporary music.

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

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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

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The Best Polish CD Abroad
Klangforum Wien
Clement Power
KAIROS 2014

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“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

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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 and seen.
Alex Ambrose, New York Public Radio WQXR-FM
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recommended by Alex Ross

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

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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.

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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

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for composition “Not I”
with text by Samuel Beckett

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

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

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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

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Documental movie of Marek Obszarny & Magda Pawlinow
already on the Internet
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Bohaterowie: Andrzej Stasiuk, Agnieszka Holland, Zygmunt Krauze, Agata Zubel, Wojciech Fangor, Olga Pasiecznik, Wojciech Kilar, Daniel Olbrychski, Witold Giersz, Agnieszka Duczmal, Borys Lankosz, Ewa Wycichowska, Andrzej Wajda, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, Stanisława Celińska, ks. Andrzej Luter, Beata Polak, Robert Konieczny, Mirosław Bałka, Krystian Lupa, Anna-Maria Jopek, Jerzy Stuhr, Paweł Huelle, Tomasz Stańko, Krzesimir Dębski, Krzysztof Zanussi, Leszek Możdżer, Paweł Mykietyn, Jerzy Pilch, Leon Tarasewicz, Jerzy Hoffman, Krzysztof Penderecki, Michal Urbaniak, Krzysztof Warlikowski, Paweł Althamer, Janusz Wawrowski, Tomek Rygalik, Janusz Kaniewski, Lech Wałęsa, Ewa Wójciak, Urszula Dudziak, Dagmara Gregorowicz, Krystyna Janda

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arrangement of Songs of Witold Lutosławski
Agata Zubel – voice
Cezary Duchnowski – piano, computer
Andrzej Bauer – cello
CD Accord 2013

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Nomination in the category of PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR.
Award of the Polish music environment.
There were a total of 150 candidates, of which five nominees were selected by the program committee in each category.

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Composition “Not I” representing Polish Radio was given the highest grade during 60th International Rostrum of Composers in Prague.

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for soprano, chamber orchestra and electronics
Agata Zubel – soprano
New Music Orchestra
Szymon Bywalec – conductor
Krzysztof Wołek – Elements
CD Accord 2013

Interviews with composers.
Agnieszka Lewandowska-Kąkol
Fronda Edition

The Other Space Festival in Moscow 2012 Tchaikovsky Concert Hall
live on the Internet
Agata Zubel – voice
Cezary Duchnowski – piano, electronics

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Monographic concert performed by Klangforum Wien Sacrum Profanum Festival 2012
live on the Internet
Labyrinth for voice and four instruments
Shades of Ice for clarinet, cello and electronics
The Streets of a Human City for instrumental ensemble
Not I for voice, instrumental ensemble and electronics

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for soprano and orchestra
Agata Zubel – soprano, Leopoldinum Orchestra, Ernst Kovacic – conductor
Ernst Krenek – Music for Chamber Orchestra
Toccata Classics London 2012

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performed by Klangforum Wien on the Sacrum Profanum Festival in Krakow
September 13th, 2012

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Oresteia – commission from Teatr Wielki-National Opera and National Theatre
What is the word – commission from Klangforum Wien and Adam Mickiewicz Instytute
Percussion Store – commission from Krakow Philharmonic
Labyrinth – commission from Polish Institute in Tel Avive

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for soprano and string quartet
Pokolenie Stalowowolskie
Agata Zubel – soprano, Silesian Quartet
Musica Pro Bono 2012

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This Autumn premieres of four pieces:
Aphorisms on Miłosz during Sacrum Profanum Festival in Krakow with Klangforum Wien
The Streets of a Human City during Warsaw Autumn Festival with European Workshop for Contemporary Music
Shades of Ice during Sonic Exploration Festival in Londyn with London Sinfonietta
Symphony No.1 in Polish Radio Concert Studio with Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra

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Agata Zubel – Cascando for voice, flute, clarinet, violin & cello
Agata Zubel – voice
Klangforum Wien
Johannes Kalitzke – conductor
Sacrum Profanum 2010

Other Minds Music Festival Residency in San Francisco

Each year Other Minds invites composers of differing nationalities, ages and styles to bring their music to the Festival and a prior four-day private residency in the South Bay hills, where they exchange music and ideas. “This year we are thrilled to welcome Louis Andriessen (Netherlands), I Wayan Balawan (Indonesia), Han Bennink (Netherlands), Kyle Gann (U.S.), Janice Giteck (U.S.), David A. Jaffe (U.S.), Jason Moran (U.S.), and Agata Zubel (Poland) – eight composers whose work we deeply admire and who, we expect, will have a great deal to say to one another and to our audiences,” reports Charles Amirkhanian, Executive and Artistic Director of Other Minds.

Karol Szymanowski Philharmonic in Krakow
The “composer-in-residence” project – an initiative of PWM – aims to promote composers unknown or little known in a given community, embedding their names and music in the minds of listeners of a given Philharmonic through a systematic presentation of their selected works.

A new project for the bicentenary of the composer’s birth, featuring Uri Caine as the guest star.
Impressions of the Preludes of Fryderyk Chopin. The proposal for the discovery of works in the tradition already established, but now shown in a changed palette of colors and modern electroacoustic possibilities.

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ALBUM OF THE YEAR CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
AGATA ZUBEL – CASCANDO

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ALBUM OF THE YEAR CONTEMPORARY MUSIC – Cascando
ALBUM OF THE YEAR VOCAL RECITAL – Poems
ALBUM ROKU CHAMBER MUSIC – Andrzej Krzanowski in memoriam
COMPOSER OF THE YEAR – Agata Zubel

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The Orpheus Award of Polish music critics was granted to Agata Zubel at the 52nd “Warsaw Autumn” International Festival of Contemporary Music for her creative interpretation of the vocal part in Cezary Duchnowski’s performance-opera “Martha’s Garden”, and for the similarly high level of her interpretations of works by Polish composers at several earlier editions of that festival.

Agata Zubel – soprano
Marcin Grabosz – piano
A.Copland Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson
A.Berg Sieben frühe Lieder
P.Szymański Drei Lieder nach Trakl
CD Accord 2009

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String Quartet No. 1 for four cellos and computer

String Quartet No. 1 for four cellos and computer
Cascando for voice, flute, clarinet, violin and cello
Unisono I for voice, percussion and computer
Unisono II for voice, percussion and computer
Maximum Load for percussion and computer

CD Accord 2009

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pieces of Andrzej Krzanowski, Wojciech Widłak and Rafał Augustyn
for soprano and string quartet

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for ElettroVoce Duo
CD of the Year 2007/2008

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