prof. dr hab. Agata Zubel-Moc

Composer and vocalist. Known for her unusual vocal range and her use of it in ways that break stereotypes.

She performs all over the world and has many world premieres to her credit. In addition to dozens of philharmonic halls, opera houses and festivals, she has collaborated as a vocalist and composer with leading musical institutions around the world, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, Staatsoper Hannover, SWR Radio, Deutschlandfunk, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Teatr Wielki-Operą Narodową, Klangforum Wien, MusikFabrik, Inter-Contemporain, London Sinfonietta, Ictus, Eighth Blackbird, Seattle Chamber Players, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Münchener Kammerorchester, Neue Vocalsolisten, and Remix Ensemble.

She has won several vocal and composition competitions. Her most important awards include the Polityka's Passport (2005), the Fryderyk Award for her monographic album Cascando (2010) and for her vocal recital Apparition (2020), victory at the International Composers' Tribune for her composition Not I (2013), the Polonica Nova Award (2014), Koryfeusz Muzyki Polskiej (2016), the European Composition Award (2018), the Erste Bank Kompositionspreis (2018), the honorary badge Zasłużony dla Kultury Polskiej and the Gloria Artis medal.

She is associated with Wrocław, where she lectures at her alma mater. Together with Cezary Duchnowski, she co-founded the duo ElettroVoce.

Her dozen or so phonographic publications include composer albums: Cascando (CD Accord), Not I and Cleopatra’s Songs (KAIROS), Bildbeschreibung (Anaklasis), as well as vocal albums: Poems with interpretations of songs by Copland, Berg and Szymanowski, el Derwid - Plamy na słońcu, Dream Lake with vocal cycles by Witold Lutosławski and Andrzej Czajkowski, and the latest Apparition with songs by Ravel, Barber, Szymanowski, Crumb and Obradors (CD Accord).

AWARDS

2020 - Fryderyk Award in the Solo Recital category for the album Apparition

2019 - Award of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage

2018 - Erste Bank Composition Prize

2018 - Koryfeusz Muzyki Polskiej (Coryphaeus of Polish Music) in the Event of the Year category

2018 - European Composer Award for the work Fireworks

2017 - Gloria Artis Medal

2017 - Medal of the Witold Lutosławski Society

2016 - Koryfeusz Muzyki Polskiej (Coryphaeus of Polish Music) in the Personality of the Year category

2014 - Polish Composers' Union Award

2014 - Polonica Nova Award for the work Not I

2014 - Honorary Badge for Merit to Polish Culture

2013 - Winner of the International Composers' Tribune for the piece Not I

2010 - Fryderyk Award in the Contemporary Music category for the album Cascando

2009 - Orpheus Award of the Association of Polish Music Artists

2008 - Wrocław Music Award for the ElettroVoce duo

2005 - Wrocław Music Award

2005 - Polityka's Passport for 2004

2005 - Special Award for the ElettroVoce duo at the Gaudeamus International Competition for Contemporary Music Performers in Amsterdam

2003 - Second Prize at the P.I. Jurgenson International Composition Competition in Moscow

2003 - Third Prize at the International Competition for Contemporary Music Interpretation for Professional Soloists in Nicati, Switzerland

2003 - Main Prize of the Leopold Kronenberg Banking Foundation at the Competition for Young Performers of 20th and 21st Century Music

2002 - 1st Prize at the Krzysztof Penderecki International Competition for Contemporary Chamber Music

2002 - Special Prize at the 7th Concours Moderne, Chain

2000 - 1st Prize and Special Prize of Polish Radio at the Adam Didur National Composition Competition

2000 – Third Prize at the National Competition for Classical Guitar Composition

1999 – First Prize and Polish Music Publishing House Prize at the Andrzej Panufnik National Composition Competition