Agata Zubel performs all over the world and has many world premieres to her credit. In addition to dozens of philarmonic halls, opera houses and festivals, she has collaborated with leading music institutions around the world, including the Carnegie Hall in New York, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Vienna's Konzerthaus, Berlin's Konzerthaus, the Musikgebouw in Amsterdam, Vienna's Musikverein, the Royal Albert Hall, the Royal Festival Hall in London, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg), the Berlin Philharmonic, the Casa da Música in Porto, the Seattle Symphony, the Chicago Symphony, and the Baltimore Symphony.
She has also appeared at festivals such as the BBC Proms, Wien Modern, Donaueschingen Musiktage, Festival d'Automne à Paris, März Musik, Darmstadt Summer Course, Ultraschall, Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Trans Art, Warsaw Autumn, Beethoven Festival (Bonn), and Musikprotokoll.
She has collaborated 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, as well as The ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Radio-Sinfonieorchester des SWR, Deutschlandfunk, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Staatsoper Hannover, and the Polish National Opera.
Agata Zubel is the winner of over a dozen vocal and composition competitions. Her most important awards include Paszport Polityki (2005), the Fryderyk Award for her monographic album Cascando (2010) and 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 Meritorious for Polish Culture Decoration, and the Gloria Artis Medal for Services to Polish Culture.
She is associated with Wrocław, where she is a professor at her alma mater. Together with Cezary Duchnowski, she is part of the ElettroVoce duo.
Her discography includes recordings of her compositions Cascando (CD Accord), Not I (KAIROS), Cleopatra's Songs (KAIROS), and Bildbeschreibung (Anaklasis), as well as vocal albums: Poems (interpretations of songs by Copland, Berg, and Szymanowski), el Derwid – Plamy na słońcu, Dream Lake (vocal cycles by Witold Lutosławski and Andrzej Czajkowski), and Apparition with songs by Ravel, Barber, Szymanowski, Crumb and Obradors (CD Accord).
