Agata Zubel was born in Wroc-ław. 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 Conser-vatorium Hogesschool 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 Wrocław 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 singer she has taken part in many prestigious festivals, the concerts of the Polish Composers’ Union and in the Philharmonic Halls in Warsaw, Kraków, Wrocław 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.
In January 2005 she received the annual Young Artists’ Passport Award of the ‘Polityka’ weekly for her ‘extraordinary vocal interpretations, stage personality and an ability to blend harmoniously her own creative work as a composer with her role as a performer.’