Kubica-Cypek, Adrianna
Born in 1996 in Kędzierzyn-Koźle, Polish composer based in Denmark. She is the author of orchestral, choral, and chamber works and has taught the fundamentals of composition and instrumentation at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory (RMC) in Copenhagen since 2022.
Her artistic practice focuses on acoustic vocal and instrumental music, often taking as its point of departure the interplay between the visual, sonic, olfactory, and tactile details of the surrounding environment. This approach expands the concept of the soundscape through an even deeper, synaesthetic immersion in reality. Owing to her strong affinity for vocal aesthetics, most of her works emerge from a search for the bodily and organic qualities of sound.
She began her studies in classical composition and music theory at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, and continued them at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon and the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen.
In recent years she has cooperated with ensembles and orchestras including the Danish National Vocal Ensemble, SWR Vokalensemble, NDR Vokalensemble, Cappella Amsterdam, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, New Music Orchestra, and Hungarian Radio Orchestra. The premieres of her works have been conducted notably by Marcus Creed, Krista Audere, Martina Batič, Jean Thorel, László Tihanyi, and Geoffrey Paterson. Her music has been performed throughout Europe, as well as in China, Japan, and the United States.
Her vocal music has been described by Danish Radio as “an almost psychedelic and intoxicating, sensual, even religious experience of light, love and growth.” Following the world premiere of Reflection Nebulae, the magazine Klassisk hailed the work as “one of the greatest promises for the future ever witnessed in the Danish Radio Concert Hall.”
In 2025 she received the prestigious Carl Prize (Classical Composer of the Year – Large Ensemble) for Printemps for sixteen solo voices, commissioned by the Danish Radio for the DR Vocal Ensemble. In 2026 the same work was selected as the Danish Radio recommendation for the 72nd International Rostrum of Composers.
Selected works: Three Sketches for sinfonietta (2017–19), Music for Four Flutes (2017), String Quartet no. 1 (2019), Reflection Nebulae for symphony orchestra (2020), Three Sonnets to Words by Shakespeare for baritone and piano (2020), L’Été for 16 solo voices (from the Saisonscycle; 2020), Ad Te for sinfonietta (2022), String Quartet no. 2 Full Moon (2022), L’hiver for 16 voices (from the Saisons cycle; 2022), Funeral Blues for tenor and piano (2023), Mørkeblå for marimba and singing bowls (2024), Okkerblå for accordion and live electronics (2024), Månenfor eight voices (2024), Printemps for 16 voices (from the Saisons cycle; 2024), Lysegrå—Lyseblå for vibraphone, crotales and gongs (one performer) (2025), Sacred Noise for flute, clarinet, saxophone, violin, viola, cello, piano and percussion (2025), Automne for 16 voices (from the Saisons cycle; 2025), Skygger for cello and accordion (2026), Elegy to the Rooftop Birds for one performer with soprano and alto saxophones (2026), The Library of Disappearing Sounds for chamber orchestra (2026).