2020-11-20
The ANAKLASIS record label, created by PWM just one year ago (on 22 November 2019), already boasts sixteen albums, and it shows no signs of slowing down, with further releases announced.
2019-04-04
The world premiere of the most recent work by the highly regarded Polish composer Agata Zubel is to take place on 9th April 2019 at the Auditorium Marcel Landowski in Paris. The nine members of Ensemble 2e2m – one of France’s oldest and most renowned groups of this kind – will perform 3x3 for 9 instruments. The conductor is Pierre Roulllier.
The concert is part of the cycle “It Is a Woman’s World (Too)”.
2019-01-13
Agata Zubel, “the veritable volcano of the Polish music scene”, has been invited by Ensemble 2e2m, one of the most prestigious new music groups in France, to be their composer-in-residence in Paris for the year 2019.
In this way, the ensemble has shown its appreciation for Agata Zubel’s versatile talent both as a composer and a soloist performing in venues throughout the world.
2019-01-02
Agata Zubel is a unique figure – a composer who has taken the world’s music stages by storm and has remained present on them for many years now. Her successive works confirm her rare sensitivity, resourcefulness, and the confidence with which she applies her musical tools.
She receives commissions for new pieces from all over the world, and her compositions win awards in Poland and abroad.
2018-04-20
‘If we had to burn all of Shakespeare’s plays but one […] I’d choose Antony and Cleopatra’, wrote the British poet and writer W. H. Auden. This work, of outstanding poetical and theatrical qualities, could not have found a better interpreter than the composer and singer Agata Zubel, who has linked her artistic path almost entirely with words. Invoking original excerpts from Shakespeare’s work, Zubel does not tell the ancient queen’s story, but in her music she expresses Cleopatra’s love, anger, fear, sorrow, courage and pride. She shows the truth about the woman-goddess beset by contradictory passions.
2018-04-09
On 27 April, the world première of Agata Zubel’s Cleopatra’s Songs for voice and instrumental ensemble will take place. The work was inspired by the now-legendary love story of Antony and Cleopatra. In it, the composer utilizes fragments from the text of Shakespeare’s drama.
The work was commissioned by Klangforum Wien and is dedicated to that ensemble. This is the second work, after What is the Word (2012), to be commissioned by Klangforum Wien from Agata Zubel.
The world première will take place in Germany (Witten) during the Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik. Cleopatra’s Songs will be performed by Agata Zubel (S) and Klangforum Wien under Emilio Pomárico. The concert will be broadcast by WDR3 radio.
2016-06-09
The Festival of Seven Trends will take place in Warsaw on 19th-25th June. This festival caps the celebration of the seventieth anniversary of the Association of Polish Composers.
2016-05-20
On 21st May the National Forum of Music will hold the premiere of Double Battery. Agata Zubel tells about the concept of her work:
2016-01-18
19 January – Los Angeles witnesses the premiere of Agata Zubel’s newest piece Chapter 13. We had interviewed the composer just before she left to LA.
2016-01-12
In a week, 19.01.2016 we will witness the premiere of Agata Zubel’s new composition, Chapter 13. Łukasz Borowicz is going to be the first to conduct the piece.
2016-01-04
On 19 January 2016, Los Angeles will host the "Contemporary Poland" concert with the world premiere of the latest work by Agata Zubel, "Chapter 13" for soprano and instrumental ensemble. The text to that 9 minutes long piece comes from "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
2015-11-23
The Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival is held from 20 till 29 of November 2015. This year, the Festival gives particular focus to Polish music. The programme encompasses the pieces by e.g. Agata Zubel and Tomasz Sikorski.
2015-09-30
Agata Zubel, composer and singer, as well as the famous Klangforum Wien ensemble, will perform at the opening concert of the contemporary music festival in Haddersfield.
2015-07-01
Last week, the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester hosted the Seven Gates: Music of Poland Explored festival.
2015-06-22
Mons, the European Capital of Culture 2015, showing a sing of respect to Wrocław, which is to be the Capital of Culture 2016, invites Polish artists to present the works of Silesian composers within the frame of the Contemporary Sounds of Poland project. The programme comprises Agata Zubel's Not I and Paweł Mykietyn's 3 for 13.
2015-02-16
2014 brought many interesting events that will certainly become part of the PWM Edition history. Names of new composers were entered in the PWM catalogue, many pieces had their premières and the artists collaborating with our publishing house were honoured with awards and distinctions. Below we present a selection of the most important events of 2014.
2014-10-24
In November we could hear music of Polish composers in the United States.
2014-09-25
This year, Wrocław will play host to the prestigious festival known as World Music Days.
The program contains compositions available from the PWM catalogue incuding composers like Zygmunt Krauze, Witold Lutosławski, Paweł Łukaszewski, Elżbieta Sikora, Karol Szymanowski and Agata Zubel.
2014-04-13
On April 12, during the final concert of the Musica Polonica Nova festival the winner of the Polonica Nova prize was declared - Agata Zubel, honoured for the work "Not I".
2014-03-27
Agata Zubel's composition, „Not I”, finds itself among 5 works which have been nominated for the Wrocław „Polonica Nova” Prize. We will find out which work is the winner on 12 April 2014.
2014-03-17
A new album of Agata Zubel’s music, excellently performed by the composer herself along with the Klangforum Wien ensemble conducted by Clement Power, is now released.
2014-02-12
On February 28 in Schauspielhaus in Munich Münchener Kammerorchester conducted by Clement Power will perform - for the first time in Germany - work of Agata Zubel entitled "Not I" for voice, instrumental ensembe and electronics.
2013-09-21
On September 21 in Staatsoper in Hannover will be performed a new work of Agata Zubel entitled 'In'. This work composed for large orchestra was commisioned by the Hannoverian Society for New Music in occassion of Lutosławski anniversary. The details are here.
2013-09-04
On 22 September in the Hannover Staatsoper Agata Zubel's work for large orchestra, „IN”, will receive its world premiere.
2013-06-03
Published by PWM, Agata Zubel's audiovisual work, "Not I", was honoured at the prestigious UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers.
2012-09-03
On September 9th, the 10th Sacrum Profanum Festival starts; the programme includes monographic concerts for Agata Zubel and Aleksander Nowak.
2012-07-27
Although this is the height of the holiday season, it is fully worth seeing what attractions are coming in September with the Warsaw Autumn, Wratislavia Cantans and Sacrum Profanum music festivals.
2012-01-30
SCP brings fascinating composers, virtuoso performers and musicologists to Seattle to join in the
festival. Soprano Agata Zubel returns to perform works by Georges Aperghis (Greece), Luís Tinoco
(Portugal) and Luciano Berio (Italy) following exciting collaborations with SCP in Seattle, at San
Francisco’s Other Minds festival and at the Warsaw Autumn festival.
2012-01-23
The programme of the festival Sacrum Profanum 2012 is already known. As is clear from the organizers’ announcement, the festival, which will take place in September in Kraków, will bring together the cream of performers from around the world, while the programme will include many pieces by composers associated with PWM.
2011-12-19
Music lovers can expect three new piece from Agata Zubel in 2012. Two new pieces to words by Samuel Beckett will be premiered - "What is the Word" and "Not I" and also "Percussion Store."
2011-09-16
At yesterday's concert for the Made in Poland - Milosz Sounds project, there was a premiere of the latest vocal-instrumental composition by Agata Zubel, Aforyzmy na Miłosza. The piece was commissioned by the organisers of the 9th Sacrum Profanum Festival to celebrate the Year of Czesław Miłosz, held to time with the one hundredth anniversary of the Master’s birth.
2011-03-14
On 3rd-4thMarch 2011, concerts with works by Agata Zubel were held in San Francisco at the Other Minds Festival, which presents works by the most creative and innovative composers from around the world.
