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Agata Zubel was born in Wroc³aw. She is a graduate of
the city’s Music Academy where she studied composition with Jan
Wichrowski, winning a diploma with the ‘Primus Inter Pares’
distinction. She continued her studies at the Conservatorium Hohes-school
Enschede in Holland and
at numerous courses. She currently studies singing with Danuta Paziuk-Zipser.
She held grants from the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, the Minister of
Culture, the City of Wroc³aw and the Foundation for International Education.
She is a member of the Polish Composers’ Union.
Her works have been performed at many festivals including the ‘War-saw
Autumn’, ‘Musica Polonica Nova’, ‘Audio-Art’,
‘Kraków 2000’, the Days of Andrzej Panufnik’s Music in
Kraków, the Adam Didur Memorial Festival, and Chanterelle Festival, as well
as in Russia (Moscow) and Switzerland.
She has won many prizes at competitions for composers and singers including
Third Prize at the International Competition in the Interpretation of
Contemporary Music for Professional Soloists in Bienne, Switzerland (2003)
and the Main Prize at the Competition of 20th- and 21st-century Music for
Young Performers (2003). As a voca-list she has taken part in many
prestigious festivals, the concerts of the Polish Composers’ Union and
in the Philharmonic Halls in Warsaw, Kraków, Wroc³aw and the Poznań
University Hall. New music occupies a special place in her repertoire. She
has given first performances and made premiere recordings of many works by
contemporary composers.
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