Composer and singer, known for her unique vocal range and use of techniques that challenge stereotypes, Agata Zubel gives concerts throughout the world and has premiered numerous new works. Zubel has collaborated as a singer and composer with such several dozen leading music institutions, opera houses and festivals worldwide, including New York’s Carnegie Hall, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Vienna’s Konzerthaus and Musikverein, Berlin’s Konzerthaus, Amsterdam’s Musikgebouw, Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, the philharmonic orchestras of Berlin, Cologne, and Luxembourg, London’s Royal Albert Hall and Royal Festival Hall, Porto’s Casa da Música, Seattle Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, BBC Proms, Wien Modern, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Festival d’Automne in Paris, MaerzMusik, Ultraschall, Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Trans Art, Beethoven Festival in Bonn, Musikprotokoll in Graz, Warsaw Autumn, Wratislavia Cantans, as well as the International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt. She has worked with ensembles such as Klangforum Wien, Ensemble intercontemporain, Musikfabrik, London Sinfonietta, Ictus, Eighth Blackbird, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Münchener Kammerorchester, Neue Vocalsolisten, Remix Ensemble, 2e2m Ensemble, Seattle Chamber Players, ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester in Vienna, Radio-Sinfonieorchester des SWR, Deutschlandfunk, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Staatsoper Hanover, and the Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera.

Zubel has won major prizes in more than a dozen competitions for singers and composers, including the grand prix (selected work) of the International Rostrum of Composers (for Not I), European Composer Award, Erste Bank Composition Prize, Fryderyk Awards for the album Cascando dedicated to her works, vocal recital Apparition and the dramopera Oresteia, Coryphaeus of Polish Music, and SWR Symphonieorchester Prize for Outside the Realm of Time at the 2022 Donaueschinger Musiktage. The same work was nominated for Le Prix de Composition Musicale de la Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco in 2024.

Zubel’s life and work are associated with the city of Wrocław, where she is a lecturer at the Academy of Music. In 2020 she was granted the title of Professor of Arts. Her accolades include the Decoration of Honour “Meritorious for Polish Culture,” the Gloria Artis medal, Polonica Nova Award of the City of Wrocław, Polityka’s Passport, as well as numerous scholarships from, among others, the Polish Ministry of Culture, Rockefeller Foundation, Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, and Kultur Kontakt in Austria. She is a member of the Polish Composers’ Union. Her discography comprises a dozen releases, including albums comprising her own compositions: Cascando (CD Accord), Not I and Cleopatra’s Songs (KAIROS), Bildbeschreibung and Oresteia (Anaklasi) as well as vocal works: interpretations of songs by Maurice Ravel, Samuel Barber, Karol Szymanowski, George Crumb, Witold Lutosławski, Fernando Obradors, Aaron Copland, Alban Berg, Paweł Szymański, and André Tchaikowsky.

Selected works (since 2013): Lullaby for mixed choir to words by Shakespeare (2013), In Between the Ebb of Thoughts and the Flow of Sleep for voice, piano and string orchestra to words by Tadeusz Dąbrowski (2013), IN for large symphony orchestra (2013),Cadenza for violin (2013), Where to for instrumental ensemble (2014), Violin Concerto for violin and chamber orchestra (2014),Chapter 13 for soprano and instrumental ensemble, to words by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (2015), Madrigals for five voices(2015), In the Shade of an Unshed Tear for orchestra (2016), Double Battery for instrumental ensemble with optional augmented sound space (2016), The Alphabet of the Ars Brevis for two male voices(2016), Bildbeschreibung, opera form for two voices, ensemble and electronics, to words by Heiner Müller (2016), Cleopatra’s Songs for voice and ensemble, to words by William Shakespeare (2017), Mother Lode I–III, cycle of chamber works (2017), Fireworks for large symphony orchestra (2018), Chamber Piano Concerto for piano(s) and ensemble (2018), 3x3 for instrumental ensemble (2019), Piano Piano but Not Pianissimo for piano(s) (2019), Friction for trumpet, trombone and tuba (2020), Triptyque for instrumental ensemble (2020), Mono-drumfor bass drum (2020), Memory of Bronze for carillon (2021), Flash for percussion and instrumental ensemble (2021), Piano Concerto no. 2 forpiano(s) and orchestra (2021), Outside the Realm of Time for hologram soloist and orchestra (2022), Schedule for Harmony of the Spheres for vocal sextet or choir (2022), Connect 2 for piccolo flute and kanklės / piano (2023), The Catless Smile, hologram opera for children based on Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass and selected themes from Alice in Wonderland (2023), Spray for six performance artists (2023), Eslärmt das Licht for soprano and string orchestra (2023), Abstract Paintings for 24-part mixed choir, based on paintings by Gerhard Richter (2024), Touch for cello in the preparation process (2024), Non-Academic Overture for orchestra (2025).